Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-02-20 Thread Per-Erik Westerberg
, in nxclient and also in the window title of chromium. I am using gentoo-sources-3.13.3, nvidia-drivers-334.16-r7 and chromium-33.0.1750.70. Both in gnome-terminal and in nxclient it looked like some kind of blink-attribute was used. ;) BR / P-E

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge util-linx; util-linux and sysvinit block eachother.

2014-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
with the error, so it makes sense to get them out the way so only the problem packages are left. Also, when there's yet-another-bloody-chromium-update and I set it running and go to do something useful, I don't want to come back two hours later to find it didn't even try to build chromium because sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
of stored sessions in dolphin :-) My favorite fuckups which are still around: tumblr can make konqueror hang at 100% cpu for minutes, because of some javascript - firefox and chromium are fine and dlisted in one tab is fine, but open one of their articles in a new tab and konqueror just

Re: [gentoo-user] Will a 64-bit-no-multilib machine cross-compile 32-bit code?

2015-03-22 Thread Mike Gilbert
. This has been known to break the build process for packages like chromium, which always wants to build with SSE4 support and toggles it off at runtime. Passing -mno-sse4.1 causes a build failure as it tries to use macros that are not defined. Isn't it possible that removing it for all packages would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Mick
, is multipart: 1) Is this by design? Is this the normal behaviour? Yes. That's how text widgets always work on Unix. Unfortunately not :( Chromium now selects the whole URL when you click in the address bar. I'm not sure when it started doing this but it was quite recently

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-18 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 05/18/2015 02:07 PM, Gevisz wrote: On Mon, 18 May 2015 06:26:31 +0100 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 18 May 2015 02:56:43 Daniel Frey wrote: On 05/17/2015 02:54 PM, Mick wrote: Chromium now selects the whole URL when you click in the address bar. I'm not sure when

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 38.1.0 :-(

2015-08-01 Thread Mick
. [1] [1] https://support.mozilla.org/tr/kb/recover-lost-bookmarks-firefox-developer -edition OK, but now I have rebuilt it and the problem is gone anyway. :-) PS. I noticed that Firebug (developer tools for FF), as well as Developer Tools in Chromium, suddenly start uploading data to some

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree

2016-01-10 Thread Dale
»Q« wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 19:26:19 + > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sunday 10 Jan 2016 18:39:43 Ian Bloss wrote: >>> You can install pepperflash to chromium although it's proprietary. >>> Google Chrome has pepper flash by de

Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

2016-02-24 Thread allan gottlieb
in by dev-libs/libxml2:=[icu] required by (www-client/chromium-48.0.2564.109:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^^^ dev-libs/libxml2:2/2=[icu] required by (www-client

Re: [gentoo-user] How to keep my system from (nearly) freezing?

2017-02-20 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Hi, On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 13:53:49 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > sometime I have some memory hungry ebuilds in the background, when I > start (e.g.) Chromium which needs very much memory if you have a lot of > open tabs. > > In that case my system nearly freeze

Re: [gentoo-user] How to keep my system from (nearly) freezing?

2017-02-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 01:53:49PM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote > sometime I have some memory hungry ebuilds in the background, when > I start (e.g.) Chromium which needs very much memory if you have a > lot of open tabs. > > In that case my system nearly freezes. I cannot e

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: "New to aliexpress" pop up - how to block it?

2017-07-16 Thread Mick
e me are not part of the citiation) > > Cheers > Meino I tried to configure Chromium to stop loading adverts on a particular website. After half an hour of fighting with embedded frames/JavaScript/etc. eventually I managed to block half a dozen CDNs and add servers. A week later to my su

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get started with automated update world

2017-06-07 Thread Rich Freeman
lls end up being from binaries, and often the stuff that isn't is small. If somebody triggers a rebuild of chromium then that is a different story, but most chromium updates get built overnight. -- Rich

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

2017-06-14 Thread R0b0t1
oves your profile, its addons, and all associated settings. This is faster than reinstalling it and from what I can tell accomplishes the same thing. For the longest time Firefox was far better than Chromium at resource usage simply due to how Chromium is structured. Since that can't really change I am wa

