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whats with this love of kaffiene?
by Gene Heskett 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Greetings; 2 or 3 weeks ago I had mplayer all setup to play just about anything I clicked on in FF and in kmail. But something recently has shot that puppy dead and replaced it with kaffiene. And since kaffiene doesn't seem to recognize most of the .wmv etc proprietary format files that might get thrown at it, it winds up being about as usefull as those small appendages on the belly of a boar hog. I went into kde's control center, file associations, found the x-wmv thingy, and saw first that it was set for kplayer, which wasn't even being attempted, but I added mplayer to the menu, made it top on the list and saved it. That was the last time I was able to find mplayer anywhere in the kmenu until I had smart rip it and 3 other items out, and then replace mplayer and the mplayer plugin. That's a big WT(character of your choice) right there... mplayer does play the link just fine once I can figure out how to paste the url into its requestor, but that brand new, teeny little control panel it now has, hides the bottom half of it behind the kickstart panel so only the top half shows up above the clipboard, kwallet, kmix etc icons just to the left of the clock in the lower right corner of the screen. Kind of worthless as above when you cannot get at any of its buttons. So, how to fix those 2 items? And, even better, keep them fixed. Thanks everybody. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

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name completion in terminal?
by Michael Klinosky 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Does Fedora have file/directory name completion (when using a terminal)?

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no shutdown option in system menu
by Randolph Jones 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

I have fc6 frequently when i try to shutdown the system menu only has suspend as an option; i have to su to root and shutdown from command line any ideas? TIA rfjones

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live F7 test4
by Eric Tanguy 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

I just download the i386 gnome live version and it works fine. Mainly my wireless ralink card work out of the box with networkmanager. I just try it with broadcast and without security (wpa or wep) without broadcast it can't associate. There is a lot of error messages in dmesg but it works fine. My main question is about mp3 and fluendo codec. I believed that when you try to play a mp3 file something say to you some disclaimer and help you to install free fluendo mp3 plugin but i found nothing. When i installed this plugin i had to run a selinux command (chcon) to make it usuable by totem. It's a shame. Apart this, it's a beautifull system which works very fine and with great improvements. Thanks Eric

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Soft link pathname conversion for Linux and Unix
by John Horne 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Hi, I have a shell problem that I am trying to easily resolve. If I have a directory with a soft (symbolic) link in it such as: fred -> ../bin/csh How can I convert the '../bin/csh' in to a full pathname? Is there a command to do this that will work for Linux and Unices? I need it to work for all circumstances, not just this one particular example. So something like '../../abc/../def' should also work in being converted. Under Linux the 'readlink -f' command works fine, but NetBSD readlink doesn't have the '-f' option, and Solaris doesn't have readlink. I do not want to change directory at all, so changing to the link directory and issuing 'pwd' isn't what I want to do. My only other thought is to process the link pathname bit-by-bit. Preceed the pathname with the current working directory and then remove any './' and jiggle (!) with any '../' to get the directory above. It's messy and could get complicated. Better ideas welcome :-) Thanks, John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne(a)plymouth.ac.uk Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839

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Re: Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat
by Robin Laing 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Arne Chr. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi, > > ( note: this message may have occured earlier, while > I have not seen it on the list ) > > I hope to be excused as it was very complicated to > figure out the Fedora jungle of where to ask og > suggest anything. > > Microsoft: > > When it crashes, you insert the software CD, and > somehow you will get > going again. My experiences with doing this is to end up re-installing and losing all my files that are not backed up. Heck, I hear the screams regularly from Windows users that have just lost their report that they were working on when Word crashes and there are no files left. I still cannot figure this one out. > > Fedora&RedHat: > > When it crashes, you insert the software CD, but > instead of > the situation above, most of your work is lost ! > Boot into rescue and go. But I have yet to run into a crash that required installing the Software CD. If I had a crash that bad, then I would be looking at hardware issues. My last major crash was due to a failing power supply and it was causing hard drive errors. Didn't require a re-install. > > ------------------- > > True/False ? > > I suggest that the installation WILL have an OPTION > for installing the > X-server. It can be on the rescue disk, for instance. > > ------------------ > > If anyone has a good tip as how to reinstall X in > Fedora6, > I sure would like to know and hopefully rescue my > disk. > But frankly, I don't understand why such an option > isn't > there in the first place. > > > //ARNE > Yum. > > BTW - it was the Add/Remove software packaged that > failed, it should only remove some graphical package, > but surprisingly removed the X-server as well. > ( did look like it rolled back the depencies.. ) > > I have had this happen in Windows where removing a program would remove a required *.dll or worse, trash the registry file. What command did you use? If you use the wrong command, then you can wipe out everything. Of course you can do this in Windows as well. You did read the dependency list before you said yes. Now tell us the truth on how you removed your X-server? Inquiring minds want to know. :) We have all made stupid mistakes like the time I typed in rm -rf * in /root some years ago. Oops. -- Due to the move to M$ Exchange Server, anything that is a priority, please phone. Robin Laing

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linux rescue
by LC 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Hi, How do i mount / (root) in linux rescue? regards

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X11 leaving lock file; wont start
by Randolph Jones 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

I have fc6 standard install libX11-1.0.3-4.fc6 More often than not windows wont start at boot until I manually remove the lock file in /tmp. How do I get this to stop? TIA rfjones

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shortcut change after an app was removed from OS in KDE.
by Strong 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

I had a shortcut for an app in KDE, then I removed the app package from my OS. Now I want to assign the shortcut to another app in KDE, but it allows me not by reason that it is assigned to an app. How I can change that? Thanks.

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Java plugin v1.6.0 nukes Firefox
by Colin Brace 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Hi all, I've been using Java 1.5.0_06 for awhile without problem. Several days ago I just noticed that the azureus release notes recommended v1.5.0_10 or higher because it fixes some memory leaks. The latest java at java.com is v1.6.0_01. I downloaded this and installed it, changing the symlink in the firefox plugins directory to point to the newer version. However, when I tried to run FF v2.0.0.3, it kept crashing at startup until I reverted to the older version. Anyone else seen this problem? -- Colin Brace Amsterdam

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