Only fingerprint authentication to unlock screen in Gnome3 F16?
by Ankur Sinha
Hello,
I recently got my fingerprint reader to work. I can now use it to log in
to my system as an alternative to entering the password. However, when I
lock my screen (ctrl alt l), or when it gets locked with the
screen-saver automatically, I cannot enter my password to unlock it. The
only way to unlock it is the fingerprint reader. The text box is greyed
out. Is this intentional? Shouldn't both methods be available? eg
(happened today): If I'm snacking at my desk and my right hand is
unclean, I would like to type in my password with my left hand and get
on with some work (like check mails or view a video or surf the web
etc.) Of course, in this scenario my right index finger is the
registered one.
If I click on switch user and go back to the gdm login screen, I can
then use both the password and fingerprint reader to login to my user
again, but this isn't the same really.
Can someone please confirm this behaviour? I shall file a bug if it is
one.
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Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur: "FranciscoD"
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/
12 years, 1 month
Fedora 17 Beta RC1 desktop validation needed
by Adam Williamson
Hey folks!
By some miracle we've managed to get Fedora 17 Beta RC1 out almost on
time:
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/17-Beta.RC1/
As always, we need to do the desktop validation for it. See the desktop
validation page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_17_Beta_RC1_Desktop
And please, if you can, help us to fill in the results for your
desktops. Desktop team, I know we didn't get 3.3.92 into Beta and sorry
about that, but we do need to check it passes the validation tests - the
ones for Beta aren't too difficult and shouldn't take long to do, so if
you can help that'd be great.
I have done a smoke test on all four desktops; they all boot okay to a
sane looking desktop and successfully install to hard disk and boot from
hard disk, so they're all clearly testable, not DOA.
Thanks everyone!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net
12 years, 1 month
lists.fedora project.org
by Sanjay Patil
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12 years, 1 month
Fwd: Re: Release Notes Update
by Paul W. Frields
>From the docs@ list, FYI, in case someone has some time in which they
can contribute to release notes for desktop, system daemons, web
servers, or for that matter any other existing beats:
----- Forwarded message from "John J. McDonough" <wb8rcr(a)arrl.net> -----
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 23:27 -0400, Christopher R. Antila wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I have some unexpected extra time today, so I'll finish the Desktop beat.
That would be much appreciated. I need to get cracking on the RPM or it
won't make it into beta. I see we have KDE there but no GNOME. Without
some help there will be no mention of GNOME 3.4 in the RNs (other than a
word in Overview). Also, there are some minimal notes in Musicians. Do
they need to be embellished or will we leave that beat blank?
On https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats I have marked as
empty those beats that I think will be empty in the release notes. If
anyone feels like that is a problem you only have a few hours to fix it.
I'm going to get working on the Multimedia beat. If anyone could grab
the Daemons beat it would be much appreciated. Or the other way around,
if someone wants to take Multimedia while I work on Daemons that would
work, too.
Also, Yuri made some notes in Web Servers. If he or someone else could
embellish those it would be good.
I anticipate building the RPM around 1800Z. I will then be looking for
folks to quickly give it some karma.
--McD
----- End forwarded message -----
12 years, 1 month
Testing Empathy: audio and voice calls
by Debarshi Ray
I am looking for someone who will be interested in acting as a dummy
to test audio and video calls using the Empathy / Telepathy stack in
Fedora 17.
The way I plan to do it is to place a few audio calls to the dummy
from a few Jabber servers, and then ask the dummy to call me back.
Will repeat the process with video calls.
If something does not work as expected, we might have to repeat the
particular call to try and reproduce the problem, save the logs, etc..
Please contact me offlist if you are interested.
Thanks,
Debarshi
12 years, 1 month
Two questions / bugs / issues with Fedora 17 Desktop, minor but kinda important for user experience
by Elad Alfassa
1) who decided that system-config-date is to be installed by default and
given the confusing (for new users) system-config-date as a name in the
menu?
>From IRC:
<adamw> elad661: it's called 'system-config-date' because it was previously
called Date and Time. see the problem with that?
<elad661> yes, I do
<elad661> but I think we could either remove it (since gnome's control
panel provides the functionality) or find a better name.
<elad661> we probably need it for firstboot, so removing the desktop file
might be a good idea
2) why is "remote desktop viewer" installed by default? I thought gnome
boxes provides this functionality now.
--
-Elad Alfassa.
12 years, 1 month
Two questions / bugs / issues with Fedora 17 Desktop, minor but kinda important for user experience [FIXED MESSAGE]
by Elad Alfassa
Looking at the desktop archives to make sure my message got into the
list, I noticed it was split in a strange way. I don't know who's
fault is that, gmail or mailman.
To make sure you all got this message properly, here is a copy of it.
Sorry.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Elad Alfassa <elad(a)fedoraproject.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Subject: Two questions / bugs / issues with Fedora 17 Desktop, minor
but kinda important for user experience
To: Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop
<desktop(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
1) who decided that system-config-date is to be installed by default
and given the confusing (for new users) system-config-date as a name
in the menu?
>From IRC:
<adamw> elad661: it's called 'system-config-date' because it was
previously called Date and Time. see the problem with that?
<elad661> yes, I do
<elad661> but I think we could either remove it (since gnome's control
panel provides the functionality) or find a better name.
<elad661> we probably need it for firstboot, so removing the desktop
file might be a good idea
2) why is "remote desktop viewer" installed by default? I thought
gnome boxes provides this functionality now.
--
-Elad Alfassa.
--
-Elad Alfassa.
12 years, 1 month
Usb wireless keyboard and Gnome
by Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
Greetings
Yesterday I did an an F15 to an F16 upgrade via preupgrade for a media
center for a friend of mine and came across an interesting bug.
The upgrade process went with out an hitch except for the wireless
keyboard no longer worked for the relevant user account after the upgrade.
I confirmed that the usb wireless keyboard worked just fine in grub and
gdm and for new user account but as soon as I logged in using the old
account it stopped working.
Deleting the .config directory seemed to fix this but I'm unsure to what
I should be filing against.
I should mention that not having the option to reboot was a real pita in
this case so the initial design decision to remove reboot/shutdown
clearly did not take into the account users that might suddenly find
themselves without an working keyboard in Gnome.
JBG
12 years, 1 month
