Re: [gentoo-user] Performance: WD vs. Samung SSD vs. M.2 SSD

Am Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 02:46:56PM -0700 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > Nothing scientific, but I was surprised how fast M.2 disk so decided to > time how fast GnuCash will load my accounting, her it is: > > Box 1.) > WD (spinning disk) CPU AMD-8150 (8-core), 16GiB > Time to open GnuCash -

Re: [gentoo-user] imagemagick display image edit tool draws an opaque background

On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 09:00:38AM +0200, n952162 wrote: > On 2020-08-31 23:52, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 10:02:34PM +0200, n952162 wrote: > > > In all of the imagemagick display installations I have, when I use the > > > image edit draw func

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 03:19:01PM -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > > 1) How do you cope with this problem? > > > > i cope by these: > > > > - use pixel-based fonts for everything as much > > > > as possible, specially for key apps like: > > > > terminal, window manager and browser.

Re: [gentoo-user] imagemagick display image edit tool draws an opaque background

On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 10:02:34PM +0200, n952162 wrote: > In all of the imagemagick display installations I have, when I use the > image edit draw function, it includes an opaque background, rather than > just the lines themselves.  I've never had this with display(1) before, First you use draw,

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting a hard drive's data. Best method.

On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 11:37:23PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I think I got a old 3TB hard drive to work.  After dd'ing it, redoing > partitions and such, it seems to be working.  Right now, I'm copying a > bunch of data to it to see how it holds up.  Oh, it's a PMR drive too.  > lol  Once

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 10:15:54AM -0500, Dale wrote: > These settings are from AGES ago.  I think they are still in use tho.  > > root@fireball / # cat /etc/make.conf | grep lang > LANG="en_US" > root@fireball / # cat /etc/make.conf | grep L10N > L10N="en en-US" Just to scratch an itch:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 09:45:58AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: > > > >> Oooo. That nvme speed is fss. > >> Do you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go > >> from BIOS or Grub to bootup complete? I'm almost

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 02:22:36PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Thanks for the additional info.  As I figured, they got most of the > kinks worked out by now and we got some dependable SSDs to buy. > > I found a 240GB for a little over $42.00 USA.  Not bad at all.  For > those curious: Careful, you get

Re: [gentoo-user] SDD strategies...

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 05:13:52AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:43:58 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: > > > The SSD is currently reporting 98% of its rated life left: I feel > quite confident it's going to outlast the laptop's useful life. > >>> What

Re: [gentoo-user] Pocket sneaks back

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 01:50:33PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > After the latest stable firefox upgrade to version 68.6 I again started > seeing DNS queries for Pocket related domains. I found this in > prefs.js: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Fw: updating /etc/package.accept_keywords

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 06:14:17PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2019 08:20:49 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > There's also cfg-update and there may be more tools to manage changes > > > in config files following an update. > > > > > > The merge function is particularly useful,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 01:53:45PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > […] > > If your system is on, how is it going to replace vulnerable kernels > > with patched ones? > […] > > While I want to keep the bad CPU code from being used, they first have > to get past other things.  My

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot build qtwebengine: ‘WEBP_EXTERN’ does not name a type

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 06:54:08PM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > I’ll try a libwebp downgrade now. Since that didn’t work either, I tried to recreate the error by building a minimal c program, which only includes libwebp headers and opened/closed a webp object. I was so rusty with handl

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot build qtwebengine: ‘WEBP_EXTERN’ does not name a type

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 08:53:26AM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Sunday, 28 April 2019 21:25:58 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > it’s been a while since I had a problem for which I needed a nudge. :) > > Due to some other lib upgrade, I

[gentoo-user] Cannot build qtwebengine: ‘WEBP_EXTERN’ does not name a type

Hi folks, it’s been a while since I had a problem for which I needed a nudge. :) Due to some other lib upgrade, I need to rebuild qtwebengine. But it always fails with: | In file included from ../../3rdparty/chromium/third_party/skia/src/images/SkWebpEncoder.cpp:42: |