[gentoo-user] Re: Puzzled with duration of chromium emerge under profile 17.0

2017-12-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-12-06, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 21:01:25 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2017-12-06, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I discovered that building Chromium with gcc-6.4.0 is taking an >> > inor

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-08 Thread Dale
tab the size of my tmpfs to 12GB so > that the chromium > could be emerged in tmpfs (using the swap) without the need to set > notmpfs.conf > for chromium and the likes. > > And I am going to set the whole /var/tmp/ on tpmfs instead of just > /var/tmp/portage > Is it ok? >

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-08 Thread gevisz
y understood >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs >> that I can safely set in the fstab the size of my tmpfs to 12GB so >> that the chromium >> could be emerged in tmpfs (using the swap) without the need to set >> notmpfs.conf >> for chromium and th

[gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-10 Thread Kai Krakow
R_on_tmpfs that I can safely > set in the fstab the size of my tmpfs to 12GB so that the chromium could > be emerged in tmpfs (using the swap) without the need to set > notmpfs.conf for chromium and the likes. > > And I am going to set the whole /var/tmp/ on tpmfs instead of just >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE reboot not preserving running applications

2018-08-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
re > >> that I have nothing untoward hanging about. > >> > >> Is anyone else having this problem? > > Was it ever perfect? Always, up to the recent onset of misbehaviour. > I have given up on relying on this feature especially since Chromium does > not even launch afte

Re: [gentoo-user] Rust problem when upgrading Firefox

2018-10-16 Thread Franz Fellner
t; in terms of how much RAM the compile consumes. On systems with low RAM I > set > lower MAKEOPTS jobs and average values and add plenty of swap. This keeps > emerge in check and stops it from swapping in and out continuously > thrashing > the disk. > > More than a year ago I

Re: [gentoo-user] Rust problem when upgrading Firefox

2018-10-16 Thread Mick
k. More than a year ago I'd noticed similar uncontrolled consumption of resources by emerge on Chromium. Interestingly a few versions later something must have changed (some hardware limit checks added by devs?) and Chromium became much less hungry for resources. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-04 Thread Mick
>> to start the compile from the beginning. > > > > > > You can use ebuild for that too, with the compile option. I've have > > > the chromium build fail for apparently random reasons on my laptop > > > from time to time and ebuild ... compile finishes t

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
tinue the compile (either make or ninja, or > >> whatever that package uses) when/if that finishes, you can use > >> ebuild to finish the install and qmerge steps. That avoids needing > >> to start the compile from the beginning. > > You can use ebuild for that t

Re: [gentoo-user] Not enough RAM for dev-qt/qtwebengine build

2019-06-13 Thread Alexey Eschenko
) build. As far as I can see it fails to build due to memory exhaustion. Although I have 32 GB of RAM (at least 20 of them is almost always free) looks like it's not enough. It's strange because I have no problems with Firefox/Chromium/Libreoffice builds.Do you have $PORTAGE_TMPDIR on a tmp

Re: [gentoo-user] Not enough RAM for dev-qt/qtwebengine build

2019-06-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
2019 13:19:24 +0300, Alexey Eschenko wrote: > > >For some time I have problems with dev-qt/qtwebengine (at least 5.12.3) > build. As far as I can see it fails to build due to memory exhaustion. > Although I have 32 GB of RAM (at least 20 of them is almost always > free) lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost "middle click opens links" in KDE/Firefox combo - anyone else?

2020-01-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
> URL in FF or Falkon, but I don't know what has caused this. From what > I recall Chromium never worked, while FF always did. Chromium still behaves as it always did here, with a middle-click opening the link in a new tab. -- Neil Bothwick Computer apathy error: don't bother striking any key. pgpr1cJ1KKLl4.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost "middle click opens links" in KDE/Firefox combo - anyone else?

