[arch] kde 3.5.2

2006-03-29 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Not to rush things, but I'm new to arch ( just my 4th day using archlinux ). I have some questions regarding the testing repository. How long do packages stay in testing before being promoted to current/extra? For example, when will we expect kde3.5.2 and kernel 2.6.16.1 in current/extra? Thanks

[arch] Opaque kde selection box

2006-03-30 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
How do I enable the opaque box when I make a selection on the desktop? I've had that working on suse and kubuntu before I switched over to arch. Hussam. pgpPTxGvPVXKn.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] Opaque kde selection box

2006-03-30 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Thursday 30 March 2006 21:15, Rohan Dhruva wrote: That is not available in arch, since it is a Qt patch which arch does not apply. It can be disabled later on (atleast in kubuntu, debian) so I dont see why arch cant apply that patch.. But yes, its real slow and draggy on my p3 550mhz

[arch] power off button

2006-03-31 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
when I was on kubuntu, gently pressing the power botton on the PC would shutdown the computer (probably doing that issued the halt command or something). Is there such power management features available in archlinux? ( I'm using kde 3.5.1) pgpzVAVbfxmPD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch] power off button

2006-03-31 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Friday 31 March 2006 22:15, Max Verzier wrote: pacman -S acpid then add it to the daemons list in your /etc/rc.conf Does is have to be before/after any of the other services in the daemons list? Or I just place it anyplace in the list? pgpKATFWeQUG8.pgp Description: PGP signature

[arch] 'current changes' news article

2006-03-31 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I read the article http://www.archlinux.org/news.php#214; entitled 'Current Changes'. Does this mean archlinux will not longer be a bleeding edge distribution with the latest and greatest always in 'current'. Will this affect the awaited release of KDE 3.5.2 and gnome 2.14? This wouldn't really

Re: [arch] 'current changes' news article

2006-04-01 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
As I'm switching to 'testing', will 'testing' continue to have the very latest packages? pgpgC15McevWn.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] 'current changes' news article

2006-04-01 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Saturday 01 April 2006 10:51, Andreas Radke wrote: Hussam Al-Tayeb schrieb: I read the article http://www.archlinux.org/news.php#214; entitled 'Current Changes'. Does this mean archlinux will not longer be a bleeding edge distribution with the latest and greatest always in 'current

Re: [arch] 'current changes' news article

2006-04-01 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Is this all April's fools day or is some of it true? pgpQcFpeOnNYX.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] kaffeine 0.8 won't play dvds

2006-04-01 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Saturday 01 April 2006 20:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This could be my old motherboard speaking, but kaffeine 0.8 won't play DVDs. If I click on 'Play DVD', it will say dvd not found. This used to work in kaffeine 0.7.1 As a workaround, I can File Open dvd:/ ( kaffeine 0.7.1 did

Re: [arch] Upgraded to kernel 2.6.16.1-3

2006-04-01 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Sunday 02 April 2006 01:05, Michel Di Croci wrote: On 4/1/06, Hussam Al-Tayeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added the 'testing' repository and ran pacman -Syu It upgraded the kernel to 2.6.16.1-3 + kde 3.5.2 + some other stuff and I rebooted and reinstalled the nvidia driver. The good

[arch] kde 3.5.2 disappeared from Testing.

2006-04-02 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Has kde 3.5.2 disappeared from testing? http://archlinux.org/packages.php?s_repo=alls_category=alls_keyword=kdebases_lastupdate=pp=50 pgpRt4UDzlbl0.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

[arch] Bootsplash

2006-04-02 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I'm using kernel26 ( 2.6.16.1) Debian had a program called splashy. It's a bootsplash that does not require a kernel patch (I'm not very fond of 'special' kernel patches ). Is there something similar that will work on kernel26? pgpLDMWGlsKjv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch] kernel moved to current

2006-04-02 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Sunday 02 April 2006 20:34, Michal Spáda wrote: Is it just me or is the nvidia driver completely broken with the new kernel? Cheers, Michal ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch No, but

