Fedora is a Linux distribution with a fast release cycle, maintained by a community and sponsored by Red Hat.
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Avoid very fast double clicks
I have a mouse with a strange problem. The left button sometimes fires a double click even if I click just one time.
I would like to know if there's a way to avoid fast double clicks, ignoring clicks ...
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Fedora 17, WebGL, intel integrated graphics
I have troubles with getting started WebGL in Google chrome. This is the info about my GPU from about:gpu:
GPU0 VENDOR = 0x8086 [Intel Corporation],
DEVICE= 0x0116 [2nd Generation Core Processor ...
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Sudo yum permission denied Fedora 17
On Fedora 13, in /etc/sudoers I used to have a line:
Cmnd_Alias SOFTWARE=/usr/bin/yum
and then for a user that would have the privilege of installing his/her own RPM packages, an entry like:
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Fedora installer doesn't see my Windows 7 partitions
I tried to install Fedora 17 on the same disk I have Windows 7. First I got the message, that there are no free space to create partition, even in Windows part of disk was marked as unallocated.
I ...
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X Windows Terminates when I type {+<ENTER>
In particular when I type the following keyboard combo:
<hold shift> [ <release shift> <enter>
I get dumped out of KDE and see a flash of some console output but I can't find it in ...
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Should I be concerned with the error xauth: /home/user/.serverauth.535 does not exist?
I installed a minimal Fedora system and have built it up to getting X running with Xmonad as my window manager. I can startx fine and so far I don't see any issues with my current setup while in X. ...
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Can't control brightness on HP Pav dv6t running Fedora 16
I installed FC 16 on my HP Pavilion dv6 with a 9-cell battery. I get approximately 7-8 hours on Windows 7, but at best 3 hours on Fedora. I cannot adjust the screen brightness using the fn keys, nor ...
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GRUB error Fedora 15 when Dual Booting on MacBook Pro
I am having trouble getting Fedora 15 running on my MacBook Pro. I had Fedora 15 installed before on this MBP before, so I know it works. I basically followed the good old instructions of
Create a ...
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Why is plymouth-log-viewer starting up?
I've been using Fedora 14 for about a month on my primary system (converted from Win2K). My secondary system was converted to Fedora 12 from Win2K, and was updated sequentially to Fedora 14 (using ...
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Why is Gnome Shell sending data over my wireless network?
I have been checking which processes under my Fedora Linux 18 are using my upload bandwidth and I occasionally see that Gnome Shell is one of them. Why should it be sending data over my wireless ...
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How to edit rpm's HEADER and NAME-VERSION-RELEASE
Is there's a way or a tool that can modify the HEADER and the NAME-VERSION-RELEASE for an existing rpm without installing/rebuilding it?
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Screen flickers in Fedora 17
Screen flickers every 10 seconds. (I timed with a stopwatch, screen flickers every 10 seconds, 6 times a minute exactly.)
I've used Windows and I'm trying to use Linux. I don't know much about Linux. ...
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Netbook w/ Fedora 17 and USB Numpad at Boot Disables Internal Keyboard
I have a netbook with F17 installed. No X, just text console. The system boots fine and the internal keyboard works. I can plugin a USB numpad after boot and it functions reliably. However, if the ...
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Installing Fedora 17 on Mac Book Pro from mid-February
I have problems installing Fedora on my friend's Mac Book Pro. After a boot I get a blank screen. Forcing nomodeset helps:
nomodeset xdriver=efifb
However I still cannot get into neither X nor text ...
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Is it possible to set different resolution between console and X when Kernel Mode Setting is enabled?
My LCD monitor is dying. It has white screen issue: when power on, it's black screen (power LED is flashing), after a while (maybe one hour), it turns to white screen. Then I need switch to different ...
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Boot linux bootloader from Mac OSX
Recently I was running Fedora 17 on my computer which was an HP windows based machine. Unfortunately my computer has a malfunctioning motherboard and will no longer turn on. I removed the hard drive ...
