Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse
On Friday 10 April 2009, Hartmut Figge wrote: Fred Elno: merge key=input.xkb.layout type=stringfr/merge merge key=input.xkb.variant type=string / Since yesterday i have merge key=input.xkb.layout type=stringde/merge merge key=input.xkb.variant type=stringnodeadkeys/merge merge key=input.xkb.options type=stringcompose:menu/merge but it took a while to find the right syntax. At which place is e.g. input.xkb.options mentioned in the documentation? Could't find one, so i have guessed from the entry in my xorg.conf. *g* - xorg.conf - Option XkbOptionscompose:menu --- What is the meaning of the compose:menu? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse
Mick: On Friday 10 April 2009, Hartmut Figge wrote: - xorg.conf - Option XkbOptionscompose:menu --- What is the meaning of the compose:menu? Sometimes i need to input special characters like e.g. ç with my keyboard and need a way to do so. That's what the compose key is for. To input ç i press the compose key, release it and then , followed by c. Or é which is a combination of ' and e. /usr/share/keymaps/include/compose.latin1 contains some of the possibilities. So i have need of a compose key. Years ago there was a combination of AltGr and Shift_Left which could be used but that stopped to work. So, what key to take? Caps_Lock seemed fine, first, but this caused trouble in some games under wine in which i needed the original functionality of Caps_Lock. Hm, i guess it was Gothic 1. But the Menu_Key, that is the one left of Control_Right, was perfect. Hartmut
[gentoo-user] Corrupt files or ntfs-3g fs?
Hi All, I have a ntfs partition which I mount with ntfs-3g and fuse. Some months ago I had split a video file which thereafter bzipped: -? ? ?? ?? rec1xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec2xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec3xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec4xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec5xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec6xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec7xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec8xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec9xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec00010xaa.bz2 The ??? above show me that something is amiss and the files have been corrupted. I recall deleting them (or trying to) from within MSWindows, but I couldn't do that and, of course, blamed MSWindows for it. Now I am looking at this having booted into Gentoo and I cannot delete them: = /mnt/VideoDrive $ rm rec1xaa.bz2 rm: cannot remove `rec1xaa.bz2': No such file or directory = shred does not work either: = $ shred -v -z -u rec1xaa.bz2 shred: rec1xaa.bz2: failed to open for writing: No such file or directory = This is how it has been mounted: $ mount | grep Video /dev/sda9 on /mnt/VideoDrive type fuseblk (rw,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096) Is there an application I could use to remove them and free the space on the disk, or should I run chkdisk or fsck first? I cannot afford to lose the remaining data on the disk and I do not have another disk as large to back up first. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt files or ntfs-3g fs?
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:37:35 +0100, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have a ntfs partition which I mount with ntfs-3g and fuse. Some months ago I had split a video file which thereafter bzipped: -? ? ?? ?? rec1xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec2xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec3xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec4xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec5xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec6xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec7xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec8xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec9xaa.bz2 -? ? ?? ?? rec00010xaa.bz2 The ??? above show me that something is amiss and the files have been corrupted. I recall deleting them (or trying to) from within MSWindows, but I couldn't do that and, of course, blamed MSWindows for it. Now I am looking at this having booted into Gentoo and I cannot delete them: = /mnt/VideoDrive $ rm rec1xaa.bz2 rm: cannot remove `rec1xaa.bz2': No such file or directory = shred does not work either: = $ shred -v -z -u rec1xaa.bz2 shred: rec1xaa.bz2: failed to open for writing: No such file or directory = This is how it has been mounted: $ mount | grep Video /dev/sda9 on /mnt/VideoDrive type fuseblk (rw,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096) Is there an application I could use to remove them and free the space on the disk, or should I run chkdisk or fsck first? I cannot afford to lose the remaining data on the disk and I do not have another disk as large to back up first. I think that you have to boot into windows and try to run chkdsk to repair the filesystem. HTH. Xav'
Re: [gentoo-user] VNC question
In 20090410172143.71e0c...@coercion mike_kazant...@fraggod.net (Mike Kazantsev) writes: --Sig_/jt3LFSWbbFXQHdaTjHGlbt4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:05:49 + (UTC) Konstantinos Agouros elw...@agouros.de wrote: Any clues are welcome. I know that it's rather workaround than a solution, but prehaps you might try one of the other vnc implementations, like tightvnc (net-misc/tightvnc). Tightvnc doesn't even connect. Or it connects and then hangs. Basically I am happy with any X-VNC client that I can use for this. After I switched to another VNC-Server (for the time) interestingly enough the MAC-Screenshare VNC Client gave a warning about 'not so good authentication' so it seems apple might after all have a proprietary extension in there. Regards, Konstantin -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elw...@agouros.de Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 Captain, this ship will not survive the forming of the cosmos. B'Elana Torres
Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt files or ntfs-3g fs?
