Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

2017-12-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Mick. On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 13:51:01 +, Mick wrote: > On Thursday, 28 December 2017 06:14:23 GMT taii...@gmx.com wrote: > > For the record I would also like to add that using the duplexer on some > > poorly designed printers cuts off the bottom or top of the page without > > any type

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

2017-12-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 29 December 2017 13:57:31 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I think the bug is that "A4" has to be set in so many places, where "so > many" means more than one. In a well designed printing system, there > would be just one place to set it. And that would have to be /etc/papersize, no? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

2017-12-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/12/2017 16:30, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 29 December 2017 13:57:31 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> I think the bug is that "A4" has to be set in so many places, where "so >> many" means more than one. In a well designed printing system, there >> would be just one place to set it. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

2017-12-29 Thread Wols Lists
On 29/12/17 16:13, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The only "correct" place for papersize nowadays is in whatever the user > is using to get something to print. And there are lots of those. > Something like CUPS ought to make it all so much easier but I find CUPS > just makes my life insanely difficult. So

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

2017-12-29 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 28 December 2017 06:14:23 GMT taii...@gmx.com wrote: > For the record I would also like to add that using the duplexer on some > poorly designed printers cuts off the bottom or top of the page without > any type of notification. Debugging cups and trying all conceivable combos of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

2017-12-29 Thread Mick
On Friday, 29 December 2017 14:30:43 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I think the bug is that "A4" has to be set in so many places, where "so > > many" means more than one. In a well designed printing system, there > > would be just one place to set it. > > And that would have to be /etc/papersize,

Re: [gentoo-user] segfault in gedit / glib

2017-12-29 Thread P Levine
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 3:07 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 4:59 PM, P Levine wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 9:01 PM, Adam Carter >> wrote: >> >>> System is ~amd64. If i try to open a text file in

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 21/12/2017 17:41, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi, > > after the update and installation of gentoo-sources-4.14.7 my two machines no > longer switch to SDDM on > VT7, it stays on VT1. However, I can switch manually using CTRL-ALT-7 to SDDM > and login as usual. If I boot > with the last stable

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean confusion

2017-12-29 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 19 Dec 2017 23:43:35 +0200 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 19/12/17 23:18, Walter Dnes wrote: >>Finishing off an install, and running "emerge --depclean" >> >> = > Assigning files to packages... >> * In order

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was: What can cause printer to crop top of page?] /etc/papersize is ignored

2017-12-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 29 December 2017 16:45:33 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > (Plus, of course, so much development is done for the American market, > so they don't realise how hard it is to get a change like A4 to stick :-( Damned colonials. It's like the baseball "world series": no-one outside north America

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-29 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:41:26 + schrieb Jörg Schaible: > Hi, > > after the update and installation of gentoo-sources-4.14.7 my two > machines no longer switch to SDDM on VT7, it stays on VT1. However, I > can switch manually using CTRL-ALT-7 to SDDM and login as usual. If I > boot with the

Re: [gentoo-user] segfault in gedit / glib

2017-12-29 Thread Adam Carter
> > The segfault message would exist in the dmesg/journalctl. Please open a > user shell in Gnome and type "gedit ",​ substituting a text file for > . Press enter. Does this segfault and if so is there anything else > printed? > ​ ​ > The journalctl message is; Dec 29 12:17:32 phat kernel:

Re: [gentoo-user] segfault in gedit / glib

2017-12-29 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 4:59 PM, P Levine wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 9:01 PM, Adam Carter > wrote: > >> System is ~amd64. If i try to open a text file in gnome via double click, >> i get; >> $ journalctl -b | grep segf >> Dec 29 12:17:32 phat

Re: [gentoo-user] help installing Gentoo on Asus Transformer T101HA

2017-12-29 Thread Stefano Crocco
On venerdì 29 dicembre 2017 03:40:46 CET Daniel Frey wrote: > On 12/28/17 12:36, Stefano Crocco wrote: > > Hello to everyone, > > I'm trying to install Gentoo on an Asus Transformer T101HA and there are > > some issues I'd need help with. > > > > First of all, I must say that many things worked