Re: KRandRtray ??

2011-02-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Jim wrote: > F14/ KDE-4 > > KRandRTray, how does it work ? > > As User if you set resolution to the size you want and accept , after > Logging out of User and then log back in , the resolution setting has > changed. How do you as User lock in setting so it will not change. right click krandrt

Re: KRandRtray ??

2011-02-07 Thread Rex Dieter
DB wrote: > I have the feeling what you are writing is not true (or maybe I've got > something set wrong on my box.) it *is* true :) , but not free of bugs. Sounds like you've found one, if you could be so kind as to file one @ bugs.kde.org ? -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedo

Re: gksu alternative for Fedora

2011-02-07 Thread Rex Dieter
kellyremo wrote: > Even kdesu isn't in the offical repositoryes. Why? kdesu is included in kdebase-runtime. -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedora

Re: f14 :: cagibi disable

2011-02-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > Hi! Have anyone some idea about how can i disable this pest? We can try to implement that, but ... why? what's the use-case? Is it causing problems? -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://ad

Re: Strange Copy/Paste behavior in KMail 1.13.5/Kontact 4.4.8

2011-02-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Claude Jones wrote: > On Monday, February 07, 2011, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> I'm still having this problem. If anyone would try the steps >> described below and get back to me with the results, I would >> greatly appreciate it :) >> > > yes, I"m getting the same thing I

Re: f14 :: cagibi disable

2011-02-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > On 02/07/11 17:22, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Adrian Sevcenco wrote: >> >>> Hi! Have anyone some idea about how can i disable this pest? >> >> We can try to implement that, but ... why? what's the use-case? Is it >> causing pr

Re: how to run kdesu without asking password?

2011-02-12 Thread Rex Dieter
erikmccaskey64 wrote: > > Fedora 14, with GNOME: > > sudo works without password: > > visudo > MYUSER ALL=(transmission-user) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/transmission-gtk > > then: > xhost local:transmission-user > sudo -u transmission-user -- /usr/bin/transmission-gtk > > ok, it runs without promptin

Re: K3B hangs on FC14 x64

2011-02-22 Thread Rex Dieter
Mick M. wrote: > Hi; > when I run k3b as 'mick' it hangs at the coloured 'checking system' box. > > I 'yum erase k3b*' then 'yum install k3b*' with the same result. > Fully updated F14 x64 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 > > When 'su -' k3b from konsole: Don't run k3b (or any kde app for that matter

Re: How to compile a soft same as the version realeased by fedora?

2011-03-21 Thread Rex Dieter
GeeKer Wang wrote: > Hi, guys > I tried to compile OpenSceneGraph-2.8.3-3.fc14.rpm software, and got a > low efficient and large version of it. But the version from fedora-repo > works well. > eg. my version with frame rate < 10, while fedora-repo version with frame > rate ~=40. > > I have t

Re: How to compile a soft same as the version realeased by fedora?

2011-03-22 Thread Rex Dieter
GeeKer Wang wrote: > I have install redhat-rpm-config, and I didn't see separate pkg. strange. > Separating debuginfo will make it run much faster? runtime speed is unaffected -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://a

Re: Wallet mysteries

2011-04-27 Thread Rex Dieter
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is there a one-page explanation of wallet > (actually I am using KDE Wallet) anywhere? > > On one laptop I have to give my wallet password > everytime I go to my news account at news.eternal-september.org ; > on my other laptop I am not asked for this. > > What is the exp

Re: Wallet mysteries

2011-04-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > >>> On one laptop I have to give my wallet password >>> everytime I go to my news account at news.eternal-september.org ; >>> on my other laptop I am not asked for this. >>> >>> What is the explanat

Re: qdbus QStringList

2011-05-10 Thread Rex Dieter
Dj YB wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to write a bash script using qdbus but cant figure out how to > send a QStringList > > tried the following: > > "1" "2" > > "1","2" > "1";"2" > ("1","2") > (1,2) > > "1" > "2" > > 1 > 2 > > none of the above worked. > I am sure I have already asked that

Re: amarok: fast but quiet

2011-05-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Frank Elsner wrote: > I need an advice for the following problem > on my system running Fedora 14 and amarok-2.4.0-1.fc14.i686: > > When playing MP3s the play-progress-indicator moves (too) fast without > sound. > > Other applications like clementine, vlc, mgp321 work without problems. > > Wher

Re: Fonts group in anaconda?

