Re: Transferring current path in nautilus, file browser to command line ??

rminal will do this, or a copying and pasting. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list

Re: Transferring current path in nautilus, file browser to command line ??

Nautilus exports NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI, maybe that's what you're looking for? http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/latest/gosnautilus-440.html -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part _

Re: Warning when opening .mp4 video files

-info to check what kind of file you try to open and if the the mime type and extension match. Maybe your file is non-standard or damaged and confuses shared-mime-info? You can check if a newer version of shared-mime-info fixes this, or file a bug in the freedesktop.org bugzilla. http://freedesktop.

Re: keyboard shortcuts with mod4 no longer settable in 2.16

don't know why this is needed, but it seems to work for me. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list

Re: There has gotta be an easy answer - binding commands to keys ??

imlatinplus-doc.html - Seems to be another way of using the compose key. How to Type Letters with Accents in GNOME http://info.openanswers.org/how_to_type_letters_with_accents_in_gnome - Describes a multikey, no idea how this differs from compose. HTH, -- Ch

Re: There has gotta be an easy answer - binding commands to keys ??

?) but you could try asking on IRC (#gnome-hackers on irc.gimp.org) for advice. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnome-list mailing list gnome

Re: gpdf/evince in a browser : specifying parameters in a URL

ow_bug.cgi?id=168933 for a bug tracking the development of a browser plugin. You can add a comment there or file it as a separate request. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part __

Re: How to disable F1 for yelp

led) and press backspace to clear the accelerator. Hope this helps, -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list

Re: Have a question

tml ... still plenty of GNOME lovin' in Debian :) -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list

Re: changing su (root password) to sudo (user password) -- just wondering ??

should be able to change this by running gksu-properties and changing the authentication mode. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnome-list mailing list g

Re: gnome places "gtk bookmarks" open thunar

services" and "computer". Maybe there is some significance in this! Try selecting Properties for a directory and check if Open With is set to thunar. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: Open file dialog improvements

pen file dialog: > -an addres bar Hi, 2.10 have a button to enable this. In versions prior to that, I think you need to press Ctrl+L for it to appear. As for the rest of your suggestions, have you read Alexandre Prokoudine's "Ranting on GtkFileChooser"? http://prokoudine.info/blog/

Re: Gnome panel locking

> may seem a simple solution to be able to lock every object one-by-one, > but it is many times troublesome, and it is never more effective than > a simple "universal" lock system. Yes, it has been brought up before, see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114160 -- Chee

Re: Questions regarding Sun's gnome 2.6 implementation

d have been available as far back as 2002? As a general rule, you can find out a lot by searching the bug tracker, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ and skimming through the changelogs (online at http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs). Anyway, HTH! -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key

Re: Desktop *.wav file -- How to make it play when mouse is positioned on it

gt; of the *.wav files. > > What setting does start it? Hi, It's the "Preview sound files" setting in the "File Management" preferences. I think this needs a sound server, such as esound or pulseaudio, for it to work. You can enable this with "Enable software

Re: Open files in GUI from Command line

'open picture.jpg' or more > generally, 'open ' will open the referenced picture or > document in the GUI app of choice associated with it. > > Is it possible to do the same thing from a terminal window with Gnome? Hi, Yes, gnome-open is what you're lo

Re: Bookmarks as a sub menu under Places

ey are directly placed in the places menu. I don't know if it's possible to reconfigure this behaviour, but I'm guessing it would be very simple to change the limit directly in the gnome-panel code. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc D

Re: Bookmarks as a sub menu under Places

-panel/2.20/ (I'm cc'ing gnome-list again) -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list

Re: Desktop suddenly covered in icons for everything in my home folder

he desktop? Check ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and see what XDG_DESKTOP_DIR is set as. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnome-list mailing list gnome-l

Re: how to make totem use a different alsa device

(somewhere in ~/.gnome2/totem) You should also look into PulseAudio, I think it can be configured to give a different volume level to system sounds. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Dell Inspiron 1521 - volume controls configuration

fore. I'm using HDA ATI SB (Alsa > Mixer). I tried using the PCM track, Master, Front. The controls are > still mapped to Capture. Hi, Isn't this set in the sound preferences capplet (gnome-sound-properties) in "Default Mixer Tracks"? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson ht

