[gentoo-user] poor images printing

2009-02-14 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! During few last weeks there was a protage tree update (~amd64 is in use) which reasulted in poor pictire printing (say, with visible dots where smooth gray was before). I use kprinter 3.5.10 whith kyocera ps ppd driver (and I didn't change any printing related options). Thoughts?

Re: [gentoo-user] poor images printing

2009-02-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:12:52 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: During few last weeks there was a protage tree update (~amd64 is in use) which reasulted in poor pictire printing (say, with visible dots where smooth gray was before). I use kprinter 3.5.10 whith kyocera ps ppd driver (and I didn't

[gentoo-user] Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless

2009-02-14 Thread daid kahl
I was bored and playing around with macchanger to change my Wireless MAC address, and wireless has not worked since, even though I'm using my hardware MAC address again. I'm usually using NetworkManager, but I also installed Wicd to see if I could avoid the problem that way. The problem seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless

2009-02-14 Thread William Kenworthy
Try shutting it down, remove power (actually unplug it - most moderm MB's stay live when supposedly off) Wait 10 minutes and apply power and boot. Its probable the hardware and software are now confused and need a clean start. BillK )On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:05 +0900, daid kahl wrote: I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Commenting out multiple lines in vim

2009-02-14 Thread Sebastian Dörner
Hi, Stroller wrote: Any comments gratefully received. The ways described here are quite convenient for sure, but since comments are pretty important and frequently-used instruments in programming, I prefer extending the conveniency furthermore by using The NERD Commenter vim plugin found here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+c kills KOrganizer 4.2 when it should copy text [Solved]

2009-02-14 Thread Arttu V.
On 2/7/09, Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe the new xorg-server is only supposed to work reliably on a fully ~amd64? This box has mostly stable amd64 and only select packages, mostly end-used apps like seamonkey, OOo and firefox are allowed to be ~amd64 along with some of their more

Re: [gentoo-user] problems running doxygen from cron

2009-02-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Dirk Uys wrote: I have a problem when running doxygen from a cron job. It seems like doxygen is simply aborting at an arbitrary point during execution. I tried to search on the internet, but could not find anything similar reported. [...] My cron entry is 45 * * * * /home/user/script.sh

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.2 no prefixed problems

2009-02-14 Thread Andrés Becerra Sandoval
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 13 February 2009 19:01:32 Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: Hi, I installed kde-4.2 with USE=kdeprefix two weeks ago and everything I needed was working all right. Then I decided to change my USE flags and

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs blocking question

2009-02-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Geralt wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: You don't need to remove anything, just let portage handle the block for you. Blocks marked with a b (instead of a B) can be handled by recent portage releases. are you sure that his works in this

[gentoo-user] protect older kernels from depclean?

2009-02-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Is there a Gentoo way of protecting older kernels from being removed by emerge --depclean? Maybe a config file somewhere that tells it not to bother with certain things? A simple way is to put each kernel I want to protect in the world file, and I've done that, but it would be nice if there was a

Re: [gentoo-user] protect older kernels from depclean?

2009-02-14 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: Is there a Gentoo way of protecting older kernels from being removed by emerge --depclean? Maybe a config file somewhere that tells it not to bother with certain things? A simple way is to put each kernel I want to protect in the world file, and I've done that, but it

[gentoo-user] Re: protect older kernels from depclean?

2009-02-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mark Knecht wrote: Is there a Gentoo way of protecting older kernels from being removed by emerge --depclean? Maybe a config file somewhere that tells it not to bother with certain things? A simple way is to put each kernel I want to protect in the world file, and I've done that, but it would

[gentoo-user] EEE netbook and gentoo

2009-02-14 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Just got an Asus EEE 900A and would like to install gentoo linux using the USB boot stick method. Xandros must go! Don't even get a shell! Thing is, how do I get into the BIOS on the netbook to tell it to boot from the USB stick? maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] EEE netbook and gentoo

2009-02-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:07:55 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote: Just got an Asus EEE 900A and would like to install gentoo linux using the USB boot stick method. Xandros must go! Don't even get a shell! Ctrl-Alt-T Thing is, how do I get into the BIOS on the netbook to tell it to boot from the

[gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)

2009-02-14 Thread list-catcher
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

[gentoo-user] FIle type recognition in Gnome

2009-02-14 Thread amar . cosic
Hello listI have this weird issue with Gnome and diferent file types. For ex. if I double click on .avi file it try's to open it with document viewer (gedit i guess). And If I go right clickpropertiesopen with then chose Movie player.. then it opens .avi in Totem. But thing is after that it will

Re: [gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)

2009-02-14 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)

2009-02-14 Thread Jake Todd
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)

2009-02-14 Thread list-catcher
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)

2009-02-14 Thread list-catcher
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

Re: [gentoo-user] FIle type recognition in Gnome

2009-02-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 00:15 +, amar.co...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list I have this weird issue with Gnome and diferent file types. For ex. if I double click on .avi file it try's to open it with document viewer (gedit i guess). And If I go right clickpropertiesopen with then chose Movie

Re: [gentoo-user] FIle type recognition in Gnome

2009-02-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 00:15 +, amar.co...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list I have this weird issue with Gnome and diferent file types. For ex. if I double click on .avi file it try's to open it with document viewer

[gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?

2009-02-14 Thread zhangweiwu
I always wonder if I can run firefox multi-process instead of multi-threads. I hate to see the browser hang trying to open a huge webpage (10MB) and that's frequent case in China. Usually at such case I have to lanuch a different browser (e.g. epiphany) in order to keep browsing during loading

[gentoo-user] credit_card and [charge] not compatible?

2009-02-14 Thread Grant
I'm trying to use: credit_card=standard visa mc discover amex so [error mv_credit_card_number] will be set if the number isn't valid or the date is expired, and [charge] on the resulting page, but the card number doesn't persist to the [charge] tag. If I remove credit_card, [charge] works fine

Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?

2009-02-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 15 Februar 2009, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: I always wonder if I can run firefox multi-process instead of multi-threads. I hate to see the browser hang trying to open a huge webpage (10MB) and that's frequent case in China. Usually at such case I have to lanuch a different

Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?

2009-02-14 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:57 PM, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: I always wonder if I can run firefox multi-process instead of multi-threads. I hate to see the browser hang trying to open a huge webpage (10MB) and that's frequent case in China. Usually at such case I have to lanuch a different

Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?

2009-02-14 Thread Jason Weisberger
An interesting project that has come up is called Crossover Chromium, which is a specially packaged version of Chrome and Wine, but yeah in the meantime Konqueror does a pretty good job even if it does render slightly differently on my system. On Feb 14, 2009 11:11 PM, Joshua Murphy

Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?

2009-02-14 Thread Philip Webb
090215 zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Can I run firefox multi-process instead of multi-threads. I hate to see the browser hang trying to open a huge webpage ( 10 MB ) A work-around is to download the file with Wget or Lynx, then open the result with Firefox after it has all arrived. --

[gentoo-user] Re: credit_card and [charge] not compatible?

2009-02-14 Thread Grant
I'm trying to use: credit_card=standard visa mc discover amex so [error mv_credit_card_number] will be set if the number isn't valid or the date is expired, and [charge] on the resulting page, but the card number doesn't persist to the [charge] tag. If I remove credit_card, [charge] works

Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?

2009-02-14 Thread zhangweiwu
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: konqueror it is better than ff anyway. Are you sure it runs multi-process?

Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?

2009-02-14 Thread zhangweiwu
Philip Webb schrieb: 090215 zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Can I run firefox multi-process instead of multi-threads. I hate to see the browser hang trying to open a huge webpage ( 10 MB ) A work-around is to download the file with Wget or Lynx, then open the result with Firefox after it has

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless

2009-02-14 Thread daid kahl
)On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:05 +0900, daid kahl wrote: I was bored and playing around with macchanger to change my Wireless MAC address, and wireless has not worked since, even though I'm using my hardware MAC address again. I'm usually using NetworkManager, but I Try shutting it down,

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

2009-02-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 14 February 2009 01:50:38 Allan Gottlieb wrote: Recently evince stopped working on one of my machines, ajglap. For every pdf, evince opens a window and complains   unable to open document   unhandled mime type As you use evince, you may be a gnome user, so this might not help