Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3
Hi. Sorry for my english. I have a dual boot system, windows 7 64-bit (ada1) and FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 GEOM (ada0). I did it by installing FreeBSD boot0 on Windows HDD: boot0cfg -B ada1 then I choose Windows HDD as first boot drive in BIOS. Now at boot i have boot0 menu: F1 - Win F5 - Drive 1 F6 don't remember where Win is booting Windows 7, and F5 booting FreeBSD. My Windows HDD divided on to partitions, so i have to use 'boot0cfg -m some_mask' to delete second Windows partition from boot0 menu. Everything works fine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: why I am upset
My French and Italian is enough for me, dear Sir. There are not just English on the world!! How do you know that I didn't contribute to the FreeBSD foundation?? Did you check my bank account?? On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: On 26 May 2012, at 03:12, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: Why I am upset but not just me? I am running KDE 4.8 from January on my Linux computer. Now is almost June and we got KDE 4.8 on FreeBSD too. 5 months testing and it works? No. The modern OS for the desktop computer doesn;t works. O.K. OS works but installatoon of 5 months testing of KDE doesn;t. And help? Read /usr/ports/UOPDATING!! I red before I start inastallation but I am not sure if helpers did! Thank you for wasting my time. Mitja 1/ English, learn it. 2/ Remind me how much you paid for free software you've most likely never contributed to ? 3/ You're too busy being a whiny raging kid to actually explain your problem 4/ Even if you had, I doubt anyone would want to help you after your epic flame Seeing you do not even show the slightest hint of respect or gratitude towards the people who actually work on the software in their free time: 5/ I'm gonna respectfully ask that you STFU You're such a good rager, I'm convinced you shan't need google to figure out the acronym. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: kldxref: /boot/kernel/kernel: too many sections
Hello, On 05/27/12 05:31, Damien Fleuriot wrote: [...] Hold on a sec you run install*world* and it tries to install a kernel ? Looks fishy to me. Sorry - I ran make installkernel of cause. Also, try with a generic kernel, just to check if that fails as well. Interesting - the GENERIC kernel does as expected - no problem with kldxref. However - after that I tried my own config again and today there are no problems. This is somewhat annoying - I forgot to disable the midnight src update. So I try to run this kernel and hope that the problem was solved between the 26. and 27 May. Best regards, Martin Laabs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
xfce4.10, terminal command not working, no icons on panel(s)
Dear folks, I updated ports and consequently updated to xfce4.10. I try to run terminal and it does not work. Script started on Sun May 27 08:32:31 2012 [olivares@tricorehome ~]$ termian? ?? ?nal /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libxfce4util.so.5 not found, required by terminal [olivares@tricorehome ~]$ There are no icons on bottom panel :( Clock is moved from corner. I am not complaining, but I do want advice on how to fix it. I am thinking about removing xfce . directory in home directory, but I am not sure that it would reset everything. The fonts are too small, they were great in Xfce 4.8.3, but now they are too small and it is hard to distingush them. Advice/suggestions/comments are greatly appreciated and will be applied to fix these changes in the xfce camp. Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: why I am upset
On 05/26/2012 05:40 PM, Franci Nabalanci wrote: I did use portmaster for KDE 4.8 update and it stopped: The devel/kdebindings4-python port has been deleted: kdebindings ports have been refactored. Update aborted. And I don't know how to save a problem. Did you heed /usr/ports/UPDATING when you did the upgrade? 20120525: AFFECTS: users of deskutils/kdepim4, deskutils/kdepim4-runtime AUTHOR: k...@freebsd.org kdepim4 has been updated to 4.8.3. For those who prefer old kdepim-4.4.11.1 deskutils/kdepim44* ports have been added. To stay with kdepim-4.4.11.1 run the following commands: # portmaster -o deskutils/kdepim44-runtime kdepim-runtime-4\* # portmaster -o deskutils/kdepim44 kdepim-4\* 20120525: AFFECTS: users of KDE SC 4 AUTHOR: k...@freebsd.org KDE SC ports have been updated to 4.8.3. Several ports were split, thus manual intervention into update procedure is required: # pkg_delete -f kde-runtime-\* ruby\*-kdebindings-korundum\* \ kalgebra-4\* kdeaccessibility-4\* kdeutils-4\* kde-baseapps-\* \ plasma-applet-icontasks\* # portmaster -a ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xfce4.10, terminal command not working, no icons on panel(s)
