I would like to make FF stick to a specific VT, or just
not switch VT when called from another. Possible?
Are you talking about that ?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425879
Exactly, thanks!
I guess that what you call a VT (virtual _terminal_) is a virtual
workspace.
To
Hello,
I'm using mutt as MUA in an xterm on VT1 and calling up,
via urlview, FF on VT2 with a web page from a mail URL.
Up to some time recently, Firefox only switched VT the
first time I did this, now it does it every time, annoyingly.
I would like to make FF stick to a specific VT, or just
not
Hello,
recently sys-apps/mktemp is blocking coreutils even in x86.
mktemp is needed by baselayout, debianutils and a2ps.
As a2ps is optional and newer baselayout (~x86) version
no longer require mktemp, that leaves debianutils requiring
mktemp, even in ~x86 versions.
So, we have a problem.
What
no longer require mktemp, that leaves debianutils requiring
mktemp, even in ~x86 versions.
Make that 'even in x86 versions'
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Hello,
I'm fed up with waiting for ever the same name requests from my
browser (and open servers don't cut it either): which DNS cache
or caching DNS for simple local installation would you recommend?
Regards,
ralf
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vorner wrote
I use dnsmasq, can be used as a LAN cache too (by simply allowing
requests from a given interface). Took me about 30 minutes to configure.
I asked dhcp to save to resolv.conf.2 and made resolv.conf to request
from localhost.
OK this works fine, thanks. However, udhcpd cannt be
You wrote
I found this which might be interesting:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=newlang
Thanks. But it was a stray tetex config file. I was pointed to
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml
ralf
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Iain wrote
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 11:34 +0100, Ralf Stephan wrote:
Does someone use TeXlive and has encountered and solved
non-English hyphenation problems? I have tried both babel.sty
with the german/germanb options and german.sty from the
package texlive-langgerman, always giving
Hello,
Does someone use TeXlive and has encountered and solved
non-English hyphenation problems? I have tried both babel.sty
with the german/germanb options and german.sty from the
package texlive-langgerman, always giving the command
\selectlanguage{german}
babel.sty gives
Package babel
Hello,
I'm looking for a free XML editor, may be native or even under
Wine, that works well and helps with, for example, presenting
the content of all emph tags as a list, selecting a subset of
them, and changing the subset markup to placeName rend=bold.
Is there an app that I can use for this
Not sure if Quanta will do what you're after? I recall it has some XML code
in there, but don't know if it offers the functionality you want.
Oh, forgot to say that I don't want to install KDE, sorry.
ralf
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Many thanks for the answers. Unfortunately, nothing really
fit my needs, so programming it'll have to be ...
In summary, the editors are helpful in visualizing doc structure
and oXygen has the most features, while for docbook the specialized
apps may be better. Amaya is no longer in gentoo (I
Have I overlooked an option comparable to --ask ?
No, Paludis is non-interactive.
With 700 packages, paludis takes quite long here to give output,
and having that double is irritating. Would it be possible to
cache computations such that the second time (without -p) at least
would be
You could also try the pamarith comand of the netpbm package.
It has both -subtract and -difference
ralf
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It's surprising how few people have heard about the most
flexible tone generator (=synth) out there: csound
http://www.csounds.com
The latest package has a Gentoo ebuild, too, which is not
in the repository, however.
You can do *everything* with it, and it's so fast you
can use it as MIDI
While trying to prevent 'net-dns/pdnsd' to listen on TCP and on to
avoid TCP queries, I changed 'tcp_server' parameter to 'off' and
'query_method' parameter to 'udp_only' in /etc/pdnsd/pdnsd.conf . But
when I restarted pdnsd I found it is still listening on TCP. I checked
/etc/conf.d/pdnsd
Here is an excellent interview with Ciaran McCreesh about Paludis:
http://lab.obsethryl.eu/content/paludis-gentoo-and-ciaran-mccreesh-uncensored
Has anyone here switched from Portage to Paludis?
Yes, and very satisfied. Even with the earlier versions.
ralf
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You wrote
I had some .avi's that I wanted to burn, so I went out and bought a 10pack of
Fujifilm DVD-R media (4.7GB) and fired up K3b. However, it kept asking me to
insert a writable disk even though I put fresh disk after fresh disk in the
drive.
So I resorted to growisofs. I had an
What does everyone else think about this. Is portage a major blocker
of progress or not so much?
As said above, details are major blockers of progress.
On the other hand, when I switched to paludis, 100 MB
of unnecessary packages suddenly were available to delete.
So, paludis must do
I love gentoo and can't settle for anything else. What can I do to
make sure development doesn't stop?
Let me in on that. What can I do too?
Help out with bugfixing by submitting patches or even just
confirming bugs and supplying needed details?
