Gnome classic working in F19?
by "Paul-Erik Törrönen"
Just want to check first if I am the only one having this problem with an
upgraded F19 setup.
Some background:
Upgraded the system from F18 (and previously from 17-16-15) with fedup
--network. Before the upgrade I was running Gnome fine in the classical
style (dropdown app menu, no hotspots, workspace grid on lower bar etc.).
After the upgrade logged on with Gnome Classic selected -> worked fairly
ok, I have a grey top and bottom bar. Logged out and in again in order to
get some additional settings (the workspace for both dual displays). After
the login (making sure that I still have the Gnome classic selected) the
top and bottom bars are not the same.
Specifically the bottom bar (where the running apps should be displayed as
well as the workspace app) is missing altogether and the top bar is now
the new Gnome-styled, ie. has the hotspot and no app-menu at all.
This is reproducable, if I log out from this state, select the normal
gnome session, then I (again) get the same new Gnome desktop as described
above, and after an additional logout + login with the Gnome Classic
selected, then I end back in the actual classic for that particular
session.
So it seems that the mode selection is not really working, and neither is
the selection remembered correctly.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Poltsi
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10 years, 8 months
Disable built-in WiFi card so that USB WiFi device gets used.
by Rolf Turner
I have a Toshiba Satellite L850 Laptop for which the WiFi card appears
to be incompatible
with any drivers available for Linux. To try to get around this problem
I recently purchased
a USB WiFi device: An ASUS USB-N110. They (ASUS) provide drivers which
one must
install. After a great deal of travail and fumbling around (the
instructions were both unclear
--- apparently written by someone for whom English was at best a *third*
language ---
and slightly misleading) I managed to get the device *partially* working.
The device appears to work immediately after boot-up but if I close the
lid of my laptop,
(which causes it to go into hibernation (???) mode) or if I log out and
log back in,
the WiFi connection gets lost. When I try to restore the connection it
seems to keep
trying to use the WiFi card that is built into the laptop rather than
the USB WiFi device.
(And the built-in device doesn't work; as I said, its drivers are
incompatible with Linux OSes.
Which is why I bought the USN-N10 in the first place.) The only way to
get the laptop to
make use of the USB WiFi device seems to be to shut down and restart.
This is unsatisfactory.
Is there any way to "disable" the (non-functional) built-in WiFi card so
that the laptop will
*not* try to use it but will rather go straight to the (functional) USB
device? I Googled around
a bit and found some instructions for disabling the built-in WiFi card
under Ubuntu, but
these instruction did not (as far as I could tell) mesh with the Fedora
system that I am
running. Can anyone tell me how to do what I want under Fedora?
If you reply, ***PLEASE*** be as clear and explicit as you possibly
can. I am not terribly
swift with OS matters. I know and understand ***some*** things, but
there are huge
lacunae in my knowledge.
I am running Fedora 17; output of "uname -a" is:
> Linux localhost.localdomain 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 7
> 17:29:34 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Thanks for any help that anyone can give me.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
10 years, 8 months
RE: VirtualBox wont run -
by Alan Gagne
> On 30/07/13 12:41, Steven Stern wrote:
> >/ If you're using the repo from virtualbox.org*, type
> />/
> />/ sudo /sbin/service vboxdrv setup
> />/
> />/ It will use DKMS to remove the virtual box drivers, recompile them for
> />/ the new kernel, and install them into the active kernel modules.
> />/
> />/ * This may apply to the Fedora repos but I'm not sure. I'm using the one
> />/ from virtualbox.org.Seehttps://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads <seehttps://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads>
> />/ and scroll down to RPM-based Linux distributions
> />/
> />/
> /
> This is a yum install but I will look into that.
>
> Bob
>
If you have DKMS installed it will automatically update the modules when
a new kernel
in installed. Works great for me.
From the doc referenced above.
*Note:*Users of Fedora/Mandriva might want to install the*dkms*package
(not available on openSUSE) to ensure that the VirtualBox host kernel
modules (/vboxdrv/,/vboxnetflt/and/vboxnetadp/) are properly updated if
the linux kernel version changes during the next kernel update.
Alan
10 years, 8 months
How to create launchers on panel in Gnome 3 Classic Mode?
by Eric Smith
Is there some way to create launchers on the Gnome 3 Classic Mode
panel, as was easily done in Gnome 2?
