Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-22 Thread Edward M
Edward M wrote: > Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: >> BUILDING a system?doesn't that mean like YEARS of studying >> C+?...Perl?and all the other programming languages out >> there?.yipe! Now THAT sounds TOO painful!.LoL!!! > > >No, that not hard; Gentoo is my main desktop os and

Re: Just A Question....

2012-08-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 23.08.2012, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > When I say they're locked, all the data is "missing" or "hidden" by > something called "WD SmartWare"...there's nothing visible on the drive but > some folders with user manuals in various languages, and three ".exe" > files...the SmartWare oneano

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-22 Thread Edward M
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > BUILDING a system?doesn't that mean like YEARS of studying > C+?...Perl?and all the other programming languages out > there?.yipe! Now THAT sounds TOO painful!.LoL!!! No, that not hard; Gentoo is my main desktop os and i run Fedora in vrutalbox.

Re: Just A Question....

2012-08-22 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 08/22/2012 10:54 PM, jdow wrote: On 2012/08/22 19:12, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 08/22/2012 10:08 PM, Troy wrote: Fedora reads NTFS file systems just fine. I would also try as Larry suggests and run these .exe under Wine. On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 09:57:52 PM Eddie G. O'Connor Jr

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-22 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 08/22/2012 10:46 PM, Fedora User wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 22:38 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Yet ANOTHER distro I'm going to have to check out!..How do people decide WHICH one of these things to PICK!?...I just stumbled upon Fedora, and since it was my first encounterI feel

Re: Just A Question....

2012-08-22 Thread jdow
On 2012/08/22 19:12, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 08/22/2012 10:08 PM, Troy wrote: Fedora reads NTFS file systems just fine. I would also try as Larry suggests and run these .exe under Wine. On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 09:57:52 PM Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 08/22/2012 09:46 PM, Tro

Re: Just A Question....

2012-08-22 Thread jdow
On 2012/08/22 19:05, Fedora User wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 21:57 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 08/22/2012 09:46 PM, Troy wrote: EGO II OK so first off...this drive was "created" and used on a Windows XP/7 computer...which I have neither of so I can only assume they're NTFS files. W

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-22 Thread Fedora User
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 22:38 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > > > Yet ANOTHER distro I'm going to have to check out!..How do people > decide WHICH one of these things to PICK!?...I just stumbled upon > Fedora, and since it was my first encounterI feel "bonded" to > itbut just kno

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-22 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 08/22/2012 01:36 PM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 22:08 +0930, Tim wrote: There's CentOS ... Just following up on what I should have included. CentOS is very similar to Fedora (it's based on it, but quite an older version). So, if you don't want to learn knew tricks, it's the easier ch

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-22 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 08/22/2012 11:43 AM, Doug wrote: On 08/22/2012 08:38 AM, Tim wrote: Tim: Just pick an OS that doesn't need updating/discarding all the time. Eddie G. O'Connor Jr: Which OS's would that be?...just to satisfy my own curiosity?... /snip/ Or there are rolling-update distros, like Gentoo (if

Re: Unable to connect to scanner

2012-08-22 Thread Don Levey
On 8/22/2012 22:22, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > A question When I use gimp and go to "create" I see one of my selections > to be... > > Xsane:hpaio:'net'Officejet6500E709n?ip=192.168.0.195 > > is that what you are seeing or do you see hpaio:/net/ ? > > Everything is working fine for me. Ma

Re: Unable to connect to scanner

2012-08-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/23/2012 09:11 AM, Don Levey wrote: > I have an HP OfficeJet Pro L7590 all-in-one unit. Until yesterday I was > able to use it to scan via xsane (and using that, in GIMP). As of > yesterday, however, I get the following error: > > Failed to open device `hpaio:/net/Officejet_Pro_L7500?ip=192.

