Latest Sunbird is Broken -- Patch Available

2010-01-24 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
The latest version of the sunbird calendar fails to start giving the message: $ Sunbird Cannot find Calendar runtime directory. Exiting. This is reported in bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558307 with a very simple patch. jon -- users mailing list

What is IP Address ::1 ?

2010-03-17 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Fetchmail produced a number of errors like: connection to localhost:smtp [::1/25] failed: Connection refused. These appeared to be caused by this /etc/hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 ::1 localhost

Troubles starting fetchmail from init scripts

2010-03-19 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I have a little script to start fetchmail, which is activated in rc.local. It runs perfectly when started from a root login; but it fails when started from rc.local. Here is the info: === Scripts Start === $ more rc.local fetchmail-start

Re: Troubles starting fetchmail from init scripts

2010-03-19 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 15:02 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: On 03/19/2010 02:52 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I have a little script to start fetchmail, which is activated in rc.local. It runs perfectly when started from a root login; but it fails when started from rc.local. Here is the info

Re: Troubles starting fetchmail from init scripts

2010-03-19 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 14:39 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 14:08 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 15:02 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: On 03/19/2010 02:52 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I have a little script to start fetchmail, which is activated

Re: Troubles starting fetchmail from init scripts

2010-03-19 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 15:02 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: You could also start it without the su by adding it to your own crontab: @reboot sleep 5 fetchmail This works fine, and looks like the right way to do it. No need to mess with the startup scripts. Thanks again - jon -- users

File types in gnome

2010-05-04 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
How does Gnome determine the type of a file. The type can be discovered by right clicking on the file icon in Nautilus, and then selecting the tab Open With. I suspect that the type is determined by the type as reported by the file command, by the file's extension, and by tables of mime types in

Re: File types in gnome

2010-05-05 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 23:52 +0200, Mohamed El Morabity wrote: 2010/5/4 Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net How does Gnome determine the type of a file... if I remember well, Nautilus relies on the MIME type of the file (as given for exemple by the « file » command, which uses

How to get groff to produce letter size output?

2010-05-05 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
The only documentation I can find says that groff will do this if it finds the environment variable PAGE=letter or LC_PAPER=letter. But I get A4 output anyway, even after setting both to paper. Any ideas how to get U.S. letter output? Thanks - jon -- users mailing list

RPMs in FC13 with wrong or missing release

2010-06-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
There are a number of packages in the FC13 repos that have wrong or missing release IDs. For example: evolution-remove-duplicates-0.0.4-4.fc12.x86_64 which is in fact intended for evolution-2.28, and not for evolution-2.30, which is included in FC13. (And so it doesn't work) There are

Re: Correct instructions for installing NVidia proprietary driver on Fedora 13?

2010-06-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 18:47 -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: OK. The good news is that the RPM was successfully built. The bad news is that the output of rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.33noframebuffer-1.x86_64.rpm is as follows: [r...@localhost x86_64]# rpm -ivh

Re: RPMs in FC13 with wrong or missing release

2010-06-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 13:24 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 13:05 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: There are a number of packages in the FC13 repos that have wrong or missing release IDs. For example: evolution-remove-duplicates-0.0.4-4.fc12.x86_64 which is in fact

Ugly little hand

2010-06-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
The cursor that displays over desktop icons and links in Firefox, among other places -- a little black hand pointing up -- is really ugly. (At least I think so.) How can it be changed? Appearance Preferences-Theme-Customize Theme allows changing the default cursor but not others.