2010-11-03 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Horsley wrote: > Does anyone think "Fonts" deserves to be its own top > level package group there already is a Fonts top-level group in comps (since f13 at least, that's what I checked). $ yum grouplist | grep -i fonts Fonts Legacy Fonts -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fed

Re: kpackagekit question

2010-11-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Neal Becker wrote: > I want to install updates automatically on an unattended server. If I set > kpackagekit to automatically check daily + install updates, will this > work? I'm wondering if kpackagekit only runs if a user is actually logged > into the console (running kde, and hence kpackagekit

Re: Solving all the KDE 4.5 Problems

2010-11-09 Thread Rex Dieter
Manuel Escudero wrote: > I've been reading a lot of threads in this list of users complaining about > KDE 4.5, (specially of 4.5.3) Well, I've been using KDE 4.5 for some time > now (even before it was officially on F13) and I do not have any problems > you're > talking about, follow my advice in

Re: Rhythmbox error under KDE

2010-11-12 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > F14, x86_64, KDE 4.5.2: > > I get this when I plug in my iPhone under KDE, rhythmbox already running: > > Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to grab media player keys: Could not get > owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name There's a gnome-settings-daemon s

Re: Fedora14 KDE.Unable to connect to the Internet.

2010-11-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Fennix wrote: > Make sure that you have knetworkmanager installed. For the past several > clean installs (Fedora versions 12 and 13) I have found myself with no > network under KDE until I installed knetworkmanager (logging in via gnome > desktop). Hope this can help... knetworkmanager (the nam

Re: Faulty dependency for R?

2010-12-06 Thread Rex Dieter
suvayu ali wrote: > Is this a packaging bug or is it intended? I believe it's intended. if all you want is a bare-bones R, install only R-core -- Rex > Installing: > R i6862.12.0-1.fc13 > updates 16 k > Installing for dep

Re: kde slow to start after a crash

2010-12-09 Thread Rex Dieter
Walter Cazzola wrote: > Dear Linuxers, > I've a quite frustrating problem, it is the second time that my PC > freezes and after resetting the PC KDE starts very slowly (it is taking > more or less 20 minutes to be fully loaded and responsive) and reboot > doesn't help. > > The first time I have s

Re: dependency problem with Knetworkmanger in repo's

2010-12-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Jim wrote: > Fedora 13 / KDE > > knetworkmanager-0.9-0.19 > and > knetworkmanager-libs-0.9-0.28 > > Different versions are in repo and can't install knetworkmanager knetworkmanger should be Obsoleted by kde-plasma-networkmanagement now. -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Temlakos wrote: > 2.KPackagekit does not allow very good searching within groups of > packages anymore--not in F14, it doesn't. That feature was inadvertantly not enabled properly, and an updated kpk is coming soon that should fix it. -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: Compiz on KDE ?

2010-12-18 Thread Rex Dieter
Jim wrote: > Fedora 14 > > $ compiz > compiz (core) - Error: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a window > manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window > manager. > compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0 > > > What do I do here ? Try, co

Re: F14 : KDE primer??

