[gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)
I'm taking an online Spanish course which requires the use of accented vowels along with the ñ character. Right now I'm forced to cut and paste these letters when I need them but that's slowly driving me insane. Is there a way I can use a control or alt key along with the vowel (or n) to make the appropriate accented version? Is there another way to handle this? --
Re: [gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:39:03 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier daniel.pielme...@googlemail.com wrote: list-catcher schrieb am 15.02.2009 00:10: I'm taking an online Spanish course which requires the use of accented vowels along with the ñ character. Right now I'm forced to cut and paste these letters when I need them but that's slowly driving me insane. Is there a way I can use a control or alt key along with the vowel (or n) to make the appropriate accented version? Is there another way to handle this? As XFCE is based on GTK+ you should be able to use this combination CTRL+SHIFT+U+Hexcode [1]. I thought of this but it only works in some applications, ones that use GTK. You also didn't read the whole question. Nice try though.
Re: [gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:41:31 -0500 Jake Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:10:22 -0500 list-catcher list-catc...@hellburner.com wrote: I'm taking an online Spanish course which requires the use of accented vowels along with the ñ character. Right now I'm forced to cut and paste these letters when I need them but that's slowly driving me insane. Is there a way I can use a control or alt key along with the vowel (or n) to make the appropriate accented version? Is there another way to handle this? xmodmap Now that I know about xmodmap I can google, thanks! http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/OLD/keyboard_us2es.txt --
[gentoo-user] Gentoo laptop issues
I just managed to get Gentoo installed on my Presario v6420 which is the first laptop I've ever had linux on and I've got two problems that I thought I'd ask the list about: The most important of the problems involves the fan. The laptop gets a whole lot hotter using linux while compiling than it did using vista while compiling which implies that there is some fan control missing from my install. What sort of ebuilds/apps should I be looking at to solve the problem? Button #2 of the touchpad, which seems to be set as the upper right corner of the pad, controls paste (as in cut and paste). The button works great at first but then after a period, or it may be related to a heat issue, it stops working. Restarting X solves the problem. I have not noticed it failing with gpm but I have not stayed in console as long. Remapping works but I'd like some pointers on solving this problem. I've also noticed two seperate clipboards. One, using the usual middle click button and another using shift-insert. These clipboards are different in what they paste... Anyone know more about this? -- All any drug amounts to is tweaking the incoming data. You have to be incredibly self-centered or pathetic to be satisfied with simply tweaking the incoming data. -- William Gibson
[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo laptop issues
The most important of the problems involves the fan. The laptop gets a whole lot hotter using linux while compiling than it did using vista while compiling which implies that there is some fan control missing from my install. What sort of ebuilds/apps should I be looking at to solve the problem? After further investigation of the above with the helpful hint of checking out 'fancontrol' apparently my laptop contains no pwm capable chips. Now I suspect this is highly unlikely as the fan speed does indeed change under vista. I wonder then if it's just not detecting the chip. Anyone know of a utility or way to find my chip? -- All any drug amounts to is tweaking the incoming data. You have to be incredibly self-centered or pathetic to be satisfied with simply tweaking the incoming data. -- William Gibson
[gentoo-user] Via vb70001 mini-itx vrs Gentoo
Hello, I just bought a via vb7001 http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=490#spec or http://tinyurl.com/364jg3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Via vb7001 mini-itx vrs Gentoo
Hello, I just bought a via vb7001 mini-itx: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=490#spec or http://tinyurl.com/364jg3 I did manage to get Gentoo installed on it, however while everything was compiling I read the docs for the bios to get the CRT and Composite to work. A few ebuilds didn't compile, always the same ones, looking for i486 glibc. Thinking (still not entirely sure, but it seems logical to me) that I used the x86 stage3 rather than the 686 stage3 I decided to do a clean install. So I rebooted it, changed the bios to get CRT and Composite to work (and they do), and to reinstall and it died immediately after loading the kernel from the 2007.0 minimal cd. Tried gentoo-nofb, nada, tried gentoo-nofb noapic, nada. So, I decided that I just screwed something up in the BIOS so did the jumper thing as described in the docs to reset the bios to factory defaults. It booted CRT only. Then I carefully set only the settings that I thought were necessary to get composite and CRT to work. It booted and I got this: http://www.hellburner.com/kernel_oops_VB7001/ while fscking the partition. I thought, ok, so I killed the install, wrong stage3, live and learn, reboot, reinstall. So I rebooted but now whenever I try to mkfs.ext3 it locks up and displays garbage on the screen like a busted atari. So, I tried the pin trick. Same result. mkfs starts up, formats the first 1/3 or so of the partition (60gig) and belches out atari. I've had Gentoo running on my PII and my athlon64 3000+ just fine for quite some time and have reinstalled them several times when the cruft gets out of control. I let it sit for a few hours and then decided to run memtest86. Memtest86 ran for slightly more than a second then I got atari. I don't have anything else that accepts that type of ram so I have no way to isolate it. Any ideas? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
