Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > IMHO, if you are new to both, try both and decide for yourself. > Chances are you will settle on one.  Then, as times goes by, changes > will be made to whatever one you pick and you'll think of switching to > the other. > But no matter which

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, Boggiano wrote: > --- On Tue, 1/18/11, g wrote: > > > On 01/18/2011 02:52 PM, Temlakos wrote: > > > > > > > I suspect that the answer depends solely on whether > > you come to Linux > > > from Mac or Windows. > > What about those of us who came from AmigaOS and its Workbench

Re: firefox menus not working

2011-01-18 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 22:58 +, N James Bridge wrote: > after installing the latest updates, all of Firefox's menus have > stopped working Since the update, have you completely quit all running instances of Firefox, and started up a completely new Firefox session? What you've describe (some so

Re: CHECKSUM is not easily accessible on Fedora Download Page

2011-01-18 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 18:01 +, g wrote: > torrent download, which is self checking. Only against changes to the content of the file being downloaded (that what you started to download, is the same as what the uploader provided). You need to *separately* check the file against another source

Re: Checking whether Gnome screensaver currently active

2011-01-18 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/18/2011 10:22 PM, Rick Sewill wrote: > On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 08:52:57 pm Robert Nichols wrote: >> On 01/18/2011 12:28 PM, Rick Sewill wrote: >>> On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 09:00:22 am Robert Nichols wrote: On 01/18/2011 01:34 AM, Rick Sewill wrote: > On Monday, January 17, 2

Re: top for network

2011-01-18 Thread Jatin K
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 09:25 PM, Patrick Byers wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:20, admin lewis wrote: >> No, I neef of something to see the software that generate traffic... >> something beetwheen top and 'watch netstat -natup' >> >> what > Try nethogs. It's in the repositories and describ

Re: CHECKSUM is not easily accessible on Fedora Download Page

2011-01-18 Thread Todd Zullinger
Armelius Cameron wrote: > There's this box that says: "What should I do with this ISO file?" > and a link to instruction. The second page on the instruction ask to > "Verify the download", but again, no link to point to the CHECKSUM, > or how to even verify the download. There are links to the CHE

Re: Checking whether Gnome screensaver currently active

2011-01-18 Thread Rick Sewill
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 08:52:57 pm Robert Nichols wrote: > On 01/18/2011 12:28 PM, Rick Sewill wrote: > > On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 09:00:22 am Robert Nichols wrote: > >> On 01/18/2011 01:34 AM, Rick Sewill wrote: > >>> On Monday, January 17, 2011 10:57:00 pm Robert Nichols wrote: > O

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:32:34 +0100, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > Hi, > > A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user friendly then > GNOME desktop? A basic question indeed. :-) Yes, like almost everybody states it is very personal. I'm GNOME follower. And I hate KDE. In fact I hate

Re: Checking whether Gnome screensaver currently active

2011-01-18 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/18/2011 12:28 PM, Rick Sewill wrote: > On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 09:00:22 am Robert Nichols wrote: >> On 01/18/2011 01:34 AM, Rick Sewill wrote: >>> On Monday, January 17, 2011 10:57:00 pm Robert Nichols wrote: On 01/17/2011 09:57 PM, Rick Sewill wrote: > Question please: > >>

Re: SELinux

2011-01-18 Thread Andreas M. Kirchwitz
Jorge Fábregas wrote: > Ok, there has been a lot of these lately (execstack). I had those with > AviDemux and solved it by removing execstack from the particular library > causing it. I had "execstack" messages with a self-compiled Exim and OpenSSH. Couldn't find any libraries with the exec

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/18/2011 07:32 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > Hi, > > A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user friendly > then GNOME desktop? It depends on the user. IMHO, if you are new to both, try both and decide for yourself. Chances are you will settle on one. Then, as times goes by,

Re: how to use gmail smtp server for outgoing mail

2011-01-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:58:10 -0500 Genes MailLists wrote: > It can be tricky to get the correct authinfo matching name This whole thread makes me glad I switched to postfix (which I see RHEL 6 has as the default now as well). Configuring gmail to be a "smarthost" was trivial and well documented o

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Boggiano
> --- On Tue, 1/18/11, g wrote: > > > On 01/18/2011 02:52 PM, Temlakos wrote: > > > > > > > I suspect that the answer depends solely on whether > > you come to Linux > > > from Mac or Windows. > What about those of us who came from AmigaOS and its Workbench GUI, and > skipped MSDOS, Windows & M

firefox menus not working

2011-01-18 Thread N James Bridge
Hi all after installing the latest updates, all of Firefox's menus have stopped working. Among other things, this makes it impossible to set preferences or use bookmarks. I tried reinstalling it but it makes no difference. Other apps (including Epiphany) seem not to be affected. According to yum

