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  5. Should root have his/her hands tied?

    in Everything Linux

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    I understand the obvious security issues with running as root, rm -rf / , namely.... but you can still damage your system seriously as a regular user su to root.... i dont see how it is any diff. if you su, then you are root.... i remember my only major flaw that i made as an su user.... i was trying to remove a file from my home dir, so i did rm -rf /home but then neglected to finish it and accedently hit enter.... oh the deep sinking feeling that occured after i lost all of my data, but none the less i was just an su 'ed user....

  10. Strange problem with FC3 and wireless print server

    in Other Linux and Unix Distributions

    Posted

    I have a linksys wireless print server, its local ip address is 192.168.1.111, i am connected to my network wirelessly from fc3 and i am able to get to the router's web based utility (192.168.1.1). but i am not able to connect to the web based utility of the wireless print server through my FC3 box... i can do it from a windows laptop that i have but not through the FC3 box any ideas?

     

    [moved from Networking by spinynorman]

  11. Switching default window manager [solved]

    in Other Linux and Unix Distributions

    Posted · Edited by Sherpa

    now when i test the default log in, it tells me that GNOME is not installed and that it is switching to a fail safe terminal.... Why did they not just leave the little "set this as default session type" check box?

     

     

    The Default is now KDE and when i select default from the sessions menue, KDE comes up, but now the problem is that the system is not automatically loading the default session.... ERRRRRRR :furious3:

  12. Switching default window manager [solved]

    in Other Linux and Unix Distributions

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    DefaultSession=default.desktop

    this is what i found in the /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf file so i went looking for that file and it is in

    file:/usr/share/gdm/BuiltInSessions/

    now the thing is, is that it is some type a script file...

    [Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
# The names/descriptions should really be better
Name=Default System Session
Name[af]=Verstekstelselsessie
Name[ar]=جلسة النظام الافتراضية
Name[az]=Ön Qurğulu Sistem İclası
Name[be]=Дапомная сыстэмная сэсыя
Name[bg]=Системна сесия по подразбиране
....
Comment[vi]=Đây là phiên làm việc hệ thống mặc định
Comment[wa]=Çouci est li prémetowe session do sistinme, po s' elodjî tot-z eployant li lingaedje defini dins les prémetowès valixhances do sistinme
Comment[zh_CN]=系统默认的会话
Comment[zh_TW]=使用系統預設的作業階段
Exec=default
# The "default" Exec is a very special one and is handled specially in
# the Xsession script, you could also have "custom" which would just run
# "~/.xsession" directly
Icon=
Type=Application

    that is what it looks like mostly i cut alot of it out... but i dont see that it has anything to do with what WM is default...

    for right now i am going to switch the value to kde and see how it goes...

  14. Switching default window manager [solved]

    in Other Linux and Unix Distributions

    Posted

    I want to switch my defaut window manager to kde however i have not been able to. On the suggestion of cybrjackle i have tried to run the command switchdesk kde, as both my user and root, neither switched the default manager to kde. secondly i edited the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop to say DESKTOP="KDE" instead of DESKTOP="GNOME", yet i still have the problem.... right now the default windows manager is a WM called "Default windows manager" or so i think... please help!

  17. Media player

    in Software

    Posted · Edited by Sherpa

    I need a good media (video) player. im looking for one that can handle Windows media files, real media files, quicktime, etc...

     

    any suggestions? Im using FC3

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