desktop November 2005

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X thro ssh
by Saravana Kumar 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

Hi fellow admins, I have a peculiar requirement. We have two offices. People from second office(say #2) want to connect to the server in first office(say #1). They want to run the GUI applications in the office #1 server from office #2. I tried to do this with VNC server and it works fine. But VNC is goes thro unencrypted(open) connection. Is there a way to do this in a secured way(read that xdmcp is not possible as it uses UDP). Inside our network(LAN) if connect from one system to other thro ssh and start an gui application that application shows up in the client. This doesn't happen when i connect to server and start gui apps(says display not set). iptables runs in the server. Do i have to open any port for that? Any help or pointer in this regard is appreciated. TIA, SK

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Bootsplash in Fedora 4
by Alicia Asín 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hi! I'm working with Fedora Core 4 and I'd like to know if it's there any way for using bootsplash with it. I know fedora uses rhgb for bootsplash but, is that the only way? Because rhgb starts X and I'd prefer some ligther as bootsplash... In case the only way is using rhgb, how can I change splash images? Just changing the files in /usr/share/rhgb by hand? Any special format, size or resolution for them? Thanks, Alicia.

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[help] suspend the computer from logout dialogue
by Leo 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

I used ubuntu, but it has problem with suspension on my laptop. So I pick fedora as my desktop since I use Gnome most of the time. Here is one small question but it'll be very helpful to me. I can suspend the computer from the console by issuing 'hibernate' as root. I'm looking for a way to enable an option in the logout dialogue (menu: Desktop->Log Out) so that It'll look like this: Action * Log out * Shut down * Suspend the computer * Restart the computer I've enable the suspend command in gdm.conf and can access it from the gdm login screen however not in the logout dialogue. Any ideas? -- Leon

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Firefox-bin process
by Daryl Goodman 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

There is a process, firefox-bin that keeps popping up in the System Monitor, consuming 143 MB of memory. I have somewhat of a limited machine. What is the process doing? It runs even when the browser is closed. Is it part of the yum or Up2date process, Up2date kind of kills the performance on this machine also.

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Help Wanted: Icon Designer Needed
by Hrishikesh Ballal 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hello All, We have been working at Yumex we need a little bit of help. The newest version of Yumex has a group browsing feature and we don't really have a icon for that. I am not a artist or familiar with making icons. I have a idea for a icon: http://www.hrishikeshballal.net/other/fedora/group_inst.png Can someone direct me to a graphic in bluecurve or help me out in refining this concept and making a icon. It has to be a 48x48 graphic that user can click on the yumex window. Also attached is a yumex window: http://www.hrishikeshballal.net/other/fedora/yumex_first.png This will be placed on the left column above where it says "Groups". Thank you for your help. Hrishi CC: fedora-devel-list

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Make KDE apps run remotely/other user be quiet
by Orion Poplawski 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 When you start a KDE app on another machine you get messages like: Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-orion" Link points to "/tmp/kde-orion" kbuildsycoca running... Reusing existing ksycoca DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. You get similar messages when you run as another user locally: Creating link /home/visitor/.kde/socket-cynosure. Created link from "/home/visitor/.kde/socket-cynosure" to "/tmp/ksocket-visitor" Creating link /home/visitor/.kde/tmp-cynosure. Created link from "/home/visitor/.kde/tmp-cynosure" to "/tmp/kde-visitor" kbuildsycoca running... Creating link /home/visitor/.kde/cache-cynosure. Created link from "/home/visitor/.kde/cache-cynosure" to "/var/tmp/kdecache-visitor" Is there any way to silence these messages or to make the whole process more lightweight? Thanks! - - Orion -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDZ6PJORnzrtFC2/sRAlT1AJ9Pg8zvXY4MKdTLSx8V/bmCPpdEtgCeMUjn vSP0rqbldvAhhP5ZZ4l2odg= =uFmi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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desktop November 2005