[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

2017-06-16 Thread Grant Edwards
verything underneath it the exact same way I would if it were a USB-storage device. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Gee, I feel kind of at LIGHT in the head now,

[gentoo-user] Memory/CPU usage in recent versions of Firefox

2017-06-14 Thread Grant Edwards
r is it finally time to give up on Firefox? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Are you still an at ALCOHOLIC? gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Wow, the GTK3 file browser is awful!

2017-05-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-05-22, Mick wrote: > On Monday 22 May 2017 18:33:47 Grant Edwards wrote: >> Having just recently allowed Firefox to upgrade from 45 to 52, I'm now >> hobbled with the GTK3 file browser dialog. >> >> It's horrible. >> >> First of all,

[gentoo-user] Wow, the GTK3 file browser is awful!

2017-05-22 Thread Grant Edwards
x27;ve discovered that hitting Ctrl-L makes it minimally functional, and I can at least enter a path again. I shall probably die still longing for the days of GTK2... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I had pancake makeup

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin 52.1.0 stopped using selected keybindings

2017-05-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-05-19, Grant Edwards wrote: > The latetest firefox-bin 52.1.0 seems to no longer obey gtk's assigned > keybindings. I use emacs keybindings, and all other gtk apps still > seem to work fine. > > Can anybody provide any hint as to how you set the keybindings in >

[gentoo-user] firefox-bin 52.1.0 stopped using selected keybindings

2017-05-19 Thread Grant Edwards
The latetest firefox-bin 52.1.0 seems to no longer obey gtk's assigned keybindings. I use emacs keybindings, and all other gtk apps still seem to work fine. Can anybody provide any hint as to how you set the keybindings in firefox-bin 52.1.0? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.ed

[gentoo-user] Re: nfs-utils update fails to compile: missing rpc/auth_gss.h

2017-05-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-05-15, Grant Edwards wrote: > During a routine update, emerge failed to compile nfs-utils: > > [...] > > context.c:40:26: fatal error: rpc/auth_gss.h: No such file or directory >#include And of course immediatly after posting this, I _did_ find it in

[gentoo-user] nfs-utils update fails to compile: missing rpc/auth_gss.h

2017-05-15 Thread Grant Edwards
d anything that looks relevent other than a Sabayon user posting on a Gentoo list/forum many years ago about the exact same error message. He was told to go away. Where is rpc/auth_gss.h supposed to come from, and why does the nfs-utils ebuild suddenly expect it to be present? -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-10 Thread Grant Edwards
;ve been unable to read anything at all without the > eye of an editor - it's ruined my enjoyment of everything I > read. There's no hope any longer.) And that's your excuse for being rude and bitching out somebody for minor grammar mistakes in work they're doing

[gentoo-user] Re: htop wants cgroups

2017-05-08 Thread Grant Edwards
Hey, this is _very_ different to have some extra stuff off and > to have core stuff with "unexpected problems". I agree. If cgroups is disabled in the kernel, then a tool omitting features to support cgroups is _not_ an "unexpected problem". -- Grant Edw

[gentoo-user] Re: In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

2017-04-27 Thread Grant Edwards
oes_ in an ANSI terminal emulator. The ANSI escape sequences only allow for 16 colors. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'd like MY data-base at JULIENNED and stir-fried! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ftp?

2017-04-27 Thread Grant Edwards
array. The really convenient thing about it is that backup is simply a set of directory trees that you can peruse at any time to verify that backups are occuring or to look at old versions of files. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC 5.4.0

2017-04-24 Thread Grant Edwards
;s emerged okay. In my experience, internal GCC errors that show up intermittently and/or only under heavly load usually means failing RAM (or more rarely, some other hardware problem: something bad on the PCI bus, failing swap parition, etc.). I'd run memtest86 overnight,

[gentoo-user] Pay attention to what 'emerge' tells you.

2017-04-19 Thread Grant Edwards
hatever apps I had uninstalled. Now update the next machine... same conflicts. This time I paid closer attention to the emerge output and added '--backtrack=30' as it suggested. Then the update worked ran no problem. -- Grant Edwards grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Sizing up power supplies [was: switching adapter - power supply]

2017-03-20 Thread Grant Edwards
mption numbers, but for other components it's hopeless. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! This PIZZA symbolizes at my COMPLETE EMOTIONAL gmail.comRECOVERY!!

[gentoo-user] Re: Flashing hardware via WINE ?

