Re: [gentoo-user] Icons on the xfce4 Desktop

2009-09-21 Thread Leon Feng
2009/9/20 dhk dhk...@optonline.net: I recently started using the xfce4 desktop with Gentoo and something happened where the icons disappeared.  When I go to the Desktop folder I can still see them there, the problem is I can get them to display again or they are displayed but off the screen.  

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?

2009-09-21 Thread Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com [09-09-21 04:25]: Ward Poelmans wpoel...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: When using the line:    @ 5 fetchmail -a nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:41:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Turns out none of the backup or Myth files were savable in any practical manner of speaking. Myth could play them, or at least start playing them - I don't know if it could get to the end of any of them, but if I tried to copy them off to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview Krusader problems

2009-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:13:37 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Krusader can no longer connect to a remote site via 'fish://'; in fact Krusader 1.80.0 (with KDE 3.5.10) won't do it anymore either. I can connect with Krusader on KDE 4.3.1 but fish:// has been broken in KDE 3.5 for quite some time. I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview Krusader problems

2009-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 21 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: More progress/problems with KDE 4.3.1 . Gwenview is refusing to show thumbnails of images, which showed in 3.5.10 . They seem to be small images: has anyone else experienced this ? no - and could you please rephrase your question? it does show

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?

2009-09-21 Thread Stroller
On 20 Sep 2009, at 16:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... When using the line: @ 5 fetchmail -a nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded with fetchmail -a from the commandline. Here my crontab says: 0-59/4 * * * */usr/bin/fetchmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer

2009-09-21 Thread Stroller
On 20 Sep 2009, at 17:07, Harry Putnam wrote: Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files. Suggest playing one from the command line - mplayer gives a LOT of output, some of which may be useful. You might have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer

2009-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files. Ditto in firefox. This was working. But I'm not sure really what is playing the videos ... I do have gecko

[gentoo-user] KDE menu missing with new kernel

2009-09-21 Thread James
Hello, What happens is when I boot up kernel-2.6.28-gentoo-r5 all the kde stuff (4.2.4) shows up. When I boot a newer kernel, either kernel-2.6.29-gentoo-r5 or kernel-2.6.30-gentoo-r4 my kde menu bar across the bottom of the screen is gone. I still get a few kconsole sessions that always

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: runlevels and service list

2009-09-21 Thread walt
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 16:51 -0500, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 20 September 2009 22:06:44 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:51:17 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: /bin/bash is also shown in htop even though bash isn't in any

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing with new kernel

2009-09-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Montag, 21. September 2009 schrieb James: When I boot a newer kernel, either kernel-2.6.29-gentoo-r5 or kernel-2.6.30-gentoo-r4 my kde [4] menu bar across the bottom of the screen is gone. I still get a few kconsole sessions that always start upon booting up, but all of the other kde

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing with new kernel

2009-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 21 September 2009, James wrote: any ideas? maybe you forgot CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y ? but you should really start with a diff of the configs.

[gentoo-user] ReSOLVED: KDE menu missing with new kernel

2009-09-21 Thread James
Frank Steinmetzger Warp_7 at gmx.de writes: I've had a similar issue when switching logins between KDE 4 and 3 regularly - The menu went missing in 3 from time to time. As solution I was told to run kbuildsycoca. In your case (for KDE4) you need to run kbuildsycoca4. All I had to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?

2009-09-21 Thread meino . cramer
Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila galiza.ce...@gmail.com [09-09-21 17:13]: meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com [09-09-21 04:25]: Ward Poelmans wpoel...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: When using the line:    @ 5

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?

2009-09-21 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 17:43, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: By the way: Calling fetchmal -d from ~/.openbox/autostart.sh also does not work, but other programs started from there do have no problems. Try running fetchmail -d -v --logfile ~/fetchmail.log in your autostart or cron and see if

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?

2009-09-21 Thread meino . cramer
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [09-09-21 17:13]: On 20 Sep 2009, at 16:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... When using the line: @ 5 fetchmail -a nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded with fetchmail -a from the commandline. Here my

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Portage Feature Request

2009-09-21 Thread Paige Thompson
I hope nobody finds this offensive, I'm not a great writer but I gotta get this out there. Goal: to resolve quality issues with packages and the behavior of portage Problem 1: This is a really simple thing, first of all it would help a lot if packages will not try to build with specified

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Portage Feature Request

2009-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 21 September 2009 18:16:32 Paige Thompson wrote: I hope nobody finds this offensive, I'm not a great writer but I gotta get this out there. Goal: to resolve quality issues with packages and the behavior of portage Problem 1: This is a really simple thing, first of all it would

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Portage Feature Request

2009-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
a) wrong list b) please read this and think about it: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/09/04/filtering-compiler-optimisation-flags-is-not- a-solution c) gentoo is about responsibility. You are responsible for the stuff you do. Gentoo tries not to get in your way if it can. What you ask for is

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers to radeon

2009-09-21 Thread James
Hello, Currently, on an old laptop I have this chip: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) using ati-drivers, all if fine with: xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-21 Thread walt
On 09/20/2009 07:40 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: waltw41...@gmail.com [09-09-21 02:32]: On 09/20/2009 09:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: solfire:/home/mccramerl /etc/asound.state -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10122 2009-08-06 18:05 /etc/asound.state solfire:/home/mccramersudo rm -f

