Re: xterm vs gnome terminal

2011-05-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 02May2011 19:18, Tom H wrote: | On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:31 PM, JD wrote: | > On 05/02/11 14:09, Cameron Simpson wrote: | >> gnome-terminal -bg white -fg black -x vi ${1+"$@"}& | >> | >> ALso note the change of $* - your origial script will break if you get files | >> with whitespec in their

Re: Firefox contrast

2011-05-02 Thread g
On 05/03/2011 03:16 AM, Mick M. wrote: > Hello; I am using the latest version of Firefox, under F14 fully updated and > KDE. What I would like to know is how to heighten the contrast of the drop > down menu. E.g. - bookmarks, the one under the cursor is very low contrast. > > Normal is black on wh

Re: Firefox contrast

2011-05-02 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 05/02/2011 11:16 PM, Mick M. wrote: > I am using the latest version of Firefox, under F14 fully updated and KDE. > What I would like to know is how to heighten the contrast of the drop down > menu. Firefox uses the GTK toolkit and KDE uses Qt so it doesn't matter how you customize your KDE (b

Firefox contrast

2011-05-02 Thread Mick M.
Hello; I am using the latest version of Firefox, under F14 fully updated and KDE. What I would like to know is how to heighten the contrast of the drop down menu. E.g. - bookmarks, the one under the cursor is very low contrast. Normal is black on white, under the mouse cursor changes to white o

Re: Install Fedora on an android tablet or an iPad?

2011-05-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 09:30 -0600, CS_DBA wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Anyone know of any projects / methods to install Fedora on a tablet >> like the iPad or an android tablet? >> >> I have an iPad and I run into things I wish I could do with it ev

Re: UPnP vs. Fedora 14 firewall

2011-05-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 20:18 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 05/02/2011 05:32 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I have nothing called upnp-inspector in my system (F14), and nothing is > > listening on port 1900. > > We have two threads going on here. :) That's my fault. Sorry about that bu

Re: UPnP vs. Fedora 14 firewall

2011-05-02 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 05/02/2011 05:32 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I have nothing called upnp-inspector in my system (F14), and nothing is > listening on port 1900. We have two threads going on here. :) upnp-inspector is a stand-alone application that can show all UPnP devices on your local network. -- user

Re: xterm vs gnome terminal

2011-05-02 Thread JD
On 05/02/11 16:18, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:31 PM, JD wrote: >> On 05/02/11 14:09, Cameron Simpson wrote: >>> On 02May2011 13:14, JDwrote: >>> | $ cat /home/jd/bin/viewer >>> | #!/bin/sh >>> | xterm -fn 12x24 -bg white -fg black -e vi $*& >>> | >>> | How can I replace xterm wit

Re: xterm vs gnome terminal

2011-05-02 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:31 PM, JD wrote: > On 05/02/11 14:09, Cameron Simpson wrote: >> On 02May2011 13:14, JD  wrote: >> | $ cat /home/jd/bin/viewer >> | #!/bin/sh >> | xterm -fn 12x24 -bg white -fg black -e vi $*& >> | >> | How can I replace xterm with gnome-terminal? >> | >> | I tried to simpl

Re: UPnP vs. Fedora 14 firewall

2011-05-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 12:02 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > In my case, I want my F14 machine to see my router in order to configure > > ports for torrents. It used to do this, now it doesn't. The torrent app > > (qbittorrent) says it can't find any UPnP/PMP-enabl

Re: xrandr not working

2011-05-02 Thread suvayu ali
Sorry disregard the message. Found my typo. On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:37 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > Hi Fedora users, > > On my laptop this used to work before: > > $ xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1280x800 --output VGA1 --mode 1680x1050 --above > Should have been: $ xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1280x8

xrandr not working

2011-05-02 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Fedora users, On my laptop this used to work before: $ xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1280x800 --output VGA1 --mode 1680x1050 --above But today it stopped working. Following is the output from xrandr on my system. Any thoughts what is going wrong? $ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current

