Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Mick
On Sunday 28 Dec 2014 07:19:22 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 28/12/2014 06:08, Gregory M. Turner wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2014 09:43:47 Peter Humphrey wrote: Morning list, Is there a way to build KDE without its concept of Activities? I find it an unnecessary complication, which I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Greg Turner
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: What you can do is make Activities go away and never impinge on your life, that's what I do. I've had KDE here for years and like you never grokked what it even is when it first hit early in 4.x. I'm a grumpy old

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 28 December 2014 10:26:26 GMT+00:00, Greg Turner g...@malth.us wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: What you can do is make Activities go away and never impinge on your life, that's what I do. I've had KDE here for years and like you

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 28 December 2014 09:19:22 Alan McKinnon wrote: What you can do is make Activities go away and never impinge on your life, that's what I do. I've had KDE here for years and like you never grokked what it even is when it first hit early in 4.x. I'm a grumpy old far, I like my 6

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Mick
On Sunday 28 Dec 2014 10:35:48 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 09:19:22 Alan McKinnon wrote: What you can do is make Activities go away and never impinge on your life, that's what I do. I've had KDE here for years and like you never grokked what it even is when it first hit

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-28 Thread Stroller
On Sat, 27 December 2014, at 1:45 pm, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2014 13:10:17 Helmut Jarausch wrote: I think this was a long standig bug. Version 3.6.2 seems to have fixed this. Ah. Well I'm still on 3.4.8. Mick, if you don't hear anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 28 December 2014 13:32:00 Stroller wrote: On Sat, 27 December 2014, at 1:45 pm, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2014 13:10:17 Helmut Jarausch wrote: I think this was a long standig bug. Version 3.6.2 seems to have fixed this. Ah. Well I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 28 December 2014 11:54:11 Mick wrote: I'm not sure I understand - what shortcuts cause problems with Activities? I have removed the icon on a KDE desktop here and I don't think users have noticed any problem with Activities; but they wouldn't really know what Activities is, so any

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/28/2014 07:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 11:54:11 Mick wrote: I'm not sure I understand - what shortcuts cause problems with Activities? I have removed the icon on a KDE desktop here and I don't think users have noticed any problem with Activities; but they

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

2014-12-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/12/2014 17:16, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 11:54:11 Mick wrote: I'm not sure I understand - what shortcuts cause problems with Activities? I have removed the icon on a KDE desktop here and I don't think users have noticed any problem with Activities; but they

[gentoo-user] Bluefish-2.2.2 on KDE - no main menu icons

2014-12-28 Thread Mick
New box, new user profiles and new KDE installation. Same problem: The bluefish application no longer shows icons for its main menu. Hovering over the main menu buttons reveals text tool-tips, but the buttons themselves are blank. I was under the impression that Bluefish will pick up the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is lshw reporting correctly?

2014-12-28 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 24 Dec 2014 09:14:43 Mick wrote: On Tuesday 23 Dec 2014 21:53:07 Poison BL. wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: This is what I see when I plugged in two memory modules: ===

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-28 Thread lee
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On Thursday, December 04, 2014 11:55:50 PM lee wrote: BTW, can I use xfs for the VM, or will it be difficult to get the VM booted from xfs? Using PV, not at all. As long as the kernel for the VM has XFS support built- in. (This is valid for other

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-28 Thread lee
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On Monday, December 08, 2014 11:17:26 PM lee wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: create 1 bridge per physical network port add the physical ports to the respective bridges That tends to make the ports disappear, i. e. become unusable,

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-28 Thread Mick
On Monday 29 Dec 2014 02:25:04 lee wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: On Thursday, December 04, 2014 11:55:50 PM lee wrote: BTW, can I use xfs for the VM, or will it be difficult to get the VM booted from xfs? Using PV, not at all. As long as the kernel for the VM has XFS