Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-08 Thread Mick
On Monday 08 Jun 2015 13:03:53 James wrote: Franz Fellner alpine.art.de at gmail.com writes: James wrote: There may be a generic processor fan you can mount/glue onto the chip for cooling. Make sure all other fans are running. Blow out the laptop with an air compressor. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] some keyboard lag

2015-06-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2015-06-08 um 20:25 schrieb J. Roeleveld: There was a similar thread here before about USB and suspend. Check that for specifics if in a hurry. Not at computer now to find the earlier email. didn't find it yet .. but no hurry at all. Apart from kernel level USB suspend. There are

[gentoo-user] Re: unabridged english dictionary?

2015-06-08 Thread James
Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.belardi at st.com writes: Also, while we are at it, my seamonkey marks words as mispelled, but there is not a spellchecker function to fix the mistakes, so what am I missing in seamonkey To get spell checking working for my native language I had to install

Re: [gentoo-user] some keyboard lag

2015-06-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 8 June 2015 19:50:56 CEST, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 08.06.2015 16:44, Daniel Frey wrote: I would check if USB autosuspend is set for your keyboard, and if it is, disable it on the keyboard. thanks a lot, that seems to do the trick! Although I wonder where the

Re: [gentoo-user] some keyboard lag

2015-06-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 08.06.2015 16:44, Daniel Frey wrote: I would check if USB autosuspend is set for your keyboard, and if it is, disable it on the keyboard. thanks a lot, that seems to do the trick! Although I wonder where the difference is: I compiled a gentoo 4.0.5 kernel based on the config from the

[gentoo-user] Re: unabridged english dictionary?

2015-06-08 Thread James
Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On Mon, 8 June 2015, at 2:25 pm, James wireless at tampabay.rr.com wrote: ... So I just ran across this word emeried and I can only find emory. I think emeried is obscure in both meaning and usage. My 1970's copy of the 24-volume

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unabridged english dictionary?

2015-06-08 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
James wrote: Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.belardi at st.com writes: Also, while we are at it, my seamonkey marks words as mispelled, but there is not a spellchecker function to fix the mistakes, so what am I missing in seamonkey To get spell checking working for my native language I had to

Re: [gentoo-user] some keyboard lag

2015-06-08 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/08/2015 11:56 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I browsed their udev rules and found some rules pointing in that direction but none specifically matching the PCI ID of my keyboard and the wildcards ... I am not sure. But they seem to do it specifically, yes - # cat

[gentoo-user] Re: unabridged english dictionary?

2015-06-08 Thread James
Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.belardi at st.com writes: Nothing pops up here either, I have to right-click on the misspelled word and then I get a context menu with list of alternative spellings. AH. Well that's retarded. I guess seamonkey is showing it's age, and my ignorance or arcane

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-08 Thread Daniel Frey
So many replies! On 06/08/2015 11:22 AM, Mick wrote: On Monday 08 Jun 2015 13:03:53 James wrote: Franz Fellner alpine.art.de at gmail.com writes: James wrote: There may be a generic processor fan you can mount/glue onto the chip for cooling. Make sure all other fans are running. Blow out the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unabridged english dictionary?

2015-06-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 18:28:23 + (UTC), James wrote: Nothing pops up here either, I have to right-click on the misspelled word and then I get a context menu with list of alternative spellings. AH. Well that's retarded. I guess seamonkey is showing it's age, and my ignorance or

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem

2015-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
150608 Philip Webb wrote: 150608 Zhu Sha Zang wrote: Have you tried to use 'exec fluxbox -log ~/.fluxbox/log' to check what happening ? Thanks for the suggestion : I tried it, but no log file appears. I use 'startx' put your line in .xinitrc in place of 'startfluxbox'; I also tried adding

Re: [gentoo-user] msmtp vs. nullmailer

2015-06-08 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 11:47:04AM +0200, Marc Joliet wrote So my question is: what is your preference, nullmailer or msmtp (or neither?), and why? I'm still using ssmtp. It still works. I look at it this way... there's no more development being done, because it's already perfect G. It'll

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 08.06.2015 um 00:15 schrieb Daniel Frey: Hi all, Not really Gentoo-related (well except the overheating part - lots of compiling ;-) ) I have a very old laptop. It is an LG F1 laptop (circa 2005/2006 I believe) about nine years old. This has a Core2 1.6GHz chip and 4GB RAM, even though

