Bluecurve Icon Theme

2011-12-12 Thread Smith, Herb
Is it possible to get the Bluecurve Icon theme working on FC16? I did the yum install bluecurve* and it seemed to install everything. When I run the Advanced Settings (alacarte) the bluecurve icon theme does not appear in the menu. Is there a way to get it to be recognized, or another way to

Favorites Icon Size

2011-12-09 Thread Smith, Herb
All, Is it possible to change the icon size in the Favorites launch bar? I haven't found anything that indicates how to do that. TIA Herb -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Main Menu Won't Run

2011-12-09 Thread Smith, Herb
All, I did a fresh install of F16 on my Dell Inspiron Laptop. All seemed to go fine, however, when I try to run the Main Menu (alacarte) application, it acts like it tries to start and then goes away (no window pops up, only a small icon in the upper task bar and a small spinning icon). The f

RE: Gnome and Xfce don't play well together

2011-11-29 Thread Smith, Herb
>Aaron wrote: >This happened in F15 and I thought I was just ignorant. >Now that it has happened again in F16 I realize it is a software problem. >When Gnome is configured for a user and then the user tries to use Xfce they >find that the Xfce is corrupted in various ways. Namely: >1. when Fire

Upgrade vs PreUpgrade - I'm confused

2011-11-14 Thread Smith, Herb
All, I have been using Fedora since back in the RedHat 8 days. Here of late, when updates come out I have typically just downloaded the DVD and done an Upgrade of an existing installation and I have had great success with that. I have not used PreUpgrade and I'm not clear on what the advantag

RE: My "santa-list" for Fedora-14.. & is there a file-wash program?..

2011-10-18 Thread Smith, Herb
>>On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 17:19 -0700, Linda McLeod wrote: >> ... >>[Rambling incoherent message deleted.] >This list is for community-provided support for using Fedora. I think you >need to seek professional help. +1 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

RE: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-15 Thread Smith, Herb
12:07 PM, Smith, Herb wrote: >> Yes, my dyslexia ... sorry. No offense intended. >There was a time when I'd take out the Flamex 6000 and go for excessive damage >on a first "offense," but I've mellowed over the years. As I wrote, I >presumed it was an >

RE: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-15 Thread Smith, Herb
acceptable substitute for Gnome 2 On 09/15/2011 11:47 AM, Smith, Herb wrote: > Jeff Wrote: No, "Jeff" did not. My name is "Joe Zeff," and I'll thank you, sir, to get it right in the future. This time I'll accept that it was a careless accident, but not if i

RE: LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

2011-09-15 Thread Smith, Herb
Jeff Wrote: >I use F14. As soon as I learned what Gnome3 was like I did some research and >ended up with XFCE. Even if they make a version of Gnome3 that I don't find >horrible I'd >never go back. I tried XFCE also and found it to be so close to the familiar Gnome 2 that I also cannot see a

RE: So how is F15 (KDE) ?

2011-08-18 Thread Smith, Herb
You may be waiting awhile for that one. -Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Terry Polzin Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 3:42 PM To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: So how is F15 (KDE) ? >

Icon Size

2011-08-08 Thread Smith, Herb
All, Is there a way in FC15 to get smaller icons on the desktop? I didn't see anything in the Settings or in the Tweaker tool to allow that. Also, although I have the bluecurve icons installed, there doesn't seem to be a way to select them. Is there a way to get them to show up on the list w

Updater doesn't work

2011-07-25 Thread Smith, Herb
Hello, I'm a little late to the party here, so I don't know what has been discussed since the advent of FC 15. The main problem I'm having is that the Updater keeps telling me that there are updates but then when I click it to go ahead and install, it runs into all sorts of problems with many

RE: Easily Dual Boot Windows 7 and F14?

2010-11-30 Thread Smith, Herb
-Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Jesse Palser Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 12:29 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Easily Dual Boot Windows 7 and F14? Easily Dual Boot Windows

RE: XPCOM

2010-07-20 Thread Smith, Herb
> > Smith, Herb boeing.com> writes: > > > > > Hi all... > > > > Over the weekend I updated my FC12 installation on my Dell Inspiron laptop > > to > FC13. All seemed to go > > flawlessly with one exception. When I try to launch Firefox it gi

RE: XPCOM

2010-07-19 Thread Smith, Herb
> -Original Message- > From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users- > boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of JD > Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 12:14 PM > To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: XPCOM > > On 07/19/2010 06:

