Blue Tooth Mouse loses connection after some idle time
by JD
Is there a way to prevent linux from disconnecting from bluetooth
mouse after some idle time?
System -> Preferences -> Bluetooth
System -> Preferences -> Mouse
have no settings for such behavior.
Also, System -> Preferences -> ScreenSaver is not configured to
hibernate or put anything to sleep after idle time.
Could this be a feature built-in to the blurtooth mouse itself?
The mouse is generic, unbranded, made in China.
13 years, 10 months
Loss of X
by Mickey
Fedora 13 X86_64 /KDE
Loss of Video , This computer has been running and no updates for about three weeks.
This computer is at A friends house in Panama City, Fla. about 700 miles away and he won't be able to look at the /var/log/messages.
(II) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
(II) AIGLX: screen 0 is not DRI capable
(EE) AIGX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/lib64/libexpat.so1: invalid ELF header)
(EE) GLX: could not load software renderer
13 years, 10 months
Cannot change settings for Metacity
by Huaxin Xu
Hi all,
I have a system set up this way: kernel 2.6.31.5-127.fc12, no desktop
environment (no gnome or kde), metacity 2.28.0-14.fc12.i686 (installed
by yum), and my own application (full-screen) which may generate some
dialogs when certain operations are performed.
I could not change settings (such as num_workspaces,
action_right_click_titlebar) for matacity.
`gconftool-2 --type=int --set
/schemas/apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces 1` reported no errors or
warnings, in fact, nothing.
`gconftool-2 --get /schemas/apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces` would
return the value I had set (in this case, 1).
However, right click on the titlebar of a modal dialog would still show
the menu item of "Move to Another Workspace" and "Workspace 2/3/4" on a
menu one level down.
Similarly for action_right_click_titlebar
`gconftool-2 --type =string --set
/schemas/apps/metacity/general/action_right_click_titlebar none`
reported nothing.
`gconftool-2 --get
/schemas/apps/metacity/general/action_right_click_titlebar` would return
the value I had set ("none")
However, right click on the titlebar of a modal dialog would still
prompt a menu, as if no change has been made on
action_right_click_titlebar.
I could tell metacity was involved in the running of the application
from the cursor - when metacity was started before the application
started the cursor for the root window would be XC_left_ptr, otherwise
it would be a black "X".
However, as gnome (or any other desktop environment) was not running, I
am not sure if gconftool-2 can enforce the settings on metacity.
Another issue, which may be related is
Changing the theme of metacity by
`gconftool-2 --type=string /schemas/apps/metacity/general/theme Nodoka`
(Nodoka is only used as an example, using any other theme would give the
same result).
or changing a particular value of a theme by editing the XML file
(/usr/share/themes/Nodoka/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml)
would not make any difference whatsoever in appearance (e.g. titlebar's
width, height, padding height, etc)
Any advice on how I can apply changes on metacity, or at least how to
set num_workspaces = 0 and action_right_click_titlebar = none?
Thanks very much!
Huaxin
13 years, 10 months
Shotwell new version?
by SternData
The current release of shotwell is 0.6.1, and has a bunch of
improvements over the version in Fedora's repo (0.5..2). Is there a plan
to package the current release?
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-- Steve
13 years, 10 months
Cannot boot installed F13
by Seth Cohen
I have installed Fedora-13-x86_64 on a MacPro without problems. However, there seems to be no way to boot it! The MacOS (10.6.4 with all updates) does not see the Linux disk, It does see a 31GB HFS+ partition on the same physical disk, I used the default Linux partitioning on the remainder of the disk. The Linux system is first. This shows (using the Mac Disk Utility) as a 287GB Linux LVM partition. The startup disk utility does not see the Linux system. I never seem to even get to grub, let alone get an error.
The Rescue system on the install disk finds and mounts the Linux system. /boot is there and seems to have the proper contents.
It would seem that I need a MacOS bootable disk or partition which will be able to transfer control to the Linux boot, but I have no idea of how to create this. If there is a simpler method, then that would be even better. Please help.
13 years, 10 months
Re: Small query on distribution lists
by g
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I've recently set up a couple of distribution lists using
> KMail/KAddressBook. This works quite well; but I wondered if there is any
> way of making the To line give the name of the list rather than the people
> on the list, as for example Mailman does?
how what appears in 'To:' depends on how ones email address book is set up.
the 'To:' in this reply will appear to me as 'example mail list' because
my address book is configured to *display* 'example mail list' for email
address of 'geleem(a)bellsouth.net'.
for it to appear this way in a recipient's email, they would have to have
a similar entry in their address book.
or so it works with thunderbird.
hth.
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13 years, 10 months
burning fedor dvd iso using wodim
by JD
I burned the fedora 12 dvd iso twice using wodim.
Both times, it wrote:
3738959872 bytes (3.7 GB) copied, 511.982 s, 7.3 MB/s
whereas the size of the actual iso is
3738935296 bytes - a difference of 24576 extra bytes written,
and this in spite of providing the wodim argument -nopad
Is this "normal" behaviour of dvd burners?
13 years, 10 months
Newb question
by robert beatty
Is there any programs i can use to install .exe files to Fedora 13?
Investigator, Embassy Investigations.
13 years, 10 months
resampling mp3 files at a higher bitrate
by JD
Greetings,
I tried to re-sample an MP3 file from 64kbps to 320kbps :
ffmpeg -i file.mp3 -ac 2 -b 320k new-file.mp3
but the resulting file always comes out at 64kbps.
What's the trick to doing this right?
13 years, 10 months
Grub and logical partitions
by Timothy Murphy
Can grub boot from a logical partition?
It seems from my reading that it cannot.
But I found that I could in fact boot from /dev/sda5
if I used grub interactively, starting with
root (hd0,4)
then using tab to look for kernel and initrd
and finally booting.
However, if I put exactly the same commands in grub.conf
the boot failed, with "File not found ...".
(Nb I am not using LVM, sda5 is a logical partition
within the extended partition sda4.)
Can some guru explain this to me please.
13 years, 10 months