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 05:21:16PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 190427 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 11:28:05AM -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I was printing a multi-page recipe and the first page came out, > >> then it pulled it back in and I was like, w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 11:28:05AM -0500, Dale wrote: > One thing that surprised me.  I was printing a multi-page recipe and the > first page came out, then it pulled it back in and I was like, what?  > Then it came out again, printed on both sides.  When I realized it was > printing both sides,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 09:54:21AM -0500, Dale wrote: > The biggest reason I wanted laser is the cost of ink.  The second > reason, longevity of the ink once it is on paper.  From my > understanding, once the toner is set on the paper, water won't make it > come off like it does on a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo live iso from grub

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 07:11:23PM -0600, R0b0t1 wrote: > >> Please be careful, sir! The SysRescCD releases are not signed. The > >> Russians might be able to get you! > > > > That's not really an issue as neither Peter nor I is able to vote in US > > elections ;-) > > > > Not to take the joke

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 06:25:43PM -0600, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 11:03 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > [Far off topic] > > Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. Thanks for the hearty laughs. It reminded me of a joke in which a priest’s son and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 09:34:06AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > PS.: As a non-native, I always found e.g. and i.e. easy to keep apart > > because when you say "e.g." as a word without the dots, it becomes "eg", > > which, phonetically, is the start of the word "example". > > > > As a native

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 06:05:35PM -0500, Jack wrote: > On 2018.02.01 17:52, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > [snip...] > > PS.: As a non-native, I always found e.g. and i.e. easy to keep apart > > because when you say "e.g." as a word without the dots, it becomes &

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 06:55:30PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:12:07 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > Well, as long as we're explaining grammar, I'll elaborate a tiny bit > > more since a lot of people (including native English speakers) get > > these wrong. > [snip] > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?]: In search of a program to do different b/w dithering methods

On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 09:24:46PM +0100, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > […] > For displaying (the illusion of) different shades of gray, one need > to convert the colored image into a so called "dithered" black and > white image (newspapers often use this trick). > Since -- in difference to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 02:18:12AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It's probably a dodgy kernel point bersion, 4.14 is problematic. > > Alice Ferrazzi posted this to gentoo-dev earlier today: > > =start quote= > [ lots of problems ] > = end quote= Now that’s interesting. On my

Re: [gentoo-user] How to harden a system

On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 12:56:44AM -0600, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 12:55 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 1:44 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > >> It is truly disturbing to think that someone with an ME exploit could hack > >> 80% of the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 09:49:29PM +, Wols Lists wrote: > On 07/12/17 21:37, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Ooooh, I just came up with another good reason for raidz over mirror: > > I don't encrypt my drives because it doesn't hold sensitive stuff. (AFAIK > > native ZFS en

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 09:49:29PM +, Wols Lists wrote: > > So in case I ever need to send in a drive for repair/replacement, noone can > > read from it (or only in tiny bits'n'pieces from a hexdump), because each > > disk contains a mix of data and parity blocks. > > > > I think I'm finally

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 07:29:08PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 06:35:10PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> > >> IMO the cost savings for parity RAID trumps everyt

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 10:26:34AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > I see. I'm always looking for ways to optimise expenses and cut down on > > environmental footprint by keeping stuff ar

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 09:52:55AM +, Richard Bradfield wrote: > On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, at 09:28, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > I incorporated ZFS' expansion inflexibility into my planned > > > maintenance/servicing budget. > > > > What was the conclusion? Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 07:54:41AM +, Richard Bradfield wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 06:35:10PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> > >>I don’t really care about performance. It

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 06:35:10PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > I don’t really care about performance. It’s a simple media archive powered > > by the cheapest Haswell Celeron I could g

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?

