desktop April 2005

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19 discussions

OpenOffice icons
by Kyrre Ness Sjobak 02 May '05

02 May '05

Is it just me, or does the openoffice icon artwork look really terrible and difficult-to-understand? I opened a bugzilla for it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156424 If those agreeing/disagreeing could post comments there, it would be great. Kyrre Ness Sjøbæk

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Evolution auto user setup
by Sean Bruno 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Was curious if anyone has seen/used any kind of auto-setup scripts for large amounts of users. I have a couple of hundred pine/mutt users that I intend to move over to evolution sooner rather than later. I would like to create their email accounts automatically, and not have to setup each one seperately as they login. Sean

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Current Artwork
by Daniel Kaliel 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Is there a place I can go to check out the current artwork for Fedora Core 4 Test 2 ? Is there any artwork that the group could use? ===================================== Daniel Kaliel Network Administrator -------------------------------------------------------------------------- J.J. Barnicke Edmonton Ltd. #2300, 10123 99 Street Edmonton, AB T5J3H1

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fedora core 1
by bradley king 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

iwould like to use this but i need some help i am not a programer just a windows user that would like to convertany help would be aprecated. thank u

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Nforce Support
by Sean Bruno 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

I just noted that Asus has released a beauty of a Mobo for a Dual- Opteron setup I am building. What is the current level of support for the nVIDIA nForce4 Professional (CrushK8-04 Professional) chipset. Sean P.S. the mobo is an Asus K8N-DL

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Why not produce i586/686 binaries?
by KooLeeSH 18 Apr '05

18 Apr '05

Why don't Fedora Project make an i586 optimized binaries (as Mandrake does)? Some says about 40% performance increase with it. I am really doubt anybody uses FC on machines slower than Pentium. What's you thoughts? -- wbrgrds, kooleesh

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Centering of the screen on the monitor.
by Dan Barnes 17 Apr '05

17 Apr '05

I have a problem with the screen not being centered on the monitor. The system is booted with Windows XP Pro, Red Hat 9 and Fedora Core 3. The screen is in the center of the monitor for Windows XP Pro and Red Hat 9. The screen is not in the center of the monitor for Fedora Core 3. The screen is against the right side of the monitor. Has anyone had this problem? How did you fix it? I have not been able to find a solution on google. Thanks Dan Barnes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Plan great trips with Yahoo! Travel: Now over 17,000 guides! http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide

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Focus of new windows in metacity
by Otto J. Makela 15 Apr '05

15 Apr '05

On basic Fedora Core 3 gnome (using the Metacity window damager), and traditional focus-follows-mouse, how does one prevent the focus from changing when a new window is opened? At least for me, the principle of least astonishment is continuously broken when a newly opened window grabs the focus from right under my mouse pointer (and I need to move the pointer out of my window and then back in to regain it). piglet:~% uname -a Linux piglet.otto.net 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp #1 SMP Thu Feb 24 14:20:06 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux piglet:~% rpm -q xorg-x11 metacity xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.FC3.13_2.rhfc3.at metacity-2.8.6-2 piglet:~% cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) -- /* * * Otto J. Makela <om(a)iki.fi> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Phone: +358 40 765 5772, FAX: +358 42 765 5772, ICBM: 60N25E */ /* Mail: Mechelininkatu 26 B 27, FIN-00100 Helsinki, FINLAND */ /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * */

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Preventing spammers from infiltrating the Red Hat mailing lists
by William M. Quarles 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

Hi all, I sent what I thought was a very important request to one of the Fedora lists which was quickly beaten down, and I did not receive anything back on subsequent replies. I would appreciate your help in making sure that the lists are safe for all of us. I'm actually going to the trouble of subscribing to nearly all of the Red Hat mailing lists just to get the word out. One thing that I have done recently was to search for my e-mail addresses on the Internet web pages to find all of the places that list them. Why bother doing this? Just like how Google has spiders that crawl the Internet to gather general information, spammers have spiders that crawl the Internet to gather e-mail addresses to spam people. I have contacted all of the websites who did not modify my e-mail addresses (mostly on mailing lists) in such that they cannot be collected. Red Hat has done at least one thing right in that they have modified everyone's e-mail address in their web archive, such that it reads something like <walrus bellsouth.net> for mine. However Red Hat has left one big gaping whole that the spam spiders can still crawl into. There is a complete active mirror of these lists as postable newsgroups kept on a service called Gmane <http://gmane.org>. I'm using Gmane to write this message to you now. It's a pretty sophisticated setup, has safeguards to prevent spam getting posted, and they use Spam Assassin to clean up stuff that still ends up on the list (except you have to filter it yourself on the newsgroup interface). The only problem is that spam spiders crawl the newsgroups to collect e-mail addresses. Gmane has a safeguard to prevent this, but it has to be turned on by the list administrator. Gmane can encrypt the e-mail addresses on the list such that any mail sent to them is routed through Gmane first, and then the sender must under go a challenge-response before the message gets routed to the actual recipient. Of all of the Red Hat lists I've only found two newsgroup mirrors that use address encryption: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.java <fedora-java-list>, and gmane.redhat.taroon <taroon-beta-list>. If you would like to see the Red Hat newsgroup mirrors have encrypted e-mail addresses, please reply to this topic and discuss. If you are even more brave (important since some of these lists are high-volume and not everything gets read), please contact your list administrator directly at <listname-admin(a)redhat.com>. If someone knows how to get the word out on the international lists or to their administrators (since I don't speak multiple tongues), please do so. If someone knows who to contact who can make all of the newsgroups have encrypted e-mail addresses going above all of the list administrators (maybe the person who decided to obfuscate them all on the web archive?) please contact him or her and let us know how to contact that person. Thanks so much, William

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Re: default media player
by seth vidal 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

> I'd have to agree that there needs to be serious evaluation of totem > again as the default player for fc4. I'm not aware of a technical > advantage that Helix has out-of-the-box. And unless Helix has grown > some interesting new plugin support... its immensely easier to just > replace Helix with Real when you go looking for additional codec > support. From a user perspective I don't see a compelling reason to > use Helix over Real in any real-world situation. Totem on the other > hand when backed by gst has a reasonable useful mechanism to extend > its support via additional gst plugins instead of being replaced > wholesale with another player application. And the gst dependancy > makes for tighter integration with the default desktop. I'm reading > http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/desktop/defaults.html > and I personally don't see a profound reason to keep Helix as the > default when compared to totem based on the objective criteria > setforth there. > > If there are differing opinions grounded in technical criteria for > helix still being the default, I'd appreciate hearing them for > perspective. Instead of discussing it here maybe we should take it to -desktop-list where it can maybe get a bit more sane and less flamable responses. -sv

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