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread g
On 01/18/2011 10:05 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Tue, 1/18/11, g wrote: >> On 01/18/2011 02:52 PM, Temlakos wrote: >>> I suspect that the answer depends solely on whether you come to Linux >>> from Mac or Windows. >> so what would you suspect for those of us who moved from unix to slackware

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, g wrote: > On 01/18/2011 02:52 PM, Temlakos wrote: > > > > I suspect that the answer depends solely on whether > you come to Linux > > from Mac or Windows. > > so what would you suspect for those of us who moved from > unix to > slackware and changed from gnome to kde? W

Re: how to use gmail smtp server for outgoing mail

2011-01-18 Thread Genes MailLists
1) I deleted the thread before I realized I had something of possible interest - so this reply may not be threaded correctly - sorry 2) It can be tricky to get the correct authinfo matching name - the name has to match any record returned by DNS - so you may need a matching line for every hos

Re: [389-users] changelogdb getting too large

2011-01-18 Thread Rich Megginson
On 01/18/2011 01:46 PM, Paulo Silva wrote: Hi, I have a Multimaster replication setup with 3 servers and I've noticed that the changelogdb dir has some very large files: # ls -lha changelogdb/ total 8.2G drwx-- 2 nobody nobody 4.0K Jan 18 20:32 . drwxr-x--- 6 nobody nobody 4.0K Jan 18 15:

RE: how to use gmail smtp server for outgoing mail

2011-01-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 13:03 -0800, SOLOMON wrote: > If memory serves me correct the email client allows you to change your > incoming and outgoing mail servers. If you can change your outgoing > mail > server to smtp.gmail.com with your username and password, change your > incoming post to 995 and

RE: how to use gmail smtp server for outgoing mail

2011-01-18 Thread SOLOMON
Hi, If memory serves me correct the email client allows you to change your incoming and outgoing mail servers. If you can change your outgoing mail server to smtp.gmail.com with your username and password, change your incoming post to 995 and your outgoing port to 465 (SSL) you may be OK. Solomon

Re: So, my HP Bios is broken?

2011-01-18 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/18/2011 03:46 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 01/18/2011 03:37 PM, Alessandro Boggiano wrote: rivers instead of nouveau maybe ? > > ... Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address 0! Looks like this (from 2009 .. ) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495603 gene -- user

[389-users] changelogdb getting too large

2011-01-18 Thread Paulo Silva
Hi, I have a Multimaster replication setup with 3 servers and I've noticed that the changelogdb dir has some very large files: # ls -lha changelogdb/ total 8.2G drwx-- 2 nobody nobody 4.0K Jan 18 20:32 . drwxr-x--- 6 nobody nobody 4.0K Jan 18 15:23 .. -rw--- 1 nobody nobody0 Jan 18 18

Re: So, my HP Bios is broken?

2011-01-18 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/18/2011 03:37 PM, Alessandro Boggiano wrote: > I was looking into /var/log/messages and I discoverd this! :( > > I went on HP site and I found indeed a bios upgrade, but it reports: > Fix/Enhancement: Updates the Computrace Option ROM to verison 889. > ... > Jan 18 20:26:46 localhost ker

So, my HP Bios is broken?

2011-01-18 Thread Alessandro Boggiano
I was looking into /var/log/messages and I discoverd this! :( I went on HP site and I found indeed a bios upgrade, but it reports: Fix/Enhancement: Updates the Computrace Option ROM to verison 889. So nothing of really useful!! :( It works quite well, some little problems: no bass, the front mic

HPET problems under F14?

2011-01-18 Thread Thierry Vanden Broucke
Anyone encountered problems with HPET under F14 64 bits? Got some errors here, trying to recompile the kernel. -- Thierry Vanden Broucke Linux User - 415586 Oracle ID - SR3276201 Oracle Database 10G Certified Associate Oracle Application Server 10G Certified Associate Bachelor of Information Syst

Re: gui for posix acl?

2011-01-18 Thread JB
Neal Becker gmail.com> writes: > > Any gui for posix acl? > Search Google: linux posix acl Eiciel http://rofi.roger-ferrer.org/eiciel/ JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/use

Re: CHECKSUM is not easily accessible on Fedora Download Page

2011-01-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/18/2011 11:31 PM, g wrote: > > until some people get there heads out of their butts and put what is > needed on pages and cut out all the links, 'aunt tillie' can use a > torrent download, which is self checking. > > and yes, 'aunt tillie' can get torrent downloader for msbsos. Grotesque la

gui for posix acl?