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-22 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 08/22/2012 09:03 AM, Ian Malone wrote: On 22 August 2012 13:38, Tim wrote: Tim: Just pick an OS that doesn't need updating/discarding all the time. Eddie G. O'Connor Jr: Which OS's would that be?...just to satisfy my own curiosity?... There's CentOS, and there was (may still be) a long l

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-22 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 08/22/2012 08:38 AM, Tim wrote: Tim: Just pick an OS that doesn't need updating/discarding all the time. Eddie G. O'Connor Jr: Which OS's would that be?...just to satisfy my own curiosity?... There's CentOS, and there was (may still be) a long life version of Ubuntu. Where you install a p

Re: Just A Question....

2012-08-22 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 08/22/2012 10:08 PM, Troy wrote: Fedora reads NTFS file systems just fine. I would also try as Larry suggests and run these .exe under Wine. On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 09:57:52 PM Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: On 08/22/2012 09:46 PM, Troy wrote: This could be a simple permissions issue.

Re: Just A Question....

2012-08-22 Thread Troy
Fedora reads NTFS file systems just fine. I would also try as Larry suggests and run these .exe under Wine. On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 09:57:52 PM Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > On 08/22/2012 09:46 PM, Troy wrote: > > This could be a simple permissions issue. Have you tried logging in as

Re: Just A Question....

2012-08-22 Thread Fedora User
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 21:57 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > On 08/22/2012 09:46 PM, Troy wrote: > >> EGO II > OK so first off...this drive was "created" and used on a Windows XP/7 > computer...which I have neither of so I can only assume they're NTFS > files. When I say they're locked, all

Re: Just A Question....

2012-08-22 Thread Larry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/22/2012 08:57 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: >>> >>> >>> EGO II > OK so first off...this drive was "created" and used on a Windows XP/7 > computer...which I have neither of so I can only assume they're NTFS > files. When I say they're locked

Re: Just A Question....

2012-08-22 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 08/22/2012 09:46 PM, Troy wrote: This could be a simple permissions issue. Have you tried logging in as root and using your file manager to change ownership of the files? On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 09:01:52 PM Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I'm trying to "open" some files that have been m

Re: Just A Question....

2012-08-22 Thread Troy
This could be a simple permissions issue. Have you tried logging in as root and using your file manager to change ownership of the files? On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 09:01:52 PM Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I'm trying to "open" some files that have been mysteriously "locked" by > a WD Ha

Re: Just A Question....

2012-08-22 Thread Fedora User
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 21:01 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I'm trying to "open" some files that have been mysteriously "locked" by > a WD Hard Drive. It was created and formatted by Windows, but I'm trying > to use Fedora to open them, can anyone give me some pointers on this? NTFS or VF

Re: Just A Question....

2012-08-22 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 08/22/2012 09:18 PM, Joe Wulf wrote: One windoze set of tools that work remarkably well I've personally used them numerous times for myself and others to recover files... is from a site "runtime.org". Their stuff just works. Granted it is for windoze OS. Best of luck to you! ---

Re: Just A Question....

2012-08-22 Thread Joe Wulf
One windoze set of tools that work remarkably well I've personally used them numerous times for myself and others to recover files... is from a site "runtime.org".  Their stuff just works.  Granted it is for windoze OS. Best of luck to you! > > From: Eddie

Unable to connect to scanner

2012-08-22 Thread Don Levey
I have an HP OfficeJet Pro L7590 all-in-one unit. Until yesterday I was able to use it to scan via xsane (and using that, in GIMP). As of yesterday, however, I get the following error: Failed to open device `hpaio:/net/Officejet_Pro_L7500?ip=192.168.1.128': End of file reached That is indeed th

Just A Question....

2012-08-22 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
I'm trying to "open" some files that have been mysteriously "locked" by a WD Hard Drive. It was created and formatted by Windows, but I'm trying to use Fedora to open them, can anyone give me some pointers on this? I've tried the partitioning this drive and nothing on this system works for it.