2017-03-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-19, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > yes...no chance. > Linux is insecure...you know. > It makes it possible to spy the firmware and decrypt it on > the way to the charger. > > Windows is much more secure. Wow. It's actually much easier to grab serial data on Windows (using sysinternals 'por

[gentoo-user] Re: Wiping the old root without killing the new root

2017-03-17 Thread Grant Edwards
If you just want an empty filesystem then just run 'mkfs -t' on the partition. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Uh-oh!! I forgot at to submit to COMPULSORY gmail.comURINALYSIS!

[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

2017-03-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-15, Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:41:41 + (UTC) > schrieb Grant Edwards : > >> On 2017-03-15, Kai Krakow wrote: >> >> > Especially people coming from Windows or DOS have problems with this >> > feature. In the MS world, gl

[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

2017-03-15 Thread Grant Edwards
x27;re running. That's true with the command.com and cmd.exe shells. It's not true with some others. When back when I ran DOS (and when I run Windows), the globbing is done by the shell: the way god intended. ;) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get rid of binutils 'preserved libs' warning

2017-03-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-14, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 14/03/2017 17:45, Grant Edwards wrote: >> After I do an update, I get this message: >> >> !!! existing preserved libs: >> >>> package: sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.27 >>* - /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so &g

[gentoo-user] Can't get rid of binutils 'preserved libs' warning

2017-03-14 Thread Grant Edwards
the same preserved-libs warning. Portage seems upset tht binutils-2.25.1 is using binutils-libs-2.25.1 instead of binutils-libs-2.27, but re-emerging binutils-2.25.1 doesn't help. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Is it 1974? What's

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-07, Marc Joliet wrote: > On Dienstag, 7. M�rz 2017 15:19:33 CET Grant Edwards wrote: >> No, as a rule I run stable gentoo-sources, and that's at 4.9.6-r1. > > Ah, of course. I'm using ~arch kernels ATM. (As a btrfs user I was tracking > the most recent

[gentoo-user] Duplicate rows in "Availble Version" tables at packages.gentoo.org

2017-03-07 Thread Grant Edwards
a64. The other is all yellow except for amd64. I don't remember seeing this sort of thing in the past, but I won't swear that it's a new thing either. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! ... I don't like FRANK at

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-07 Thread Grant Edwards
rule I run stable gentoo-sources, and that's at 4.9.6-r1. However, I'm a bit confused about the table shown at https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources There are two rows for some versions (e.g. 4.9.6-r1), with different indicators. What does

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-03, Grant Edwards wrote: > For the past 10-15 [years], I've been mounting a handfull of > directories that reside on a Windows server, and it's always worked > find. > > About a week ago, they started acting oddly. They all mount fine, and > work as usu

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-06, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On March 6, 2017 5:14:39 PM GMT+01:00, Grant Edwards > wrote: >>On 2017-03-06, Kai Krakow wrote: >> >>>> I'm going to try to set up a Wireshark capture in ring-buffer mode >>and >>>> somehow detect the

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-06 Thread Grant Edwards
They never get answered, and it just causes problems when it is revealed that the client having problems is a Linux machine. > Maybe force Windows down to a lower SMB version or reduce/disable > SMB client side caching? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edw

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-04, Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Sat, 04 Mar 2017 08:02:11 + schrieb "J. Roeleveld" > : > >> >> >Normally, when things are working but idle, the TCP connection to 445 >> >shows an SMB echo request/rseponse transaction once per minute. When >> >it fails, the TCP connection evidently got

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-03, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On March 3, 2017 7:49:27 PM GMT+01:00, Grant Edwards > wrote: >>About a week ago, they started acting oddly. They all mount fine, and >>work as usual as long as you keep using them. AFAICT, if they sit >>idle for "a while&quo

[gentoo-user] CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-03 Thread Grant Edwards
/etc/fstab: \\winhost\projects /winhost/projects cifs netbiosname=,workgroup=,username=,password=,uid=,gid=users,noserverino,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,noauto 0 0 is the username (same on Gentoo and Windows) is the Windows workgroup name is the Windows server password for Any ideas? -- Grant E

[gentoo-user] Re: Binary package server questions

2017-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-02-22, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 03:39:36PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote > >> I wasn't proposing that you could easily build 32-bit packages in a >> 64-bit root (though in theory I think you could). What I was >> questioning was the assertion

[gentoo-user] Re: Binary package server questions

2017-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-02-21, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:50:41PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote >> On 2017-02-21, Mick wrote: > >> > You'll need to run in 32bit mode when chrooting of course: >> >> Why? >> >> Is this some odd restriction in p

[gentoo-user] Re: Binary package server questions

2017-02-21 Thread Grant Edwards
a low memory 486 system in the same way. > > You'll need to run in 32bit mode when chrooting of course: Why? Is this some odd restriction in portage? All of the normal development tools are quite capable of buildign 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit host runni

[gentoo-user] Is this a dependency bug?