Re: [arch] Bootsplash

2006-04-02 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Sunday 02 April 2006 20:20, Tom K wrote: Rohan Dhruva wrote: It seems to be really debian specific, but I think it will work on arch with certain modifications. If you can help port it, it'd be even better ! Rohan. On 4/2/06, * Hussam Al-Tayeb* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL

[arch] mounting and unmouting cdroms

2006-04-05 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
is there anyway on archlinux to automatically unmount cdroms when I click on the eject botton on the cdrom drive? I have to manually run konqueror right click unmount before I could eject. suse used submount to do auto unmounting. I tried to compile the submount kernel module on archlinux but

Re: [arch] Python package out of date.

2006-04-06 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Apart from python, some other packages that are out of date are abiword, glibc, gtk2, openssl and postgresql. ( but I'm happy with up to date kde and kernel :) ) On 4/3/06, Martin Lefebvre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I'm sure dorphell will get around to it... if you really need thenewest

Re: [arch] Python package out of date.

2006-04-06 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Thursday 06 April 2006 17:09, James Fryman wrote: OpenSSL should not be a problem right now. The latest stable version (0.9.7i) was released to address some compatibility issues. No known vulnerabilities exist for the current release in Arch (0.9.7h) What about gtk2 2.8.16? I don't think

[arch] question about gnupg

2006-04-06 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
archlinux's current version of gnupg is 1.4.2.2 I read here about a security issue with gnupg http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=154919 Is the archlinux package affected? If so, should we upgrade to gnupg 1.4.3? pgpvSCn6DcXra.pgp Description: PGP signature

[arch] digital camera not working anymore

2006-04-08 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I'm pretty sure this worked at least once since I installed archlinux. But now, whenever I plug in my usb digital camera, I get the usual kde dialog and I open the digital camera in konqueror, but all I see inside is a blank 0k file. The follwing also looked weird. ( btw, I have only 2 usb

Re: [arch] digital camera not working anymore

2006-04-09 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Sunday 09 April 2006 01:27, you wrote: I'm pretty sure this worked at least once since I installed archlinux. But now, whenever I plug in my usb digital camera, I get the usual kde dialog and I open the digital camera in konqueror, but all I see inside is a blank 0k file. The follwing

Re: [arch] digital camera not working anymore

2006-04-09 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Monday 10 April 2006 00:26, Tom K wrote: Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: On Sunday 09 April 2006 01:27, you wrote: I'm pretty sure this worked at least once since I installed archlinux. But now, whenever I plug in my usb digital camera, I get the usual kde dialog and I open the digital camera

[arch] disk too fragmented

2006-04-17 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I have hda1 (60gigs) mounted as /home , hdb1 (2gigs) mounted as swap and hdb2 30gigs mounted as / the last time I reboot 3 days ago, hda1 was 9% fragmented ( probably now even more ) Is there any safe was of defragging a ext3 partition? I asked once before I switched to archlinux and somebody

Re: [arch] disk too fragmented

2006-04-18 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I did su then 'touch /forcefsck'after I rebooted, it did a filesystem check and added the fragmentation data to the results on the screen.On 4/18/06, Jeffrey Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On 4/18/06, Hussam Al-Tayeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the last time I reboot 3 days ago, hda1 was 9% fragmented

[arch] controlling windows computers

2006-04-21 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Let's say I'm on a network. and I have the admin password another computer on the network that's running windows xp ( the two computers are not in the same room but are on the same subnet ). I already can access that Pc through konqueror using smb://10.0.2.254. Is there anyway I can remotely

Re: [arch] controlling windows computers

2006-04-21 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Mr Fubar. I don't think you understood. The other PCs are mine. They are just not in the same office, and it would be easier to shut them down at night without having to go the other room. ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] controlling windows computers

2006-04-21 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Friday 21 April 2006 6:16 pm, Jan de Groot wrote: On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 11:01 -0400, Scott wrote: If I'm missing an obvious point here, I apologize. (I wonder if I am, because no one else has mentioned it.) Yes, you are missing something: enable the remote desktop option in Windows