On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 04:26:55AM +0100, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > If the compilation will fail at a certain point (and it will fail, > since this is a complete new thing) -- would it be possible to resume > even some tweaks, hacks and patches (even certain recompilations) > would be needed in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: btrfs raid 5/6

On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 12:14:12PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Wols Lists wrote: > > On 27/11/17 22:30, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >> […] > >> Is anyone here successfully using btrfs raid 5/6? What is the status of > >> scrub and self

Re: [gentoo-user] #gentoo experiences

On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 11:56:09PM +1100, Michael Palimaka wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm collecting information about people's experiences in #gentoo. > > I'm interested in both good and bad experiences, with users, developers, > and operators. Basically, anything that anyone would care to share

Re: [gentoo-user] no more googleearth in portage

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 07:55:43AM +0200, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > I suppose it's due to Google's choice to support only Chrome, although I > missed the Gentoo > news bit if there was one. > > For Android there is the really good Open Street Map application, are there > any desktop >

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo and Windows don't get along on vfat

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 01:43:24PM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Naturally, I always unmount the drive prior to removing it physically, > > usually with KDE’s media manager. The drive (or the controller in the case?) > > contains a cdrom emulation to offer drivers and something called “WD > >

[gentoo-user] My Gentoo and Windows don't get along on vfat

He guys, I regularly attach a friend’s external HDD to my laptop or NAS, both running “standard” Gentoo. The main partition is fat32 formatted. On and off she has problems mounting the drive, usually after I had it connected to one of my machines. It happened again today. So chronologically: 1)

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 08:56:34AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 16 September 2017 08:24:33 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: […] > > Starting system settings from the terminal prints one line: > > log_user_manager: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Servi

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 02:17:07PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > systemsettings5 only allows one to add a user. Existing user > > > > accounts are not listed. > > > > > > Now that's definitely wrong. I have no users other than myself, but I do > > > appear in the user manager. I do have

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.12.5 hard lockups, nothing in logs.

On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 11:21:12AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 20/08/2017 05:47, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am getting random lockups on kernel 4.12.5. > > > > Three intel hosts (atom, early i7, i7 haswell) - its worse after a > > suspend resume session. Because these are in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 09:59:20PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-05-23 23:16, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > KDE doesn’t find my beloved terminus font anymore, both on my PC and > > my laptop. It does not show up in any font selection dialog. The same > > g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 09:49:01AM +0200, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > [snip] > > well, this does not seem to be the complete truth. When I switched to gcc > 5.x I did a revdep-rebuild for anything that was compiled against > libstdc++.so.6 just like the according news entry

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 5.4.0

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 06:59:16PM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > My personal advice & experience: > * install the new gcc-5.4 > * switch to it > * run the revdep-rebuild command from the news item (see above) > ... and everything should be fine. I do remember having seen the item. And I

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 5.4.0

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 04:07:03PM +, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> I've had the odd rebuild failure here & there, don't bother re-emerging > >> it until revdep-rebuild has finished. Any dependencies it needs would > >> have been rebuilt by then and it should complete without problem. > Usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GCC 5.4.0

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 08:51:22AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > >> Quite so, but it was an internal compiler error, so that may not help. > > >> I'll remerge it when the machine's quiet and see. > > > > > > It did help. It's emerged okay. > > > > In my experience, internal GCC errors that

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to depclean my xorg video driver

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 12:51:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 22/04/2017 12:47, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Hello group, > > > > after years of reading of other people’s dependency stupefications here, it > > is finally my turn. Looking over the output

[gentoo-user] Portage wants to depclean my xorg video driver

Hello group, after years of reading of other people’s dependency stupefications here, it is finally my turn. Looking over the output of emerge --depclean after a world update, I found that portage wants to remove my X11 video driver. o.O From my point of view, it should not want to do so, because

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE config problem

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 10:21:36AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Something which will help is if you clear out as much of your USE flags in > > make.conf and package.use as you can, before you run emerge -e. > You may have it there. Goodness knows how long they'd been there, being > copied

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox : tab grouping

On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 02:21:09AM -0600, Dale wrote: > > 170208 Philip Webb wrote: > > […] > > I had understood that tab-grouping had been dropped by FF, > > but was available via an add-on, Panorama something. > > However, the new FF seems to have restored tab-grouping itself. > > > > Is it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Copying USB->USB: sync after every file

On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 12:20:25PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Having no time over the week, I finally got the new install running. But > before I was set back by not being able to log in to Plasma with lightdm. > Only sddm works. I really need to lower my sentences’ c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Copying USB->USB: sync after every file

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 12:54:44AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 11:12:43PM +, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 29 Jan 2017 02:14:27 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 11:56:03PM +, Mick wrote: > > > > On Satur

