Sound alert in Gmail Manager firefox plugin
by Sam Varshavchik
The "built-in" alert sound in the Gmail Manager plugin I have installed on a
32-bit laptop produces a nice, pleasant chime anytime new mail arrives in my
mailbox.
However on a 64 bit Firefox, on another machine, the alert sound does not
play. Neither does any custom WAV option. I do not get any error messages of
any kind, just deafening silence. The only option that works, in the plugin
configuration, is the default system alert.
I have no idea if this is something that's broken in the 64 bit version of
this plugin -- seems unlikely, this plugin appears to be platform
independent; or something is borked in my 64 bit Firefox install. But I have
no idea what it could possibly be. Everything else works, and has no issues
making noise.
12 years, 9 months
DISPLAY is not exported, sometimes
by David A. De Graaf
Since doing fresh installs of Fedora 15 on two computers, I've found
that the DISPLAY environment variable is not exported in some cases,
despite being declared "exported".
This seems to be a clear violation of the EXPORT rules in /bin/bash.
It is a severe handicap in a root window, since most of the GUI
commands in the system-config-* group will not run.
The problem initially arose with the command
/usr/bin/xterm -e /bin/su -
which opens a new root window, prompting for the passwd.
I found that system-config-network failed to open the customary GUI panel,
but reverted to a semi-useless curses-based substitute. This was quickly
traced to a missing DISPLAY definition in the root xterm.
However, this error occurs on only one of two laptops. Although the
hardware is different - an IBM T30 vs an ASUS N10 - the packages
installed differ only in that nvidia drives are installed on the ASUS.
Both laptops usually run XFCE4; the DISPLAY error occurs only on the
IBM T30.
To simplify the issue, and remove any potential security issues about
switching to root, I used su only to switch user, and only to myself,
ie:
/bin/su - dad
Passwd:
No new xterm window was opened; I only changed user (to myself).
Before and after, I listed the exported variables:
export -p > /tmp/exp.before
and compared the lists.
To my surprise, there is a great number of variables that should have
been exported, but were not. Here's the list of variable names that
are NOT exported:
IBM T30 ASUS N10
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS= DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=
DESKTOP_SESSION= DESKTOP_SESSION=
DISPLAY=
GLADE_CATALOG_PATH= GLADE_CATALOG_PATH=
GLADE_MODULE_PATH= GLADE_MODULE_PATH=
GLADE_PIXMAP_PATH= GLADE_PIXMAP_PATH=
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=
GPG_AGENT_INFO= GPG_AGENT_INFO=
LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH= LIBGLADE_MODULE_PATH=
OLDPWD=
ORBIT_SOCKETDIR=
SESSION_MANAGER= SESSION_MANAGER=
SHLVL= SHLVL=
SSH_AGENT_PID= SSH_AGENT_PID=
SSH_AUTH_SOCK= SSH_AUTH_SOCK=
WINDOWID= WINDOWID=
WINDOWPATH= WINDOWPATH=
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS= XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=
XDG_DATA_DIRS= XDG_DATA_DIRS=
XDG_MENU_PREFIX= XDG_MENU_PREFIX=
XDG_SESSION_COOKIE= XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=
XTERM_LOCALE= XTERM_LOCALE=
XTERM_SHELL= XTERM_SHELL=
XTERM_VERSION= XTERM_VERSION=
What's going on here? I would expect the exported environment variables
to be identical in this experiment, but they are vastly different.
Is someone playing fast and loose with the rules?
In particular, why is DISPLAY not exported on the IBM T30, but is exported
on the ASUS N10?
As a further experiment, I fired up gnome 3 on each machine and reran
the comparison. To be brief, DISPLAY is exported properly on BOTH
machines. There are many different exported variables between xfce4
and gnome, which is not surprising, but why should DISPLAY be treated
differently?
I also tried different terminal emulators, Terminal, lxterminal,
xfterm4, etc. I created a new user with a brand new $HOME.
None of these had any effect.
Who can duplicate this failure to export?
Why are variables, marked for export, not exported?
Who can explain it?
How can it be fixed?
I've filed BZ 722703 against xfce4, but
a) I doubt that xfce4 is culpable, and
b) The only responder seems to have run out of ideas.
Can anyone help?
--
David A. De Graaf DATIX, Inc. Hendersonville, NC
dad(a)datix.us www.datix.us
Computers are like airconditioners:
They stop working properly if you open windows.
12 years, 9 months
Linking shared lib.
by Mickey
FC15
I'm trying to install from the fedora repos honeyd package and it
requires a dependency package libevent-1.4.so.2 which does not exist.
I did a ln -s libevent-2.0.so.5 libevent-1.4.so.2 in /usr/lib .
