Category Fedora

Google calendar support in Gnome 3 evolution ?

During my test and discovery phase of Fedora 15, I noticed that Evolution doesn't support anymore google calendar... is it on purpose ? why ? Or do I need to install some other package ? I found this feature in Fedora 14 something very useful ! I hope this is something that will be fixed in the final release. In Fedora 14 (evolution-2.32.2-1.fc14.x86_64) : In Fedora 15 :

Gnome 3 and my favorite window focus and raise behavior

Yesterday night I installed Fedora 15 Alpha to see and test the gnome-shell (gnome 3) improvements. I stopped to test for one reason: I was not able to setup my favorite behavior for window's focus. What I like (this is mandatory, that's also the one major reason why I don't use Mac OSX daily) is that the focus follows the mouse but doesn't raises the window ! After having "googled" a bit, I tried to install gnome-tweak-tool... but it didn't help for this task... :( The solution is to use gconf-editor and changing the default value (click) of /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode to sloppy. Now I'm very happy and I can continue my tests of Gnome 3.

Puppet and 64bits packages

Since I use puppet to manage my machines (and the machines of customers), I noticed that I had more packages installed then before, I noticed also obviously the same behavior in packages to update and bandwidth consumption during updates. I realize that on 64bits machines, most of the time, the 32bits version of the packages managed by puppet were also installed. This is what I did in my recipes before: 
    package { "corosync":
        ensure => "installed",
        require => Yumrepo["clusterlabs"];
    }
This kind of package declaration installed then the two version of the package, in this case corosync and the dependencies too. To avoid this I added the fact hardwaremodel and used the alias to keep my recipes consistent: 
    package { "corosync.$hardwaremodel":
        ensure => "installed",
        alias => "corosync",
        require => Yumrepo["clusterlabs"];
    }
Hope this could help people having noticed the same behavior... or not :-)

Get rid of the touchpad while using the mouse

I've been fighting several weeks (and making a huge number of typo's due to that) with the touchpad of my macbook pro on Fedora/Gnome. I've tested several solutions : - disable it in Gpointing Device Settings --> fail (it always comes back after a short moment) - use synclient TouchpadOff=1 --> fail - creating udev rules : --> fail 
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ENV{ID_CLASS}="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=1"
ACTION=="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ENV{ID_CLASS}="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=0
So the best solution I've found (one that works) is : rmmod bcm5974 Now I'll try to add it into the udev rules too.

Fedora 13 on mac book pro 13″

I used preupgrade to updgrade Fedora from 12 to 13. After the process, I had to resync the partition in refit to be able to boot Linux. I rebuilded the needed packages for nvidia and the broadcom wireless card. I needed also to do some modifications to be able to use the integrated iSight webcam: 1. download the apple firmware : 
wget http://www.i-nz.net/files/projects/linux-kernel/isight/against-revision-140/firmware/AppleUSBVideoSupport
then extract it (using the Fedora 12 package isight-firmware-tools) : 
[root@delvaux ~]# su -c "ift-extract --apple-driver AppleUSBVideoSupport"
after this operation it should be working for most of the macbook pro, but not for this model, another change is needed. first find the idProduct number: 
[fred@delvaux Desktop]$ lsusb -v | grep  iSight -B 3 | grep idProduct
  idProduct          0x8507
and mofify the file /etc/udev/rules.d/isight.rules with the returned value : 
[root@delvaux rules.d]# cat isight.rules 
ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="05ac", SYSFS{idProduct}=="8507", RUN+="/usr/lib64/udev/ift-load --firmware /lib/firmware/isight.fw"

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