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Gustav van der Merwe | 1 Aug 2007 04:02
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Re: Quick gripe about gedit key bindings

zOn Tue, 2007-07-31 at 12:17 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 13:15 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> 
> > >Ctrl+Alt+PgUp/PgDn is actually the only shortcut that's guaranteed to
> > >work "across the rest of the Gnome tabbed interface UI"-- Ctrl+PgUp/ Dn
> > >sometimes fails when the focused widget eats it to do something  else,
> > >which resulted in lots of bug reports.  That's why the Alt  variant was
> > >added to the notebook widget, and IMHO should really be  the one that's
> > >documented wherever we document that sort of thing  (Accessibility
> > >Guide?)
> > 
> > Valid reasons indeed.  Should there be a bug raised on gnome-terminal
> > then since it _only_ allows Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn?
> 
> Well, the terminal is a bit of a special case because its shortcuts are
> redefinable, and you can't currently assign multiple shortcuts to the
> same function.
> 
> But if we were to document Ctrl+Alt+PgUp/PgDn as the default shortcut as
> suggested above, then yes, it should be the default in gnome-terminal
> too.
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 

I'm very much for consistency but I feel that Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn is a
'better' shortcut because it's simpler. In what cases does a widget stop
this from working? Do we need these?
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Mads Hoel | 1 Aug 2007 15:11
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Buildbot on build.gnome.org

Hi guys, I'm working on setting up buildbot. Buildbot will be testing  
several projects at fenics.org.

How did you go about setting up build.gnome.org ? Do you have any reports  
documenting how you
implemented the solution? Any suggested links to relevant material?

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Mads Hoel
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Calum Benson | 1 Aug 2007 19:02
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Re: Quick gripe about gedit key bindings

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 14:02 +1200, Gustav van der Merwe wrote:

> I'm very much for consistency but I feel that Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn is a
> 'better' shortcut because it's simpler. In what cases does a widget stop
> this from working?

Primarily, any tab that includes a list or text field with a scrollbar,
e.g. the Themes or Background preferences dialogs.  When the list or
textfield has focus, Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn is used to move the focus/cursor, so
it's intercepted before the notebook gets to see it.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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Olav Vitters | 2 Aug 2007 00:10

Re: Buildbot on build.gnome.org

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:11:50PM +0200, Mads Hoel wrote:
> Hi guys, I'm working on setting up buildbot. Buildbot will be testing  
> several projects at fenics.org.
> 
> How did you go about setting up build.gnome.org ? Do you have any reports  
> documenting how you
> implemented the solution? Any suggested links to relevant material?

See http://live.gnome.org/BuildBrigade. Installation instructions are in
there somewhere. Use the build-brigade-list mailing list if you have
questions (see URL above for contact points)..

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Olav
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Mark Hull-Richter | 2 Aug 2007 19:03
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Strange behavior from gnome apps recently

I have been having the following really oddball problems since I
returned from vacation this last Monday (one week off, computer off,
...).

I am running gnome 2.16.0 on CentOS 5.0.  A great many of my nautilus
file associations are gone (doc, rtf, pdf, jpg to name those I'm sure
of).  Some of the ones I've restored do not work properly (e.g., I
reset JPGs to open with the image file viewer, but sometimes it
doesn't advance through a directory the way it used to and sometimes
it does not).  I had to restore the PDF association (Adobe Acrobat
Reader 7.0) twice (different directories, I think).

This is really annoying - why did they get lost and why don't they
work right or stick any more?

Another problem I may have mentioned (can't find a record of so doing)
here - for some reason I cannot print any graphics files.  Whenever I
try, the printer chokes and dies.  I have a Minolta PagePro 1100 (NOT
the 1100L) laser printer, and it won't print anything from the GIMP,
and it won't print PDFs that are mostly graphics, either from the
Adcrobat Reader or from the PS files AR produces when I print the file
to a file.  I have NO trouble at all printing these same files from a
Windows guest running under VMWare (except that has also crapped out
on me for the time being - separate issue).  I'm running the pclmono
driver under CUPS for this printer, which is the recommended driver
according to CUPS, and it works fine for simple graphics and virtually
all text files, plus anything printed from SeaMonkey or FireFox.