2011-01-08 Thread Rex Dieter
Beartooth wrote: > Is there something like a primer somewhere, pointing out the > basics to those old enough to know better, but entirely innocent of them? > I'm thinking of things like running Gnome's Workspace-switcher, or an > equivalent if KDE 4 has one, just to get started Lots of excellent

Re: F14 K3b and ISOs

2011-01-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 01/12/2011 02:42 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:29:35 -0500 >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> What should I do at this point? >> I discovered that k3b in f14 started defaulting to cdrecord >> as the underlying burning app rather than growisofs (

Re: F14 K3b and ISOs

2011-01-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Horsley wrote: >> Mind filing a bug someone? (both for k3b to use growiso by default, as >> well as against wodim for the big fail here). > >> I'll help make sure they both get attention. > > I filed this bug back when I first tried to burn a DVD on f14: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/sho

Re: desktop file exec working firectory

2011-01-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Dj YB wrote: > Hello, > I am creating a desktop file for a service menu, and can't find out how to > use the directory from which the action was launched. > > this is how it looks: > > Exec=convert %F `kdialog --title "save PDF" --getsavefilename join.pdf`; > > this is how I want it to look: >

Re: desktop file exec working firectory

2011-01-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Dj YB wrote: > Hello, > I am creating a desktop file for a service menu, and can't find out how to > use the directory from which the action was launched. > > this is how it looks: > > Exec=convert %F `kdialog --title "save PDF" --getsavefilename join.pdf`; > > this is how I want it to look: >

Re: Is all well with Fedora list on the alternate posting methods?

2010-01-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Mike Cloaked wrote: > It seems that the flow of postings to Fedora list has dried up an awful > lot after > the mailing list transition - is all well? I am posting this from Gmane. gmane hasn't migrated yet (ie, until fixed, it'll only see posts sent to the old list address). I've been told gma

Re: Is all well with Fedora list on the alternate posting methods?

2010-01-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Mike Cloaked wrote: > Rex Dieter math.unl.edu> writes: > >> gmane hasn't migrated yet (ie, until fixed, it'll only see posts sent to >> the >> old list address). I've been told gmane has been contacted to update >> things, though there's be

Re: Is all well with Fedora list on the alternate posting methods?

2010-01-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Mike Cloaked wrote: > OK I not at http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general > that there is a line at the bottom of the page that says > "If the information about the list is wrong, you can edit this > information. " > > Is this where the new information can be changed, or does it ne

Re: Is all well with Fedora list on the alternate posting methods?

2010-01-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Mike Cloaked wrote: > By the way should the list itself not be changed from > gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general to something more in line with the new > name? > eg gmane.linux.fedora.users ? Or maybe even start a new list for this in > gmane? Historically, gmane has recycled existing newsgroups

Re: how to use koji

2010-01-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Michal wrote: > prompt$ koji download-build boost > GenericError: invalid format: boost > > > what to do now? Something like: $ koji latest-pkg dist-f13 boost ... boost-1.41.0-2.fc13 dist-f13 bkoz $ koji download-build boost-1.41.0-2.fc13 -- Rex -- users

Re: Building rpms on F12 - buildroot overridden

2010-01-21 Thread Rex Dieter
Chris wrote: > I'm having a strange problem building an rpm on F12. Everything goes > fine until the build stage at which point my "BuildRoot:" parameter is > being ignored. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#BuildRoot_tag -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorapro

Re: When did X go back to vt7?

2010-01-27 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > The X server traditionally ran on console vt7, till a while back someone > decided to move it to vt1. Now that I'm used to that, they've moved it > back to vt7 again. What's going on? When we fixed these: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475890 https://bugz

Re: KDE apps and freetype-freeworld's bytecode interpreter

2010-01-29 Thread Rex Dieter
Vassili Zaitsev wrote: > The curious thing is, in the case of Gtk applications such as the GIMP, > Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey and GNOME MPlayer, the fully-hinted MS > fonts are displayed correctly, in all their sharp, bytecode-interpreted > grandeur whereas in KDE applications the same fonts

Re: Fedora 12 KDE - No Sound

2010-01-31 Thread Rex Dieter
Tim and Alison Bentley wrote: > I have a fully patched version of KDE and still have no sound running fore > KDE apps. you have phonon-4.3.80-5 and no sound? If so, mind double-checking with pavucontrol that streams are active and nothing is muted? If not, update. -- Rex -- users mailing