2020-01-30 Thread Mick
his problem or come across it being > > > mentioning in their wanderings of the web? > > > > I can confirm I can't paste with the middle button and navigate to a > > URL in FF or Falkon, but I don't know what has caused this. From what > > I recall Chromium never worked,

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost "middle click opens links" in KDE/Firefox combo - anyone else?

2020-01-30 Thread Dale
; gone. Has anyone else got this problem or come across it being >>>> mentioning in their wanderings of the web? >>> I can confirm I can't paste with the middle button and navigate to a >>> URL in FF or Falkon, but I don't know what has caused this. From what

Re: [gentoo-user] MS-Teams on XFCE4/Gentoo

2020-06-18 Thread William Kenworthy
>> the linux download from MS and it behaves the same. The camera works >> fine in teams on chromium, Firefox, zoom etc. under the same user. >> >> Has anyone any suggestions ? >> >> BillK > Hi Bill, > > I have been using MS Teams on Linux for over a cou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Netflix Error Code O7355 with Opera

2020-06-12 Thread Michael
ees. I found the -j3 was generally acceptable with 8GB, -j2 may > have been better, but as long as it worked I was happy. > > I run testing on this laptop so updates were more frequent, although I > now use Chromium from stable to reduce that. Ahh! Yes, running Chromium ~amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge chromium 89.0.4343.0

2020-12-09 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 9 December 2020 17:31:29 GMT John Covici wrote: > On Wed, 09 Dec 2020 11:20:06 -0500, > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > [1 ] > > > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:16 AM John Covici wrote: > > > Hi. In my latest update I cannot emerge Chromium 89.0.4343

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Odd Chrome behavior when dragging tab to create new window

2021-03-12 Thread antlists
quot; => "New window" (if there is already more than one window) works without problem. Yep, same here. I've no idea what is causing the problem. Fluxbox is my window manager. I'm using openbox. The most recent upgrade of Chrome/Chromium was about 3 days before the problem started. libXt and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Odd Chrome behavior when dragging tab to create new window

2021-09-27 Thread Mark Knecht
with the words "ozone" and "X11" in it? > > That fixed the titlebar problem for me. > > -- > Grant Yes, I tried that. In my case it just made no difference. Everything worked on Chromium as suggested but I couldn't (easily - I'm very busy right now) figure out ho

Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent ebuild from checking for available space

2024-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
s is the least hassle, using package.env. % cat /etc/portage/package.env/chromium www-client/chromium disk-tmpdir.conf ... % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch" -- Neil Bothwick Linux like wigwam. No windows, no gates, Apache inside. pgpptIaai7a_R.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

2018-07-27 Thread gevisz
the problem that chromium very often (but not always!) asked me for some (keyring?) password when I opened a new www-page. Recompilation of it with different user flags did not help. I thought that that was because of the gnome-keyring, consolekit or policykit packages but without any proof. So, while

Re: [gentoo-user] pain, PAIN, and more pain again.

2022-06-19 Thread Michael
t that 3.11 is still beta and that I should ignore > it. > > The maintainers of steam overlay seem to have given up, so I used layman > to -d it and now I get > !!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY (not a dir): '/var/lib/layman/steam-overlay' > each time I invoke emerge... Take a look

Re: [gentoo-user] Socks-ifying an application

2012-05-15 Thread Mick
if the problem is related to the tsocks LD_PRELOAD error. I also noticed that when I try to set up a proxy server in Chromium using the 'under the bonnet' tab, I get this: When running Chromium under a supported desktop environment, the system proxy settings will be used. However, either your system

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-24 Thread Marc Stürmer
, if they would use it. I disagree: the downloading all that crap also takes a lot of time. Downloading binaries takes of course some time, yes. But downloading e.g. the source code of Chromium compared to the binary of Chromium does take a multiply longer. And after the download of the binary you just

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Gevisz
all that crap also takes a lot of time. Downloading binaries takes of course some time, yes. But downloading e.g. the source code of Chromium compared to the binary of Chromium does take a multiply longer. And after the download of the binary you just need to unpack it and are ready to run