Re: Ugly little hand [Solved]

2010-06-02 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 19:55 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: The cursor that displays over desktop icons and links in Firefox, among other places -- a little black hand pointing up -- is really ugly. (At least I think so.) How can it be changed? Appearance Preferences-Theme-Customize

Setting gnome-terminal size

2010-06-04 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
How can I get gnome-terminal to always start with size 90x30? It's easy enough to make this happen when it's started from an icon, etc. just invoke it with something like gnome-terminal --geometry=90x30. But when I create a second terminal using: Rt-click (anywhere in the terminal)-Open

Re: Setting gnome-terminal size

2010-06-05 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:45:19 -0700 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: How can I get gnome-terminal to always start with size 90x30? On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 07:22 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: the usage of gconf-editor gives you the right solution: 1. start gconf-editor (you installed it?) 2. goto

Audacity-1.3.12 vs Fedora-13

2010-06-05 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Has anyone got audacity version 1.3.12 running under Fedora-13. More exactly, the version I'm interested in is compiled on a Fedora-13 system from: audacity-minsrc-1.3.12-beta.tar.bz2 It doesn't recognize any audio I/O devices, and so doesn't work. A version built from the same source

Googleearth segfault on startup using nvidia kmod driver

2010-06-06 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Googleearth has started to crash on startup now that I have installed the kmod Nvidia drivers. It ran (though slowly) when the nouveau drivers were being installed. I have installed all the packages recommended in a recent discussion about this on the list, following the advice at:

Invoking a nonexistent application in F13 causes a pause

2010-06-06 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
If I invoke a nonexistent application in gnome-terminal on a system running F13 this happens: $ sdf Command not found. about 1/3 second pause $ If yum is running this happens: $ sdf Command not found. * Waiting for package manager lock...

Debugging 32-bit applications on an x86_64 system

2010-06-18 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I'm trying to debug inspect googleearth (a 32-bit application) using gdb on an x86_64 system. Gdb starts OK, but when I attempt to run googleearth, it reports that a large number of debuginfo packages are missing with messages like: Missing separate debuginfo for /lib/libexpat.so.1

Re: Debugging 32-bit applications on an x86_64 system

2010-06-19 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Thanks very much for your reply. Detailed comments follow. On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 12:48 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net wrote: I'm trying to debug inspect googleearth (a 32-bit application) using gdb on an x86_64 system

Re: Evolution Update Fails

2010-06-26 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 21:32 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 18:30 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: The system has informed me via the Update Applet that evolution needs to be upgraded to 2.30.2-1, but the upgrade fails with these messages: could not do simulate

Re: k3b, wodim, or what? [The website by cdrecord's author]

2010-07-09 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 18:20 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 17:01 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: I sometimes backup some data files to dual layer DVD using k3b. On fedora 13, I notice that k3b seems to try and use wodim by default to do this. On previous versions it used

Ugly Text

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Text to be printed by Firefox has disastrously bad text layout, and has had bad layout for years. An example is attached. The only way to get text well laid out is to copy it into a word processor (I use Open Office) and to print it out from there. Who else has noticed this? Is there a known

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 22:04 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: On 11/08/10 21:46, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Text to be printed by Firefox has disastrously bad text layout, and has had bad layout for years. An example is attached. The only way to get text well laid out is to copy it into a word

Re: Google Earth on x64

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 04:18 -0700, spmirowski wrote: I am on Fedora 13 x64. Has anyone gotten Google Earth to work well. I never got it working on 12 or 13 x64. Had it working 11. I get the error: Google Earth has caught signal 11. The latest drivers from Nvidia:

Re: Ugly Text

2010-08-12 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 22:59 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 17:34 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: The link is: http://www.tnr.com/print/article/politics/76822/the-look-time That actually looks

Google Earth vs. GPL

2010-08-14 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I notice that Google Earth is distributed with a copy of the GPL. It's in the Google-Earth program folder resulting from the installation process. Does anyone know what parts of Google Earth are covered by the GPL? Thanks - jon -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Nvidia proprietary drivers vs. Fedora xorg packages

2010-08-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
If you use the Nvidia proprietary drivers (as I do) be aware that installing some of the xorg*.rpm packages can break these drivers in subtle ways. In particular, xorg-x11-server-Xorg.*.rpm contains the file /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so, which conflicts with a file with the same

Re: Nvidia proprietary drivers vs. Fedora xorg packages

2010-08-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 17:56 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: If you use the Nvidia proprietary drivers (as I do) be aware that installing some of the xorg*.rpm packages can break these drivers in subtle ways. In particular, xorg-x11-server-Xorg.*.rpm contains the file

What's the Best Firefox-64 Multimedia Plugin?

