Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 14:22:24 -0400 Simon Gomizelj via arch-general wrote: > But we do have to make it clear that we won't **officially** support > anything installed outside of the officially sanctions instructions. I > don't see that as unreasonable. I have to agree.

Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:00:53 +1200 Jason Ryan via arch-general wrote: > Then we are in agreement; the goal is to provide people with what they > need and to encourage them to explore in more depth, or for edge > cases, the official documentation. Then I think I

Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 18:16:27 +1200 Jason Ryan via arch-general wrote: > Arch has from the start been clear about its goals and intentions. > I'll quote from a section of the wiki that people seem much less > familiar with: > > ”Whereas many GNU/Linux distributions

Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 04:55:19 + Sajjad Heydari via arch-general wrote: > It has been merged with the installation guide. > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 9:23 AM David C. Rankin < > drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > > > Archdevs, > > > > I went to review the

Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 12:58:23 +1200 Jason Ryan via arch-general wrote: > On 21/09/16 at 08:36pm, Dave via arch-general wrote: > >see below > > > >On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Francis Gerund via arch-general < > >arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > > >> I

Re: [arch-general] efivars mounted read-write, but "operation not permitted, "

On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 13:03:41 -0700 Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi All, > > This is admittedly more about Linux in general than Arch > specifically, but I’m wondering if anybody has insight into why I > can’t delete EFI variables, when efivarfs is mounted read-write. For > anybody

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 21:51:17 +0200 Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote: > As pointed out on arch-general (not by me) this makes the whole > signoff process useless. Maybe we should look into finding some > people

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I am replying to arch-general because arch-dev-public is closed to most users. On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 08:09:41 -1000 Gaetan Bisson wrote: > Dear all, > > For a while now packages in [testing] have gotten little to no > signoffs

Re: [arch-general] Where did the touch pad tapping go?

Javier Vasquez via arch-general wrote: > I think Xorg now uses libinput as default as opposed to prior > versions. I have been using libinput any ways since it was made > available, so the transition didn't affect me, and besides I'm OK with > the tapping offered by libinput. Actually I removed

Re: [arch-general] gnome-keyring madness

Jérôme M. Berger wrote: > On 06/14/2016 02:21 PM, Kyle Terrien via arch-general wrote: >> Thanks, but I tried that weeks ago. It is not the autostart feature of >> the desktop environment that is starting gnome-keyring. From what I can >> figure out, it is lightdm that is s

Re: [arch-general] gnome-keyring madness

Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Take a look at > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html > , > it should be your desktop environment that is auto starting. Thanks, but I tried that weeks ago. It is not the autostart feature of the desktop environment that is

[arch-general] gnome-keyring madness

Seahorse 3.20.0-2 has a new hard dependency on gnome-keyring. Should gnome-keyring instead be an optional dependency? Seahorse can cope without gnome-keyring (although with warnings about not being able to talk to gnome-keyring). And for some reason, lightdm likes to launch gnome-keyring