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-05-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 5 May 2015 13:05:55 +0100, Mick wrote: During a backup of a home directory I noticed loads of Chromium and Firefox crash/recovery files being copied over. However, I don't know if this is a btrfs problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode characters not showing 'Hello, world' example golang.org

2016-10-05 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
gt;>> >>>>> I see you've got some extra fonts installed that I don't. >>>>> >>>>> I'll fiddle with that. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> Installing 'media-fonts/unifont' did it. >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: chromium 60 build failure

2017-08-01 Thread Mick
+--- 6.3.0 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ o o ~ ~ | 4 o 6.3.0 | gentoo --+-++--- 7.1.0-r1 | o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o | 5 o 7.1.0 | gentoo > Any version of gcc that is at least version 5 . ? Yes, go fo

Re: [gentoo-user] electron and sslv3

2017-09-17 Thread Damo Brisbane
FYI this info and use flags worked for me to get a clean *electron* build (with also getting eg *nodejs *dependency). I think also works for chromium. I doubt "static-libs" is making any difference: */etc/portage>* emerge --info electron dev-libs/openssl-1.0.2l::gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mammoth emerge ...

2018-05-03 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 3 May 2018 16:41:55 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-05-03, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > OK, I know my laptop is quite old, or at least Intel thinks so, but > > emerging > > chromium is now taking *much* longer than it ever did: > A w

Re: [gentoo-user] The Full Story.

2019-11-04 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
sky, > resize a chromium browser pane by clicking on the edge of the window and > dragging it a few pixels, so naturally X11 goes down taking my number > theory code with it. Reminder: I had run that code from May 1 through > last week and only voluntarily rebooted my machine > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compile large packages as last package [SOLVED]

2021-09-08 Thread Ramon Fischer
office/libreoffice no_tmpfs.conf #dev-java/icedtea no_tmpfs.conf #dev-lang/ghc no_tmpfs.conf #dev-lang/rust no_tmpfs.conf #mail-client/thunderbird no_tmpfs.conf #sci-libs/tensorflow no_tmpfs.conf #sys-devel/gcc no_tmpfs.conf #www-client/firefox no_tmpfs.conf #ww

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-11 Thread Ramon Fischer
23 PM Michael wrote: On Monday, 11 September 2023 21:21:47 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:05 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:19:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > chromium has been building since 10:14, it's now 21:16 an

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
> > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 11:23 PM Michael > wrote: > > > > On Monday, 11 September 2023 21:21:47 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:05 PM Neil Bothwick > > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 11 Sep 202

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo AMD64, games freeze!

2008-04-07 Thread Mark Knecht
monodevelop). I've emerged some games too, and thats my problem. Most of these games just won't run. Warsow, Wesnoth, Barrage runs without errors, but Openmortal, Chromium, Liquid Wars just don't start. Here is the outputs. It's a long shot, but are you in the games group? HTH

[gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg threads parameter

2010-03-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/28/2010 02:40 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Some ffmpeg-using applications (e.g. mplayer) allow you to pass numbers of threads (e.g. I use 6 on my Core-I7) to ffmpeg; others (e.g. chromium) do not. First, mplayer uses its own bundled ffmpeg. It doesn't use media-video/ffmpeg at all

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: I did not want to use Chromium, but I tried it, and I must admit, it's fast, and it uses much less memory than konqueror. And it even has web shortcuts, which are a must-have for me now. What I'm missing most

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-16 Thread Stéphane Guedon
, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas flash player exist currently in 32bits. So, I need to have 32bits browser ! Can I emerge ? Thanks ! Not exactly. You can use www-plugins/nspluginwrapper to use 32bit plugins in a 64bit browser. But yes, you can emerge www-client/firefox-bin

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
(konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas flash player exist currently in 32bits. So, I need to have 32bits browser ! Can I emerge ? There's a multilib overlay that will allow you to build 32 bits software on a 64 bits OS. But it's completely unsupported, don't expect it to work

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-17 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/17/2010 06:43 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 8/16/2010 2:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/16/2010 09:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas flash player exist currently