Re: UPnP vs. Fedora 14 firewall

2011-05-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 11:57 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Mike Wohlgemuth wrote: > > As a starting point, I am attempting to discover services via SSDP. If > > I have the firewall enabled, and I run upnp-inspector, I see no > > services. No matter what combination of settings I have tried,

Re: xterm vs gnome terminal

2011-05-02 Thread JD
On 05/02/11 14:59, Norman Gaywood wrote: > gnome-terminal --help-all OK I found out what works: gnome-terminal -e "vi $*" & Thanx!! You had originally said: But try this: gnome-terminal -bg white -fg black -x vi ${1+"$@"}& -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: xterm vs gnome terminal

2011-05-02 Thread Norman Gaywood
On 3 May 2011 07:49, JD wrote: > Also, > $ gnome-terminal -x > Failed to parse arguments: Unknown option -x > > so -x does not seem to be an acceptable arg for gnome-terminal No man page, but: gnome-terminal --help gnome-terminal --help-all gnome-terminal -e vi -- Norman Gaywood, Computer

Re: xterm vs gnome terminal

2011-05-02 Thread JD
On 05/02/11 14:49, JD wrote: > On 05/02/11 14:46, JD wrote: >> On 05/02/11 14:31, JD wrote: >>> On 05/02/11 14:09, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 02May2011 13:14, JD wrote: | $ cat /home/jd/bin/viewer | #!/bin/sh | xterm -fn 12x24 -bg white -fg black -e vi $*& | | How can

Re: xterm vs gnome terminal

2011-05-02 Thread JD
On 05/02/11 14:46, JD wrote: > On 05/02/11 14:31, JD wrote: >> On 05/02/11 14:09, Cameron Simpson wrote: >>> On 02May2011 13:14, JD wrote: >>> | $ cat /home/jd/bin/viewer >>> | #!/bin/sh >>> | xterm -fn 12x24 -bg white -fg black -e vi $*& >>> | >>> | How can I replace xterm with gnome-terminal? >>

Re: xterm vs gnome terminal

2011-05-02 Thread JD
On 05/02/11 14:31, JD wrote: > On 05/02/11 14:09, Cameron Simpson wrote: >> On 02May2011 13:14, JD wrote: >> | $ cat /home/jd/bin/viewer >> | #!/bin/sh >> | xterm -fn 12x24 -bg white -fg black -e vi $*& >> | >> | How can I replace xterm with gnome-terminal? >> | >> | I tried to simply change xterm

Re: xterm vs gnome terminal

2011-05-02 Thread JD
On 05/02/11 14:09, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 02May2011 13:14, JD wrote: > | $ cat /home/jd/bin/viewer > | #!/bin/sh > | xterm -fn 12x24 -bg white -fg black -e vi $*& > | > | How can I replace xterm with gnome-terminal? > | > | I tried to simply change xterm to gnome-terminal > | but gnome-termin

Re: xterm vs gnome terminal

2011-05-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 02May2011 13:14, JD wrote: | $ cat /home/jd/bin/viewer | #!/bin/sh | xterm -fn 12x24 -bg white -fg black -e vi $* & | | How can I replace xterm with gnome-terminal? | | I tried to simply change xterm to gnome-terminal | but gnome-terminal does not recognize the args | and never executes vi on

Re: Top Gnome panel problems.

2011-05-02 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 02/05/2011 22:45, Aaron Konstam a écrit : > After I restored the Gnome top panel using Main Menu application I am > left with some problems. > 1. I can't restore the default volume control icon that appears on > installation. Right click with your

Top Gnome panel problems.

2011-05-02 Thread Aaron Konstam
After I restored the Gnome top panel using Main Menu application I am left with some problems. 1. I can't restore the default volume control icon that appears on installation. 2. I can't restore the networkmanager applet (containing vertical bars when using wireless) that is there on installation

xterm vs gnome terminal

2011-05-02 Thread JD
Hi all, I use cscope often for quick "search and fix" activities :) cscope lets the user to set up and env var called VIEWER in order to pop a separate window in which to view/edit the file which the selects from the list of files found. My VIEWER env var has been set for a long time to a shell s

Re: Increasing disk size of FC14 image running under Win7

2011-05-02 Thread Tod Thomas
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:14 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote: > > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > > wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote: > > > > I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstati

PDF missing charachters

2011-05-02 Thread Dj YB
Hello, I have noticed that the Greek character Pi in some PDF documents is replaced by the not equal sign. how do I fix this? should there be any fonts packages that I need to install? which ones? Thanks in advance for any hint, YB. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubsc

Re: Increasing disk size of FC14 image running under Win7

2011-05-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:14 -0400, Tod Thomas wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote: > > > I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a > > > running > > > FC14 VM. Everything was fine

Re: UPnP vs. Fedora 14 firewall

2011-05-02 Thread Mike Wohlgemuth
On 05/02/2011 12:57 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Mike Wohlgemuth wrote: >> As a starting point, I am attempting to discover services via SSDP. If >> I have the firewall enabled, and I run upnp-inspector, I see no >> services. No matter what combination of settings I have tried, I never >> see

Re: Increasing disk size of FC14 image running under Win7

2011-05-02 Thread Tod Thomas
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote: > > I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a > > running > > FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade and > > then I > > discovered my

Re: UPnP vs. Fedora 14 firewall

2011-05-02 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > In my case, I want my F14 machine to see my router in order to configure > ports for torrents. It used to do this, now it doesn't. The torrent app > (qbittorrent) says it can't find any UPnP/PMP-enabled routers. The > router is a Cisco (Linksys) E1000 with UPnP capabili

Re: UPnP vs. Fedora 14 firewall

2011-05-02 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Mike Wohlgemuth wrote: > As a starting point, I am attempting to discover services via SSDP. If > I have the firewall enabled, and I run upnp-inspector, I see no > services. No matter what combination of settings I have tried, I never > see any services via upnp-inspector. If I disable the firew

Re: Increasing disk size of FC14 image running under Win7

2011-05-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 08:02 -0700, Tod Thomas wrote: > I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a > running > FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade and > then I > discovered my boot partition needed to be at least 7GB! to be able to > perform the upg

Re: Firefox 4 ?

2011-05-02 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 05/02/2011 11:22 AM, Antonio M wrote: > Updated to 4.01 yesterday using Remy Collet repo. It works great Indeed and previously I had 4.0 (also from Remi) since this thread started. Since then, I haven't' had a single crash with Firefox 4 (I'm on Fedora 14). I'm really impressed with the qual

Re: Firefox 4 ?

2011-05-02 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Tony Foster wrote: > When I unpacked the download none of the shell files were executable. > I assume that I need to add executable permission to some of the > executable files to run from home directory? > There should be an executable file called firefox/firefox.

Re: Firefox 4 ?

2011-05-02 Thread Antonio M
2011/5/2 Tony Foster : > On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 08:43 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: >> On 03/24/2011 08:04 AM, Jim wrote: >> > When will Firefox 4 be coming to Fedora 14 ? >> >> It works very well. Download from mozilla.org and put it in ~/firefox. >> Run it from there and set it to be your default bro

Re: Firefox 4 ?

2011-05-02 Thread Tony Foster
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 08:43 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > On 03/24/2011 08:04 AM, Jim wrote: > > When will Firefox 4 be coming to Fedora 14 ? > > It works very well. Download from mozilla.org and put it in ~/firefox. > Run it from there and set it to be your default browser and that's that. > > --

Increasing disk size of FC14 image running under Win7

2011-05-02 Thread Tod Thomas
I've installed VirtualBox on a Win7 workstation and established a running FC14 VM. Everything was fine until I tried doing a yum upgrade and then I discovered my boot partition needed to be at least 7GB! to be able to perform the upgrade. I've already gone into the VirtualBox interface and increa

Re: UPnP vs. Fedora 14 firewall

2011-05-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 09:25 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > > > IGP? > > I meant IGD. Internet Gateway Daemon. In my case, I want my F14 machine to see my router in order to configure ports for torrents. It used to do this, now it doesn't. The torrent app (qbitt

RE: UPnP vs. Fedora 14 firewall

2011-05-02 Thread Alan J. Gagne
> I have several different services on my network that use UPnP, and none > of them seem to work unless I disable the Firewall on my Fedora 14 > desktops/laptops. Everything I've read says that I should be able to > allow UDP on port 1900, but that doesn't seem to help. Can anyone tell > me or po

Re: Where did gdm-{restart,stop} go?