Antonio Olivares skrev 2012-05-27 15:38: Dear folks, I updated ports and consequently updated to xfce4.10. I try to run terminal and it does not work. Script started on Sun May 27 08:32:31 2012 [olivares@tricorehome ~]$ termian? ?? ?nal /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libxfce4util.so.5 not found, required by terminal [olivares@tricorehome ~]$ There are no icons on bottom panel :( Clock is moved from corner. I am not complaining, but I do want advice on how to fix it. I am thinking about removing xfce . directory in home directory, but I am not sure that it would reset everything. The fonts are too small, they were great in Xfce 4.8.3, but now they are too small and it is hard to distingush them. Advice/suggestions/comments are greatly appreciated and will be applied to fix these changes in the xfce camp. Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Have you read the entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING I forgot to remove those ports and got the same error. I removed them after the upgrade and then I did portmaster -tf xfce-4.10 Now terminal and Orage works again :-) /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xfce4.10, terminal command not working, no icons on panel(s)
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: Antonio Olivares skrev 2012-05-27 15:38: Dear folks, I updated ports and consequently updated to xfce4.10. I try to run terminal and it does not work. Script started on Sun May 27 08:32:31 2012 [olivares@tricorehome ~]$ termian? ?? ?nal /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libxfce4util.so.5 not found, required by terminal [olivares@tricorehome ~]$ There are no icons on bottom panel :( Clock is moved from corner. I am not complaining, but I do want advice on how to fix it. I am thinking about removing xfce . directory in home directory, but I am not sure that it would reset everything. The fonts are too small, they were great in Xfce 4.8.3, but now they are too small and it is hard to distingush them. Advice/suggestions/comments are greatly appreciated and will be applied to fix these changes in the xfce camp. Regards, Antonio Have you read the entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING I had confused this with /usr/src/UPDATING, and I saw no entries there for XFCE :(, I have gotten away without viewing the file. I know it is highly recommended to read it, but I confuse it with the other file :( Now I saw what I needed to remove and have done it :) I forgot to remove those ports and got the same error. I removed them after the upgrade and then I did portmaster -tf xfce-4.10 Now in th process of doing this :) Now terminal and Orage works again :-) /Leslie Thanks to you and Dave for your input. Best Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty? (fwd)
Jos, did you not get my response to your original query over a week ago? I see it made the list archives. Anyway this second time around, Robert Bonomi wins gold for the best guess, with even fewer clues to go on :-) cheers, Ian (who probably said too much, but doesn't resile) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 05:03:23 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au To: Jos Chrispijn ker...@webrz.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newsyslog | Cronjob faulty? In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 415, Issue 4, Message: 12 On Wed, 16 May 2012 21:44:53 +0200 Jos Chrispijn ker...@webrz.net wrote: At midnight (00.00) I run this cronjob from my crontab: Crontab: 00 * * * * rootnewsyslog By 'my' crontab, do you mean the system crontab, /etc/crontab ? If so, that's nearly but not quite the default syntax of: #minute hourmdaymonth wdaywho command # Rotate log files every hour, if necessary. 0 * * * * rootnewsyslog Note the single '0'. I don't know if '00' is valid. And it doesn't mean 'at midnight', it means whenever the minute is 0, any hour, any day, any month, any weekday; ie newsyslog is run hourly, on the hour. And the default entry in /etc/newsyslog.conf for maillog is: /var/log/maillog640 7 *@T00 JC So it's newsyslog using newsyslog.conf(5) that creates maillog if it doesn't yet exist, rotates it to maillog.0 at midnight (T00), thereafter compressing it with bzip2 (J). For some reason this goes wrong; (if I run 'newsyslog' on any other time, there is no error message). bzip2: Can't open input file /var/log/maillog.0: No such file or directory. newsyslog: `bzip2 -f /var/log/maillog.0' terminated with a non-zero status (1) /var/log: -rw-r- 1 rootwheel 63162 May 16 21:20 maillog -rw-r- 1 rootwheel 109 May 16 00:00 maillog.0.bz2 -rw-r- 1 rootwheel 73674 May 16 00:00 maillog.1 -rw-r- 1 rootwheel 111 May 15 00:00 maillog.2.bz2 -rw-r- 1 rootwheel 73050 May 15 00:00 maillog.3 -rw-r- 1 rootwheel 109 May 14 00:00 maillog.4.bz2 -rw-r- 1 rootwheel184042 May 14 00:00 maillog.5 Can somebody tell me what goes wrong here? Looks likely two instances of newsyslog racing at midnight; one makes maillog.0.bz2 from the just-rolled maillog.0, the other finds maillog.0 has disappeared before getting to run bzip2 on it? So, two files per day, and the above message? On my other FreeBSD server the same cronjob goes ok... Check /etc/crontab and /etc/newsyslog.conf on both, and make sure you're not also trying to run a user crontab for root, apart from /etc/crontab? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: why I am upset
