Hi Steve, 2009/1/29 steve <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello Suvayu, > > suvayu ali wrote: >> >> That went perfect. Now I am online on wmaker. > > Good to know ! Welcome to the club ! > I am not using anything else ever again. Awesome! Specially after your _tip_ :p >> I ran pidgin too. However it didn't go as smoothly. Most of the time >> it didn't appear on the dock or even a window for that matter. I tried >> running it from, >> 1. the 'Run' in the right click menu on the desktop, >> 2. from xterm. >> However, it had worked the last time I had logged in. Kinda strange I >> guess. > > Yes, that is strange, it has never happened to me. However, I do start my > pidgin in offline mode (ie: the -n (or --nologin) option), so don't know > whether pidgin would wait for NM to connect and then go online before > showing the applet or the window. > If only I could get pidgin to work consistently ... but its a minor hitch I guess. >> >> Also, I am having trouble NM and Evolution remember the password, but >> I guess that calls for another thread after some more extensive >> searching. > > Hmm, well, this *might* have to do with the gnome-keyring-daemon. You > haven't mentioned whether you use gdm, but i remember seeing a post on this > list that the NM and other apps with ask you for a password if your login > password is not the same as your keyring password. > I am using gdm and as you said, it was indeed the gnome-keyring. I had never set it up since I installed F10, and for some reason it had taken some default password of its own. A li'l google search, got rid of that and now it accepts my login as the password and NM and Evolution "remember" their respective passwords. > [1] Now the tip i spoke about. Window Maker is very keyboard friendly, so > you can bind any application as well as builtin actions to keyboard > shortcuts. The way to do this also is very easy: > a. Fire up the Window Maker Preference utility: > $ WPerfs > b. Scroll to the icon with the menu picture > c. A menu will pop up, select the menu item you want to bid to a shortcut > d. In the Keyboard Shortcut dialog, click Capture and then press your > keyboard shortcut (for ex. I use Mod1+r for the run dialog and Mod1+t for > opening a terminal) > e. To bind window maker actions (like maximizing/minimizing windows etc) > select the icon with the keyboard picture and do the same. For example you > can use the 'windows key' on your keyboard to show the applications menu. > > Once you start binding your most common apps to keyboard shortcuts, and > start using them, you'll soon forget about the mouse :). > Once again many thanks for getting me started. Can't thank you enough. "I 'm loving it". > cheers, > - steve > -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