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
cannot install my 4 add-ons (xmarks, AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing. Seg fault sometimes. I've got ECC memory, and no reported problems, and it does not help to clear the profiles (rename ~/.mozilla) and re-emerge. Grr. Use Chrome/Chromium. At my gentoo the fox

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-04 Thread Fatih Tümen
domain(gentoo.org) {  td.content p {    width: 40em;  } } - Change 40em to anything you like. Thank you very much for this tip. I use chromium and fortunately there exists the Stylish chrome extension. I got it working with the code

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 01/16/2011 08:25 PM, Grant wrote: I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB RAM

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as chromium or openoffice.  Is there anything I can do to prevent this besides turning swap back

Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything

2011-06-02 Thread András Csányi
. It could be something like this. I caught a chromium crash with running htop and what I see? A Z and a D processes. I think I know what I'm going to do at weekend. :S -- - - --  Csanyi Andras (Sayusi Ando)  -- http://sayusi.hu -- http://facebook.com/andras.csanyi --  Trust in God and keep your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: chrome and everything

2011-06-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 13:12 on Friday 03 June 2011, Indi did opine thusly: On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 09:20:01AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Compare how Google goes about doing things with how Adobe does it. The Google Chromium team appears to take security seriously and are open

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't kill Firefox!

2011-07-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
month. Maybe the people at KDE should use time to fix bugs and make it stable before putting more and more eyecandy and stuff in it. maybe it is not KDE's fault when firefox is badly coded? Using KDE4 with konqueror+chromium for days and weeks of uptime without problems. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't kill Firefox!

2011-07-22 Thread Mick
On Friday 22 Jul 2011 17:18:40 Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 22.07.2011 17:05, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: and you strace'd firefox, X or chromium to see where this stuff hangs, did you? No I did not, a strace is only as good as the person who can read it, and in my case is that not much

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-28 Thread Alex Schuster
8Gbs, you got a lot running or something. o_O I'm using 4.5G right now according to free -m (using the -/+ buffers/cache entry). 550M for a Windows VM, 355M for Kontact, 350M for my TV-Browser application, 200M for Firefox, incredible 165M for a Chromium instance, 155M plasma-desktop. Oh

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: I noticed that chromium's code has a lot of vulnerabilities. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=www-client%2Fchromium I suppose this is

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Mick
On Friday 05 Aug 2011 06:14:37 Adam Carter wrote: You've made an assumption there. Maybe my assumption isn't true, after all seeing the list for firefox that Matthew pointed to, although with firefox we don't see upgrades so often, I guess we should *not* feel more secure with it...

[gentoo-user] two question about Xfce

2011-09-12 Thread András Csányi
kwin under xfce somehow? If a KDE application is used kwin always gets in the picture? - How can I set up the position of the newly started application in Xfce? For example, if I start a new application (Openoffice, Chromium, Kile, etc.) it's fitted to the center of the screen. In this case it's very

Re: [gentoo-user] two question about Xfce

2011-09-12 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
have no idea. - How can I set up the position of the newly started application in Xfce? For example, if I start a new application (Openoffice, Chromium, Kile, etc.) it's fitted to the center of the screen. In this case it's very uncomfortable for me because my screen is 2880x900 px (because

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-27 Thread Dale
but when firefox, xulrunner, chromium and libreoffice all decide to start compiling at the same time it turns into a complete nightmare. I think it has that already. I have noticed several times that mine will only be working on one package and have a lot of packages left to update. When

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge -j, make -j and make -l

2011-11-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
-explosion you describe is bad enough with regular packages but when firefox, xulrunner, chromium and libreoffice all decide to start compiling at the same time it turns into a complete nightmare. I think it has that already. I have noticed several times that mine will only be working on one package

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 18:09:16 Florian Philipp wrote: This made me thinking: Does anyone out there use different browsers for different services? Like using Chrome only for GMail, Youtube and G+, Opera for Facebook and Firefox for normal browsing? Yes, I use Chromium --incognito to check