On Saturday 11 April 2009, Xav' wrote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:37:35 +0100, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Is there an application I could use to remove them and free the space on the disk, or should I run chkdisk or fsck first? I cannot afford to lose the remaining data on the disk and I do not have another disk as large to back up first. I think that you have to boot into windows and try to run chkdsk to repair the filesystem. Thanks Xav', It seems that chkdsk fixed it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse
On Saturday 11 April 2009, Hartmut Figge wrote: Mick: What is the meaning of the compose:menu? So i have need of a compose key. Years ago there was a combination of AltGr and Shift_Left which could be used but that stopped to work. I see, I should have phrased my question differently: which is the compose key ... I don't have a key that is called compose, but I think that my menu key is the one between Right Ctrl key and AltGr. However, nothing happens when I press it. My corresponding line for an alternative keyboard in the .fdi file is: merge key=input.x11_options.XkbOptions type=stringgrp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,compose:menu/merge So I assume that if you use grp:altgr_shift_toggle you'll get that functionality up. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard
On Friday 10 April 2009, walt wrote: The big picture first: The plan is to use evdev *instead* of the drivers in xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse, [snip...] In my xorg.conf there is no mention whatever of mice or keyboards, and xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse have been completely deleted from my machine. (xf86-input-evdev is still necessary, of course.) I seem to have both of these installed and following the xorg ebuild post install messages I rebuilt them since they showed up when I ran: # qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati Are you saying that the above drivers are no longer needed because evdev will do everything and do it correctly? PS. I also needed to add an entry in my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi for the synaptics behaviour to be as it was before the xorg upgrade. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card
On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Mick wrote: BTW, the new xorg dri is really slow. You need to enable EXA as acceleration type. And for that, you *need* an xorg.conf. Section Device Driver radeon Option AccelMethod EXA EndSection I believe the default is XAA which is slow. Also, with that driver, it makes more sense to get the latest (~arch) along with ~arch DRI kernel modules. The unstable ones (according to portage) are actually way more stable and faster than the stable ones. I tried EXA but it made no difference. I'll wait for the ~arch to become stable I guess, as it does not bother me. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 no mouse [solved]
For the record, in case anyone else runs into this, following the Gentoo Upgrade Guild, I chose course (2) to deal with HAL, ie I compiled 'USE=-hal emerge xorg-server'. I encountered 3 problems. (1) xf86-video-intel-2.6.3-r1 failed to compile with a message implying lack of a file 'xf86dri.h' : since I'm using an Nvidia card, not the Intel chip on the mobo, that seems not to be relevant for my needs. (2) after rebooting entering 'startx', I got a 'no screen' error, which was solved by commenting out the line incl RgbPath in xorg.conf . (3) when X finally started, my mouse didn't work: oh no ! -- first, I followed the 3rd course from the Upgrade Guide add 'Option AutoAddDevices false' to xorg.conf (it shouldn't be needed if you follow course (2) above); that didn't change anything, so I looked at my handwritten list of the pkgs I had installed, which I had numbered as usual, noticed that 'xf86-input-mouse' was compiled before 'xorg-server': had the former failed to notice '-hal' used with the latter ? -- so I recompiled the mouse module now everything is working as it should. Yet again, I was helped by NOT doing a blanket 'emerge world', but compiling (groups of) pkgs individually making a note of what I did. Also, I could see what was going wrong fix it much more easily, as I don't boot straight into X , but to a raw console first. Finally, it helps (if you use KDE) to enable keypad cursor movements, tho' I didn't find out how to emulate a mouse click that way. HTH comments welcome. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:08:50 +0100 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I tried EXA but it made no difference. Prehaps you forgot to setup dri? If so, try x11-misc/driconf. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card
On Saturday 11 April 2009, Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:08:50 +0100 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I tried EXA but it made no difference. Prehaps you forgot to setup dri? If so, try x11-misc/driconf. Thanks Mike, how do you mean set up dri? It is shown as 'yes' in glxinfo. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:58:40 -0500, Dale wrote: No, I don't have another machine to ssh in. I wish I did. It's have a working keyboard or hit the reset button/pull the plug. Did you try the Magic SysRq keys? That's a lot friendlier than cutting the power. -- Neil Bothwick Loose bits sink chips. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:09:22 -0500, Dale wrote: I wonder if magic sysrq would have worked? I don't think I tried it when my keyboard became dead. It should do, because that goes direct to th kernel, and it is only X that cannot read the keyboard. I couldn't find where I wrote those key sequences down so I couldn't try that. There are some strange mnemonics involving elephants, that are harder to remember than the key sequence. The easy way to remember the full sequence is BUSIER backwards. Alt+SysRq+R-E-I-S-U-B -- Neil Bothwick Programming Language: (n.) a shorthand way of describing a series of bugs to a computer or a programmer. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [xorg-server-1.5] managing graphic card
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:33:10 +0100 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mike, how do you mean set up dri? It is shown as 'yes' in glxinfo. ... On Saturday 11 April 2009, Mike Kazantsev wrote: If so, try x11-misc/driconf. Just try this tool, it's GUI, written just for that purpose. It'll create ~/.drirc file, which was necessary for me (intel igp) to get x10+ performance gain with OpenGL-enabled games. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs recompile required but not recognized
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:52:26 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: If you did install kdelibs, then the Qt version that is picked up by this configure is not the same version you used to compile kdelibs. The Qt Plugin installed by kdelibs is *ONLY* loadable if it is the _same Qt version_, compiled with the _same compiler_ and the same Qt configuration settings. Reinstalling kdelibs alone won't help if Qt was built with an older compiler. Re-emerge qt. -- Neil Bothwick The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Xandros, EEE which partition to chroot
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:22:46 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: There are four partitions on the SSHD, sda1,2,3,4. sda1 is formatted ext2 and is the largest and contains the file system. sda2 is slightly smaller, formatted ext3 and also has a file system on it, but with fewer files. sda3 is very small, formatted fat32, and is empty. sda4 is formatted fat16, and is empty(I think, I wasn't able to mount it). Why do sda1 and sda2 have virtually the same files on them and why is one formatted ext2 and the other ext3? sda1 and sda2 are combined as a Unionfs filesystem, one contains the base install and the other is writeable for changes. That's why the restore boot option is so fast, it just reformats the overlaid filesystem. There isn't room to install Gentoo alongside Xandros on a 4GB Eee. Either install Gentoo to an SD card for now or bite the bullet and wipe Xandros before installation. -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh as his Mercedes smashed into the tunnel support. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse
Mick: [ merge key=input.xkb.options type=stringcompose:menu/merge ] I see, I should have phrased my question differently: which is the compose key ... It is easy to misunderstand. Especially for me with my lack of knowledge of english. ;) I don't have a key that is called compose, but I think that my menu key is the one between Right Ctrl key and AltGr. No, i have a pc105 keyboard with two keys between Alt_Right and Ctrl-Right, not only one. In that case your key is probably rwin and you should use compose:rwin. Possible values can be found in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst, search there for compose. However, nothing happens when I press it. Well, if there is no menu key ... *g* My corresponding line for an alternative keyboard in the .fdi file is: merge key=input.x11_options.XkbOptions type=stringgrp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,compose:menu/merge So I assume that if you use grp:altgr_shift_toggle you'll get that functionality up. If have tried that and got, eh, interesting results. *g* With some modifications i should be able to restore the previous behavior, but i'm used to menu now since several years. And: i am lazy. Hartmut
Re: [gentoo-user] VNC question
On 11 Apr 2009, at 10:13, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: ... the MAC-Screenshare VNC Client gave a warning about 'not so good authentication' so it seems apple might after all have a proprietary extension in there. It's worth mentioning that the original GPL, ATT sponsored VNC offered no encryption (except perhaps as https in the browser-based Java version?). The last I heard was that work had ceased upon it, following the termination of ATT sponsorship, but that some of the authors had started their own company selling VNC-based solutions. Their new products are used by at least one company that sells KVM-IP switches, but I believe they are all closed proprietary. I think more than one OSS / 3rd-party VNC project have, as a consequence, added encryption, but I don't believe that any of them are compatible. :( It really is a shame, IMO. VNC brought us cross-platform screensharing, but without encryption one is reluctant to use it outside the LAN. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt files or ntfs-3g fs?
