Red Hat Certificates
by Piero
Hi,
anyone know some companies that release certificates such as
RHCE and RHCT?
Thank you,
Piero
19 years, 5 months
usable window manager for FC3?
by James Ralston
I see that in terms of window managers, FC3 dropped sawfish and added
xfwm4.
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, this means that from my point of
view, FC3 does not have a usable window manager.
As far as I'm concerned, a usable window manager must support the
following capabilities:
1. GNOME-aware.
2. The ability to bind events to keyboard/mouse combinations,
such as binding "Raise Window" to "Meta+MouseButton1".
3. The ability to disable "raise on click" behavior.
4. The ability to disable "raise on focus" behavior.
The last time I checked, metacity failed #3, and Havoc refuses to add
capability #2:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95499
xfwm4 appears to fail capability #2.
twm and mwm fail capability #1.
If my assessment above is wrong, I would appreciate corrections, as I
would greatly prefer to use one of the window managers that comes with
FC3.
Otherwise, if my assessment is correct: what are those of you who also
demand the above capabilities using? Sawfish from CVS? Something
else?
Thanks,
--
James Ralston, Information Technology
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
19 years, 5 months
Help with installation.
by Simon Slater
Being a newbie to Linux, I am attempting to install Fedora from CDs
supplied with ht book Official Fedora Companion onto an AMD K6/200 with
256MB RAM; 1x2.1GB and 1x40GB (only 20GB of which is recognized). I am
encountering 2 error messages:
1. /dev/hdb is inconsistent
. Linux detected BIOS geometry incorrectly
Using LBA is recommended. Both hard drives are in BIOS as LBA.
2. You are trying to install on a machine which is not supported by this
release of Fedora Core
These CDs installed successfully onto a PII with 64MB RAM, but ran slowly.
Are these messages related, or is the AMD platform a problem? Where should
I go from here?
Simon
19 years, 5 months
Red Hat Summit: how much Fedora?
by Matthew Miller
Saw the announcement for this:
<http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/>
The "Technical Track" description says:
Technical Track: Interactive sessions will feature topics such as
performance optimization, Fedora Project, open source technology trends
and high performance computing clusters.
If there are actual Fedora-summit discussions and meaningful work going on,
I'd be very interested in attending. However, if it's largely a marketing
fest, I'd rather not.
Anyone else going? Any RH technical people have opinions about the
usefulness?
(Feel free to mail me off-list about this, if need be!)
--
Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
19 years, 5 months
hfsplusutils
by Raffi Khatchadourian
Has anyone encountered an rpm of hfsplusutils for fedora?
19 years, 5 months
[Follow-up] Xmodmap and GNOME FC3
by Malcolm Cowe
I've finally managed to sit down and spend a little time with XKB in
order to wean myself off Xmodmap and get control of my keyboard back
under GNOME.
Since I have been reading elsewhere that other people have had issues
with Xmodmap and GNOME interoperability and since I have previously
posted about this on fedora-list, I thought I'd write a quick note on
the, let's call it technique, I employed. It's actually quite similar to
the method I originally used to set up my Xmodmap file.
Launch xev from a terminal window. While the xev target window
has focus, I press all of the keys which need to be configured. The
output is quite verbose. The following example is for the eject key on a
UK Macintosh keyboard:
KeyPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001,
root 0x8d, subw 0x0, time 3056554, (-600,696), root:(492,745),
state 0x0, keycode 204 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001,
root 0x8d, subw 0x0, time 3056554, (-600,696), root:(492,745),
state 0x0, keycode 204 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
Take a note of the keycode (204 in this example). What I did next was to
look up this keycode in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86, which
returned the following entry:
xfree86: <K6C> = 204; // <I4C>
Finally, I added this entry into the symbols file for my keyboard. For a
UK Macintosh keyboard, the file is:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh
Within the section xkb_symbols "basic", add the following:
key <K6C> { [ XF86Eject ] };
Repeat the process for all other keys.
I also added in the following line to this section:
include "srvr_ctrl(xfree86)"
This is necessary in order to be able to switch to a virtual console from X.
There are a couple of gotchas:
1. <KPEQ> does not match the UK Macintosh keypad equals sign. I had to
use <K59>. Similarly, the ~` key at the bottom left was matched against
<LSGT>.
2. I still cannot select a thread in thunderbird with shift-control-a,
even under the failsafe session.
3. Under GNOME, I cannot assign a shortcut key to "Log Out". That is to
say, I can make the assignment using the "Preferences->Keyboard
Shortcuts" dialog, but when I try to use the key nothing happens.
Assigning the same key to a different shortcut works though. Guess I'll
just have to stick with control-alt-delete.
Regards,
Malcolm.
19 years, 5 months
VI Stuff needed...
by Nikhil
Hi All,
Wishing you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2005 coming
I have a query , in VI , when I write a code , I use '%' to jump to
the next '}' or '{' , but when I am writing an HTML code , I simply
want is jump to '<' and '>' when I press <Esc>% , I think it should
happen ,even I tried to install matchit plugin in my VIM , but canot
get it,
Could any one please show me how could I set '%' key to jump to next
'>' or '<' , when I edit an *HTML* file .
~Nikhil.
°v°
/(_)\
^ ^
19 years, 5 months
minimum memory footprint for core 3? other?
by Max L. Eidswick
I have quite a few Pentium 166MHz, 8MB RAM systems that I want to use as
network attached storage control units - supporting internal IDE-based disk
storage and external USB- or FireWire-based external drives.
Any thoughts about what version of Linux is best suited for these boxes?
I need to have basic network support for the Intel Pro 100 LAN card, the
PCI-based USB 2.0 and/or FireWire adapter (probably the VIA chipset which I
have had lots of problems with), SMB, NFS, and probably CIFS file system
support. I plan to run the boxes without a console (i.e., no keyboard,
mouse, or monitor) so I don't need to waste space on any GUI support, etc.
I really have to live with the 8MB limit for these boxes (at least 300 of
them), so I will probably have to hack one of the older kernels, but it
would be great to be able to use FC3. I have been testing with RH 7-9 and
now with FC3 on our development machines.
TIA,
Max
19 years, 5 months
