Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

On 22.08.2012, Reindl Harald wrote: > why should reboot turn it off? Because he turned off the option in sysctl.conf, and a reboot will activate it. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

On 08/21/2012 10:48 AM, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 08:16 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: Keep in mind that you should backup your home folder even if you don't intend to restore it. Otherwise, there lies madness. This is why I prefer desktop computers with more than one drive. You put the o

Re: configure postfix to drop e-mail

@Olav & @Tim, Thanks for the replies. I figured out how to do what I need the day after I sent the e-mail by looking at the configuration files and did some tests. What I wanted to is test the network throughput of the servers. So I needed the postfix to actually accept the e-mails as if they'r

Re: Weird freeze

On 08/21/2012 05:28 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: Stupid question, but have you tried using a different browser than Firefox like Opera or Chrome? Not recently. I do have Seamonkey installed for emergencies, but would rather not use it because I dislike it intensely. What I'd like to find is a w

Re: Weird freeze

On 08/21/2012 03:43 PM, Joe Zeff uttered this comment: It just happened again. I have reason to think that Firefox is responsible, but at present, it's just a guess. (One way I can tell it's happening is that I have an analog desktop clock running, and don't maximize windows. As long as the sw

Re: Fedora 17 with Unity Desktop

On 08/21/2012 04:03 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 06:09:48PM +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: Does any body use Fedora 17 with Unity Desktop? Last I see it was still being worked on. Unity required all kinds of patches, but seems the most invasive ones (gtk+) are now optional. Sug

Re: Weird freeze

It just happened again. I have reason to think that Firefox is responsible, but at present, it's just a guess. (One way I can tell it's happening is that I have an analog desktop clock running, and don't maximize windows. As long as the sweep-second hand's moving, I know the box hasn't froze

Re: XFCE keyboard and windowing functionality loss

On 08/21/2012 05:16 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: On 08/21/2012 09:46:32 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:24:05 -0400 (EDT) Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Today, suddenly certain keyboard and windowing functionality stopped. No longer can I cycle through windows on a desktop by usi

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

Am 20.08.2012 22:36, schrieb Joe Zeff: >> Just to be clear, in /etc/sysctl.conf I changed: kernel.sysrq to 1 from >> 0. > > If you've rebooted since doing that, you've turned it off why should reboot turn it off? /etc/sysctl.conf was, is and will always be for persistent settings signature.a

Re: XFCE keyboard and windowing functionality loss

On 08/21/2012 09:46:32 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:24:05 -0400 (EDT) > Max Pyziur wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > Today, suddenly certain keyboard and windowing functionality > stopped. > > > > No longer can I cycle through windows on a desktop by using Alt- > Tab. > > Also,

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On 8/21/2012 4:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/21/2012 01:12 PM, David wrote: >> If I understand what you want. > > My sister wanted to know if we could set her preferred application for > mailto: links to be her gmail account in Firefox. The only reason the > thread's still active is that somebod

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

On 08/21/2012 01:27 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: First everyone seems to agree that it is the ALT button on the right that needs to be used Theree seems to be general agreement if you don't include the CTRL key only a snapshopt is genrqated the function is not executed. I got the same output as you d

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On 08/21/2012 01:12 PM, David wrote: If I understand what you want. My sister wanted to know if we could set her preferred application for mailto: links to be her gmail account in Firefox. The only reason the thread's still active is that somebody replied to an old message several days afte

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 14:48 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 08/20/2012 02:27 PM, Aaron Konstam uttered this comment: > > On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 13:20 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> On 08/20/2012 01:05 PM, Joe Zeff uttered this comment: > >>> On 08/20/2012 12:55 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > It is

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On 8/21/2012 2:04 PM, Jack Craig wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Lailah > wrote: > > __ > > Firefox is NOT an email client, so it will not open with Gmail, > > > Please explain this comment? I use gmail via FF all the time, ! ??? > i mean, i

Re: Thanks and one more XFCE question - USB devices, was Re: XFCE keyboard and windowing functionality loss

