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Blue Tooth Mouse loses connection after some idle time
by JD 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Is there a way to prevent linux from disconnecting from bluetooth mouse after some idle time? System -> Preferences -> Bluetooth System -> Preferences -> Mouse have no settings for such behavior. Also, System -> Preferences -> ScreenSaver is not configured to hibernate or put anything to sleep after idle time. Could this be a feature built-in to the blurtooth mouse itself? The mouse is generic, unbranded, made in China.

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Loss of X
by Mickey 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Fedora 13 X86_64 /KDE Loss of Video , This computer has been running and no updates for about three weeks. This computer is at A friends house in Panama City, Fla. about 700 miles away and he won't be able to look at the /var/log/messages. (II) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering (II) AIGLX: screen 0 is not DRI capable (EE) AIGX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so failed (/lib64/libexpat.so1: invalid ELF header) (EE) GLX: could not load software renderer

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Cannot change settings for Metacity
by Huaxin Xu 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Hi all, I have a system set up this way: kernel 2.6.31.5-127.fc12, no desktop environment (no gnome or kde), metacity 2.28.0-14.fc12.i686 (installed by yum), and my own application (full-screen) which may generate some dialogs when certain operations are performed. I could not change settings (such as num_workspaces, action_right_click_titlebar) for matacity. `gconftool-2 --type=int --set /schemas/apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces 1` reported no errors or warnings, in fact, nothing. `gconftool-2 --get /schemas/apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces` would return the value I had set (in this case, 1). However, right click on the titlebar of a modal dialog would still show the menu item of "Move to Another Workspace" and "Workspace 2/3/4" on a menu one level down. Similarly for action_right_click_titlebar `gconftool-2 --type =string --set /schemas/apps/metacity/general/action_right_click_titlebar none` reported nothing. `gconftool-2 --get /schemas/apps/metacity/general/action_right_click_titlebar` would return the value I had set ("none") However, right click on the titlebar of a modal dialog would still prompt a menu, as if no change has been made on action_right_click_titlebar. I could tell metacity was involved in the running of the application from the cursor - when metacity was started before the application started the cursor for the root window would be XC_left_ptr, otherwise it would be a black "X". However, as gnome (or any other desktop environment) was not running, I am not sure if gconftool-2 can enforce the settings on metacity. Another issue, which may be related is Changing the theme of metacity by `gconftool-2 --type=string /schemas/apps/metacity/general/theme Nodoka` (Nodoka is only used as an example, using any other theme would give the same result). or changing a particular value of a theme by editing the XML file (/usr/share/themes/Nodoka/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml) would not make any difference whatsoever in appearance (e.g. titlebar's width, height, padding height, etc) Any advice on how I can apply changes on metacity, or at least how to set num_workspaces = 0 and action_right_click_titlebar = none? Thanks very much! Huaxin

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Shotwell new version?
by SternData 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

The current release of shotwell is 0.6.1, and has a bunch of improvements over the version in Fedora's repo (0.5..2). Is there a plan to package the current release? -- -- Steve

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Cannot boot installed F13
by Seth Cohen 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

I have installed Fedora-13-x86_64 on a MacPro without problems. However, there seems to be no way to boot it! The MacOS (10.6.4 with all updates) does not see the Linux disk, It does see a 31GB HFS+ partition on the same physical disk, I used the default Linux partitioning on the remainder of the disk. The Linux system is first. This shows (using the Mac Disk Utility) as a 287GB Linux LVM partition. The startup disk utility does not see the Linux system. I never seem to even get to grub, let alone get an error. The Rescue system on the install disk finds and mounts the Linux system. /boot is there and seems to have the proper contents. It would seem that I need a MacOS bootable disk or partition which will be able to transfer control to the Linux boot, but I have no idea of how to create this. If there is a simpler method, then that would be even better. Please help.

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Re: Small query on distribution lists
by g 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Timothy Murphy wrote: > I've recently set up a couple of distribution lists using > KMail/KAddressBook. This works quite well; but I wondered if there is any > way of making the To line give the name of the list rather than the people > on the list, as for example Mailman does? how what appears in 'To:' depends on how ones email address book is set up. the 'To:' in this reply will appear to me as 'example mail list' because my address book is configured to *display* 'example mail list' for email address of 'geleem(a)bellsouth.net'. for it to appear this way in a recipient's email, they would have to have a similar entry in their address book. or so it works with thunderbird. hth. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****

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burning fedor dvd iso using wodim
by JD 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

I burned the fedora 12 dvd iso twice using wodim. Both times, it wrote: 3738959872 bytes (3.7 GB) copied, 511.982 s, 7.3 MB/s whereas the size of the actual iso is 3738935296 bytes - a difference of 24576 extra bytes written, and this in spite of providing the wodim argument -nopad Is this "normal" behaviour of dvd burners?

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Newb question
by robert beatty 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Is there any programs i can use to install .exe files to Fedora 13? Investigator, Embassy Investigations.

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resampling mp3 files at a higher bitrate
by JD 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Greetings, I tried to re-sample an MP3 file from 64kbps to 320kbps : ffmpeg -i file.mp3 -ac 2 -b 320k new-file.mp3 but the resulting file always comes out at 64kbps. What's the trick to doing this right?

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Grub and logical partitions
by Timothy Murphy 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Can grub boot from a logical partition? It seems from my reading that it cannot. But I found that I could in fact boot from /dev/sda5 if I used grub interactively, starting with root (hd0,4) then using tab to look for kernel and initrd and finally booting. However, if I put exactly the same commands in grub.conf the boot failed, with "File not found ...". (Nb I am not using LVM, sda5 is a logical partition within the extended partition sda4.) Can some guru explain this to me please.

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