Re: [gentoo-user] nm-applet shows "?" in Gnome tool tray

On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 10:42:12AM +, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > […] > In addition, there is a question mark "?" displayed by the nm-applet in the > tool tray when I have a wireless connection. On wired connections I get the > question mark superimposed on the wired network tool tray symbol. I

Re: [gentoo-user] [FAQ] How to recover from an unsuccessful build

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 09:32:53PM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 02/03/2017 07:06:51 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On February 3, 2017 6:30:52 PM GMT+01:00, Helmut Jarausch > > wrote: > > > > How come you are installing 3000 packages in 1 go? > > Is this a new install?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Copying USB->USB: sync after every file

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 11:12:43PM +, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 29 Jan 2017 02:14:27 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 11:56:03PM +, Mick wrote: > > > On Saturday 28 Jan 2017 23:55:05 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > > Well, I created a t

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading 1-year old system

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 03:32:22PM -0600, Dale wrote: > >> I haven't updated my system for over a year (1year and 3-months). > >> I was trying to upgrade my firefox-bin and I'm already running into > >> problems. > >> > >> What is my best option, re-install from scratch, upgrade in stages etc. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Copying USB->USB: sync after every file

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 11:56:03PM +, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 28 Jan 2017 23:55:05 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > Well, I created a test user, which is only member of the audio and video > > groups. With that, I do get the arrow button which is also able to mount the >

[gentoo-user] Copying USB->USB: sync after every file

Hi list, I need a pointer, please. Something is amiss on my laptop’s setup. When I copy a number of big files (i.e. videos) from one USB device to another, it starts to read the file, then after a few seconds starts to write to the destination and only *after* that file has been completely

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 06:57:16PM +0700, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Sunday 08 January 2017, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > Try to login as a new user (or move your home directory out of the > > way). If it works start selectively deleting dot files/directories > > from your home directory. Start

Re: [gentoo-user] plain copy of root disk won't work

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:20:13PM +0300, Константин wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 04:30:28PM +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > I want to move the main disk contents (hda, PATA) to another, larger > > disk (sda, SATA). > > > > hda contains 4 ext3 partitions (root, home, data, swap). > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] gnupg 2.1: mutt asks for the passphrase twice

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 08:26:48AM +1100, Sam Jorna wrote: > > > apparently, gnupg 2.1 does not recognise my passphrase anymore if I enter > > > it > > > in mutt’s terminal: I compose a signed mail in mutt and send it off. Thus > > > I > > > am asked for the passphrase first on the terminal (as

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome intrusion?

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 08:49:57PM +, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >> I tried Pale Moon once, but I think it had the same problem as Firefox > >> regarding cpu use, namely with youtube. > > > > That’s one reason why I had never used video sites in the past and now as > > soon as I found out about

[gentoo-user] gnupg 2.1: mutt asks for the passphrase twice

Hey fellows, apparently, gnupg 2.1 does not recognise my passphrase anymore if I enter it in mutt’s terminal: I compose a signed mail in mutt and send it off. Thus I am asked for the passphrase first on the terminal (as it has always been), and then a second time in a graphical pinentry window.

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome intrusion?

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 07:23:02AM +, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Thanks. > I tried Pale Moon once, but I think it had the same problem as Firefox > regarding cpu use, namely with youtube. That’s one reason why I had never used video sites in the past and now as soon as I found out about

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager Auto Connect

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 12:25:14AM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 06:18:13PM +0200, Silvio Siefke wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 12:51:36 +0200 > > Alexander Openkowski <opn...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > I have the same p

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager Auto Connect

On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 06:18:13PM +0200, Silvio Siefke wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 12:51:36 +0200 > Alexander Openkowski wrote: > > > I have the same problem. Unfortunately, I do not know of any fix (did > > not have the time to really investigate the problem, yet). I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5 & Disabling search and recent documents & thoughts

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 04:55:05PM -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: > OK > > WHY can't we have a single checkbox to disable all this crap? I found > one and it didn't work (search in system settings.) Then when I was > searching around online I found out it will reenable itself magically > randomly