Re: Fedora 12 and 11 KDE - No Sound

2010-02-02 Thread Rex Dieter
Chris Ross wrote: > Although the "Input Devices" tab shows ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI > Multi-Channel I/O Controller the Output Devices tab shows only the NULL > device. Selecting Show -> Hardware Output Devices simply says "No > output devices available". Why would that be and where can I tell > Pul

Re: KDE 4.3.5 Sound - Continuing Problems

2010-02-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Tim and Alison Bentley wrote: > Since my last request for help the comments passed back have started to > make things better. > Thanks to for those. > > pauvcontrol now shows sound from Amarok but it does not come out of the > speakers. > Even after the last KDE update this does not work. > I hav

Re: GCL get killed everytime I try to execute it

2014-01-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Isaac Cortés González wrote: > Ok here's my problem: I'm trying to learn (Common) Lisp, so I installed > GCL, to compile or run the scripts that I'm making for practice; but I'm > having problems to run GCL itself, each time I try to run it it get killed > and I get an alert of SELinux, I try to s

Re: Gnucash vs. Kmymoney

2014-01-22 Thread Rex Dieter
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > It looks like Kmymoney is based on Gnucash, judging from today's update > notes. Is this correct? Not correct. They are both accounting/bookkeeping software packages that happen to use aqbanking under-the-hood. -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: OK, how do I start pulseaudio?

2014-01-24 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Horsley wrote: > Up through fedora 19 running /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 in > my ~/.xsession got pulse running. Now on 20 all it does is > provide a pluse daemon that can only speak "dummy output" > How the devil do I get pulse started in a non-gnome, > non-kde session that manually runs my

Re: Controlling Appearance of GTK+ applications in KDE

2014-02-09 Thread Rex Dieter
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > The appearance of gtk (Gnome) applications under KDE is controlled by a > System Settings function: > > System Settings->Application Appearance->GTK+ Appearance->Widget > Style > > which works as advertised: the theme chosen for the widget style affects

Re: F20 - Can't Select Desktop Environment at Login

2014-02-09 Thread Rex Dieter
Brian Hanks wrote: > I've had quite a challenge getting Fedora 20 to work on any of my > machines, but I have finally managed to work through the issues and I > have it running on two of them. The problem I'm having now is that I am > not able to select the Desktop Environment at Login. In the p

Re: AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

2014-03-12 Thread Rex Dieter
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > ATI is known to have a notoriously lousy support for Linux in general > and Fedora in particular. For their low-end and oldish cards, > they provide specs on which the Linux community has built the > open-source radeon driver (which works well). For their high-end cards, >

Re: Review of best photo managers?

2014-03-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Alex wrote: > Does anyone have any recommendations for a photo management app for > fedora? digikam -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fe

Re: The GDM greeter does not offer KDE as desktop after installing the group "KDE Plasma Workspaces"

2014-04-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Ahmad Samir wrote: > On 3 April 2014 12:53, Joachim Backes > wrote: >> On 04/03/2014 12:33 PM, Martin Briza wrote: >>> On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 11:36:02 +0200, Joachim Backes >>> wrote: >>> I installed the env group "KDE Plasma Workspaces" and expected that after logout KDE is offered as ad

Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

2014-04-08 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 10:55 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt >> >> See also http://heartbleed.com/ and >> http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/04/critical-crypto-bug-in-openssl-opens-two-thirds-of-the-web-to-eavesdr

Re: Libreoffice issues after last libreoffice update

2014-04-10 Thread Rex Dieter
CS_DBA wrote: > Running F20 and KDE, updated libre office. Now if I open by clicking on > libre office writer I get a window outline with the background from my > desktop in the window, it's not quite a transparent window cause if I > move it the portion of the desktop background moves with it...

Re: KDE using sudo instead of su

2014-05-02 Thread Rex Dieter
Emmett Culley wrote: > On 04/30/2014 10:27 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 04/30/2014 08:25 AM, Emmett Culley wrote: >>> Any ideas how to get apps to require the root password instead of my >>> user password? >> >> Take yourself out of wheel. > I was in the users group, but not in the wheel group. > >

Re: What on earth just happened?

