Re: [arch-general] Firefox graphics licensed under MPL

2010-05-03 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Am oder ungefähr am Montag, 03. Mai 2010, 09:02:50 schrieb Allan McRae: Search for a script called firebrand. Problem solved. There is also firefox-branded on the AUR. Ed Allan signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] package manager overlay script

2010-04-15 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Am oder ungefähr am Donnerstag, 15. April 2010, schrieb Robert Howard: PackageKit This reminds me: Can PackageKit actually handle pacman? I have used PackageKit in the past with (K)ubuntu and when switching to arch (and the command line) I thought about trying PackageKit again but was not sure

Re: [arch-general] New Using AUR

2010-03-24 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Am oder ungefähr am Mittwoch, 24. März 2010, schrieb Carlos Mennens: I had two questions about using the AUR. I have never done it before and read of the How-To on the Wiki but could someone please answer the following two questions I have: Hi Carlos! 1. If I build a tarball on 'PC1'

Re: [arch-general] [OT] New Using AUR

2010-03-24 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Nobody wants to say how this works. Maybe nobody knows ... Xorg.conf(5) This is a really great quote! A friend and me laughted our asses off just now when we found that this is really included in `man xorg.conf`! :D This is why I like Linux so much! This would not

Re: [arch-general] pdftk - almost build but died - need hel p figuring out if I can find a work-around

2010-03-17 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Am oder ungefähr am Montag, 15. März 2010, schrieb David C. Rankin: On 03/15/2010 01:06 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 03/14/2010 10:37 AM, Edgar Kalkowski wrote: Am oder ungefähr am Freitag, 12. März 2010, schrieb David C. Rankin: Guys, I need pdftk for a script I use that does fax

Re: [arch-general] pdftk - almost build but died - need help figuring out if I can find a work-around

2010-03-14 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Am oder ungefähr am Freitag, 12. März 2010, schrieb David C. Rankin: Guys, I need pdftk for a script I use that does fax processing. I ran into this problem 6-7 months ago, but still had another server with pdftk on it so it wasn't critical. Now, I need to solve it. Hi David! I

Re: [arch-general] Hacking into HAL's mount process

2010-03-14 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Am oder ungefähr am Sonntag, 14. März 2010, schrieb Nilesh Govindarajan: On 03/14/2010 08:50 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 07:51:28PM +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Just put the device in /etc/fstab with whatever options you want, (u)mount it manually and

Re: [arch-general] Hacking into HAL's mount process

2010-03-14 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Am oder ungefähr am Sonntag, 14. März 2010, schrieb f...@kokkinizita.net: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 05:02:47PM +0100, Edgar Kalkowski wrote: In this case you can either use labels or uuids to identify them in /etc/fstab, e.g. /dev/disk/by-label/Data /mnt/Data vfat uid=root,gid=users

Re: [arch-general] Bluetooth headphone

2010-01-28 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Am oder ungefähr am Dienstag, 26. Januar 2010, schrieb Ray Rashif: 2010/1/26 Manne Merak manneme...@gmail.com: Thus you can use BT headset with applications which support the output configuration to specific alsa device (specified in ~/.asoundrc) [b]. If your application does not allow this

Re: [arch-general] KDE 4.3 no power functions ?

2010-01-28 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Am oder ungefähr am Mittwoch, 27. Januar 2010, 17:22:24 schrieb Nilesh Govindarajan: Thanks all. Using KDM (inittab, previously GDM) fixed the power problem. Okay is it possible to apply GTK themes to KDE ? I think no cause KDE uses QT. There are several little programs that can do this. I

Re: [arch-general] Bluetooth headphone

2010-01-28 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Am oder ungefähr am Donnerstag, 28. Januar 2010, schrieb Jonathan D. Arnold / Daemon Dancing: On 01/28/10 03:43, Edgar Kalkowski wrote: I don’t really understand why you need to use pulseaudio for this purpose (as some people in this thread mentioned). I had a similar issue

Re: [arch-general] dark themes (was 2 Killer kde4 dark themes - DR you listening??) [Part Solved]

2010-01-20 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Am oder ungefähr am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010, schrieb David C. Rankin: On 01/19/2010 01:37 PM, Arvid Picciani wrote: I stumbled into a part solution to the problem for firefox and other mozilla apps. Basically there is a new type of skin you can use called user space skins that use the

Re: [arch-general] Segmentation fault in X after last upgrade

2009-11-03 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Magnus Therning schrob: Anyone else seeing something the same behaviour? Not the exact same thing here but since the latest upgrade to X.org 1.7.1 and Nvidia 190.42 two days ago my X already crashed twice with no errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log except the following backtrace (with segfault):

Re: [arch-general] How to specify configure options with makepkg

2009-09-10 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Look for the build() function in the PKBUILD file of psychosynth. Within this function there should be the line that calls the configure script. So you can add your options there. Edgar Am oder ungefähr am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009, um 12:25:22 schrieb Nigel Henry: I'm trying to

Re: [arch-general] Painful installation of 4.3 - some general advice needed.

2009-08-17 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Am oder ungefähr am Montag, 17. August 2009, um 09:48:37 schrieb Shridhar Daithankar: 2) Dolphin - I really liked konqueror - can one still install this as a file browser. I note there is a kdebase-konqueror package, using this multiple 'file exists in the filesystem' messages I

Re: [arch-general] Add phonon-xine to KDE deps?

