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Opera - tie-ins to thunderbird

by Andrew Robert

Hi Everyone, Last question for awhile. I swear. Anyway, has anyone had luck configuring Opera to use an alternate mail client than the native M2? I am trying to get it to call Thunderbird but I've had mixed results. I reviewed the Opera Support Knowledge base article located at the link below but nothing I do seems to work. http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=472 -- Thank you, Andrew Robert Systems Architect Information Technologies Massachusetts Financial Services Phone: (617) 954-5882 Pager: (781) 945-1742 E-mail: arobert(a)mfs.com

March 19, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Looking Glass on Fedora Core 3

by Andrew Robert

A very good point. I have the live cd and will give it a try. Thanks rewster(a)rewster.org wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Andrew Robert wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I 'm contemplating installing the new Sun Looking Glass 3D desktop on >> Fedora Core 3. >> >> Has anyone had any experience doing this? >> >> The instructions located at >> https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/lg3d-getting-started.html seem pretty >> straight forward but I was wondering if there were any gotcha's. >> >> Likewise, does anyone know of a repository with RPM's for this to >> make my life easier? >> >> Any information you might have on this would be welcome. >> > > It's my understanding that LG3D, as it is right now, is more of a > "proof-of-concept" than a full, working desktop, maybe that's changed > since the last time I looked. With that in mind, there was news a while > back of a liveCD that had LG3D installed on it, never got the change to > DL it since it was slashdotted... the site if you're interested in that > is: http://lg3d-livecd.dev.java.net/ > > It looks like their DL links are still down, maybe you could find > someone who has the iso. Might be worth looking into before going > through the trouble of building it... > -- Thank you, Andrew Robert Systems Architect Information Technologies - OpenVMS Massachusetts Financial Services Phone: (617) 954-5882 Pager: (781) 945-1742 E-mail: arobert(a)mfs.com

March 18, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Looking Glass on Fedora Core 3

by rewster＠rewster.org

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Andrew Robert wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I 'm contemplating installing the new Sun Looking Glass 3D desktop on Fedora > Core 3. > > Has anyone had any experience doing this? > > The instructions located at > https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/lg3d-getting-started.html seem pretty straight > forward but I was wondering if there were any gotcha's. > > Likewise, does anyone know of a repository with RPM's for this to make my > life easier? > > Any information you might have on this would be welcome. > It's my understanding that LG3D, as it is right now, is more of a "proof-of-concept" than a full, working desktop, maybe that's changed since the last time I looked. With that in mind, there was news a while back of a liveCD that had LG3D installed on it, never got the change to DL it since it was slashdotted... the site if you're interested in that is: http://lg3d-livecd.dev.java.net/ It looks like their DL links are still down, maybe you could find someone who has the iso. Might be worth looking into before going through the trouble of building it... -- JP LaFleur rewster(a)rewster.org

March 18, 2005

Looking Glass on Fedora Core 3

by Andrew Robert

Hi everyone, I 'm contemplating installing the new Sun Looking Glass 3D desktop on Fedora Core 3. Has anyone had any experience doing this? The instructions located at https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/lg3d-getting-started.html seem pretty straight forward but I was wondering if there were any gotcha's. Likewise, does anyone know of a repository with RPM's for this to make my life easier? Any information you might have on this would be welcome. -- Thank you, Andrew Robert Systems Architect Information Technologies Massachusetts Financial Services Phone: (617) 954-5882 Pager: (781) 945-1742 E-mail: arobert(a)mfs.com

March 18, 2005

Re: SuSE 9.1 YaST2 online_update problem

by Tom Misilo

You can only upgrade SLES9 if you have the upgrade key from SuSE Themselves I recommend downloading SUSE 9.2 DVD or FTP install if this is only for a personal use OS ~Tom "Hi All, I just installed the SuSE SLES 9 (kernel 2.6.5-7.97). I can't get the 'YOU' utility to work. A box pops up asking for a username/password pair. I have this set up to run automatically every day at 5:00AM, but it fails with an error message "Unable to check for updates". If I run the YOU GUI by hand, a box pops up asking for authentication data (a username and password). During the installation of the O/S, it actually ran YOU successfully and downloaded some updates. I've looked at the /etc/sysconfig/onlineupdate file and I can't see anything obviously wrong. There is a password file in /var/lib/YaST2/you. I've tried using the root password, my personal password, but nothing works. What am I overlooking? Thanks, -Chuck" -- Tom Misilo AIM:Tmisilo FL MSN:tmisilo@gmail.com Jabber:tmisilo@jabber.org Skype: tmisilo

