MythTV Menus Disapeared!
I have been in the process of setting up a new MythTV frone end and having lots of little issues. I go through this every time, all the little tweaks I need to work with my hardware drive me nuts! I am going to be adding important things here as they come up.I just rebooted the system and all the menus were gone! Just a blank background. I navigated by "feel" to the settings and the screen came up. I tried changing from OpenGL to QT, changed theme, no good. Started googling, nothing looked familiar. I finally realized I had unplugged the monitor the night before. Opened nvidia-settings, rescanned monitors, saved and that fixed it.
Now a bit more explanation. I have an nvidia 8400gs card connected to a 61" RCA DLP using DVI. First time I have used this card and this type of set up. I had a small LCD monitor hoked up as well while installing since the RCA cuts off the menus, and switched when finished. I disabled the LCD and every thing was OK. Last night I unplugged the LCD from the AC since I was done with it. Today I powered down to look at mounting a new hard drive and when I powered back up, no menus on Myth. I looked in nvidia-settings and the monitor was still listed. Rescanned and still there, Completely disconnected and rescanned, GONE! Saved xorg.conf, rebooted, changed all settings back, and now it is ok.
Apparently nvidia was trying to be too smart for it's own good. I had hoped to leave the LCD enabled for future use, but I guess I will just have to reset things if I do.
Now I know, and knowing is half the battle! (To keep from pulling what hair I have left!)
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Auto login Fedora 11
Another note for future installs of Fedora.I use the auto login feature in Fedora and it wasn't working on my latest install. I have had this problem in the past and never figured out why until now.
In the KDE settings there is a "Login Manager" where you can set automatic and password-less login which I set everything and it still didn't work.
I use KDE but decided to install Gnome as well to try it a bit. I used "switchdesk kde" to change to KDE. Apparently Fedora uses GDM by default not KDM if you install Gnome. The settings only effect KDM! I normally do not even install Gnome to save space so if GDM is missing it will default to KDM. This explains why it normally works for me, but some times, like now, it does not!
The solution is to add the file (if missing) /etc/sysconfig/desktop and add/change the entry
DESKTOPMANAGER="KDE"
Reboot. Now it works.
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KDE4 Super user file manager in panel
After installing Fedora 11 several times I have finally decided to document how I did this so I will stop pulling my hair out (not much left) each time I do this. I have it working on my main system but can never remember how. Since I got smart a while back and put /home in it's own partition I now don't wipe it when upgrading so I haven't had to recreate it since.In previous versions (pre KDE4) there was a menu item for super user file manager using Konqueror. I am use to Konqueror and set it to default, but I got use to being able to get at the system files without having to switch users or use a terminal. Yes I know the dangers, It's my system and that's the way I like it. You use to be able add it to the panel and when clicked it would ask for password and run. Any configuration files would then open in kwrite in su mode as well and save properly.
The first problem I ran into was that KDE4 requires you to use kdesu instead of su if you want anything to run in X as root. Very upsetting to open a terminal, type su, pw, kwrite, and have nothing happen.
So once I got over that I went to add what I wanted to the panel, but there is no choice for application, only damn "widgets"! Since there is no widget for "file manager super user" I tried dragging /home down there and then modifying it, no joy. It is just a folder, opening with the default app. not an app. itself. I dug on my main system and recreated what I must have done.
What I ended up doing:
Right click the launcher icon, select "Menu Editor"
Created a New Item. (Where ever you like)
Set Command to "kdesu konqueror"
Set other preferences (icon, name, description.)
Save.
Drag new icon and place on panel.
TA DA!
(Edit: I just figured out how to do it in"Menu Editor" DUH!)
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Wedding Info
Just to keep this on the front page:Wedding Info
if you want to know more.
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PPLOG Mods
I made a few modifications to PPLOG.First I fixed an error that caused the time to display as "24:xx" if it was between midnight and 1 am. Since I am a night owl and do a lot of work at night I found this to be highly annoying.
Next I added an "Edited" note to the time and date posted. PPLOG has an edit option, but did not show that a post had been edited. (see the line on this post, I will edit it just as an example)
These are sort of hacks, but they work for me. If there is any interest I will post what I did. I have made several changes to PPLOG for my own use so it is not just a simple "diff/patch". I will have to pull out just the changes needed.
When I get a chance to do this, I am planing on sending a note to the author in case he wants to include the changes.
This is an edit for example.
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