Curious desktop behaviour
by Timothy Murphy
I'm noticing that on my Fedora-9/KDE system
Firefox is strongly attached to Desktop 5.
(I have 8 desktops.)
Wherever I start it, Firefox jumps to desktop 5
at the first opportunity.
Is there any way of telling Firefox
(or any application)
that you want it to open in a specific desktop?
15 years, 12 months
how to reduce the font size in emacs?
by Robert P. J. Day
i've poked around and i can't figure how to decrease the font size
when running emacs on the desktop. hints? please?
rday
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15 years, 12 months
Cairo Dock crashes on switching desktop workspaces
by Schlueri
Hi List,
i've tried cairo dock, nice piece of software.
All works fine till i switch the desktop workspace. Cairo Dock
disappears and a "Maintenance Mode" Window (the configuration dialog) is
shown.
After starting from terminal, i get some error messages.
Any ideas where the problem is?
Thx & greetz
Dirk
$ cairo-dock
warning :
(cairo-dock-application-factory.c:cairo_dock_create_surface_from_xpixmap:120)
This pixmap is undefined. It can happen for exemple for a window that
is in a minimized state when the dock is launching.
_cd_find_volume_name_from_drive_name: assertion `pDrive != NULL' failed
warning : (cairo-dock.c:_cairo_dock_intercept_signal:270)
Attention : Cairo-Dock has crashed (sig 11).
It will be restarted now.
Feel free to report this bug on cairo-dock.org to help improving the
dock !
gtk_combo_box_new_with_model: assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_MODEL (model)'
failed
gtk_cell_layout_pack_start: assertion `GTK_IS_CELL_LAYOUT (cell_layout)'
failed
gtk_cell_layout_set_attributes: assertion `GTK_IS_CELL_LAYOUT
(cell_layout)' failed
invalid (NULL) pointer instance
g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)'
failed
gtk_tree_model_foreach: assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_MODEL (model)' failed
gtk_box_pack_start: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (child)' failed
gtk_combo_box_new_with_model: assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_MODEL (model)'
failed
gtk_cell_layout_pack_start: assertion `GTK_IS_CELL_LAYOUT (cell_layout)'
failed
gtk_cell_layout_set_attributes: assertion `GTK_IS_CELL_LAYOUT
(cell_layout)' failed
invalid (NULL) pointer instance
g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)'
failed
gtk_tree_model_foreach: assertion `GTK_IS_TREE_MODEL (model)' failed
gtk_box_pack_start: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (child)' failed
warning :
(cairo-dock-application-factory.c:cairo_dock_create_surface_from_xpixmap:120)
This pixmap is undefined. It can happen for exemple for a window that
is in a minimized state when the dock is launching.
_cd_find_volume_name_from_drive_name: assertion `pDrive != NULL' failed
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15 years, 12 months
OAFIID:GNOME_NotificationAreaApplet
by James Corteciano
Hi All,
I am using Fedora 9 and default Gnome version. Every time I've log-in, I'd
received the following a pop-up error message:
----------------
The panel encountered a problem while loading
OAFIID:GNOME_NotificationAreaApplet
----------------
Anyone how to fix this problem?
Cheers,
James
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15 years, 12 months
FC9 x86_64 powers off unexpectedly
by Dan Farmer
Hi All,
My system has been spontaneously powering off once or twice a day for
the last week or so. The obvious candidate would be thermal issues, so
I took some steps to improve cooling and I believe that is fairly well
resolved. At the last power off that I was present for I checked the
CPU temp in the BIOS when it booted up and the temp was 45 degrees C.
I also tweaked some settings related to cpu voltage and powersaving
settings that seemed to help a bit (?). But still my longest run of
uptime has been about 18 hours.
I recently built this sytem, the specs are as follows:
System specs:
Fedora Core 9 x64_64
500W power supply
Core2 Duo E8400 proc @ 3Ghz
4 GB RAM
GIGABYTE GA-EP35C-DS3R LGA 775 Intel P35 motherboard
nvidia geforce 8800 GT
I've built plenty of systems before that never have had problems, but
I wouldn't completely rule out "build quality" I suppose -- I just
think it's unlikely. Can anyone give me some direction on what else I
can investigate? Any log files, BIOS settings (I know that's a little
out of the scope...), etc?
Thank you! Other than the intermittent loss of power I've really been
digging FC9 :)
-Dan
15 years, 12 months
you have logged in in a new language
by Amadeus W.M.
After an update yesterday I've been getting a message like this:
You have logged in in a new language. Do you want to update the standard
folders in your home folder to the new language?
WTF is up with that? Anyone else seeing this? What do I have to uninstall?
15 years, 12 months
Re: Blue screen and yum / not yum
by tony.chamberlain＠lemko.com
I will try to answer all the questions with one message.
First I will be glad not to "top post" as soon as someone tells me what it means ;-)
Second, I believe they are using Gnome. That is usually what they use here.
I was gone last week when they sent the machine but I believe it is gnome.
The customer says the monitor is fine. I had him bring up grub and put 3 and he says
he did it. I wasn't there to see it.
I think they are going to bring the machine here and I can analyze it.
15 years, 12 months
after yum update no volume control?
by Phill
Using Fedora 8 KDE. After most recent yum update, my kmix went away. Has it been replaced by another program or what? Thanks in advance.
15 years, 12 months
Thunderbird (again!?!?)
by Dan Thurman
Sorry for asking questions about Thunderbird again...
It seems that when there are new messages to be received,
Thunderbird does not automatically obtain the new messages
to be downloaded from IMAP into my offsite/local and let
me know that I have new messages when there are subfolders
besides Inbox. Seems that I have to check each and every subfolder
to find out if there are any new messages in them.
I have a case on the IMAP server where there are rules that detect
and move new messages out of Inbox and into assigned subfolders.
So what can I do to get Thunderbird to check all my subfolders
and download the new messages for me?
BTW:
1) I do notice that each subfolder has a menu item called
"Favorite Folder" but what is this really? Enabling it does
not seem to do anything in particular as far as I can tell.
2) Clicking on 'Get Mail', or 'Get all new Messages' but again
it does not seem to do anything other than with Inbox.
Yes, I do have 'Check New Messages' option enabled for every 1
minute and yes, it works for Inbox - just that it does not know anything
about subfolders having new messages in them. Is there some sort of
option somewhere to check all subfolders for new messages?
Thanks!
Dan
15 years, 12 months
