Create an application launcher in gnome3 fallback mode - F15

2011-08-12 Thread Kevin Wilson
Hi, I have a laptop on which I have fedora 15. This laptop is not strong, so I prefer having gnome-3 fallback mode on it. I tried to create an application launcher on the desktop. when I click the right button, when the mouse is on the desktop, nothing happens. With Fedora 14, this opened the "crea

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Kloiber
You could try something like: # pdf2ps input.pdf postscript.ps # ps2ascii postscript.ps output.txt Good luck. On 08/12/2011 11:10 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I have a .pdf file I need to convert to text in order to use > Google translate on it. I tried copy/paste but it won't copy

Re: problems with DHCP server

2011-08-12 Thread Claude Jones
On Thursday, August 11, 2011, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 08/11/2011 10:44 PM, Claude Jones wrote: > > Anyone have any familiarity with the omshell command and it's > > readout? The command is cited right in the DHCP section of > > the Fedora 15 documentation - I read the man page for it but > > it

Re: problems with DHCP server

2011-08-12 Thread Claude Jones
On Thursday, August 11, 2011, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 08/11/2011 10:44 PM, Claude Jones wrote: > > Anyone have any familiarity with the omshell command and it's > > readout? The command is cited right in the DHCP section of > > the Fedora 15 documentation - I read the man page for it but > > it

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/08/11 18:25, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 12Aug2011 12:09, Bob Goodwin wrote: > | On 12/08/11 12:04, Genes MailLists wrote: > |> On 08/12/2011 11:58 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > |>> On 12/08/11 11:22, Genes MailLists wrote: > |>>> On 08/12/2011 11:16 AM, Madhav Ancha wrote: > |>>> You cou

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/13, Cameron Simpson : [...] > Personally I use pdftohtml to convert PDFs (then an HTML-to-text > pipeline on the end of that). Possibly pdftotext does exactly that > anyway. Of course it achieves nothing for me if the PDF is a scan. Unless it has an OCR layer. Andras -- users mailing li

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12Aug2011 12:09, Bob Goodwin wrote: | On 12/08/11 12:04, Genes MailLists wrote: | > On 08/12/2011 11:58 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: | >> On 12/08/11 11:22, Genes MailLists wrote: | >>> On 08/12/2011 11:16 AM, Madhav Ancha wrote: | >>> You could try this fedora app: pdftotext | >>> | >>

Re: livna repo

2011-08-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:10:34 +0200, FP (François) wrote: > Le 12/08/2011 16:49, François Patte a écrit : > > Le 12/08/2011 12:36, Reindl Harald a écrit : > > > > > >> Am 12.08.2011 12:31, schrieb suvayu ali: > >>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Veeti Paananen wrote: > Livna has been merg

Re: Broadcom 4311 went missing?

2011-08-12 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 08/12/2011 02:15 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote: > >> One of: >> 1. It somehow got turned off in the BIOS. > > I already looked.  I couldn't find anything relating to the WiFi in the > CMOS setup when I looked. > >> 2. The wireless switch is

Re: Broadcom 4311 went missing?

2011-08-12 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 08/12/2011 02:15 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote: > One of: > 1. It somehow got turned off in the BIOS. I already looked. I couldn't find anything relating to the WiFi in the CMOS setup when I looked. > 2. The wireless switch is set incorrectly Yeah, it doesn't strike me as a high quality switch.

Re: Broadcom 4311 went missing?