2011-01-18 Thread Neal Becker
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Re: CHECKSUM is not easily accessible on Fedora Download Page

2011-01-18 Thread g
On 01/18/2011 05:39 PM, Armelius Cameron wrote: > Hello, I know Fedora try to be more user friendly, and the website design > that points to the various download options reflects that. But I think one > signficant thing is missing: the CHECKSUM file is not easily accesible. How > can a novice user

CHECKSUM is not easily accessible on Fedora Download Page

2011-01-18 Thread Armelius Cameron
Hello, I know Fedora try to be more user friendly, and the website design that points to the various download options reflects that. But I think one signficant thing is missing: the CHECKSUM file is not easily accesible. How can a novice user know how to check that his/her download is correct an

Re: Can't mount a cifs share

2011-01-18 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Simon Andrews wrote: > On 18/01/2011 15:50, Tom H wrote: > >> You can't use chattr/lsattr on a proc filesystem. >> >> Use "--debuglevel=7". > > On which command?  That doesn't seem to be a valid option for mount or > mount.cifs (which are the ones which are failin

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread g
On 01/18/2011 02:52 PM, Temlakos wrote: > I suspect that the answer depends solely on whether you come to Linux > from Mac or Windows. so what would you suspect for those of us who moved from unix to slackware and changed from gnome to kde? among reason for staying with kde is i like konquero

Re: evolution-alarm-notify doesn't start on fedora 14

2011-01-18 Thread Ambrogio
Il giorno lun, 10/01/2011 alle 17.17 -0600, Aaron Konstam ha scritto: > On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 22:34 +0100, Ambrogio wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm using evolution 2.32 on fedora 14, but I can't see alarm displayed. > > > > If I start evolution-alarm-notify manually every alarm are displayed. > > > >

Re: top for network

2011-01-18 Thread admin lewis
2011/1/18 Patrick Byers > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:20, admin lewis wrote: > > > > No, I neef of something to see the software that generate traffic... > > something beetwheen top and 'watch netstat -natup' > > > > Try nethogs. It's in the repositories and described as a small "net top" > tool.

Re: Can't mount a cifs share

2011-01-18 Thread JB
Simon Andrews bbsrc.ac.uk> writes: > > On 18/01/2011 16:03, JB wrote: > > JB gmail.com> writes: > > > >> ... > > > > Do you have it installed ? > > $ yum list "*cifs-utils*" > > That was it! I installed cifs-utils and the mount now works. > > It seems odd that that's not a dependency of mou

Re: Can't mount a cifs share

2011-01-18 Thread Simon Andrews
On 18/01/2011 16:03, JB wrote: > JB gmail.com> writes: > >> ... > > Do you have it installed ? > $ yum list "*cifs-utils*" That was it! I installed cifs-utils and the mount now works. It seems odd that that's not a dependency of mount.cifs if it's required to actually mount anything! Thanks

Re: Can't mount a cifs share

2011-01-18 Thread Simon Andrews
On 18/01/2011 16:25, Greg Woods wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 15:01 +, Simon Andrews wrote: > >> I would if I could! >> >> sudo echo 7> /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI >> -bash: /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI: Permission denied > > This is a classic by now. The problem is that the redirection occurs in > your s

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Temlakos wrote: > I suspect that the answer depends solely on whether you come to Linux > from Mac or Windows. > GNOME <-> Mac > KDE <-> Windows > The handling of user-switching in KDE told the tale. In GNOME, all you > get is a "New Login" option in a menu. As

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user > friendly > then GNOME desktop? No, it isn't, but since you can totally customize either, the question is really irrelevant. B -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: Can't mount a cifs share

2011-01-18 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 15:01 +, Simon Andrews wrote: > I would if I could! > > sudo echo 7 > /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI > -bash: /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI: Permission denied This is a classic by now. The problem is that the redirection occurs in your shell, before sudo is invoked. That is why you are

Re: [389-users] Newly added users not showing up in DS

2011-01-18 Thread Rich Megginson
On 01/18/2011 09:07 AM, harry.dev...@faa.gov wrote: After I sent this, I see that I do have those accounts, but not where I expected. We have 2 servers (server A and server B) that we want to replicate the user info between. I enter the new users on server A, but they only show up under Peo

Re: [389-users] Newly added users not showing up in DS

2011-01-18 Thread Rich Megginson
On 01/18/2011 08:57 AM, harry.dev...@faa.gov wrote: I am trying to add a few new users to my directory server, but after I add them, they don't show up under the Directory tab. I've pressed "Refresh All" a few times, and they don't show up. If I try to add them again (in case it didn't "ta