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 2 May 2011 09:24:59 -0500 Richard Shaw wrote: > Ok, on my MythTV box I would occasionally get freezes where > Ctl-Alt-Backspace would not work, or I'd get a call from the wife and > need to restart X remotely from work. > > On Fedora 10 I found a handy command, gdm-restart which worked q

Re: SELinux for mock

2011-05-02 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/02/2011 03:12 AM, Piscium wrote: > On 1 May 2011 19:29, Piscium wrote: > >> My question is if the policy files of the wiki page are current? They >> are three years old, which is a long time in dog years or Fedora >> years! >> >> I wonder if an

Re: UPnP vs. Fedora 14 firewall

2011-05-02 Thread Mike Wohlgemuth
On 05/02/2011 10:23 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Mike Wohlgemuth wrote: >> I have several different services on my network that use UPnP, and none >> of them seem to work unless I disable the Firewall on my Fedora 14 >> desktops/laptops. Everything I've read says that I should be able to >> al

Re: UPnP vs. Fedora 14 firewall

2011-05-02 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > IGP? I meant IGD. Internet Gateway Daemon. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Where did gdm-{restart,stop} go?

2011-05-02 Thread Richard Shaw
Ok, on my MythTV box I would occasionally get freezes where Ctl-Alt-Backspace would not work, or I'd get a call from the wife and need to restart X remotely from work. On Fedora 10 I found a handy command, gdm-restart which worked quite nicely. After upgrading to F12 it was gone, then I found gdm-

Re: UPnP vs. Fedora 14 firewall

2011-05-02 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Mike Wohlgemuth wrote: > I have several different services on my network that use UPnP, and none > of them seem to work unless I disable the Firewall on my Fedora 14 > desktops/laptops. Everything I've read says that I should be able to > allow UDP on port 1900, but that doesn't seem to help. Can

Re: UPnP vs. Fedora 14 firewall

2011-05-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 10:03 -0400, Mike Wohlgemuth wrote: > I have several different services on my network that use UPnP, and none > of them seem to work unless I disable the Firewall on my Fedora 14 > desktops/laptops. Everything I've read says that I should be able to > allow UDP on port 190

UPnP vs. Fedora 14 firewall

2011-05-02 Thread Mike Wohlgemuth
I have several different services on my network that use UPnP, and none of them seem to work unless I disable the Firewall on my Fedora 14 desktops/laptops. Everything I've read says that I should be able to allow UDP on port 1900, but that doesn't seem to help. Can anyone tell me or point me

Re: SELinux for mock

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 1 May 2011 19:29:50 +0100 Piscium wrote: > I like to rebuild a number of Fedora source packages for performance > and some tweaking. > > In the past I have used rpmbuild for that purpose, but this weekend I > started using mock. > > So far I built about a dozen source packages successfu

Gnome Shell not working after PreUpgrade

2011-05-02 Thread Stewart Williams
Hi All, I have just done my first PreUpgrade from F12 to F14. The upgrade was successful apart from gnome-shell no longer works, which I was happily using on F12. I get this error: (mutter:2804): mutter-WARNING **: Could not load library [/usr/lib64/mutter/plugins/libgnome-shell.so (/usr/lib

Re: Selinux

2011-05-02 Thread Patrick Dupre
On Sun, 1 May 2011, Garry T. Williams wrote: On Sunday, May 01, 2011 20:00:51 Patrick Lists wrote: On 05/02/2011 01:49 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: cannot restore segment prot after reloc From a little googling I understand this should fix the error: chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /home/pdupre/Spectr

Re: SELinux for mock

2011-05-02 Thread Piscium
On 1 May 2011 19:29, Piscium wrote: > My question is if the policy files of the wiki page are current? They > are three years old, which is a long time in dog years or Fedora > years! > > I wonder if anybody could tell me where to get updated policy files as > I am not proficient on SELinux? Or m