On 11 Apr 2009, at 09:37, Mick wrote: ... I cannot afford to lose the remaining data on the disk and I do not have another disk as large to back up first. You're completely stuffed, then. There's nothing you can safely do except leave these dodgy files intact. Is there an application I could use to remove them and free the space on the disk, or should I run chkdisk or fsck first? I think that you have to boot into windows and try to run chkdsk to repair the filesystem. What he said. I believe the risk to the remaining data is low, but I believe it is present. chkdsk has no more warranty than any other software. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:58:40 -0500, Dale wrote: No, I don't have another machine to ssh in. I wish I did. It's have a working keyboard or hit the reset button/pull the plug. Did you try the Magic SysRq keys? That's a lot friendlier than cutting the power. I didn't try that. I have the sequence wrote down somewhere but I can't find it. Someone just posted it again tho. I hope I never have to try it. Oh, just found out the new gcc won't compile a 2.6.23 kernel. It spits out a error and quits. Nice, real nice. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty
On 10 Apr 2009, at 14:50, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Stroller wrote: The sub-packages are not intended to be installed stand-alone - they are merely for the convenience of the devs and so that minimal work is required of your system to maintain minor updates. I wonder why this is a required package * dev-tex/feynmf Latest version available: 1.08-r3 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 328 kB Homepage: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/feynmf/ Description: Combined LaTeX/Metafont package for drawing of Feynman diagrams License: GPL-2 or even this * dev-tex/latex-beamer Latest version available: 3.07 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 2,335 kB Homepage: http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ Description: LaTeX class for creating presentations using a video projector. License: GPL-2 FDL-1.2 LPPL-1.3c a well designed modular approach should not require these for basic functionality. I think - and please correct me if I'm wrong, but referring to your previous post - you have USE=extra set. You can easily set -extra -whatever just for app-text/texlive in /etc/ portage/package.use - once you appreciate it I think you may find `flagedit` quicker than `vi` for setting flags on a per-package basis. But as someone else observed, the files and bloat added by these packages will surely be very small indeed - they're probably considered a standard part of a LaTeX distribution. I don't know anything about Feynman diagrams, but you might find video projector a little misleading - Beamer is just a package of Powerpoint or presentation templates for export to print or pdf. When I was at uni the lecturers used this package to format their notes for overhead projectors, and printed them on transparency paper. Importing the package will AIUI simply result in the document being processed in a large font (of a type which is clearly legible at the back of the classroom) and bullet-points before each paragraph. You may not need this, and you may be able to disable it with USE flags, but it's so commonly referred to on the LaTeX newsgroups that I'm sure its use is unexceptional and it's really not such an unreasonable thing to include as a default. Stroller.
[gentoo-user] remove all kde and start again ...
I have got myself into a bind with kde 3.5.10 and 3.5.9 - I would like to unmerge all kde and then remerge it as 3.5.10. Currently its taken me ages to unmerge packages as I have emereg world, which its just dawned on me is only printing 3 blocking packages at a time - very slow progress Its just dawned on me that this is kde-meta - is there a way to just remove all kde at once? BillK -- William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au Home in Perth!
Re: [gentoo-user] remove all kde and start again ...
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:44:01 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Its just dawned on me that this is kde-meta - is there a way to just remove all kde at once? emerge -C kde-meta emerge --depclean -a -- Neil Bothwick I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] remove all kde and start again ...
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:44:01 +0800 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: I have got myself into a bind with kde 3.5.10 and 3.5.9 - I would like to unmerge all kde and then remerge it as 3.5.10. Currently its taken me ages to unmerge packages as I have emereg world, which its just dawned on me is only printing 3 blocking packages at a time - very slow progress Its just dawned on me that this is kde-meta - is there a way to just remove all kde at once? BillK Hi Something like this should help # equery list kde-base/ | grep 3\.5 | xargs emerge --unmerge --pretend and then the same for kde-misc # equery list kde-misc/ | grep 3\.5 | xargs emerge --unmerge --pretend From here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde-config.xml HTH Uwe -- /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Uwe \ / against HTML e-mail | keksvernichter@@gmail.com x against MS attachments | Key: 93BF09A2 @ pool.sks-keyservers.net / \ www.asciribbon.org | Key: 93BF09A2 @ keys.gnupg.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] remove all kde and start again ...