2010-09-02 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Flash is not available for Firefox-64. But there are several frameworks that play (just about) everything that Flash will, in particular mplayer, xine,and gstreamer. There are plugins for mozilla that rely on these frameworks: gstreamer via totem and mplayer. Probably also on xine. Are there

Latest Sunbird is Broken -- Patch Available

2010-09-12 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
The latest version of the sunbird calendar fails to start giving the message: $ Sunbird Cannot find Calendar runtime directory. Exiting. This is reported in bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633083 with a very simple patch. BTW: The same bug (mutatis

Latest Sunbird is Broken Again -- Patch Available

2010-11-02 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
The latest version of the sunbird calendar fails to start, giving the message: $ Sunbird Cannot find Calendar runtime directory. Exiting. This is reported in bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633083 with a very simple patch. BTW: The same bug (mutatis

Home icon on gnome panel

2010-11-24 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
After some unsuccessful attempts to put a Home icon on a Gnome panel, I came up with the following funky solution: put an application launcher to nautilus on the panel and change the icon appearance from the nautilus shell to home-like. Copying the Home icon from the desktop were unsuccessful.

Re: Home icon on gnome panel

2010-11-25 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 23:41 +1030, Tim wrote: On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 17:22 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: After some unsuccessful attempts to put a Home icon on a Gnome panel ... which you didn't outline. Did you try the obvious: Pick a home folder somewhere on the desktop, the one

Re: Home icon on gnome panel

2010-11-25 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 08:43 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 17:22 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: After some unsuccessful attempts to put a Home icon on a Gnome panel, I came up with the following funky solution: put an application launcher to nautilus on the panel

Cd to nonexistent directory in /proc

2011-06-17 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Investigating a hanging instance of googleearth (wich process number 3110), I noticed that it's possible to cd /proc/3110 while on the other hand ls /proc does not show 3110 as being in the proc directory. Any ideas what's going on? Thanks - jon -- users mailing list

Cd to nonexistent directory in /proc

2011-06-17 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Investigating a hanging instance of googleearth (wich process number 3110), I noticed that it's possible to cd /proc/3110 while on the other hand ls /proc does not show 3110 as being in the proc directory. Any ideas what's going on? Thanks - jon -- users mailing list

Re: Cd to nonexistent directory in /proc

2011-06-18 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 19:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 15:03 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Investigating a hanging instance of googleearth (wich process number 3110), I noticed that it's possible to cd /proc/3110 while on the other hand ls /proc

Can't control text size in Gnome-3

2011-07-09 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I have just upgraded from Fedora-13 to Fedora-15, and now font size for many of the functions in Gnome-3 can't be controlled, in particular the size of the pull-down menus and some of the window text in Evolution. The Text Size (Little Man)-Universal Access Settings-Seeing-Text size box

How setup fonts and themes for gnome applications on kde under Fedora 15

2011-07-19 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
How can the font size of gnome applications (in particular evolution) be controlled when they are being run under KDE? A method for carrying over the font (and theme) setup from KDE to gnome would be best, but an independent parallel method for font control of gnome applications would also be OK.