On 08/21/2012 10:56 AM, Max Pyziur uttered this comment: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:24:05 -0400 (EDT) Max Pyziur wrote: [...] I know that there is an oddity/bug in XFCE that the keyboard stops functioning if you hold down one of the shift keys for too long. But this seems to be something very

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Lailah wrote: > ** > > Firefox is NOT an email client, so it will not open with Gmail, > Please explain this comment? I use gmail via FF all the time, ! ??? i mean, i know the difference between an email client and a browser, ... msg entered to gmail under FF tab

Thanks and one more XFCE question - USB devices, was Re: XFCE keyboard and windowing functionality loss

> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:24:05 -0400 (EDT) > Max Pyziur wrote: [...] >> I know that there is an oddity/bug in XFCE that the keyboard stops >> functioning if you hold down one of the shift keys for too long. >> >> But this seems to be something very differt. >> >> If anyone has experienced this

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

Firefox is NOT an email client, so it will not open with Gmail, it will open as what it is: a web browser. If you want open Gmail automatically, go to Thunderbird and set it up the Gmail account. You can use POP (download mails to your computer, leaving the originals in the server) or IMAP (

Re: Flashplayer won't play flash videos

On 08/21/2012 12:34 AM, Hiisi wrote: On 21 August 2012 00:31, Jim wrote: <--SNIP--> Is the fedorautils a RPM or group name ? http://fedorautils.sourceforge.net/ Hiisi thanks much for your help, What ever it was fedorautils fixed the Flashplayer problem. -- users mailing list users@lists.fe

Re: XFCE keyboard and windowing functionality loss

On 08/21/2012 09:46 AM, Kevin Fenzi uttered this comment: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:24:05 -0400 (EDT) Max Pyziur wrote: Greetings, Today, suddenly certain keyboard and windowing functionality stopped. No longer can I cycle through windows on a desktop by using Alt-Tab. Also, the windowing capab

Re: XFCE keyboard and windowing functionality loss

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:24:05 -0400 (EDT) Max Pyziur wrote: > Greetings, > > Today, suddenly certain keyboard and windowing functionality stopped. > > No longer can I cycle through windows on a desktop by using Alt-Tab. > Also, the windowing capabilities - maximize/minimize a window > disappeare

Re: Seeking Suggestions w/ Syncing HTC Android phone w/ Fedora Desktop

On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:10:27 -0400 (EDT) Max Pyziur wrote: > Now, the issue is to find the desktop app with which to sync the phone. The way google wants you to sync is to make everything a gmail contact and sync through gmail. Works OK if you don't mind google knowing all your contacts :-). --

Re: Weird freeze

On 08/21/2012 11:51 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > in which way does this change the fact that you are repsonding > to my "i am moderated" with "This list isn't moderated"? > Some people just earn the privilege The list, as a whole, isn't moderated. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorap

Re: Weird freeze

On 08/21/2012 11:38 PM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 23:43 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> This list isn't moderated. > But some posters are, if I remember correctly. > Yes... But that number is extremely small. And those that become moderated tend to disappear. -- Programming today is

Re: Weird freeze

On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 23:43 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > This list isn't moderated. But some posters are, if I remember correctly. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists

Re: nut startup driving me nuts...

On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 09:05 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I don't know where this fear of updating BIOS comes from. There's the chance of a foul-up during the process, leaving you with a a dead, and unresurrectable PC. As a failsafe, some PCs have two BIOS memories, where you can switch over to a

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 07:55 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > Now press the right ALT key together with PrtScrn... With qualifier keys, such as CTRL, SHIFT, ALT, which change the behaviour of other keys (a becomes A, etc.), it's usually best to press the qualifier key first before the next key, so that

Re: configure postfix to drop e-mail

On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 20:51 -0700, Tommy Pham wrote: > I'd like to configure postfix to accept incoming e-mail from > clients and drop them. By "drop," do you mean discard them; or to accept all, then filter and drop them into appropriate mail spools? The term is ambiguous in your sentence. For

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 08:16 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > Keep in mind that you should backup your home folder even if you don't > intend to restore it. Otherwise, there lies madness. This is why I prefer desktop computers with more than one drive. You put the operating system and software on on

Re: nut startup driving me nuts...

