Re: Speech-dispatcher

dia. What is it? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Speech-dispatcher

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 03:24:49 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/22/18 03:01, Beartooth wrote: >> On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 09:55:32 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: >> >> [] >>> I went ahead and implemented it, >>> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-20

superfluous (??) proliferation

along with it, including k3b and Konqueror. Is incruftation a word? Do I really use a couple hundred applications all the time, unconsciously? Do the security gurux no longer advise us to make lean installs? -- Beartooth Implacable, alive and functional WEST of the Divide (OK, OK, the Ea

What do you open .mobi files with??

Something on sourceforge has been recommended to me, but I try to stick to things that dnf can install. Surely there must be some Fedora- native ebook reader! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is

Thumb Drive Question

stick, would I be able to use that, while visiting in-laws for instance, as if it were a live CD =with= all my data? -- Beartooth Implacable, Neo-Redneck Linux Enthusiast Freedom is my issue : I'm pro-choice, pro-right-to-die, pro-gun, and pro-term-limits. Without

F26: xfce -> Mate??

;d like to switch xfce to MATE ASAP, before I upgrade to F27 and then F28. How do I do that? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproj

How to switch to mate?

If this isn't the right list, please redirect me! I have a PC running F27, with mate and xfce both installed; at present, what I see is xfce. How do I change to mate?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of whe

Re: How to switch to mate?

On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:49:45 -0600, JD wrote: > At the login screen, first choose the login name then before you type > the password, click on the small wheel in the login banner and it will > drop down a menu of DT's to choose from. > Choose Mate, then type your password and you are done.

Re: How to switch to mate? SOLVED

ken to be the login screen), and the third one (upper right) had a tiny icon which proved to be for exactly that. With my arthritic eyeballs and trifocal fingers, I might never've found it without help. Many, many thanks! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I k

Mate terminal on reboot

o I get my multiple tabs back?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Mate terminal on reboot SOLVED

On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 08:45:49 -0700, Fred Erickson wrote: > On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:01:45 + (UTC) > Beartooth wrote: > >> Now it comes up with a single tab, set to the default >> profile; so I have to re-open and re-set all the rest. I don't see an >> it

Re: How to switch to mate? SOLVED

On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 23:07:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 17:30 +, Beartooth wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:42:53 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> > The details differ according to which desktop manager (DM) you're

Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

a lot of stuff on it that I'd rather copy to #2 and #3 directly than by way of solid state storage, if I dare risk malware. (I don't know where else all the cruft could have come from, apart from malware, but I hope someone here does.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Po

Pan still crashes

or<_Tp, _Alloc>::front() const [with _Tp = const pan::Article*; _Alloc = std::allocator; std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::const_reference = const pan::Article* const&]: Assertion '__builtin_expect(!this->empty(), true)' failed. Alas! That is Geek to me. What should I

Re: Pan still crashes

On 05/27/2018 12:56 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: Beartooth wrote: Followups set to gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general [] Alas! That is Geek to me. What should I do?? Wait for pan-0.145-1.fc28 to reach stable or install it from updates-testing and leave feedback on

Re: Pan still crashes

On Mon, 28 May 2018 11:26:51 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: [...] > Testing would be just seeing if the new version starts now. > If you're not sure how to install it, that's easy as well: > sudo dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing upgrade pan > > It's ready to go stable, so it will probably be in

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

On Tue, 22 May 2018 17:35:04 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [] > Never mind. I have actually brought it up before now (can't be bothered > to track down the post though it's probably on the KDE list) but no-one > else reacted so it doesn't appear to be common. Fwiw, the pan

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

! It's not quite working on #3 yet, but I bet it will be in a day or three. I've already stopped feeling like I'm riding a bicycle along the edge of a cliff. Champagne is definitely indicated. -- Beartooth Implacable, Curmudgeon On Line Who shall gather the smoke of the

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? Ooops!

