[gentoo-user] NumLock puzzle

2016-05-24 Thread Philip Webb
sing ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-17 Thread Philip Webb
160417 Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: > Am Sonntag, 17. April 2016, 03:30:15 schrieb Philip Webb: >> So another question arises : >> has it always been necessary to add the user to the video group > no it hasn't in the past, but with 3d acceleration creeping in everywhere. The puzzl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xscreensaver 3D modules don't work

2016-04-17 Thread Philip Webb
160329 »Q« wrote: > 160329 Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> 160328 Corbin wrote: >>> The "x11-misc/rss-glx" screensavers work just fine. >> I hadn't come across it before. >> If I emerge it, will it automatically be adopted by Xscreensav

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

2016-04-17 Thread Philip Webb
your safety boots on. -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

2016-04-17 Thread Philip Webb
160417 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:40:04 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> Also, I've always used '-v' rather than '-a', as it's simpler. > It's not simpler, it's different. Oh dear (red face) : I meant

Re: [gentoo-user] suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

2016-04-17 Thread Philip Webb
there are simple ways of doing things with Gentoo, which avoid a lot of the complications + hassles others complain about. HTH (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Ce

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-16 Thread Philip Webb
rs supposed to know re such matters ? On the face of it, video should have nothing to do with spreadsheets ! -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

2016-04-16 Thread Philip Webb
160416 Philip Webb wrote: >> * Check if your user is in the video group > No, it wasn't & of course when I added it, both problems were solved ! I've checked /etc from my previous machine (now stand-by) & my user was in the video group there, so the question becomes : wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file

2016-04-16 Thread Philip Webb
160416 walt wrote: >> 160416 Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> I've run into a problem opening a M$ Office spreadsheet using >> LibreOffice. I've put the original file up at >> http://chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/ttc-rider-85-15.xlsx >> It shou

[gentoo-user] LibreOffice problem importing file

2016-04-16 Thread Philip Webb
their own Gentoo versions of LO ? If they have a problem too, I'll file a bug with LO ; if not, can anyone suggest what is causing the problem with my version ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Phil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: confessions of a current USE=*

2016-04-15 Thread Philip Webb
e support for x11-libs/gtk+:3 ... [ 37 similarly useless descriptions] This urgently needs cleaning up, like much of Emerge's output. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] major problem involving nvidia drivers, gnome and x

2016-03-29 Thread Philip Webb
flags, just in case. HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Xscreensaver 3D modules don't work

2016-03-28 Thread Philip Webb
160328 Corbin wrote: > On 03/28/2016 02:09 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> Since I set up the system in my new machine in Oct 2015 , >> the 3D modules in Xscreensaver (now 5.34) have refused to run ; >> the rest of Xscreensaver is working as advertised. >> I did drop P

[gentoo-user] Xscreensaver 3D modules don't work

2016-03-28 Thread Philip Webb
y advice ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

2016-03-19 Thread Philip Webb
160318 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > Alan Grimes <alonz...@verizon.net> wrote: >> Philip Webb wrote: >>> So that needs rephrasing : "Why is AG using KDE 5 ? " (smile). >>> Everything works for me using Fluxbox + some KDE 4 apps. >> The last good v

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

2016-03-19 Thread Philip Webb
160318 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 17/03/16 18:00, Philip Webb wrote: AG> I tried to fix it by setting wayland, gles2 and egl to default > because they were breaking other packages. PW> Why are you using Wayland ? -- it's still largely experimental, isn't it ? NC> KDE 5

Re: [gentoo-user] The war continues.

2016-03-19 Thread Philip Webb
a time ; if you run into a block, skip that pkg & see how far you can get ; repeat. The result wb to isolate what's going wrong, when you can test solutions, which are usually 1 level deep. HTH -- ,,====

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

2016-03-18 Thread Philip Webb
gt;> have you tried it ? -- if not, do : you may well like it. > Is it possible to use tabs and just one panel ? > Does it have a tree mode ? Yes -- I don't know -- Yes. There are lots of useful features. -- ,, SUPPORT ___/

[gentoo-user] KDE's confusing versions

2016-03-06 Thread Philip Webb
n (4), but Konsole 15.08.3-r1 is part of version (5). Can anyone explain this anomaly & how KDE versions are evolving ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, Univers

[gentoo-user] KDE's confusing versions

2016-03-06 Thread Philip Webb
n (4), but Konsole 15.08.3-r1 is part of version (5). Can anyone explain this anomaly & how KDE versions are evolving ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, Univers

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers using deprecated...

