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KDE-4 ???
by Mickey 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

on the KDE-4 desktop, after opening a window, and if you move window to top of desktop it will expaned to full screen. Is there a setting in Kde that will stop a window from epanding to full screen automatically ?

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qemu update for fc13 broken?
by Bill Davidsen 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

I just installed the recent qemu update on my KVM server which hosts my VMs for local services. I stopped all VMs, did the upgrade, and reboot. Now none of the VMs respond to mouse or have sound. Any thoughts? x86_64, all stock Fedora stuff, critical service (why I'm working Saturday). -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen(a)tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot

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OT: one huge monitor or 2 smaller or bigger ones ?
by linux guy 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

I run F14 KDE for a variety of tasks including writing documents, managing email, browsing, purchasing, research, some software development, simple administration, etc. I'm not a gamer. I presently have 2 20" monitors on my desktop, each at 1680x1050, for a total area of 3360x1050. My computer has a GeForce 8800M GTS video processor. For the most part it works fairly well, especially in KDE, with the way it allows each monitor to be its own work space. It has come to my attention that we have a surplus in our technology fund. If you were in my position, which monitor configuration would you select ? a) Stay with the 2 monitors I have. (2x 20 inch, 3360x1050 total area, cost, $0) b) Upgrade to 2 24 inch 1920x1200 monitors, like the Dell U2410 or similar. (3840x1200, cost about $850) c) Upgrade to 1 27 inch monitor, like the Dell U2711. (2560x1440, cost about $850) d) Upgrade to 2 27 inch monitors, like the Dell U2711. (5120x1140, cost about $1700) e) Upgrade to 1 30 inch monitor, like the Dell U3011. 1560x1600, cost $1300) How does one find out the pixel limit of a video card ? Thanks

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Claws versus Evolution for email.
by linux guy 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

I'm interested to hear the pros and cons of Claws versus Evolution for handling email. I'm subscribed to about 10 email groups. I do a ton of filtering, into about 20 different folders. I don't have anything against Evolution. I've been using it for almost 10 years. However, it seems a bit stale and jaded. How is Claws compared to Evolution ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claws_Mail http://www.claws-mail.org/ What is the Perl filtering and Python scripting about ? Thanks !

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Font in firefox; now uses tahoma?
by Reid Rivenburgh 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

It looks like a recent update to wine installed a wine-tahoma-fonts package. Now a lot of web sites are using tahoma by default instead of my preferred font, liberation sans. I could remove the tahoma package, but yum also wants to remove wine-fonts, which might be bad. Does anyone have a solution for firefox? Maybe an entry in userContent.css? Or should I just go ahead and remove the wine font packages? TIA. Reid

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ATI FirePro V3800 question.
by Erik P. Olsen 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

I've bought this graphics card and it hangs my Fedora 14 system right at the point where it switches to graphics mode. I wonder what I am missing because my alternative system Fedora 12 on the same hardware works beautifully. I've found that ATI has issued a driver, Catalyst, for the card. Am I supposed to download and install this driver? -- Erik

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Re: OT: one huge monitor or 2 smaller or bigger ones ? SOLVED
by David Hough 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 09:08 +0000, Tim wrote: > Joe Zeff > >>> Normally, I don't see the point of having multiple monitors in Linux > >>> because so much of what you need them for can be done with multiple > >>> desktops on one screen. > > Linuxguy123: > > Have you tried using a dual monitor setup. I find it indispensable. > > Right now I am typing an email in my left display while watching a > > download in the right one. Its not the same as having both windows in > > one display, its better. For one thing, you never have to worry about a > > window in one display covering up a window in the other display, even if > > the other app does funny things with the focus. > > I have, but I do find it a bit of an organisational pain. And some > things are far less than intuitive to use when their controls are on the > next screen. I've also had to deal with using two computers side by > side, and that was slightly less painful for some things. e.g. Web site > work, with editing on one, and checking on the other. > > By the time you get around to playing with dual monitors, you might want > to consider if what you really want is one *HUGE* monitor with very high > resolution. > Two monitors does occasionally confuse a program, but generally I find it helpful because I can set something to full screen and it occupies a single monitor, leaving the other for other things. The other local problem I have here is the cats that like sitting between keyboard and monitor. They can't quite manage to block both at the same time so I can keep on working by moving windows around. There's also the contingency factor - if one of my monitors dies then I can still use the other one until a replacement arrives. With one large monitor failing I'm stuck in the dark. Dave

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/dev/ull
by SternData 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Both of my F14 systems had a file, /dev/ull, created during updates run today. Does anyone else have /dev/ull? (note, not "null" but "ull".) OSSEC got very excited about it. Received From: mooch->rootcheck Rule: 510 fired (level 7) -> "Host-based anomaly detection event (rootcheck)." Portion of the log(s): File '/dev/ull' present on /dev. Possible hidden file. -- -- Steve

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sinf compiler error I don't understand
by Howard Howell 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

First let me say, that while I have used C++ I don't normally use it for my work and so am not throughly familiar with what it does, so if this is due to a C++ error, please be gentle. I am working on some DSP code I developed a long time ago, and now want to port it to 64 bit. I have read several articles on the differences in C and C++ between 32 and 64 bit, but this has me stymied. Here is the smallest sample I have been working with to show the current error: #include <math.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> main() { long double temp; printf ("M_PI=%e\n",M_PI); printf ("sin 90 = %e\n",sinf(M_PI/2)); temp=M_PI/2.0; // the following line won't compile for temp // regardless of how temp is declared (float, double, long double) // printf ("sin 90 = %e\n",sinf(temp)); } Clearly sinf is recognized, and compiles and runs. It returns 1.000 as expected for M_PI/2. But the line that is commented out will not compile. If you can see the issue here, please let me know. MY system is: Release Kernel Linux 2.6.35.``-83.fc14.x86_64 GNOME 2.32.0 Hardware Memory 7.8GiB AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1035T Lots of disk space yum info GCC shows: Name : gcc Arch : x86_64 Version : 4.5.1 Release : 4.fc14 Thanks, Les H

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Why only unstable Chromium?
by Valent Turkovic 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hi Tom, I have been using Chromium from your repo for some time now and it was great so far, but lately (since F14) I notices more and more crashes. Now I see that Chromium is based on unstable beta Chrome 11 core while there is no Chromium package based on stable Chrome 10 version. I tried running Chrome 10 for last few days and had zero page crashed while using same pages with Chromium 11 I get constant page crashes. I would like to ask if it is possible to rebase Chromium package on stable version of Chrome 10. Thank you, Valent. -- follow me - www.twitter.com/valentt & http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com linux, anime, spirituality, wireless, scuba, linuxmce smart home, zwave ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, MSN: valent.turkovic(a)hotmail.com

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