Re: How setup fonts and themes for gnome applications on kde under Fedora 15

2011-07-19 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 16:32 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:07:49 -0700 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: How can the font size of gnome applications (in particular evolution) be controlled when they are being run under KDE? The /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon has

Re: How setup fonts and themes for gnome applications on kde under Fedora 15

2011-07-19 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 02:06 +0300, Veeti Paananen wrote: How can the font size of gnome applications (in particular evolution) be controlled when they are being run under KDE? A method for carrying over the font (and theme) setup from KDE to gnome would be best, but an independent

KDE Notes can't be deleted

2011-11-10 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I have a number of tiny KDE Notes yellow boxes at the bottom of my screen, just above the panel, also a couple Konqueror icons. I can't figure out how to delete any of them. Right clicking on them brings up a menu with a number of options, including Delete, but it's greyed out. Also I have a

Need to change uid and gid

2011-11-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
In the process of upgrading from Fedora-15 to Fedora-16, my uid and gid have both been changed from 500 to 1000. I maintain a mirror of my system as backup using rsync, so in order for the mirroring to continue properly the uid and gid in the mirror filesystem have to be changed to match the main

Re: Need to change uid and gid

2011-11-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 18:08 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: On 11/11/2011 04:22 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: In the process of upgrading from Fedora-15 to Fedora-16, my uid and gid have both been changed from 500 to 1000. I maintain a mirror of my system as backup using rsync, so in order

Little Yellow Boxes

2011-11-12 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Ever since my upgrade to Fedora-16, whenever I center click on the background of KDE running the activity Search and Launch I get a small yellow box at the bottom of the screen, just above the panel. Does anyone know what these boxes are (i.e. what application they are associated with), or how to

Re: Little Yellow Boxes

2011-11-13 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 17:05 +, Martin Airs wrote: On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 18:40:20 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Ever since my upgrade to Fedora-16, whenever I center click on the background of KDE running the activity Search and Launch I get a small yellow box at the bottom of the screen

Re: Little Yellow Boxes

2011-11-13 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 18:38 +, Martin Airs wrote: On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 09:56:32 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Deleting a note isn't so easy; there's been a fair amount of discussion on the web about how to remove widgets, none of it informative. I would have thought that if a note is right

Re: Little Yellow Boxes

2011-11-14 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 00:04 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: On 11/13/2011 01:01 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: These little windows can't be resized or moved. This sounds like a KDE-specific issue. Have you checked their support forum for suggestions? Thanks. I have done so. jon -- users mailing

Re: bash update killed my shells

2011-11-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 20:31 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:49:32 +0100, MB (Maciek) wrote: A recent bash (that's my suspicion) update to bash-4.2.10-5.fc16.i686.rpm wiped 'almost clean' my /etc/shells, leaving only nologin and dash behind, breaking pkexec. Anyone

Re: bash update killed my shells

2011-11-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 21:27 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:54:54 -0800, JR (Jonathan) wrote: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-15725 Read through the comments. What *should* be in /etc/shells (by default)? Reading the comments gives

How to make temperature applet report in celsius

2011-11-21 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
The KDE temperature panel widget on my system reports the temperatures in degrees F. I would prefer it to report in degrees C, since all the literature about max safe temperature, etc. gives values in degrees C. How can the thermometer scale be controlled? System is Fedora-16 running on an

Two instances of Inbox, one as subfolder

2011-11-23 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I suddenly have two instances of my Inbox folder, one at the top level and the other as a subfolder of Drafts. The one at the top level appears to have everything that the one in Drafts does plus more mail that has come in since 9:00am today. A screenshot is attached. Any ideas about what

Re: Two instances of Inbox, one as subfolder

2011-11-23 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 19:19 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I suddenly have two instances of my Inbox folder, one at the top level and the other as a subfolder of Drafts... This was intended to be posted on the Evolution list. Sorry for the extra traffic. jon -- users mailing list users

Printing at 600 dpi makes everything twice as big

2011-11-29 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
When I print a page with Image Quality - Resolution at 300 dpi everything works fine, but when I print at Image Quality - Resolution at 600 dpi everything prints twice as large as it ought to with resolution (I believe) at 300 dpi. The page that's printed shows only the upper left quarter of the

Re: Printing at 600 dpi makes everything twice as big

2011-11-30 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 22:13 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: When I print a page with Image Quality - Resolution at 300 dpi everything works fine, but when I print at Image Quality - Resolution at 600 dpi everything prints twice as large as it ought to with resolution (I believe) at 300 dpi