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Cisco AnyConnect on Fedora
I have downloaded the setup for Cisco AnyConnect client from our client's secure web URI. This setup script was for 32 bit machine while mine is a 64 bit one. However, I managed to install the client ...
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Stuck on Fedora splash screen after OpenBox3/tint2 install
My system was bogged down by Gnome3 DE and so I made an install of OpenBox3 and tint2 on a Fedora 17 system yesterday. Both were working marvelously. After a system reboot this morning, my system is ...
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Ethernet NIC power usage on laptop?
I was wondering if the ethernet NIC draws any power at all when using Wifi? If it does, since I rarely use it, so is there a way to completely turn off the power from the device? I know some devices ...
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Run a program when start an activity
Is there a way to run a program when specific activity starts on KDE 4.8.9?
PD.: KDE has a feature called Activity. It is designed for change your desktop settings. For example, KDE has some ...
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Dual boot Fedora 16 with OS X refit
Having trouble with installing Fedora 16 on my Macbook Pro. While the installation itself completes without and issues, the bootloader doesn't install correctly.
I have rEFIt, which I already have ...
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Fedora now tries to connect to wireless at boot?
In my Fedora 16 installation I've recently noticed that it tries to connect to wireless at boot (I have kernel messages turned on at boot so I can see it trying). The issue though is that my wireless ...
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Restart USB (ehci) in Fedora 14
I am looking for a way in Fedora 14 to restart the USB system so that all USB devices disconnect and reconnect to the OS (due to some slightly dubious USB peripherals that I have no choice but to ...
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Fedora 15: Linux 2.6.40 + tg3 = pain
I have an IBM BladeCenter blade running Fedora 15. Everything works fine with 2.6.38 kernels, but when I boot with a 2.6.40 kernel, I lose connectivity after a few seconds. Removing and then ...
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Cannot forward when going through welcome screen for fedora 15
I just installed fedora 15 on my laptop, but I have problem get it working. My current situation is that when the installation is done, it reboots and gives me a welcome screen. I setup username as ...
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Fedora, Android phone mounting?
I am using Fedora 15 and I just plugged in my Samsung Vibrant Android phone, but my phone does not even give me the option to mount over USB like usual. It still charges though. Is there some ...
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VirtualBox bug[?] when Chainloading Grub2
Regarding this: How to install Fedora&Ubuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?
So booted into Ubuntu..and I run this script:
#!/bin/bash
# show the bootlist of grub when booting pc
sed ...
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fedora 14 xen virtual machine does not detect network
I'm trying to create a para-virt Fedora 14 xen vm on a host running CentOS 5.5. The VM appears to initially install correctly (the installer finds eth0 and can access the installation media). But when ...
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Unable to Boot into F17
I was currently running Win8 and F17 as a dual boot on my home desktop with an i5 chip and Asus UEFI BIOS. Unfortunately, while I was in Win8 I accidentally removed the partition that held my F17 OS.
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Turning off gnome's Function key mapping
I recently upgraded to Fedora 18 with gnome. My function keys started to do things like open the cd player (F12) and turn the volume up (F11) and down (F10). I'd like to just pass those though to the ...
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Change window manager in Fedora 18
Fedora 17 would let me choose my window manager on login; now with Fedora 18 not only can I not choose it on login, but I can't find a way to change it anywhere.
Is there a way to easily switch ...
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Flash disk USB Fedora installation reset counting
I have created a flash disk with pen drive Linux universal USB installer to install Fedora 18 on my system but after booting, a counter starts and then reset and never installation begin.
My system is ...
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Do I need to install LIRC seperately in Fedora 18?
I just finished installing Fedora 18 and out of the box I noticed that it recognizes my IMON/MCE Remote control. I have had to make some changes to the rc_keymaps/imon_mce file to remap some of the ...