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-22 Thread Edward M
Joe Zeff wrote: > When I do, I'm going all the way to an x64 system Which processor are you interested in? I think AMD's FX-8120 3.1 GHz, 8 Core, for the price, is a sweet deal? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103961 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Second Monitor Configuration Confusion

2012-08-22 Thread Fedora User
On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 01:08 +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Not exactly sure what you are talking about when you say "absolute" and > "clone > of" (what application are you looking at? which DE?), but generally --- if > you > make a second display to be the clone of the first display, then it

f16 -> F17 : jboss-as kills upgrade

2012-08-22 Thread sean darcy
I'm trying to upgrade from F16 to F17. First tried preupgrade. That gave an error that anaconda couldn't install jboss-as. Then tried the net.iso. Same problem. Then tried the F17 dvd. Ditto. I don't even use jboss. Is there a --skip-broken someplace? I've now got an unusable half baked F16/F

Re: Second Monitor Configuration Confusion

2012-08-22 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday, 22. August 2012. 15.50.45 Fedora User wrote: > What on earth is the difference between "absolute" and "clone of?" > > Furthermore, and I am reasonably sure that this is a dumb question but I > have a brain freeze; Suppose I configure the second monitor above, how > would I get, say,

Re: preupgrade F16 > F17: duplicate dhcp entry?

2012-08-22 Thread sean darcy
On 08/22/2012 01:43 PM, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 12:29 -0400, sean darcy wrote: I've got a running F16. The DHCP server gives it an address of 10.10.10.100 based on the MAC address. I'm trying to use preupgrade-cli to upgrade to F17. Preupgrade-cli works fine on F16. Then when I reboot

Re: GNOME 3 Apps maximized on startup?

2012-08-22 Thread Kernel Guardian
First of all: I have no intention to initiate a new discussion on the usefulness of the GNOME 3 desktop environment. I just want to find a solution for my problem. In fact, I have a huge problem with OpenGL applications. The main window is always maximized at startup, although OpenGL context using

duplicated f14 in prep for preupgrade to f16, can't login

2012-08-22 Thread jackson byers
In preparation for trying preupgrade from my existing f14, I duplicated the f14 on another partition. This copy of f14 boots, boot messages all OK. But I can't login to it, either in the graphical login window or going to text screen. Both just endlessly recycle me back to the login. I don't wa

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/22/2012 03:17 PM, Ian Malone wrote: How much memory is on the machine? You might have said elsewhere, but I can't see it on this thread. The mobo's almost a decade old and maxed out at 1GB. Actually, the CPU could handle twice that, but without an appropriate mobo, it doesn't matter.

Re: Weird freeze

2012-08-22 Thread Ian Malone
On 21 August 2012 23:43, Joe Zeff wrote: > 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-sec

Re: GNOME 3 Apps maximized on startup?

2012-08-22 Thread Jack Craig
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/22/2012 02:38 PM, Kernel Guardian wrote: > >> As I found in Gnome 3.4 release notes, this is default options for all >> applications. >> > > Are you serious about this? Who in their right mind thought that the > average user wanted this?

Re: GNOME 3 Apps maximized on startup?

2012-08-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/22/2012 02:38 PM, Kernel Guardian wrote: As I found in Gnome 3.4 release notes, this is default options for all applications. Are you serious about this? Who in their right mind thought that the average user wanted this? Of course, considering that this is Gnome 3 we're discussing, th

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/22/2012 02:17 PM, jdow wrote: Even with the reminders I've seen people keep forgetting that most modern keyboards are two key roll-over keyboards. The keys are matrix scanned in a fashion that any two keys pressed at the same time can be detected but more than two keys pressed at the same t

GNOME 3 Apps maximized on startup?

