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Archit Baweja | 1 Jul 2002 03:33
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Re: Auto Opening RPM And Gzipped Files?


Hi

I think there was a module for nautilus, IIRC. I remember too that eazel
had a Red Carpet like system on there website, in the early days, and from
inside nautilus one could download and install RPMs. I don't know what
has become of it now.

Archit Baweja
P.S. Although it would be cool to have a nautilus component for this. Maybe
using File Roller's components would be fruitful.

Sean Middleditch <elanthis <at> awesomeplay.com> writes:

> There is a project, RPM Wizard I believe, that can take an RPM and
> install it.  Search freshmeat/Google, grab it, install it, and set your
> MIME types.
> 
> Now if only such a piece of software existed for Debian users... ~,^
> 
> On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 18:35, William Lamb wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Is there any way to be able to double click on rpm's or gzipped files in
> > a file manager and have a program automatically open them so you can
> > specify where you want to install them, etc?
> > 
> > I am familiar with the File Types and Programs panel in the Gnome
> > Control Center, but I could not find a gui program capable of working
> > with Gnome.  I experimented with Gnozip for a while and got it to open
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mike | 1 Jul 2002 03:10
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Re: Window List mouse-bindings

On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 20:15, Joseph Barillari wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In Gnome 1.4, clicking on an application's title in the tasklist
> toggled the window's minimized state. In Gnome 2, clicking on a title
> in the Window List only unminimizes the window. Clicking on the title
> of a a window that isn't minimized does nothing.
> 
> Is there any way to get Window List to revert to the old behavior?
> 
> According to the "About" dialog, I'm using Window List 1.0, with the
> Gnome 2 distribution supplied by Debian Experimental.
> 

double-click to minimize - makes sense to me
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Mail Liste | 1 Jul 2002 06:06
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How to install rpms with Gnorpm?


Have big trouble installing rpms with Gnorpm in a RH 7.3 environment.

First minor problem is that the search function in Gnorpm dont work. Not
on computer, and not on the web. I get no answers even if I know a
program is on my computer. Tried xbill to be sure. And have tried
several websearches such as mplayer or openoffice. No results.

Second and more serious problem is that when I find a proper rpm for my
system on the net, the installation goes with no error messages from
Gnorpm, but the programs do not work.

I installed mplayer with needed packages, even got a icon in the foot
menu. But mplayer will not work. When I type mplayer in the command line
window, it says: 
error while loading shared libraries: libdivxdecore.so.0: cannot open 
shared object file: No such file or directory.
I installed a libdivxdecore -file, but for no good.

I also installed Java re, but now neither I or other programs
(LimeWire-installer) can find it.

I installed the  openoffice rpm. But now I cant find it.
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Malcolm Tredinnick | 1 Jul 2002 06:17
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Re: How to install rpms with Gnorpm?

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:06:16AM +0200, Mail Liste wrote:
> Have big trouble installing rpms with Gnorpm in a RH 7.3 environment.

Oh dear, this is probably my fault. What can I say ... I'm a slack bozo.
:-(

> First minor problem is that the search function in Gnorpm dont work. Not
> on computer, and not on the web. I get no answers even if I know a
> program is on my computer. Tried xbill to be sure. And have tried
> several websearches such as mplayer or openoffice. No results.
> 
> Second and more serious problem is that when I find a proper rpm for my
> system on the net, the installation goes with no error messages from
> Gnorpm, but the programs do not work.
> 
> I installed mplayer with needed packages, even got a icon in the foot
> menu. But mplayer will not work. When I type mplayer in the command line
> window, it says: 
> error while loading shared libraries: libdivxdecore.so.0: cannot open 
> shared object file: No such file or directory.
> I installed a libdivxdecore -file, but for no good.
> 
> I also installed Java re, but now neither I or other programs
> (LimeWire-installer) can find it.

None of these sound like familiar bugs. Can you please file separate
bugzilla bugs for each distinct event so that I don't lose track of
them?

> I installed the  openoffice rpm. But now I cant find it.
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Chris Jones | 1 Jul 2002 06:56
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Gnome 2.0 on RH 7.3 via garnome


Has anyone gotten Gnome 2.0 to work on a RH7.3 system via garnome?

I installed Gnome 2.0 via Garnome into /usr/local/garnome on a RH 7.3
system (took almost 2 hours to compile and install on my PIII 1GHz,BTW).