Re: modifying the "places" menu

ndled through gconf, in /desktop/gnome/connected_servers/ to be precise. You can use gconf-editor or gconftool to edit these. If you simply want to delete them, unmounting them from the desktop or from nautilus and re-adding them should work. In 2.22, network locations are handled as gtk bookmar

Re: modifying the "places" menu

s still in the experimental archive, you can probably grab those packages and install them on testing if you're feeling adventurous. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___

RE: Gnome 2.22 & FreeBSD 7 mouse configuration

/x-config.html Also, if you have a mouse in the console, you're probably using gpm. I think you need to either configure X to use gpm, or deactivate it? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: T

Re: Shutting off graphical ssh agent?

SH agent, and it can break some setups, especially if ssh-agent is started by hand. If you want to disable it, you can set the /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh GConf key to false. HTH, -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22

Re: mime types

64, system. Hi, You're probably seeing this bug, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539117 This is also Debian bug 498913. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: mime types

r user, (in ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list) so it should be safe to experiment with. It's documented here, http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/mimetypes-registering.html.en HTH, -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Descript

Re: Queries on Pango Font APIs

.@gnome.org you will probably get faster help there. http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-i18n-list -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnome-list

Re: Terminal won't start???

tions, or only gnome-terminal? If it happens with most, it might be a misconfigured loopback interface and hostname lookup taking ages before it times out. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/94048 -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description:

Re: change gnome-power-manager FAQ

list. See http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-power-manager-list -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list

Re: Networking help

robably goes a little beyond the scope of GNOME. I think you have a better chance of getting help on a forum or mailing list specific to Fedora. You could try http://fedoraforum.org/ for starters. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 s

Re: Dragging Document Onto Program Icon

the gtk-app-devel-list mailing list. See http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnome-list mailing l

Re: Session start up scripts

r for DVDs, but > despite changing this in Preferred Applications option, Totem is always > initiated when a DVD is inserted. Again, are there some textual > configuration files I can access to set my preferences directly to use > VLC, for example? System → Preferences → File Mana

Re: How to set background color for application window

nnoying. I can't find how to change it. I looked under the > configuration editor and searched for background color but didn't find > what I needed. Any suggestions? It's in the Appearance control panel. Select Customize and the Colours tab. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson

Re: Session start up scripts

need to either use the GUI tool, gconf-editor or gconftool-2 from a terminal. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@gnome.o

Re: Session start up scripts

n-preferences, it should be the most obvious way to start an application at login. Perhaps someone else on the list can shed som light on this? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part _

Re: Preventing gnome-power-manager from turning monitor off

here's an open bug about this if you want to track progress: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579430 Also, note that the dbus-send command in that Debian bug is wrong, it's SimulateUserActivity not Poke. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22

Re: Purpose of GNOME online accounts?

Google > or my ownCloud calendar, Calendar and contacts are working fine here with Owncloud and Evolution. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___

Re: Purpose of GNOME online accounts?

it up in GOA. But it was quite a while back. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list

Re: gnome-terminal - cannot cut&paste between gnome-terminals on separate screens

d had multiple screens before, and multi-screen   setups (not multi-monitor!) are very rare nowadays. If you really   need multiple X screens, open them as separate displays. But, it looks like it was added back in (or at least support for the clipboard was added) in 3.17.6: https://git.gno

Re: grouping and labeling workspaces?

need to look into extensions for that kind of functionality: https://extensions.gnome.org/ A quick search finds extensions for creating a grid of workspaces, and labels, but I don't think there's anything for grouping several workspaces together. HTH, -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://ww

Re: Default applications

ps, PDF reader isn't amongst them. For that you need to right-click a file and select the default handler for that specific file type in the "Open With" tab. HTH, -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This

Re: Default applications

section in the Help too, under "Change the default application", but not so easy to find (it isn't the first match when searching for "default" or "default application" -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se signature.asc Description: This is a digitally