?????
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José Alburquerque | 2 Aug 2007 19:22
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Re: Strange behavior from gnome apps recently

Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> I have been having the following really oddball problems since I
> returned from vacation this last Monday (one week off, computer off,
> ...).
>
> I am running gnome 2.16.0 on CentOS 5.0.  A great many of my nautilus
> file associations are gone (doc, rtf, pdf, jpg to name those I'm sure
> of).  Some of the ones I've restored do not work properly (e.g., I
> reset JPGs to open with the image file viewer, but sometimes it
> doesn't advance through a directory the way it used to and sometimes
> it does not).  I had to restore the PDF association (Adobe Acrobat
> Reader 7.0) twice (different directories, I think).
>
> This is really annoying - why did they get lost and why don't they
> work right or stick any more?
>
> Another problem I may have mentioned (can't find a record of so doing)
> here - for some reason I cannot print any graphics files.  Whenever I
> try, the printer chokes and dies.  I have a Minolta PagePro 1100 (NOT
> the 1100L) laser printer, and it won't print anything from the GIMP,
> and it won't print PDFs that are mostly graphics, either from the
> Adcrobat Reader or from the PS files AR produces when I print the file
> to a file.  I have NO trouble at all printing these same files from a
> Windows guest running under VMWare (except that has also crapped out
> on me for the time being - separate issue).  I'm running the pclmono
> driver under CUPS for this printer, which is the recommended driver
> according to CUPS, and it works fine for simple graphics and virtually
> all text files, plus anything printed from SeaMonkey or FireFox.
>
> ?????
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Mark Hull-Richter | 2 Aug 2007 19:42
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Re: Strange behavior from gnome apps recently

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 10:03 -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> I have been having the following really oddball problems since I
> returned from vacation this last Monday (one week off, computer off,
> ...).
> 

Update:

I can print complex graphics jpegs from the image viewer, but not from
the GIMP.  Instead of an image, I get text that starts with %!
PS-Adobe-3.0 and then pages and pages of junk.

My pdf file associations in nautilus (2.16.2) do some really interesting
things as well.  In the directory where I keep straight PDFs (those
which are not associated with a particular other purpose) they work fine
- I can view and print them with the Acrobat Reader just fine.  But now,
in another directory where I keep a backup of one of my web sites, the
file association is with the Acrobat Viewer, but if I double-click on
the file in nautilus, I get this error window:

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Cannot open BullG250.pdf

The filename "BullG250.pdf" indicates that this file is of type "pdf
document". The contents of the file indicate that the file is of type
"text/plain". If you open this file, the file might present a security
risk to your system.

Do not open the file unless you created the file yourself, or received
the file from a trusted source. To open the file, rename the file to the
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ritz | 3 Aug 2007 10:23
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Re: Strange behavior from gnome apps recently

Hello

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 10:42 -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 10:03 -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> > I have been having the following really oddball problems since I
> > returned from vacation this last Monday (one week off, computer off,
> > ...).
> > 
> 
> Update:
> 
> I can print complex graphics jpegs from the image viewer, but not from
> the GIMP.  Instead of an image, I get text that starts with %!
> PS-Adobe-3.0 and then pages and pages of junk.
Have you used "Setup Printer" in gimp's print dialog ?

> 
> My pdf file associations in nautilus (2.16.2) do some really interesting
> things as well.  In the directory where I keep straight PDFs (those
> which are not associated with a particular other purpose) they work fine
> - I can view and print them with the Acrobat Reader just fine.  But now,
> in another directory where I keep a backup of one of my web sites, the
> file association is with the Acrobat Viewer, but if I double-click on
> the file in nautilus, I get this error window:
> 
> ---
> Cannot open BullG250.pdf
> 
> The filename "BullG250.pdf" indicates that this file is of type "pdf
> document". The contents of the file indicate that the file is of type
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Mark Hull-Richter | 3 Aug 2007 19:30
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Re: Strange behavior from gnome apps recently

On 8/3/07, ritz <khadgaray <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
Ah, rescue from the expert!  (Seriously!)

> Have you used "Setup Printer" in gimp's print dialog ?
>
I have looked at it but have no idea what settings to manipulate -
there are LOTS of them.

> What is the output of the command below
>
> # file /path/to/backup/pdf/file
>
$ file BullG25?.pdf
BullG250.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3
BullG251.pdf: PDF document, version 1.3

mhr
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Mark Hull-Richter | 3 Aug 2007 20:24
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Re: Strange behavior from gnome apps recently

I think I'm asking the wrong questions here.

First, the PDF printing problem was solved, more or less, by changing
the settings on my printer to emulate the HP Laserjet 4 (using the
Minolta PPD), so far.

As for the app behavior problem, I think it is a permissions problem
on some configuration file somewhere, only I don't know what or where.
 If I run as root, everything works fine.  It's only as a normal user
that I get problems, so I'm wondering, where the settings are kept for
gnome apps, particularly nautilus, since that seems to be the #1 place
where I run into trouble.

( I had my root umask set to 027 for a while for security reasons, but
there are better reasons not to, and this may have screwed up a fair
number of my updates.  I have fixed this so that it is only set to 027
when I am running interactively and 022 when running rpm or yum, or
non-interactively. )

Thanks.

mhr
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