Re: [gentoo-user] About to embark on x32

2013-04-10 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:46:33PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: So I'm about to try setting up the x32 arch in a VM. I notice there's no handbook for it, though there is for amd64 and x86. I'm considering x32 for its lighter memory footprint... Does anyone know of any notable differences

[gentoo-user] VMware Player 5.0.2

2013-04-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Does anybody in here run mentioned VMware Player 5.0.2 with latest gentoo-sources-3.8.6 ? It fails to even start here ... says Abgebrochen (german ... maybe Cancelled in english?) ... Rebuilt it, restarted it, systemd says: Apr 10 12:59:26 hiro.oops.intern systemd[1]: Starting VMware daemon...

Re: [gentoo-user] About to embark on x32

2013-04-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:46:33PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote ...I'm considering x32 for its lighter memory footprint... For server use, I assume that it'll be a textmode-console-only system. There are probably better ways to lighten the memory footprint than x32. I started off with the

[gentoo-user] What breaks under uclibc?

2013-04-10 Thread Walter Dnes
Since there aren't any uclibc-based user-distros I'm aware of, I assume that there are incompatabilities. My first guess would be proprietary binary stuff is where the breakage occurs, e.g... - binary blobs for video drivers - Shockwave Flash (which I unfortunately need) - etc Is that

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm: can't login and start KDE

2013-04-10 Thread nael
Hi, On 04/09/2013 05:05 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: On 09.04.2013 17:13, João Matos wrote: 2013/4/9 Yuri K. Shatroff yks-...@yandex.ru mailto:yks-...@yandex.ru Hello gentoo-users, Yesterday I completed a world update (amd64, unstable) and now I can't login with kdm. (I

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm: can't login and start KDE

2013-04-10 Thread Natanael Olaiz
I forgot: I'm using sysvinit, and policykit is enabled for kdelibs. So I also tried reinstalling consolekit and polkit (the day I tried I had to patch polkit 0.110 in order to compile !!! :-/). Nothing changed. Natanael. On 04/10/2013 10:11 PM, nael wrote: Hi, On 04/09/2013 05:05 PM, Yuri

Re: [gentoo-user] Rant/Warning: fun with awesome and lightdm

2013-04-10 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Tue, 9 Apr 2013 18:17:04 +0200 schrieb Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de: Update: I opened a bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465288. [...] And fixed as of a few hours ago! -- Marc Joliet -- People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't - Bjarne

[gentoo-user] XFCE4 menu - combine pdf documents

2013-04-10 Thread Joseph
How to write a small script the would combine several pdf documents? I'm using XFCE4 I combine a lot of documents and going every time to command line and using pdfjoin is time taking. Using mouse, I would like to highlight selected pdf documents, right click and from the menu select join the

Re: [gentoo-user] Rant/Warning: fun with awesome and lightdm

2013-04-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 9, 2013 11:18 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: Update: I opened a bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465288. There is a reference to the Awesome upstream bug which resulted in the change to the desktop file, along with a link to a LightDM upstream bug that sounds like