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 14:04 +0200, Uwe wrote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:44:01 +0800 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: I have got myself into a bind with kde 3.5.10 and 3.5.9 - I would like to unmerge all kde and then remerge it as 3.5.10. Currently its taken me ages to unmerge packages as I have emereg world, which its just dawned on me is only printing 3 blocking packages at a time - very slow progress Its just dawned on me that this is kde-meta - is there a way to just remove all kde at once? BillK Hi Something like this should help # equery list kde-base/ | grep 3\.5 | xargs emerge --unmerge --pretend and then the same for kde-misc # equery list kde-misc/ | grep 3\.5 | xargs emerge --unmerge --pretend From here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde-config.xml Thanks Uwe, I found this and used it and its now happily rebuilding. BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] remove all kde and start again ...
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 12:58 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:44:01 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Its just dawned on me that this is kde-meta - is there a way to just remove all kde at once? emerge -C kde-meta emerge --depclean -a Thanks Neil, I used the xarg way from the kde meta page, but I'll keep this in mind - the first time I've seen a use for depclean thats really useful vice housekeeping. BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] VNC question
Zebedee was (I think) originally designed to offer an encrypted port based tunnel for vnc amongst other apps. Ive found it extreemly useful over the years, and far more stable/flexible/featureful than the ssh alternative, especially over poor and dialup connections. zebedee + vnc is classic unix - each doing its own task ... well BillK On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 12:11 +0100, Stroller wrote: On 11 Apr 2009, at 10:13, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: ... the MAC-Screenshare VNC Client gave a warning about 'not so good authentication' so it seems apple might after all have a proprietary extension in there. It's worth mentioning that the original GPL, ATT sponsored VNC offered no encryption (except perhaps as https in the browser-based Java version?). The last I heard was that work had ceased upon it, following the termination of ATT sponsorship, but that some of the authors had started their own company selling VNC-based solutions. Their new products are used by at least one company that sells KVM-IP switches, but I believe they are all closed proprietary. I think more than one OSS / 3rd-party VNC project have, as a consequence, added encryption, but I don't believe that any of them are compatible. :( It really is a shame, IMO. VNC brought us cross-platform screensharing, but without encryption one is reluctant to use it outside the LAN. Stroller. -- William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au Home in Perth!
[gentoo-user] Double firefox references in taskbar
Since some time (I think since firefox 3), when I launch firefox using the button in kde's menu, I get two Mozilla firefox references in the task bar, one of which with the turning hourglass. Then, the main window of firefox appears. The bouncing firefox icon continues to be near the pointer arrow. After say 10 or 15 seconds, the bouncing icon and the taskbar reference with the turning hourglass disappear, and I'm left with only one (as should be in the first place imho). The aplication associated with the kde menu button is /usr/bin/firefox %U (I tried removing the %U, no difference). If I run /usr/bin/firefox from the command line, everything is fine (ie, a single reference in the task bar). Anyone else has seen this? Kde version 3.5.9. Not a big problem, but I'm just curious.
Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs recompile required but not recognized
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:45:51AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:52:26 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: If you did install kdelibs, then the Qt version that is picked up by this configure is not the same version you used to compile kdelibs. The Qt Plugin installed by kdelibs is *ONLY* loadable if it is the _same Qt version_, compiled with the _same compiler_ and the same Qt configuration settings. Reinstalling kdelibs alone won't help if Qt was built with an older compiler. Re-emerge qt. I thought I had, and should have said so. Anyways, I am starting a rebuild and will see what I see in a while ... -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: # qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati Are you saying that the above drivers are no longer needed because evdev will do everything and do it correctly? In theory, evdev replaces keyboard and mouse. You can have all three *present*, but you can only *use* either evdev or keyboard/mouse at one time. evdev will give you basic keyboard and mouse functionality. It is always possible that you have unusual hardware and will need to write an fdi file to tell HAL what you have. It is also always possible that you have very unusual hardware that evdev cannot cope with. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Double firefox references in taskbar
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:13:06PM +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Since some time (I think since firefox 3), when I launch firefox using the button in kde's menu, I get two Mozilla firefox references in the task bar, one of which with the turning hourglass. Then, the main window of firefox appears. The bouncing firefox icon continues to be near the pointer arrow. After say 10 or 15 seconds, the bouncing icon and the taskbar reference with the turning hourglass disappear, and I'm left with only one (as should be in the first place imho). The aplication associated with the kde menu button is /usr/bin/firefox %U (I tried removing the %U, no difference). Mozilla-firefox does have a startup-notification use flag, do you have it turned on? If I run /usr/bin/firefox from the command line, everything is fine (ie, a single reference in the task bar). Well, kde doesn't know that you are starting an app, so there's no startup-notification magic involved ;) Anyone else has seen this? Kde version 3.5.9. Not a big problem, but I'm just curious. yoyo
[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works
Again, for the record in case it's of use to others. Previously cautiously, I updated Xorg-server, but used the old modules. Having got that to work, I've gone the Evdev route it seems to work ! I recompiled kernel 2.6.29 to use 'event interface' (as instructed). Then in /etc/make.conf , I commented #INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse and replaced it with INPUT_DEVICES=evdev Then I recompiled Xorg-server without 'USE=-hal' in /etc/X11/xorg.conf commented the line #Option AutoAddDevices false I rebooted everything is working ! I have a Logitech mouse which I bought several years ago use a US keyboard layout, which probably simplified the task. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Double firefox references in taskbar
On Saturday 11 April 2009, 16:09, YoYo siska wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:13:06PM +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Since some time (I think since firefox 3), when I launch firefox using the button in kde's menu, I get two Mozilla firefox references in the task bar, one of which with the turning hourglass. Then, the main window of firefox appears. The bouncing firefox icon continues to be near the pointer arrow. After say 10 or 15 seconds, the bouncing icon and the taskbar reference with the turning hourglass disappear, and I'm left with only one (as should be in the first place imho). The aplication associated with the kde menu button is /usr/bin/firefox %U (I tried removing the %U, no difference). Mozilla-firefox does have a startup-notification use flag, do you have it turned on? Good catch. I built mozilla-firefox with that flag disabled. Should I turn it on (I'm asking before starting a 3-hourse recompile :)) Thank you!
