desktop January 2005

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No Resize Gripper in Glider Theme
by Steven Garrity 08 Jan '05

08 Jan '05

I've noticed that the Glider theme that ships with Fedora Core 3 doesn't seem to have a resize-gripper on the bottom right corner of windows that is there in other themes (bluecurve, industrial, etc.). Is this intentional, or an oversight? Also, sorry if this isn't the appropriate list - I wasn't sure where this one should go. Steven Garrity

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(experimental) automatic sound mixing
by Colin Walters 08 Jan '05

08 Jan '05

Hi, I spent a bit of time today on an ALSA-level sound mixing solution, i.e. this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130593 Basically my solution was to allocate the IPC keys at the start of the X session, and generate an ALSA config file on login which uses those keys. This avoids issues with possible IPC key collisions and is more secure. There's a little program alsa-launch which does this. It monitors your X connection and destroys the IPC keys and such when you log out. I had to patch alsa-lib to let it read a config from a file specified an environment variable. alsa-launch is part of alsa-utils now. I'm sure some people will complain this makes alsa-utils dependent on X; I guess we'll need an alsa-utils-x11 package. Also, I needed to add alsa-launch to the X startup; however there was no programmatic way to do this in the current xinitrc setup. So I refactored the X init scripts so that packages can drop a file in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ which adds to the DESKTOP_SERVICES environment variable. I then modified the dbus package to use this new variable. All the new packages are here: http://people.redhat.com/walters/alsa/ These are based off the new ALSA 1.0.7 packages I uploaded to rawhide today. I'd like to get feedback on this and see how well it works for people; I've just done some light tests with ogg123, rhythmbox, and xmms. Particularly interesting is recording and complex ALSA applications. Oh, and multiple sound cards. If there are no objections I'd like to feed this all into rawhide in a few days after it's gotten a bit of testing here and see how things go. Hopefully for FC4 the idea of configuring applications for different sound output backends will totally disappear. Longer term of course I'd like to not have to generate an ALSA config file in /tmp; this kind of thing just makes sense inside the alsa-lib code itself. But this was just a quick one-day hack to see how well asym could work as the default. Comments appreciated.

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Re: (experimental) automatic sound mixing
by Ismael Juma 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Hi, I have installed the packages from your repository in my Fedora Core 3 installation (I had to rebuild dbus from the src.rpm though). From my initial testing, it works very well. I can get sound simultaneously from multiple applications (including from artsd, which is not one of the best behaved apps when using Alsa). I also tested recording multiple streams (using arecord) while Rhythmbox was playing and that also worked without any problems. Even though this worked before by putting an .asoundrc in my home directory, it is great to see it work automatically without any text file manipulation from the user. I'm sure this will be very helpful to people who are new to Linux when FC4 comes out (note that I said when as opposed to if ;)). Thanks. 8) Regards, Ismael

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XMMS open file dialog box
by Filip Sedivy 07 Jan '05

07 Jan '05

Hello. I was just wondering if it would be possible to use the same (default) "open file" dialog box for XMMS program as Firefox and other applications in FC3 in Gnome use. The current open file dialog box used with XMMS is pretty "ugly" and it would help XMMS be more polished and consistent with Fedora. XMMS menus could use the same theme also but I guess, I should address that to the XMMS developers, right? Just and idea, though. Thanks.

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(no subject)
by Gddlego＠aol.com 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

How do I configure the ftp server in Fedora Core 3? Sorry if this isn't the right address. Garrett Delano

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Strange cursor redraws
by Daniel Veillard 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

I have noticed that my cursor get redrawed generating cursor image flicker even if I don't move the mouse or the underlying image doesn't change. It didn't depend on the application having the focus, or over which the cursor was drawn, but was depending on the cursor location on the screen. After a bit of checking it appears to be related to virtual screen, if the cursor is positionned at the x/y coordinate of a gnome-terminal whose content is scrolling but not displayed due to being on another virtual screen, then the cursor is redrawn as the terminal image is updated. Moving the cursor coordinate outside of the terminal area stops the flicker. Using xorg-x11 6.8.1-12, gnome-terminal-2.7.3-1, and metacity-2.8.6-2.1, hardware is Matrox 450 dual head running in xinerama mode. Excerps from /var/log/Xorg.0.log: (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP rev 130,... (--) Chipset mgag400 found (**) MGA(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16 (==) MGA(0): RGB weight 565 (II) MGA(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) Does this qualify as a bug ? If yes what module is most likely to be guilty ? Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/

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HPLaserjet 1010 and HPScanjet 2400U
by Sujith kumar 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

I am using Redhat 9. Can anybody tellme how I can make my HP Laserjet 1010 work on linux. Instead of printing the matter it is printing something like "Unsupported Personality". I have got some PPD files, I kept in /etc/cups/. but when I go to system setting --> printing, I am not able to choose PPDs as drivers. I have also HP Scanjet2400U scanner. Can any body tell me how to install the same. Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline.

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