2012-08-22 Thread Kernel Guardian
After one of the latest updates I discover some new behavior for some applications (firefox, thunderbird, libreoffice (all of them), google-chrome. No matter how I start listed applications (from terminal, menu ...) they always maximized. As I found in Gnome 3.4 release notes, this is default opti

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-22 Thread jdow
On 2012/08/22 06:02, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 15:27 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: Theree seems to be general agreement if you don't include the CTRL key only a snapshopt is genrqated the function is not executed. Depends on your user interface... If you're using something like Gnome, it

Second Monitor Configuration Confusion

2012-08-22 Thread Fedora User
What on earth is the difference between "absolute" and "clone of?" Furthermore, and I am reasonably sure that this is a dumb question but I have a brain freeze; Suppose I configure the second monitor above, how would I get, say, mplayer to play a movie in that space? How do I get the mouse up ther

efibootmgr triggers UEFI firmware problem

2012-08-22 Thread Patrick Oltmann
Dear all I recently used efibootmgr (0.5.4-12.fc17.x86_64) to inactivate a couple of UEFI boot menu entries and change the default boot order on my Thinkpad X220 (UEFI version 1.33). When I re-booted the machine afterwards, the UEFI menu showed up with the desired entries and order, however sele

Re: preupgrade F16 > F17: duplicate dhcp entry?

2012-08-22 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 12:29 -0400, sean darcy wrote: > I've got a running F16. The DHCP server gives it an address of > 10.10.10.100 based on the MAC address. I'm trying to use > preupgrade-cli to upgrade to F17. > > Preupgrade-cli works fine on F16. Then when I reboot into the upgrade, > it fai

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-22 Thread Tim
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 22:08 +0930, Tim wrote: > There's CentOS ... Just following up on what I should have included. CentOS is very similar to Fedora (it's based on it, but quite an older version). So, if you don't want to learn knew tricks, it's the easier choice. Pick another one, e.g. Ubuntu

2nd monitor won't powersave

2012-08-22 Thread Kevin H. Hobbs
One of my monitors does not enter any power saving mode. Can anybody tell me where to look to figure out what's going on? I have a Fedora 17 workstation with two acer x223w monitors connected to a nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ using the nouveau driver. I used to have Fedora 14 installed with nvidia d

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

2012-08-22 Thread Lailah
In other words: you enter to Gmail webpage, click on "Write" or "New" and write a new email. Or click on "Reply" and write your answer to a email received. All of this, you are doing it inside the Google Mail webpage. Is not a program. If you want use Gmail as a predeterminate email prog

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-22 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/22/2012 06:20 AM, Aaron Konstam uttered this comment: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 22:32 +0930, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 15:27 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: Theree seems to be general agreement if you don't include the CTRL key only a snapshopt is genrqated the function is not executed.

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

2012-08-22 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:26:01AM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > >I found I could even configure gmail for white text on black which I >prefer. Never found a way to "log out?" Not sure what I'll do with >it but as I said earlier it's interesting and good to know. >

preupgrade F16 > F17: duplicate dhcp entry?

2012-08-22 Thread sean darcy
I've got a running F16. The DHCP server gives it an address of 10.10.10.100 based on the MAC address. I'm trying to use preupgrade-cli to upgrade to F17. Preupgrade-cli works fine on F16. Then when I reboot into the upgrade, it fails saying it finds a duplicate entry for the dhcp address of 1

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

2012-08-22 Thread David
On 8/22/2012 11:19 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 22 August 2012 16:08, David wrote: >> On 8/22/2012 9:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > >>> We're far beyond Firefox 3 now, but this option still seems to exist >>> in FF14, I haven't tried it either. > >> I should have mentioned that I am using Firefox 17.0

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-22 Thread Doug
On 08/22/2012 08:38 AM, Tim wrote: Tim: Just pick an OS that doesn't need updating/discarding all the time. Eddie G. O'Connor Jr: Which OS's would that be?...just to satisfy my own curiosity?... /snip/ Or there are rolling-update distros, like Gentoo (if it's still around,a and still works,

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 22/08/12 10:42, Suvayu Ali responds: That was the objective, to bring up compose addressed according to the mailto link. If you just want to view/read your emails, you can just change the url to"https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox";. If you want specific labels, you can try something lik

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

2012-08-22 Thread Ian Malone
On 22 August 2012 16:08, David wrote: > On 8/22/2012 9:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> We're far beyond Firefox 3 now, but this option still seems to exist >> in FF14, I haven't tried it either. > I should have mentioned that I am using Firefox 17.0a1 (Nightly) and > this option is still there. 17!