[arch] apache 2.2.0

2006-04-22 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
When is apache 2.2.0 expected to make it to current? It's still in testing. Is there some bug waiting to be solved that's keeping it in testing? pgp8wCDO8mefO.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

[arch] mouse theme under kdm

2006-04-22 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Is there anyway I can specify a mouse cursor theme under kdm? I 've done it before but not on archlinux and I've forgotten how. I would really appreciate any help. pgpRDKJNHOTFX.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] mouse theme under kdm

2006-04-22 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Saturday 22 April 2006 10:03 pm, Rohan Dhruva wrote: On 4/22/06, Hussam Al-Tayeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyway I can specify a mouse cursor theme under kdm? I 've done it before but not on archlinux and I've forgotten how. I would really appreciate any help. Get the cursor

Re: [arch] mouse theme under kdm

2006-04-22 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Sunday 23 April 2006 1:28 am, Kernel wrote: Unpack your desired theme in /usr/share/icons and update the /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme to the name of the theme you want to use by default. Example: Icon Theme] Inherits=ComixCursors-Orange-Small #Inherits=gentoo-blue Then restart

Re: [arch] k3b and k3b-i18n

2006-04-23 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Sunday 23 April 2006 7:27 pm, Rohan Dhruva wrote: i18n was updated to 0.12.15 just some time ago. Rohan. -- Rohan Dhruva Proud GNU/Linux user. Windows: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what? http://www.dhruva.be/

[arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Well, I don't want to create rivalry between distributions as that's not really the spirit behind linux but I think we are behind ubuntu in a couple of packages: Both Python 2.4.2 ( ubuntu has 2.4.3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python2.4/python2.4_2.4.3-0ubuntu4_i386.deb ) and

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
would it be possible for me to package those programs and submit for review? If yes, how? I haven't yet tried building archlinux packages yet as I have only been using arch for a month now. Before that, I used to make a lot of rpm and deb packages. pgp8tm6Nvf4zV.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Saturday 29 April 2006 4:22 pm, Rohan Dhruva wrote: On 4/29/06, Johannes Held [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: would it be possible for me to package those programs and submit for review? No, packages in arch are upgraded only by the dev team. [snip] Simply use ABS

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Saturday 29 April 2006 7:43 pm, Tom K wrote: Rohan Dhruva wrote: On 4/29/06, Damir Perisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to most non-upgraded pkgs, there is a reason, why they are not updated yet! And the reason for not upgrading python since a month is ? Lazy devs ? Because no app would

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Saturday 29 April 2006 9:44 pm, Tom K wrote: Yep, more than one package out of a tarball is possible. There's been discussion previously on splitting up KDE - do a search here and on the forum for relevant threads. ___ arch mailing list

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Last question. How do I modify the PKGBUILD so that it will patch using the file 'patch-v1.diff' after it uncompresses the source tarball? Do I just add that under build() patch -p0 /path/to/patch-v1.diff ? Also, how would I share my PKGBUILD for python 2.4.3 and tk/tcl 8.4.13 ?

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-29 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Saturday 29 April 2006 10:48 pm, Jan de Groot wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 22:22 +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: The reason I'm asking as some part of kdeadmin ( kpackage , knerworkconf and ksysv ) are useless in archlinux. Also, in kdemultimedia ( naotun , kmid and kaboodle ) can

[arch] PKGBUILDs for Python-2.4.3 and tk/tcl-8.4.13

2006-04-30 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
These are the PKGBUILDs I only modified the package version and mdsums if anybody cares to try them Python 2.4.3 is working great. Python scripting still works. Amarok, kdeultils ( superkarmba ), hplip ( HP Device manager ) still work briliantly. I think Python 2.4.3 should be a safe upgrade.

