Tuesday, July 19, 2016

trouble connecting my android phone to my Linux OS (mageia)

I have trouble connecting my android phone to my Linux OS (mageia) I am using Gnome and nautilus is my file manager.
After reading an article on net. I got my problem solved. The answer as below:

Alternatively you could transfer the files via wifi. There may be other ways to do this but my favourite method is running an ftp server on the phone and accessing that through nautilus:

  • First of all, you should only do this in a trusted local network (e.g. at your home)
  • make sure your smartphone and your PC are connected to the same local network
Smartphone

  • install an app like Ftp Server on your android phone and freely choose user name and password (and disable "Anonymous user").
  • start the server (by tapping the red on/off icon if you use Ftp Server)
Computer

  • open Nautilus on your PC and click on "Connect to Server" at the bottom of the list on the left
  • in the dialogue, enter the url that is displayed in the Ftp Server app (something like "ftp://192.168.178.13:2221")
  • when prompted, enter the user name and password you configured in the app
You're done! You can even bookmark that location in Nautilus. Whenever you want to transfer files, just connect smartphone and PC to your local network, start Ftp Server on the phone and click on the bookmark in Nautilus.

This answer was given by danzel. Thank you.

Friday, June 5, 2015

Still waiting for Mageia 5 final release

I have been using Mageia 5 RC version for almost a month as daily usage. Very things work fine for me accept vnstat is not recording data. Watching video, listening to music, doing office work and printing without any problem.

I suffered Chinese input with Mageia 4 and now all things solved.

One thing that I would like to mention is the shutting down time is only 3 seconds. It is the fastest among the version I installed.

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Mageia 5 RC

I installed mageia 5 RC almost one month and still waiting for the final version.
I found that when using any java program, the Chinese character turn into square. I search for solution and finally I got it.

1. I make a folder in java lib fonts folder. Name it as fallback.
2. Copy Chinese fonts from usr/share/fonts to the fallback folder.
3. It is done.

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Fuji Xerox DocuPrint P205b finally can print in Mageia Linux

I bought this printer about 2 years, can't print under Mageia Linux. Few days ago I accidentally encounter and article that I can download a driver for this printer.
The site url is : http://foo2hbpl.rkkda.com/

I follow the instruction to download the file and install it.
Then set up the printer and found there is a Fiji driver for it.
Everything go so smoothly.

I would like to say Thank You.

Sunday, May 5, 2013

.strm file for xbmc

Get the url for the tv channel. Create a file and paste the url in the file. Save the file with .strm extension.

Store the .strm file in ~/.xbmc/userdata/playlists/video

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Blank newtab page in firefox

1. Type in address bar about:config

2. In the search bar type in browser.newtab.url

3. change the value to about:blank

4. That's it.

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Gnome-tweak-tool cannot start in gnome-shell 3.6

I got the problem starting gnome-tweak-tool in gnome-shell 3.6 but can start in fallback mode.

After googling and found the solution as below:

sudo cp  /home/USERNAME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/user-theme@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com/schemas/org.gnome.shell.extensions.user-theme.gschema.xml  /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Where USERNAME is login name.