Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
On 25 May 2015 at 10:01, Franz Fellner alpine.art...@gmail.com wrote: * llpp for pdfs I didn't know it. I seems great! I use qpdfview. And zathura on mupdf as an alternative but it has some issues. +1 for feh. -- Emanuele Rusconi
RE: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
I use: * ranger for file management (if I need a file manager); tried MC which I didn't like. Tried to use krusader (which also is a commander-like FM for kde), but it also never worked for me... I just have no need for a split view in 99% of the cases, and ranger IMHO uses the space uch better.: * notmuch + offlineimap (with an eye on isync) + msmtp for mail - there is also a notmuch extension for mutt: * feh as image viewer: * llpp for pdfs (occasionally qpdfview and evince, if I feel like it): * urxvt as terminal: * vim as an editor (with more than one eye on neovim ;)): * everything inside awesome wm: behrouz khosravi wrote: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good choise?) What about IRC client? Torrent client? I know that I can use google! but I would like to know your opinion. Thanks for your time.
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
I also use zathura and feh. For RSS and podcasts, I use newsbeuter (and podbeuter that comes with it). Also, I'm a big fan of vim, so my browser is vimb (luakit is also a good choice IMO). BTW, Emanuele, what kind of issues do you have with zathura ? I don't have any. -- Guy-Laurent Subri On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:08:07AM +0200, Emanuele Rusconi wrote: On 25 May 2015 at 10:01, Franz Fellner alpine.art...@gmail.com wrote: * llpp for pdfs I didn't know it. I seems great! I use qpdfview. And zathura on mupdf as an alternative but it has some issues. +1 for feh. -- Emanuele Rusconi
Re: [gentoo-user] Question for users of the Firefox browser
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 09:01:18AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 11:39:29AM +0200, Paul Klos wrote: Hi Andrew, You might be interested in these settings (from about:config): browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll You can configure what happens when you click in the address bar. I have no idea why the defaults on win/linux are different, though, Cheers, Paul Would be nice to have it for the Search bar, also. Maybe this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416037 Just found by eXPerience that Pale Moon does both, be default.
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] No sound in dosbox
On Monday 25 May 2015 00:59:54 Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:10:56AM +0100, Mick wrote On Sunday 24 May 2015 23:15:40 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 02:59:26PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote This is not the particular game itself, it's dosbox. I.e. when I start up dosbox, it says... [d531][waltdnes][~] dosbox DOSBox version 0.74 Copyright 2002-2010 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL. --- CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file /home/waltdnes/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74.conf MIXER:Can't open audio: No available audio device , running in nosound mode. ALSA:Can't subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) nor (17:0) MIDI:Opened device:oss It used to work before I re-installed Gentoo (32-bit == 64-bit). Audio works in linux Youtube, mplayer, mpg123, etc. It's just dosbox that fails. Google searching did not help. I saw a few references to checking for missing /dev/dsp and /dev/audio. They are present on my system. Any ideas? Turns out I had to enable alsa for sdl and dosbox. Here are the required entries from my /etc/portage/package.use/package.use file... games-emulation/dosbox alsa media-libs/libsdl alsa ...or I could've enabled alsa globally in make.conf It is enabled in make.defaults for all desktop profiles I think. USE=X apng bindist ffmpeg jpeg png truetype xorg mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 -acl -berkdb -chatzilla -cracklib -crypt -gallium -gdbm -gmp-autoupdate -gstreamer -iconv -introspection -ipc -iptables -ipv6 -libav -llvm -nls -openmp -pam -roaming -sendmail -tcpd -udev -unicode I'm running default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib. Out of sheer curiousity, is it OK to remove the x86 CPU flags from USE yet and assume that CPU_FLAGS_X86 is used by all ebuilds? The news item suggested keeping them around for a while. I don't know the answer to your question, but you're right, I just checked my no-multilib box and it doesn't contain alsa. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications
On 25 May 2015 at 14:33, Guy-Laurent Subri guy-laur...@subri.ch wrote: BTW, Emanuele, what kind of issues do you have with zathura ? I don't have any. For some PDFs it can't read the outline (bookmarks, whatever they are called) and freezes when I try to open the outline view. llpp seems to work fine with them. On the other hand, qpdfview has issues sometimes too, as in crashing when opening some PDFs. Those issues come from poppler, I think, because the same PDFs crashed every other poppler-based viewer I tried. That is the reason why I keep one viewer based on poppler and another one based on mupdf handy. By the way, I was looking for a pdf that crashed poppler, to test llpp on it, but I can't find it anymore (though llpp is mupdf-based, so it shouldn't have been affected, anyway). Maybe that bug has been resolved lately. -- Emanuele Rusconi
Re: [gentoo-user] monitor what application installs
On Mon, 25 May 2015 21:27:04 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: Hello everyone. I am gonna install MATLAB on my box. Is there any way to monitor what it installs on my machine? Thanks. Best way is to use an ebuild and install it with emerge. Then you can check what's installed with: equery files --tree package name Or you can use qlist packagename Here is an ebuild for matlab: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466140 If you want to install from source, and it uses the standard make make install, try using checkinstall from http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ You run checkinstall instead of make install and it tracks what is installed. It can also build a binary package instead of installing. -- Neil Bothwick C Error #011: First C Program, huh? pgpUGHPXpmMd7.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] monitor what application installs
Hello everyone. I am gonna install MATLAB on my box. Is there any way to monitor what it installs on my machine? Thanks.
