Re: [Discuss] runlevel 5 service cannot connect to display

2013-01-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/30/2013 07:33 PM, Rich Pieri wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:37:08 -0800 William Chan wic...@adobe.com wrote: Actually, the service is just a JMS consumer, it doesn't require UI. When it receive a message, it calls an external application which needs X11. There is actually nothing shows

Re: [Discuss] runlevel 5 service cannot connect to display

2013-01-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of William Chan I have my service #chkconfig 5 99 37 since my service needs x11 My service subscribes to Messaging Queue and makes call to an application which uses x11. If you're

Re: [Discuss] runlevel 5 service cannot connect to display

2013-01-31 Thread William Chan
Thanks to all. Can you tell me a bit more about the VNC approach? On 1/31/13 7:10 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: On 01/30/2013 07:33 PM, Rich Pieri wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:37:08 -0800 William Chan wic...@adobe.com wrote: Actually, the service is just a JMS consumer, it doesn't

Re: [Discuss] runlevel 5 service cannot connect to display

2013-01-31 Thread Rich Pieri
On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:25:39 -0800 William Chan wic...@adobe.com wrote: Thanks to all. Can you tell me a bit more about the VNC approach? I'd rather not. VNC is a great tool, but one thing it isn't is the solution to bad design. Your design will fail in production. You'll be better off

Re: [Discuss] runlevel 5 service cannot connect to display

2013-01-31 Thread William Chan
Got it! Thanks On 1/31/13 10:46 AM, Rich Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:25:39 -0800 William Chan wic...@adobe.com wrote: Thanks to all. Can you tell me a bit more about the VNC approach? I'd rather not. VNC is a great tool, but one thing it isn't is the solution

[Discuss] Fedora MP4 Plugin

2013-01-31 Thread aldo albanese
Hi, What would you suggest as of a program to play MPEG-4 in Fedora.  I get this message, the movie player requires additional plugin.  The following plugin is required MPEG-4 Video decoder. Thanks, Aldo  ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] Fedora MP4 Plugin

2013-01-31 Thread Tom Metro
aldo albanese wrote: What would you suggest as of a program to play MPEG-4 in Fedora. VLC, mplayer, ... -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/

Re: [Discuss] Fedora MP4 Plugin

2013-01-31 Thread Rich Pieri
VLC is my go-to for media playback when the OS doesn't support anything better. -- Rich P. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Fedora MP4 Plugin

2013-01-31 Thread John Abreau
As others have said, both VLC and Mplayer handle most video media. I remember a few cases in the past where mplayer played something that vlc couldn't, and a few where vlc played something that mplayer couldn't, but both can generally play almost everything. I personally prefer mplayer, because I

Re: [Discuss] runlevel 5 service cannot connect to display

2013-01-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of William Chan Thanks to all. Can you tell me a bit more about the VNC approach? I'm not totally sure we have enough info, but here's a stab at it: Suppose you're using

Re: [Discuss] runlevel 5 service cannot connect to display

2013-01-31 Thread John Abreau
I've always found Exceed to be clumsy and cumbersome. I found a free-as-in-beer alternative long ago that's much lighter-weight and works well with putty; it's called Mocha-X, and it runs as a service in the system tray on XP, and the equivalent on Windows 7.

[Discuss] vCalendar preferences?

2013-01-31 Thread John Abreau
A few months ago I wrote a cgi script to generate a vCalendar form of the BLU web calendar, and I configured it to display only current and future events, i.e., evt_date = 'now'::date http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar.ics The BLU calendar currently contains 19 years of events, and I figured

Re: [Discuss] Fedora MP4 Plugin

2013-01-31 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 1/31/2013 3:26 PM, aldo albanese wrote: Hi, What would you suggest as of a program to play MPEG-4 in Fedora. I get this message, the movie player requires additional plugin. The following plugin is required MPEG-4 Video decoder. If you're using the Gnome-ish tools,

Re: [Discuss] runlevel 5 service cannot connect to display

2013-01-31 Thread Matthew Gillen
If you don't need the UI, then you can convince java to not require a display. Google for java headless to get pointers. Matt On 1/30/2013 4:37 PM, William Chan wrote: Actually, the service is just a JMS consumer, it doesn't require UI. When it receive a message, it calls an external

Re: [Discuss] runlevel 5 service cannot connect to display

2013-01-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of John Abreau I've always found Exceed to be clumsy and cumbersome. I found a free-as-in-beer alternative long ago that's much lighter-weight and works well with putty; it's