2017-02-20 Thread Grant Edwards
http://cairosvg.org/ Description: A simple cairo based SVG converter with support for PDF, PostScript and PNG formats License: LGPL-3 Is this a dependency bug in the weasyprint ebuild? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! NANCY!! Why is

[gentoo-user] Re: How to dump kde gracefully in favor of lxde

2017-02-20 Thread Grant Edwards
systems is uninstall NetworkManager. > Yes! Madness. What's wrong with good ol' wpa_supplicant and its GUI? Which is spelled "emacs /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! My haircut is totally

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get Emacs key bindings in Firefox?

2017-02-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-02-19, Grant Edwards wrote: > I _used_ to have emacs key-bindings in Firefox, but for some reason > that stopped working and now I have Windows key bindings. It _may_ > have happened when I switched from XFCE to Openbox. > > After Googling a while, I've tried: >

[gentoo-user] How to get Emacs key bindings in Firefox?

2017-02-19 Thread Grant Edwards
I _used_ to have emacs key-bindings in Firefox, but for some reason that stopped working and now I have Windows key bindings. It _may_ have happened when I switched from XFCE to Openbox. After Googling a while, I've tried: $ dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/interface/gtk-key-theme "'Emacs'" $ g

[gentoo-user] Re: retext, PyQt, QtPrintSupport, and QObject

2017-02-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-02-08, Grant Edwards wrote: > I usually try to avoid Qt apps, but I needed a way to preview markdown > text. One option was pandoc, but it needed to install 100+ packages > as dependancies. Another option was retext, which only required a few > new packages. > > So

[gentoo-user] retext, PyQt, QtPrintSupport, and QObject

2017-02-08 Thread Grant Edwards
lot_ of things). [Perhaps this is more of a Python question than a Gentoo question?] -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I just went below the at poverty line! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: SOT (Slightlt OffTopic): Scriptable Documentation system (HTML/PDF) ?

2017-02-07 Thread Grant Edwards
;t know > much more about it. That's texinfo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texinfo I've never really used it much. It doesn't seem to be widely used outside of the Gnu project itself. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! An air of FRENCH FRIES at permeates my nostrils!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: SOT (Slightlt OffTopic): Scriptable Documentation system (HTML/PDF) ?

2017-02-07 Thread Grant Edwards
;s still nothing that beats (or even comes close to) TeX/LaTeX. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I feel better about at world problems now! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: How often do you reboot?

2017-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-01-30, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 30/01/2017 23:46, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I've got a couple Gentoo machines that normally run 24/7. I've >> learned over the years that it's a good idea to reboot them >> occasionally (when I have some spare time and

[gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

2017-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
power fails, or I type "reboot" into the wrong xterm, or whatever. Or maybe those things don't happen to other people... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! GOOD-NIGHT, everybody at ... Now I have to go

[gentoo-user] Re: upgrading 1-year old system

2017-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
0 ("sys-boot/grub:0" is blocking > sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta3-r1) You probably need to set the 'multislot' use flag for grub. > dev-lang/perl:0 > x11-base/xorg-server:0 > media-libs/giflib:0 > media-libs/libdvbpsi:0 > dev-libs/kpathsea:0 For

[gentoo-user] Re: upgrading 1-year old system

2017-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
non-essential that's causing problems. It's often a _lot_ simpler/faster to uninstall a bunch of stuff, get the base system upgrade done, and then re-install things. [Keep a list of what you've uninstalled.] -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! ONE LIFE TO LIVE

[gentoo-user] Re: from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

2016-12-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-12-17, Alan McKinnon wrote: > But the VMS I like most are the FreeBSD ones; they run good > old-fashioned rc. It's been a while since I ran VMS, but it had little very resemblance to FreeBSD[1] and the init system was nothing like it the BSD one. :) [1] Unless you installed DECShell, a

