F20 cursor invisible
by Beartooth
I've just done fedup --network 20 (from F 18), and watched a lot
of the boot messages. There were warnings in at least a couple of places,
but that was as much as I was able to read. However, when I rebooted, all
seemed well except for a disaster to the mouse cursor.
The screen does have a cursor, and the mouse does move it. I can
tell that much because some things change their appearance, enabling me
to tell the mouse cursor is there; and, thanks be to all the inventors of
Linux, I do have a nice big pair of eyes on both my vertical and my
horizontal panel. Also, the trick with the control key is set.
For some reason, I always have great difficulty discovering the
way to make any adjustments to the cursor; but without a visible cursor
to mouse around with, I can't find it at all. I did find a couple places
that recognized the cursor is supposed to be size 48; but in fact it's so
tiny that only dumb luck alone would let me spot it without those eyes --
and they're not exactly precise, either (nor meant to be, I imagine).
My CLI-foo is nowhere near adequate to do much of anything by
itself. What can I do to get the cursor back to a nice big discoverable
size? I use 48 because it's the biggest. And while we're at it, how do I
get to a good color (such as red or yellow) that will stand out against
most backgrounds??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
10 years, 3 months
Probably OT -- KDE picture of the day wallpaper not working
by Mark Haney
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This might sound a bit silly, but the Picture of the Day wallpaper
option in F20 isn't working for me now. I just blew away my Win7
workstation and installed and fully updated F20. For some reason I
now get a blank display with 'Loading Picture of the Day from
Astronomy Picture of the Day' and nothing else.
For the record, prior to the formatting/installing of F20 I had Win7
with VMWare workstation and a fully updated KDE F20 VM and the pic of
the day worked just fine.
I can't imagine the problem, so I don't even know where to start
debugging. I've shutdown firewalld AND selinux just to see if that
helps. (Yes I do have internet access since I'm working on remote
servers in Wisconsin). Any thoughts?
- --
Mark Haney
Network/Systems Adminsitrator
Practichem
W: (919) 714-8428
Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) 3.12.10-300.fc20.x86_64
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10 years, 3 months
Gnome-shell calander plugin doesn't update
by Matthew Saltzman
I have two machines running Fedora 20 with gnome-shell (fully updated).
On my desktop, the weather applet
(gnome-shell-extension-weather-0-0.13.git7587e23.fc20.noarch) works
fine. On my laptop, the applet just displays the circular arrow.
Pulling down the applet display shows "Loading weather". Clicking
"Reload weather information" has no effect. Changing locations or
deleting and resetting the location in the Settings menu has no effect.
Both machines are configured identically.
Any idea where to look to clear whatever might be locking this up?
Thanks.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
10 years, 3 months
Problems with Windows 8.1 after Fedora 20 Installation
by L.G.
Hi all.
After the answers about "Fedora 20 Installation Problem" which I have got, I have created a Live USB using LiveUSB Creator. After that, I have started my Sony Vaio SVE1512Y1ESI notebook (which was already installed Windows 8.1 on) from my USB and I have be able to install this OS at last. At this point I have restart my PC to access Windows partition and, much to my surprise, it has appear a kernel error message on the screen. That's why I have had to restore previous situation to be able to access again that partition.
What do you suggest I should do to avoid this problem befall again?
I express my early thanks to people who will know to give me an answer.
10 years, 3 months
Re: F20 - Can't Select Desktop Environment at Login
by Brian Hanks
> You can still choose what session, but only *after* selecting the username
> (if using gdm, at least).
>
> -- Rex
Wow, now I see it in the upper right corner of the screen rather than in
the Login Badge.
On my one machine, I did a fedup upgrade from F19 to F20 and there is
the option to select the desktop environment at Login just like there
has been on every previous version that I can remember.
On the other I did a network install overwriting the previous install.
It's this one that only has the selection in the upper right corner.
There must be a very some difference in the fedup upgrade vs. the full
install.
Brian
10 years, 3 months
Radeon Driver question
by max
Is there some sort of configuration that needs to be done with the
Radeon Driver to get resolutions higher than 1280 x 1024 ? My system
looks like crap at that resolution but its seems to be the best I can get.
The above is the only question that I have, the below rounds out why I
am asking and the other options I had considered or explored.
The card I am using is a Radeon 6570 which I know is capable of better
resolution than what I am getting.
I am not sure what happened as I have been out of touch with this for
sometime. I have been using an Nvidia card in the last few years and
that did the trick.
When it decided to fail I decided to go back to an ATI card, since they
have an open source driver.
Aticonfig doesn't appear to work for the radeon driver. I saw the
radeontool but that didn't appear to help either but frankly I am not
sure how to use it. There is no manual page for it apparently and I am
not sure which registers to set nor what to set them too.
I tried the AMD/ATI proprietary driver but it fails to build the kernel
module then asks for a reboot. Reboot and presto all there is, is an
error message. I had to uninstall it to get back to runlevel 5. In any
case I also gather that kmod-radeon or catalyst is no longer available.
Its a shame but what can you do.
So I am back to my original question: Is there some sort of
configuration that needs to be done with the Radeon Driver to get
resolutions higher than 1280 x 1024 ?
Thanks,
Max
10 years, 3 months
Controlling Appearance of GTK+ applications in KDE
by Jonathan Ryshpan
The appearance of gtk (Gnome) applications under KDE is controlled by a
System Settings function:
System Settings->Application Appearance->GTK+ Appearance->Widget
Style
which works as advertised: the theme chosen for the widget style affects
Gnome applications (in particular evolution), changing the shape and
color of the scrollbars, color of selected portions of text, etc. The
themes appear to be a selection of the themes available
in /usr/share/themes, but only a very partial
selection. /usr/share/themes contains 29 themes, of which only 9 are
available in the pull-down menu next to Widget Style. How can the
remaining themes in the system be made available to KDE? Is it possible
to download more GTK+ themes for use by KDE, or are only some themes
compatible.
System is Fedora-20 with all upgrades running on x86_64 hardware.
The problem arose because since upgrading to Fedora-20, evolution under
the KDE desktop doesn't look good. The selected message isn't
highlighted much.
Thanks - jon
10 years, 3 months