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Problem getting Fedora to run in VirtualBox
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit, trying to get Fedora 18 64-bit to run in the Oracle VM VirtualBox.
I've got VirtualBox installed (via the .deb package available from the official site,) and I got the ...
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How to set SELinux samba policy to enable dirs deletion/renaming?
I`m lost in trouble with SELinux once more link to my previous solved Q on Samba SELinux
When share's users try to delete a dir on share they fail with SELinux advertisement
to solve problem do ...
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How to get Wine to work with SELinux?
I want to run a .msi file on Fedora 17. After installing Wine Windows Program Loader on my Linux machine, it failed to run the file. A check on /var/log/messages shows the following line:
Jan 11 ...
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Windows losing focus on Gnome on Fedora 17
I have a problem using Gnome on Fedora 17 where, after a period of time, I cannot regain focus on any windows; that is, I can only see the desktop screen. If I Alt-Tab I can see the other windows, but ...
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Fedora Bluetooth
Which packets i have to install for my blue headset works?
have installed:
rpm -qa |grep blue
bluez-alsa-4.99-2.fc17.i686
bluez-libs-4.99-2.fc17.i686
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-1.1-9.fc17.i686
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Disable sliding feature of tray icons
I want to disable sliding feature of these icons. I want them to be static, you know just like Windows perhaps. When I hover my mouse over them they slide & it greatly annoys me to again ...
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TigerVNC Cinnamon session on Fedora 17
I'm trying to properly start a Cinnamon (2D) session in tigervnc-server on Fedora 17 "Beefy Miracle". The only way I currently know to accomplish this is to modify the file /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients. ...
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cannot start network service in Fedora15?
I am pretty new to Linux operating system.I googled the error but did not find any solution to my problem. I am using Fedora15. Any pointers would be appreciated.Thanks
service network start
> ...
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RHN Satellite scout won't push
My RHN Satellite (Spacewalk) server is having issues with monitoring. The Spacewalk Monitor Scout will not push out successfully. It always stops with a Request Expired status. I can't seem to find ...
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Fedora 17 not booting
I just got GRUB to properly set the resolution, thanks to this wonderful answer. After selecting Fedora 17 and waiting a bit, this displays:
[ 0.752888] [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: No compatible ...
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Installing jdk 1.4.2 on fedora 14
I am trying to install wsdgate,
In the installation they have recommended to use jdk 1.4.2,
I already have jdk 1.7 but I am not able to install JDK 1.4.2 on fedora 14.
I got error like this
could not ...
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How do I set my login avatar in MATE? (Fedora 17)
Plain old GNOME 2 had a panel applet which displayed your user long name. It had a menu option under which you could set an image to be a login avatar, and it appeared in the gdm display manager (aka ...
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Install Fedora 17 to iSCSI Target, Boot from iSCSI Target
I have installed Fedora 17 to an iSCSI target by:
Booting with the Fedora 17 ISO
Chose LiveCD so I could install iscsi-initiator-utils
Started the installer
Chose iSCSI target from native Fedora ...
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How do you implement a login warning banner in Gnome 3?
This question documents how we used to inflict the mandatory login banners required on our Linux machines at work. Unfortunately, this procedure is no longer effective with Gnome 3 in Fedora 15, 16 or ...
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Using gdm to manage xdmcp authentication over VNC
I've followed a few guides in order to enable XDMCP over VNC, however the end result is an ugly, if functional, default X login screen. It is not utilizing gdm for the authentication process, and I ...
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3D Acceleration/Compiz Failure
I've installed Linux Mint 12 & Fedora 16 in VB 4.1.10 on a Windows 7 Host which has a Intel i3 processor and Intel HD 3000 graphics card. For both Linux installations I've enabled 3D acceleration ...
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Fedora Failed to get D-Bus connection
I have a VPS with fedora 16 installed. I have setup mysql and it was working a couple of days ago.
Now suddenly when I try to start mysql I get the error:
Failed to get D-Bus connection: Failed to ...