Join testing teams? Join the Weekly News
You wrote
I need to convert web pages to PDF files under program control,
* app-text/htmldoc [N 1.8.27] target
Convert HTML pages into a PDF document
-fltk ssl
Use flags:
* fltk: Adds support for the Fast Light Toolkit gui
interface
* ssl:
You wrote
Attached the log file.
Looks like kernel headers are not found. Have you recently
installed a new kernel manually and deleted the old?
Or did you deinstall sys-kernel/linux-headers? You need that.
ralf
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Albert wrote
Thanks, that was it. I relied on the usual etc-update to do such
things. I mean, if I install a font, I sure want it in the xconfig?
That's not what etc-update does. etc-update is just a tool that helps
you manage files that a package installs that were CONFIG_PROTECTed.
Daniel Vrcic wrote
You should have unifont's path listed in the Files section of
xorg.conf:
Section Files:
...
FontPath /usr/share/fonts/unifont
...
Thanks, that was it. I relied on the usual etc-update to do such
things. I mean, if I install a font, I sure want it in the xconfig?
Hello,
I have installed the unifont package but it doesn't show with
xlsfonts nor xfontsel, nor does an xterm find the font string.
I tried the commands mkfontsdir and xset fp rehash.
What am I missing?
ralf
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Search for setxkbmap on the bug server. A missing link
on installation is the problem. We're waiting for a patch.
ralf
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this before? I don't know what other programs I can test it with that I
might be able to get a screenshot to show you with, but if anybody knows
something that might be a good test, let me know!
You could test downgrading x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810 to 1.7.4. as
there were some problems with
I might be a bit too naive or hands-on -- I think portage
or paludis should be able to tell you which upgrades that
expat one will draw behind it. I don't know what would be
required for implementation, though.
In other words, even the existence of a separate revdep-rebuild
tool is a design
Just for comparison,
http://blog.spida.net/index.php?/archives/3-Powerusage.html has some
measurements of a low-power system.
That's not even optimal. My King Young w/ 1.6GHz Celeron, 500 MB RAM,
and Intel 855 graphics uses just 30-35W at 100% CPU.
And it's silent!
ralf
P.S. see e.g.
You wrote
How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare it
your versions in world? Should one do this once a week? Once in
two weeks?
I have settled to a 5-day routine, when I sync, update completely
the system target, and go through the listing of changes to world,
where
Over a whole system this can
add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable.
This Depends largely on the type of files. I've got my portage
tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple
100 (one-zero-zero) megs!
OTOH, you may not need to switch to reiser for that.
It may
You wrote
I'm 44. I remember Imsai 8080, Apple II/III and others. In Sweden
we had those little boxes known as ABC80 (and later ABC800 with
16 colors and somewhat better graphical resolution). Other boxes
are PDP11/70, various PET/Commodore, Ataris et al. I'm felling a huge
wave of
You wrote
Well, not a very hi-tech solution, but I think that if you find files and
directories like /usr/portage, /etc/gentoo-release, /etc/make.*, etc.
you can reasonably assume you are running on gentoo.
Not necessarily number 1 and 3 if you're using paludis.
ralf
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2GB Ram
80G SATA
2.6.19-suspend2-r1
Odd. My 2.8GHz Pentium 4 takes *far* longer to compile OO, something close to
10h, though I haven't really timed it.
Memory is essential for compiling, so a guess would be that you
have less than 1 GB RAM. Maybe even 1GB is not
I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is
that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which contain
mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them.
By chance, I found the link to a Word -- LaTeX converter:
http://www.grindeq.com
Gentoo fits like a glove,even to a newbie such as myself, but I can't get
AbiWord to display mathematical formulas in my documents. Is there a
package
Depends on which documents but you don't want any other output
than that from LaTeX. This is the true math standard. You can
convert to
I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is
that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which contain
mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them.
Not knowing if it's possible to read that with OpenOffice,
I would advise you to
Hello,
I'm using Reto Glauser's mkstage4 script for backup. Reading
in the 'Small Footprint Gentoo USB HOWTO' about a stage4 made
me ask myself:
Is it possible to quickly/comfortably put the backup stage4
on a USB Stick, such that it behaves just like the same system
just backed up while the
Steve wrote
Ralf Stephan wrote:
Hello,
I have a stable (+unstable gtk) i86/xorg soundless installation
with a bare bones xfce4 desktop. My only problem is that, after
one two weeks, the xfce-panel disappears and newly started apps
are missing the window decorations. They keep missing, even
What versions of these are you trying to run? davfs2-1.1.3-r1 and
subversion-1.4.2 both depend on just net-misc/neon, without any
version deps, so I presume they both work with the current
neon-0.26.1-r1.
Actually, svn does not depend on neon, only if you use WebDAV, and
then it's a svn bug.
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