similar to: change gnome back to default settings

In CentOS 6 gconftool-2 (command line) is used to enable/disable items. In CentOS 7 I found "settings->power-> blank screen" as something I wish to configure by the command line? How is that accomplished? I brought up gconf-editor and searched for power and blank and found nothing. How can I control this setting from the command line? Thanks Jerry

I centos 5 I can run this command: su myuser -c "/usr/bin/gconftool-2 -t string --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/backgrounds/images/mypic.png" and this works fine. under centos 6 it does not appear to be working... I can run the similiar --get command and it tells me its set to what I asked for. However the screen is not showing mypic.png I can use

On Centos 6 - how do you disable the control-alt-delete function in GNOME? Editing /etc/init/control-alt-delete.conf works for console mode but not for GNOME. Thanks, Jerry

I am doing the following commands to "hide" the top and bottom panels on gnome. gconftool-2 -t int --list-type int --set /apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel/auto_hide_size 0 gconftool-2 -t bool --list-type bool --set /apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel/auto_hide true gconftool-2 -t int --list-type int --set /apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel/auto_hide_size 0

I am trying to hwclock to set the time. (hwclock -w) this is what I get on standard 5.2 x86_64. hwclock --debug hwclock from util-linux-2.13-pre7 hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=19: No such device. No usable clock interface found. Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. [root at devcentos5x64 src]# ls -l /dev/rtc crw------- 1 root root 10, 135 Feb 6 13:32 /dev/rtc Any

how do I prevent gnome_panel from starting up? once its started I can do "gnome-session-remove gnome_panel" But I dont want it to startup at all. How can I do that? jerry

I'm running centos 5.5 - 64 on Nvidia hardware. I am getting video from totem mixed in with my background image when I stop totem. If I change the background back to the default it does not seem to happen. However, as soon as I change the background to something else like ladybug.jpg and run totem fullscreen, then ask totem to quit with "totem --quit" the last video image is

I am trying to find a way to set auto login for a machine under X using the command line. I presume I want to use gconftool-2 to do that. Under the old X centos 4 I edited /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf This file no longer exists under X 7 for centos 5. I cant find a way to "show all" under gconftool-2 so that I can see what the key/value pair should be. When I do "gconftool-2 -a "

Hi all, I am trying to create a script that takes an entire file, drops the first 19 characters from each line and creates a new file. I am missing something easy but I am not seeing it. Jerry --- I tried the script below but did not work. rm output.txt cat test.txt | \ while read LINE do newline=`echo $LINE | cut -f 19-` echo $newline >> output.txt done

On 01/09/2015 06:07 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > I'm still trying to find the > thing I used back in C5(?) that raised the panels when the mouse hovered > over it for X seconds. With C6 I can't find it anymore and it switches > way too fast. I presume you're talking about panels with "Autohide" set. If you have the GUI gconf-editor installed, it's under

I am sending an email from my machine devcentos5x64. the transcript below (hangs for 60 seconds) at the line: MAIL From:<root at devcentos5x64.msgnet.com> SIZE=56 AUTH=root at devcentos5x64.msgnet.com The email succeeds - but I am trying to figure out the 60 second delay. Neither email server is busy. Nothing is waiting. the DNS on both machines point to the same nameserver. The DNS

Just wondering if there is a way to get the gnome rebase stuff for gnome 3.8 to 3.16 now? (heard it was coming in 7.2) I'm playing with centos 7.1 and would like to use gnome 3.16. is there a way to start playing with that now? Thanks jerry

Hi all. I ran "ulimit -c unlimited" as root on my machine (centos 5.3 x86_64) when I run the process it is getting SIGSEGV but not creating a core dump? What else do I need to do to get a core dump file when I run "gdb myprocess" the SIGSEGV does not happen. Jerry

To continue here with problems on this compaq v2000 laptop, I put kernel source on a USB disk and plugged it into the v2000. NOTHING IS recognized. I tried to manually mount the disk and nothing either... I thought USB was well established.... I thought trying to recompile the kernel for realtek support might get my networking going... I am stuck??? Jerry -------------- next part

Installing CentOS 6 on a lab full of workstations, and I want to disable fast user switching. With CentOS 5, I simply made sure that the "user_switch_enabled" entry in /etc/gconf/schemas/gnome-screensaver.schemas was set to false. However, that doesn't work with CentOS 6. I've found various proposed solutions to this issue, such as gconftool-2 --direct --config-source

Hi Friends, I am trying to configure screensavers settings on Gnome and KDE running Centos 5.x 32-bit environment. I need to prepare a script which will be push by Puppet and this script should be able to change settings like idle_delay, set customized password-protected screen saver, enabling lock etc.. I have tried below commands for Gnome and somehow the settings are not taking place. The

On 01/11/2015 04:19 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 21:02 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: >> I presume you're talking about panels with "Autohide" set. If you have >> the GUI gconf-editor installed, it's under apps/panel/global/panel_show_delay. >> You can also set it from the command line: >> >> gconftool-2 --type int

hi all, running centos 4.7 i686. I seem to have an o pen r elay sendmail server. How do I close it? I have the STRAIGHT centos install sendmail.mc file. Only thing I changed was: dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl so as to allow incoming email and not just localhost. however this seems to relay everyone. I looked at http://www.sendmail.org/tips/relaying but it

Hi - I am not an expert at shell script writing. If /proc/cmdline looks like option1 option2 ... ks=http://192.168.1.8/ks/ks.cfg option3 option 4 ... How can I get the 192.168.1.8 out of this cmdline. THanks, Jerry

hi all, When using the alias address scheme, like eth1:0 on a machine ... things are working. When that interface is disabled on box A and becomes active on box B what should Box B do to correctly update the ARP tables external to box B so the external world knows how to get to the new destination and not the old box A? Jerry