2014-05-09 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Horsley wrote: > I ran yum update this morning, getting a gazillion updates. > I rebooted the system. > > When it came back up, I couldn't log in. I'd get a KDM screen, > login, then immediately get the KDM screen again. > > I tried to login with a "failsafe" session which gave me > (apparen

Re: BZ 1010572 || systemd useless socket

2014-05-12 Thread Rex Dieter
Soham Chakraborty wrote: > Howdy folks, > > Typically this is a discussion material in the bugzilla itself but I am > wondering that if any of you has hit this bug on F20, then is there any > way around or some hack fix? Or rather even, any way to bring the system > back to usable state at all?

Re: clear DNS cache

2014-05-22 Thread Rex Dieter
Pal, Laszlo (private) wrote: > After a quick google it seems there is no "central" cache used anymore > (previously nscd service maintained a central cache, but it is not > installed by default). If this is installed at you, you may want to > restart the relevant service > > nscd.x86_64 : A Name

Re: Why doesn't Fedora 20 find my print server?

2014-05-22 Thread Rex Dieter
Tim wrote: > For many years, now, I've run a CUPS server on my LAN, that any distro > of Linux I've switched on has managed to find the printers it publishes, > without me having to do any client configuration on the PC, other than > making sure the firewall isn't in the way. > > The CUPS server

Re: broken dependency in F20 updates

2014-05-26 Thread Rex Dieter
Andre Robatino wrote: > I've seen this both with the previous updates push and the latest one. > AFAIK there is no bug report. Which component should it be reported under? > > [root@compaq-pc ~]# yum --skip-broken update > Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit > updates/20/x86_64/metalink

Re: Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

2014-06-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Horsley wrote: > Can we vote for features we want removed, like multilib that's not a yum feature, but a distribution-wide one. -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users F

Re: pulseaudio-equalizer

2015-08-08 Thread Rex Dieter
Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/09/15 01:19, François Patte wrote: >> I tried to use pulseaudio-equalizer, but if I launch it the sound no >> more work on my computer Is there a special configuration to >> perform to use it? > > All I can do at this moment is to confirm your findings. > > I use KD

Re: Fedora-22: KDE vs GTK

2015-08-10 Thread Rex Dieter
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I have just upgraded from Fedora-21 to Fedora-22 and am now unable to > control the GUI of applications based on GTK, namely evolution and (I > think) firefox. There was a function to do this in KDE as released > under Fedora-21 (KDE-4, I think), but under Fedora-22 (KDE

Re: Very SLOW system update

2015-09-13 Thread Rex Dieter
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > An update has been running on my system for the last 3-1/2 hours. It > hasn't crashed or died, but it's been very slo If it's the apper update transaction, you can run in a terminal: pkmon to observe the status of the PackageKit daemon, could give a clue what it is d

Re: drag konsole tabs

2015-09-17 Thread Rex Dieter
Maurizio Marini wrote: > Hello, sorry for lamer question: > w/ F22 I am not able anymore to drug konsole tab to change their order, It's a feature implemented upstream recently, but not yet included in any released version yet. Target date for release is ~december -- Rex -- users mailing li

Re: lost Desktop after changed to Aria

2015-10-08 Thread Rex Dieter
Maurizio Marini wrote: > I have lost my son's Fedora 22 :( > I did the insane step to change Desktop theme from > Fedora twenty two > to Aria > to have a feel of its usability, I logout after change. > Cursor stopped on right corner. > I shut down the notebook with power taste. > When back, after

Re: Update on the KDE KF5 build boondoggle

2015-11-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Mark Haney wrote: > I was all prepared to upgrade my F22 KDE laptop to F23 when I got the > kf5-filesystem warning when trying to download the upgrade files. I did > some digging and found a couple of previous posts (and the bug report) > about the issue, but wasn't able to get a complete, curren

Re: one click is not enough anymore

2015-12-19 Thread Rex Dieter
Maurizio Marini wrote: > after one of last update, sorry I dunno which one, let's say by 2 days and > I update every day, I have to click more than 1 time on windows on > kde plasma panel. > Often double click is enough. > Am I the only one, here, to have this issue? > -m You may want this update