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
and Firefox for normal browsing? Yes, I use Chromium --incognito to check some financial websites, Firefox with private browsing to do my banking and log in to work remotely (Citrix SSL VPN) and Opera for very much everything else because of its speed and configurability (although these days most

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-28 Thread Mick
, but can't find them anywhere. Ditto with Chromium, not idea where it saves such temporary files. PS. Opera saves them under ~.opera/cache/sesn/ if I recall correctly, although it gives them random names and I have to run them or guess from their size, before I know if it is the file that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package

2012-02-08 Thread Mick
forget to put your custom ebuild in your local overlay, lest emerge --sync will happily 'revert' your ebuild to what it was :-) Thanks. I've learned something from this thread in spite of myself :p Must you use Chrome? What's wrong with Chromium? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-14 Thread Alecks Gates
On Feb 14, 2012 4:16 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone found a GUI alternative to firefox they like that's in portage? Something minimal preferably but with flash support? Chromium/Chrome

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-17 Thread Grant
Thanks for the suggestions everyone.  It sounds like chromium and midori are the most popular here but lots of other suggestions I will look into too.  Thanks for posting the question.  I found out about midori, thanks to this thread.  It passes *MY* acid test.  I'm a paying subscriber

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:28:44 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched from firefox to chromium (thanks to you guys) and I'm loving it.  What would you recommend for getting away from thunderbird

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-18 Thread Michael Trausch
wrote: I just switched from firefox to chromium (thanks to you guys) and I'm loving it. What would you recommend for getting away from thunderbird? I'm looking for something simple and minimal. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:40:48 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched from firefox to chromium (thanks to you guys) and I'm loving it.  What would you recommend for getting away from thunderbird?  I'm looking for something simple and minimal. - Grant claws-mail

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?

2012-02-19 Thread Fuzz
Please excuse any typos. On Feb 18, 2012 3:32 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched from firefox to chromium (thanks to you guys) and I'm loving it. What would you recommend for getting away from thunderbird? I'm looking for something simple

[gentoo-user] Midori and Flash

2012-02-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I am using all kinds of web browsers. Firefox for sites I always want to have open. Konqueror when I start a browser from scratch to look something up. Chromium is also running, Mainly because I had trouble with Firefox opening one window on another desktop. Now I'd also like to use

Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing

2012-04-27 Thread Matthew Marlowe
which is hitting nvidia users first for some reason (except for minimal support for chromium). If all you care about is videos and youtube, you can probably add yourself to the html5 beta test at youtube and switch to a different flash engine like lightspark/gnash for everything else. -- Matthew

Re: [gentoo-user] desktop colors and widgets are weird after update

2012-05-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
acts like this sometimes until I do some sort of a qt config, but this is just about everything including firefox and chromium. Is that enough info to point me in the right direction? No, not enough info. I suggest posting everything that got updated (using genlop) and a good description of how

Re: [gentoo-user] ~gcc-4.7.0

2012-05-29 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
. There are some packages which seem to break: - - firefox and thunderbird, if I remember correctly - - chromium (theres an open bug on bgo) - - hardened-sources: the neccessary gcc-plugins don't work because they can't find the right symbols because gcc-4.7 is normally compiled with g++ which mangles

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ~gcc-4.7.0

2012-06-01 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
:) Very cool :) I just built virtualbox with gcc-4.7.0 on my old machine with 0.5 GB of ram and had no problems whatever. I also pulled from Linus.git and compiled his latest kernel with gcc-4.7.0, no problems. So far, so good. Has anyone tried compiling chromium 20 (as of yesterday

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=jpeg not part of hardened/linux/x86 profile

2012-06-08 Thread Jorge Martínez López
any more though. Is there a nice way that you can un-pax-mark Python(/etc.) through Portage, or do you have to do it manually?  (And does that horribly break Portage?)  Personally I'm a little concerned about the Firefox + Chromium pax-marks; one day I'll get grsec set up... No idea, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I install pulseaudio to solve my phonon audio problems?