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:44:19AM +0300, gevisz wrote: > > Some people do a full systems check (i.e. badblocks) before entrusting a > > drive with anything important. > > It is a good advice! I have already thought of this but I am sorry to > acknowledge that, since the "old good times" of MS

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 08:13:23AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > it will take about 5 seconds to partition it. > And a few more to mkfs it. > > Are you sure you aren't thinking of mkfs with ext2 (which did take hours > for a drive that size? Some people do a full systems check (i.e. badblocks)

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 5

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:51:28AM +0800, konsolebox wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > > It looks as if in the near future I am going to have to install KDE 5 , > > if I want to go on using my regular daily apps Konsole Gwenview Okular ; > > yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] Symbols missing from Firefox

On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 05:02:24PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 01 Jun 2016 17:46:39 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 04:38:17PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I have quite a few sites that firefo

Re: [gentoo-user] Symbols missing from Firefox

On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 04:38:17PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I have quite a few sites that firefox doesn't display properly. It seems to > be short of some symbols. I've attached two screen shots; in the first, the > peculiar thing next to the text should (I think) be a broad

Re: [gentoo-user] Scrollbars in Forefox

On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 02:33:12PM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I've recently updated to Firefox 46 and the small arrows at the end of > the scroll bars are missing. There is nothing that you can click on to > move the text down "a bit". I think I read, probably on this list, that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 04:37:05AM +1000, Michael Palimaka wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On 11/04/16 20:34, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday 09 April 2016 11:12:51 Mick wrote: > >> I noticed today that Plasma 5 is now stable, which means I will soon have > >> to deal with it. > > > > I saw that

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD stopped booting

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 06:30:13PM -0300, João Matos wrote: > Dear list, > > I have a SSD disk that was booting Gentoo for almost two years. Last > weekend, I moved out. Now when I try to turn on my desktop, it freezes > before loading grub. > [...] > The SSD I mentioned is apparently working

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:18:50PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > [...] I wasn't aware of Spectacle. I've just tried it an is seems to do > > much the same as ksnapshot, just with a lot more white space in the UI - > > but WTF do they block one another, they're only screen shot programs? > [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 07:53:34PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:21:37 -0500, Dale wrote: A while ago I set up a VM in which I can observe KDE 5 as it matures. Right now I find it not yet usable, mostly because many things are not yet ported and because of random crashes of

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some help with switching KDE setup from i915 to radeon graphics

On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 12:10:23AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Hello Fellows, > [...] > Now I'm stuck with a malfunctioning X (or more specifically, KDE, as it > seems). I can run AwesomeWM just fine. But when I try to start KDE, I see > the first of those fading-in

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate on LUKS container -> 'Device not found'

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 02:47:40PM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I’ve never used LVM before, it’s only installed as a dependency for various > > FS tools. Hence, my LVM install is basically pure vanilla. But when I try to > > follow those articles, I get: > > > > kern $ cryptsetup status

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate on LUKS container -> 'Device not found'

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 03:50:19PM -0800, Max R.D. Parmer wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016, at 15:06, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 12:02:23AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > > > > If you would like to get rid of the /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket e

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate on LUKS container -> 'Device not found'

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 12:02:23AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > If you would like to get rid of the /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket error just > > start lvm with "service lvm start". I still get the error when starting > > up but it still works. > > I noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate on LUKS container -> 'Device not found'

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 02:03:27PM -0800, Willie Matthews wrote: > On 03/08/2016 01:41 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > I’m trying to follow an article¹ on setting up a fully encrypted system for > > my soon-to-arrive laptop. It and others (e.g.