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-08 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/08/2015 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: are you sure it is overheating and not operating within spec? A lot of laptops have 'hot spots'. I've had this laptop for a really long time, and it's getting hot where I normally rest my right wrist while typing. I would have noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-08 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/07/2015 09:05 PM, James wrote: Last, I think some folks make a cooling pad for laptops. If you have agressive compile options (like mine MAKEOPTS=-j9 -l9) in your make.conf, slow them way down (-j1) etc. I picked up one of these in the store today:

Re: [gentoo-user] msmtp vs. nullmailer

2015-06-08 Thread Mick
On Monday 08 Jun 2015 23:45:36 Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 11:47:04AM +0200, Marc Joliet wrote So my question is: what is your preference, nullmailer or msmtp (or neither?), and why? I'm still using ssmtp. It still works. I look at it this way... there's no more

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/06/2015 08:05, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 06.06.2015 um 18:45 schrieb Joseph: I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to file a text string in them Check/Money Order I've tried: find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'Check/Money Order' it

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

2015-06-08 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 06/08/2015 02:23 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: On 06/07/2015 10:30 AM, Paul Klos wrote: Op zondag 7 juni 2015 10:17:24 schreef Daniel Frey: On 06/07/2015 08:10 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Same here. Can't seem to reply to myself, just posting back the nepomuk USE-flag did indeed fix it. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-08 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 06.06.2015 um 18:45 schrieb Joseph: I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to file a text string in them Check/Money Order I've tried: find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'Check/Money Order' it doesn't work. What is a better method of

Re: [gentoo-user] search files for text string

2015-06-08 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 06/07/2015 09:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 06.06.2015 um 18:45 schrieb Joseph: I've bunch of php files in many directories and I need to file a text string in them Check/Money Order I've tried: find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'Check/Money Order' it doesn't work. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

2015-06-08 Thread Paul Klos
Op maandag 8 juni 2015 14:40:28 schreef Andrew Lowe: On 06/08/2015 02:23 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: On 06/07/2015 10:30 AM, Paul Klos wrote: Op zondag 7 juni 2015 10:17:24 schreef Daniel Frey: On 06/07/2015 08:10 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Same here. Can't seem to reply to myself, just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: is your metadata safe?

2015-06-08 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 04:09:30AM +, James wrote: Bruce Hill daddy at happypenguincomputers.com writes: Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Your probably looking in the mirror too much. I *do*, sir. The comment

[gentoo-user] Open-sourced: OpenCL-based multiphysics simulation software package

2015-06-08 Thread Zeev Pekar
Dear Gentoo user/developer community, we would like to announce the recent open-source release of our GPU-enabled multiphysics software - Advanced Simulation Library. http://asl.org.il/ Here are some remarkable benchmarks: http://asl.org.il/benchmarks/multicomponent_flow/ If possible, please

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

2015-06-08 Thread Dale
Paul Klos wrote: Op zondag 7 juni 2015 08:02:04 schreef Dale: Andrew Lowe wrote: On 06/07/2015 08:24 PM, Mick wrote: From what I recall, in a full KDE desktop you will see previews only if you have clicked on View/Previews to enable it. This will create loads of thumbnails of various

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

2015-06-08 Thread Dale
Daniel Frey wrote: Hi all, I may have a solution for you. I noticed this behaviour some time back, except I had two workstations - one worked, and one didn't. So I went to compare the two machines (which took a very long time) and discovered kdelibs is built differently on the one that shows

[gentoo-user] msmtp vs. nullmailer

2015-06-08 Thread Marc Joliet
Hi list, As part of removing now superfluous server functionality on my desktop, I replaced postfix with msmtp (and removed a bunch of other software). However, the portage default for virtual/mta is nullmailer. (I also switched my laptop from ssmtp to msmtp since ssmtp upstream has long been

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem

2015-06-08 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
On 06/07/2015 03:46 PM, Philip Webb wrote: 150607 Mick wrote: On Sunday 07 Jun 2015 18:57:58 Philip Webb wrote: Yesterday, I updated to the now stable Fluxbox 1.3.7-r1 ; there have been no changes in my config files. Same here. Normally, I have the toolbar (the panel at the bottom of the

Re: [gentoo-user] unabridged english dictionary?

