Gnome-shell calander plugin doesn't update
by Matthew Saltzman
I have two machines running Fedora 20 with gnome-shell (fully updated).
On my desktop, the weather applet
(gnome-shell-extension-weather-0-0.13.git7587e23.fc20.noarch) works
fine. On my laptop, the applet just displays the circular arrow.
Pulling down the applet display shows "Loading weather". Clicking
"Reload weather information" has no effect. Changing locations or
deleting and resetting the location in the Settings menu has no effect.
Both machines are configured identically.
Any idea where to look to clear whatever might be locking this up?
Thanks.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
10 years, 2 months
Problems with Windows 8.1 after Fedora 20 Installation
by L.G.
Hi all.
After the answers about "Fedora 20 Installation Problem" which I have got, I have created a Live USB using LiveUSB Creator. After that, I have started my Sony Vaio SVE1512Y1ESI notebook (which was already installed Windows 8.1 on) from my USB and I have be able to install this OS at last. At this point I have restart my PC to access Windows partition and, much to my surprise, it has appear a kernel error message on the screen. That's why I have had to restore previous situation to be able to access again that partition.
What do you suggest I should do to avoid this problem befall again?
I express my early thanks to people who will know to give me an answer.
10 years, 2 months
Re: F20 - Can't Select Desktop Environment at Login
by Brian Hanks
> You can still choose what session, but only *after* selecting the username
> (if using gdm, at least).
>
> -- Rex
Wow, now I see it in the upper right corner of the screen rather than in
the Login Badge.
On my one machine, I did a fedup upgrade from F19 to F20 and there is
the option to select the desktop environment at Login just like there
has been on every previous version that I can remember.
On the other I did a network install overwriting the previous install.
It's this one that only has the selection in the upper right corner.
There must be a very some difference in the fedup upgrade vs. the full
install.
Brian
10 years, 2 months
Radeon Driver question
by max
Is there some sort of configuration that needs to be done with the
Radeon Driver to get resolutions higher than 1280 x 1024 ? My system
looks like crap at that resolution but its seems to be the best I can get.
The above is the only question that I have, the below rounds out why I
am asking and the other options I had considered or explored.
The card I am using is a Radeon 6570 which I know is capable of better
resolution than what I am getting.
I am not sure what happened as I have been out of touch with this for
sometime. I have been using an Nvidia card in the last few years and
that did the trick.
When it decided to fail I decided to go back to an ATI card, since they
have an open source driver.
Aticonfig doesn't appear to work for the radeon driver. I saw the
radeontool but that didn't appear to help either but frankly I am not
sure how to use it. There is no manual page for it apparently and I am
not sure which registers to set nor what to set them too.
I tried the AMD/ATI proprietary driver but it fails to build the kernel
module then asks for a reboot. Reboot and presto all there is, is an
error message. I had to uninstall it to get back to runlevel 5. In any
case I also gather that kmod-radeon or catalyst is no longer available.
Its a shame but what can you do.
So I am back to my original question: Is there some sort of
configuration that needs to be done with the Radeon Driver to get
resolutions higher than 1280 x 1024 ?
Thanks,
Max
10 years, 2 months
Controlling Appearance of GTK+ applications in KDE
by Jonathan Ryshpan
The appearance of gtk (Gnome) applications under KDE is controlled by a
System Settings function:
System Settings->Application Appearance->GTK+ Appearance->Widget
Style
which works as advertised: the theme chosen for the widget style affects
Gnome applications (in particular evolution), changing the shape and
color of the scrollbars, color of selected portions of text, etc. The
themes appear to be a selection of the themes available
in /usr/share/themes, but only a very partial
selection. /usr/share/themes contains 29 themes, of which only 9 are
available in the pull-down menu next to Widget Style. How can the
remaining themes in the system be made available to KDE? Is it possible
to download more GTK+ themes for use by KDE, or are only some themes
compatible.
System is Fedora-20 with all upgrades running on x86_64 hardware.
The problem arose because since upgrading to Fedora-20, evolution under
the KDE desktop doesn't look good. The selected message isn't
highlighted much.
Thanks - jon
10 years, 2 months
Using Kino for video capture
by Fred Smith
I know Kino is officially obsoleted by its maintainer, but I have chosen
to TRY using it anyway, since it'll do video capture from firewire, AND
let me see what it's capturing.
So, I've got a bazillion commercial VHS tapes, a considerable number of
them are series of TV shows, so I'm to have to spring the cash to buy
them again in DVD format.
I have a "Dazzle Hollywood DV BRidge", feeding analog signal into it
from the VCR, and digital via Firewire from there to my PC.
I can start up the vcr and watch it play in Kino, and see Kino capturing
the data into files that grow real big, real fast.
My problem is that Kino isn't naming the files properly,... it gives
a basename, the date, the time, and a suffix. The only trouble is, the
times it uses are all zeroes.
That has the un-helpful result of each file overwriting the previous one,
as Kino splits the capture into multiple files, as they all have the
same filename.
I don't see any options in Kino for controlling how it derives the time,
or how it chooses the name, so I may not be able to use Kino for this
project. (I can try dvgrab, but it's nice to be able to see what it's
doing, at least until I become comfortable with the process.)
Do any of you have any experience with Kino that might help me with this?
Thanks in advance!
Fred
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---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -----------------------------
The Lord is like a strong tower.
Those who do what is right can run to him for safety.
--------------------------- Proverbs 18:10 (niv) -----------------------------
10 years, 2 months