On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:57:41 +, Beartooth wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2018 05:48:24 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> In actuality you just need one command. >> >> systemctl -f enable sddm   (or whatever new dm you want) >> >> -f = force   which means "When

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

he one I thought yesterday had decided to straighten up and fly right. But there the commenting out didn't help. That PC is still console only. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___

Display Manager and applets

ight or ten in actual use); but the current setup only allows me two workspaces, causing a clutter. Also, eyes in each of four panels are by far the easiest way for my ancient eyeballs to find the mouse cursor; and the current setup has no eyes at all, afaict. Clue, please

Feature request: line break eliminater

into Fedora itself? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org F

Re: Display Manager and applets

On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:33:20 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/28/18 00:25, Beartooth wrote: >> Unless I'm more confused than usual, I'm currently running lxdm >> (set to MATE) on F28. I'm glad to have a display manager that works; >> but it denies me th

VDQ "dm"

This has to be a Very Dumb Question, but what is the difference between a "display manager" and a "desktop manager"? I'm trying to run MATE on F28, and succeeding to the extent that I do have a more or less MATE-like GUI, but only by grace of still having an F26 rescue kernel.

Re: dnf: can i "tag" installed packages so i can remove them later?

hing you need, and try installing it alone after the remove(s). All the above sounds like a lot more trouble than it actually is, thanks to cyber-speed, IF you're doing it on the scale I am. Whether it's worth the stuff you mean, I can't guess. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite

plymouth vs. boot messages

Is there a way to tell plymouth to default to showing boot messages? -- Beartooth Implacable, Erstwhile Historian of Tongues Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning, Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning? -- JRR Tolkien

Re: plymouth vs. boot messages

On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:30:41 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 08/17/2018 12:57 PM, Beartooth wrote: >> Is there a way to tell plymouth to default to showing boot >> messages? > > Does taking out "rhgb" from the boot command line do what you want? It

Re: plymouth vs. boot messages

g "rhgb" and "quiet". The following Ansible rule [...] Still no joy on either non-GUI PC; I don't have Ansible installed (and from the Wikipedia article, it seems way over my head). -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious littl

Re: plymouth vs. boot messages

On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 10:15:15 -0700, stan wrote: > On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 16:24:49 + (UTC) > Beartooth wrote: > >> On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 13:08:16 +0300, Jarmo Hurri wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:30:41 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> >> >

Re: plymouth vs. boot messages

ere, because of its length. At a font size I can read, there must be about 180 lines of it. I could post all the linux16 lines, I think. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

Re: Replacing email list for users with a web forum software called Discourse, what's your opinion?

skimming what doesn't, and doing many other useful things. And afaik Gmane works with lists but not web forums. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. ___ users maili

Re: Fora vs. mailing lists

s every mailing list I'm a member of. I love that. It's > very accessibility-friendly. > > I hate using fora. [...] There was some mention above of Gmane and its old troubles. This note is just to make sure everybody here does know Gmane has been alive and well

VDQ finding dnf names

tried to install some others for her, using dnf. It couldn't find brave, falcon, opera, nor vivaldi. VERY Dumb Question : How do I look up what it calls them? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where

Re: VDQ finding dnf names

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:44:54 +, Barry wrote: >> On 26 Mar 2024, at 16:42, Beartooth wrote: >>It couldn't find brave, falcon, opera, nor vivaldi. VERY Dumb >> Question : How do I look up what it calls them? > > I don’t think Fedora packages most of them.

Re: VDQ finding dnf names

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:31:30 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 04:41:33PM -, I Beartooth wrote: >> It couldn't find brave, falcon, opera, nor vivaldi. VERY Dumb >>Question : How do I look up what it calls them? > > If you know the path to the

Seamonkey not displaying pix

o replies. I tried dnf reinstall seamonkey (with seamonkey not open), but that didn't help. It used to be a good browser. Can I fix it? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!)