2011-08-12 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 08/12/2011 09:00 AM, Peter Reed wrote: >> You might want to check out this page on linux wireless: >> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 > > Fascinating page.  Just when I thought I had simplified what to do, this > complic

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/08/11 13:30, Frank Cox wrote: > On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:09:34 -0400 > Bob Goodwin wrote: > >>> Is it possible the PDF contains an image of the text rather than text >>> itself ? >>> >> >> I'm not sure, how would I tell? > Load the pdf into evince. File - Properties - Fonts > > If

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/08/11 12:22, mike cloaked wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 08/12/2011 11:16 AM, Madhav Ancha wrote: >> >> >> You could try this fedora app: pdftotext >> >> (guys please dont double post to old and new fedora list) >> > The OP needs to confirm that t

Re: Fedora 15 and mount points

2011-08-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.08.2011 16:34, schrieb Tom H: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 12.08.2011 00:43, schrieb Tom H: Seems this is a known *feature* of F-15 and no one is all that interested in changing it. Unfortunately, I have a good number of scripts that u

Re: livna repo

2011-08-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.08.2011 16:49, schrieb François Patte: > Le 12/08/2011 12:36, Reindl Harald a écrit : > > >> Am 12.08.2011 12:31, schrieb suvayu ali: >>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Veeti Paananen >>> wrote: Livna has been merged into RPMFusion (http://rpmfusion.org/). >>> >>> Except for

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:09:34 -0400 Bob Goodwin wrote: > >Is it possible the PDF contains an image of the text rather than text > > itself ? > > > > > I'm not sure, how would I tell? Load the pdf into evince. File - Properties - Fonts If no fonts are listed, then there is no text i

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Andras Simon
2011/8/12, Bob Goodwin : > I have a .pdf file I need to convert to text in order to use > Google translate on it. I tried copy/paste but it won't copy > from a .pdf. > > I don't care about format just need to translate with fair > accuracy from the French. >

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread mike cloaked
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 08/12/2011 11:16 AM, Madhav Ancha wrote: > > >  You could try this fedora app:  pdftotext > >  (guys please dont double post to old and new fedora list) > The OP needs to confirm that the original pdf is actually text and not an image o

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/12/2011 12:09 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > I'm not sure, how would I tell? It's an attachment to an html > cover letter. The Fedora default app, disolays it with no > complaints. > > Bob Try using : pdfimages on the file - it should pull all the embed

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/08/11 12:04, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 08/12/2011 11:58 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> On 12/08/11 11:22, Genes MailLists wrote: >>> On 08/12/2011 11:16 AM, Madhav Ancha wrote: >>> >>> >>> You could try this fedora app: pdftotext >>> >> As can be seen I tried several combinations,

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/12/2011 11:58 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 12/08/11 11:22, Genes MailLists wrote: >> On 08/12/2011 11:16 AM, Madhav Ancha wrote: >> >> >>You could try this fedora app: pdftotext >> > > As can be seen I tried several combinations, thought perhaps it > couldn't handle the fi

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/08/11 11:22, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 08/12/2011 11:16 AM, Madhav Ancha wrote: > > >You could try this fedora app: pdftotext > > (guys please dont double post to old and new fedora list) > No, pdfttotext creates an empty file. [bobg@box9 Documents]$ ll C*

Re: Broadcom 4311 went missing?

2011-08-12 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 08/12/2011 09:00 AM, Peter Reed wrote: > You might want to check out this page on linux wireless: > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 Fascinating page. Just when I thought I had simplified what to do, this complicates things again with another choice. B^) > I think you need to in

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread j.e.aneiros
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >I have a .pdf file I need to convert to text in order to use >Google translate on it. I tried copy/paste but it won't copy >from a .pdf. > >I don't care about format just need to translate with fair >accu

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 08/12/2011 11:16 AM, Madhav Ancha wrote: You could try this fedora app: pdftotext (guys please dont double post to old and new fedora list) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Madhav Ancha
Bob, if security is not an issue, http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/translate-pdf-word-documents-online-google-translate/3553/ On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >I have a .pdf file I need to convert to text in order to use >Google translate on it. I tried cop

PDF to text?

2011-08-12 Thread Bob Goodwin
I have a .pdf file I need to convert to text in order to use Google translate on it. I tried copy/paste but it won't copy from a .pdf. I don't care about format just need to translate with fair accuracy from the French. Is there a conversion app.?.