Re: [gentoo-user] monitor what application installs
Am 25.05.2015 um 19:59 schrieb behrouz khosravi: Hello everyone. I am gonna install MATLAB on my box. Is there any way to monitor what it installs on my machine? Thanks. Best way is to use an ebuild and install it with emerge. Then you can check what's installed with: equery files --tree package name Here is an ebuild for matlab: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466140
[gentoo-user] having problems getting burned cds to work
Hi. I am trying to burn an iso image to a cd (maybe its actually a dvd disk), and it boots without any errors, and I can mount the iso with the loop option, but if I try to mount the cd, it complains about ufs file systems, and if I try to mount with -t iso9660, it just says bad file type or bad superblock and the disk is unusable. Nothing interesting in the logs, it just says the same about ufs and nothing about iso9660. I am using cdrecord from cdrtools-3.01_alpha28 and I am running the unstable version of gentoo. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
[gentoo-user] Re: [~and64] Headsup for google-chrome users
On 21/05/15 17:05, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 8:55 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just wasted some time figuring out this mess: I just updated google-chrome, which printed this confusing warning message: CONFIG_USED_NS not seen when it should be First, there's a typo: it should read CONFIG_USER_NS ^ Sorry about that. It's been fixed. Is the bug referenced in the eclass correct? # Warn if the kernel does not support features needed for sandboxing. # Bug #363987. That's: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363987 Doesn't seem relevant.
Re: [gentoo-user] having problems getting burned cds to work
bitlord wrote: On Mon, 25 May 2015 22:27:39 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am trying to burn an iso image to a cd (maybe its actually a dvd disk), and it boots without any errors, and I can mount the iso with the loop option, but if I try to mount the cd, it complains about ufs file systems, and if I try to mount with -t iso9660, it just says bad file type or bad superblock and the disk is unusable. Nothing interesting in the logs, it just says the same about ufs and nothing about iso9660. I am using cdrecord from cdrtools-3.01_alpha28 and I am running the unstable version of gentoo. Any assistance would be appreciated. Sorry, I know nothing about standards, optical media and filesystems, and don't understand how it works, once I had some issues with mounting optical media, also missing a filesystem which I fixed with enabling CONFIG_UDF_FS in kernel. I tried to read about UDF... before replying, but it is too much for me, if I understand it correctly it is not just what is written to the media but also how (different modes, for adding more data later ...), so may be some option while burning media that allows you to use free space left on the disk. If this is not useful just ignore it. ;-) Same boat here. From what I understand, if it is more than 2GBs, it needs UDF support. No idea if that applies to ISOs to tho. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] having problems getting burned cds to work
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: bitlord wrote: On Mon, 25 May 2015 22:27:39 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am trying to burn an iso image to a cd (maybe its actually a dvd disk), and it boots without any errors, and I can mount the iso with the loop option, but if I try to mount the cd, it complains about ufs file systems, and if I try to mount with -t iso9660, it just says bad file type or bad superblock and the disk is unusable. Nothing interesting in the logs, it just says the same about ufs and nothing about iso9660. I am using cdrecord from cdrtools-3.01_alpha28 and I am running the unstable version of gentoo. Any assistance would be appreciated. Sorry, I know nothing about standards, optical media and filesystems, and don't understand how it works, once I had some issues with mounting optical media, also missing a filesystem which I fixed with enabling CONFIG_UDF_FS in kernel. I tried to read about UDF... before replying, but it is too much for me, if I understand it correctly it is not just what is written to the media but also how (different modes, for adding more data later ...), so may be some option while burning media that allows you to use free space left on the disk. If this is not useful just ignore it. ;-) Same boat here. From what I understand, if it is more than 2GBs, it needs UDF support. No idea if that applies to ISOs to tho. But its an iso, and I can mount the .iso via loop, why should it care about udf support and I think udf is trying to read the cd, because its apparently not thinking its an iso9660 file system. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] having problems getting burned cds to work
On Mon, 25 May 2015 22:27:39 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am trying to burn an iso image to a cd (maybe its actually a dvd disk), and it boots without any errors, and I can mount the iso with the loop option, but if I try to mount the cd, it complains about ufs file systems, and if I try to mount with -t iso9660, it just says bad file type or bad superblock and the disk is unusable. Nothing interesting in the logs, it just says the same about ufs and nothing about iso9660. I am using cdrecord from cdrtools-3.01_alpha28 and I am running the unstable version of gentoo. Any assistance would be appreciated. Sorry, I know nothing about standards, optical media and filesystems, and don't understand how it works, once I had some issues with mounting optical media, also missing a filesystem which I fixed with enabling CONFIG_UDF_FS in kernel. I tried to read about UDF... before replying, but it is too much for me, if I understand it correctly it is not just what is written to the media but also how (different modes, for adding more data later ...), so may be some option while burning media that allows you to use free space left on the disk. If this is not useful just ignore it. ;-)
