[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border

2010-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Xi Shen wrote: hi, when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows lost their window border, and i cannot move the window. how can i fix this? Maybe kwin crashed. what happens if you open a terminal and launch kwin? Ciao Francesco -- Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border

2010-01-06 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Ngoc Nguyen Bao baongoc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: hi, when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows lost their window border, and i cannot move the window. how can i fix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border

2010-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 12:35:36 Francesco Talamona wrote: On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Xi Shen wrote: hi, when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows lost their window border, and i cannot move the window. how can i fix this? Maybe kwin crashed. what

[gentoo-user] eselect data - how to update?

2010-01-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi I've unmerged sun-jdk-1.5 but eselect java-vm list still shows it. qfile /usr/share/eselect/modules/java-vm.eselect shows, that it is installed by dev-java/java-config So, I re-emerged dev-java/java-config and app-admin/eselect but it's still there. How to update eselect's data? Many

[gentoo-user] firefox addons system wide installation?

2010-01-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, how can I install addons for firefox 3.5.6 system wide i.e., such that these are available to all users? (AFAIK, the standard method installs them local to each user) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056

[gentoo-user] Services order/hierarchy

2010-01-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
Is it there a tool or command in gentoo to see a la emerge --tree the inter-dependencies and boot order of services? I know about cinit [1] but I never used it, because I'm looking for a way to see at a glance without rebooting. Imagine a tool for confronting two different servers without

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox addons system wide installation?

2010-01-06 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, how can I install addons for firefox 3.5.6 system wide i.e., such that these are available to all users? (AFAIK, the standard method installs them local to each user)

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox addons system wide installation?

2010-01-06 Thread Brahim LARCHET
Le 06/01/2010 13:38, Etaoin Shrdlu a écrit : On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, how can I install addons for firefox 3.5.6 system wide i.e., such that these are available to all users? (AFAIK, the standard method installs them local to each user)

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox addons system wide installation?

2010-01-06 Thread Hazen Valliant-Saunders
I think you are confusing add-ons with extensions. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Brahim LARCHET brahim.larc...@gmail.comwrote: Le 06/01/2010 13:38, Etaoin Shrdlu a écrit : On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, how can I install addons for firefox 3.5.6 system wide

[gentoo-user] sys-power/powermgmt-base blocks sys-power/pm-utils, but it's not installed yet

2010-01-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
I was hoping that this was a dev boo-boo and would work itself out in time, but it's been several days and it hasn't, so the problem must be on my end. See the following listing: Calculating dependencies .. . ... done! [ebuild N] sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22 [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-06 Thread Stroller
On 5 Jan 2010, at 23:33, Dale wrote: ... Gentoo wasn't at fault here. KDE was the one that dropped the ball. Gentoo had to follow the knuckle heads at KDE tho. Dale Between KDE Gentoo, aren't most contributors volunteers? In volunteer development it's normal necessary to focus on the

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox addons system wide installation?

2010-01-06 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: I think you are confusing add-ons with extensions. I might be wrong, but in my understanding add-on is a generic term that includes at least themes and extensions (if not even plugins). So I suppose the OP meant extensions rather

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/powermgmt-base blocks sys-power/pm-utils, but it's not installed yet

2010-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 15:49:05 Michael Sullivan wrote: I was hoping that this was a dev boo-boo and would work itself out in time, but it's been several days and it hasn't, so the problem must be on my end. See the following listing: Calculating dependencies .. . ... done!

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/powermgmt-base blocks sys-power/pm-utils, but it's not installed yet

2010-01-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:49:05 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: Calculating dependencies .. . ... done! [ebuild N] sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22 [ebuild U ] media-libs/libmikmod-3.2.0_beta2-r1 [3.1.11-r5] [ebuild N] sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5 USE=X nls [ebuild N]

[gentoo-user] firefox mouse gestures

2010-01-06 Thread fajfusio
HiHow can I install mouse gestures for firefox under gentoo.I cannot find any package that seems to be proper for that.great thanks for helpBiałe szaleństwo trwa!Dokąd w tym roku? Sprawdź trasy, wyciągi, oferty:

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox mouse gestures

2010-01-06 Thread Davide Carnovale
Get what you need from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ HTH Davide 2010/1/6 fajfu...@wp.pl Hi How can I install mouse gestures for firefox under gentoo. I cannot find any package that seems to be proper for that. great thanks for help

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless...

