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090912 pk wrote:
Philip Webb wrote:
Can you have multiple desktops with Fvwm ?
Virtual desktops are part of the X window manager specification:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html#id2505816
The application that handles the desktops are called a pager:
http
--colour=auto udev
Using Baselayout 1.12.11.1 Udev 141 , I get :
root:508 default ps aux | grep udev
root 659 0.0 0.0 12524 936 ? Ss Sep10 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
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an ordered list of what needs doing
you can work thro' the list 1 lineful of pkgs at a time.
I update my working machine once/week ('eix-sync' 'emerge -Dup world').
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Krusader for heavy lifting. MC 4.7.0 sb out soon
they mb aiming for a really new MC 5 , which wb worth investigating.
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-by machine.
My policy is to avoid 'testing' for system or other vital packages,
but use it for well-maintained items like Firefox.
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=${CFLAGS}
if you're on a Core2 and a recent GCC,
you might want to change that to -march=core2 or -march=native.
I use Gcc 4.3.2-r3 have CFLAGS=-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe.
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? Which PDF files (one or more examples) ?
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The devs do need to get regular thanks for their unpaid work.
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use them.
Perhaps someone should write a doc 'Gentoo for the Time-Challenged'.
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090630 Alan McKinnon wrote:
We often attempt to ascribe human intelligence to software.
It's a side-effect of being human. Be alert for it :-)
One for my commonplace book (smile) !
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typical of a sensible user (smile).
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/nvidia-drivers-180.29 (media-libs/mesa)
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with it !
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090613 Mick wrote:
On Saturday 13 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote:
Yet another step reveals the locus of the problem here at least:
(11) try to run 'klauncher' from CLI : must be started by Kdeinit;
(12) restart in KDE, fix Krusader + Apwal ;
(13) reboot restart FB but without 'kdeinit
090613 Philip Webb wrote:
It looks as if the problem here is that if 'kdeinit' is started
without an existing desktop to relate to, some connection is not made.
I've investigated further can't find which file Krusader uses
to remember its file associations. However, I did find the changelog
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in starting 'kdeinit' without the KDE desktop.
It will take another couple of reboots (tomorrow) to confirm this.
Mick mb doing things a bit differently his problem mb elsewhere.
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then reboot see what has happened, presumably they wb lost again.
After that has been confirmed, we can look into the cause more closely.
Anyone else have suggestions ?
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090611 Philip Webb wrote:
You can test this by restoring the settings in KDE,
then without rebooting check they're there in Fluxbox,
then reboot see what has happened, presumably they wb lost again.
Actually, there are 2 possibilities, at user login at reboot,
so both need checking
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090608 Philip Webb wrote:
090608 Mick wrote:
I seem to have installed kde-base/mimelib, I guess as dependency:
eix kde-base/mimelib
Installed versions: 3.5.10(3.5)(20:11:53 06/07/09)(-debug -elibc_FreeBSD)
I also tried changing fluxbox for kdm (in case this is a fluxbox WM issue
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there ?
They're all too busy looking at their reflections in Plasma (smile).
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090608 Cristian Gary wrote:
2009/6/8 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net
090608 Mick wrote:
The problem remains with most menus and submenus in KDE applications:
e.g. right-click on a file in Konqueror, then 'Open With'
and there are no applications in the popup to select from .
Yes
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kbuildsycoca, but same error again.
I always 'startx' from a raw terminal.
I recompiled kcminit kfind kpersonalizer kreadconfig rebooted,
but there is no change in Krusader's behaviour.
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would need based on experience.
Recently, I added a whole new LV extended another,
but otherwise LVM has worked flawlessly (even SystemRescue recognises it).
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suffer from the problem.
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090517 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:18:14 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
'make oldconfig' is the usual recommendation, but there's no help:
it's just a list of Do you want to ... ? which you can't save easily.
Of course there's help. Most options give a choice of y/n/m/?.
Yes (red
090518 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 18 May 2009 07:29:00 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
The blurb tells me nothing, but if I follow its advice, I do get :
I said there was help, I didn't claim it was helpful :)
I got bitten by this one a while ago on a box using a mixture
of SATA and PATA disks
090518 bn wrote:
Philip Webb ha scritto:
Hopefully, the OP has got some useful hints out of all this ...
Yes. I'm kinda considering switching to Ubuntu.
I love Gentoo, it's almost 4 years I'm using it, but I need this laptop
to *work*, and I cannot afford to be consistently bitten
090518 bn wrote:
Philip Webb ha scritto:
With binary distros, you are stuck with whatever their makers give you.
whatever distro you're using, Linux is Linux. You're not locked out.
If my xorg.conf doesn't work (it happened with Ubuntu),
I can edit it on Ubuntu just like on Gentoo.
I can
090516 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Samstag, 16. Mai 2009 11:55:18 schrieb Philip Webb:
I have got 2.6.25 to work again after enabling 'evdev'
evdev is completely unrelated to CD writing.
Yes, I know that: it was necessary in order to resurrect 2.6.25
after the big change in Xorg recently: I
to get improved (smile).
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welcome (I've sent output to a helper off the list).
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090515 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 15 May, Philip Webb wrote:
BIOS reports Auto-detecting PATA primary master: ATAPI CD-ROM.
Is your CDwriter a SATA device?
Here, 2.6.29-r3 works just fine with my SATA-dvd-writer.
Well, BIOS believes it's PATA . Anyway, that didn't change.
