Re: Makefile: missing separator

2017-08-29 Thread Ian Collier
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 08:43:37AM +0200, Sascha Manns wrote: > The Error is gone now after adding this to configure.ac: > > AX_REQUIRE_DEFINED([APPSTREAM_XML]) > APPSTREAM_XML OK, sorry I wasn't much help but it's good you figured it out. imc ___ gnom

Re: Makefile: missing separator

2017-08-25 Thread Ian Collier
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 08:11:26AM +0200, Sascha Manns wrote: > After executing the Makefile it says: > Makefile:865: *** missing separator. Stop. > The line 865 is the line with: > @APPSTREAM_XML_RULES@ I think you need to install the devel package for appstream-glib (but I'm not really an expert

Re: Facing problems with GNOME Characters

2017-07-03 Thread Ian Collier
On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 04:17:06PM +0530, Nandakumar Edamana wrote: > I'm using GNOME 3.22.2 as shipped with Debian 9. I find that the old > Character Map (gucharmap, I assume), which was the default character map > application in GNOME 2 has been replaced with a new generation JavaScript > one. H

Re: Login screen

2011-03-08 Thread Ian Collier
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 03:51:53PM +, António Rui Borges wrote: > I have just installed Fedora 14 and added some users. > The login screen when the system boots presents the full list of > these users. > How can I prevent the list from appearing? > I remember that in versions up to Fedora 8 an

Re: gnome-window-properties

2011-01-13 Thread Ian Collier
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 03:56:24PM -0800, wayne.lydec...@l-3com.com wrote: >I upgraded to RHEL6 and everything is great except I cannot find >gnome-window-properties. There is one feature that I am missing that >I find imperative, and that is being able to "select windows when the >

Laptop panel brightness

2011-01-02 Thread Ian Collier
I'm not running the whole of GNOME, but I am running gnome-power-manager and gnome-panel among other things, so I guess this may be my fault for having an unusual setup (and it may not be GNOME's fault at all, but I suspect that g-p-m is doing it). Anyway, my problem is this: I have g-p-m preferen

Re: Remote login

2010-02-18 Thread Ian Collier
Duncan Garland wrote: > I've installed vnc4server on the Debian, and tightvncviewer on the Windows > box. If I run vnc4server -geometry 1280x1024 -depth 24 on the Debian, login > in via tightvncviewer and type gnome-session, it works after a fashion. > > The Desktop comes up, and I can access items

Re: Shutdown or Reboot

2010-02-12 Thread Ian Collier
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 08:46:21AM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote: > Yes, that's how I found out that /sbin/shutdown is called with root > privileges. Additionally, I saw that /sbin/shutdown is called by a > script that belongs to consolekit. This may be dependent on what distribution you are runni

Re: Positioning of new windows

2010-01-04 Thread Ian Collier
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 10:15:50AM +, AG wrote: > How does one set it up so that new windows open on, say, the bottom > right hand corner of the screen rather than the (default?) current > top left? I don't know the answer, but I think I at least understand the question and why the previous tw

Re: One more comment (and apology)

2008-02-18 Thread Ian Collier
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 05:15:13PM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 14:02 -0800, Clark Dunson wrote: > > 1) After using sethostname, GNOME will not start a new terminal. > > This is most likely an /etc/hosts issue with the new name. Actually it's almost certainly to do with

Re: Stop gnome-terminal from clearing screen

2008-01-04 Thread Ian Collier
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 07:47:10PM +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 15:42 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > Is this the only method to stop gnome-terminal from clearing on > > program exit at this time? > > http://fixlog.blogspot.com/2006/09/stop-gnome-terminal-screen-clear.ht

Re: gnome-volume-manager settings

2007-12-18 Thread Ian Collier
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:06:24PM +1030, Ian wrote: > I'm deploying a group of workstations running opensuse & gnome. The > gnome-volume-manager is set by default to make banshee run when an audio CD > is inserted. I need to disable this (as a default) so that users can run grip > instead witho

Confusing keyboard warning

2007-12-11 Thread Ian Collier
On a particular Fedora Core 7 machine when I log in and choose a GNOME [2.18] session (which to be honest I usually don't), it says: The X system keyboard settings differ from your current GNOME keyboard settings. Expected was model "generic", layout "us" and no options, but the the follo

Re: failsafe sessions on login screen?

2007-09-06 Thread Ian Collier
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:48:59AM +0100, I wrote: > Now I know there used to be a failsafe session available in earlier Fedoras, > but it's not in the list of choices on Fedora 7's login screen. > > Where did it go and how can I get it back? Well eventually I found it myself: add the line ShowX

failsafe sessions on login screen?

2007-09-05 Thread Ian Collier
On Fedora 7 if an error prevents you from logging in it tells you to try a failsafe session. Now I know there used to be a failsafe session available in earlier Fedoras, but it's not in the list of choices on Fedora 7's login screen. Where did it go and how can I get it back? I note it's still m

Re: Make GNOME aware of custom URI Scheme

2006-12-12 Thread Ian Collier
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Re: Make GNOME aware of custom URI Scheme

2006-12-12 Thread Ian Collier
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