Re: Printing at 600 dpi makes everything twice as big

2011-11-30 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 10:06 +, Tim Waugh wrote: On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 00:58 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Any suggestions? Could you please try a different driver? In particular, the Foomatic/hl1250 driver is the recommended driver for this model. Does that give you any better

Re: Printing at 600 dpi makes everything twice as big

2011-12-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 11:45 +, Tim Waugh wrote: On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 08:53 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I'm not sure exactly why I used the Gutenprint driver. As best I remember it, when I upgraded to Fedora-16, which was done with a full install on Nov. 9th, either Gutenprint

ld finds some libraries, but not others.

2011-12-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
A build is failing with the error cannot find library for libraries that are, in fact present on the system. I made a very simple test bed, consisting of the empty file conftest.c, which I attempt to compile and link with various libraries. All the libraries are in /usr/lib64. Sometimes the

ld finds some libraries, but not others (REVISED)

2011-12-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
A build is failing with the error cannot find library for libraries that are, in fact present on the system. I made a very simple test bed, consisting of the empty file conftest.c, which I attempt to compile and link with various libraries. All the libraries are in /usr/lib64. Sometimes the

Re: ld finds some libraries, but not others.

2012-01-22 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 09:24 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/15/2011 09:06 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: A build is failing with the error cannot findlibrary for libraries that are, in fact present on the system. I made a very simple test bed, consisting of the empty file conftest.c

Two versions of acpid installed

2013-11-20 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
My system seems to have versions 2.0.19-5 and 2.0.20-2 both installed. I thought that installing the later version would remove the earlier. And why doesn't yum report a conflict? Is this a problem? Can I simply remove the earlier version? # rpm -qa acpi\* acpid-2.0.19-5.fc19.x86_64

Thunderbird-lightning Version Incompatibility

2013-12-16 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
The current versions of thunderbird and thunderbird-lightning, namely * thunderbird-24.2.0-2 * thunderbird-lightning-2.6.2-3 don't seem to be compatible. My system's thunderbird-lightning calendar stopped working today in its first invocation since upgrading thunderbird. I was able

Cron vs. Whenjobs vs. Goaljobs

2013-12-17 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I'm interested in a replacement for cron which would allow me to run various cron jobs on demand, and mark them as having been run, so they won't be run again from the schedule. Looking through the Fedora repository, I noticed whenjobs, which looks like it may do the job (no pun intended). The

Re: Cron vs. Whenjobs vs. Goaljobs

2013-12-18 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 00:52 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net wrote: I'm interested in a replacement for cron which would allow me to run various cron jobs on demand, and mark them as having been

Acroread vs. ctrl/z

2013-12-19 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
When Adobe acroread is run from a terminal, ctrl/z doesn't suspend it. ^Z appears on the terminal, which hangs until acroread terminates itself or ctrl/c is pressed on the terminal. However $ acroread starts acroread in the background and ctrl/z suspends all other programs, as expected. System

Re: NetworkManager

2014-01-02 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 21:00 +0100, poma wrote: On 02.01.2014 13:24, Timothy Murphy wrote: In my view NM is ludicrously over-complicated, and steadily getting more complicated as more and more features are added. Au contraire. 'kde-plasma-nm' is the spitting image of both

Re: NetworkManager

2014-01-02 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 06:51 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/03/14 05:25, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: The problem, for me at least, with KDE's kde-plasma-nm is that it doesn't work, whereas Gnome's network-manager-applet works perfectly. I spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to get a laptop

Re: NetworkManager

2014-01-02 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 13:18 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/03/14 13:03, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Pretty much the same as what I did, except that I have a hidden network, so I had to enter its name. Now that I have connected once using network-manager-applet, kde-plasma-nm appears to work