Re: [389-users] Newly added users not showing up in DS

2011-01-18 Thread harry . devine
After I sent this, I see that I do have those accounts, but not where I expected. We have 2 servers (server A and server B) that we want to replicate the user info between. I enter the new users on server A, but they only show up under People on the Directory tab on server B. When I try to f

Re: Can't mount a cifs share

2011-01-18 Thread JB
JB gmail.com> writes: > ... Do you have it installed ? $ yum list "*cifs-utils*" Have you checked your firewall rules ? JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: ht

Re: Can't mount a cifs share

2011-01-18 Thread Simon Andrews
On 18/01/2011 15:50, Tom H wrote: > You can't use chattr/lsattr on a proc filesystem. > > Use "--debuglevel=7". On which command? That doesn't seem to be a valid option for mount or mount.cifs (which are the ones which are failing). Simon. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

[389-users] Newly added users not showing up in DS

2011-01-18 Thread harry . devine
I am trying to add a few new users to my directory server, but after I add them, they don't show up under the Directory tab. I've pressed "Refresh All" a few times, and they don't show up. If I try to add them again (in case it didn't "take" the first time), I get an error saying that the user

Re: top for network

2011-01-18 Thread Patrick Byers
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:20, admin lewis wrote: > > No, I neef of something to see the software that generate traffic... > something beetwheen top and 'watch netstat -natup' > Try nethogs. It's in the repositories and described as a small "net top" tool. Patrick -- users mailing list users@li

Re: Can't mount a cifs share

2011-01-18 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Simon Andrews wrote: > On 18/01/2011 13:38, JB wrote: >> Simon Andrews  bbsrc.ac.uk>  writes: >> >> Try debugging it: >> >> # echo 7>  /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI > > I would if I could! > > sudo echo 7 > /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI > -bash: /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI: Permission

Re: Triple head?

2011-01-18 Thread Jason Ish
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Thomas Cameron wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Has anyone gotten three heads set up with Fedora?  I figure it will > require the proprietary driver, and while that is not optimal, I'm > willing to do it.  I really want to have three mon

Re: SELinux

2011-01-18 Thread James McKenzie
On 1/17/11 9:22 PM, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 01:11 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: >> not to me mention that fact that am the root of the system ? Why can´t >> it just back off and let me do what i want to do ? > And where would it stop? (At SELinux backing off instead of blocking.) > I

Re: mp3 libraries for f14

2011-01-18 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 02:45:25 am Kam Leo wrote: > If you need the mp3 plugin for gstreamer get it from here: > http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/ Let me second this. Fluendo has produced 'legal in the US' decoders for a number of codecs, including MP3, that have bee

Re: top for network

2011-01-18 Thread admin lewis
2011/1/18 Joseph L. Casale > >i'm looking for a command line utility to watch network traffic in > realtime and his command/gui source ... something like top... > >I dont like ntop because it is too big... > > Like top? How about iftop? It’s a curses based app... > > No, I neef of something to se

Re: Can't mount a cifs share

2011-01-18 Thread Simon Andrews
On 18/01/2011 13:38, JB wrote: > Simon Andrews bbsrc.ac.uk> writes: > >> ... > > Try debugging it: > > # echo 7> /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI I would if I could! sudo echo 7 > /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI -bash: /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI: Permission denied sudo chmod 644 /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI $ sudo echo 7 > /

Re: Checking whether Gnome screensaver currently active

2011-01-18 Thread Robert Nichols
On 01/18/2011 01:34 AM, Rick Sewill wrote: > On Monday, January 17, 2011 10:57:00 pm Robert Nichols wrote: >> On 01/17/2011 09:57 PM, Rick Sewill wrote: >>> Question please: >>> >>> Can you use >>> gnome-screensaver-command -q >>> >>> man gnome-screensaver-command >>> >>> I'm currently trying out K

Re: Safely remove ...

