Re: [gentoo-user] Inkscape-0.48.1-r1 really sloooooow

2011-05-22 Thread Mick
Thanks Michael, On Sunday 22 May 2011 00:51:45 Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 05/20/2011 08:49 AM, Mick wrote: Hi All, I installed inkscape-0.48.1-r1 on a x86 machine. For a few seconds/minutes after opening an svg image rendering is fast as expected, but soon it gets bogged down to the

[gentoo-user] Re: Inkscape-0.48.1-r1 really sloooooow

2011-05-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/22/2011 10:56 AM, Mick wrote: [...] I have now looked a bit more into this problem and it seems that inkscape is slower in MSWindows (dual boot machine). So I concluded that this is an inkscape issue, rather than Gentoo specific. FWIW, Inkscape is quite slow here too. Core 2 Duo 3.4GHz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: system rescue usb stick

2011-05-22 Thread Mick
On Saturday 21 May 2011 23:17:30 walt wrote: On 05/20/2011 04:22 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: On 05/19/2011 04:12 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other suggestions. I use it

[gentoo-user] configure flags for net-proxy/squid

2011-05-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
Does anyone know what configure flags are enabled/disabled for net-proxy/squid? There are some flags I need and some I don't; it seems that net-proxy/squid's USE flags don't map to squid's. Second question, then: how do I specify my own configure flags? Thanks in advance. Rgds, -- Sent from

[gentoo-user] pf-sources Kernel

2011-05-22 Thread James
Howdy! Anyone running pf-sources? AMD64? Arm (Pandaboard{})? Your insights and experiences are most welcome, including your opinion of BFS... [1] http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/bfs-faq.txt curiously, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

2011-05-22 Thread Indi
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:10:01AM +0200, walt wrote: On 05/20/2011 08:24 PM, Indi wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:50:01AM +0200, walt wrote: For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of 'icu' broke dozens of packages (as it always does) including libreoffice. The problem

Re: [gentoo-user] configure flags for net-proxy/squid

2011-05-22 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:50:02 +0200, Pandu Poluan wrote about [gentoo-user] configure flags for net-proxy/squid: Does anyone know what configure flags are enabled/disabled for net-proxy/squid? Run: eix -e squid There are some flags I need and some I don't; it seems that net-proxy/squid's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

2011-05-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:38 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:10:01AM +0200, walt wrote: On 05/20/2011 08:24 PM, Indi wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:50:01AM +0200, walt wrote: For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

2011-05-22 Thread Indi
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 08:10:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:38 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: It's unfortunate that we don't have small, fast, light, standalone programs to deal with the formats of word, excel, powerpoint, etc but if

[gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm on a Gentoo box here and ssh'ed into a remote network at my folks house. When I log into the Gentoo machine that the router points to (my dad's desktop) I have no problem displaying an X app (gnome-terminal for instance) running on that machine here on my screen. However when I ssh from

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-22 Thread Jeremy McSpadden
Rather than trying to ssh tunnel + X, why not vpn into one of the machines, that would allow you to be local and you can then ssh to each machine on the lan from your local. -- Jeremy McSpadden def...@uberpenguin.net On May 22, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm on a Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

2011-05-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:26 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 08:10:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:38 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: It's unfortunate that we don't have small, fast,

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
OK, I'll give it a try. I've not used VPNs since my abortive Windows days so I have little trust but it would be good to learn about. Unfortunately I changed the router to point directly at the laptop and I still can't launch anything graphical so I'm no longer thinking that the root cause is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

2011-05-22 Thread Indi
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:40:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:26 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 08:10:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:38 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did opine

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] [FIXED] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

2011-05-22 Thread David Abbott
Its been fixed; http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-office/libreoffice/ChangeLog?view=markup

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-22 Thread Bill Longman
Obvious fix: don't use konsole. Use xterm. -- Bill Longman

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

2011-05-22 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 19:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:38 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:10:01AM +0200, walt wrote: On 05/20/2011 08:24 PM, Indi wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:50:01AM +0200, walt wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

2011-05-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:17 on Monday 23 May 2011, Bill Kenworthy did opine thusly: Do any of them actually work acceptably in terms of compatibility with MSword though? - having a good, lite suit available for the quick jobs would be nice. Well, my usual initial retort to MS suers

Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

2011-05-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: Obvious fix: don't use konsole. Use xterm. -- Bill Longman Bill, That's not a fix as it isn't konsole I care about but things like oocalc, systemsettings and other things which all fail with the same error

Re: [gentoo-user] configure flags for net-proxy/squid

2011-05-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 22:12, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:50:02 +0200, Pandu Poluan wrote about [gentoo-user] configure flags for net-proxy/squid: Does anyone know what configure flags are enabled/disabled for net-proxy/squid? Run:     eix -e squid Um, I

[gentoo-user] Re: pf-sources Kernel

2011-05-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/22/2011 05:36 PM, James wrote: Howdy! Anyone running pf-sources? AMD64? Arm (Pandaboard{})? Your insights and experiences are most welcome, including your opinion of BFS... [1] http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/bfs-faq.txt I don't run pf-sources, but I run a BFS-patched

Re: [gentoo-user] configure flags for net-proxy/squid

2011-05-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:36, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 22:12, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:50:02 +0200, Pandu Poluan wrote about [gentoo-user] configure flags for net-proxy/squid: Does anyone know what configure flags are