2012-08-19 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
player do you use? It happens with every one? I use Rhythmbox, Totem, Mplayer2, and of course I watch videos in YouTube in Chromium; nothing even remotely similar has ever happened to me. But if it happens after every song, maybe the music player somehow changes the setting? It sounds fishy, but PA

[gentoo-user] Gentoo guest audio on Virtualbox

2012-12-03 Thread Markos Chandras
. However I am not able to get any audio output on smplayer,mplayer or even chromium. Any ideas? I also have a Windows Guest (Host settings Pulseaudio/Intel HD Audio) and the sound works there without problems. -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo guest audio on Virtualbox

2012-12-07 Thread Mick
,snd_hda_intel The alsamixer seems to recognize the virtual audio card correctly. However I am not able to get any audio output on smplayer,mplayer or even chromium. Any ideas? I also have a Windows Guest (Host settings Pulseaudio/Intel HD Audio) and the sound works there without problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Binary chrome - is it safe in terms of dependencies?

2013-01-30 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Yohan Pereira yohan.pere...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/01/13 at 11:09pm, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Since Gentoo updates libraries very quickly, I'm wondering if it is safe to use the binary version? Has anyone faced library breakages on this? Chromium is easily

Re: [gentoo-user] Binary chrome - is it safe in terms of dependencies?

2013-01-30 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
version? Has anyone faced library breakages on this? Chromium is easily recompiled with new libraries and you don't have a broken browser, which won't really be the case with the binary version. I've used the binary version (google-chrome) for a while and never had any breakages. I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Acroread

2013-02-17 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
tend to switch browsers too often (chromium and Firefox). Firefox has a pdf.js addon, doesn't work reliably many times. If you use KDE try this. You can then use okular(among other things) in your browsers. www-plugins/kpartsplugin http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kpartsplugin

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling dev-lang/v8

2013-04-06 Thread Mick
On Saturday 06 Apr 2013 15:07:45 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 05 April 2013 21:58:32 Peter Humphrey wrote: ---8 Why does emerge want to emerge chromium? Have I tripped over a line length limit? Have I got a circular dependency? What else might be wrong? I can't see anything

[gentoo-user] Re: Nautical Gentoo hardware suggestions?

2013-05-06 Thread James
is reasonably straightforward. I don't know, but I think I'd start by looking at Android tablets. Here is what I've decided on: ChromeOS Arm-15 lappy: Samsung Arm Chromebook: http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/samsung-arm-chromebook It pretty much runs

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panick after time while compiling....

2013-05-27 Thread Fast Turtle
On Sun, 26 May 2013 18:36:55 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! When I merge large or big packages like firefox, thunderbird or chromium. The system hangsup with kernel panick and displays on the screen reboot after 30 seconds. What could

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-05 Thread Alex Schuster
updated chromium, which also remerged libreoffice. Again. And whatever package I try to update, emerge wants to remerge libreoffice. Happens with all the packages I tried, which are adobe-flash, python, zsh, xterm. Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-05 Thread Bruce Hill
updated chromium, which also remerged libreoffice. Again. And whatever package I try to update, emerge wants to remerge libreoffice. Happens with all the packages I tried, which are adobe-flash, python, zsh, xterm. Please run: emerge wgetpaste emerge -Djptuv --changed-use @world | wgetpaste

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
chromium, which also remerged libreoffice. Again. And whatever package I try to update, emerge wants to remerge libreoffice. Happens with all the packages I tried, which are adobe-flash, python, zsh, xterm. If portage believes LO needs to be rebuilt, it will try to do so whichever packages you

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
libreoffice, which I avoided. Next, I updated chromium, which also remerged libreoffice. Again. And whatever package I try to update, emerge wants to remerge libreoffice. Happens with all the packages I tried, which are adobe-flash, python, zsh, xterm. Please run: emerge wgetpaste emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] DBus and network namespaces

2013-10-27 Thread Pavel Volkov
goes wrong: 1. Chromium cannot launch system proxy settings dialog. 2. Most apps from KDE SC crash right away. 3. No app can use ibus input methods. Have you tried exporting DBUS_SESION_ADDRESS within the namespace? I tried it now. The name is DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS. Still no luck

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