Re: Seamonkey not displaying pix

On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:55:32 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > On 6/26/24 10:25 AM, I Beartooth wrote: >> Seamonkey under the last several releases of Fedora Linux does not >> display pix. It says, inter alia, "Error: could not load." It also >> gives me a lin

Re: Seamonkey not displaying pix

On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:44:01 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Beartooth composed on 2024-06-28 15:51 (UTC): > >>> Beartooth wrote: > >>>>Seamonkey under the last several releases of Fedora Linux does not >>>> display pix. It says, inter alia, "Error

Re: Omega live -

grade was available, and asking if I wanted it. Very nice! Many, many thanks! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change sub

Omega boot time on an old EeePC

e a quick start makes all the difference. Anybody got a clue, or a suggestion? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Bogged down in Wine

sh booting -- except that I can ssh into it over my LAN. What do I need to do?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change su

Re: Bogged down in Wine

bbb ~]# chkconfig WINE_SERVICE_NAME off error reading information on service WINE_SERVICE_NAME: No such file or directory [r...@bbb ~]# So what do I put in for WINE_SERVICE_NAME?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) litt

Re: Make aspell work right??

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:04:43 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > Beartooth wrote: > > >> (Followups set to gmane.mail.alpine.info) >> >> I'm running the following : on my own machine (this address) >> >> alpine-2.00-8.fc12.i686 set to /usr/bin/aspell --do

Re: Make aspell work right??

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:16:08 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > Aren't you allowed to use rpm query? If so try, $ rpm -qa aspell* rpm -qa aspell* aspell-0.60.6-7.fc12.i686 aspell-en-6.0-11.fc12.i686 So the second one must be a dictionary? Is there a better? -- Beartooth Staffwri

Preupgrade??

Any word on it? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listi

Re: Make aspell work right??

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:50:13 -0700, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Monday 26 April 2010 09:25 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> rpm -qa aspell* >> aspell-0.60.6-7.fc12.i686 >> aspell-en-6.0-11.fc12.i686 >> >> So the second one must be a dictionary? Is there a better

F12 Firefox pwd trouble

?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: Installing Fedora 12

ve run on your original reboot after installing, just to make sure there isn't anything else un-attended-to, such as setting your ntp- servers. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users

Preupgrade enhanced??

Will today's update to Preupgrade enable it to cope with machines that have less space in /boot than it wants? Or had we still better install F13 (or, preferably, upgrade to it) from a whole downloaded DVD?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power U

Re: Preupgrade??

r way to increase the size of / boot, such as for instance with gparted or qtparted. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change sub

Terminal in Gnome 3?? Main Menu???

I have F15 with Gnome 3 running on a live CD in a laptop -- and two things I can't so much as get a sniff of are gnome-terminal, and whatever (if anything) corresponds to the Main Menu. Clue, please? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have pre

Re: Terminal in Gnome 3?? Main Menu???

blissfully innocent), you've certainly handed me a truly bodacious bunch of clues. I thank you kindly for that. [The senectoflatulocrat trudges despondently off stage left, craving beer] -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very p

Netbook gotchas?

And most of all, are there any gotchas to be leery of? (I do know better than to delete my .addressbook or my .pinerc.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: gnu linux update question

#x27;s in yum-utils I have it on all machines. So does it run itself, like at least some of the other things in that package? Or should I be invoking it on occasion? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users ma

F13 boot floppy??

even be willing to boot from one ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/m

Re: unbale accesses fedora

stall Fedora -- being very careful this time to make it use only free space (to keep it from wiping ubuntu away). -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

How to get f 12 -- *t*w*e*l*v*e*, twelve???

deleted both my F12 ISO and the DVD I had burned of it. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://adm

Re: How to get f 12 -- *t*w*e*l*v*e*, twelve???

- My heartfelt thanks to all! I've downloaded F12 from two of the sources posted here, and am burning DVDs as I type. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@list

Launching metacity

sed up somehow? What? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/

Re: Kororaa 14 Beta2 released

ried it, on an EeePC 701, and liked it. I don't use a word processor, though, and I've no more than heard of LibreOffice; so I gave the live DVD to my wife, who has written two or three books with OOo, and will pass on her reaction when I get it. Many than ks for your excel

Re: Please Help Me Installing Fedora 14

top:2px;margin-bottom:2px;} style="font-size:10pt; font-family:gulim;"> Hello. > I'm a student in Korea, and I'm in sixth grade. [] Please do not post webgibberish (html) to this list. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have pre

Preupgrade questions

lot of minor tweaking after each fresh install, getting two panels and an assortment of launchers into the places where my fingers can call them without my conscious attention; I'd like to skip that, if F15 and Gnome3 will let me. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Cluel

So where are my workspaces??