Re: [arch] PKGBUILDs for Python-2.4.3 and tk/tcl-8.4.13

2006-04-30 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Also I rebooted after the upgrade just to make sure anything already using python would use the new one instead. pgpEA8FICv5rN.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

[arch] Getting involved

2006-04-30 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
How might one be able to get involved in development or maintaining simple packages such as imagemagick, etc..? I know that just knowing how to compile, patch or modify software doesn't make me a developer but I would like to help in anyway possible. pgpok7itk9eZI.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-30 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Sunday 30 April 2006 8:22 pm, Jason Chu wrote: On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:44:44 +0100 Tom K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: On Saturday 29 April 2006 7:43 pm, Tom K wrote: Rohan Dhruva wrote: On 4/29/06, Damir Perisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to most non-upgraded

Re: [arch] PKGBUILDs for Python-2.4.3 and tk/tcl-8.4.13

2006-04-30 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I also modified the PKGBUILDs to update to clamav-0.88.2 and imagemagick-6.2.7-2 I haven't tested imagemagick yet. but I installed clamav 0.88.2 and rebooted and to start clamd and freshclam services. I also did a clamscan of all my hard disks so this one is very stable. Here is the modified

Re: [arch] apache 2.2.0

2006-04-30 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:25 am, Jason Chu wrote: On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:10:43 +0300 Hussam Al-Tayeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When is apache 2.2.0 expected to make it to current? It's still in testing. Is there some bug waiting to be solved that's keeping it in testing? Yeah, apache

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-04-30 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Sunday 30 April 2006 10:14 pm, Damir Perisa wrote: Sunday 30 April 2006 20:35, Attila wrote: | The reason I'm asking as some part of kdeadmin ( kpackage , | knerworkconf and ksysv ) are useless in archlinux. | | Yes, in arch you don't need them and i never start them.-) maybe we

Re: [arch] We're behind ubuntu in some packages

2006-05-01 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Monday 01 May 2006 11:25 am, Attila wrote: On Sonntag, 30. April 2006 21:14 Damir Perisa wrote: maybe we can disable them then? wish in bugs.archlinux.org? I'm not an expert in this case but perhaps for a short solution it will be enough to delete the certain *.desktop files to elimate

Re: [arch] PKGBUILDs for Python-2.4.3 and tk/tcl-8.4.13

2006-05-02 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I have been using python 2.4.3 for a few days now and there appears to be no bugs in it ( at least no regressions over 2.4.2 ) and no dependant packages had to be rebuilt. Is it possible for a developer to test it and if it turns it well possibly get python 2.4.3 into testing? Unless of course

Re: [arch] PKGBUILDs for Python-2.4.3 and tk/tcl-8.4.13

2006-05-02 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 4:12 am, James wrote: On 5/3/06, Hussam Al-Tayeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using python 2.4.3 for a few days now and there appears to be no bugs in it ( at least no regressions over 2.4.2 ) and no dependant packages had to be rebuilt. Is it possible

Re: [arch] Latest Crond not working

2006-05-05 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Friday 05 May 2006 8:50 pm, Aaron Griffin wrote: On 5/5/06, Hussam Al-Tayeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: initgroups failed: hussam Operation not permitted unable to create /var/spool/cron/hussam.new: Permission denied unable to append to /var/spool/cron/cron.update Sounds like your user

Re: [arch] Latest Crond not working

2006-05-05 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Friday 05 May 2006 8:58 pm, Judd Vinet wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 08:55:14PM +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: On Friday 05 May 2006 8:50 pm, Aaron Griffin wrote: On 5/5/06, Hussam Al-Tayeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: initgroups failed: hussam Operation not permitted unable to create

[arch] acpid question

2006-05-13 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Acpid runs at boot eventhough I didn't have to add it to the startup daemons list. I'm not complaining since I DO want it to run at bootup. But I'm only inquiring as to why it starts up by itself. Thanks is advance. pgpAd8KUVcGZV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch] Why does pacman want to upgrade my version of wine to an older version?

2006-05-17 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I say instead of using wine, contact the author of the program you run under wine and ask them to port it to linux. pgpzRWihblJHf.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

[arch] mysql security bug

2006-05-17 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I came across this today http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1516 It says all versions up to 5.0.20 as vulnerable. Is archlinux's mysql affected? If yes, can we get an update to 5.0.21? Somebody on the #mysql channel said 5.0.21 fixes this. pgpg2b4qF9hsh.pgp

Re: [arch] Why does pacman want to upgrade my version of wine to an older version?