Re: Users cannot log in using sddm on Fedora 23

2015-12-19 Thread Rex Dieter
Andrej Podzimek wrote: > Hello! > > After a Fedora 23 installation, users can't log in with sddm. A "login > failed" message is displayed by sddm, sometimes preceded by a short switch > to the tty and back. Anything recorded in these users' ~/.xsession-errors ? -- Rex -- users mailing list u

Re: Users cannot log in using sddm on Fedora 23

2015-12-19 Thread Rex Dieter
Andrej Podzimek wrote: After a Fedora 23 installation, users can't log in with sddm. A "login failed" message is displayed by sddm, sometimes preceded by a short switch to the tty and back. >>> >>> Anything recorded in these users' ~/.xsession-errors ? >> >> No. :-( Nothing at all,

Re: Users cannot log in using sddm on Fedora 23

2015-12-19 Thread Rex Dieter
Lester M Petrie wrote: > KDM is still available in KDE F23. I use it because I have to be able to > configure the login screen, and I didn't find anyway of doing that with > SDDM. configure the login screen... how? See 'man sddm.conf' for what can be configured -- Rex -- users mailing list u

Re: Users cannot log in using sddm on Fedora 23

2015-12-22 Thread Rex Dieter
Andrej Podzimek wrote: > This is utterly frustrating. :-( I'd like to understand what's wrong here. > Does anyone have a working sddm that logs users into KDE 5 with SELinux > enabled on Fedora 23? If so, what log messages does it produce? Yes. audit logs? Dec 21 11:13:54 localhost audit: USER_

Re: Missing Component in KDE System Settings

2016-01-08 Thread Rex Dieter
Stephen Morris wrote: > Can anyone tell me what has happened to the KDE System Settings addin > that allows customization of the Display Manager login interface in F23? Do you have sddm-kcm package installed? (if not, get it) -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: Missing Component in KDE System Settings

2016-01-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Stephen Morris wrote: > On 09/01/16 09:58, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Stephen Morris wrote: >> >>> Can anyone tell me what has happened to the KDE System Settings addin >>> that allows customization of the Display Manager login interface in F23? >> Do you have sd

Re: Fedora 23 KDE Desktop sharing

2016-02-10 Thread Rex Dieter
Gary Baribault wrote: > Hello All, > > I've been running Fedore for years, and it used to be I could just > walk the menus and share my desktop. That doesn't seem to work any more. > I've googled until my fingers bled... I can get VNCServer up and running > but when I access it from another m

Re: Google messed up :)

2016-02-15 Thread Rex Dieter
jd1008 wrote: > Downloaded google-earth-stable_current_x86_64.rpm from google > and tried to install it, got > Error: Transaction check error: >file /usr/bin from install of google-earth-stable-7.1.4.1529-0.x86_64 > conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.2-32.fc22.x86_64 google has b

Re: Tracker-WARNING **: Could not create FTS update statement: unknown tokenizer: TrackerTokenizer

2016-03-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Neal Becker wrote: > my syslog is getting spammed sensless with: > > Mar 3 09:24:29 nbecker2 org.freedesktop.Tracker1: (tracker-store:1854): > Tracker-WARNING **: Could not create FTS update statement: unknown > tokenizer: TrackerTokenizer > > What's causing this and how do I stop it? Should b

Re: KDE autostarting app

2016-03-07 Thread Rex Dieter
Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > Hi, > > I keep having Dolphin autostarting on login in KDE (but not in Cinnamon) > but I can't see where this behaviour is saved. At least it isn't in KDE > autostart. Any ideas? Was dolphin running when you logged out? (if so, it's restoring your previous session)

anyone (still) using kdm?

2016-03-11 Thread Rex Dieter
I am considering finally EOL'ing kdm in time for fedora 24, anyone still interested in keeping it alive? -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http:

Re: anyone (still) using kdm?