On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 09:00 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 01:33 -0400, Chuck Peters wrote: > > > > Configured nut as I have with Ubuntu, same machine, and enabled > > startup on F17... So why isn't it starting? > > > > [root@fedora tmp]# systemctl enable nut-server.service

Re: nut startup driving me nuts...

On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 01:33 -0400, Chuck Peters wrote: > > Configured nut as I have with Ubuntu, same machine, and enabled > startup on F17... So why isn't it starting? > > [root@fedora tmp]# systemctl enable nut-server.service > ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/nut-server.service' > '/etc/systemd

[SOLVED] Re: hp k80xi hplip fedora 17

On 08/17/2012 04:28 PM, Nate Pearlstein wrote: > On 08/17/2012 03:53 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 08/17/2012 12:45 PM, Nate Pearlstein wrote: >>> Anyone have this combination working? >>> >>> Fedora complains that it cannot communicate with the device. >>> My user is part of the sys and lp group, seli

Re: Login problem after installing F 17

try to restart the appropriate panel program in my case (using xfce) that is: xfce4-panel --display :0.0 suomi On 2012-08-21 11:08, Andrew McLean wrote: I have been using Fedora 17 for some months with few problems. My PC has an Nvidia GPU, and I have used both the Nouveau and Nvidia drivers a

Re: Another Question....

On 08/21/2012 12:21 AM, nomnex wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:28:14 -0400 "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." wrote: On 08/20/2012 11:11 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. writes: Ok so here's another issue I've recently come across, wonder if anyone has info on this: I have a Gateway T6321

Login problem after installing F 17

I have been using Fedora 17 for some months with few problems. My PC has an Nvidia GPU, and I have used both the Nouveau and Nvidia drivers at different times. I just reinstalled from the DVD (because of a problem not relevant to this specific issue, I believe). When running as Live User from t

Re: configure postfix to drop e-mail

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 08:51:25PM -0700, Tommy Pham wrote: > I have a need to test network throughput for SMTP traffic on Fedora > and I'd like to configure postfix to accept incoming e-mail from > clients and drop them. How can I go about that? A postfix mailing list would be more appropriate?

Re: Why httpd wants to access /boot?

Στις 20/8/2012 12:53, ο/η Daniel J Walsh έγραψε: On 08/19/2012 02:09 PM, Georgios Petasis wrote: Hi all, I am getting this strange selinux denial, each time the httpd server is restarted: type=AVC msg=audit(1345399262.193:190): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=3900 comm="httpd" path="/boot" d

Re: Focus at window

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 09:21:57PM +0200, Łukasz Jagiełło wrote: > Is it possible to set focus at gnome-terminal window after system bell > ? Can't find any good solution for that. What I want to achieve is > working from example Chrome or other terminal and when window gets > system bell it will b

Re: Fedora 17 with Unity Desktop

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 06:09:48PM +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: > Does any body use Fedora 17 with Unity Desktop? Last I see it was still being worked on. Unity required all kinds of patches, but seems the most invasive ones (gtk+) are now optional. Suggest looking back in the various Fedora archi

Re: Setting up a dedicated seeder

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:46:48AM +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > To clarify a bit, is there a BETTER way to seed, than to simply let a > client program (such as Transmission, which I currently use) do the seeding > for me? I would like to feed as much data as possible. Transmission also ha

Re: F17: How to always show desktop notifications?

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:53:11AM +0200, sguazt wrote: > In GNOME, when you have "unread" desktop notifications come from a > specific source (e.g., empathy, mail-notification), all new > notifications from that source do not pop-up. > Instead, they are stacked up in the "unread notifications" pla