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Fedora 10 and UK keyboard layout
by Marcelo Garcia 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

Hi During the installation of Fedora 10 I choose UK for the keyboard layout, but I when I log in gnome is using American layout. If I add the UK in System->Preferences->Hardware->Keyboard it seems to not make difference. I make it the default, but again, the layout is american. Thanks Marcelo

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GDM and powersave
by mike cloaked 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

On a system I have installed clean F10 the powersave kicks in on the monitor just fine if set in the screensaver area in gnome for a logged in user. However if the user logs out, then the screen blanks out after some period as expected, but the monitor does not go into powersave any any point. Can someone tell me where the settings are for the timings for these two features of GDM? I presume that this is something that can be set somewhere? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/GDM-and-powersave-tp21012025p21012025.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Frirefox printing anomoly
by Geoffrey Leach 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

Firefox appears (newly) to be adding a header and trailer to page printouts, making one page become two on printout. Anyone know how to suppress this? Thanks.

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Adobe announces 64-bit Flash plugin for Linux (Alpha verson)
by Patrick O'Callaghan 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

I don't normally forward this kind of thing, but given the amount of traffic about Flash here I figured this could an excusable exception. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ See also http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/11/17/168212.shtml poc

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is KDE dead - did Gnome win?
by Genes MailLists 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

I am a long time KDE user - in part for similar reasons to Linus - it was configurable, flexible and let me set things up the way I wanted - easily and simply. It had a very nice configuration manager. Gnome by contrast was rigid, inflexible and to configure it - the bits it allowed you to - you needed in part to learn about its registry which warned you that the registry editor may corrupt things in bad ways - use at your risk. Gnome was undergoing rapid changes - metacity went through a lot before it was stable .. kde all the while was pretty stable. That was the way things used to be. Now KDE is harder to configure, not as flexible and is difficult if not impossible to set up the way I like things (task manager showing 1 icon per console or per firefox, the workspace chooser in the middle, the ability to click and save a session etc etc). So what I am seeing is some of the KDE users I know are slowly giving up and moving back to gnome - its the default windowing manager/environment on fedora and ubuntu and seems more mature and stable than KDE 4 - and since as far as configurability goes, KDE has little advantage to offer at this time. Perhaps the next version, or the one after that will bring back the advantages. Maybe by 4.2 or 4.3 or 4.4 or... 5.0 .. So seeking guidance from the path others are choosing: (1) Are the fedora KDE users moving back to gnome ? ... is KDE dead or alive ? (2) Are there fedora Gnome users moving to KDE ? It is after all very similar in its function now ... and does not use spatial mode by default (;-). Be very interested in hearing what thoughts others are having. gene

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Dell OptiPlex 745 reboot problem
by Tony Molloy 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hi, I've just installed Fedora-9 on a lab of Dell OptiPlex 745 (SFF) machines. ( only in 1 lab TG ) After running firstboot when I went to reboot the machines they just hang and I had to do a hard reboot. I thought this was a minor glitch and ignored it. Now however when the machines boot into Fedora-9 the "reboot" and "suspend" buttons do not work. The windowing system just shuts down and I get a text prompt and the machines just hang there. As thes are dual boot machines this will cause a lot of problems starting monday when the students return ;-( Is ther some magic incantation to grub to sort this problem or any body got any ideas. Thank's Tony

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F10 HD install - anyone successfully done this?
by mike cloaked 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

I have tried various ways to persuade my laptop to install F10 from the DVD iso file stored on one of the partitions that will not be formatted during the install. Nothing I have tried gets the install to continue past the stage where the Partition holding the iso image is selected. It says it cannot find the install media and seems to have added images/install.img to the end of the directory path where my iso file is stored. I have also tried by adding the images directory to the same directory containing the iso, and within it is the install.img file Telling the install to point to the directory on the partition containing the DVD iso and the images directory still gives an error message that anaconda cannot find the install media. I have tried from the netinst iso burned to a physical CD disk, the vmlinuz and initrd.img extracted from this iso and referred from grub to boot it, from the extracted vmlinuz and initrd.img from the DVD iso booted via grub, and whichever way I start the HD install it always fails at the same point. I could use the DVD on this machine as it does have a DVD drive but I have other machines without a DVD drive that I would like to install from the DVD iso on the hard drive. Does anyone have a confirmation that an HD install does work? I am wondering if this is just my specific hardware that is tripping up anaconda in this case - so other reports would be valuable. if I can successfully do an HD install on this machine I have some hope that it is possible on other machines... and if so what is the trick. I have been doing installs this way for quite a few years with all previous versions of Fedora including F9. The only difference is that in this case the images are stored on a laptop which has f9 with SElinux enabled so I don't know if this makes any difference - I can't see that it should and the iso files are readable by all users with permissions set to 755. I have tried adding linux askmethod to the install, instead of the graphical boot - but every way I try for an HD install fails at the same point and I am getting heartily frustrated now. Can anyone report success please? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/F10-HD-install---anyone-successfully-done-this--tp207… Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Gnome apps font size on KDE Live CD
by Andrew Parker 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

I installed from the KDE Live CD, so I don't have the gnome desktop installed, but all the fonts on gnome apps are way too big. How do I configure the default font size for gnome apps?

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configure networkManager to accommodate static DNS server
by L 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Hi, I use networkManager to handle network things. However, after started, it automatically generate a /etc/resolv.conf file the only dns is 192.168.1.1 I want to code the ISP DNS servers to /etc/resolv.conf permanently. How to do this? Best Y

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kalarm time zone setting
by Frank Cox 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

I use kalarm for a lot of stuff even though I have a Gnome desktop. It works great. But ever since I upgraded my main desktop computer to F10 all of the alarms have been going off several hours early. I just found out why. Under "Settings - Configure kalarm - Time and Date", the timezone is set to UTC and that's the only option that's presented to me. Clicking on the down-arrow beside the box gives me one option: UTC. How can I fix this? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com DRY CLEANER BUSINESS FOR SALE ~ http://www.canadadrycleanerforsale.com

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