2006-05-17 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 10:09 pm, Thomas Bächler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: There is no explanation for 0.9.13 though, but I assume it's the same issue reason. I just assume that the maintainer didn't have time to build 0.9.13 yet, but I can't know that for sure. You will see if we

[arch] openoffice.org 2

2006-05-18 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I noticed that the openoffice 2.0.2-2 from archlinux is just a repackaged Sun's official openoffice.org release which seems to be a good idea as it is in fact good in performance. But I would like to try to build my own openoffice.org from cvs or svn ( or whatever versioning sysem

Re: [arch] openoffice.org 2

2006-05-18 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Thursday 18 May 2006 7:00 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote: David, '/var/abs/extra/office/openoffice-base/PKGBUILD' only repackages the prebuilt Sun packages. I already said that in my first email. What I'm looking for is a PKGBUILD for the cvs version (the ones that will become 2.0.3)

[arch] sdl and sdl_mixer

2006-05-20 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I noticed sdl and sdl_mixer we upgraded today to 1.2.10 and 1.2.7 This broke a lot. Supertux won't load because of error Error: Couldn't load musicfile /usr/bin/../share/supertux/music/SALCON.MO and frozen-bubble gives error: Warning, could not create new music from

Re: [arch] sdl and sdl_mixer

2006-05-20 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Then it must be a problem on my side. Any idea what I can do? pgpYQKv7I65pZ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] sdl and sdl_mixer

2006-05-20 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I don't need to reboot after updating, do I? pgpeq8dJgt2or.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] sdl and sdl_mixer

2006-05-20 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I rebooted to reload the sound driver but the problem is still there. I realize this is probably a problem in my system, so any suggestions on how to fix this? pgpTtAUrzjbuy.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] sdl and sdl_mixer

2006-05-20 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
ok, thanks. Is there a link to the old sdl_mixer ? in the meantime, I'll see if I can report this to the sdl bugzilla pgp1xBqmbrptw.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] sdl and sdl_mixer

2006-05-20 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Saturday 20 May 2006 8:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reported to sdl bugzilla http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237 pgp9ZvZxjwQw7.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] Tools to manage gpg/pgp keys

2006-05-20 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Saturday 20 May 2006 9:05 pm, Bob Kromonos Achten wrote: Which tools do you use to manage gpg/pgp keys? Which do you think are the best? I used KGpg pgpeup3nqMLmR.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] glibc in testing will drop kernel 2.4 support

2006-05-23 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Will upgrading to gcc 4.1 and glibc 2.4 require many other packages to be rebuilt?I know the kernel will have to be compiled with gcc4.1 otherwise nvidia kernel module won't compile because if will only compile with the same gcc version used to compile the kernel. On 5/23/06, Jan de Groot [EMAIL

[arch] koffice 1.5.1 / kexi 1.0.1 bug

2006-05-23 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I don't use koffice ( I use openoffice instead ) but I read this today. Apparently after koffice 1.5.1 was out, they discovered a serious bug in kexi 1.0.1 according to here: http://kexi-project.org/wiki/wikiview/index.php?PatchesForKexi1.0.1 The site links to possible patches. Is the archlinux

Re: [arch] koffice 1.5.1 / kexi 1.0.1 bug

2006-05-23 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 9:46 pm, Rohan Dhruva wrote: On 5/23/06, Hussam Al-Tayeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use koffice ( I use openoffice instead ) but I read this today. Apparently after koffice 1.5.1 was out, they discovered a serious bug in kexi 1.0.1 according to here: http

Re: [arch] openoffice.org 2

2006-05-25 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Thursday 18 May 2006 11:01 pm, Jan de Groot wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 18:38 +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: I noticed that the openoffice 2.0.2-2 from archlinux is just a repackaged Sun's official openoffice.org release which seems to be a good idea as it is in fact good in performance

