sudden change in app window backgrounds ... help

2017-03-10 Thread William W. Austin
online searches, more doc reading, more than a little experimentation, and still have not found a solution. If ANYBODY can shed some light on how to fix this I would really appreciate it. (It bugs me the most in LibreOffice since the background makes some of the icons almost invisible. -- will

Re: Can Thunderbird save into a local, hierarchical mailbox directory

2017-02-09 Thread William W. Austin
On 2017-02-06 17:41, William W. Austin wrote: > > Over the years I have used a variety of mailer GUI's (not to mention > tty-based interfaces) and I am trying to "modernize" a bit and move to > thunderbird. > > [SNIP] Apologies - somehow my original email

Re: users Digest, Vol 131, Issue 86

2015-01-29 Thread William W. Austin
On 2015-01-28 15:45:36, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: ==quoted message from Gordon Messmer , subject "Re: Suddenly can't get nameserver resolution on FC21 after ..."== > On 01/28/2015 07:02 AM, William W. Austin wrote: > > I have checked my

Suddenly can't get nameserver resolution on FC21 after ...

2015-01-28 Thread William W. Austin
be able to connect to the internet but can't. Any suggestions will be appreciated, and any requests for further information will be answered. This one is driving me crazy at this point. Thanks in advance, - wwa -- william w. austin aire...@att.net "l

Need soundcard advice

2014-12-28 Thread William W. Austin
no object", but I'm approaching the point where cost is less important than finding such a card if on exists. Any pointers on this issue will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance - Bill -- william w. austin aire...@att.net "life is just an

An scp question

2014-04-15 Thread William W. Austin
I run current Fedora releases on my home office boxes, but at my "real" office (i.e., where I *don't* own the machines) it is still mandated that 2 particular machines will stay with FC17. (This is a BIG improvement because I was only able to upgrade the first one (machine "A") a week or so a

Focus-follows-mouse in KDE under FC19?

2014-02-17 Thread William W. Austin
se I'm going to have downgrade her machine back to FC 17 just to keep peace at home. -- william w. austin aire...@att.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..." -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec

Annoying "popping" sound when using volume control in FC 19

2014-01-20 Thread William W. Austin
ifications" setting in the KDE systems settings. But if it's there, somehow I'm missing it. Any help on getting rid of this petty annoyance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks -- william w. austin aire...@att.net "life is just another phase i

Two (related?) problems in fresh install of Fedora 19

2013-08-15 Thread William W. Austin
I have a second problem but it's related to sound not network and I'll put it in a second post. Thanks in advance for any help - yes I did a bugzilla search but if it's there I missed it, and I didn't see this problem in any email about fc19 (although I a

Sound problem on fc 19 - xmms no longer can play

2013-08-15 Thread William W. Austin
hat didn't help either. So I suspect that something else is going on here. lsof doesn't show anything holding any of the sound devices open. The rpms all verify correctly root gets the same result as a non-privileged user. So any suggestions would be greatly appreciate

Suspected permssions problem on FC17 new installation - need help

2012-11-26 Thread William W. Austin
2 of them do under fc17. And no, they aren't that large, running 25-30M each.) All of the "affected" files play perfectly with xmovie or dragon. Any suggestions as to a likely cause here will be greatly appreciated. -- william w. austin

Automounting/unavailability of devices...

2011-07-25 Thread William W. Austin
be greatly appreciated. Thanks -- wwa -- william w. austin aire...@att.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..." -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://ad