2011-01-18 Thread Temlakos
On 01/11/2011 03:55 PM, Beartooth wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:00:02 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Why doesn't Fedora/KDE tell you that you can "safely remove" a USB >> device when you click on the icon on the right of the little window for >> the device? Is it just reluctance to follow Bill

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Temlakos
On 01/18/2011 06:32 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > Hi, > > A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user friendly > then GNOME desktop? I suspect that the answer depends solely on whether you come to Linux from Mac or Windows. GNOME <-> Mac KDE <-> Windows The handling of user-switch

RE: top for network

2011-01-18 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>i'm looking for a command line utility to watch network traffic in realtime >and his command/gui source ... something like top... >I dont like ntop because it is too big... Like top? How about iftop? It’s a curses based app... jlc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: top for network

2011-01-18 Thread Maurizio Marini
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:39:59 +0100 admin lewis wrote: > Hi, > i'm looking for a command line utility to watch network traffic in realtime > and his command/gui source ... something like top... > I dont like ntop because it is too big... > > cheers lewis iptraf maybe cheers maurizio -- users ma

Re: top for network

2011-01-18 Thread Itamar Reis Peixoto
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:39 PM, admin lewis wrote: > Hi, > i'm looking for a command line utility to watch network traffic in realtime > and his command/gui source ... something like top... > I dont like ntop because it is too big... > > cheers lewis > ifstat ? iptraf ? -- Ita

top for network

2011-01-18 Thread admin lewis
Hi, i'm looking for a command line utility to watch network traffic in realtime and his command/gui source ... something like top... I dont like ntop because it is too big... cheers lewis -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://ad

Re: Can't mount a cifs share

2011-01-18 Thread JB
Simon Andrews bbsrc.ac.uk> writes: > ... Try debugging it: # echo 7 > /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI # < execute your mount here > Use sufficient number of lines (here 20) to display all debug messages: # dmesg | tail --lines=20 Post the output to the list. JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fe

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread nathan forbes
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 12:36pm on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 (UK time), Parshwa Murdia > scrawled: > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:19 PM, nathan forbes > wrote: > > > > > True, this is bound to turn into a flame-war... > > > It's all just personal preference

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Steve Searle
Around 12:36pm on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 (UK time), Parshwa Murdia scrawled: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:19 PM, nathan forbes wrote: > > > True, this is bound to turn into a flame-war... > > It's all just personal preference anyway.  If you wanna know about a DE or > > WM, just try it out, an

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:19 PM, nathan forbes wrote: > True, this is bound to turn into a flame-war... > It's all just personal preference anyway.  If you wanna know about a DE or > WM, just try it out, and then you know yourself... True for you because you are from IT field but not I am. I hav

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread nathan forbes
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 07:12 -0500, nathan forbes wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Tom Horsley > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:32:34 +0100 > > > Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > > > > > > A very basic thing I would like to

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 07:12 -0500, nathan forbes wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:32:34 +0100 > > Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > > > > A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user friendly > > > then GNOME desktop? > > > > As far a

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Steve Searle
Around 11:47am on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 (UK time), Tom Horsley scrawled: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:32:34 +0100 > Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > > A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user friendly > > then GNOME desktop? > > As far as I'm concerned they are both intensely user-hos

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread nathan forbes
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:32:34 +0100 > Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > > A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user friendly > > then GNOME desktop? > > As far as I'm concerned they are both intensely user-hostile. > They insist on cha

Can't mount a cifs share

2011-01-18 Thread Simon Andrews
I'm trying to mount a cifs share from a RHEL5 server to a Fedora 14 machine. I can do this just fine if I go through the GUI in Gnome, but I need to be able to do this from the command line as well. I'm sure I'm making a simple mistake, but I can't see it. I can see the share I want to export

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:32:34 +0100 Parshwa Murdia wrote: > A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user friendly > then GNOME desktop? As far as I'm concerned they are both intensely user-hostile. They insist on changing the way everything works and is laid out on a regular basis, s

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Philip Heron
On 18/01/2011 11:32, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user friendly > then GNOME desktop? Depends on the user. Try both! -Phil -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproje

Re: which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Jatin K
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 05:02 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > Hi, > > A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user friendly > then GNOME desktop? I'm think GNOME I've chosen GNOME after using both KDE and GNOME ( please don't ask the reason . I like gnome thats the reason ) --

which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

2011-01-18 Thread Parshwa Murdia
Hi, A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user friendly then GNOME desktop? -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fed

Re: mp3 libraries for f14

2011-01-18 Thread suvayu ali
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 01/17/2011 08:37 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 23:40:14 -0800, >>    Robert Moskowitz  wrote: >>> What do I install to get mp3 support for things like k3b and Movie >>> Player.  When I click on having them go out

Re: Checking whether Gnome screensaver currently active

2011-01-18 Thread JB
Robert Nichols comcast.net> writes: > ... http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver/FrequentlyAskedQuestions ... Is there a way to perform actions when the screensaver activates or deactivates? Or when the session becomes idle? ... http://people.gnome.org/~mccann/gnome-screensaver/docs/gnome-scree