Strange grey bar in gnome shell - maybe messaging panel?
Hello everyone. I am new to Fedora and have little experience with linux overall, having tried Mint, Ubuntu, openSUSE and a few others. I personally like the gnome-shell and have had no problems so far...
View ArticleDead mice are hard on the wallet.
And so it was this last weekend when my old Logitech M-BZ96C (wired) informed me it was ready to retire by means of skittish scrolling and chattering intermittent switches on both right and left...
View ArticleWeird Keyboard Problem
I rebooted my computer yesterday, and now, whenever I'm logged on as my user, the keyboard simply beeps at me. It doesn't type. The keyboard works fine on other user accounts (e.g. guest user) and on...
View Articlehostapd: how to make it work?
Hi everyone, I'm trying to set up a hotspot with hostapd but when I type: Code: /etc/init.d/hostapd start I have the following error: Code: Starting hostapd: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.confnl80211 not found....
View ArticleAbout yum to remove package
Hi all, Fedora 17, 64bits I ran following commands; $ sudo yum install httpd $ sudo yum install mysql $ sudo yum install mysql-server installing above packages. I haven't configured them. Then I ran...
View ArticleWindoz share
I'm unable to connect to my windoz PC, and therefore can't get access to shared files when I use my fedora laptop... Had the same problem with Ubuntu, but I had many other problems with it so I...
View ArticleNouveau color settings
Hi. One way to change the brightness, contrast and gamma settings is to install the nvidia drivers and then use nvidia-settings to change them. Is it possible to do that somehow with nouveau drivers...
View ArticleA question about repositories
Okay, I just made an account with RedHat, and got the 30-day eval. Nice. A free copy of Linux, just what I always wanted...vs paying for it...:Y Anyway, is there a way to set the RedHat system's main...
View ArticleUnusual disk activity
Hi I have been using Fedora on my laptop for around one year and it was working very well in general. However, during the last couple of days I see that my disk is almost always active (the LED is on)...
View ArticleNot able to boot
Hi, I have a problem with one older computer. It is ASUS K52N. There is debian x64 installed with gnome graphical environment. After installing gimp 2.6 gnome is not able to start(after booting I can...
View Articlenautilus config please?
Hello. gnome-search-tool refuses to start in Xfce ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874762 ) complaining that some nautilus preferences are missing. So while the bug isn't fixed could...
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Corrupted xorg.conf, can no longer boot...
I manually modified my xorg.conf to adjust performance issues with my fedora 17 environment and changed this: Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Driver "fglrx" Option "Monitor-CRT1"...
View ArticleLatex, Kate, and previews
I've seen the way a friend of mine works on mac with LaTeX documents, whereby he will update the source in one window and a preview will be updated momentarily after. I like this way of working, but I...
View Articleextract RAR files
Does anyone know of a good free program which i can download that can extract .rar files from the desktop?
View ArticleLinux X Window Manager Questions
Hello everyone, I'm new to the forums, and see you all have a great community here, that I wish to be apart of! I"m currently studying for my Linux+/LPIC certification and I"m hung up on few things....
View ArticleIs Secure Boot certification the death of Linux desktop
From reading some posts elsewhere, there was commentary that Microsoft is putting constraints on what software Linux can install with Secure Boot active. Is there anyone who can comment on the...
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Gnome Shell / libmutter can't handle real 24-bit visual
When you are using a real 24-bit display Gnome shell (probably via libmutter) currently displays stippled and striped patterns on the root window (desktop background) and title bar of focused window...
View Articleweather forecasting sw -- zyGrib
zyGrib is graphical weather forecasting software which uses grib format data from NOAA to provide weather synopsis and forecasting. I am running f17 x86_64 The current version of zyGrib in the f17...
View Articlescreen keeps going black after inactivity
Hi I'm running Fedora 17 and have recently switched from gnome to xfce. Everything is running fine except that the screen keeps going black after about 10-15 minutes of inactivity. If I move the mouse...
View ArticleFedora 18 Beta status is Go, release on November 27, 2012
Quote: At the F18 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting that just occurred, it was agreed to Go for the Fedora 18 Beta. It will be released on Tuesday, November 27, 2012. A massive thanks to everyone who was working...
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