desktop December 2008

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Sudo for first user
by Rahul Sundaram 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Hi You can add the following snippet to the fedora-desktop ks file into a init script to make sudo just work for the first user. It can't be added to %post since firstboot wouldn't have launched then. Let me know what you think: ----------------- # check for the first user and add it to user wheel and then to sudoers USER=$( grep 500 /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 ) GROUPS=$( groups $USER ) if ! groups $USER | grep -q wheel ; then usermod -a -G wheel $USER sed -i 's/# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL/ %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL/' /etc/sudoers fi EOF ------------ Rahul

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Adding glade3 and gnome-valgrind-session to comps-fn.xml.in
by Debarshi Ray 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

I am planning to make the following change to the gnome-software-development group in comps-f11.xml.in. <packagereq type="optional">ddd</packagereq> <packagereq type="optional">gazpacho</packagereq> <packagereq type="optional">gconfmm26-devel</packagereq> + <packagereq type="optional">glade3</packagereq> <packagereq type="optional">glibmm24-devel</packagereq> <packagereq type="optional">gnome-common</packagereq> <packagereq type="optional">gnome-python2-gda-devel</packagereq> + <packagereq type="optional">gnome-valgrind-session</packagereq> <packagereq type="optional">gnome-vfsmm26-devel</packagereq> <packagereq type="optional">gob2</packagereq> <packagereq type="optional">gquilt</packagereq> Any comments or objections? Happy hacking, Debarshi ---- [1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/glade3 [2] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/gnome-valgrind-session

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volume control changes
by Matthias Clasen 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hey, just thought I should mention that we are currently landing some of the volume control improvements in rawhide that we are working on for F11. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VolumeControl for more details. After things have settled, you should notice that the mixer applet is gone and instead a volume control icon shows up automatically in the notification area. Feedback appreciated, Matthias

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power management changes
by Matthias Clasen 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Another F11 feature that is starting to land in rawhide: Richard has built gnome-power-manager 2.25.1, which uses DeviceKit-power instead of hal. This should be a largely invisible change, as far as the user experience is concerned. Right, Richard ?

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Problems with SCSI Disk recognition in Fedora 10
by Dov Zamir 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hello Friends, If this is not the correct place to discuss this problem, then please accept my apologies, and kindly direct me to the correct list. I have upgraded two of my computers from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10. The first computer has several hard drives including SATA, ADA and an external USB drive, the last is recognized by Fedora as a SCSI disk. After updating this computer to F10, the boot sequence stopped while mounting the disks. It seems that it was unable, at this point, to recognize the UID it configured for the external disk. I commented out the line for this disk in /etc/fstab and then successfully rebooted. After the reboot, I removed the comment, mounet -a, and everything is fine. The computer will not reboot without this line commented out. A much more serious problem occurred when I upgraded a second computer. This computer only has SCSI disks. After upgrade, the computer would not boot, not recognizing the UID of its one and only LVM. I have not found a solution or a workaround for this. All my remaining computers have SCSI disks exclusively, so I am reluctant to upgrade them. Is this a known issue? Am I doing something wrong? This is a very serious issue. I now have a piece of metal sitting on the floor, instead of a web server, waiting for advice... DZ

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Screensaver cleanup
by "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Has there been any thought cleaning up the screen savers? Get rid of those that were made in the dark ages and arent worth a GPU cycle on todays modern graphic cards and defaulting to more of an eye candy to enhance end-user(s) experience. JBG

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Problem with gnome-settings-daemon
by Bruno de Oliveira Bastos 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

------------------------------ Hi, i am using the us-international keyboard, and, when the gnome-settings-daemon start in my sesstion, the +c = ć, but when i disabled gnome-settings-daemon, the +c = ç, and works. How i can solve the problem in package gnome-settings-daemon ?

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Readahead
by Rui Tiago Cação Matos 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Hi, at point 2.6.3 of the F10 release notes it's implied that readahead is installed by default and should reduce boot time a bit. I installed from the Desktop live CD and didn't have that package installed, is that an oversight or was it on purpose? If so why? Thanks, Rui

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