Plus Technoids? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: So where are my workspaces??

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:48:43 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/28/2011 02:40 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> >> I logged in, and it put me onto what has always been my workspace >> #1. But there are no panels, let alone a workspace switcher; and right- >> cli

Re: So where are my workspaces??

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:16:33 +, Andre Robatino wrote: > Beartooth comcast.net> writes: > >> I logged in, and it put me onto what has always been my workspace >> #1. But there are no panels, let alone a workspace switcher; and right- >> clicking does nothin

Re: So where are my workspaces??

esktop:2','mozilla- galeon.desktop:3' ]" Usage: gsettings set SCHEMA[:PATH] KEY VALUE Set the value of KEY to VALUE Arguments: SCHEMAThe name of the schema PATH The path, for relocatable schemas KEY The key within the schema VALUE The value to

Re: So where are my workspaces??

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:30:52 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 22:46 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> Why do people inveterately do (%&&%% videos instead of >> plain clean prose explanations? > > Because they can't give a good explanation? I'm

Re: So where are my workspaces??

separate workspaces. I'm afraid to open a third app Is this still the bug? Oe will this release *keep* this work- blocking behavior?? Say it ain't so! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where u

Re: So where are my workspaces??

before doing the preupgrade, I'm likely suffering under https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698184 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647359 . I don't know for sure how much of what I'm posting results from one or both of those bugs, and how much might be new. -- Bea

Re: So where are my workspaces??

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:34:23 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 15:54 +, Beartooth wrote: >> I'll stop here for now, hoping to have dropped something the >> developers can use, because this post is getting over-long. > > AFAI

Re: So where are my workspaces??

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:45:54 +, Andre Robatino wrote: > Beartooth comcast.net> writes: >> Since, as I confirmed above, I did have session saving enabled >> before doing the preupgrade, I'm likely suffering under >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_b

Re: So where are my workspaces??

est list; but I did find one called testers, and posted there -- or tried to. Gmane's autoauthorizer sent me the usual invitation to confirm that I exist, and I replied as usual -- but I don't see the post on that list (to which I did subscribe via Gmane) so far. -- Beartooth

Re: So where are my workspaces??

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:18:21 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:31 PM, I Beartooth > wrote: >>        Gmane's autoauthorizer sent me the usual invitation to >>        confirm >> that I exist, and I replied as usual -- but I don't see the po

Re: Home virtual topo map advice?

a consensus, among Alpha Plus Technoids of my acquaintance, that virtualization beats dual-booting; so I'm trying to tackle that -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lis

Re: So where are my workspaces??

iciently. This new thing, no matter how they euphemize it, will turn my computer into an analog of my physical desktop, on which not even the gods of chaos can find anything in the paperstorm. Take a look at the post by Chris Kloiber, about three hours before yours. -- Be

Re: preupgrading to fedora 15

27;re running older hardware. I have now done that, thanks! Any hints? Gotchas? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: Turn off screensaver in Gnome3

;yum remove gnome- screensaver" -- and maybe after that do "yum install xscreensaver" xscreensaver also has a box to uncheck if you don't want it to lock and require your password. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (ve

Another failure

repo I've overlooked?? In theory, according to the EPEL page, they should be available there; but they don't seem to be. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list us

F14: what replaces s-c-d?

more; but system-config-display is not among them. What can I use? This constantly clicking on the wrong place is beginning to resemble the classic water torture -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea whe

Re: F14: what replaces s-c-d?