2016-03-11 Thread Rex Dieter
Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/11/2016 12:48 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> I am considering finally EOL'ing kdm in time for fedora 24, anyone still >> interested in keeping it alive? > > I would think that most people using KDE are using it. How popular is > KDE under Fedora?

Re: anyone (still) using kdm?

2016-03-11 Thread Rex Dieter
Ed Greshko wrote: > > > On 03/12/16 07:32, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Sat, 2016-03-12 at 07:31 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> Is there a bugzilla for that issue? >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317066 > > Humm This is a newly opened bugzilla based on your comment in

Re: anyone (still) using kdm?

2016-03-12 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 18:22 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: >> In asking them for a status update today, they reported the issue >> fixed, >> arguably due to a bug triaging failure on their part, in that it was >> reported again in a mu

Re: conflict installing i686 version of "qt" on x86_64

2016-03-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 03/14/2016 07:18 PM, Christian Groessler wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to install the 32-bit version of QT on a x86_64 system (for >> Skype, their Linux version seems to be quite outdated). >> >> I'm getting this error: >> >> -- >> # dnf

Re: anyone (still) using kdm?

2016-03-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Stephen Morris wrote: > I am currently using SDDM following recommendations, but the startup > performance and user display of SDDM are atrocious. What is unclear is > whether its an upstream issue or a Fedora issue. It's a theming issue. Feel free to use a sddm theme that does not include us

Re: conflict installing i686 version of "qt" on x86_64

2016-03-20 Thread Rex Dieter
Christian Groessler wrote: > But isn't this a bug that I can have krb5-libs-1.14.1-1 and > krb5-libs-1.14-9 installed at the same time? Yes, but that can happen for a variety of real-life reasons, but usually by updates installing and the transaction getting aborted/terminated early, either by

Re: Fedora 23 Apper display garbled

2016-04-03 Thread Rex Dieter
Mayavimmer wrote: > Hello list, this is my first question on Fedora lists. Gentle guiding > appreciated. > > Problem: when I run Apper the progress information, such as "Downloading > gcc" and similar, is a bit garbled. It seems that it writes > "Downloading" first, then overwrites it with "Downl

Re: Skipping packages with broken dependencies...

2016-04-15 Thread Rex Dieter
Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > Hello, Everyone > I just attempted to run "dnf upgrade" on my system (which is running > Fedora 23. Fresh install, not an upgrade from another version.) > > I will let the output of "dnf upgrade" speak for itself: > >> [root@afolkey2 ~]# dnf upgrade >> Last metadata exp

Re: Blank screen after 5 minutes idle

2016-04-19 Thread Rex Dieter
Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm running Fedora/KDE 23 on a ThinkPad T510 laptop. > If I leave the laptop open but idle for about 5 minutes > the screen goes blank, and I see no way to "wake" it. Normally the screen blank/dimming should stop when you press a key or move the mouse. Otherwise, you can

Re: Is there a way to upgrade a 32bit fedora34 installation to a 64bit Fedora24?

2016-06-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Joachim Backes wrote: > does anybody know a simple way to upgrade a 32bit fedora24 workstation > to a 64bit fedora24 workstation without a complete system reinstall? short answer: no -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https:/

Re: Is there a way to upgrade a 32bit fedora34 installation to a 64bit Fedora24?

2016-06-28 Thread Rex Dieter
Joachim Backes wrote: > On 06/28/16 14:07, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Joachim Backes wrote: >> >>> does anybody know a simple way to upgrade a 32bit fedora24 workstation >>> to a 64bit fedora24 workstation without a complete system reinstall? >> >> short

Re: systemd vs. autofs/nfs

2016-07-28 Thread Rex Dieter
David A. De Graaf wrote: > systemd and autofs/nfs are at war and have been ever since systemd > appeared. > > Specifically, if machine A has an open connection to machine B > and B goes down or become inaccessible, then A cannot shutdown. > A's shutdown sequence hangs, waiting for B to respond to

Re: rpm rebuilt fails

2016-08-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to recompile the package: > qcad-3.15.2.0-2.fc24.src.rpm > I did rpm -ivh > and then: > rpmbuild -bb qcad.spec --clean > but I get an error: > error: Failed build dependencies: > pkgconfig(QtWebKit) is needed by qcad-3.15.2.0-2.fc24.i686 > while pkgconfi

Re: brightness

2016-09-03 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick Dupre wrote: > How can I manage the brightness of my laptop ? > xbacklight -get (or -set) > does not work. xbacklight should work, if not, there's a bug somewhere (I'd encourage you to report it). -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subs

Re: a stop job is running....

