[gentoo-user] Any small and fast desktop search app for GNOME?
I dislike gnome-do and I use synapse on ubuntu with another PC So I'm wondering is there any other good desktop search applications? Or how can I install synapse on gentoo? Thank you! -- Twitter: @ghosTM55 Facebook.com/ghosThomas Mechanism, not policy
Re: [gentoo-user] The new guy
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Nils Andresen n...@nils-andresen.de wrote: Hi, I'm Nils - the new guy. I have been using gentoo since 2005.0 (or something...) and linux (as THE single os installed) since '98. Im above 30, a bit on the heavy side but I can see my toes when I look down (and bend my head only slightly...) I kind of stumbled across the mailing-lists recently... Yours, Nils Welcome :) -- Twitter: @ghosTM55 Facebook.com/ghosThomas Mechanism, not policy
[gentoo-user] Can't save the font configuration in qtconfig
Hi all , I'm having this headache , some characters in qt applications display as blocks , you can see the screenshot from the attachment And the problem is I don't know how configure the font of qt application , qtconfig doesn't work at all I change the font setting in qtconfig and save the configuration but next time I open it I'll find that the configuration didn't change at all So , I want to know what to do with it , thank you very much! -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy attachment: Screenshot-Create New Virtual Machine.png
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo - by hand - line-by-line - command-by-command?
You may try Linux From Scratch and try to write the init script yourself, it's good for self-education Once you master the LFS you can learn more things interesting and amazing in gentoo On 9/27/10, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm curious if there's a way to capture the exact set of command that my machine executes as it boots up. I.e. - if I boot the machine, letting the boot loader find the kernel but then stopping at a bash prompt, before anything much has been done, I'd then like to know what set of commands I could use from that bash prompt to make the machine do whatever it does normally as it boots up. Is that possible, and is it documented anywhere? Or instead of capturing commands maybe just a list of things that happen and the bash commands I'd use to execute them myself. I think the init scripts, at least the ones I've found under runlevels, are more generic than I would like to run. I'm looking for something more like the portion of the install guide where we chroot into the new build, except executing that from the command line of a new machine that's booted. I.e.: mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev except modified to start from nothing and bring the machine up from scratch. Mount /proc, mount /dev, start udev, check root filesystem, etc. This is totally for self-education and nothing else really. Just curious about how it happens, what order things happen, etc. If anyone can recommend a good _basic_ book that talks about this I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Mark -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fire the fox.
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:07 AM, me poiso...@gmail.com wrote: Chrome's set of extensions is growing rather large, and at least contains most of what anyone would need, a bit short of 'want', but covers needs fairly well. If you don't like chrome's interface I'll not argue, but if the extensions are the one thing stopping you from giving it a real try... Not quite NoScript, but aims to do the job: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/odjhifogjcknibkahlpidmdajjpkkcfn?hl=en Flashblock: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gofhjkjmkpinhpoiabjplobcaignabnl?hl=en Adblock: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom?hl=en The biggest reason I've taken to using chrome, though, is that it seems (purely subjective) to render pages far faster than anything else I've used, though I've not run opera or safari in a very long time. thx 4 sharing -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy
[gentoo-user] VMware Workstation 7.1.1 installation failed on gentoo
Hi all , I just downloaded the VMware Workstation 7 and tried to install it on my gentoo but failed I installed 32-bit gentoo system on my PC and its kernel version is the lastest one in gentoo - 2.6.35-r7 I successfully installed Workstation on the gentoo but when I run it , it ask me to compile the modules it needs. Then I just click install and failed at the last step , here is the fail log: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/264928/ Any help ? Big thank you -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware Workstation 7.1.1 installation failed on gentoo
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: You cannot install the package provided by vmware.com. You have to use the Gentoo ebuild. With layman, add the vmware overlay and install vmware-workstation from there. Before you do that, make sure you cleaned your system from everything installed by the official vmware package. Okay , thank you very much , I'll try it soon -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy
Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed. But FF4 is *much* faster. And much more stable. At least, that was my experience when I tried it out. I had to go back to 3.6 because some of the plugins that I need were not yet supported for FF4. At least the later 3.6 releases aren't as unstable as the previous ones. Looking forward to Firefox 4, Firefox 3 really sucks sometimes -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] strange network problem
