desktop November 2008

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Sudo for first user
by Rahul Sundaram 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Hi You can add the following snippet to the fedora-desktop ks file into a init script to make sudo just work for the first user. It can't be added to %post since firstboot wouldn't have launched then. Let me know what you think: ----------------- # check for the first user and add it to user wheel and then to sudoers USER=$( grep 500 /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 ) GROUPS=$( groups $USER ) if ! groups $USER | grep -q wheel ; then usermod -a -G wheel $USER sed -i 's/# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL/ %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL/' /etc/sudoers fi EOF ------------ Rahul

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Multi Seat with F9 or F10?
by Harald Berghoff 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

Hello, i'm hoping i choosed the right audience for my question, please bear with me if not. I want to set up a multi-seat configuration with F9 (or F10 if that will be easier). I had this running on FC7 and was using the [servers] section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf to start two X server from GDM. F9 seems to ignore the /etc/gdm/custom.conf, the arguments X was started with doesn't fit any server entry in the config. Any hint is appreciated. Maybe the ConsoleKit is the right place? But i have not found any config file for the ConsoleKit in /etc? Thanks in Advance Harald

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Are mount types supported by fuse exposed in the Gnome UI?
by Jef Spaleta 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

Does gnome's UI expose fuse mounts? If not is there an upstream roadmap for it that I'm not aware of? If for example I wanted to use a fuse's encfs is there a way to configure a mount of those via the Gnome UI? -jef

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gnome-dvb-daemon packaging?
by Bastien Nocera 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Heya, I've already got quite a few packages on my plate (upstream and downstream), and I'm looking for somebody willing to package (and use!) gnome-dvb-daemon: http://www.k-d-w.org/node/58 http://live.gnome.org/DVBDaemon I'd be happy packaging gnome-dvb-daemon itself if it comes down to that, but I'd appreciate any help getting the dependencies into Fedora proper. Cheers

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The desktop beyond F10
by Matthias Clasen 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Hey all, with F10 closing in on the finish line, it is time to start thinking about how we envision the Fedora Desktop to look beyond F10. To that end, we (mostly Jon and me, with some help from other desktop team members) have started to put some of our ideas for how to improve the desktop experience into written form. You can find this material here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards Currently this is just a pretty unsorted mixture of wild ideas, implementation details and concrete plans, and a lot of them are missing details, user stories and use cases. Don't misunderstand it as 'the plan for the F11 desktop'. But I hope that it is filled out enough to provide some idea in what direction we would like to move the desktop. Over the next weeks, we'll turn the things that we are going to tackle for F11 into regular feature pages. Comments and feedback welcome, either on this list or in the discussion tabs. Matthias

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Shipping QGTKStyle with F10 ?
by Luke Macken 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

I think it would be a good idea to ship the qgtkstyle package with our default GNOME desktop spin for F10. Doing so will give Qt apps a much more native look-and-feel out of the box. http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Styles/GtkStyle What do you all think? luke

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Trying out swfdec for Fedora 11
by Rahul Sundaram 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

Hi, In the last few weeks, I have been using swfdec in rawhide and it has been working quite well for my limited usage. Should we include swfdec by default in rawhide for Fedora 11 right after the Fedora 10 release? At the very least, directing more feedback towards improving it, by having it as default would be good regardless of whether it is mature enough for Fedora 11 release yet. It is one of the last pieces of proprietary software that almost everyone ends up using in Linux. Comments? Rahul

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Test fingerprint reader support!
by Bastien Nocera 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Heya, If you're feeling adventurous and you have a fingerprint reader, read on. The feature is detailed at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Fingerprint You'll need: - install the latest git snapshot of libfprint: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=917627 - rebuild and install the fprintd and fprintd-pam RPMs: http://hadess.fedorapeople.org/fprintd/fprintd-0.1-1.fc10.src.rpm (See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469955 ) - Modify your /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac file, and add the line: auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so before the line: auth sufficient pam_unix.so ... See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469418 You can now enroll a new fingerprint using fprintd-enroll, list registered fingerprints using fprintd-list, and test verification using fprintd-verify. If you don't enroll a fingerprint, you just won't be asked for a fingerprint. Cheers PS: If you break your system and can't log in anymore, it's not my fault. Boot in single user mode, and remove the pam_fprint.so line from the pam.d configuration.

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Browser mode for nautilus
by Valent Turkovic 02 Nov '08

02 Nov '08

Hi, I have seen this discussed in Fedora marketing but not here or on the devel lists. On Fedora marketing list people agreed that this should be enabled: gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser true Should I post this as a feature request or is it enough just to post it here in this mailing list? Cheers, Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic

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