2010-01-06 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com From: Mike Edenfield On 12/2/2009 9:17 PM, BRM wrote: I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless Broadcom) through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically: essid_wlan0=myWLAN

[gentoo-user] About gnash and swfdec

2010-01-06 Thread Xianwen Chen
Hi guys and girls, Have you tried gnash or swfdec as alternatives to adobe flash player? I tried both of them. The high consumption of cpu resource and the lack of support to SWF version 8-10 are the main disadvantages in my opinion. And it seems that swfdec hasn't published a new version for

[gentoo-user] Limit emerge's wget bandwidth usage

2010-01-06 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Is there any way I can configure (pass arguments to) emerge's wget (used for fetching) to limit it's rate to a certain amount of KB/s? I don't want to make a global/system-wide change, just for portage. I did find a way to limit the bandwidth while syncing. All I had to do was to put this on

[gentoo-user] emerging gentoo-sources failing due to file collisions

2010-01-06 Thread Walt Rarus
I've never experienced this phenomenon prior to gentoo-sources-2.6.31.-r6. I've always emerged gentoo-sources and they peacefully sat there and waited until I built the corresponding kernel later when I felt like it - if ever. With 2.6.31-r6, however, the emerge fails and consequently screws up

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit emerge's wget bandwidth usage

2010-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
The answer to supplying custom arguments to portage's download command is exactly where it should be - in a man page. equery files portage will list them, it's in section 5 On 06 Jan 2010 8:38 PM, Ricardo Saffi Marques sa...@las.ic.unicamp.br wrote: Is there any way I can configure (pass

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-06 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 5 Jan 2010, at 23:33, Dale wrote: ... Gentoo wasn't at fault here. KDE was the one that dropped the ball. Gentoo had to follow the knuckle heads at KDE tho. Dale Between KDE Gentoo, aren't most contributors volunteers? In volunteer development it's normal necessary

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gentoo-sources failing due to file collisions

2010-01-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 6 Jan, Walt Rarus wrote: I've never experienced this phenomenon prior to gentoo-sources-2.6.31.-r6. I've always emerged gentoo-sources and they peacefully sat there and waited until I built the corresponding kernel later when I felt like it - if ever. With 2.6.31-r6, however, the emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gentoo-sources failing due to file collisions

2010-01-06 Thread Walt Rarus
So, please check where these files came from by qfile /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Makefile WALRUS ~ # qfile /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Makefile sys-kernel/-MERGING-gentoo-sources (/usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Makefile) Whatever that means. Have you installed this kernel 'by

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] emerging gentoo-sources failing due to file collisions

2010-01-06 Thread Walt Rarus
per Helmut Jarausch: rm -rf /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6 followed by re-emerge of gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6 worked! Thanks, Helmut P.S. The mystery remains how those conflicting files got there in the first place. Certainly not by any conscious act on my part. But, at this point I don't really

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gentoo-sources failing due to file collisions

2010-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
An earlier attempt to merge those sources failed and the install is left incomplete. Do a --depclean to be safe, delete the source tree, merge it again On 06 Jan 2010 9:33 PM, Walt Rarus geeked...@gmail.com wrote: So, please check where these files came from by qfile

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

2010-01-06 Thread felix
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:09:03PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: For example, if I wanted a forgotten password laying in a text file but encfs encrypted and on the remote. When for one or another reason I cannot get it from the home machine. I hate saying something when I don't know the full

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/powermgmt-base blocks sys-power/pm-utils, but it's not installed yet

2010-01-06 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:49:05 -0600 Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22', 'merge') pulled in by

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

2010-01-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:09:03 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Why not just tar up the underlying encfs partition? The data is already encrypted, what's the point of decrypting it to encrypt it again? That way you don't need to rely on any encryption

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

2010-01-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:27:32 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Then use rsync instead of tar, then you can mount the remote filesystem using sshfs and encfs to read individual files. It's a little slow as you are layering two FUSE filesystems, but quicker than downloading a complete tarball just

[gentoo-user] gst-plugins

2010-01-06 Thread dhk
When do I need gstreamer? When I run the emerge --search @media-plugins/gst-plugins command I get a lot of results and I have no idea what I need to install for what I want to do. Right now I want to listen to a radio show at http://www.legendsradio.net/ and it says I need a plugin. Anyone know

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit emerge's wget bandwidth usage

2010-01-06 Thread Dominic Reich
Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: I do know there is parameter for wget, which is --limitrate. Any way I could set this inside portage? it is in the make.conf manpage. try this website http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Gentoo_for_dialup_users#Bandwidth_Limiting

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-06 Thread Show
I'm also pretty sure that Gentoo doesn't do development work on Gnome, Fluxbox, Apache, MySql and other packages. They just make ebuilds and put them in the tree so people can use them. if there is something unconvenient with used on the software ,gentoo will talk to the authors still , right ?

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/powermgmt-base blocks sys-power/pm-utils, but it's not installed yet

2010-01-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 22:23 +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:49:05 -0600 Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. ('ebuild', '/',

[gentoo-user] does the aqua use flag still valid in gentoo 2008?

2010-01-06 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i want to try to enable the aqua flag with my kde. but it is displayed as (-aqua) when i try to emerge kde. i searched the network, and people say it is disabled by my profile. i am using the default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop profile. which profile should i use to enable this use flag? --

Re: [gentoo-user] does the aqua use flag still valid in gentoo 2008?

2010-01-06 Thread Xianwen Chen
hi, if you have enabled aqua flag in make.conf, then it won't matter how it is set in desktop profile. regards, wen On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: hi, i want to try to enable the aqua flag with my kde. but it is displayed as (-aqua) when i try to

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins

2010-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 07 January 2010 02:33:14 dhk wrote: When do I need gstreamer? When I run the emerge --search @media-plugins/gst-plugins command I get a lot of results and I have no idea what I need to install for what I want to do. Right now I want to listen to a radio show at