March 18, 2005

desklets-daemon will not run - FIXED!

by Ken Jones

I found the answer to my problem in <http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=26681&page=4> All I needed to do was to "yum install gnome-python2-gnomevfs.i386" It took a while, but that's alright:-) Thanks everyone. Ken Jones

March 18, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Re: Unsuccessfull installation of gDesklets...

by Andrew Robert

Go to the DAG repository and you can pull it down via yum or apt depending on how you configure yourself. Jared Greenwald wrote: >Have you configured yum at all? I think the http://fedorafaq.org >wesite has a good yum.conf file that you can just apply to your >system. I was able to find many packages through yum with this >config. There is also a way to install apt on redhat/fedora, which >adds the deps checking automatically. We use this setup on our redhat >el as 3 desktops at work for those that don't really want to track >down all of those deps. > >-Jared > >On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:43:53 -0500, Ken Jones <kjones(a)ziplink.net> wrote: > > >>Before my plea could be published on the WLUG list Jared Greenwald >>suggested that I look harder for a RPM version of gDesklets. I found >>one in http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/packages.php >> >>It worked! >> >>Thanks everyone just for being there. >> >>Ken Jones >>_______________________________________________ >>Wlug mailing list >>Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >>http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> >> >> >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > -- Thank you, Andrew Robert Systems Architect Information Technologies - OpenVMS Massachusetts Financial Services Phone: (617) 954-5882 Pager: (781) 945-1742 E-mail: arobert(a)mfs.com

March 17, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Re: Unsuccessfull installation of gDesklets...

by Jared Greenwald

Have you configured yum at all? I think the http://fedorafaq.org wesite has a good yum.conf file that you can just apply to your system. I was able to find many packages through yum with this config. There is also a way to install apt on redhat/fedora, which adds the deps checking automatically. We use this setup on our redhat el as 3 desktops at work for those that don't really want to track down all of those deps. -Jared On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:43:53 -0500, Ken Jones <kjones(a)ziplink.net> wrote: > Before my plea could be published on the WLUG list Jared Greenwald > suggested that I look harder for a RPM version of gDesklets. I found > one in http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/packages.php > > It worked! > > Thanks everyone just for being there. > > Ken Jones > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

March 17, 2005

Re: Unsuccessfull installation of gDesklets...

by Ken Jones

Before my plea could be published on the WLUG list Jared Greenwald suggested that I look harder for a RPM version of gDesklets. I found one in http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/packages.php It worked! Thanks everyone just for being there. Ken Jones

March 17, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Unsuccessful installation of gDesklets

by Jared Greenwald

Question? Did you search yum for gdesklets? On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:49:36 -0500, Ken Jones <kjones(a)ziplink.net> wrote: > You've piqued my interest in gDesklets. I am trying to install it with > no success. I am running Fedora Core 3. The README warns me not to > attempt to compile this package, but it offers me no alternative. > > I downloaded, unzipped and tar'd gDesklets-0.34.2.tar.bz2. I ran the > configure file. It failed for lack of pygtk-2.0. (see below) I > downloaded, unzipped and tar'd > pygtk-2.4.1.tar.bz2. This successfully compiled and installed. > > I even helped by modifying and exporting environmental PKG_CONFIG_PATH > But still gDesklets did not. Any ideas? > > -----snip of command [kjones@kjones-fedora gDesklets-0.34.2]$ ./configure > . > . > checking for pygtk-2.0 >= 2.4.0 pyorbit-2 >= 2.0.1 gnome-python-2.0 >= > 2.6.0... Package pygtk-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `pygtk-2.0.pc' > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable > No package 'pygtk-2.0' found > > configure: error: Library requirements (pygtk-2.0 >= 2.4.0 pyorbit-2 >= > 2.0.1 gnome-python-2.0 >= 2.6.0) not met; consider adjusting the > PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a > nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. > > --------------------- > I successfully installed pgytk-2.4.1. Here is the last step: > [root@kjones-fedora pygtk-2.4.1]# make install > Making install in codegen > . > . > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/home/kjones/downloads/FedoraCore3/pygtk-2.4.1/tests' > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/home/kjones/downloads/FedoraCore3/pygtk-2.4.1/tests' > [root@kjones-fedora pygtk-2.4.1]# > > I set PKG_CONFIG_PATH as suggested. > > [kjones@kjones-fedora pygtk]$ ls $PKG_CONFIG_PATH > pygtk-2.0 > [kjones@kjones-fedora pygtk]$ echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH > /usr/bin/include > [kjones@kjones-fedora pygtk]$ > > Still no good. What do you think? > > Ken Jones > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

March 17, 2005