2016-09-17 Thread Rex Dieter
Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 23:40:19 +0200 > François Patte wrote: > >> Why theses messages? > > Because systemd has a gazillion bugs like this In cases like this in general, it's not systemd, but the individual services that have bugs. In this particular case, it's the user sess

Re: Good article on systemd

2016-09-30 Thread Rex Dieter
Sam Varshavchik wrote: > ... This type of an intentional blind spot is quite typical, > inside the systemd reality distortion field. Comments like that are neither considerate or respectful, and are not welcome in the fedora community. https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct I encourage any moder

Re: Good article on systemd

2016-10-04 Thread Rex Dieter
Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 01 October 2016, Ed Greshko sent: >> Maybe the point Rex was making was simply that discussion could be had >> and frustrations could be vented but minus the Ad Hominem attacks? > > Dunno. There is no dunno here, it is clear our community does not condone pers

Re: qt

2016-11-06 Thread Rex Dieter
Patrick Dupre wrote: > Yes, > rpm -q qt-devel > qt-devel-4.8.7-18.fc24.x86_64 > > Even after a dnf reinstall qt-devel, > I still have the issue: > > which qmake > /usr/bin/which: no qmake in Use /usr/bin/qmake-qt4 or /qt4/bin/qmake -- Rex ___ users m

Re: f23 :: kde and qt updates broken

2016-12-10 Thread Rex Dieter
Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > Hi! It would seem that the configs for the qt and kde updates were broken > .. trying to update i have this : Should be fixed by: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-22b09070a2 -- Rex ___ users mailing list -- u

Re: Installing MATE

2012-09-17 Thread Rex Dieter
Bill Davidsen wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 09/17/2012 08:29 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> I got some questions about MATE and wanted to install it and actually >>> see how it worked. I started with a machine on fc17, which had Cinnamon >>> and XFCE installed. After doing the yum install, I don'

Re: Konqueror: cannot connect to X server

2012-10-21 Thread Rex Dieter
Jim wrote: > Fedora 17 > > Apps won't start as SU , because they cannot connect to X server. > I can echo $DISPLAY , I get :0.0 as SU. use something like kdesu instead (or ssh -Y localhost or setup xauth manually). -- rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe o

Re: A wallet mystery

2012-11-06 Thread Rex Dieter
Timothy Murphy wrote: > > First of all, KWalletManager does not seem to do anything > on my Fedora-17/KDE laptop; > I mean nothing seems to appear, or is listed in "top". It's a systray applet, and unfortunately when no wallet is currently open, it's hidden by default. Click the little ^ near

Re: K3B , Ripping DVD's

2012-11-12 Thread Rex Dieter
Jim wrote: > "k3b uses Transcode to rip Video DVDs . Please make sure it is installed" > Were do I get this Transcode from ? rpmfusion.org -- rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Phonon GST/XINE (was Amarok)

2012-11-14 Thread Rex Dieter
jarmo wrote: > Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:50:43 +0200 > jarmo kirjoitti: > >> It seems, that problems leads into phonon-gst combination. Seem also, > > OK, now solved with > http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/ Or use rpmfusion.org, see also: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/MP3_on_Fedo

Re: Phonon GST/XINE (was Amarok)

2012-11-14 Thread Rex Dieter
Rex Dieter wrote: > jarmo wrote: > >> Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:50:43 +0200 >> jarmo kirjoitti: >> >>> It seems, that problems leads into phonon-gst combination. Seem also, >> >> OK, now solved with >> http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluen

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