Firefox 3.5.3 can only print to file.
by Keith Hunt
Running F11 64-bit, with Firefox 3.5.3 64-bit. I'm no longer able to
print to a printer from Firefox. The only option is print to file.
Firefox does not show any of my defined printers, even though there
are a number of lines in prefs.js related to my default printer.
I'm not sure when this happened in relation to FF versions, as I guess
I don't print web pages that often. I think it probably occurred
sometime during the 3.5x updates.
Other apps see the expected list of printers and are able to print to them.
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Keith
14 years, 7 months
An old X11 routine -xgrabsc-
by Reg Clemens
In the 'old' X11, there used to be a program xgrabsc, which would 'grab'
a portion of the screen. That is:
You started the program and got some sort of little icon.
You moved the icon to the upper left of the portion of the screen
you wanted to capture.
You clicked the mouse.
The icon probably changed and now you strech the box, with this
first point at the upper Left, to a lower right.
You clicked again.
At this point you had some sort of graphics file that displayed the
portion of the screen that you had captured, which you could (say)
send to the printer, or include in a mail message.
That routine is long gone, I have to assume that something has replaced
it, but I have no idea what it would be. Any ideas?
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Reg.Clemens
reg(a)dwf.com
14 years, 7 months
Re: F11 and CD failure
by Dennis Mattingly
> > > I've just installed F11 on a small dell machine that had been
running
> > > FC8. �Everything installed ok except it does not mount the CD when
I
> > > place one in the drive. �I used the CD drive during the install of
F11
> > > so I know the drive works, and I can use the CD I am trying to
mount in
> > > other machines so I know the problem is not the CD.
> >
> > I'm having similar issues today.
> >
> > I built a new computer, and installed Fedora 11 with standard 6 cd
images.
> > This computer has 2 cd drives.
> >
> > Now I try to use my cd drives, and I get some pretty crazy results:
> > : Some music CDs auto-mount to my desktop, some don't
> > : Some music CDs are detected by Audio CD Extractor, some aren't
> > (Applications -> Sound -> Audio CD Extractor)
> > : Fedora 11 doesn't detect LIVE CDs. I tried to run F10 LIVE CD /
several
> > Ubuntu LIVE CDs, and Fedora 11 still boots normall.
>
> Could you be suffering from this bug?
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/513495
Yes I am.
Thanks !!
As a side note, I've been a professional C++ programmer for several years.
I have been considering contributing to Fedora somehow, but when I read
those code-snippets in the bugzilla I started freaking out.
What's a best first-step for a Windows developer / Fedora fan to start
contributing to Fedora?
14 years, 7 months
SWAT with -P option
by Arun Shrimali
Dear All
I am running Samba (3.41) with swat on Fedora 11 and both are working
fine. Now I want my users to be able to change their password through
web based application. I have tried many option but none of them
working perfectly with the latest version of Samba.
Finally, I zeroed down to SWAT, which is working perfectly for users
to change their password, but I don't want to have "view" tab on their
panel when they approach to change the password. This view tab gives
the complete configuration file - how their account is configured.
I found that "-P" option in SWAT can help me in this. Can any body
help me how to configure this in SWAT.
Regards
Arun
14 years, 7 months
Possible workaround for scanner failing to work in f11
by mike cloaked
I have been battling with trying to get my scanner to work after an f11
install - this is with a scanner that was working in f10 previously.
I found a "fix" that may also work for others who find their scanner device
is not found in GIMP->File->Create->XSane: Device dialog...
During the updates after the install there was an update to
sane-backends-1.0.20-4.fc11.i586 and this package deals with the dll.conf
file in /etc/sane.d/
I noticed that there were two files:
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 916 2009-10-03 12:13 dll.conf
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 664 2009-06-23 09:04 dll.conf.rpmnew
However the earlier dated dll.conf.rpmnew listed the driver that I needed
and that was in the system, but the dll.conf file did not! So I made
dll.conf.rpmnew into dll.conf and tried again - and it worked fine!
Others having issues with their scanner may find that this workaround may
help too - depending on the model of the scanner involved.
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14 years, 7 months
Relocatable RPM package, access to --prefix value in %postun/%post section
by Oliver Wulff
Hi there
I've built a relocatable RPM package which is installed like this:
sudo rpm -i --prefix=/app/test1 --force --nodeps test-2.0.0-1.i386.rpm
I need access to the passed value to the --prefix option (/app/test1) within the %postun and %post section of the spec file. Is there an option to get this value?
Thanks a lot for your help
Oliver
14 years, 7 months
How-to customize gnome-settings-daemon?
by Marco Guazzone
Hello Fedora users,
I'm running F11 with OpenBox (without GNOME) as window manager.
In order to bring some GNOME facilities to the OpenBox environment I
run gnome-settings-daemon at startup.
My problem is that gnome-settings-daemon starts gnome-screensaver.
Since gnome-screensaver does not work properly under OpenBox (actually
It does not activate when computer is idle) I want to disable it (and
run instead the xscreensaver screensaver).
The only way I've found to prevent gnome-settings-daemon to run
gnome-screensaver is to change system-level configuration files in
/etc/gconf:
* /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml
* /etc/gconf/schemas/apps_gnome_settings_daemon_screensaver.schemas
The problem is that at every update of gnome-settings-daemon package,
these files are overwritten.
This is boring... :(
Is there a way to change gnome-settings-daemon configurations locally,
that is at user-level instead of at system-level?
Thank you very much!!
Cheers,
-- Marco
14 years, 7 months
Re: Installing Windows after Fedora
by andy york
I agree with the go virtual suggestion. I prefer VirtualBox, use
whichever, I can only attest that I've never seen WinXP run as
smoothly and error free as it does as a VM. Use network bridge and
network is all there as well as printers, etc. Configured properly a
VM will do most anything a standalone system will provided there are
sufficient resources on the host.
ay
14 years, 7 months
