I run xfce4 on Fedora 7. Where as xubuntu provides a complete "I can do anything GNOME|KDE can do" environment. Fedora 7's install appears to be a nod to marketing i.e. "Oh yes we have xfce4 aswell" Well it bites.... Although I love the redhat config tool structure...
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Ubuntu 7.10 – C compiler cannot create executables – putty compile
Fresh installation of Ubunut 7.10 from disk. No updates. download and compile putty-0.60.tar.gz command ./configure error: C compiler cannot create executables fix: apt-get install libgtk1.2-dev apt-get install gcc apt-get install build-essential ./configure make -f...
Fedora Kernel Upgrade Causes Desktop Clock to Stick
Lastnight did an update to my computer to kernel 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 and rebooted. Following the reboot my desktop clock in both GNOME and XFCE4 seemed to get stuck and not proceed forward. If I issued the date command from a terminal the time seemed correct. The...
Can’t change Wine Sound Driver from OSS to ALSA using winecfg
I just had an issue where I couldn't use the winecfg app to change my default audio driver. It seemed to be locked onto OSS and my system is ALSA. My setup is wine-0.9.41 and Wine Doors version 0.1 on Fedora 7. I tried using vi to change ~/.wine/user.reg...
Getting Telstra Turbo 3G Card aka Sierra Wireless AC875 Going in Linux (Ubuntu 6.06)
Update: On Ubuntu 7.04 simply plug the card in and it is automatically detected. Use the normal network manager application to create a 'dialup' connection using /dev/ttyUSB0 as the device. The only weird thing is that you don't need a username and password for the...
Linux StepByStep – http://www.linux-sxs.org/
I have been a member of the Linux Step by Step Users mailing list since if memory serves me correctly 2000. The list contains a mix of Grey Beards, Security and Programming Specialists, Enthusiasts and people who 'remember when'. The parent website has seen a drop in...
Toggle fullscreen mode in tsclient (aka. rdesktop)
This appears elsewhere on the web but I like to keep my own info just incase I need to refer to it. CTRL+ALT+ENTER
Firefox Downloads Change from Nautilus to Thunar for “Open Containing Folder” option Fedora 7
I use XFCE4 and one annoying thing was firefox was opening Nautilus when clicking the Open Containing Folder option in the Firefox Download dialog box The fix: Using a Terminal open nautilus In Nautilus right click on a "folder" object in the window of Nautilus....
Yum – Unhelpful Reply
Yum has a few things needing fixing. For example: I have smolt-0.9.8.3-1.fc7 installed but if I do yum install smolt it replies Nothing to do Logically you would assume that this "Nothing to do" message means "I already have that package installed" but NO. If I do a...
cups-pdf Fedora 7 changing directory pdf is outputted to
While installing cups-pdf using yum install cups-pdf I got this error: cut: write error: Broken pipe Installed: cups-pdf.i386 0:2.4.6-1.fc7 But it didn't seem to effect the install. However the default directory cups-pdf for F7 outputs to is $HOME/Desktop... I hate...
Stopping Yum Updating Certain Packages
I recently downloaded and installed OpenOffice.org's 2.2.1 The next upgrade YUM wanted to do was going to downgrade it back to 2.2.0-14. etc. To stop YUM doing this I added the following into the '[main]' section of /etc/yum.conf exclude=openoffice.org* Information is...
Getting around IE misrendering a title with forward slashes in it
On the recent posts menu I have a title: squirrelmail /usr/games/fortune is not found. Internet Explorer 7 somehow mis interpreted the forward slashes as HTML entities and I had a gap between the previous title and the "squirrelmail /usr/games/fortune is not found."...
wxWidgets & wxPerl Install Notes Fedora 7
Note: These Notes don't yet give a working F7 wxPerl environment. I am currently trying the wxperl-users mailing list to see if I can get some information on why Media.pm isn't being compiled/installed. I am having all sorts of problems trying to get the latest...
squirrelmail ‘/usr/games/fortune’ is not found.
In the Fedora version of Squirrelmail if you turn the fortune plugin on to get a quote on the top of your mail folders you may get the following error: /usr/games/fortune is not found. This is because Fedora puts fortune in /usr/bin the...
Madman Music Manager Rocks
I have been using madman for indexing and organising my music and recordings for about three years. Each time a new distribution comes out I sometimes need to recompile it. Which I did recently for Fedora 7. I did at one stage write a spec file and get it all nicely...
Linux is a Tweak Fest
If you run a flavour of Linux as your Operating System. Chances are you'll appreciate the number of little tweaks you have to make, to get it 'just how you want it' (I wonder if someone has TM'd those words yet?). I have recently moved from `Ubuntu 7.04' to `Fedora 7'...
Disabled comments bug on Sumanasa Design02 1.0 Theme by Sumanasa.com
Problem: Disabling comments causes right sidebar to start below left content section and to lose formatting Cause: comments-nice-bg and comments-nice divs are repeated cause the close tags to be in the wrong spot Resolution: Firstly make sure that your...
Configure bluefish to use exo-open
If you have a default install of bluefish on Fedora 7. It is probably configured to use mozilla as the default browser and may have some rather complex command line to launch a browser and display the file you are working on. exo-open from the XFCE4 project takes a...