[gentoo-user] Re: Brother Printer

2016-12-12 Thread Grant Edwards
e going from nomultilib to multilib is not officially supported. About a year ago, I did some reading on that topic and found an unofficial step-by-step guide on how to do it. After reading through the procedure it a couple times, I decided that backing up my /home partition and

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to find which driver I can use with a ATI v9800 fireball

2016-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-12-10, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > step 1: google: radeon gentoo wiki > step 2: read > step 3: follow instructions You forgot: step 4: give up and buy an nvidia card. ;) I've always had consistently bad luck with radeon under Linux. The last time I tried, the open-source driver kep

[gentoo-user] Re: Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-12-10, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 07:41:51PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I think he meant that from a "desktop productivity" standpoint, the >> two are the same: you have to close every single program you are using >> and then

[gentoo-user] Re: Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-09 Thread Grant Edwards
valent to a reboot on my desktop. > If I shut down X11, my uptime still keeps accumulating. I think he meant that from a "desktop productivity" standpoint, the two are the same: you have to close every single program you are using and then start over. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-07 Thread Grant Edwards
an upgrade takes a bit of planning and orginization. > The solution is always the copious use of patience and > understanding. Your sledgehammer approach is going to result in > vast amounts of pain. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Gibble, Gobble, we

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't use opengl as normal user

2016-11-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-11-29, Grant Edwards wrote: > I can't use opengl direct rendering as a normal user, but it does work > via "sudo": > > $ sudo glxinfo | head -n15 > Password: > name of display: :0 > display: :0 screen: 0 > direct rendering

[gentoo-user] Can't use opengl as normal user

2016-11-29 Thread Grant Edwards
supposed to specify? I already have three "Device" sections (one for each devices) in the main xorg.conf file. Am I really supposed to create another file with an extra "Device" section in it? I tried adding a single "dri" section to xorg.conf, but it did

[gentoo-user] Re: I finally ditched acroread

2016-10-25 Thread Grant Edwards
need to change e recompile each one? In /etc/portage/packages.use, remove the abi_x86_32 USE flags from the packages to which it was added to make acroread happy. Then do an "emerge -avND world" -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Remember, in 2039,

[gentoo-user] Re: I finally ditched acroread

2016-10-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-10-23, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 23 Oct 2016 21:53:56 Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2016-10-23, Mick wrote: >> > On Sunday 23 Oct 2016 00:32:02 Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> >> >> For the past several years, I've had to keep acroread installe

[gentoo-user] Re: I finally ditched acroread

2016-10-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-10-23, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 23 Oct 2016 00:32:02 Grant Edwards wrote: > >> For the past several years, I've had to keep acroread installed on one >> of my desktop machines because I occasionally need to use the "print >> current view" featur

[gentoo-user] I finally ditched acroread

2016-10-22 Thread Grant Edwards
For the past several years, I've had to keep acroread installed on one of my desktop machines because I occasionally need to use the "print current view" feature to print a portion of a page of a PDF document (usually a section of a sechematic or a table out of a data sheet). Acroread is only avail

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting X11 to "underscan"...

2016-10-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-10-18, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 10/18/2016 08:57 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2016-10-18, Daniel Frey wrote: >> >>> I have three different manufacturers and each one has it, but on mine it >>> wasn't marked in the manual. >> >> No

[gentoo-user] Re: Getting X11 to "underscan"...

2016-10-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-10-18, Daniel Frey wrote: > I have three different manufacturers and each one has it, but on mine it > wasn't marked in the manual. Not all TVs can disable overscan. The last time was shopping, many of the Sony Bravias couldn't (that was a few years ago). On some TVs I've seen, in orde

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-09-25, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I liked openbox though, so if LXDE refuses to handle multiple >> screens I may stick with openbox and try to find some other panel >> program that does work with multiple screens. I gave up on LXDE. I messed around with it a bit more an

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-09-25, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> And I find it very useful to be able to leave 2 of the screens as-is >> while I switch the third one to do something else. >> >>> The results of your searches and experiments seem to suggest that it >>> is n unusual configuration >> >> It is, though I don'

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-09-25, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-09-23, Grant Edwards wrote: > > [need to pick new desktop environment -- which could just be a window > manager with a couple extra bits] [...] > Windowmaker seems a bit too oriented towards "icons on the desktop" > wh

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-09-25, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 14:02:18 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > I'm curious. What is it you are doing that needs desktops on separate >> > X11 screens? >> >> I do software development that often invol