2009-08-10 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
AFAIK there are several issues with KDE’s default phonon gstreamer-backend. For example I had no sound in Amarok until I switched to the xine backend. Perhaps this could be mentioned in an .install message or something? Edgar Am oder ungefähr am Montag, 10. August 2009, um 20:19:24 schrieb

[arch-general] kscreensaver + electricsheep

2009-08-10 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Hi, I have used electricsheep with kscreensaver for some time now but recently (after upgrade to 4.3) I changed to a different one for a change and wanted to go back to electricsheep today. But I see that it is missing in systemsettings. I checked and the file

Re: [arch-general] KDE4.3 upgrade

2009-08-06 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
As for the Amarok/MP3 thing: I had the same/a similar issue when upgrading to KDE 4.3. It seems in 4.3 the default phonon backend is gstreamer which is known to have issues. Try installing phonon-xine from extra and selecting xine as backind in systemsettings/multimedia. This did the trick for

Re: [arch-general] Xorg broken after last update

2009-08-01 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Hi, I somewhere read something about the latest nvidia driver being broken for notebook chips. I’m not sure if this is correct or was just an issue with the beta drivers but especially as you mention that it worked again after changing to vesa drivers I thought this might be the case here.

Re: [arch-general] Xorg broken after last update

2009-08-01 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Am oder ungefähr am Sonntag, 02. August 2009, um 02:02:21 schrieb Dan Vratil: I somewhere read something about the latest nvidia driver being broken for notebook chips. I’m not sure if this is correct or was just an issue with the beta drivers but especially as you mention that it worked

[arch-general] Emacs 23 window resize on startup

2009-07-30 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Hello list! I know this is not an Arch specific question but I thought maybe something similar occurred to someone here and he knows a solution. I just updated to Emacs 23 which has new fancy font code with antialiasing etc. However the default font of 12pt is way too big for my taste. So I

Re: [arch-general] Emacs 23 window resize on startup

2009-07-30 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Hi Christian! Thank you for this tip but I’m afraid it does not work for me. I executed the commands you suggested and they worked without printing any error (at first they did because of a typo of mine). The result is that my Emacs window now starts up quite small in the middle of the screen

Re: [arch-general] Cisco VPN config

2009-07-27 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Hi! I don’t want to get your hopes down, but we used to have Cisco’s vpnclient at our university. I tried it eventually and got it to compile even under x84_64 but it would only run for some minutes or so and then kernel panic! What helped were -- I think -- patches from www.tuxx-home.at and I

Re: [arch-general] Are base packages assumed?

2009-07-09 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Off topic: The ~2 G size of the installed packages pacman shows is complete size of all updated packages not the difference between the currently installed size and the size after the upgrade, right? So the complete upgrade might have worked for you. Sorry to interrupt the thread. ;) Edgar

Re: [arch-general] 2 annoying bugs in kde

2009-07-02 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
dinsdag 30 juni 2009 17:50:21 schreef Edgar Kalkowski: Hi Edgar, I am using current KDE 4.2.4 from core and am experiencing these two little things that are not really disturbing but rather annoying: 1) Every time I quit okular it crashes and shows a crash message. A quick search

[arch-general] 2 annoying bugs in kde

2009-06-30 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Hi list! I am using current KDE 4.2.4 from core and am experiencing these two little things that are not really disturbing but rather annoying: 1) Every time I quit okular it crashes and shows a crash message. A quick search of the web brought up that this was “a minor regression in kdelibs“

Re: [arch-general] kde43 - Quanta+ Is kdemod3-webdev-quanta it?

2009-06-19 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
You should be able to uninstall kdemod3 and install the quanta package which will depend on some kde3 libs that will be reinstalled. But you certainly do not need a whole kdemod3 install just to use quanta. Ed Am oder ungefähr am Donnerstag, 18. Juni 2009 um 18:05:57 schrieb David C. Rankin:

[arch-general] Strange wpa_supplicant error

2009-05-10 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Hello Arch! I’m connecting to my WPA2 encrypted wireless network via wpa_supplicant. The configuration in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf looks like this: network={ ssid=Hochst van Vaarenhochst key_mgmt=WPA-PSK proto=WPA pairwise=TKIP group=TKIP

Re: [arch-general] default ~/.config/compiz/compizconfig prevents compiz start with radeonhd

2009-05-09 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Hi! I think this remaining issue is because root is not normally allowed to connect to the X server. After issuing an „xhost +local:“ (the colon is essential) all connections from localhost should be allowed and thus it should work. Ed On Samstag, 09. Mai 2009, 10:09:37 David C. Rankin,

Re: [arch-general] Anyone building pdftk for Archlinux?

2009-04-22 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Or you install yaourt (via makepkg) which can transparently install from aur, too. On Mittwoch, 22. April 2009, 13:59:45 Andrei Thorp wrote: Basically, you click download Tarball, unpack the tarball, cd into the directory and do makepkg -s This will download the sources, build the

Re: [arch-general] HAL mount options

2009-04-01 Thread Edgar Kalkowski
Thanks for your reply! I already read through the wiki articles but exactly what I'm trying to achieve is not really mentioned. I tried to adapt one of the given solutions as described in my former post but that did not work as expected. Google also seems not to know any answer to this