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview Krusader problems

2009-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
090921 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 21 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: Gwenview is refusing to show thumbnails of images, which showed in 3.5.10 . They seem to be small images: has anyone else experienced this ? it does show little images, but you are missing thumbnails which are

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers to radeon

2009-09-21 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 19:10, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: VIDEO_CARDS=radeon vesa (I keep vesa for a backup) emerge -C ati-drivers run 'qlist -I -C x11-drivers/' and rebuild the list of supporting drivers? reboot ???  that simple or did I miss something? Yes, change your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-21 Thread meino . cramer
walt w41...@gmail.com [09-09-21 19:36]: On 09/20/2009 07:40 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: waltw41...@gmail.com [09-09-21 02:32]: On 09/20/2009 09:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: solfire:/home/mccramerl /etc/asound.state -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10122 2009-08-06 18:05 /etc/asound.state

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-21 Thread Pupino
2009/9/21 meino.cra...@gmx.de: walt w41...@gmail.com [09-09-21 19:36]: On 09/20/2009 07:40 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: waltw41...@gmail.com  [09-09-21 02:32]: On 09/20/2009 09:15 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: solfire:/home/mccramerl /etc/asound.state -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10122

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview Krusader problems

2009-09-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 21 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: 090921 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 21 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: Gwenview is refusing to show thumbnails of images, which showed in 3.5.10 . They seem to be small images: has anyone else experienced this ? it does show

[gentoo-user] Re: Why am I seeing only black screen in mplayer

2009-09-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Following my most recent update world of Sept. 13, mplayer only produces a black screen when playing quicktime .mov files. It works for me on ~amd64. I'm using

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

2009-09-21 Thread walt
On 09/19/2009 05:07 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: waltw41...@gmail.com [09-09-20 02:03]: On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP=no to /etc/conf.d/alsasound and we will see what happens. Did you try stopping the alsa service manually?

Re: [gentoo-user] USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't? The drive

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview Krusader problems

2009-09-21 Thread walt
On 09/21/2009 11:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 21 September 2009, Philip Webb wrote: I'm not sure this is progress: the Unix way is to use extensions as a guide, but process files according to their identified content; Gwenview 4.3.1 seems to be following the M$ approach of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:41:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Turns out none of the backup or Myth files were savable in any practical manner of speaking. Myth could play them, or at least start playing them - I don't know if

Re: [gentoo-user] USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)

2009-09-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers to radeon

2009-09-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/21/2009 08:10 PM, James wrote: Hello, Currently, on an old laptop I have this chip: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) using ati-drivers, all if fine with: xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 ati-drivers-8.593

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Setting up correct domainname

2009-09-21 Thread Mick
On Sunday 20 September 2009, Stroller wrote: On 20 Sep 2009, at 12:30, Mick wrote: ... -The following addresses had permanent fatal errors- email_acco...@isp.com (reason: 550 5.1.0 nag...@myserver.mydomain.com sender rejected : invalid sender domain) -Transcript of

[gentoo-user] upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal

2009-09-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Before I did -uvDN world a couple of days ago the terminal that came with xfce4 was quite nice, configurable, with tabs. Now the terminal app really sucks. I've looked in ~/.config/xfce4 for something to tweak but must have missed it. Settings-Preferred Applications-Utilities leads to

[gentoo-user] Slim -- log message?

2009-09-21 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, In /var/log/slim.log I found this message: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. . Unfortunately I simply don't know, what it wants to say to me... Can anybody help? Thank you very much in advance! Best regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or

[gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal

2009-09-21 Thread walt
On 09/21/2009 04:16 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, Before I did -uvDN world a couple of days ago the terminal that came with xfce4 was quite nice, configurable, with tabs. Now the terminal app really sucks. I've looked in ~/.config/xfce4 for something to tweak but must have missed it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim -- log message?

2009-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 22 September 2009 01:52:41 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, In /var/log/slim.log I found this message: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. . Unfortunately I simply don't know, what it wants to say to me... Can anybody help? Thank you very

RE: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file

2009-09-21 Thread David Juhl
You should be able to unzip it with unzip or p7zip if it is a regular zip file. If it is a cabinet file then you need cabextract. Dave On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 17:02 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: Did you try running the .exe with wine?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview Krusader problems

2009-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
090921 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:13:37 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Krusader can no longer connect to a remote site via 'fish://'; in fact Krusader 1.80.0 (with KDE 3.5.10) won't do it anymore either. I can connect to the site via 'ssh' from the CLI. I can connect with Krusader

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal

2009-09-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
Opens an identical xterm. In the original terminal it says Warning: Cannot convert string nil2 to type FontStruct before spawning the new terminal. Search results inconclusive. BTW if you google Warning: Cannot convert string nil2 to type FontStruct + xfterm4 you get precisely one hit, which I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal

2009-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
On 09/21/2009 04:16 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Before I did 'emerge -uvDN world' a couple of days ago the terminal that came with xfce4 was quite configurable with tabs. Now the terminal app really sucks. Yet another problem when people do 'emerge ... world' (groan, not at you). My own practice