Re: [gentoo-user] Double firefox references in taskbar
On Saturday 11 April 2009, 16:24, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 11 April 2009, 16:09, YoYo siska wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:13:06PM +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Since some time (I think since firefox 3), when I launch firefox using the button in kde's menu, I get two Mozilla firefox references in the task bar, one of which with the turning hourglass. Then, the main window of firefox appears. The bouncing firefox icon continues to be near the pointer arrow. After say 10 or 15 seconds, the bouncing icon and the taskbar reference with the turning hourglass disappear, and I'm left with only one (as should be in the first place imho). The aplication associated with the kde menu button is /usr/bin/firefox %U (I tried removing the %U, no difference). Mozilla-firefox does have a startup-notification use flag, do you have it turned on? Good catch. I built mozilla-firefox with that flag disabled. Should I turn it on (I'm asking before starting a 3-hourse recompile :)) Ok, I found out by myself. Either remove enable launch feedback in the button properties, or leve it enabled but recompile firefox with that USE flag. Sorry for being dense. Thank you!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Jon Hamilton wrote: On Wed, April 8, 2009 07:10, Dale wrote: KH wrote: Dale schrieb: Hi, I have ran into a problem here. When I go to http://wireless.att.com/ Seamonkey crashes. It does this pretty fast even tho I am on a slow [ KH can't reproduce, using Seamonkey 1.15 ] I can't reproduce that either; the site loads/works fine for me. The site does use flash; perhaps it's a problem there? It might be worth turning on flashblock or otherwise disabling flash. Another suggestion would be to try it from a shell with a different home directory, to take your .mozilla out of the mix (you could mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.old temporarily, or just do HOME=/tmp seamonkey http://mobile.att.com so it won't find your .mozilla directory and will start fresh/clean. Based on your memory and swap usage, it doesn't look to me like that's the issue. Well, I'm back again. I did a new profile by renaming .mozilla and then copying over my emails, passwords and bookmarks. I didn't copy anything else that I can recall. I also didn't copy prefs.js. I did edit it to point to my old passwords file but surely not a problem. Now, Seamonkey crashes again. Could this be a java problem? Here is the list I have tried: r...@smoker / # eselect java-nsplugin list Available Java browser plugins [1] sun-jdk-1.5 [2] sun-jdk-1.6 current [3] sun-jdk-1.6-plugin2 r...@smoker / # eselect java-nsplugin set 1 r...@smoker / # eselect java-nsplugin list Available Java browser plugins [1] sun-jdk-1.5 current [2] sun-jdk-1.6 [3] sun-jdk-1.6-plugin2 r...@smoker / # Should I try the plugin2 kind? What is that anyway? Can someone think of something else that could cause this? I do have adblock installed but it crashes even if I disable it. This works fine with Konqueror tho. I did recently do a emerge -ev world which updated a few things but not Seamonkey, tho it did recompile it. Just in case it may matter, here is some more info: r...@smoker / # emerge -pv seamonkey These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] www-client/seamonkey-1.1.16 [1.1.15] USE=crypt ipv6 java ldap xprint -debug -gnome -mozdevelop -moznocompose -moznoirc -moznomail -moznopango -moznoroaming -postgres -xforms -xinerama 37,194 kB Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 37,194 kB r...@smoker / # emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc28 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 i686) = System uname: Linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r8-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP_2500+-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:45:01 + app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d CXXFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--with-bdeps y FEATURES=buildsyspkg distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/ LANG=en_US LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 LINGUAS=en_US en MAKEOPTS=-j3 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/ PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS=--timeout=600 PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage SYNC=rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=3dnow X acl acpi alsa amd arts artswrappersuid automount berkdb bzip2 cairo cddb cdr chroot cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam fdftk fortran gdbm gif gimp gkrellm gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal hbci htmlhandbook iconv ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde kdeprefix ldap libnotify libwww logrotate loop-aes mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ofx ogg opengl openmp pam parport pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline realmedia reflection sdl seamonkey session spell spl sqlite sse ssl
[gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Dale: Well, I'm back again. I did a new profile by renaming .mozilla and then copying over my emails, passwords and bookmarks. I didn't copy anything else that I can recall. I also didn't copy prefs.js. I did edit it to point to my old passwords file but surely not a problem. Now, Seamonkey crashes again. So you have no extension installed at the moment? Fine. Then look under Help-About Plug-ins. Entries there more than the default ones? If so lets temporarily get rid of them. Close SM, rename /usr/lib/nsbrowser to /usr/lib/nsbrowser-s, restart SM and look again for the plugins. Gone? If so go to http://wireless.att.com/ and see what happens. It's a long since i used such an archaic version of SM like you. *g* Hartmut
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: Well, I'm back again. I did a new profile by renaming .mozilla and then copying over my emails, passwords and bookmarks. I didn't copy anything else that I can recall. I also didn't copy prefs.js. I did edit it to point to my old passwords file but surely not a problem. Now, Seamonkey crashes again. So you have no extension installed at the moment? Fine. Then look under Help-About Plug-ins. Entries there more than the default ones? If so lets temporarily get rid of them. Close SM, rename /usr/lib/nsbrowser to /usr/lib/nsbrowser-s, restart SM and look again for the plugins. Gone? If so go to http://wireless.att.com/ and see what happens. It's a long since i used such an archaic version of SM like you. *g* Hartmut Archaic? I read about the new Seamonkey 2 but it said it was not ready for mainstream or something to that effect. Is it safe enough? I'll give those tricks a try. Heck, it can't hurt anything. I'll unmerge something if needed. I just think it has to be a plugin or something. Weird part is it crashing on that email loading up. Something in common somewhere. Will post back shortly. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: Well, I'm back again. I did a new profile by renaming .mozilla and then copying over my emails, passwords and bookmarks. I didn't copy anything else that I can recall. I also didn't copy prefs.js. I did edit it to point to my old passwords file but surely not a problem. Now, Seamonkey crashes again. So you have no extension installed at the moment? Fine. Then look under Help-About Plug-ins. Entries there more than the default ones? If so lets temporarily get rid of them. Close SM, rename /usr/lib/nsbrowser to /usr/lib/nsbrowser-s, restart SM and look again for the plugins. Gone? If so go to http://wireless.att.com/ and see what happens. It's a long since i used such an archaic version of SM like you. *g* Hartmut OK. I renamed it to .old then restarted Seamonkey and it still crashed. So nothing changed there. What else can I try? This is the list of things on about:plugins: QuickTime Plug-in 6.0 / 7 RealPlayer 9 Windows Media Player Plugin mplayerplug-in 3.50 Shockwave Flash Java(TM) Plug-in 1.5.0_18-b02 Demo Print Plugin for unix/linux Most of those are linked to mplayerplug-in. I could get rid of that if needed. I just have to unmerge it I guess. I'm still downloading the new version of Seamonkey. Thoughts? Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Dale: [SM 1.x] Archaic? For me, yes. Since years i use nightlies of SM. Not quite correct, though, because i update the source, formerly from cvs, now with hg, apply my own patches and build my own SM. I read about the new Seamonkey 2 but it said it was not ready for mainstream or something to that effect. Is it safe enough? Not the normal nightlies. Sometimes there are interesting effects. But there are now candidates which should be safe enough. The last one: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/2.0a3-candidates/ I'll give those tricks a try. With SM2 it would be easier. There's now an Add-on Manager. http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/am090411.png (27 KB) No problem to disable some plugins or extensions for testing. Weird part is it crashing on that email loading up. Weird indeed. Hartmut
[gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?
I was updating the xorg-server on my other gentoo box from 1.3.x to 1.5.3, and my X would not launch until I commented out 'freetype' or 'vga' modules in the xorg.conf - why is that? Basically, I am going the old keyboard and mouse route for now, and I rebuilt my nvidia drivers, mouse drivers, and keyboard drivers, as the instructions told me - but X still wouldn't launch because the loader complained that it can't find freetype and vga modules. Are these modules phased out of the new xorg-server, or am I needing to rebuild something else still? Thanks! Denis
[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?
Denis wrote: I was updating the xorg-server on my other gentoo box from 1.3.x to 1.5.3, and my X would not launch until I commented out 'freetype' or 'vga' modules in the xorg.conf - why is that? Basically, I am going the old keyboard and mouse route for now, and I rebuilt my nvidia drivers, mouse drivers, and keyboard drivers, as the instructions told me - but X still wouldn't launch because the loader complained that it can't find freetype and vga modules. Are these modules phased out of the new xorg-server, or am I needing to rebuild something else still? They are not needed anymore.
[gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Dale: OK. I renamed it to .old then restarted Seamonkey and it still crashed. First you should have looked if the plugins are gone now. So nothing changed there. What else can I try? This is the list of things on about:plugins: QuickTime Plug-in 6.0 / 7 RealPlayer 9 Windows Media Player Plugin mplayerplug-in 3.50 Shockwave Flash Java(TM) Plug-in 1.5.0_18-b02 Demo Print Plugin for unix/linux Despite of the last one all should have disappeared after renaming /usr/lib/nsbrowser and restarting of SM. For me that worked. Hm. If your Shockwave Flash comes from the package adobe-flash, then h...@e675 ~ $ equery f adobe-flash [...] /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so - /opt/netscape/plugins [...] So it seems that on your system /usr/lib/nsbrowser is also used. And then i don't understand how at least this plugin appears in abput:plugins after renaming this dir and restarting SM. The other plugins in your list i cannot search because i don't have them installed. Gentoo lacks an equivalent to apt-file. Sigh. But this mplayerplug-in. I had tested it some time ago and unemerged it because of spurious crashes. I am using mozplugger. Hartmut
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: [SM 1.x] Archaic? For me, yes. Since years i use nightlies of SM. Not quite correct, though, because i update the source, formerly from cvs, now with hg, apply my own patches and build my own SM. I read about the new Seamonkey 2 but it said it was not ready for mainstream or something to that effect. Is it safe enough? Not the normal nightlies. Sometimes there are interesting effects. But there are now candidates which should be safe enough. The last one: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/2.0a3-candidates/ I'll give those tricks a try. With SM2 it would be easier. There's now an Add-on Manager. http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/am090411.png (27 KB) No problem to disable some plugins or extensions for testing. Weird part is it crashing on that email loading up. Weird indeed. Hartmut Just for curiosity, I'm going to unmerge mplayer. That will remove a LOT of the plugins. I'll report back but I suspect this will still crash. If it still crashes after the upgrade today, I'm going to unmask Seamonkey2 and see what it looks like. At least it is not as bad as my recent xorg upgrade. :-@ BTW, I use gmail so I don't get copies to reply to so I have to keep coming back to yours. PITA but it's free. :-D Thanks Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Some hints about evdev versus xorg and your mouse and keyboard
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com mailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: # qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati Are you saying that the above drivers are no longer needed because evdev will do everything and do it correctly? In theory, evdev replaces keyboard and mouse. You can have all three *present*, but you can only *use* either evdev or keyboard/mouse at one time. evdev will give you basic keyboard and mouse functionality. It is always possible that you have unusual hardware and will need to write an fdi file to tell HAL what you have. It is also always possible that you have very unusual hardware that evdev cannot cope with. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com Question, I have had evdev, keyboard and mouse in my make.conf for a while now. I also tried the new xorg and it was a disaster for me. Is that the problem? I wish it would try evdev first and then fall back to the old way if it fails. That's just me tho. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Dale: BTW, I use gmail so I don't get copies to reply to so I have to keep coming back to yours. PITA but it's free. :-D I use news.gmane.org and there is gmane.linux.gentoo.user a normal newsgroup. No mails. :) Hartmut
[gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Dale: If it still crashes after the upgrade today, I'm going to unmask Seamonkey2 and see what it looks like. One caveat. Your profile will be automatically migrated and you should be able to use SM2 or SM1. But for emails, if you fetch them with one SM they are no longer available for the other, unless [x] Leave messages on server Hartmut
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: If it still crashes after the upgrade today, I'm going to unmask Seamonkey2 and see what it looks like. One caveat. Your profile will be automatically migrated and you should be able to use SM2 or SM1. But for emails, if you fetch them with one SM they are no longer available for the other, unless [x] Leave messages on server Hartmut I may just tell it to leave them on server for a while till I see if it is stable for me. I like Seamonkey. Konqueror is OK but I prefer Seamonkey. I would use Firefoz if it wasn't for my emails. I archive all my emails here. I got about 40,000 or so so far. Most of that is mailing lists tho. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Hartmut Figge wrote: Despite of the last one all should have disappeared after renaming /usr/lib/nsbrowser and restarting of SM. For me that worked. Hm. If your Shockwave Flash comes from the package adobe-flash, then h...@e675 ~ $ equery f adobe-flash [...] /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so - /opt/netscape/plugins [...] So it seems that on your system /usr/lib/nsbrowser is also used. And then i don't understand how at least this plugin appears in abput:plugins after renaming this dir and restarting SM. The other plugins in your list i cannot search because i don't have them installed. Gentoo lacks an equivalent to apt-file. Sigh. But this mplayerplug-in. I had tested it some time ago and unemerged it because of spurious crashes. I am using mozplugger. Hartmut You are correct. Everything but the last one was gone when I renamed the directory. So no need to unmerge anything. This appears to be a Seamonkey issue and I have no clue where to start. I ran Seamonkey in a console as a user. This is what I got for a error: /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 16912 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) $mozbin $xulparams $@ seamonkey-bin exited with non-zero status (139) I can't help but notice xulpaprams in there. Is that related to xulrunner? That give you any ideas? Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:30:44PM +0100, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: * dev-tex/feynmf Latest version available: 1.08-r3 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 328 kB Homepage: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/feynmf/ Description: Combined LaTeX/Metafont package for drawing of Feynman diagrams License: GPL-2 or even this * dev-tex/latex-beamer Latest version available: 3.07 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 2,335 kB Homepage: http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ Description: LaTeX class for creating presentations using a video projector. License: GPL-2 FDL-1.2 LPPL-1.3c a well designed modular approach should not require these for basic functionality. I think - and please correct me if I'm wrong, but referring to your previous post - you have USE=extra set. Actually, this is irrelevant. I looked into the ebuild for texlive 2008, and latex beamer and feynmf are not controllable by USE. I don't know anything about Feynman diagrams, but you might find video projector a little misleading - Beamer is just a package of Powerpoint or presentation templates for export to print or pdf. When I was at uni the lecturers used this package to format their notes for overhead projectors, and printed them on transparency paper. Importing the package will AIUI simply result in the document being processed in a large font (of a type which is clearly legible at the back of the classroom) and bullet-points before each paragraph. Beamer is a lot more powerful than that now. It makes a PDF presentation document that when shown with, say, acrobat reader in full screen, actually is about as good, or better, than powerpoint, unless you need to deal with multimedia (videos and such). I can go on and on about the automated Table Of Contents and hyper-linked short cuts, and the control bar for advancing and rewinding slides that also allow you to jump to section headings. But it is a lot easier to just point you to the website http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ for their examples. It is sort of standard in the younger mathematical and physics community, especially because of its portability. W -- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. - One of the laws of computers and programming revealed. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 855 days, 19:07
[gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Dale: This appears to be a Seamonkey issue and I have no clue where to start. I ran Seamonkey in a console as a user. To recall. You have renamed ~/.mozilla, SM newly emerged so that it creates a new ~/.mozilla at the next start, not installed any extension and have now only the default plugin in about:plugins. And your SM crashes at http://wireless.att.com/ Interesting. :) This is what I got for a error: /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 16912 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) $mozbin $xulparams $@ seamonkey-bin exited with non-zero status (139) I can't help but notice xulpaprams in there. Is that related to xulrunner? That give you any ideas? No, that doesn't help. Before i disabled the crashreporter in my SM2 with - ~/.mozconfig - ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter --- i got a popup window in case of a crash with informations, which could be sent to mozilla.org to automatically generate a meaningful report. But SM1? I don't remember. Too much time. But you had modified your profile and your prefs.js by hand. Was not necessary for testing the URL. Create a new profile with Tools-Switch Profile-Manage Profiles..., switch to it and do nothing else than calling http://wireless.att.com/ in the browser. Crash again? If so, then i would fetch http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/1.1.16/seamonkey-1.1.16.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz, put it in a new dir in home, e.g. ~/.sm-test, decompress it there, change to the dir seamonkey and issue there ./seamonkey after renaming ~/.mozilla to e.g. ~/.mozilla-old-2. Hm, is 'issue' the right verb? *g* And, you had never run SM with sudo, right? This could severely damage your profile. Hartmut