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

2012-08-22 Thread David
On 8/22/2012 9:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 21 August 2012 21:56, David wrote: >> 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

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

2012-08-22 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:13:10AM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > On 22/08/12 08:12, Suvayu Ali responds: > >How about using the following in a script: > > > > > >#!/bin/bash > > > >firefox "https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=${@}"; > > > > > >Where ${@} is any mail

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 22/08/12 08:12, Suvayu Ali responds: How about using the following in a script: #!/bin/bash firefox"https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=${@}"; Where ${@} is any mailto url like this:mailto:u...@example.com. -- Suvayu I tried this and it works. It brings up firefox and a

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.08.2012, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Huh, I turned it on not off. Yep, blame that one on me. Didn't read carefully enough :-\ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: h

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

2012-08-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/22/2012 06:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote: http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2008/09/24/gmail-as-default-for-mailto/ We're far beyond Firefox 3 now, but this option still seems to exist in FF14, I haven't tried it either. Perfect! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

2012-08-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/22/2012 05:12 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: How about using the following in a script: #!/bin/bash firefox"https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=${@}"; Where ${@} is any mailto url like this:mailto:u...@example.com. Thank you. I'll try it and see what happens. -- users mailing lis

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-22 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 22:32 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 15:27 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Theree seems to be general agreement if you don't include the CTRL key > > only a snapshopt is genrqated the function is not executed. > > Depends on your user interface... If you're using

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-22 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 07:46 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > 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. > Huh, I turned it on not off. --

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-22 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 13:38 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > 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 genrqat

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

2012-08-22 Thread Ian Malone
On 21 August 2012 21:56, David wrote: > 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 reaso

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-22 Thread Ian Malone
On 22 August 2012 13:38, Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> Just pick an OS that doesn't need updating/discarding all the time. > > Eddie G. O'Connor Jr: >> Which OS's would that be?...just to satisfy my own curiosity?... > > There's CentOS, and there was (may still be) a long life version of > Ubuntu. Where

Re: Magic Sysreg key problems.

2012-08-22 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 15:27 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Theree seems to be general agreement if you don't include the CTRL key > only a snapshopt is genrqated the function is not executed. Depends on your user interface... If you're using something like Gnome, it's assigned its own function to

Re: Thunderbird: get addons: Secure connection failed

2012-08-22 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:11:59 +0200 Joachim Backes wrote: > Hi all, > > trying to get addons in thunderbird (14.0, Fedora17) gives an error > message: Looks fine from here.. something funny your end or your ISP ? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: Clean install keeping home folder intact

2012-08-22 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Just pick an OS that doesn't need updating/discarding all the time. Eddie G. O'Connor Jr: > Which OS's would that be?...just to satisfy my own curiosity?... There's CentOS, and there was (may still be) a long life version of Ubuntu. Where you install a particular release, and there isn't

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

2012-08-22 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 01:47:02PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/19/2012 01:32 PM, Larry Brower wrote: > >You should be able to go to settings and then Preferred Applications or > >Default Applications. It all depends on the DE in use. > > > >Which Desktop is she using? > > Both of us are using X

Thunderbird: get addons: Secure connection failed

2012-08-22 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi all, trying to get addons in thunderbird (14.0, Fedora17) gives an error message: Secure connection failed services.addons.mozilla.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer

Re: F17: How to always show desktop notifications?

2012-08-22 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:16:08AM +0200, sguazt wrote: > In my case, the effect of unread notifications is the one you can see > in the following screenshot http://i48.tinypic.com/2qkovpw.png > In this screenshot there are two unread notifications: one from > mail-notification and the other one fr

Re: F17: How to always show desktop notifications?

2012-08-22 Thread sguazt
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > 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. >> In