[gentoo-user] pvcreate on LUKS container -> 'Device not found'

Hi folks I’m trying to follow an article¹ on setting up a fully encrypted system for my soon-to-arrive laptop. It and others (e.g. ² in a very condensed form) simply luksFormat a block device, then luksOpen it and run pvcreate on that. I’ve never used LVM before, it’s only installed as a

[gentoo-user] Need some help with switching KDE setup from i915 to radeon graphics

Hello Fellows, My PC had been running on Intel graphics for 1½ years. Finally, I got myself an AMD R7 370 today and installed it (together with a second set of 16 Gigs of RAM ^^). I could use some help getting it working properly. Here is what I did: yesterday I enabled VIDEO_CARDS=radeon in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Any thoughts on Intel Skylake SGX?

there are hardly any options nowadays. :-/ > [1]: http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf Thanks for the link, I'll have a read. > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016, at 15:34, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Hello list > > [...] > > Today the new Skylake lineu

[gentoo-user] [OT] Any thoughts on Intel Skylake SGX?

Hello list so I was about to treat myself to a new Thinkpad. After malware, backdoor and BIOS rootkit stories at Lenovo’s (which to my knowledge were all Windows-only problems) I already started looking elsewhere and even considered bying a used model which existed before all this modern crap

Re: [gentoo-user] The X11-trap: Once back on textconsole...and no one comes back ever...

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:35:06AM -0500, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > I ran into this one (1) time just after switching to the 4.4.0 kernel. > I have an Intel HD4400 Integrated graphics card on an Asus Z87 MBoard. > (Intel i915 driver) I, too, started experiencing graphics problems with 4.4.0 on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 01:48:47PM -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: A bit OT, but: > > Dale wrote: > > > Correct me if I'm wrong here. Isn't flash supposed to be dying > > > anyway? Why are so many sites still using it if they should be using > > > HTML5? Isn't HTML5

Re: [gentoo-user] Record sizes of directories of a directory tree (huge) most efficiently

On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 07:03:07PM -0600, Dale wrote: > >> I want to determine the size of the contents of all directories of a > >> tree of directories on a hexacore AMD64 machine with 4GB RAM an one > >> harddisk (containing that tree) -- most efficiently (least time > >> consuming). > > A bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Record sizes of directories of a directory tree (huge) most efficiently

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 05:25:37PM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I want to determine the size of the contents of all directories of a > tree of directories on a hexacore AMD64 machine with 4GB RAM an one > harddisk (containing that tree) -- most efficiently (least time > consuming).

Re: [gentoo-user] wakeup from suspend

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 02:55:57PM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > currently I am experimenting with a new embedded system > (OrangePI PC). I want to suspend the system to RAM. > After a period of time the system should wakeup. > > The RTC on the board seems to support alarms. > > Is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 09:48:42PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > P.S.: distccmon is a good tool to watch the compilation processes. I never got it to display anything. I just tried it again: synced portage and ran a world update -- 16 Packages, among them kdevplatform, a lengthy Qt package

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 04:38:56PM -0600, Dale wrote: > >>> what's taking so long when emerging packages despite distcc is used? > >>> […] > >>> Some compilations are being run on the remote machine, so distcc does > >>> work. The log file on the remote machine shows compilation times of a > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Full system encryption on Gentoo

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 08:22:22PM -0500, Alex Corkwell wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 07:34:52AM +1000, Hans wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is it possible to fully encrypt a Gentoo system as can be done with > > Fedora, Suse, Arch Linux, Debian and Ubunto without using a unencrypted > > USB boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:23:28PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the qt4. > > > > I don't quite get that. > > ?? Both images are the same size. The usable content area in the qt5 screenshot is far from just half. Maybe the word

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:19:28AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen shots of > KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other in qt5. You can > see how much less compact the qt5 version is, > [...] > you see here.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: i7-6700, anyone already?

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 07:46:51AM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 10.12.2015 um 05:50 schrieb waltd...@waltdnes.org: > > > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-unwind-tables > > -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables" > > > > That's what I use, except for

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 05:01:26PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 11/02/2015 04:46 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > > 151101 Daniel Frey wrote: > >> I had so many problems with hplip I stopped using it. I found another way > >> to use my hp CP1025nw with foomatic and that works trouble-free. > > > >

[gentoo-user] Select default repository in make.conf?

Hi guys’n’gals Before the introduction of repos.conf, we used several variables in make.conf to tell portage where to find stuff, such as GENTOO_MIRRORS and SYNC. My make.conf used to first define sensible defaults for those and then has the line: source homenet.conf This file modifies those

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