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-09-25, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 25 Sep 2016 10:24:24 J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> I think it's what I would love for KDE to have as well. >> I have a desktop with 2 displays connected. >> >> I also have a few virtual desktops. >> >> I would like each display to have a seperate set of virtual

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-09-25, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 00:13:48 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I may try MATE next, but I'm not optimistic. All references I can >> find to multiple screens in the MATE docs are not actually talking >> about multiple X11 sc

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-09-23, Grant Edwards wrote: [need to pick new desktop environment -- which could just be a window manager with a couple extra bits] So far I 've looked at windowmaker <https://windowmaker.org/> and LXDE <http://lxde.org>. Windowmaker seems a bit too oriented towa

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

2016-09-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-08-05, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-07-14, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2016-07-14, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it segfaults >>> whenever you enter a character in the search field or the UR

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-09-24, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:45:26PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote > >> Would anybody care to make a recommendation? > > How about ditching "Desktop Environment" altogether and using a > "Window Manager" instead?

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-09-24, David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Grant Edwards wrote: >>Would anybody care to make a recommendation? > > Ever checked out WindowMaker (x11-wm/windowmaker)? The default config > is quite clunky though, but there's many themes and

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-09-24, Alecks Gates wrote: > On 09/23/2016 06:45 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I've been running XFCE for many, many years, and I was perfectly happy >> with it until 4.11 came out. Support for multiple displays[1] was >> broken in xfdesktop by a commit made in 2

[gentoo-user] Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-23 Thread Grant Edwards
need a window's contents being re-rendered constantly as I move or resize it. No fancy animation or translucency silliness. [1] I'm referring to separate X11 displays/desktops, not a single logical display spread across multiple physical monitors. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.ed

[gentoo-user] Re: Wastebin or trash?

2016-09-07 Thread Grant Edwards
to a different mailbox; not that I've ever seen a > mail server do that), Gmail's IMAP server doesn't do that exact thing, but it does have some similar, sometimes odd-seeming, behaviors due to behind-the-curtains stuff it does because IMAP mailboxes being mapped into Gmail labels

[gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery

2016-08-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-08-30, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:42:05 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > And why use exfat if you use linux? It is just not needed at all. >> >> I agree. If you want to transport something between Linux systems, >> use

[gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery

2016-08-30 Thread Grant Edwards
very stable, tested and well aged. exfat is some > fuse something crap. New, hardly tested and unstable as it gets. > > And why use exfat if you use linux? It is just not needed at all. I agree. If you want to transport something between Linux systems, use ext2/3 and use "mount"

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutter alternatives

2016-08-30 Thread Grant Edwards
use 'import': $ import screenshot.png $ import screenshot.jpg $ import screenshot.eps $ import screenshot.... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Wait ... is this a FUN at THING or the END of LIFE in

[gentoo-user] Re: Choice of MUA

2016-08-12 Thread Grant Edwards
links, or w3m, I forget) by default and display the results in the normal pager. If I hit "p" it uses Firefox. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Maybe I should have at asked for my Neutron Bomb gmail.comin PAISLEY --

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

2016-08-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-07-14, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-07-14, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it segfaults >> whenever you enter a character in the search field or the URL field. > > Same behavior with 47.0.1. And 48.0

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

2016-07-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-07-16, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> Same behavior with 47.0.1. Starting 47 in "safe mode" avoids the >> problem, but starting 47 in normal mode with all extensions disabled >> still crashes. >> &

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

2016-07-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-07-14, Grant Edwards wrote: > www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it segfaults > whenever you enter a character in the search field or the URL field. Same behavior with 47.0.1. Starting 47 in "safe mode" avoids the problem, but starting 47 in

[gentoo-user] Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

2016-07-14 Thread Grant Edwards
www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it segfaults whenever you enter a character in the search field or the URL field. Anybody else see this sort of behavior? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! over in west at

[gentoo-user] Re: Wireless DHCP takes over resolv.conf

2016-07-12 Thread Grant Edwards
ined hostnames that Google won't know about. That said, after problems with various DNS servers on various networks, I usually default to using 8.8.8.8... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Does someone from at

[gentoo-user] Re: Wireless DHCP takes over resolv.conf

2016-07-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-07-11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 11/07/2016 22:29, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2016-07-11, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> why don't you go with the dns server addresses supplied by each >>> network's dhcp? Presumably the admin put them their becau

