desktop May 2004

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Help Needed: Firefox 0.8 and Thunderbird 0.6
by Warren Togami 11 May '04

11 May '04

https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1460 Please assist Fedora Extras in preparing revisions of the firefox-0.8 and thunderbird-0.6 packages before the release of FC2. These packages are patched with Blizzard's xremote fixes which finally allow perfect integration with both firefox & thunderbird running simultaneously. We have also spent a great deal of time making sure they work within the newly fixed Preferred Application framework of FC2. Only minor changes are needed to both packages before publication. Also it would help if Fedora Desktop volunteers can help to contact upstream developers to either act as liasons, or work directly with Fedora Extras development. https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1443 Even non-programmers can help by searching upstream mozilla.org bugzilla and talking to firefox or mozilla developers about this issue. It is very likely that there already exists a patch or workaround for this issue, but the developers are too busy to search for it. You can help! For example, we have made this kind of very successful partnership with three upstream gaim developers. They are automatically added to all Fedora gaim bug reports, and have helped us immensely to be very responsive to user bugzilla reports and package fixing. (Currently there are ZERO open gaim reports in FC!) Warren Togami wtogami(a)redhat.com

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LTWinmodem
by Warren Walker 10 May '04

10 May '04

I recently successfully installed Fedora on an old IBM Aptiva [Amd k6-2 366, 64 Mb Ram, 3.1Gb HD]. What can I do to get Fedora to recognize the LTWinmodem? Can Fedora recognize a Speedstream 5200 USB DSL modem? Warren____________________________

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Bluecurve Sound Theme?
by Bruce A. Locke 10 May '04

10 May '04

Has any thought been put into a Bluecurve sound theme for the GNOME and KDE desktop environments over in the new Red Hat Desktop office? Just curious. :) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Bruce A. Locke blocke(a)shivan.org

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System Freezing Completely
by Parameshwara Bhat 09 May '04

09 May '04

Hello List, I had very bad freezing of the system,twice today morning - the kind one usually associates only with MS Windows and not Linux - quite unexpectedly. I was running Opera Browser-7.23 version and wget-1.8.2-15.3 at the time.I have used Opera earlier and not seen this kind of problem.This problem repeated when wget was running alone too. Only change in my system since installation was new modemboard based on smartlink chipset and driver slmdm-version 2.7.14. I could not change over to either commandline-mode (ctrl+alt+F1) or invoke sysguard program to kill anyof these applications.Keyboard and mouse were dead too. I didnot anything else to do.What else is there to do in such a situation? Has anybody had this kind of problem in Fedora or Linux in general ? Parameshwara Bhat -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

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Core 2 test 3 display problem
by mace 07 May '04

07 May '04

Hi, I have just installed core2 test 3. The system defaults to 640x480 for the screen resolution. I have tried changing it, reboot, and it stays at 640. When I go back into display, it shows the changed in resolution. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong. Under preferences for display it only shows 640x480. I am running a tyan s2466 motherboard with dual mp2200+ 512 meg ram 60gig hd, Ati 8500, 19" monitor. This makes the system almost unusable. Thanks

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Bluecurve Thunderbird theme
by Link Dupont 05 May '04

05 May '04

Hello Fedora fans, I've noticed Garrett's screenshot of Mozilla Thunderbird, and I'm wondering of there's ever been any movement to make a Bluecurve theme for Thunderbird. I believe there's been some discussion on making a Bluecurve Firefox theme, and I think it'd be cool to have a complimenting Thunderbird theme too. Sound like a nice idea? -- Link Dupont <link(a)subpop.net>

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pango should Requires: xorg-x11-base-fonts ?
by Warren Togami 02 May '04

02 May '04

No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig library is not correctly configured. You may need to edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual page and on http://fontconfig.org If you run any application that requires pango like gaim or dia and xorg-x11-base-fonts is not installed, then the above error message appears on the console and the application fails. Should it then be proper for pango to Requires: xorg-x11-base-fonts, or a generic equivalent that also works with XFree86? Does such a generic equivalent exist? Warren Togami wtogami(a)redhat.com

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