VDQ fullscreen

2009-12-02 Thread BeartoothHOS
One machine has the background pic switched to fullscreen (I think; I never go near putting anything into that.), or at any rate doesn't show either my bottom panel or my left panel. How do I get out of this display and get my panels back?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not

Re: F12 Lost Gnome Panels

2009-12-03 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:52:26 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Beartooth bearto...@comcast.net wrote: I don't know what I did that made my panels go away -- but I need them back. All I see is the bare desktop, with launchers for Computer,

Re: F12 Lost Gnome Panels

2009-12-04 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:36:52 -0500, William Witt wrote: [] This is probably the problem. A partial copy or corrupted .gconf directory. So try this: -After a reboot at the login screen press Crtl+Alt F2 -Log in text mode with your user acct -issue the following commands mv

OT?? Refusal to boot from external USB

2009-12-06 Thread BeartoothHOS
My #3 PC is a handed-down Dell PowerEdge sc1420, now running F11, which began life as a server for a list I help manage. (The list is now hosted elsewhere.) I call it BBB (Big Black Beast), since it's so much larger and blacker than any of my others. I also have a Lite-On

Re: OT?? Refusal to boot from external USB

2009-12-06 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:08:49 -0600, Mikkel wrote: Try doing a USB boot instead of a DVD boot. I suspect that the BIOS does not see the USB DVD-RW drive as a DVD drive. I thought I had, but I rebooted and went through everything, line by line. No joy. -- Beartooth Staffwright,

Re: OT?? Refusal to boot from external USB

2009-12-06 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:46:19 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: On 12/06/2009 11:46 AM, BeartoothHOS wrote: [] Afaict, Anaconda never gets launched from the DVD. What am I doing wrong? Do I just need to get the Constantine option out of there? If so, is it enough

preupgrade messages

2009-12-09 Thread BeartoothHOS
I tried yum update preupgrade, as usual, and got nothing, as usual; then I tried plain preupgrade -- and got a bunch of messages; after a while, I got back to that machine (still without telling it to go ahead), and found a lot more messages. Maybe they'll tell somebody something.

Re: Wine (?) spoiling F12 boot : MITIGATED

2009-12-27 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:53:22 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: BeartoothThpd30 wrote: Follow-ups set to gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general [] Somewhere among all the above, I got disgusted with the display, which turned out to be 800x600 -- despite being connected directly (no

Re: Wine (?) spoiling F12 boot : MITIGATED

2009-12-28 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:22:17 +, I BeartoothHOS wrote: [] Between your post and Tom Horsley's, I happened to think of changing the driver -- and did, from nv to vesa. I don't now recall exactly what all else I did, but I do remember an oddity. At one point, I

Dictionaries Spellcheckers

2009-12-29 Thread BeartoothHOS
I put a dictionary on my panel -- one of two in the Main Menu; and I *think* the spellcheckers for gedit and alpine are different. I'm forever having to add entries to the latter two, and would to the dictionary on the panel if I could. Is there one single most compendious

small gripe -- for Fedora, or KDE, or ....?

2009-12-29 Thread BeartoothHOS
I run Gnome, and have a strong if irrational allergy to KDE in general; but there are several apps (such as Konqueror for man pages, and K3B) that I use so much that I make sure to get them even if I have to install all of KDE to do it. I might well use, or at least try, several more,

Re: small gripe -- for Fedora, or KDE, or ....?

2009-12-30 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:37:02 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: BeartoothHOS wrote: But for as long as I can remember, there have been two kinds of entries in the Main menu: ones that will tell you what they are or do if you hover the cursor over them -- and ones that belong to KDE. Why

Re: Wine (?) spoiling F12 boot : MITIGATED

2009-12-30 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:12:10 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: [...] What does System-admin-display say in the display tab? I find that I need to manually set that sometimes. I think I said system-config-display the first time, had the wrong WM in front of me. On the first tab

Re: small gripe .... -- bug filed

2009-12-31 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:14:09 -0500, I Beartooth Comcast wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Marko Vojinovic wrote: [...] So essentially, this is a bug in Gnome, and you should report it against Gnome. What is sad is the fact that Gnome does not follow the agreed spec. After some

Re: Installation plays hardball

2010-01-01 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:17:40 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: On Thursday 31 December 2009, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Somewhat OT: IMHO one thing that makes installing Fedora harder than it needs to be for the majority of users is the default use of LVM. I've been using Fedora since before it was

Re: Name of fedora lists - you're kidding right?

2010-01-01 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:18:07 -0500, Mail Lists wrote: On 12/30/2009 06:27 PM, Mail Lists wrote: I'd suggest something like: Fedora Users Or perhaps: Fedora General Fwiw, that's what Gmane calls it. (Well, really gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general -- but that's the part

Re: Email Hosting Recommendations?

2010-01-03 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:06:05 +, Sam Sharpe wrote: [] If you want to pay for Support, then something like here: http://www.rackspace.com/email_hosting/rackspace_email (Full Disclosure: I work in another division of that Company) Do they support Alpine??