Re: [gentoo-user] Separate instances of Firefox require separate profiles

2014-06-23 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: I vaguely remember a while ago, somebody on this list asked about running separate instances of Firefox. I finally figured out how to run separate instances of Firefox, as ***COMPLETELY SEPARATE PROCESSES***. Namely, that you need ***A SEPARATE PROFILE FOR EACH

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype now will only work with pulseaudio?

2014-06-23 Thread Mick
On 22 June 2014 21:51, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/06/2014 18:53, Mick wrote: Are you using PA and how would you suggest I go about installing and configuring it (if I must) for minimal interference with my audio usage? Why don't you rather peg skype at the last

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Skype now will only work with pulseaudio?

2014-06-23 Thread Mick
On 23 June 2014 03:32, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/06/14 19:53, Mick wrote: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PulseAudio it seems awfully complicated to me, for something which for my purposes would be just a new 'alsamixer'. :p If *that* looks complicated to you, then I

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype now will only work with pulseaudio?

2014-06-23 Thread luis jure
el 2014-06-22 a las 17:55 Rich Freeman escribió: For the simple case of one sound device with one application playing at a time alsa works just fine. and for more complex cases it also works fine. with dmix you can have several applications playing at the same time, and if you have more than

[gentoo-user] Re: Separate instances of Firefox require separate profiles

2014-06-23 Thread James
Walter Dnes waltdnes at waltdnes.org writes: I vaguely remember a while ago, somebody on this list asked about firefox -new-instance -P trusted firefox -new-instance -P default ps -ef | grep firefox Very cool. I have sometimes wanted to use the same bookmarks file/db for all of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate instances of Firefox require separate profiles

2014-06-23 Thread Mick
On Monday 23 Jun 2014 06:33:12 Walter Dnes wrote: I vaguely remember a while ago, somebody on this list asked about running separate instances of Firefox. I finally figured out how to run separate instances of Firefox, as ***COMPLETELY SEPARATE PROCESSES***. Namely, that you need ***A

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox profile opens my web-page in https

2014-06-23 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 Jun 2014 22:52:40 Joseph wrote: I run a server and have two firefox profiles. I have ssl enabled. When I open one profile I it opens my web-page in https instead of http When I open another profile it open my webpage in http Why is first profile forcing my opening my servers

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype now will only work with pulseaudio?

2014-06-23 Thread covici
luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: el 2014-06-22 a las 17:55 Rich Freeman escribió: For the simple case of one sound device with one application playing at a time alsa works just fine. and for more complex cases it also works fine. with dmix you can have several applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate instances of Firefox require separate profiles

2014-06-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 06:02:02PM +0100, Mick wrote Taking this a step further I create additional one-off profile directories in /tmp, which are deleted when I reboot (this is a laptop), which ensures that tracing between sites does not happen. Here is more detail on my approach... 1)

[gentoo-user] sys-power/upower with systemd

2014-06-23 Thread gottlieb
I think I had first misinterpreted the news msg, but want to be sure I do understand it correctly now. The message ends with All non-systemd users are recommended to choose between: # emerge --oneshot --noreplace 'sys-power/upower-pm-utils' or # emerge --oneshot --noreplace

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with nvidia card -- could it be hardware?

2014-06-23 Thread covici
Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/20/2014 11:58 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am using the nvidia GeForce GT 430 for years and suddenly within the last few days, if I start gdm, it gives me an error, no screens found and dumpss core and if I let it go it