users June 2014

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by linux guy

Hi people. I realize this isn't a Fedora issue per se but I thought that being a number of people running Fedora use FF, I'd share my experience here. I use FF as my main browser. My apologies to the Konqueror developers. I do a lot of online research and it isn't uncommon for me to have 10 FF instances running with over 50 webpages (tabs) open in total. Lately FF has been very slow. Probably since FF27, though at first I didn't pay much attention. Lately its been a huge annoyance. I tried everything to speed it up. Disabling disk caching, selectively disabling various flash options, changing the graphics backends, etc. All to no avail. Today I happened to stumble upon the solution to the problem. Out of frustration I installed Chrome and began to use it. In doing so I completely closed all the FF instances I had open. I've done this before, but for whatever reason, this time was different. I was using Chrome, doing some light browsing when I accidentally started a FF instance. When I did, I received a message stating that there was already a FF instance running. I aborted the startup. I ran a "ps aux | grep firefox" only to find a ghost firefox instance still running. I killed it. I then restarted FF, only to find that it is now peppy once again. I hope this helps someone.

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thoughts on using Fedora for Dell Mobile Precision 3800 laptop

by Ranjan Maitra

Hi, I am considering buying the Dell Mobile Precision M3800 (with QHD+ 3200×1800 resolution) for use with Fedora 20 and later. Any thoughts/experiences with it? (I am excited about the resolution aspect.) http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-m3800-workstation/fs It appears to have a touchscreen (not sure if that is an option only) but is there any use for a touchscreen on Fedora? Sorry if this is a naive question, but I have never considered using a touchscreen device previously. Many thanks for any input! Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. ____________________________________________________________ FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more!

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LibreOffice envelope bug?

by Robert G. (Doc) Savage

Trying to use LibreOffice to compose and print #6 3/4 envelopes. Insert -> Envelope -> Format tab -> Size #6 3/4 (Personal) Envelope -> Insert File -> Print preview shows a Size #8 (Monarch) Envelope format, which is the menu selection just above #6 3/4 (Personal) Envelope in the Format tab list. Is this a known bug? Is there a work-around? --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL

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Multiplying Dbus-daemons forcing restart

by Rick Walker

Hi Folks, I'm currently running 3.13.11-100.fc19.x86_64 and have had a problem with dbus-daemons running amok on this system and even on a few earlier fedora revs. If I do 'ps -ef' I get pages of walker 24457 1 0 15:11 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-a walker 24475 1 0 15:11 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-a walker 24493 1 0 15:11 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-a walker 24511 1 0 15:11 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-a walker 24529 1 0 15:11 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-a walker 24547 1 0 15:12 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-a walker 24565 1 0 15:13 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-a walker 24583 1 0 15:13 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-a ... 10) uptime 15:21:16 up 2 days, 15:15, 13 users, load average: 0.46, 0.48, 0.49 11) ps -ef | grep dbus-daemon | wc 103 1434 11738 So, in two days, I've accumulated 103 of these things. Oh, and if I do a 'killall dbus-daemon' it locks up my desktop. I've searched and this seems to have happened to lots of people going back even into 2012 or so, but I never have seen any definitive fix. I'm long past hoping that "the next update" will fix this problem. Eventually, things like firefox and exmh will fail with "can't open any more file descriptors", "no more processes available". Then I have to just power cycle and start the inflationary cycle all over again. I'm ready to ditch gnome, ditch kde, ditch plasma, or whatever just to get a system that will stably stay up for more than a week or so. Before this happened I could run for a year or more with no problem. Any suggestions? -- Rick Walker

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Where does FC20 NM store wifi config files?

by Luke Nath

Hi All, thanks for any tips or directory pathname where these config files are stored. Also, I read a web page: http://news.softpedia.com/news/All-Linux-Distributions-Store-Wi-Fi-Passwo... That the wifi passwords are not stored by NM in encrypted form. Thanx, Luke

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GTK Theme Engine not Found Error

by Stephen Morris

Hi, I have just installed Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.5.5 on Fedora 20 from the rpm provided by Adobe but it won't run. Can anyone tell me what the following warning it produces when run from a shell? (acroread:4395): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "ia_ora" After producing this warning acrobat produces a "File read error" dialog and doesn't run. I am running kde and the "ia_ora" component of the above message I assume is because I am using the "ia_ora_smooth" gtk widget set, and, I have the /usr/lib64 theme engine path that all the kde themes are installed into in the path list in path list in the widget path configuration. Just as a slight side issue to this does anyone have any experience with Eclipse 4.3.2 and windowbuilder, I have an issue at the moment that when I click on a widget I want to add to the gui design, or try and select a property on an existing widget in the design, I get a dialog complaining of an acrobat read error displayed twice. The issue only occurs the first time I try this in an eclipse session. I was getting this issue with acrobat 9.5.1 and uninstalling that version and installing 9.5.5 does not rectify the issue. Any help on these issues would be much appreciated. regards, Steve

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Run multiple desktop environment on the same system without messing up each other

by Sudhir Khanger

Hello, I was wondering if their is a way to have multiple desktop environment on a system without one messing with other. Anytime you have multiple desktop environment on a system they will start writing each others configuration files messing up with themes. Not to mention populated application menus. Would it be possible to create different users for different desktop environment? Or something like that. -- Sudhir Khanger http://sudhirkhanger.com/ https://github.com/donniezazen

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Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?

by Oliver Ruebenacker

Hello, I need a new OS for an old computer, an about 10 years old x86. I upgraded RAM from 500MB to 2GB, though Windows XP reports 1.99 GB. I would have installed Fedora, but they say the requirements are at least 4GB RAM. Is there any Linux distro similar to Fedora that works for 1.99 GB RAM? I'd love to use KDE, although if it really doesn't work, I could also settle for Xfce. Thanks! Best, Oliver -- Oliver Ruebenacker Founder at Relomics Consulting <http://www.relomics.com> Be always grateful, but never satisfied.

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no minimized icons

by Randolph Jones

> Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com > Tue Jun 3 17:18:22 UTC 2014 > > * Previous message: no minimized icons > * Next message: no minimized icons > * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] > [ author ] > > ______________________________________________________________________ > On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:07:53 -0700, Randolph Jones wrote: > > > I am running fc14. gnome 2.32.0 > > recently desktop behaviour changed > > Fedora 14 has reached end-of-life more than 400 days ago, which means > there haven't been any updates since then: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life > > Can you reproduce the issue with a fresh user account? > No. new user puts icons on lower tool bar when program is minimized

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A word to the wise regarding failed fedup upgrades

by Gary Stainburn

Hi all, Just a quick piece of advice. If you try to fedup and the fedup doesn't work (completed but kernel panic on boot) don't try to 'yum erase' the duplicate RPM's. I goes through the uninstall process and removes all the GLIBC files and leaves you with a totally stuiffed server

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