[gentoo-user] Re: Wireless DHCP takes over resolv.conf

2016-07-11 Thread Grant Edwards
networks where the DNS servers returned by the DHCP server didn't work well at all, and things got a _lot_ better when I manually configured a couple working DNS servers (e.g. the Google ones at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). Around here, Comcast's DNS servers are famously bad. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Missing libtermcap.a

2016-07-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-07-09, Grant Edwards wrote: > I've got termcap-compat installed, but I seem to be missing libtermcap.a: > > $ equery files libtermcap-compat | grep lib > /usr/lib > /usr/lib/debug > /usr/lib/debug/usr > /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64 >

[gentoo-user] Missing libtermcap.a

2016-07-09 Thread Grant Edwards
How do I get libtermcap.a installed? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! A dwarf is passing out at somewhere in Detroit! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Me, and how to troll LIKE A BOSS.

2016-06-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-06-25, Alan Grimes wrote: > So you want to be able to use your regular compilers. Of course the > compilers were written assuming that they will never run on or target > any operating system that doesn't work Just Like Unix. I know I shouldn't respond, but I just can't help it... This i

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a simple video editor?

2016-06-14 Thread Grant Edwards
eally want to install KDE stuff. Openshot and Shotcut both required Qt, but not KDE. Flowblade would probably be next on my list to try, since it's Gtk based and wouldn't pull in the 30-40 packages that a Qt app does (or Dog-only-knows how many for a KDE app). -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a simple video editor?

2016-06-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-06-14, Grant Edwards wrote: > The git version of MLT installed fine, but shotcut failed to compile: > > cd src/ && ( test -e Makefile || /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/qmake > /var/tmp/portage/media-video/shotcut-/work/shotcut-/src/src.pro > 'PREFIX={D}/us

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a simple video editor?

2016-06-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-06-11, Grant Edwards wrote: > I've got a handful of mp4 video clips (a minute or two each). All I > want to do is > > 1) Concatenate them with fade-in at beginning of each clip and fade-out > at the end of each clip. > > 2) Superimpose a title at the b

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a simple video editor?

2016-06-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-06-11, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Right now I'm experimenting with mlt's "melt" command line editor. >> It seems to produce small, high-quality output files. I've figured >> out how to do video fade-in, fade-out, but can

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a simple video editor?

2016-06-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-06-11, James wrote: > Grant Edwards gmail.com> writes: > >> Right now I'm experimenting with mlt's "melt" command line editor. >> It seems to produces small, high-quality output files. I've >> figured out how to do video fade-in, fade

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a simple video editor?

2016-06-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-06-11, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> I've got a handful of mp4 video clips (a minute or two each). All I >> want to do is >> >> 1) Concatenate them with fade-in at beginning of each clip and fade-out >> at the end of each clip

[gentoo-user] Recommend a simple video editor?

2016-06-10 Thread Grant Edwards
I've got a handful of mp4 video clips (a minute or two each). All I want to do is 1) Concatenate them with fade-in at beginning of each clip and fade-out at the end of each clip. 2) Superimpose a title at the beginning for a few seconds. Can anybody recomment a simple video editor? So

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't install cairosvg

2016-06-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-06-01, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2016 22:05:24 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy >> "dev-python/cairocffi[python_targets_python2_7(-)?,python_targets_python3_3(-)?,python_targets_python3_4(-)?,p

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't install cairosvg

2016-05-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-31, Willie M wrote: > On 05/31/2016 03:05 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I can't install cairosvg. After an hour of googling and beating my >> head against the wall, I still have absolutely no idea why: >> >> # eselect python list >> Available Pyth

[gentoo-user] Can't install cairosvg

2016-05-31 Thread Grant Edwards
red by "cairosvg" [argument]) I've tried dozens of settings for PYTHON_TARGETS and PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET and have gotten exactly nowhere. Is there an English translation of the emerge error message available? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hand

[gentoo-user] Re: How to be a penguin.

2016-05-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-28, Alan Grimes wrote: [plonk] -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-13, Grant Edwards wrote: > Well, I had never tried 4.9.3, and I'd been using 4.6 without problems > for some time, so keeping 4.6 seemed like the safe way to go. I still > don't understand what broke 4.6. I must have been using 4.9 for a while and then switched

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Edwards
ain eclass) so there is no need for users to call this themselves anymore. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! If our behavior is at strict, we do not need fun! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Edwards
g to respond. Was > that part of the re-organization of the gentoo.org website? Tinderbox's owner pulled the plug on it a couple years ago. AFAIR, it didn't have anything to do with the website reort. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Is a tattoo real, like

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