2015-06-08 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 06/08/2015 09:55 PM, Stroller wrote: On Mon, 8 June 2015, at 2:25 pm, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: ... So I just ran across this word emeried and I can only find emory. I think emeried is obscure in both meaning and usage. My 1970's copy of the 24-volume Oxford English

[gentoo-user] some keyboard lag

2015-06-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
interesting issue on my desktop machine: when booted with gentoo the keyboard seems to fall asleep in a way It happens repeatedly that the first key pressed does not get detected, only the second. For example at login: login: oot ;) if I keep typing it keeps working ... and this is *not* in

Re: [gentoo-user] some keyboard lag

2015-06-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2015-06-08 um 14:22 schrieb Andrew Lowe: Any chance this is a Logitech K520r wireless keyboard? I have one of these and it at times goes to sleep for several seconds. Logitech know about the problem but refuse to do anything. A google search will reveal all the gory details. If on

[gentoo-user] unabridged english dictionary?

2015-06-08 Thread James
OK, So I just ran across this word emeried and I can only find emory. I think emeried is obscure in both meaning and usage. Where do I find help? It may not be an actual word, or one of those rare middle english or french vesticals of a word? Also, while we are at it, my seamonkey marks words as

Re: [gentoo-user] unabridged english dictionary?

2015-06-08 Thread Stroller
On Mon, 8 June 2015, at 2:25 pm, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: ... So I just ran across this word emeried and I can only find emory. I think emeried is obscure in both meaning and usage. My 1970's copy of the 24-volume Oxford English Dictionary says that emery as a verb is to rub

Re: [gentoo-user] unabridged english dictionary?

2015-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
150608 James wrote: So I just ran across this word emeried and I can only find emory. Others have pointed out that it's a verb from 'emery', an abrasive. Where do I find help ? I always use http://dictionary.reference.com/ , which is also good for etymology, sometimes important for English

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-08 Thread James
Franz Fellner alpine.art.de at gmail.com writes: James wrote: There may be a generic processor fan you can mount/glue onto the chip for cooling. Make sure all other fans are running. Blow out the laptop with an air compressor. If you really blow out your laptop make sure the fans are

[gentoo-user] Re: some keyboard lag

2015-06-08 Thread James
Stefan G. Weichinger lists at xunil.at writes: interesting issue on my desktop machine: when booted with gentoo the keyboard seems to fall asleep in a way It happens repeatedly that the first key pressed does not get detected, only the second. I have always used a double tap' on the space

Re: [gentoo-user] some keyboard lag

2015-06-08 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 06/08/2015 08:01 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: interesting issue on my desktop machine: when booted with gentoo the keyboard seems to fall asleep in a way It happens repeatedly that the first key pressed does not get detected, only the second. For example at login: login: oot

Re: [gentoo-user] msmtp vs. nullmailer

2015-06-08 Thread Guy-Laurent Subri
Hi, I like to use msmtp. I actually never tried nullmailer, but msmtp seemd a great choice. For the queue issue I can redirect you to a document created by a Gentoo dev on mutt [0]. Guy-Laurent Subri [0] https://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/mail.html On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 11:47:04AM +0200, Marc

[gentoo-user] Re: msmtp vs. nullmailer

2015-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-06-08, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: However, the one thing that annoys me is that msmtp does not seem to have any sort of queue [2], so if it can't deliver an email, it must be resent, which is annoying for system emails. I've been using msmtp for many years, and I find I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] unabridged english dictionary?

2015-06-08 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
James wrote: Also, while we are at it, my seamonkey marks words as mispelled, but there is not a spellchecker function to fix the mistakes, so what am I missing in seamonkey ( I run lxde, if that matters). If it's an addon I need, suggests as to the best (most complete) usa english would be

Re: [gentoo-user] some keyboard lag

2015-06-08 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/08/2015 05:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2015-06-08 um 14:22 schrieb Andrew Lowe: Any chance this is a Logitech K520r wireless keyboard? I have one of these and it at times goes to sleep for several seconds. Logitech know about the problem but refuse to do anything. A

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem

2015-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
150608 Zhu Sha Zang wrote: Have you tried to use 'exec fluxbox -log ~/.fluxbox/log' to check what happening ? Thanks for the suggestion : I tried it, but no log file appears. I use 'startx' put your line in .xinitrc in place of 'startfluxbox'; I also tried adding the log part to