Small Fedora problems and fixes
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Additionally, try installing the following for extra built in widgets: "yum install kde-plasma* kdeplasma-addons" | Additionally, try installing the following for extra built in widgets: "yum install kde-plasma* kdeplasma-addons" | ||
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| + | Problem: OpenShot video editor (installed from sourcecode, not available in Fedora repositories), complaint that it could not find codecs, and to check the melt command. | ||
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| + | Solution: Make sure "mlt" package is installed. Then change the "melt" command in the openshot preferences to "mlt-melt" . It will find the codecs. You can use the following command to check the list of codecs available/visible to openshot. | ||
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| + | mlt-melt noise -consumer avformat vcodec=list | ||
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| + | Problem: File menu disappears from Gnome applications. | ||
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| + | Solution: "yum remove gnome-globalmenu-common gnome-applet-globalmenu" | ||
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| + | Problem: Gnome File Manager, Nautilus gives error message while trying to open windows shares "Nautilus cannot handle "smb" locations" | ||
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| + | Solution: "yum install gvfs-smb" or "yum install gvfs-*" | ||
Current revision as of 20:59, 12 September 2010
Problem: Fedora 13. Tried to install "Task Timer" widget for KDE plasma. but when I placed it on the desktop, it showed "Could not create a python script engine" in the widget window.
Solution: "yum install kdebase-workspace-python-applet"
Additionally, try installing the following for extra built in widgets: "yum install kde-plasma* kdeplasma-addons"
Problem: OpenShot video editor (installed from sourcecode, not available in Fedora repositories), complaint that it could not find codecs, and to check the melt command.
Solution: Make sure "mlt" package is installed. Then change the "melt" command in the openshot preferences to "mlt-melt" . It will find the codecs. You can use the following command to check the list of codecs available/visible to openshot.
mlt-melt noise -consumer avformat vcodec=list
Problem: File menu disappears from Gnome applications.
Solution: "yum remove gnome-globalmenu-common gnome-applet-globalmenu"
Problem: Gnome File Manager, Nautilus gives error message while trying to open windows shares "Nautilus cannot handle "smb" locations"
Solution: "yum install gvfs-smb" or "yum install gvfs-*"