There can be a tremendous investment of time in using software, whether free or not. Money too, often. Those who work to write, port, and support free software also spend a tremendous amount of time in doing that. Money too, often. So both parties have a large investment, and it's easy but counterproductive to get emotional about it. Take a deep breath, be polite, and try to appreciate the other guy's problems. Otherwise it just ends up creating more problems, and there are already enough. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xfce4.10, terminal command not working, no icons on panel(s)
On one of my machines, While running # portmaster -tf xfce-4.10 I get a major error and everything comes to a screeching halt :( I get a bad gid on my own username and last line I see is pwd_mkdb: /mnt/etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format How can I get around this? Googling I find: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-November/208310.html but the advice there does not help :( I wonder what has happened and how I can fix it, if there is something to try out? Thanks Best Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless
Hi, Please email freebsd-wireless@ with wireless related questions. Try wlandebug -i wlan0 +crypto and see if you get encryption errors. Unfortunately there's currently no broadcom NIC maintainer, so things are falling behind. adrian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xfce4.10, terminal command not working, no icons on panel(s)
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: On one of my machines, While running # portmaster -tf xfce-4.10 I get a major error and everything comes to a screeching halt :( I get a bad gid on my own username and last line I see is pwd_mkdb: /mnt/etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format How can I get around this? Googling I find: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-November/208310.html but the advice there does not help :( I wonder what has happened and how I can fix it, if there is something to try out? Thanks Best Regards, Antonio Error message is as follows: Creating user `messagebus' with uid `556' pwd_mkdb: olivaresgidis incorrect pwd_mkdb: at line #25 pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format pw: passwd file update: No such file or directory *** Error code 74 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/dbus. === Installation of dbus-1.4.12_2 (devel/dbus) failed === Aborting update Advice/Comments/Suggestions on this particular machine. The others are churning and no failures almost complete. Thanks Best Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: why I am upset
On Sun, 27 May 2012, Warren Block wrote: There can be a tremendous investment of time in using software, whether free or not. Money too, often. Those who work to write, port, and support free software also spend a tremendous amount of time in doing that. Money too, often. So both parties have a large investment, and it's easy but counterproductive to get emotional about it. Take a deep breath, be polite, and try to appreciate the other guy's problems. Otherwise it just ends up creating more problems, and there are already enough. Warren makes a great point. In years past Greg Lehey used to post, How to ask a question, or something similar. Its worth resurrecting that. As I recall, the major points were: Nobody here is getting paid to do this; there are a great number of people with a wealth of information willing to help; and, its up to the one asking the question to do it in such a way as to peak someones interest. From an earlier post: On 05/26/2012 05:40 PM, Franci Nabalanci wrote: I did use portmaster for KDE 4.8 update and it stopped: The devel/kdebindings4-python port has been deleted: kdebindings ports have been refactored. Update aborted. And I don't know how to save a problem. If it is repeatable, re-do the operation with: script error.log the-original-command I use [and love] FreeBSD as a workstation because: I get better performance with hardware that I would otherwise throw away. I am sure of this because no charity will take anything I am done with. I assume all on this list use FreeBSD for similar or their own reasons. Hence the 'captain obvious statement', the FreeBSD sucks threads tend to degrade in direct proportion to their length. When things go wrong with upgrading a workstation port tree they can [often??] go really badly. A couple of tools and/or techniques can help: pkg_cleanup, pkg_tree, the pkg port to revert a port to a previous level. Check out anything named pkg_ in the port collection. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [ports] why no libXXX after make install of libXXX?
