Re: desktop problem

2012-05-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 12:45 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > (I take it, BTW, that simply switching to a different DE > isn't an option.) In fact, that is the option we took. We switched her from Gnome to XFCE, which works around the problem. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: desktop problem

2012-05-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/23/2012 12:27 PM, Greg Woods wrote: It's not so much a matter of time, as not wanting to hose things up for my wife. Well, as I said, updating your system probably won't help, so if you'd rather not take the risk of b0rking something, don't worry about it. And, if it's only affecting Gn

Re: desktop problem

2012-05-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 11:40 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > I doubt that updating the system will help, but if you've the > time, it shouldn't hurt. It's not so much a matter of time, as not wanting to hose things up for my wife. We geeks are used to having updates occasionally break things; it is the

Re: desktop problem

2012-05-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/23/2012 11:09 AM, Greg Woods wrote: kmod-nvidia-3.2.10-3.fc16.x86_64-290.10-1.fc16.4.x86_64 Installed via the akmod rpmfusion package. Thank you. I'm no expert on this, but at least we've eliminated some possibilities, and that's always good. I am aware this system is not fully up

Re: desktop problem

2012-05-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 10:31 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/23/2012 09:17 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > > In my case, no; it's an Nvidia card. > > What driver are you using? Nouveau, the binary blob or kmod-nvidia? kmod-nvidia-3.2.10-3.fc16.x86_64-290.10-1.fc16.4.x86_64 Installed via the akmod rpmfus

Re: desktop problem

2012-05-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/23/2012 09:17 AM, Greg Woods wrote: In my case, no; it's an Nvidia card. What driver are you using? Nouveau, the binary blob or kmod-nvidia? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: desktop problem

2012-05-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 11:42 -0400, Andre Goree wrote: > I currently have this same issue on a laptop I use for work running > F16/KDE4, so perhaps this has something to do with graphics drivers (shot > in the dark). Do you happen to be running Intel graphics? In my case, no; it's an Nvidia c

Re: desktop problem

2012-05-23 Thread Andre Goree
On Mon, 21 May 2012 16:21:32 -0400, Greg Woods wrote: On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 14:07 -0400, Brian Wood wrote: Yesterday the desktop was fine, but today the bar across the top of the screen is no longer legible. I can't read the time in the center top or the stuff on the right or left. When I p

Re: desktop problem

2012-05-21 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 14:07 -0400, Brian Wood wrote: > Yesterday the desktop > was fine, but today the bar across the top of the screen is no > longer legible. I can't read the time in the center top or the > stuff on the right or left. When I put the focus on some of the > icons in that bar, t

Re: desktop problem

2012-05-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.05.2012 20:07, schrieb Brian Wood: > I installed Fedora 16 a few days ago. Yesterday the desktop > was fine, but today the bar across the top of the screen is no > longer legible. I can't read the time in the center top or the > stuff on the right or left. When I put the focus on some o

Re: Desktop problem

2010-08-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 19:46 -0700, JD wrote: > > Why do folks insist on using . files rather than making them > visible? > > Makes troubleshooting hell. > > > > James McKenzie > > > I do not know the history of why they chose dot files AND make them > invisible to the shell. They didn't. Dot file

Re: Desktop problem

2010-08-14 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 08/14/2010 09:46 PM, JD wrote: >On 08/14/2010 07:34 PM, James McKenzie wrote: >> Thomas Cameron wrote: >>> On 08/14/2010 08:55 PM, JD wrote: >>> If you want to pick up onlythe dot files, then use .[a-zA-Z]* $ echo .[a-zA-Z]* .AbiSuite .adobe .alias .amaya .amazonmp3

Re: Desktop problem

2010-08-14 Thread JD
On 08/14/2010 07:34 PM, James McKenzie wrote: > Thomas Cameron wrote: >> On 08/14/2010 08:55 PM, JD wrote: >> >>> If you want to pick up onlythe dot files, then use >>> .[a-zA-Z]* >>> >>> $ echo .[a-zA-Z]* >>> .AbiSuite .adobe .alias .amaya .amazonmp3 .asoundrc .aspell.en.prepl >>> I have a bazil

Re: Desktop problem

2010-08-14 Thread James McKenzie
Thomas Cameron wrote: > On 08/14/2010 08:55 PM, JD wrote: > >> If you want to pick up onlythe dot files, then use >> .[a-zA-Z]* >> >> $ echo .[a-zA-Z]* >> .AbiSuite .adobe .alias .amaya .amazonmp3 .asoundrc .aspell.en.prepl >> I have a bazillion dot files in my home dir. I only copied and pasted

Re: Desktop problem

2010-08-14 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 08/14/2010 08:55 PM, JD wrote: >On 08/14/2010 06:42 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: >> I have a shell script I use to "reset" my default desktop environment. >> It keeps my important stuff like my ~/.ssh directory, mail directories >> and so on. To use it, I log out of GNOME, run it, and log back

Re: Desktop problem

2010-08-14 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 08/14/2010 08:55 PM, JD wrote: > You must know that > .* matches > the directory . > and the directory .. > > To wit: > > $ echo .* > . .. .AbiSuite .adobe .alias .amaya .amazonmp3 .asoundrc .aspell.en.prepl > > Notice . and .. ??? Yup, and they are unaffected using this script. > If you want

Re: Desktop problem

2010-08-14 Thread JD
On 08/14/2010 06:42 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: > I have a shell script I use to "reset" my default desktop environment. > It keeps my important stuff like my ~/.ssh directory, mail directories > and so on. To use it, I log out of GNOME, run it, and log back in. > > [tcame...@case ~]$ cat ~/bin/cl

Re: Desktop problem

2010-08-14 Thread Thomas Cameron
I have a shell script I use to "reset" my default desktop environment. It keeps my important stuff like my ~/.ssh directory, mail directories and so on. To use it, I log out of GNOME, run it, and log back in. [tcame...@case ~]$ cat ~/bin/cleardots #!/bin/bash ls -ad .* | egrep -v "bash|ellumin

Re: Desktop problem

2010-08-14 Thread Marvin Kosmal
Hi Using default install.. Gnome desktop Thanks On 8/14/10, binary...@comcast.net wrote: > On 08/14/2010 11:22 AM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: >> Hi >> >> I am using Fedora 12 and something happen to the desk top >> >> I no longer have the icons in the upper left corner of my desk top. >> >> I had

Re: Desktop problem

2010-08-14 Thread binarynut
On 08/14/2010 11:22 AM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > Hi > > I am using Fedora 12 and something happen to the desk top > > I no longer have the icons in the upper left corner of my desk top. > > I had a firefox crash a couple days ago. I wonder if the two are connected.. > > Anyway, is there an easy wa