Gnucash vs. Kmymoney

2014-01-22 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
It looks like Kmymoney is based on Gnucash, judging from today's update notes. Is this correct? I'm trying to choose between them for keeping track of my own finances, and this may simplify the choice. Any further comments on either program are welcome. jon -- users mailing list

Controlling Appearance of GTK+ applications in KDE

2014-02-08 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
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 Gnome applications (in particular

# systemctl start nfs.service works -- # systemctl enable nfs.service doesn't

2014-02-09 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Setting up an nfs server on a laptop running Fedora-20, I get the following perplexing results: # systemctl start nfs.service # systemctl enable nfs.service Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory Sure enough, as promised, nfs works up to the next reboot,

Re: Controlling Appearance of GTK+ applications in KDE

2014-02-09 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 17:25 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: 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

Re: # systemctl start nfs.service works -- # systemctl enable nfs.service doesn't [SOLVED]

2014-02-09 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 17:55 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Setting up an nfs server on a laptop running Fedora-20, I get the following perplexing results: # systemctl start nfs.service # systemctl enable nfs.service Failed to issue method call: No such file

Re: # systemctl start nfs.service works -- # systemctl enable nfs.service doesn't [NOW UNSOLVED]

2014-02-10 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 17:55 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Setting up an nfs server on a laptop running Fedora-20, I get the following perplexing results: # systemctl start nfs.service # systemctl enable nfs.service Failed to issue method call: No such file

Re: # systemctl start nfs.service works -- # systemctl enable nfs.service doesn't [SOLVED AGAIN]

2014-02-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 10:28 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/10/14 09:55, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Setting up an nfs server on a laptop running Fedora-20, I get the following perplexing results: # systemctl start nfs.service # systemctl enable nfs.service Failed

Two row system tray

2014-02-26 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
My system tray used to have two rows of small icons. Now it has one row: items that hide themselves into the tray are small and not resizeable (Thunderbird, Qalculate, Knemo); native widgets are large and resizeable (Klipper, Kmix, Device Notifier, Network Management). The Pager and Task Manager

Re: Two row system tray

2014-02-26 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 22:02 +, Colin J Thomson wrote: On Wed 26 February 2014 12:36:56 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: My system tray used to have two rows of small icons. Now it has one row: items that hide themselves into the tray are small and not resizeable (Thunderbird, Qalculate, Knemo

Re: Two row system tray

2014-02-26 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 06:38 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/27/14 06:30, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: This only makes things worse. The large (native) icons get larger, while the icons put into the tray by applications stay the same size. A screenshot is attached. The tray does not become

Coding Practice [was Re: Serious OpenSSL vulnerability]

2014-04-08 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
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-eavesdropping/ This is potentially very

Re: A Software Center for Fedora? [ somewhat OT ]

2013-05-19 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 18:58 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: On 18 May 2013 18:27, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Any GNOME application is pretty much the same as any GTK application Agreed. gnome-software just requires gtk3-devel at the moment so it'll work fine in LXDE/XFCE and will

Re: A Software Center for Fedora? [ somewhat OT ]

2013-05-23 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 14:40 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net wrote: On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 18:58 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: On 18 May 2013 18:27, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Any GNOME application is pretty

Re: A Software Center for Fedora? [ somewhat OT ]

2013-05-23 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 12:04 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: On 05/23/2013 12:00 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 14:40 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net wrote: On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 18:58 +0100, Richard

Problems running emacs under Fedora-19

2013-07-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
When I attempt to run emacs it fails: $ emacs emacs: error while loading shared libraries: libgnutls.so.26: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory $ rpm -q emacs emacs-24.2-19.fc18.x86_64 It appears that emacs hasn't been updated to the

Re: Problems running emacs under Fedora-19

2013-07-12 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 09:01 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: On 07/12/13 08:35, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: When I attempt to run emacs it fails: $ emacs emacs: error while loading shared libraries: libgnutls.so.26: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Long time to report a crash

2013-07-13 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I have just reported a crash in Libre Office. The system took about an hour for it. Is this normal. I don't remember submitting crash reports taking so long. The bulk of the time was spent in Generating backtrace, though Initializing virtual root also took a fair while. Here's the log:

Where does gnome-abrt report its crashes to?