On 26 May 2012 19:17, Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org wrote: On 05/26/12 14:03, Gary Aitken wrote: I'm trying to install audacious, which depends on libmowgli. The port fails to build because of a missing library. Shouldn't the build of a library result in the library being placed in /usr/local/lib? I notice that /var/db/pkg/libmowgli-1.0.0/+CONTENTS and similar files for a few other packages shows files which don't exist: @comment PKG_FORMAT_REVISION:1.1 @name libmowgli-1.0.0 @comment ORIGIN:devel/libmowgli @cwd /usr/local ... lib/libmowgli.so lib/libmowgli.so.2 lib/libmowgli.so.2.0.0 I think this is a screwed up situation; there are no libmowgli files in /usr/local/lib What's the best way to recover from it if so? Well, running it here installs the expected files: ~ ls -l /local/lib | grep mowg lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel18 May 27 16:11 libmowgli.so - libmowgli.so.2.0.0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel18 May 27 16:11 libmowgli.so.2 - libmowgli.so.2.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 84442 May 27 16:11 libmowgli.so.2.0.0 I would try running make deinstall reinstall from the port directory working from there. Later: I deinstalled it, the next time I ran make install from the port directory it claimed to install libmowgli, but installed nothing. make deinstall reinstall however worked. I have no idea why it did this. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cloud software ?
Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access and share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories ) NFS + AMD The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible. Aim for device drivers servers that can interact as client server pairs over tcp/ip, Examples: /usr/ports/graphics/xsane http://www.xsane.org/ /usr/ports/sysutils/nut http://www.networkupstools.org/ X windows split screens client proceses. try to avoid neeeding to have to run specific programs only on the host connected to the device. Am I clear enough ? ( sorry English is not my native language ...) Non native English is not the cause of misunderstanding :-) Misunderstanding comes from expecting technolgists to derive much if anything from the Marketer/ Salesman / Manager promoted phrase Cloud Computing, which I've found so far carries nothing new, for those who've already been working in distributed Unix environments. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, indent with . Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
[ports] Need help for port which claims to install but doesn't; package installs ok
First, my apologies for previous posts which hijacked an existing thread. I thought changing the subject line was ok and had forgotten about in-reply-to. So my apologies for a repost; I've gotten no replies and am not sure others actually saw / processed it or just ignored because of the bad etiquette. As my mother told me, I'll never get to eat with the Queen. Trying to be a good citizen, not always succeeding... I'm having trouble installing some ports, notably devel/libmowgli multimedia/libdvdcss Running on a 4 processor amd64 with 16GB make -v install claims to install, but none of the files which should have been installed are actually there. I've done: portsnap fetch portsnap update pkgdb -F portupgrade -irRv libmowgli ** None has been installed or upgraded. cd devel/libmowgli make distclean make clean make -v install At this point /usr/local/include/libmowgli should exist and contain a bunch of .h files; but the dir doesn't even exist /usr/local/lib should contain a number of libmowgli.* files; but there are none Deinstalling shows the above headers and libs are not there as expected: pkg_deinstall -v libmowgli-1.0.0 --- Deinstalling 'libmowgli-1.0.0' Change working directory to /usr/local Delete file /usr/local/include/libmowgli/mowgli.h pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/include/libmowgli/mowgli.h' doesn't exist ... Delete file /usr/local/lib/libmowgli.so pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/lib/libmowgli.so' doesn't exist ... Delete directory /usr/local/include/libmowgli pkg_delete: file '/usr/local/include/libmowgli' doesn't exist pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/local/include/libmowgli' Execute '/sbin/ldconfig -R' pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package `libmowgli-1.0.0' (perhaps the packing list is incorrectly specified?) [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 571 packages found (-1 +0) (...) done] --- Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) + libmowgli-1.0.0 --- Packages processed: 1 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 0 failed Assuming everything is clean at this point, doing: make distclean make clean make -v install still ends up with empty directories. Portions of the output from make -v install which fails: === License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE = libmowgli-1.0.0.