2016-02-01 Thread Philip Webb
now whether such a bug report really was "appropriate" ? Really, Portage output needs a serious re-think (smile). -- ====,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

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

2016-01-15 Thread Philip Webb
for me just now, when I tested it. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: The following pkgs are causing rebuilds

2015-12-30 Thread Philip Webb
needs my attention...? It doesn't seem to be anything but noise : why does Portage list them ? -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

2015-12-26 Thread Philip Webb
quot; helps (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] no network "eth0" after upgrade.

2015-12-20 Thread Philip Webb
151220 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 20 December 2015 05:19:13 CET, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> My Fstab has long had these lines : >> # NB The next line is critical for boot! >> none /proc proc defaults 0 0 >> When did this change &

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] no network "eth0" after upgrade.

2015-12-19 Thread Philip Webb
151219 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 12/19/2015 05:56 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 19:02:54 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: Thelma> none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults,devmode=0666 0 0 > none /procproc > defaults

Re: [gentoo-user] no network "eth0" after upgrade.

2015-12-19 Thread Philip Webb
he explanation to me : has Thelma tried this ? -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-12-07 Thread Philip Webb
ORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] combining pdf files, different size

2015-11-23 Thread Philip Webb
e. Give it a try. It's good, but it requires Java. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] can't login

2015-11-11 Thread Philip Webb
on trying to login again in the graphic logic, > it keeps the same behaviour. You probably need to reboot to get the new password recognised. To avoid such troubles, I login at the raw terminal, then 'startx'. -- ,, SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] reading data cd/dvd

2015-11-11 Thread Philip Webb
oot), then (as user) 'cd /mnt/dvd' & use Most/Mupdf/Feh/etc to look at the files. Quick, effective, foolproof ... (smile) -- ,,==== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, Uni

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo box

2015-11-06 Thread Philip Webb
when installing Gentoo, Mageia is sentimental : both mb useful to show friends who ask re Linux. All the sizes are really overkill for what I actually use. HTH -- ========,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECT

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo box

2015-11-05 Thread Philip Webb
case Earth's poles reverse (grin), so the DVD drive will get used a couple of times a year. Your list omits an SSD drive : they're much faster than HDD, tho' you should have one of those too for back-ups etc. -- ,,==== SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems : one solved

2015-11-04 Thread Philip Webb
151103 Philip Webb wrote: > In addition, the icon doesn't work in Gvim, tho' :ha does. That latter was mistaken : the icon is simply a shortcup for :ha . You have to tell Gvim which printer to use. In ~/.vimrc you need : 'set pdev=Deskjet_2510' (or system name for your own device). W

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems : hiccups solve them

2015-11-04 Thread Philip Webb
151103 Philip Webb wrote: > The basic problem is now clear : this printer won't print draft quality, > but leaves blank bands across the output (no, it's not an old cartridge). > Therefore, something has to tell it to print 'high-quality' or 'best'. > > In Mint, when that is set v

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

2015-11-03 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

2015-11-03 Thread Philip Webb
151103 Philip Webb wrote: > 151103 Mick wrote: >> Is your gentoo user a member of lp & lpadmin group? > 'lpadmin' yes ; 'lp' no, but 'lp' is a member : I've added my userid. > On the face of it, the latter shouldn't make a difference, but I can test. I tested it &

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

2015-11-03 Thread Philip Webb
151103 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 03 Nov 2015 18:33:58 Philip Webb wrote: >> The basic problem is now clear : this printer won't print draft quality, >> but leaves blank bands across the output (no, it's not an old cartridge). >> Therefore, something has to tell it to print 'h

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

2015-11-02 Thread Philip Webb
151101 Daniel Frey wrote: > On 11/01/2015 04:08 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I am trying to get printing to work properly in my recently built machine. >> 'hp-probe' identifies my printer as 'HP Deskjet 2510 series'. >> When I print a text file from Gvim or a ps file from LO, >

[gentoo-user] printing problems

2015-11-01 Thread Philip Webb
e or suggestions ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo User posting diagrams, graphics?

2015-10-27 Thread Philip Webb
ent. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

2015-10-14 Thread Philip Webb
151013 Daniel Frey wrote: > On 10/13/2015 09:00 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> 151013 Daniel Frey wrote: >>> On 10/13/2015 05:39 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >>>> but doesn't wake up when the power button or a key is pressed ; >>> There was a kernel change some time ba

Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

2015-10-13 Thread Philip Webb
151013 Daniel Frey wrote: > On 10/13/2015 05:39 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> but doesn't wake up when the power button or a key is pressed ; >> I can power off & restart normally afterwards. >> 'dmesg' + 'syslog' simply show an immediate restart after the suspend. > Th

Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

2015-10-13 Thread Philip Webb
151012 Philip Webb wrote: > I want to be able to suspend my machine to RAM overnight or when I'm out. > The pkg to use seems to be Pm-utils, which I've installed. > 'pm-suspend' does suspend, but only briefly : > after 5 s , it restarts automatically & everything is back as before

Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

2015-10-12 Thread Philip Webb
151012 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 05:46:00PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> I want to be able to suspend my machine to RAM overnight or when I'm out. > Just curious why : why not just power it off or lock it ? It's not relevant to the problem, but I don't want t

[gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

2015-10-12 Thread Philip Webb
arly. What am I doing wrong ? Am I using the correct tool ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O---

Re: [gentoo-user] Root device as UUID not properly detected

2015-10-06 Thread Philip Webb
detected. Did you try other USB sticks, which you know work in other machines, in that one machine ? Otherwise, it mb something awry in that machine. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-user] Using KDE apps in a non KDE environment

2015-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
use 'startx' & in .xinitrc I have : xscreensaver & kdeinit & startfluxbox This speeds things up. I even manage to go on using 3 KDE 3 games. The power of Gentoo ! -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Web

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about initial/default ownership of /usr/portage

2015-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
151002 Raymond Jennings wrote: > Who is supposed to own /usr/portage? On my system, it's 'portage:portage'. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toro

Re: [gentoo-user] clean-up root partition

2015-10-01 Thread Philip Webb
== SUPPORT _______//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : mobo fault

2015-09-25 Thread Philip Webb
== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : case fan

2015-09-22 Thread Philip Webb
machine has woken up -- it's like having a baby (grin) -- & BIOS shows everything is running as expected. Thanks for the useful help previously : fan advice wb welcome. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Phili

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-19 Thread Philip Webb
mselves, but the present Portage output is too opaque to help newcomers. -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new machine : case + power

2015-09-17 Thread Philip Webb
150917 james wrote: > Philip Webb ca.inter.net> writes: >> 150914 CPU : AMD X8 FX8370E 8-core 4,3 GHz 16 MB 32 nm 95 W > I have 3) FX8350. Outstanding performance for the cost. Love them all. >> 150914 Mobo : Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P 970+SB950 DDR3 2000 : 119.99 >>

[gentoo-user] new machine : case + power

2015-09-16 Thread Philip Webb
. The front USBs mb more limited, but might there be differences in the PSU outlet cabling ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O

[gentoo-user] new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-07 Thread Philip Webb
Seagate Desktop HDD 500 GB 3.5in SATA3 16 MB Cache OEM DVD : * DVSS004328 SH-224FB/BSBE : Downtown 4 : $ 22 Samsung (SH-224FB/BSBE) Internal 24x DVD Writer, OEM Black, SATA, 1.5 MB Buffer -- ,, SUPPORT __

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict - xfce-base/libxfce4util

2015-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
n't our valued + respected devs do better in this area ? -- ,,======== SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] system uptime

2015-09-03 Thread Philip Webb
to RAM/disk ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] system uptime

2015-09-03 Thread Philip Webb
150903 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:32:52 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> Mick mentioned 'S3' = 'sleep' & 'S4' = 'hibernation' in this connection: >> what do they mean ? Do they correspond to saving to RAM/disk ? > Short answer: Yes > Long answer: > h

[gentoo-user] system uptime

2015-08-29 Thread Philip Webb
; the monitor + Xscreensaver are off whenever I'm away from the machine for = 1 hr (approx). Are there any pro's/con's I sb aware of ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Philip Webb
to be a requirement for Gentoo users that they become experts in using Git. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

2015-08-28 Thread Philip Webb
. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 38.1.0 :-(

2015-08-02 Thread Philip Webb
150802 Mick wrote: On Sunday 02 Aug 2015 07:52:02 Philip Webb wrote: Today, did the same emerge without any problem : my bookmarks remain the same, as does my start-up (home) site. From the discussion, it appears that your difficulties resulted from your use of a developer version of FF

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 38.1.0 :-(

2015-08-02 Thread Philip Webb
to be using it is not clear. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The state of public relations?

2015-07-25 Thread Philip Webb
new machines, but that's a different problem, which sb solvable, if it isn't already. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O

[gentoo-user] Adwaita cursors

2015-06-29 Thread Philip Webb
-- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] new scanner : any advice ?

2015-06-21 Thread Philip Webb
? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : any advice ?

2015-06-21 Thread Philip Webb
150621 Bruce Hill wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 07:02:39AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: My trusty 12-year-old scanner is starting to show signs of age : I'm inclined to get another Epson, but would consider something else. Does anyone have experience with these or have any advice to offer ? HP

Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : any advice ?

2015-06-21 Thread Philip Webb
is capable of scanning too, but there's no Linux driver to do that. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O

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] unabridged english dictionary?