[arch] gcc 4.1.1

2006-05-27 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
When Gcc 4.1.1 is out, will it be accompanied by a gjc 4.1 ? pgpYihqcwiVa9.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

[arch] archlinux 0.7.2 screenshots on osdir.com

2006-05-27 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
For anybody who hasn't seen this yet, http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=650slide=40 pgpxfjoRn2mUH.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] archlinux 0.7.2 screenshots on osdir.com

2006-05-27 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Thorsten, those aren't my screenshots. They belong to that site's authors. pgp1T0vIgMhTA.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] openssl 0.9.8 update in testing

2006-05-29 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Monday 29 May 2006 3:12 pm, Wael Nasreddine wrote: Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi openssl has been updated to latest 0.9.8 series, expect breakage on some apps, we already have a TODO list about the packages that need to rebuild, i tried to rebuild the most important ones already.

[arch] rebuilding kernel

2006-05-31 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
how do I modify the kernel6 pkgbuild to use the full 'linux-2.6.16.19.tar.bz2' instead of 'using linux-2.6.16.tar.bz2 and patching it to 2.6.16.19' ? pgpJgSowWFAuP.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] testing users help us to find broken packages

2006-06-03 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Saturday 03 June 2006 7:07 pm, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi ok testing rebuild makes good progress, so now we ask for your help, please run this script on your pc: http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/lddd /tmp/tmp/lddd-script. in this dir the results will be stored report us broken

[arch] iputils package

2006-06-07 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
iputils shows up when running pacman -Qe ( plus a zillions other packages ) but this one caught my attention. It seems like an important package. Shouldn't this package be required by some other package? -- Regards, Hussam. Get Linux from: www.Archlinux.org gpg --recv-keys --keyserver

[arch] problems with compiz

2006-06-09 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I'm a kde user but I installed gnome today alongside it to try out xgl. I have two problems. 1. I use default init 5 so I tried to get gdm to work with xgl but each time gdm starts, I get an error that display 1 is used, I press ok, it tries to use display2 then says display2 is in use. I changed

Re: [arch] kdesktop keeps hanging

2006-06-09 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
could it be a nvidia problem then? ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] xulrunner

2006-06-12 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan de Groot wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 00:37 +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: I have a request. can you guys please recompile the xulrunner in testing with --enable-ldap? this would help me a lot in linking against xulrunner when compiling

Re: [arch] xulrunner

2006-06-12 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan de Groot wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 15:50 +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: The reason is that I'm doing openoffice.org 2.0.3 rc builds and I'm using --enable-build-mozilla thus making openoffice have to build most of mozilla making

[arch] offtopic question

2006-06-15 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This maybe the wrong place to ask but does anyone by any chance know why there hasn't been any inkscape release since ages? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Re: [arch] mkinitcpio and kernel 2.6.17

2006-06-18 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 11:43 +0100, Tom K wrote: James wrote: On 6/18/06, Tom K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the 2.6.17 source is now available, I was wondering if mkinitcpio will be moving to current to coincide with that? I don't see any relevant showstoppers in the tracker. Tom

[arch] fonts question

2006-06-18 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I have fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts/ I don't remember if I manually installed them or if they were installed via a package. By default, archlinux doesn't install fonts into /usr/local/share/fonts/, correct? if so. how do I remove them? ___ arch

Re: [arch] mkinitcpio and kernel 2.6.17

2006-06-18 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 12:56 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: Hussam Al-Tayeb schrieb: In any case, kernel 2.6.17 has to go to testing first I think. It's already been there for weeks. I know that. I'm using testing and 2.6.17-rc6. I was only referring to what he said about 2.6.17-final

Re: [arch] GCC 4.1 Performance (Was: Re: mkinitcpio and kernel 2.6.17)

2006-06-18 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
and caching the results). ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch -- Regards, Hussam Al-Tayeb signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [arch] xulrunner

2006-06-21 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 15:13 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 15:50 +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: The reason is that I'm doing openoffice.org 2.0.3 rc builds and I'm using --enable-build-mozilla thus making openoffice have to build most of mozilla making the openoffice.org

