Re: [gentoo-user] mutt $index_format syntax

2011-04-08 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 2011/04/08 02:40PM, Alexey Mishustin wrote: For example, I don't understand what does -15.15 mean (in default value %4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%4l) %s ) The -15.15 is the same as the printf(3) format. The minus sign means left align the field, the first number is the minimum field width, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Do not emerge firefox 4.0 if you do not want gconf

2011-03-25 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 2011/03/24 05:37PM, Sebastian Günther wrote: Hi, just to warn everyone of you readers, who use ~ARCH: firefox 4.0 arrived with a dep to gconf. A big show stopper for the all who do not want to have any gnome dependencies, but want to have the new Firefox. Judging by the comment in

Re: [gentoo-user] One machine sends emerge text output to stderr, not stdout

2010-11-18 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 2010/11/18 06:25AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: How does it differ from screen? Is it sufficiently better to relearn keystrokes etc? The major difference is that you can split the screen into panes, showing multiple ptys at the same time (similar to vim's :[v]sp, layout wise). Besides that, I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox and using kdm

2010-10-26 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 2010/10/26 07:29PM, Dale wrote: Is starting fluxbox without kdm as easy as typing startfluxbox in a console as a user? Surely it can't be that easy. No, since X has to be started first. X creates windows, but just puts them all on top of each other, with no way to move them, and no way to

[gentoo-user] Printer not working after world update

2010-10-14 Thread Vincent Launchbury
Hi list, I've been using my printer problem free for years, but a recent world update seems to have broken something. Now whenever I print I get: (/usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 1! [Job 129] Job stopped due to filter errors. and the job eventually vanishes from

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer not working after world update

2010-10-14 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 10/14/10 13:45, Mick wrote: Have you tried unmasking and using cups-1.4.4-r2 ? Thanks! It didn't fix things, but it did lead me to the solution. Apparently cups 1.4 has much more verbose logging, which pointed me to an issue with the min12xxw driver. Cups 1.4 doesn't seem to detect USB

Re: [gentoo-user] reading php file code in text editor

2010-06-23 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 06/23/10 08:22, Mick wrote: PS. I just looked at earlier (stable) versions of these files here: http://drupal.org/project/skinr [...] and they do not have the binary characters at the end - so this could well be a problem with the development versions. Perhaps it was just a corrupt

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 04/18/10 11:00, Tanstaafl wrote: Crap, doesn't look like this will work... After masking gcc (and glibc - same argument there), I get: emerge -pev world snip !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy virtual/libc have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-17 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 04/17/10 17:09, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-04-17 4:59 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile everything *but* gcc)? Of course I meant: emerge -e system -gcc You could try temporarily masking it: #echo sys-devel/gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Match of the udev and the kernel

2010-04-09 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 04/08/10 21:01, Song Zhiwei wrote: Dear all, I installed gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r8 for a legacy esdcan-usb331 driver. The current udev-149 does not match this kernel now. Who can tell me which version of udev can work with linux kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r8? Regards, Zhiwei I believe udev-143

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-25 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 03/25/10 15:06, Dale wrote: Hi, Does someone here use something that is fast to load, small, will work with KDE and adjust brightness/contrast and maybe some other simple things? Ideas? Thanks. How about the display command from imagemagick (with use=X)? It's smaller than the GIMP, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Modify keymap

2010-01-13 Thread Vincent Launchbury
Xianwen Chen wrote: I can't use the letter ø because this key doesn't exist on an en_US keyboard. To solve this problem, I want to modify the layout file, to set the Windows key to ø. Does anyone know which file shall I touch? You might be able to use x11-apps/xmodmap. Grab x11-apps/xev to