Re: livna repo

2011-08-12 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 12/08/2011 16:49, François Patte a écrit : > Le 12/08/2011 12:36, Reindl Harald a écrit : > > >> Am 12.08.2011 12:31, schrieb suvayu ali: >>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Veeti Paananen >>> wrote: Livna has been merged into RPMFusion (h

Re: livna repo

2011-08-12 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 12/08/2011 12:36, Reindl Harald a écrit : > > > Am 12.08.2011 12:31, schrieb suvayu ali: >> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Veeti Paananen >> wrote: >>> Livna has been merged into RPMFusion (http://rpmfusion.org/). >>> >> >> Except for one pack

Re: Fedora 15 and mount points

2011-08-12 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 12.08.2011 00:43, schrieb Tom H: >>> >>> Seems this is a known *feature* of F-15 and no one is all that interested in >>> changing it.  Unfortunately, I have a good number of scripts that use the >>> output of df and mount that would need

Re: Getting wireless working on an HP Mini 210

2011-08-12 Thread John Albright
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2011 5:21 AM, "John Albright" wrote: > > > > I can't get the wireless working in Fedora 15 on an HP Mini 210. It has > an Ralink rt5390 chipset, which I'm not familiar with at all. I've been > following the instructions on this

Re: Broadcom 4311 went missing?

2011-08-12 Thread Peter Reed
On Thursday, August 11, 2011 02:26:45 PM Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Hi Folks, > I'll try and keep this long story short, and explain the subject line, > > > Yesterday I was given a Compag Presario F700 laptop. It was running > Vista with problems of intermittant hanging. > >

Re: Fedora 15 and mount points

2011-08-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.08.2011 00:43, schrieb Tom H: >> Seems this is a known *feature* of F-15 and no one is all that interested in >> changing it. Unfortunately, I have a good number of scripts that use the >> output of df and mount that would need modified for this. The /var/tmp >> mount is especially troub

Re: livna repo

2011-08-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.08.2011 11:11, schrieb François Patte: > Bonjour, > > What happened to the livna repo: I get a "Forbidden" page if I want to > connect to rpm.livna.org livna is replaced since YEARS by rpmfusion signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fed

Re: livna repo

2011-08-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.08.2011 12:31, schrieb suvayu ali: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Veeti Paananen > wrote: >> Livna has been merged into RPMFusion (http://rpmfusion.org/). >> > > Except for one package, libdvdcss. This used to be available from livna because of ONE package there is no need for livna

Re: Getting wireless working on an HP Mini 210

2011-08-12 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Aug 12, 2011 5:21 AM, "John Albright" wrote: > > I can't get the wireless working in Fedora 15 on an HP Mini 210. It has an Ralink rt5390 chipset, which I'm not familiar with at all. I've been following the instructions on this page. I figured they would work on Fedora as well as Ubuntu. When I

Re: Need Little IT advice here...

2011-08-12 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/12/2011 12:16 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 22:57:18 -0500, Manuel Escudero > wrote: >> >> I want to set a standard configuration in a machine and then let >> that machine to be used by many users, but as soon as the user

Stretching stuff

2011-08-12 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
Hey all, I am running Gnome2 (with Compiz) under F14, and one thing that makes things very convenient for me (especially when working in Eclipse) is the ability to stretch windows over multiple virtual desktops, and then conveniently jumping around the same desktops using the arrow buttons. I pla

Re: Need Little IT advice here...