2010/9/10 路 xaoru2...@163.com: At 2010-09-10，路 xaoru2...@163.com wrote: At 2010-09-10，Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:51:48PM +0800, ?? wrote Thinks everyone: DNS woks well for me. i can ping www.google.com. Just can't access it in web-browsers without rebooting system.Sometimes I thought mybe it's the problem of Power.But now i doubt about it! Because even while I am watching videos online( about half an our) it happens. Here is the wireshark capture result:I don't know why there are so manay RTS. I had a problem authenticating with the wifi domain at the local library when I first tried it. It turns out that the local library intercepts the first http:// attempt and sends you to a page win the 10.0.0.0/8 block. My iptables configuration was copied from my desktop, which had no reason to expect traffic from that area. So it blocked 10.0.0.0/8 it, which prevented me from signing in. Your situation sounds like you have a half-hour lease on an IP address, and something goes wrong when the lease is renewed, or attempted to be renewed. A couple of suggestions... - heavy-handed solution... can you set up dhcpcd to get you a longer lease than 30 minutes on your IP address? - check your iptables rulesets and logs. Do you have any iptables rules that generate RST's at your end? If you get desparate, try running for 45 minutes with iptables turned off - what does your netbook's /etc/resolv.conf look like... 1) before going online 2) after going online successfully 3) after a half-hour -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org Thinks First , There is no iptables severing no my box; Second : The /etc/resolve.conf keeps the same all the times; I tried to restart network , eth0 , dhcpd, NetworkManager but nothing helps,The same thing happens whilel using static IP address. I've attached Wiresharp data ,Hope someone can help. Sorry.previous attachment is bad! 您想拥有和网易免费邮箱一样强大的软件吗？ 您想拥有和网易免费邮箱一样强大的软件吗？ I DO NOT recommend you use the mail service provided by 163.com See the advertisement under your mail and signature ? 建议你加邮件列表还是用GMAIL吧 -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy
Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if it's in an overlay, but I don't think it's in portage. Run eix -l backup and see how many back up tools and scripts pop up. I have been using tar, star and rsync. They all work and they can all make incremental back ups. You'll find that a lot of the other 'smart' back up applications are based on these anyway. A disk archive utility called dar is a great staff to backup dir trees and files -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I would appreciate suggestions on what ultraportable laptop to put gentoo on. I am looking for a desktop replacement, therefore a powerful yet very portable machine would be ideal. Thanks, -- Valmor Thinkpad is perfect, I strongly recommend you buy Thinkpad X/T series to hack gentoo or any other Linux distros with it. And this website will prove me right: http://www.thinkwiki.org/ You gotta love it~ -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Thomas Yao t.yao...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Thinkpad is perfect, I strongly recommend you buy Thinkpad X/T series to hack gentoo or any other Linux distros with it. And this website will prove me right: http://www.thinkwiki.org/ You gotta love it~ -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy Thanks for pointing this out. It seems the X series is what I need. Regards, -- Valmor Good choice , mine is X61 :) Good luck -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy
Re: [gentoo-user] Extraordinarily laggy UI, keyboard, udev weirdness, KDE 4.5
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com paul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.6.35.1 and my KDE to 4.5. After rebooting, I have some weird, possibly unrelated issues: During bootup, boot process hangs on waiting for uevents for ~30 seconds or so. I don't remember this ever happening before. As far as I can tell everything still works fine, it just delays the boot process a lot. In X the UI responsiveness randomly goes bad, keyboard especially. At first it'll be fine, then simply using Konsole and typing will begin to slow down. Also, screen output in general seems to freeze until I touch the mouse or keyboard. Even something like listing a directory. It's really weird... It gets so bad that it becomes completely unresponsive, freezing for minutes at a tie. It eventually un-freezes momentarily, long enough to logout and back in at least. I disabled desktop effects but it still had the same problem. I tried Gnome briefly last night before going to sleep and didn't experience this slowdown problem. Anyone else had those same problems or know what I might try? I'm using nvidia-drivers and tried 3 different versions with no success. I have not yet tried downgrading my kernel or KDE installation, but that's next on the list of things to try tonight. I have no problem with my kernel upgraded today earlier and I didn't have my KDE upgraded cuz so far I found 4.5 is a buggy version. Maybe you should downgrade to 4.4.5 and wait for a stable version of 4.5.x.
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 1.65
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:46 AM, dan blum dan_...@yahoo.com wrote: I am currently running xorg 1.7, which crashes very frequently. When I used to run xorg 1.65 everything was running fine. Can anyone clue me in on how to emerge an older version of the program. Thanks. Maybe you should have a look at the portage documentation carefully and understand it well before you dive into gentoo, it's really important: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=1 Good luck
