xfce February 2013

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set the time??
by Beartooth 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

How do I tell xfce to use the local timeservers? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

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tablet?
by Todd And Margo Chester 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Hi All, Anyone know of a Fedora/Xfce table out there? I will need a least one USB port, one Ethernet port, and 802.11 b/g/n. I need it to read notes from my USB stick and to test Internet connections at customer sites. Many thanks, -T

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F18 : What replaces gnome-package-kit??
by Beartooth 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

I've just discovered I no longer know a way to go through my install, adding software here, and removing it there. What do I use instead of synaptic or gnome-packagekit?? -- Beartooth Sciurivore, Curmudgeon On Line Death is not evil. Suffering is evil.

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call for xfce4-power-manager testing on laptops
by Kevin Fenzi 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

I've got some scratch builds I would love feedback/testing on: rawhide: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5045553 f18: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5045600 In theory this xfce4-power-manager should inhibit systemd from doing power management functions while it's running. Way to test: update the package reboot in lightdm, close the lid and open the lid, the laptop should have suspended/resumed. login to Xfce. set xfce4-power-manager to 'do nothing' or 'lock screen' on lid close. close the lid and see if it suspended. Thanks for any feedback. kevin

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XKB+Ibus input methods?
by Martin Sourada 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Hi all, after last batch of updates, "Czech (querty)" input method disappeared from ibus. Some trivia: I use mozc for Japanese, English (US), Russian (translit, m17n) and Czech (qwerty) with ibus. It's inconvenient to manage half of them via XKB (English and Czech) and the other by ibus (Japanese and Czech). Since a long ago, Czech querty could have been used as ibus input method without issues. That stopped somewhere around the time ibus config dialogue got switched from gtk2 to gtk3. Thenceforth it offered only Czech (which is qwertz, which I don't want) input method. I discovered that if I added Czech (qwerty) to Settings->Keyboard Layout, ibus picked it up and worked mostly as expected. This is no longer the case. Am I seeing a bug or is there some other supported way to add XKBC keyboard layouts to ibus in XFCE? Or am I supposed to use different input system with XFCE (ibus seems to get more and more integrated with gnome)? Any pointers? $ rpm -qa --last | grep "20 Feb" ibus-anthy-1.5.0-1.fc18.i686 Wed 20 Feb 2013 11:19:26 AM CET ibus-table-mathwriter-1.3.0.20130204-1.fc18.noarch Wed 20 Feb 2013 11:18:36 AM CET ibus-1.5.1-2.fc18.i686 Wed 20 Feb 2013 11:14:32 AM CET ibus-gtk3-1.5.1-2.fc18.i686 Wed 20 Feb 2013 11:14:29 AM CET ibus-gtk2-1.5.1-2.fc18.i686 Wed 20 Feb 2013 11:14:29 AM CET ibus-libs-1.5.1-2.fc18.i686 Wed 20 Feb 2013 11:14:28 AM CET xkeyboard-config-2.6-7.fc18.noarch Wed 20 Feb 2013 11:18:49 AM CET redhat-lsb-languages-4.1-10.fc18.i686 Wed 20 Feb 2013 11:15:41 AM CET <snip> Thanks, Martin

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Windows placement and keyboard shortcuts problem
by Tiago Lam 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

Hi, when i logged in today in my fedora 17 x86_64 installation (uname -r: 3.7.6-102.fc17.x86_64), i noticed two abnormal things: 1. My keyboard shortcuts weren't working anymore. For example, my <CTRL><ALT><L> that supposedly would lock the screen, didn't do anything at all, and my <CTRL><ALT><DEL> that would give me, supposedly, the log out screen, didn't do anything either. 2. The windows wouldn't be placed in the right place when started. In other words, they wouldn't comply with my option "By default, place windows: at the center of the screen" in settings>settings manager>window manager tweaks>placement. In the same window, i also have the cursor pushed all the way to Large in the "minimum size of windows to trigger smart placement" option. Now, since i am almost sure that yesterday none of this was happening, i did the following: $rpm -qa --last | more ModemManager-0.6.0.0-3.fc17 Mon 18 Feb 2013 11:16:52 dnsmasq-2.65-4.fc17 Mon 18 Feb 2013 11:16:51 phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.3-1.fc17 Mon 18 Feb 2013 11:16:50 xkeyboard-config-2.5.1-4.fc17 Mon 18 Feb 2013 11:16:49 xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.6.3-1.fc17 Mon 18 Feb 2013 11:16:47 mtdev-1.1.3-1.fc17 Mon 18 Feb 2013 11:16:45 Regarding the shortcuts (point 1), can i say that the xkeyboard-config is the culprit? Or is my assumption completely wrong? (With xev i was able to confirm that the keys are being correctly interpreted) Regarding point 2, after playing around, i saw that if i go to settings>settings manager>window manager tweaks>placement and push the cursor all the way to "Small" and then again all the way to "Large", the windows wouldn't start where i want them again, which is at the center of the screen. Is someone else seeing the same thing? Should i fill a bug? If so, against what? Thanks for any input.

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Re: Change keyboard shortcut for xf4lock
by Raphael Groner 17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

Hi Heiko, maybe you misunderstand something. The logic is not to bind a command to a special shortcut, the other way around is the truth. You can use several shortcuts for the same command. So, each shortcuts has its own xfconf property, and you can set your individual configuration in xfconf without changing the default. Just try that in one line, maybe in a script for your users: $ xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -p "/commands/custom/<Super>l" -t string -n -s xflock4 Best, Raphael > Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:30:25 +0100 > From: Heiko Adams <heiko.adams(a)gmail.com> > To: xfce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Change keyboard shortcut for xf4lock > Message-ID: > <CACNdeQKqe4b7Qy4bM2S3wtDyis2y+23JaApPkG3KkOx_Btd9aQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi, > by fedora's default the shortcut for xflock4 CTRL+ALT+DEL but I'd > suggest to change that shortcut to SUPER+L because this would be more > intuitive to users which used Windows before. And second CTRL+ALT+DEL > is the shortcut for launching the taskmanager on most systems.

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Change keyboard shortcut for xf4lock
by Heiko Adams 17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

Hi, by fedora's default the shortcut for xflock4 CTRL+ALT+DEL but I'd suggest to change that shortcut to SUPER+L because this would be more intuitive to users which used Windows before. And second CTRL+ALT+DEL is the shortcut for launching the taskmanager on most systems. -- Regards, Heiko Adams

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Fw: Comiz Tester for xfce and lxde
by Martin Sourada 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

I think the bellow quoted message is more for suited for the audience on xfce list than devel list. Forwarding :-) Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:27:14 +0100 From: Rave it <chat-to-me(a)raveit.de> To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Comiz Tester for xfce and lxde Dear xfce/lxde user/maintainer, perhaps you know i re-retired compiz-0.88 for f18. I also added a start-script for lxde and xfce, subpackage compiz-xfce and compiz-lxde. Unfortunately i do not use xfce or lxde directly so i have no feedback if compiz is running well in those desktop. I did a short test if i had created the packages, and it was OK. It wold be nice if some could test it more and give me a feedback. Thank you Wolfgang PS: compiz is running well in gnome-fallback -- devel mailing list devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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Karma needed
by Christoph Wickert 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

Hi, I need karma for https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-1563/xfce4-settings-4.1… in order to push it out. As it is critical path, I need one proven tester (other than myself). Kind regards, Christoph

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