Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me [SOLVED]

2013-02-26 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 16:05 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 00:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 02/14/2013 09:03 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 > > > system, and have found that google-earth runs correctly

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-18 Thread Lailah
El jue, 14-02-2013 a las 21:49 -0500, Mark LaPierre escribió: > On 02/14/2013 08:03 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 > > system, and have found that google-earth runs correctly when invoked by > > any user except me (root, guest, et

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-18 Thread Kevin Martin
On 02/16/13 16:28, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 21:29 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 16.02.2013 21:26, schrieb Mark LaPierre: >>> On 02/14/2013 08:03 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 system, and have fou

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-17 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 02/16/2013 08:37 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > So it looks like I'll have to follow Mark LaPierre's advice to clean out > my home directory and then restore configuration files one by one till > bad things happen. One by one? No, you make some copies of your home directory: one not working (you

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-16 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 21:29 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 16.02.2013 21:26, schrieb Mark LaPierre: > > On 02/14/2013 08:03 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > >> I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 > >> system, and have found that google-earth runs correctly when invok

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-16 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 02/16/2013 03:29 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 16.02.2013 21:26, schrieb Mark LaPierre: On 02/14/2013 08:03 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 system, and have found that google-earth runs correctly when invoked by any user except me

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.02.2013 21:26, schrieb Mark LaPierre: > On 02/14/2013 08:03 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >> I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 >> system, and have found that google-earth runs correctly when invoked by >> any user except me (root, guest, etc.), but not when inv

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-16 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 02/14/2013 08:03 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 system, and have found that google-earth runs correctly when invoked by any user except me (root, guest, etc.), but not when invoked by me (that is jonrysh). The symptom is that when

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-16 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 14:52 +0100, poma wrote: > On 02/16/13 08:37, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > So it looks like I'll have to follow Mark LaPierre's advice to clean out > > my home directory and then restore configuration files one by one till > > bad things happen > > Until then, the only con

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-16 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 14:59 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 16.02.2013 08:37, schrieb Jonathan Ryshpan: > > So it looks like I'll have to follow Mark LaPierre's advice to clean out > > my home directory and then restore configuration files one by one till > > bad things happen. A convenient ti

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.02.2013 08:37, schrieb Jonathan Ryshpan: > So it looks like I'll have to follow Mark LaPierre's advice to clean out > my home directory and then restore configuration files one by one till > bad things happen. A convenient time to do this will be when I upgrade > to F18, which I plan to do

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-16 Thread poma
On 02/16/13 08:37, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Interesting -- so there's more configuration info for google-earth in > ~/.config/Google . And deleting it has the good result that there is > now a cursor in the display area, which there never was before. > Unfortunately still no images. > > So it l

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 01:54 +0100, poma wrote: > On 02/15/13 22:00, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 15.02.2013 16:44, schrieb Jonathan Ryshpan: > >> On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 21:49 -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: > >>> On 02/14/2013 08:03 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I have just installed the proprietary

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.02.2013 02:33, schrieb Mark LaPierre: > He can either futz around with his environment for hours on end until he > happens upon the solution, or he can just > wipe the whole thing, get G Earth working, then copy back his .appname > directories back in. I'm betting that the > latter will

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-15 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 02/15/2013 04:00 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 15.02.2013 16:44, schrieb Jonathan Ryshpan: On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 21:49 -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 02/14/2013 08:03 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 system, and have found that go

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-15 Thread poma
On 02/15/13 22:00, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 15.02.2013 16:44, schrieb Jonathan Ryshpan: >> On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 21:49 -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: >>> On 02/14/2013 08:03 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 system, and have

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.02.2013 23:30, schrieb Ed Greshko: > On 02/15/2013 11:42 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >> Moving ~/.googleearth out of the way was one of the first things I tried >> (it was in the original posting). I just tried it again just to make >> sure. No help. > > Yeah. I had forgotten you mentio

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-15 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 07:44:15AM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 21:49 -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: > > On 02/14/2013 08:03 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 > > > system, and have found that google-earth runs

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/15/2013 11:42 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Moving ~/.googleearth out of the way was one of the first things I tried > (it was in the original posting). I just tried it again just to make > sure. No help. Yeah. I had forgotten you mentioned that. Would be nice to narrow down what in you

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.02.2013 16:44, schrieb Jonathan Ryshpan: > On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 21:49 -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> On 02/14/2013 08:03 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >>> I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 >>> system, and have found that google-earth runs correctly when invoke

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 21:49 -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 02/14/2013 08:03 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 > > system, and have found that google-earth runs correctly when invoked by > > any user except me (root, guest, etc.), but

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 15:12 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/15/2013 08:05 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Actually installing xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 is the second thing > > you have to do to get google-earth to display properly. First is to > > remove /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.con

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/15/2013 08:05 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Actually installing xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 is the second thing > you have to do to get google-earth to display properly. First is to > remove /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf otherwise google-earth > crashes on startup. (Figure that

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-15 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 02/14/2013 08:03 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 system, and have found that google-earth runs correctly when invoked by any user except me (root, guest, etc.), but not when invoked by me (that is jonrysh). The symptom is that when

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-14 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 00:55 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/14/2013 09:03 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 > > system, and have found that google-earth runs correctly when invoked by > > any user except me (root, guest, etc.), but no

Re: Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/14/2013 09:03 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 > system, and have found that google-earth runs correctly when invoked by > any user except me (root, guest, etc.), but not when invoked by me (that > is jonrysh). The symptom is tha

Google Earth runs for all users except me

2013-02-14 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I have just installed the proprietary nvidia drivers on an x86_64 system, and have found that google-earth runs correctly when invoked by any user except me (root, guest, etc.), but not when invoked by me (that is jonrysh). The symptom is that when invoked jonrysh everything works correctly (sideb