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. = Attempting to fetch http://distfiles.atheme.org/libmowgli-1.0.0.tar.bz2 libmowgli-1.0.0.tar.bz2 100% of 103 kB 129 kBps === Extracting for libmowgli-1.0.0 = SHA256 Checksum OK for libmowgli-1.0.0.tar.bz2. === Patching for libmowgli-1.0.0 === libmowgli-1.0.0 depends on executable: gmake - found === Configuring for libmowgli-1.0.0 ... === Building for libmowgli-1.0.0 ... === Installing for libmowgli-1.0.0 === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if devel/libmowgli already installed ... === Running ldconfig /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib === Registering installation for libmowgli-1.0.0 Downloading the tarball and using pkg_add works, at least for libmowgli. However, there is no package for libdvdcss for amd64 at ftp.freebsd.org, so I need this to work. Any hints on what might be wrong, or how to get some expanded output from the port install process, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: portupgrade ... doesn't
On 25 May 2012 12:10, Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org wrote: Has to be something stupid: 347 /usr/ports#pkg_version -v | grep updating p5-XML-Twig-3.39 needs updating (port has 3.40) 348 /usr/ports#portupgrade -Rv P5-XML-Twig --- Session started at: Fri, 25 May 2012 10:03:54 -0600 [Exclude up-to-date packages done] ** None has been installed or upgraded. --- Session ended at: Fri, 25 May 2012 10:03:54 -0600 (consumed 00:00:00) 350 /usr/ports#pkg_info | grep p5-XML-Twig p5-XML-Twig-3.39 Process huge XML documents by chunks via a tree interface hints? Do pkg_version -vl pkg_version -vIl give different results? (note that's an uppercase i followed by a lowercase L in case your screen font makes it hard to tell) I believe portupgrade uses the INDEX-* files to determine, whereas pkg_version uses the /usr/ports/*/*/distinfo file (unless -I is provided). -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
starting xfce4 reboots machine
Hi, I've been running FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT for some months, last time i rebuilt the system was April 20th. I've rebooted my machine many times and started X and Xfce4 without any trouble, however today I'm out of town on the road and when I startx my machine reboots. If I log in as root and startx i can run xorg without xfce4. but if i try startxfce4 the machine reboots. If I try to startx without xfce4 from my non-root account it locks up. It's pretty quick and nothing I can see in the logs... Anyone have any ideas about troubleshooting??? It seems like it's out of the blue with no changes to the system that I recall. :) Thanks Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
reset xfce settings to originals
Dear folks, on two of three machines I have successfully updated and removed the packages that I should have removed and rebuilt xfce 4.10 on FreeBSD. However, the bottom panel shows no icons. The top panel the logout button shows no icon either. Several entries show no icons as well. How can I reset Xfce like if it was new to pristine/default settings? In old times I would probably remove in user/home directory the .xfce4 directory or similar. Advice/comments/suggestions are greatly appreciated. Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
font sizes in xfce 4.10
Dear folks, I forgot to ask in same thread. Apologize in advance :( The font sizes have changed giving very tiny size, it was not like in 4.8.3 XFCE. Will resetting xfce to pristine state(default) restore these? or do I have to figure out another way to fix this? Thanks Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: font sizes in xfce 4.10
On Sun, 27 May 2012 22:20:43 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear folks, I forgot to ask in same thread. Apologize in advance :( The font sizes have changed giving very tiny size, it was not like in 4.8.3 XFCE. Will resetting xfce to pristine state(default) restore these? or do I have to figure out another way to fix this? Depends. If you remove the user's ~/-xfce4 setting directory, they should go back to the defaults. But what are the defaults? Maybe those are already too small. As Xfce 4 is a Gtk+ application, you can try a general override of fonts with a ~/.gtkrc-2.0, containing gtk-font-name=Tahoma 12 as an example to override. You can also change your display's DPI (depending on if you're using a CRT or LCD) in X's configuration file. I'd say the best way is to load Xfce 4 with its defaults, then alter them using its configuration tools, which will result in a different user configuration in the ~/.xfce4 directory. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: font sizes in xfce 4.10