2013-07-13 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I recently submitted a crash report using the gnome-abrt application/applet and would like to file a comment to it. Which bugzilla did gnome-abrt submit it to? I had assumed that the gnome-abrt user interface would tell me, or I would get an email from the bugzilla; but neither has happened.

Re: Where does gnome-abrt report its crashes to?

2013-07-14 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2013-07-13 at 20:53 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/13/2013 06:02 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I recently submitted a crash report using the gnome-abrt application/applet and would like to file a comment to it. Which bugzilla did gnome-abrt submit it to? I had assumed that the gnome

Problem upgrading nvidia in Fedora-19

2013-07-18 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
A version conflict is making it impossible to upgrade my system to the latest kernel and/or native nvidia drivers. Usually these conflicts clear up after a few days, when the repositories come into sync but this one has been around for quite a while. The system is a 4-processor x86_64

Simultaneous graphic and non graphic display at boot

2013-07-26 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
A couple of odd changes in the boot display recently. I run the non-graphics version; that is /etc/default/grub contains the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 SYSFONT=True KEYTABLE=us rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Note that the line does not contain rhgb quiet. The issues are

Firefox/Flash vs. Pulseaudio; Audio can't be directed to the desired device

2013-09-03 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Pulseaudio can control which output device receives main audio output via kmix-Mixer-Settings-Audio Setup-... which invokes Phonon. At this point select the audio stream you want to divert, Prefer the device you want to receive the stream to the top and Apply. This sends the audio

Re: Firefox/Flash vs. Pulseaudio; Audio can't be directed to the desired device

2013-09-04 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 08:32 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: On 4 September 2013 06:49, Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net wrote: Pulseaudio can control which output device receives main audio output via kmix-Mixer-Settings-Audio Setup-... which invokes Phonon. At this point select

Freedesktop.org vs. LibreOffice.org

2013-09-08 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
What is the connection, if any, between Freedesktop.org and LibreOffice.org? I have found a small bug in Libre Office Calc and have reported it to the Freedesktop bugzilla, where it is languishing. Should it have been submitted to LibreOffice instead? Would it be extremely rude to submit it to

Thunderbird Lightning right click broken

2013-10-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
When I right click on a date (not an event) in Lightning, many of the options are greyed out (and don't work). Exactly: New Event: Grey/inactive (NOT Normal), Double click works properly New Task: Grey/inactive (NOT Normal) Previous Week: Black/active Next Week:

Re: Thunderbird Lightning right click broken [Solved]

2013-10-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 09:15 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: When I right click on a date (not an event) in Lightning, many of the options are greyed out (and don't work) ... My own stupidity. Details on request. jon -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Setting a bookmark in kmplayer

2013-10-21 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Kmplayer is advertised to be able to set a bookmark at a position partway through a file. It should be simple, but I can't figure out how to do it. Any advice? Thanks - jon -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Many open windows make Firefox scroll **very** slowly

2013-11-05 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
As I open more windows or tabs in Firefox it becomes slower and slower, finally unusable. It can take as long as 20 seconds to scroll the screen, which tends to scroll in large jumps, even when smooth scroll is enabled. The problem is worse when smooth scrolling is enabled, but is bad enough

Re: Many open windows make Firefox scroll **very** slowly [a little OT]

2013-11-05 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 07:02 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: As I open more windows or tabs in Firefox it becomes slower and slower, finally unusable While we're at it, does anyone have recommendations for good graphics cards? Pointers to good review sites? Thanks - jon -- users mailing

Re: Many open windows make Firefox scroll **very** slowly [a little OT]

2013-11-05 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 09:20 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 07:02 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: While we're at it, does anyone have recommendations for good graphics cards? Pointers to good review sites? All very good questions... How are you planning on using them

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