Unpleasant change in fonts
by Jonathan Ryshpan
I have made some change to my system which has affected the fonts used
for window names and the names of thumbnails in Digikam, possibly other
situations. The fonts are very small and don't display certain
characters, in particular č, œ, etc. These fonts resist change by using
either the KDE ControlCenter->Appearance&Themes->Fonts tool or the Gnome
FontPreferences tool.
I have no idea what caused this; the only change I've made to the font
system lately is to install fonts-chinese and wqy-bitmap-fonts (also
Chinese fonts).
Any ideas what's going on or how to fix it?
Thanks - jon
16 years, 10 months
Re: How to generate č (c-hachek) in KDE
by kwhiskerz
I don't speak Czech, but I experimented on my keyboard. Mine is set to pc105,
us intl (acentos) layout, both in xorg.conf and KDE Control Centre Keyboard
Layout. You really only need the latter, but defining it in xorg.conf means
all X programs know about the keyboard.
Type AltGr-Shift->, which produces a dead hachek, then type either lower or
upper case 'c'. Voilà! AltGr is the right Alt key. Typing AltGr-Shift-> twice
types the hachek without a letter underneath. All the dead keys work like
this.
If you want to configure xorg.conf, this is what I have (adjust for your
keyboard, but this is pretty generic):
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbVariant" "us-acentos"
EndSection
us-acentos is fantastic! It should be the default, as accents are required in
many English words or words commonly written in English, like voilà, naïve,
pie à la mode, please apply with a résumé, etc.
16 years, 10 months
F7 64bit 4G Memory
by Srikanth Konjarla
All,
I am running F7 in 64-bit mode on a laptop. I have upgraded the memory
from 3G to 4G (Bios confirms it) but kernel sees only 3.2G (i have
passed mem=4096M kernel parameter). Wondering if i am missing anything here.
Snippet from dmesg
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet mem=4096M
Memory: 3345780k/3407424k available (2321k kernel code, 61256k reserved,
1377k data, 316k init)
Thanks
Srikanth
16 years, 10 months
How to install rshd on Fedora 7.
by 小波 顾
Hi, I am new to Linux, here are some questions about rsh and rshd.
So far what I know about them are as following:
1. rshd is the server process running on server machine to accept commands from clients.
2. rsh is the client utility used to connect remote rshd services and send commands.
3. rshd is often running as service on the server machine.
4. rsh is executed on demand, just like ps, pwd, etc.
Here are questions:
1. If some application use rsh to connect to the same machine to execute commands, does rshd have to run?
2. How to config rshd running as a service on Fedora 7? I have read some articles about using initd, but fedora 7 uses xinetd, which I am not familiar with.
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16 years, 10 months
Re: How to generate č (c-hachek) in KDE
by kwhiskerz
I think my last posting got lost, so here it is again:
Yes, as was pointed out, the diacritical mark plus space will also produce the
apostrophe, quotation mark, tilde, circumflex, hachek, accent grave, but not
the accent aigu (acute ´) nor the umlaut (diaresis ¨).
This is because umlaut/diaresis and quotation mark, and apostrophe and accent
acute/aigu each share a key.
AltGr-9 and AltGr-0 (zero) also are diacritical marks. Shifted, they can be
applied. I am not certain what they are. AltGr-Shift-9 puts a mark over
a 'g', as in Turkish, and AltGr-Shift-zero puts a circle over a 'y', and
other vowels, as in Scandinavian languages. There may be others I haven't
found.
Another observation: if you set the menu key (at right, next to right control)
to be the compose key, then it doesn't work in kmail (all of kde?). Set it to
right win instead.
Šheeşh¡
PS: The second 's' here, as appears in Turkish, was made using compose comma
+ 's'.
16 years, 10 months
Re: How to generate č (c-hachek) in KDE
by kwhiskerz
Yes, as was pointed out, the diacritical mark plus space will also produce the
apostrophe, quotation mark, tilde, circumflex, hachek, accent grave, but not
the accent aigu (acute ´) nor the umlaut (diaresis ¨).
