I've been having a lot of headaches with the screensaver in my Suse 10.1 installation using KDE. Sometimes the screensaver would work, other times it wouldn't. Sometimes it would fade in/out in a cool effect, sometimes it wouldn't (I'll show you that little trick as well).

 

For the most part, I think I got it covered, and I'd like to share how I managed to 'fix' it up a little by reading a FAQ from the xscreensaver site:

Quote:Instead of using the usual xscreensaver mechanisms, the KDE folks have chosen to roll their own screen saver wrapper that is inferior to the xscreensaver-demo way of doing things in any number of ways.  

The only sensible (and secure) way to use a screen saver under KDE is to turn off KDE's built-in screen saver, and use xscreensaver instead. How you go about this is explained in the "Using KDE" section of the xscreensaver manual.

 

The GNOME people used to have the same class of bugs as the KDE folks now have, but the GNOME crew finally came to their senses, and we worked together to come up with a solution that resulted in their being one and only one xscreensaver configurator, instead of two: mine and theirs.

 

Will the KDE people wise up and do the same? Only time will tell. I encourage you to encourage them.

hi guys, with the iminant release of Fedora core release 6, will you be one of the first people to download and install it ?

 

I will as soon as it hits the mirrors, and I can't wait woohoo !!!!

 

cheers

anyweb

more info here

 

[/url][url=https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-anno...r/msg00000.html]https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-anno...r/msg00000.html

 

I will definetly download this when it releases, I can't WAIT !! :)

 

cheers

anyweb

Quote:OpenSUSE 10.2 alpha 5 has been released. Important changes: Linux kernel 2.6.18, glibc 2.5, Python 2.5, installation allows comfortable LVM partitioning, setup RAID automatically via the BIOS (so called fake-RAID support) in the partitioner, GNOME 2.16.1 (most packages are updated), KDE 3.5.5 SVN version, and more. 

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hi all,

 

the linux-noob.com server was updated today from Fedora Core release 4 to Fedora core release 5 via yum over an ssh connection. To see details of how to accomplish the same yourself check this post

 

cheers

anyweb

Slackware 11 Released.

 

cheers

anyweb

thanks to znx for the link,

 

[/url][url=http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading...x_with_yum.html]http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading...x_with_yum.html

 

cheers

 

anyweb

I work at a school that has the following setup

 

Cable Modem

with ethernet going into

Dell Computer running Fedora Core Release 1

from which one ethernet goes to a machine running windows server 2003

and another ethernet cable goes to a different machine running windows server 2003

These two servers are the domain controllers for the Teachers and Students servers

The servers have completely different IP addresses (one is 192.168.xxx.xxx and the other is 172.27.27.xxx)

 

This system has been running for a few years with no one taking care of it. The last IT person who knew how to use this system (a teacher) left on bad terms apparently, and did not leave any of the log in information behind. Since he left, another IT person has come and gone, but they never had anything to do with the Fedora machine, they only knew how to log into the two Windows Server 2003 systems.

 

The school is now involved in an international project called Rock Our World (www.rockourworld.org) which requires iChat to be used so classes around the world can communicate.

 

At home, the Apple iBook connects to iChat (using AIM) instantly. There are no problems. At work, it is not able to connect. I imagine this is a firewall problem.

 

I plugged the iBook directly into the Cable Modem at work (disabling the Internet connection for the rest of the school) and iChat worked right away. I then connected the iBook to one of the ethernet cables coming out of the machine running Fedora and iChat wouldn't connect. This happened again when I tried the other ethernet cable. This leads me to believe that the Fedora machine (which I know nothing about) is blocking the ports that iChat needs to see outside. Is Fedora operating as a firewall for the system?

 

I have been trying to figure out what on earth to do... The Fedora computer's monitor is just a bunch of numbers (mac addresses etc). When I try to type something, a log in prompt comes up. Sadly, I do not know what username or password to use. It is impossible to get this information. I have never had any exposure to Fedora or Linux before, but there has got to be some solution...

 

Does anyone have any suggestions? A lot of kids will be pretty thrilled if this gets figured out.

 

Thanks,

 

R. Johnson

The Glenfir School

www.glenfir.com

more info

 

[/url]https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-deve...r/msg00921.html

 

Quote:FC6Pre images relelased! 

* From: Will Woods <wwoods redhat com>

* To: fedora-test-list <fedora-test-list redhat com>, fedora-devel-list redhat com

* Cc:

* Subject: FC6Pre images relelased!

* Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:30:47 +0000

 

Hello!

 

As promised, we have pushed FC6 prerelease images to the trackers:

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

 

The following install-blocking bugs have been tested and should be fixed

in these images:

#206876: GRUB claims initrd is too big for memory on x86_64

#206453: installed x86_64/ppc system missing initrd, cannot boot

#206202: Anaconda traceback during lvcreate on ppc64

#206913: Anaconda exception on upgrade from FC5

#208080: ahci/ata_piix mixup causes Anaconda to not find SATA disks

This is not a complete list of bugs fixed, just some of the most

troublesome installer bugs from Test3.

 

There *is* a known bug when trying to install using Fedora Extras in

this release. Luckily we already have a fix for it that you can use with

these images! Just follow the directions here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates

You can get the update image from here:

[url=http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/updates-fc6pre.img]http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/updates-fc6pre.img

This will also help us test the Anaconda Update code, so if you're

thinking of using Extras, please give it a shot!

 

Another note: the keyboard won't work in firstboot. The mouse is fine,

though, so you can click your way through. I believe we already have a

fix for this, but it just didn't make it in time for this release.

 

Enjoy the updated images, and happy testing. Be sure to keep your

newly-installed FC6pre systems up to date and keep on testing as we make

the final push towards the release of FC6!

 

-w

here's how I made Internet Explorer 7 in Vista 5728 go from this

 

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to this

 

[img]<fileStore.core_Attachment>/post-1-1160073179.jpg[/img]

 

 

part 1 - smileys anyone ?

part 2 - a handful of toolbars

part 3 - more toolbars !!

part 4 - more toolbars plus can we reset Internet Explorer ?

 

cheers

anyweb

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