Re: [arch-general] Upgrade to Linux 4.17.2 & xorg-server 1.20.0-8 breaks left-mouse in remote Linux desktops
On 19/06/18 07:31, Lukas Winkler via arch-general wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 at 00:43, David C. Rankin wrote: All, This is a strange one, confirmed on two separate Archlinux Guests running in VirtualBox on Archlinux Hosts. I access the running VMs with rdesktop over the LAN. After update to Linux 4.17.2 & xorg-server 1.20.0-8, VirtualBox-5.2.12 starts the Archlinux guests fine, X starts fine in the guests (running fluxbox), and pressing the right-mouse brings up the fluxbox-menu fine, but there is no way to select an item with the left-mouse. When the xterm is open, there is no way to grab the title-bar and move the xterm around, again, as if the left-mouse input isn't seen. An moving the cursor over the bottom of the window will not bring up the taskbar. This effects Linux guest, but not windows guests. I can start Win7 in a VM and opening in remote-desktop works just fine. (all mouse buttons work fine and the cursor position tracks properly bringing up the auto-hidden taskbar on mouseover) Can someone with a similar VirtualBox setup confirm this behavior? I suspect it would effect any Linux Guest that runs X and a desktop and is accessed with rdesktop. For all practical purposes this update prevent accessing Linux guest with rdesktop. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Hi David + List Same behaviour for me. I resolved it by installing the synaptics input driver in the guest for now as I did not have time to debug. BR I have the same behaviour on my Arch Linux guest, but for me both right- and left-click do not work. I have had to downgrade the kernel and the VirtualBox guest modules. Regards, Gurnaik
Re: [arch-general] Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation
On 29/09/16 11:19, Lukas Rose wrote: "Worked for you this day", "you were lucky "…? I am talking of 100+ Linux installations on different hardware over the last few years. Not just one or two lucky cases. And sometimes it was very new hardware, like WiFi-Chips that were released a few weeks ago. I would generally agree with you, but I recently bought a Lenovo Yoga laptop which came with Broadcom WIFI and Bluetooth that are not currently supported by Linux. So I would say you've been lucky up to now ;)
Re: [arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell?
On 19/08/16 16:05, Sebastiaan Lokhorst via arch-general wrote: Please stop this unfounded, tinfoil hat "Micro$oft sucks!!11" whining. If there is an actual reason why you shouldn't use a product, please say so, but this "don't use it because Microsoft made it" nonsense is ridiculous. They have a proven track record over many years of morally reprehensible behaviour to competitors and anything that they perceive as a threat to their Windows ecosystem, so the cynicism and the "won't use it because it's Microsoft" attitude is completely valid, regardless of how shiny the toy is.
Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox users shouldn't upgrade to linux 4.6.1-2-ARCH
On 09/06/16 10:24, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi, today I upgraded from 4.5.4-1-ARCH (x86_64) to 4.6.1-2-ARCH (x86_64), it's not in testing anymore, it's provided by the official repository, https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/linux/ . On my machine the boot options are 'ro' 'threadirqs' and virtualbox with a Windows 7 guest hangs always after a few seconds. The bug already is reported: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/49504 For me, it is working fine with my Win7 guest, but I have not rebooted the guest; I normally just suspend/unsuspend. Gurnaik
Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade
On 11/04/16 15:12, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:01:40 +0200, Qdaxfa wrote: Try doing more research on updates before installing them if stability is critical for you Such a disaster never happened for minimalist environments (openbox, jwm with an uncritical theme as Adwaita) within all the years I'm using Arch Linux. This happened for bloated DEs such as Xfce or much more bloated DEs, especially when using exotic fonts and themes. I don't overdo reading changelogs/release notes, but actually I care about such information, I'm not a newbie. It is not unreasonable to assume that at least the basic themes work correctly, even on a rolling release.
Re: [arch-general] Missing module ag mkinitcpio
On 19/12/14 09:43, Heiko Becker wrote: Hey everyone, as pointed out somewhere else on the list, it is necessary to run mkinitcpio after updating to systemd 218. Doin so today gave me the following warning: WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx Can someone give me a hint where I have to search to fix this? Best, Heiko See this mailing list thread: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-May/024864.html and this forum post: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1271648 Regards, Gurnaik
Re: [arch-general] Weird program in $PATH
On 19/08/14 16:32, Heiko Becker wrote: Hey everyone, today I tried to launch firefox from my awesome-wm launcher and instead of being offered firefox after typing fire, the prompt finished showing me alternatives and being a little lazy I just pushed enter. This gave me a window with some fire particle animations running on my screen. Searching for the program in my pacman.log did not show me anything so I'm wondering where this program comes from. Can anyone of you maybe help me to at least get this thing removed without having any files left that are only used by this program? Best regards, Heiko pacman -Ss aalib extra/aalib 1.4rc5-10 [installed] A portable ASCII art graphic library This gives you the aafire program, as well as aainfo, aasavefont and aatest, which demonstrate the capabilities of the aalib ASCII art library. Regards, Gurnaik
Re: [arch-general] KDE breakage with glibc 2.19-2
On 14/02/14 11:12, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: Is anyone else seeing breakage of KDE compositing with glibc 2.19-2? Large areas are unrendered: window contents and the plasma desktop are black, although my panel is visible. Seems OK when I turn of compositing. I've tried going back and forth, and it's definitely the glibc update that's causing the issue for me. Anyone else? Paul Yes, I've seen this as well. Seems to occur intermittently for me. Gurnaik
