Fedora sevens xfce4 package is a steaming pile of incompleteness. Here are very rough steps to getting xfburn going. wget http://www.paldo.org/paldo/sources/libburn-1/libburn-0.3.2.tar.bz2 wget http://www.paldo.org/paldo/sources/libisofs-1/libisofs-0.2.4.tar.bz2 do...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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 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...