So i now have in /usr/lib libevent-1.4.so.2 > libevent-2.0.so.5 >
libevent-2.0.so.5.0.1 . But when i try to install honeyd I still
get the error it needs libevent-1.4.so.2 .
What do I do ?
12 years, 9 months
How do I "unforward" mail, was RE: How do I point a mail client at Microsoft outlook?
by Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011, Damian Kohlfeld wrote:
> Use the following fetchmail configuration as a template. Replace all
> USERNAME with your unix user account name, all PASSWORD with the password
> for that IMAP account, all IMAPUSER with the IMAP username, all MAILHOST
> with the IMAP serverhostname and finally all MBOXPATH your mbox (absolute)
> filenames.
Thanks, but see below.
> --- BEGIN CONFIG ---
>
> set postmaster "USERNAME"
> set bouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set softbounce
> set properties ""
> set no showdots
>
> poll MAILHOST with proto IMAP
> user 'IMAPUSER' there with password 'PASSWORD' is 'USERNAME' here
> options keep fetchall ssl mda "formail -c >> /MBOXPATH/inbox"
> folder INBOX
>
> poll MAILHOST with proto IMAP
> user 'IMAPUSER' there with password 'PASSWORD' is 'USERNAME' here
> options keep fetchall ssl mda "formail -c >> /MBOXPATH/sent"
> folder INBOX.Sent
>
> --- END CONFIG ---
I couldn't get it to work with exchange.
I'm told Microsoft is holding up IMAP requests.
I did get it to work with cableone.
The relevant account is a thin wrapper on gmail.
I have the mail I want, sort of.
I had to hit forward rather a lot.
So all my messages are wrapped in forwarding boilerplate.
Is there a convenient way I can unwrap them?
--
Michael hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
12 years, 9 months
Flash Video clips -
by Bob Goodwin
I tried sending a saved YouTube video clip as an e-mail
attachment this morning. So far two Windows users were
unable to run an ".flv" file. I figured most people would be
able to deal with that except Apple Mac perhaps.
What format do most require, Youtube offers several, or at
least the Firefox add-on does? I didn't see a ".wmv" listed.
Bob
--
12 years, 9 months
dovecot-lda as local mailer and access to manage sive
by Chris Kottaridis
I am using Fedora 14.
I setup my mail server with dovecot so I am now able to access my host
for email from other hosts within my local net. It's been very helpful
to have that.
While I was able to add a dovecot mailer to the sendmail.cf file I was
never able to make it the local mailer. In the end I had to create
a .forward file and pipe the message through dovecot-lda. However, with
this limitation it only works for real user's with home directories that
would have a .forward file.
Are there any good pointers that could give me the necessary details to
run dovecot-lda as the local mailer from sendmail which should be able
to allow me to support virtual mail users that don't have a home
directory with a .forward file ?
A few weeks ago I played with this quite a bit, but never got the
sendmail.cf file quite right to use dovcot-lda as the local mailer.
Also, I have sieve enabled in dovecot. Right now I have evolution up and
running on one machine all the time that does the filtering of incoming
messages into their folders. The rest of the machines don't apply any
filters. I'd like to generate a sieve file so that dovecot-lda does the
filtering when the email initially comes in. But, I don't want to have
to login to one specific machine and edit the sieve instructions every
time I want to make a change.
So, I have manage sieve enabled, but as far as I can tell evolution
doesn't have a manage sieve client. I played with thunderbird a bit and
it seems it has a sieve extension that will access the manage sieve tool
to imap. But, I'd like to stick with evolution.
Is there an evolution plugin that will allow client access to manage
sieve from evolution ?
Thanks
Chris Kottaridis
12 years, 9 months
open-MPI installation
by Nermin Celik
Dear Members,
To run a parallelized version of a program, installed open-MPI via
Add/Remove Software option on F12. Installation is complete.
Was just wondering are there any other steps required for installing/setting
up MPI?
Regards,
Nermin
12 years, 9 months
Problem mounting on loop device
by Geoffrey Leach
Testing creation of dvd backup, I start getting complaints of "stolen"
loop device. Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong
root@mtranch[61]->mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop2 /tmp/dvd.iso /
media/CDROM
mount: stolen loop=/dev/loop2
12 years, 9 months
NAT64
by Trever L. Adams
Does anyone have any experience with NAT64 on this list? I am in a
situation where I may have to implement this and all routers are Linux
based.
I have found TAYGA, but it seems to have problems. I have seen Linux
NAT64 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxnat64/_ and haven't tried it
yet.
I am curious as to what others have seen and tried.
Thank you,
Trever
--
"You can surrender Without a prayer But never ever pray Pray without
surrender You can fight Fight without ever wining But you can never ever
win Win without fight" -- Niel Peart
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