2015-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem

2015-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
to 'startfluxbox', but no improvement. I plan to submit a bug, but log output mb useful to include there. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem

2015-06-07 Thread Philip Webb
150607 Philip Webb wrote: Yesterday, I updated to the now stable Fluxbox 1.3.7-r1 ; there have been no changes in my config files. Normally, I have the toolbar (the panel at the bottom of the screen) hidden make it visible by dropping the mouse down there ; I also have Fbpager running

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem

2015-06-07 Thread Philip Webb
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 screen) hidden make it visible by dropping

[gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem

2015-06-07 Thread Philip Webb
is not running, the toolbar remains hidden always. Before I file a bug, has anyone else seen this ? Any advice ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto

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

2015-06-06 Thread Philip Webb
___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] has the sun set ?

2015-06-01 Thread Philip Webb
150601 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 00:06:44 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Yesterday, while doing my weekly system update, I encountered a msg : !!! The following installed packages are masked: - media-libs/lcms-1.19-r1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles

[gentoo-user] has the sun set ?

2015-05-31 Thread Philip Webb
possible to install Kde-Sunset on a new machine. I realise Gentoo itself doesn't provide support for Kde-Sunset, but does anyone know of a way round this obstacle or have other advice ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple repos.conf layout please

2015-05-01 Thread Philip Webb
is it for ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-28 Thread Philip Webb
. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-26 Thread Philip Webb
150426 Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 04/26/2015 03:17 PM, Philip Webb wrote: Portage needs to tell users (1) more clearly what's gone wrong, (2) what their choices are, (3) how to resolve the problem. The process goes something like this: 1. Become frustrated with the obtuse portage output. 2

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-26 Thread Philip Webb
) what their choices are, (3) how to resolve the problem. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O

Re: [gentoo-user] HowTo rebuild everything same way differently

2015-04-10 Thread Philip Webb
___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Question of quantum computer

2015-04-04 Thread Philip Webb
physicists. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-03 Thread Philip Webb
150403 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 01:02:54AM +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 03:28:43AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: if there's only 1 tab open you kill it, it kills the whole FF job too. Fortunately, we’re not left standing in the rain

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-02 Thread Philip Webb
150401 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:34:19 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Occasionally, I've had javascripts running away with the CPU, which stops when I kill FF restart it. That's just bad JS programming. Do you have to kill the whole browser and not just the offending tab? That's

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-01 Thread Philip Webb
. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-01 Thread Philip Webb
150401 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 01 April 2015 11:34:19 Philip Webb wrote: 150401 Peter Humphrey wrote: Has anyone else here noticed firefox consuming 15% or so of CPU time, even while it's not supposed to be doing anything? Occasionally, I've had javascripts running away

Re: [gentoo-user] How recent is this Gentoo documentation?

2015-03-27 Thread Philip Webb
. Google offers me https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kexec (140915) http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/294573 (this list 141126). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-22 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-22 Thread Philip Webb
150322 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 22/03/15 17:58, Philip Webb wrote: If you have multiple users, you don't want some rogue user rebooting randomly You can't stop a local user from doing that. As mentioned, the reset button works just fine. You really do want those users to reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt emerge USE flags for novice

2015-03-21 Thread Philip Webb
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to poweroff the system from user?

2015-03-21 Thread Philip Webb
users. To shut down, I first exit Fluxbox via its menu, then 'su' + root password, then alias 'down' = 'shutdown -h now'. That observes the proper roles + ceremonies (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unwanted cursor change

2015-03-20 Thread Philip Webb
150316 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 16/03/15 03:58, Philip Webb wrote: Yesterday, I updated to gtk+-3.14.9 , which required installation of x11-themes/adwaita-icon-theme . This new unwanted pkg created a dir under /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11 a symbolic link 'default-Adwaita', which changed

[gentoo-user] unwanted cursor change

2015-03-15 Thread Philip Webb
the dir responsible, did 'mv default default-dft', restarted X restored the old cursor. This looks to me like a bug. Does anyone have comments before I file it ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] No 'libs' in world file?

2015-03-04 Thread Philip Webb
, as it is. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] No 'libs' in world file?

2015-03-02 Thread Philip Webb
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[gentoo-user] Perl pitfall

2015-03-01 Thread Philip Webb
5.880.0 Installed versions: 5.820.0([2014-02-09 20:43:16]) Description: Virtual for Digest-SHA Shomething wrong shomewhere ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] Perl pitfall

2015-03-01 Thread Philip Webb
150302 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Montag, 2. März 2015, 00:01:42 schrieb Philip Webb: root:511 ~ emerge -pv perl-Digest-SHA These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-Digest-SHA-5.880.0 [5.820.0] 0 KiB

Re: [gentoo-user] SCIM - terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2015-02-21 Thread Philip Webb
. You wb pleased to learn that while updating my Netbook after 2 yr I installed 'sc' to replace 'gnumeric'. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto

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