2011-08-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:57:18 -0500 Manuel Escudero wrote: > I want the machine to undo all the possible > changes the user may have done while he/she was using it. For virtual machines, this is fairly easy. Use a qcow2 filesystem for the VM with a backing_file and regenerate the filesystem from t

Re: Qemu and Fedora text install

2011-08-12 Thread panicloop
Hello Lars, If you have installed virtualization package group in the Fedora 14, you can use virsh, virt-install, etc commands and it's easy to use them than qemu command. You can start installation of fedora 15 guest with text console mode with following command. # virt-install \ --connect qemu

Re: livna repo

2011-08-12 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
suvayu ali wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Veeti Paananen > wrote: >> Livna has been merged into RPMFusion (http://rpmfusion.org/). >> > > Except for one package, libdvdcss. This used to be available from livna. libdvdcss can be installed e.g. from ATrpms repo too. -- users mailing l

Re: livna repo

2011-08-12 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Veeti Paananen wrote: > Livna has been merged into RPMFusion (http://rpmfusion.org/). > Except for one package, libdvdcss. This used to be available from livna. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

Re: livna repo

2011-08-12 Thread Veeti Paananen
On 08/12/2011 12:11 PM, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > What happened to the livna repo: I get a "Forbidden" page if I want > to connect to rpm.livna.org. Livna has been merged into RPMFusion (http://rpmfusion.org/). -- Veeti Paananen - RPMFusion user since 2009 -- users mailing list use

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-12 Thread Alan Cox
> Something about it also introduces a delay. If I run emacs in a plain > old FVWM session with no 3D composting going on, it is perfectly > functional. > > If I run it under gnome-shell, I notice things like moving the cursor > to extend the selection introduces a distinct delay that makes it > v

Re: tp_smapi

2011-08-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail wrote: >> For reasons I don't understand, >> I have /usr/src/kernels/2.6.40-4.fc15.i686/ >> (provided by kernel-devel-2.6.40-4.fc15.i686) >> but not /usr/src/kernels/2.6.40-4.fc15.i686.PAE/ > > Thats the right steps ..though i'm using 64bit > > whats your `uname -r` ?

Re: Audio CDs not mounting

2011-08-12 Thread Alan Cox
> used, the ISO9660 drivers included the translations. I'm pretty sure > that included Fedora back around F4 or 5 and before. I'd been > wondering how the MARFIAA had gotten us to remove that functionality, > and I guess I'm seeing some clues in this thread. The linux kernel has never presented IS

Re: livna repo

2011-08-12 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:11 AM, François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bonjour, > > What happened to the livna repo: I get a "Forbidden" page if I want to > connect to rpm.livna.org. It has been down for quite some time now. There's a mirror at http://ftp-st

livna repo

2011-08-12 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, What happened to the livna repo: I get a "Forbidden" page if I want to connect to rpm.livna.org. - -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (

Re: how to blacklist some hardware

2011-08-12 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 12/08/2011 01:17, Ed Greshko a écrit : > On 08/12/2011 06:30 AM, Anthony Messina wrote: >> On 08/11/2011 02:27 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:55:51 +0200 >>> François Patte wrote: >>> Is there a way to tell udev to ignore thi

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-12 Thread Alan Cox
> Besides, it's 2011. "3D-crap" is going to be available on any modern > computer and there's no reason a modern desktop-targetted system > should ignore it. Compiz (which has nicer "3D crap" than Gnome3) was > happily running on my systems (including a cheap laptop) 4 years ago. > And if you do ne

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-12 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 August 2011 20:08, Alan Cox wrote: >> are borked with a standard-desktop because some developers >> are thinking it is cool rely on 3D-crap > > The sad thing is almost none of the 3D dependancies are remotely > necessary as far as I can see - just about every 'clever' effect it has > Enlight

Re: Growing frustration with Gnome Shell

2011-08-12 Thread Ian Malone
On 11 August 2011 18:10, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 11.08.2011 18:52, schrieb Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak: >> On 08/11/2011 12:44 PM, Steven Stern wrote: >>> I've been using Gnome Shell since the alphas of F15 and I keep hoping >>> that a few things get fixed.  I don't know if they're general prob

Re: Need Little IT advice here...

2011-08-12 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 00:08 -0500, Manuel Escudero wrote: > The xguest solution was the thing I needed... (Thanks BTW!) Now > a little question: How can I customize the xguest account and then > freeze it again? I mean, if I wanna change the wallpaper or something > in the apps configuration, How c