This is because umlaut/diaresis and quotation mark, and apostrophe and accent
acute/aigu each share a key.
AltGr-9 and AltGr-0 (zero) also are diacritical marks. Shifted, they can be
applied. I am not certain what they are. AltGr-Shift-9 puts a mark over
a 'g', as in Turkish, and AltGr-Shift-zero puts a circle over a 'y', and
other vowels, as in Scandinavian languages. There may be others I haven't
found.
Another observation: if you set the menu key (at right, next to right control)
to be the compose key, then it doesn't work in kmail (all of kde?). Set it to
right win instead.
Šheeşh¡
PS: The second 's' here, as appears in Turkish, was made using compose comma
+ 's'.
16 years, 10 months
MP3 to Ogg Vorbis
by Chris
Is there an app that will convert MP3 files to Ogg?
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Best regards,
Chris
16 years, 10 months
disk images
by Darryl Tidd
I am trying to locate fedora 7 iso for download and burn onto cd.
16 years, 10 months
One F7 machine not finding itself
by Beartooth
Suddenly, on a machine which has been running F7 since F7 came out, I can
no longer log in.
Instead of the usual login screen, I get a gray window without the usual
bar on top, which first says it is scanning the local network, and then
that "No serving hosts were found."
If I type in 127.0.0.1, or localhost, or localdomain, or its 192.168.x.y,
or lo, or localhost.localdomain, or localhost@localdomain, and try to
add it, I get a new box with a "do not enter" symbol and the title "Did
not receive response from server," below which is a paragraph saying it
didn't get it in 3 seconds, and adding "Perhaps the host is not turned
on, or is not willing to support a login session right now. Please try
again later." Or if not that box, one (particularly for lo) suggesting
that I might have mistyped it.
If I ssh into it from another machine behind the same router, however, it
accepts that; and /sbin/ifconfig confirms its own 192.168.x.y, its proper
MACs (one for eth0 and one for eth1), and the 192.168.x.y for the machine
I'm working from.
If I look at "cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf" I see nothing obviously strange
except that there are an awful lot of modes (twelve of them) in Section
"Screen" -- but the first one, 1280x1024, is correct for my monitor,
which another section correctly identifies an an lcd.
If I become root and ssh into the problem machine, it lets me; but when I
try telling it startx, it claims X is already running.
If, as it suggests, I remove /tmp/.X0-lock, and try startx again, I get
several screenfuls of messages, which I can't even scroll back to -- and
startx|less does the same!
What have I fouled up so royally this time, and what (if possible, short
of reinstalling F7) can I do about it? (I know perfectly well how
helpless I am without a GUI; it doesn't have to rub my nose in it.)
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Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
16 years, 10 months
Problems with yum
by Francois
Hello,
I've just upgraded from FC6 to Fedora7 with a first problem which is solved
now, as I got to boot from the USB key then the cd-rom, to get rid of
the "ready" bug some reported earlier.
Now, the problem I have is with yum.
I tried to run "yum update" from my newly upgraded system, and it failed.
I supposed this was caused by the repositories I added to my /etc/yum.conf
file when I was using my FC6 system, so I decided to remove the files I got
in the /etc/yum.repo.d directory, and backed up the /etc/yum.conf file.
Then I removed all files related to yum. Once done, I installed manually,
the files :
yum-3.2.1-1.fc7
yum-fastestmirror-1.1.5-1.fc7
yum-updatesd-3.2.1-1.fc7
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.0-2.fc7
I thought this would have filled up the yum.repo.d directory with repo
files, but nope.
So I installed a file in /etc/yum.repo.d directory, I named fedora.repo
In that file I added the following lines :
[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/1/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
Now I'm able to update some files on my system but I don't know where to
find the right repo files or the package that contain all the repos I need.
The command "yum update" fails because of dependencies not found.
I read some messages about plugins for yum, but I don't know how this works.
Help would be appreciated. Thank you. Francois
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