I'm trying really hard to like Gnome 3 Classic Mode, but having a very
difficult time of it, because it seems to only provide a superficial
resemblance to the Gnome 2 desktop, without actually providing
comparable functionality.
Eric
10 years, 8 months
Login messed up after upgrading kernel
by Junayeed Ahnaf
Hello,
I'm using Linux 3.10.x kernel and I have AMD proprietary graphics driver running akmod. The 3.9.9 kernel series was working fine until the latest update came.
Now I can't log in using the new kernel, tthe screen goes black and it logs itself out. I can't even log back in.
The older kernel is working flawlessly though. Any solution?
Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
Software Engineer @ Hulu
Twitter @ Nirjhor
10 years, 8 months
Backup settings
by Martin S
There apprently is a backup service in Fedora, which can automatically copy
files to various "cloud-services" or other places. What is needed to be able to
add /var/log/yum.log to the files that are backed up.
The file is greyed out, and I can't select it. How do I solve this or should I
go for some other tool for this?
10 years, 8 months
Howto make Firewalld allow remote SSH into a Virtual Machine?
by Patrick Lists
Hi,
I just did a fresh F19 x86_64 install on my workstation, copied a
Virtual Machine to it and started the VM (has IP addr 192.168.122.20).
Now I would like to be able to ssh into the VM from another box on my
local LAN like my laptop. Thus far I can't make it work. Steps:
Opened firewall-config
Set the firewall zone of my Ethernet interface to Trusted:
Options -> Change Zone of Connections -> <interface> -> Edit -> General
-> Firewall zone -> Trusted
Click on the reload icon
Set the default zone to Trusted:
Options -> Change Default Zone -> Trusted
Click on the reload icon
Results:
Can not ping VM from laptop:
[patrick@laptop ~]$ ping 192.168.122.20
PING 192.168.122.20 (192.168.122.20) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.0.0.135 icmp_seq=1 Destination Port Unreachable
Can not ssh from the laptop to the VM:
[patrick@laptop ~]$ ssh 192.168.122.20
ssh: connect to host 192.168.122.20 port 22: Connection refused
On the workstation IPv4 forwarding is on:
$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
1
So how do I make firewalld allow pings and ssh from remote hosts?
Thanks!
Patrick
10 years, 8 months
Camera panasonic-TZ18
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I connected my camera panasonic DMC-TZ18
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04da:2372 Panasonic (Matsushita) Lumix Camera (Storage mode)
but it does not seem to be seen by the computer.
no camera been by digicam or shotwell.
Do I need to install some drivers?
Thank.
===========================================================================
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Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
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10 years, 8 months
Brother DCP-7065dn printer with Fedora 19
by D. Hugh Redelmeier
I carelessly bought a printer/scanner that has a proprietary driver.
It worked fine in Fedora 18 and earlier.
It doesn't seem to work with Fedora 19.
Not much to be done with a proprietary driver, but I'd be happy with any
reasonable solution.
The printer is a network printer. I have a CentOS 5 box that can print on
it. I thought that my CentOS 5 box could act as a print server for my
Fedora 19 box.
I arranged that, using the respective GUI tools.
It doesn't seem to work. So I think that my F19 box still needs the
proprietary driver. I get one line of postscript printed on the page.
Is there some way that I can get the F19 box to treat the CentOS
machine's published printer as something generic, like a PostScript
printer?
Here's where Brother describes Linux support:
<http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/index.html>
I don't seem to have SELinux issues.
10 years, 8 months
Slightly OT
by Roger
I'm using Fedora 19 developing a couple of small Rails4 apps.
A friend who does php programing has offered to help me complete the
coding . He is using winxp because he had to much trouble getting Rails4
and Ruby2 working on Fedora 16 in a virtual machine at his work.
I have the master app on github and pushed to heroku where it works ok.
I have no knowledge of github or heroku other than that.
For me alone I have been working on the master app in my home directory
and pushing frequently.
My questions are.
What is the best way to allow him to work/collaborate on the project and
push to both github and heroku.
Should I create a branch or a fork on github? and/or heroku?, what is
the difference between branch and fork?
I have googled and read both the github and heroku help but am very lost
when it comes to understanding what is the best way to handle this.
Help would be greatly appreciated thank you.
Apologies for so off topic.
Roger
10 years, 8 months