65.5 VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0 Option "dpms" EndSection > To install it: > > mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf I'll hold off on that for the moment, since I baffled by these differences. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo

Re: F14: what replaces s-c-d?

y PCs used to do fine with 1280x1024 -- and this monitor can stretch that up to 1680x1050. In fact, my setting in xorg.conf has long been 1280x1024 for exactly that reason. The Germans have a word for this : Verschlimmbesserung. It means making things worse by trying or purporting

Making space on an EeePC

d yet According to baobab, the biggest thing still left in the whole filesystem is /usr/share/locale. (I cut out apps utterly ruthlessly while installing.) Can I simply delete all of /usr/share/locale, or all but one of the folders in it?? Or shrink it some other way?? -- Beartooth Staffw

F14 cobbler daemon

ve done a yum update or two, without helping it to boot. What is to be done? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: F14 cobbler daemon

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:29:12 -0700, stan wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:10:59 + (UTC) Beartooth > wrote: [] > What is to be done? > How about, as root, > chkconfig cobblerd off OK; did that. > The next time it boots, cobbler won't st

Re: F14 cobbler daemon

enough to blame anything; I'm just reporting what I see, and can't cope with, hoping for enlightenment. How do you know it completed? That upper case sure looked like an urgent warning to me Also, what is a good way (if there is one, short of removing cobbler) to get to th

Automate tweaking??

I put it, and how I use it, then put it all into a file I can copy to a USB stick or some such medium -- so that once the install completes, I can give the stick and say "Here; go." -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) li

Re: F14 cobbler daemon

On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 22:08:25 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Beartooth wrote: [] >> Also, what is a good way (if there is one, short of removing cobbler) >> to get to the next item?? > It may be worth hitting 'i' at boot when it says something like "

Re: Mailman tutorial

usually good, even as linux lists go; and I'm sure the several which have replaced it will be equally exemplary. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Can I double-replace a user??

orked fine there. So I added a third userid, btth2 (my normal being btth -- who want to keep typing out "Beartooth"?). The switcher works there, too. This would appear to tell me the trouble is in how btth is configured, somehow -- I can't imagine how. I&

Launch metacity -- how by default??

plications and type it in? Or is there something to fix first? (I have no idea *why* it fails to launch.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Launch metacity -- how by default??

ohup metacity > > will, however. I'm obviously not getting my question across. How do I get it to launch *on* *boot* -- knowing that it does not now. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea

Re: Launch metacity -- how by default??

lier post that you used to use compiz --- which > is another window manager. Make sure to tell Gnome to use metacity Not quite. What I said was that I remove it as soon as any install finishes. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious

Re: Launch metacity -- rewoltin' dewelopment

On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:44:33 +, I Beartooth wrote: [] > Simply commanding "metacity" at a root prompt fixed the problems, [] once I added the ampersand: "metacity &" -- at least temporarily. But this morning there are weird messages:

Fedora misplacing cursor

that it's gone, nothing I've been able to find seems to help. The display on that PC is also shifted slightly to the left, so that the first letter of boot messages shows up on the far right edge of the monitor, and similarly with a vertical panel. -- Beartooth Staffwright, N

VDQ? M$ wizards (in Wine) hogging screen

I never do anything whatever on full screen. The background is what tells me which machine (behind a KVM switch) I'm on.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedor

Re: VDQ? M$ wizards (in Wine) hogging screen

? What I know of F keys, aside from tweaking a BIOS, would go in a gnat's eye. Is there a section on them in some collection of Helpful Hints for the Subtechnoid somewhere? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little

F14 boot hangs on atd -- temptation to suppuku

wasn't looking, maybe ...) Finally, finally, a gpk-application does complete. I close it, and tell the beleagured old machine to reboot. It gets to starting atd, calls that OK -- and hangs. Is there a way to kill yourself electronically, all at once, and get it over w

Re: Upgrading : give me strength ...

to multi (and from remap_file_pages to remque). How do I (re)mount something *in* a file?? As for your last line: obvious to whom? Has anyone recounted the classic definition of "obvious" here lately? The one about the Nobel laureate teaching postdocs? -- Beartooth Staffwright,

Re: F14 boot hangs on atd ...

On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:40:50 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:19:09 + (UTC) I Beartooth wrote: > >> Anyway, I suspect the real trouble is misrecognition of the >> monitor. That's an HP w2207h, at 1680x1050; but xrandr reports 800x480.

Re: gpk-update-viewer vs. yum

date" without > bothering to use the now-available network connection. > > I've got several other grumbles that I've mentioned in > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543871#c7> Note Hugh's date (June); it's mid December, and I'm sti

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