desktop February 2009

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F10, Gnome Desktop and VMware
by Ali Sobhi 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

I have VMware 1.0.8 on F10 (Intel, 32-bit) and Gnome Desktop. Starting VMware and booting a WinXP image, when left-clicking inside the VMware window to transfer the keyboard and mouse to the VM running (or ^G or grab input from the menu) resets the desktop and X server and I get a login screen. Has anyone seen this? How do I go about debugging this issue.l PS. VMware 1.0.8 and the same image behaves fine on RHEL 5 and Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) Regards, ---Ali Sobhi

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Re: Snapshots and Nautilus support
by Rakesh Pandit 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Hi list, On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:32:16 -0500, Mathias wrote: >On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 12:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Opensolaris time slide integrates filesystem snapshots in a pretty neat >> way with Nautilus. Is anyone from the desktop team looking into >> writing/porting it based on btrfs? >> >> Essentially, there is a nautilus extension in Python that can be easily >> ported and a patch for adding a time slider and restore button. A stand >> alone app takes care of setting some preferences. >None of us is currently working on that. But it sounds like a nice >project for someone who wants to dive in and work on something cool. I had been trying to play with btrfs on rawhide some time back for same functionality. At that moment (0.17) or even now btrfs-progs(0.18-3) was bit unstable to work on. Will give it a try to port the app and work on nautilus patch to integrate this functionality. -- Regards, Rakesh Pandit

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Snapshots and Nautilus support
by Rahul Sundaram 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Hi, Opensolaris time slide integrates filesystem snapshots in a pretty neat way with Nautilus. Is anyone from the desktop team looking into writing/porting it based on btrfs? Essentially, there is a nautilus extension in Python that can be easily ported and a patch for adding a time slider and restore button. A stand alone app takes care of setting some preferences. Rahul

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gnome-format: plans to include it?
by Rahul Sundaram 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Hi Any plans to include it by default in Fedora? http://live.gnome.org/gnome-format Rahul

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firefox update bad
by Roman Maeder 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

today there was an update to firefox, firefox-3.0.6-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm. Now, when I try to run it, it just exits without any message. How can I get back a working firefox? The mirrors no longer carry the older version. I tried to install the original version, firefox-3.0.4-1.fc10.x86_64.rpm but it would list a ton of i386 (not x86_64) packages as dependencies. No good.

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FLOSS Multimedia Support in Fedora
by Martin Sourada 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

Hi, sorry for cross-posting but I wanted all interested parties to not miss this email ;-) There has been some media related discussion in the -devel list and one of the points I have taken form it is that we should promote FLOSS multimedia and don't blame others for doing it (even if it's done in a not ideal way)... Now, the problem is that the actual support of these in our system is crappy. Out of the combinations of two FLOSS containers (matroska and ogg) and two FLOSS video codecs (dirac and theora) I know only one (ogg + theora) actually works in xine-lib (used by KDE4) which is pathetic. So I created a wiki page (not sure what name space to use, so I put it under my user page for starters) [1] which tracks the situation. I don't have much time lately due to university duties, so I put there only things I know of and didn't researched further. So if you know of any FLOSS container, video or audio codec, feel free to add it there. Also feel free to reference upstream bugs about the mentioned issues. The videos used for reference testing are available at my fedora people page [2]. Thanks, Martin References: [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mso/Open_Multimedia [2] http://mso.fedorapeople.org/codecs-test/

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Updating Anjuta and Glade -- need some help
by Debarshi Ray 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

I am looking for someone who will be kind enough to update Anjuta [1] and Glade3 [2] to 2.25.5 and 3.5.6 respectively in Rawhide. My desktop's motherboard has been damaged and it will take sometime to repair it and I am not in a position to update my laptop that runs on Fedora 9. Anjuta has now enabled its symbol-db plugin by default which would need libgda >= 3.99.8 and this should now be available in Rawhide. If you need anything else from me, please let me know. Thanks, Debarshi ---- [1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/anjuta [2] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/glade3 [3] ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/anjuta/2.25/ [4] ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glade3/3.5/

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