F14 : KDE primer??
by Beartooth
Last time I even looked at KDE, it was release 2 or 3, more
likely the former. It didn't appeal to me, and I abandoned it.
Now at least two distributions (Kororaa and PC-BSD) run KDE4 by
default -- and it bewilders me.
Ten to one I never really get serious -- I have too much hard-
earned experience invested in Gnome -- but I do want to manage well
enough, if I can, to explore my interest in those and maybe other
choices. (Anybody run Knoppix installed to hard drive??) Someday, maybe,
some kind soul will port one or more of them to Gnome; then it'd be nice
to know at once whether to run not walk to the new version.
Is there something like a primer somewhere, pointing out the
basics to those old enough to know better, but entirely innocent of them?
I'm thinking of things like running Gnome's Workspace-switcher, or an
equivalent if KDE 4 has one, just to get started.
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I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
13 years, 4 months
Installing Skype on 64-bit Fedora 14
by thomas cameron
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I installed the skype RPM on my 64-bit Fedora 14 machine and ran into
all kinds of problems with missing libs like:
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libQtDBus.so.4: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libQtGui.so.4: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
The short answer for my system is:
yum install glibc.i686 alsa-lib.i686 libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686
qt.i686 qt-x11.i686
yum install --nogpgcheck skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586.rpm
Done!
Hoping this is helpful...
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Thomas
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13 years, 4 months
Printable calendars and schedules ?
by linux guy
I need to develop a schedule for a couple parties.
In the past we did it manually on a paper calendar.
I'd like to do it with a piece of software such that we can print out a
calendar with activities on it. Some of the people involved run
Windows.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
13 years, 4 months
F14 Nautilus on Panel
by Robert Moskowitz
I cannot find in 'Add to Panel' Nautilus to add it to the panel as I
have done in all previous versions of Fedora (well at least 10,11, and 12).
Where is it hiding this time?
13 years, 4 months
Nautilus issues F14
by Robert Moskowitz
I just installed F14 on my notebook. I cannot find Nautilus anywhere in
the Gnome menus. In F12 it was in the Applications -> System Tools. It
is not there.
When I run Nautilus from a command line, I do not get the side window
with the directory tree, nor the location field and the view table does
not show this as options.
So how do I fix Nautilus?
13 years, 4 months
Conky troubles
by Suvayu Ali
Hi everyone,
For a few months now I have been unable to run conky with XFCE. Earlier
the following configuration used to work without any problems:
background yes
...
own_window yes
own_window_class Conky
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
But since a few months back this stopped working. I like to have it
displayed on all desktops overlayed translucently on the wallpaper, so
I tried the options desktop and override. With override I don't get any
display at all, with desktop I get a display but it goes away the
moment I click on the desktop.
I have tried running conky with or without the daemonize/background
option with no avail. Anyone has any ideas about what could be the
problem here?
TIA
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Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
13 years, 4 months
Interesting Evolution Issue
by Frank Tanner III
After I upgraded to Fedora 14 from Fedora 13, an issue has cropped up
with my Address Book, I am hoping that someone has seen.
I exported my configuration from the old one and imported it into the
new one. When I click on two of my three address books that I have I
get the following error message:
Unable to open Address Book
This address book cannot be opened. This either means that the
incorrect URI was entered, or the server is unreachable.
Detailed error message: Invalid source
The two address books that give this error worked fine in the version of
Evolution that was in Fedora 13.
Can anyone think of what caused this error and/or how to resolve it?
THank you.
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13 years, 4 months
recursively find duplicate filenames
by S Mathias
find duplicate filenames in a folder
find | perl -ne 's!([^/]+)$!lc $1!e; print if 1 == $seen{$_}++'
find duplicate filenames in a folder recursively
? how?
13 years, 4 months
ipv6 question
by Genes MailLists
There was some earlier discussion (mainly about NAT being now
irrelevant in the face of ipv6).
Question for you experts:
How does one manage your internal ip6 network so that an ISP change
(which under NAT/ipv4 is irrelevant) - is straightforward/clean to manage ?
thanks!
13 years, 4 months
Computer transplant -
by Bob Goodwin
This computer has developed problems and I have elected to replace
it with another used computer which FedEx should deliver in a few
days. I know I can transfer file from one to the other but is there
any hope I could simply install these hard drives and boot from
them. That would save me the effort of a lot of configuration.
I suspect not but wanted to ask before doing anything else.
I hesitate to shut this computer off, It comes on sounding like a
jet engine in my quiet room, fans running full bore and does not
POST. I changed the power supply, it ran ok for a week or more, I
figured I had it fixed until the problem returned with a vengeance.
I can get it to run by pulling off a fan plug and reinserting it
although that fan does not appear to be the problem. Too much,
simpler to buy another used box.
Thanks.
Bob
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13 years, 4 months