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2012 22:20:43 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear folks, I forgot to ask in same thread. Apologize in advance :( The font sizes have changed giving very tiny size, it was not like in 4.8.3 XFCE. Will resetting xfce to pristine state(default) restore these? or do I have to figure out another way to fix this? Depends. If you remove the user's ~/-xfce4 setting directory, they should go back to the defaults. But what are the defaults? Maybe those are already too small. As Xfce 4 is a Gtk+ application, you can try a general override of fonts with a ~/.gtkrc-2.0, containing gtk-font-name=Tahoma 12 as an example to override. You can also change your display's DPI (depending on if you're using a CRT or LCD) in X's configuration file. I'd say the best way is to load Xfce 4 with its defaults, then alter them using its configuration tools, which will result in a different user configuration in the ~/.xfce4 directory. -- I copied the username/.config directory to another folder and nuked it. Then I see the pristine settings. They are almost the same with the exception of the clock moved to the side like it had been before but was moved. The fonts are the same :(, tiny. If I change the size it is not noticed. The bottom panel has no icons except for two folders on both ends and the application finder. I guess I will have to change that behavior manually. I will see where I can adjust the sizes of the fonts since they don't appear to be in a folder. Thanks for helping out. Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: font sizes in xfce 4.10
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2012 22:20:43 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear folks, I forgot to ask in same thread. Apologize in advance :( The font sizes have changed giving very tiny size, it was not like in 4.8.3 XFCE. Will resetting xfce to pristine state(default) restore these? or do I have to figure out another way to fix this? Depends. If you remove the user's ~/-xfce4 setting directory, they should go back to the defaults. But what are the defaults? Maybe those are already too small. As Xfce 4 is a Gtk+ application, you can try a general override of fonts with a ~/.gtkrc-2.0, containing gtk-font-name=Tahoma 12 as an example to override. You can also change your display's DPI (depending on if you're using a CRT or LCD) in X's configuration file. I'd say the best way is to load Xfce 4 with its defaults, then alter them using its configuration tools, which will result in a different user configuration in the ~/.xfce4 directory. -- I copied the username/.config directory to another folder and nuked it. Then I see the pristine settings. They are almost the same with the exception of the clock moved to the side like it had been before but was moved. The fonts are the same :(, tiny. If I change the size it is not noticed. The bottom panel has no icons except for two folders on both ends and the application finder. I guess I will have to change that behavior manually. I will see where I can adjust the sizes of the fonts since they don't appear to be in a folder. Thanks for helping out. Regards, Antonio I believe that I have found a way to fix the issue. The problem was the DPI, the fonts are the same size. Now everything seems to be normal :) I vistited the online tour http://www.xfce.org/about/tour Then clicked on the application finder, appearance, then clicked on DPI and raised the number to 96 did not see what it was though. Thanks Polytropon for your valuable help and suggestions. Regards, Antonio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: font sizes in xfce 4.10
On Sun, 27 May 2012 23:53:03 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: I believe that I have found a way to fix the issue. The problem was the DPI, the fonts are the same size. Now everything seems to be normal :) I vistited the online tour http://www.xfce.org/about/tour Then clicked on the application finder, appearance, then clicked on DPI and raised the number to 96 did not see what it was though. Thanks Polytropon for your valuable help and suggestions. I actually had a similar problem with the fonts in many Gtk and Gtk+ applications, so I changed the DPI value for the whole X system by defining Option DPI 96 x 96 in Section Device for your graphics card. You can also let X determine the DPI value automatically by entering DisplaySize 410 305 in Section Monitor for your monitor; units are in mm. To try which resolution fits best, you can use the followng commands: % xinit -- -dpi 72 % xinit -- -dpi 75 % xinit -- -dpi 96 % xinit -- -dpi 100 % xinit -- -dpi 115 If you're using a LCD panel, it should be obvious and match the real hardware parameters. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