RE: XPCOM

2010-07-19 Thread Smith, Herb
> Smith, Herb ha scritto / said the followingil giorno/on 19/07/2010 > 15:50: > > Hi all... > > > > Over the weekend I updated my FC12 installation on my Dell Inspiron laptop > > to > FC13. All seemed to go flawlessly with one exception. When I try to la

XPCOM

2010-07-19 Thread Smith, Herb
Hi all... Over the weekend I updated my FC12 installation on my Dell Inspiron laptop to FC13. All seemed to go flawlessly with one exception. When I try to launch Firefox it gives me the following message: Cannot Load XPCOM. Does anyone have any idea what that's all about and how it can be f

RE: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in

2010-07-14 Thread Smith, Herb
From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Marcel Rieux Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 3:26 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: OT: Autocorrection in OOo 3.1.1 and shortcut for navigating in Firefox when zoomed in I ofte

USB Printer Problem (still...)

2010-07-02 Thread Smith, Herb
I haven't made any progress on getting my Xerox 6130 printer to work with F13. It's a fully updated F13 system on a Dell Dimension Desktop. The device manager see the Xerox printer on one of the usb ports and Fedora seems to have a driver for the printer, but the Add Printer process does not s

RE: USB Printer Install help needed

2010-06-25 Thread Smith, Herb
> > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 09:01 -0500, Smith, Herb wrote: > > strace /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb 2>&1 | tail -n +200 > > open("/dev/usblp1", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such > > file or directory) open("/dev/usb/lp1", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LA

RE: OpenOffice Crash - bad Java JRE

2010-06-24 Thread Smith, Herb
> On 24/06/10 15:30, Smith, Herb wrote: > > > Java-1.6.0-openjdk is already installed. The yum command indicated that > > there > was nothing to do. > > > > Did you install OpenOffice from fedora repo, or OpenOffice.org ? > > -- It was installed fro

RE: OpenOffice Crash - bad Java JRE

2010-06-24 Thread Smith, Herb
; > On 06/18/2010 04:14 PM, Smith, Herb wrote: > > I have a new F13 install, fully updated. > > > > OpenOffice crashes saying that the Java JRE is bad and that I should > > install a new > one and point OpenOffice to it. > > > > The only JRE that I have on t

RE: USB Printer Install help needed

2010-06-24 Thread Smith, Herb
> > On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 13:51 -0500, Smith, Herb wrote: > > That command (executed as root) produced absolutely no response. > > Let's try to find out what the usb backend is actually up to. > > Could you please run this command as root and attach the output?: >

RE: USB Printer Install help needed

2010-06-22 Thread Smith, Herb
t; > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 10:32 -0500, Smith, Herb wrote: > > Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0924:3d60 Xerox > > > > So it looks like the "system" knows it's there, but the printer setup > > doesn't seem > to. > > Does 'lpinfo --includ

RE: USB Printer Install help needed

2010-06-21 Thread Smith, Herb
t; > On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 10:41 -0500, Smith, Herb wrote: > > I have a Xerox Phaser 6130 printer. It does not seem to be recognized > > by my F13 install (fully updated on a Dell Dimension desktop). I can > > go to Admin -> Printing, but the only options are printer por

USB Printer Install help needed

2010-06-18 Thread Smith, Herb
I have a Xerox Phaser 6130 printer. It does not seem to be recognized by my F13 install (fully updated on a Dell Dimension desktop). I can go to Admin -> Printing, but the only options are printer port or serial port. I could also specify a URI, but I do not know what the URI specification fo

OpenOffice Crash - bad Java JRE

2010-06-18 Thread Smith, Herb
I have a new F13 install, fully updated. OpenOffice crashes saying that the Java JRE is bad and that I should install a new one and point OpenOffice to it. The only JRE that I have on the machine is what came with the F13 install. Is this a known bug? Any suggestions other than installing the

RE: CUPS printer choice

2010-04-09 Thread Smith, Herb
I have a Xerox color laser printer which came with a disk for Windoze. I was able to locate the ppd file on that disk. It works just fine. Herb > -Original Message- > From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users- > boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Tim Waugh > S

Mplayer plugin compiler errors

2010-01-18 Thread Smith, Herb
All, I installed F12 on a new Dell Inspiron 15 laptop (dual boot with Windoze 7). This went very well, BTW, and I'm very pleased with it. I installed mplayer from rpmfusion which went just fine and it seems to work perfectly. I downloaded the mplayer plugin for Firefox, unpacked it into a fol