I suspect some
090515 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 11:00:59 schrieb Philip Webb:
For the 1st time in 2 months, I went to write a CD discovered
that /dev/sr0 is not being created nor symlink /dev/cdrom ;
I looked at 'dmesg': no mention of 'sr' or 'cd' being found.
I tested the drive
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, interactive, object-oriented
programming language.
Apparently, our version of Python was unmasked very recently.
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to Alt-Fn keys).
Start-up time is not that important for a desktop machine,
which its user typically starts once/day while making coffee etc.
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090420 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 20 April 2009 16:25:07 Philip Webb wrote:
Can anyone tell me the command to pre-start KDE libs with another desktop ?
I believe it's kcminit but it doesn't show up in ps afterwards.
Thanks for the hint, which got me to look at what's running via 'htop
'netmount'.
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090420 Philip Webb wrote:
Can anyone tell me the command to pre-start KDE libs with another desktop ?
Htop reveals that 'konsole' -- the 1st app I started after Fluxbox --
caused the following processes to start remain running :
3863 kdeinit running ...
3866 dcopserver [kdeinit
090418 Liviu Andronic wrote:
Does anyone know a .pdf thumbnailer?
Kpdf gives previews in its side index panel : I find it very useful.
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in the Linux press last week about a plain user,
who had had enough of Microsoft tried out a Linux distro:
what she loved most was the simple practical Fluxbox desktop ...
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090413 Paul Hartman wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote:
I got KDE 4.2.1 installed with only a couple of bugs along the way.
I'm not impressed: there's some eye-candy, but usability is reduced.
I would suggest totally getting rid of everything KDE3
090413 Philip Webb wrote:
I've found out how to fix it: something is starting Plasma,
so Htop to the rescue ! -- kill Plasma the hideous mask is removed
-- it appears at the very end of the KDE start-up process --
the handsome KDE 3 desktop backgrounds reappear
together with the desktop
090412 walt wrote:
Philip Webb wrote:
BTW the Nvidia driver is still being used (acc to 'lshal'),
but its splash screen no longer appears: can anyone explain ?
lshal is telling you that your nvidia hardware is recognized,
but doesn't tell you that the hardware is being used by X.
The best
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HTH comments welcome.
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several years ago
use a US keyboard layout, which probably simplified the task.
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(not Vga) without problems.
I'm now using 1.5.3 with Evdev.
BTW the Nvidia driver is still being used (acc to 'lshal'),
but its splash screen no longer appears: can anyone explain ?
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from the maintainer.
AFAIK as a long-standing Lynx user, you can do this only per session.
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Fltk 2 is needed to try out Dillo 2 , which I'ld like to do.
I don't like to complain when bug-fixers are volunteers, so haven't.
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used and mb substitute it with CSS?
I leave that to others ... (smile)
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090322 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:58:57 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
Now I'm doing an emerge -u world.
I never do that: I always do 'emerge -Dup world',
then decide which packages to update emerge them individually.
I hope you use --oneshot every time
or your world file
3.5.10 it's ok, so it's a KDE 4 bug.
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090217 Sebastián Magrà wrote:
On Tue, February 17, 2009 7:26 am, Philip Webb wrote:
Has anyone succeeded in importing a PDF to Open Office Impress or Draw ?
I've added the add-on from from under /usr/... (as it says),
but when I try to 'insert file' using a 1-page PDF ,
it says 'File could
tried rebooting re-opening OO, but not change.
There's nothing in OO Help re the add-on or importing PDFs.
I'm using OO 3.0.1 .
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into testing.
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http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16497-international-wildbird-competition/2
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090106 Harry Putnam wrote:
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net writes:
090106 Willie Wong wrote:
you may want to change the root line to root=purslow,
so the mail gets sent to purslow instead of postmaster
(which according to /etc/mail/aliases becomes root again).
That doesn't work, but adding
090105 Harry Putnam wrote:
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net writes:
The problem originated 090104 c0520 ,
when I edited ~/.fetchmailrc to delete the reference to a logfile.
However, attempts to restore the STATVS QVO ANTE have failed:
I've restored the previous version of .fetchmailrc
(thanks) next.
Your or others' further comments are very welcome.
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have other jobs today.
Thanks for the helpful advice (smile).
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090105 Willie Wong wrote:
What is Uniserve?
Sorry, I assumed the context made it clear: Uniserve is my ISP.
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090105 Willie Wong wrote:
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 01:04:45PM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked:
have you checked your outgoing mail logs
to see if cron attempts to send mail when fetchmail is called?
Thanks for the suggestion: the last few lines of /var/log/syslog are :
Jan 5 17
of us.
Yes, Kpdf Xpdf now show p 10 correctly here too.
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searched first.
One further idea is to see what happens
if you try to open it with Open Office 3 , which claims to input PDF.
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that there is a bug in Kpdf,
which should never crash whatever file it's given: at least,
there sb an appropriate error message with 'ok' to close cleanly.
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090101 Dale wrote:
Philip Webb wrote:
One further idea is to see what happens
if you try to open it with Open Office 3 , which claims to input PDF.
I have OOo3 here and it said it was a 13,000 page document
and it was full of garbage at that.
That didn't work or I did something wrong one
it. It's like Package A blocks package B,
which causes the emerge to stop till the user acts more sensibly.
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of
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You beat me to it ! -- I've just submitted KDE bug 179280 .
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081224 Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Philip Webb wrote:
FYI others', there's a very nice lightweight FM called 'vifm',
which is in Portage uses Vim-style commands in a terminal;
no FM cb faster it's highly configurable with many features.
When I want to do heavy lifting, I use
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