Re: [arch] offtopic question

2006-06-23 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 20:37 +1000, James wrote: On 6/16/06, Hussam Al-Tayeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This maybe the wrong place to ask but does anyone by any chance know why there hasn't been any inkscape release since ages? take a look at the homepage, 0.44pre2 came out on the 3rd June

[arch] possible security vulnerability in ppp

2006-07-06 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Is the Archlinux ppp package affected by this? http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2194 It says even the newest version 2.4.4 is affected. -- Regards, Hussam Al-Tayeb signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[arch] gtk 2.10 and gnome-terminal and nautilus

2006-07-06 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
I read http://archlinux.org/news.php#246 and I just wanted to add that the 'close' button is not only broken in gnome-terminal About screen but in nautilus about screen as well. -Open nautilus.go to helpAbout and click 'close' (I also filed this as a bug) -- Regards, Hussam Al-Tayeb

Re: [arch] when xorg 7.1

2006-07-10 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 00:18 +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote: *confused* Wouldn't it just be ati and nvidia packages who would not work with the new xorg in /testing(if 7.1 went there ofc)? Probably there will be others but these two are the most important because most users use them. Of course

[arch] j2sdk

2006-07-17 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
? -- Regards, Hussam Al-Tayeb signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Re: [arch] j2sdk

2006-07-19 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 16:54 +0200, Andreas Radke wrote: Am Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:48:59 -0700 schrieb Jason Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:28:43 +0300 Hussam Al-Tayeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible that we may get an update to j2sdk and j2re 1.5.0_07? Unless

[arch] hal stopped working today

2006-07-25 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Suddenly hal stopped working today although I didn't update anything since it was working. Now, unless start with init s and remove hal from startup daemons, it hangs while booting at starting hal. Any ideas? Please? -- Regards, Hussam Al-Tayeb signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

[arch] dbus

2006-08-30 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Is there a reason why we didn't upgrade to dbus 0.92? Are we waiting for gnome 2.16 before we upgrade? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org

Re: [arch] f-spot breaks with the last mono

2006-09-02 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 19:13 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/2/06, Christian Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 06:54:15PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi I've upgraded mono and now f-spot refused to run:

Re: [arch] KDE 3.5.5 and printing problems

2006-10-06 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 13:40 -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 06 October 2006 12:16 pm, Jose M. Prieto wrote: El Viernes, 6 de Octubre de 2006 18:04, Jose M. Prieto escribió: El Viernes, 6 de Octubre de 2006 17:49, escribió: Since I updated to KDE 3.5.5 from testing the other night, I

[arch] native openoffice 2.0.4 on archlinux

2006-10-06 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
Is it possible that we may be able to build native packages for archlinux once 2.0.4 is out? Currently the repackaged openoffice-base is as big as 120MB and that's even without the spell dictionaries. But if we build it from source, it is 108MB and that's including the spell distionaries for all

Re: [arch] vlc plugin for firefox

2006-10-12 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 10:22 +0200, Anton Achatz wrote: Hi Tom K, after trying compiling vlc with the option --enable-mozilla arch tells me to install the mozilla-developement-tool. Where can i get it. Toni 2006/10/10, Anton Achatz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi Tom, thank you for the quick

[arch] multiple dbus entries

2006-10-13 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
There is a dbus-daemon running as root (that is the dbus service). There's also the dbus that runs when I log into gnome. The problem is that the latter doesn't stop when I log off. So If I log in and log off back on a few times as user 'hussam', there's 5 dbus-daemon instances all still running

Re: [arch] multiple dbus entries

2006-10-13 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:06 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote: On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:53 +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: There is a dbus-daemon running as root (that is the dbus service). There's also the dbus that runs when I log into gnome. The problem is that the latter doesn't stop when I log

[arch] some issues with pmount

2006-10-13 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
pmount can mount cds and dvds ( /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd ) which aren't in /etc/fstab But this has a very bad side effect. They cannot be unmounted without being ejected. This shows in programs in brasero which reports a cdrw as busy when I try o blank it. Users have to open a terminal and 'umount

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