Now however, I cannot figure out how to startx using Gnome 2.0 instead
of the already installed Gnome 1.4.

There appears to be no user or default .xinitrc file in RH 7.3 and I am
not sure what to modify to make this work.

I added the following to my .bashrc:

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/garnome/bin 
LD_LIBRARY_PATY=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/garnome/lib 
GDK_USE_XFT=1 export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH GDK_USE_XFT

I added a .xinitrc in my home directory with the following line:

exec gnome-session

But this does not work.  I've tried searching the web, and while I've
found others with the same issue, I haven't found any resolution. 
Anyone have any suggestions?  

Thanks,
Chris
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Malcolm Tredinnick | 1 Jul 2002 07:16
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Re: Gnome 2.0 on RH 7.3 via garnome

On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 09:56:39PM -0700, Chris Jones wrote:
[...]
> Now however, I cannot figure out how to startx using Gnome 2.0 instead
> of the already installed Gnome 1.4.

[...]
> I added the following to my .bashrc:
> 
> PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/garnome/bin 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATY=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/garnome/lib 

Both your PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH need to have the garnome component
_first_, since they scan from beginning to end.

As you have it set up now, it finds all of the GNOME 1.4 stuff before
getting to the GNOME 2 stuff.

> GDK_USE_XFT=1 export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH GDK_USE_XFT
> 
> 
> I added a .xinitrc in my home directory with the following line:
> 
> exec gnome-session

I'm assuming here that you are starting things via 'startx', rather than
xdm. Otherwise, all the above stuff (including the PATH, etc) should go
in your $HOME/.xsession file (see the release notes for an example of
this).

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Calum Benson | 1 Jul 2002 14:04
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Re: I don't get gnome 2

Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
>
> Firstly the much hyped AA fonts.  Where, I select the fonts panel there
> is no option to turn it on, and why is it off by default?  Well, I set
> GDK_USE_XFT and now I know why, half the fonts disappear and the ones
> that are left look worse than a non AA truetype font.  

A fact of life as much as anything, perhaps... even on modern displays,
a non-AA-but-well-designed screen font will pretty much always trump an
AA-designed-for-print font on looks and readability.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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Calum Benson | 1 Jul 2002 14:12
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Re: Window List mouse-bindings

mike wrote:
> 
> double-click to minimize - makes sense to me

Not to a lot of people, however... having to double-click on a button to
make it do something is a flagrant abuse of the button widget, and
exactly the sort of thing that breaks peoples' mental models of how All
This GUI Stuff is supposed to work...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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Alexander Larsson | 1 Jul 2002 16:24
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Re: Window List mouse-bindings

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Calum Benson wrote:

> mike wrote:
> > 
> > double-click to minimize - makes sense to me
> 
> Not to a lot of people, however... having to double-click on a button to
> make it do something is a flagrant abuse of the button widget, and
> exactly the sort of thing that breaks peoples' mental models of how All
> This GUI Stuff is supposed to work...

Click on unfocused window => make focused, click on focused window => 
minimize. This also means: double click on unfocused window => minimize.

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Travis Saling | 1 Jul 2002 19:37

Re: Gnome 2.0 on RH 7.3 via garnome

> Has anyone gotten Gnome 2.0 to work on a RH7.3 system via garnome?
> 
> I installed Gnome 2.0 via Garnome into /usr/local/garnome on a RH 7.3
> system (took almost 2 hours to compile and install on my PIII 1GHz,BTW).
> 
> Now however, I cannot figure out how to startx using Gnome 2.0 instead
> of the already installed Gnome 1.4.

Since I use gdm, I created a "Gnome2-GARNOME" file in
/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions that looks like this:

#!/bin/bash

export PATH=/usr/local/gnome2-garnome/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/gnome2-garnome/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
export GDK_USE_XFT=1
exec ssh-agent /usr/local/gnome2-garnome/bin/gnome-session

Now having said that, I've not had much luck with Gnome 2.0/Garnome 0.12
in actual use. It builds just fine, and it runs - but applications crash
a LOT, and way too many core items (such as large chunks of the control
center) apparently just aren't functional yet. Combine this with the
fact that a number of things I depend on aren't ported yet, and this
pretty much kills my using Gnome 2.

And for the inevitable "have you filed bug reports" rejoinder - every
bug I've run into is already in bugzilla, so no I haven't seen the need
for filing duplicates.

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