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Hartmut Figge wrote: To recall. You have renamed ~/.mozilla, SM newly emerged so that it creates a new ~/.mozilla at the next start, not installed any extension and have now only the default plugin in about:plugins. And your SM crashes at http://wireless.att.com/ Interesting. :) A few days ago, I did rename .mozilla to .mozilla.old and it worked fine. Then I copied over my emails, password files and bookmarks. I did notice that when I pointed the prefs.js file to the correct password file, it started messing up shortly after that. Keep in mind that all I did is correct the name of the password file. I guess it could be that something is messed up with the password file. After all, I do have to enter my login and password there. I would assume it would access the password file at some point in loading the page. No, that doesn't help. Before i disabled the crashreporter in my SM2 with - ~/.mozconfig - ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter --- i got a popup window in case of a crash with informations, which could be sent to mozilla.org to automatically generate a meaningful report. But SM1? I don't remember. Too much time. But you had modified your profile and your prefs.js by hand. Was not necessary for testing the URL. Create a new profile with Tools-Switch Profile-Manage Profiles..., switch to it and do nothing else than calling http://wireless.att.com/ in the browser. Crash again? If so, then i would fetch http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/1.1.16/seamonkey-1.1.16.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz, put it in a new dir in home, e.g. ~/.sm-test, decompress it there, change to the dir seamonkey and issue there ./seamonkey after renaming ~/.mozilla to e.g. ~/.mozilla-old-2. Hm, is 'issue' the right verb? *g* And, you had never run SM with sudo, right? This could severely damage your profile. Hartmut I would hate to have to install it locally that way. I sort of let portage handle all that. I mess up enough already with portage helping me. lol I have ran Seamonkey as root before but never used sudo. I have never used sudo for anything actually. I have to use root to install adblock or it doesn't work. That is the only time I use it as root tho. I got that link bookmarked. I go to it, install adblock and then close it. I'm hoping this new version will fix something. Other wise, I may try a new profile without copying my passwords file. I would hate to loose those. I use several different passwords depending on the site. May also try Seamonkey2. Time will tell I guess. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: This appears to be a Seamonkey issue and I have no clue where to start. I ran Seamonkey in a console as a user. To recall. You have renamed ~/.mozilla, SM newly emerged so that it creates a new ~/.mozilla at the next start, not installed any extension and have now only the default plugin in about:plugins. And your SM crashes at http://wireless.att.com/ Interesting. :) I found another site that it crashes on. http://www.frozencpu.com/products/2513/fan-214/Thermaltake_120mm_Smart_Case_Fan_II_A2029.html Makes one wonder what these two have in common. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 = no memory card device
After upgrading to xorg-server-1.5, the /dev/sdb1 device no longer appears when I insert a memory card. Does anyone know why that is? - Grant you also did an udev update and nuked some config files? It looks like udev was updated on March 31st and xorg-server on April 6th. I suppose it's possible I put off running etc-update until the 6th though, or much more likely is I didn't reboot until the 6th. This behavior is the same across 2 laptops. My desktop is still on xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 and it automounts the memory card. If it's udev, where should I look? - Grant
[gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Dale: A few days ago, I did rename .mozilla to .mozilla.old and it worked fine. Then I copied over my emails, password files and bookmarks. You should really test with a new profile as described. That is the standard way to test the integrity of a profile. No crash in the testprofile and you know, that something is wrong in the old one. And if the testprofile crashes you can go back to the old profile and have nothing lost but some minutes. I did notice that when I pointed the prefs.js file to the correct password file, it started messing up shortly after that. Sounds like the prefs.js is corrupt after editing. Which editor did you use? And surely SM was closed while editing, hm? ;) Keep in mind that all I did is correct the name of the password file. That could be done. I guess it could be that something is messed up with the password file. And i guess that something went wrong with editing the prefs.js. *g* Create a new profile with Tools-Switch Profile-Manage Profiles..., switch to it and do nothing else than calling http://wireless.att.com/ in the browser. Do so! [ seamonkey-1.1.16.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz from mozilla.org ] I would hate to have to install it locally that way. I sort of let portage handle all that. I mess up enough already with portage helping me. lol I doubt i will be necessary after using a testprofile. And there is no danger in unpacking and running SM locally. It will not interfere with gentoo and can be safely removed after testing without leaving traces. But probably not necessary. Did i mention already that you should use a testprofile? I have ran Seamonkey as root before but never used sudo. Than there is no danger. Running as root is okay. Hartmut
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 = no memory card device
After upgrading to xorg-server-1.5, the /dev/sdb1 device no longer appears when I insert a memory card. Does anyone know why that is? - Grant you also did an udev update and nuked some config files? It looks like udev was updated on March 31st and xorg-server on April 6th. I suppose it's possible I put off running etc-update until the 6th though, or much more likely is I didn't reboot until the 6th. This behavior is the same across 2 laptops. My desktop is still on xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 and it automounts the memory card. Sorry, I meant the desktop is on xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6. - Grant If it's udev, where should I look? - Grant
[gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Dale: I found another site that it crashes on. http://www.frozencpu.com/products/2513/fan-214/Thermaltake_120mm_Smart_Case_Fan_II_A2029.html No problem here. Tested with a gentoo SM 1.1.16 with --no-remote while running my SM2. Hartmut
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: A few days ago, I did rename .mozilla to .mozilla.old and it worked fine. Then I copied over my emails, password files and bookmarks. You should really test with a new profile as described. That is the standard way to test the integrity of a profile. No crash in the testprofile and you know, that something is wrong in the old one. And if the testprofile crashes you can go back to the old profile and have nothing lost but some minutes. This is what I did the other day when I renamed .mozilla to .mozilla.old. Seamonkey did NOT crash when I did that. It also didn't after I transfered my emails and didn't for a little bit after I transfered the password files. I did notice that when I pointed the prefs.js file to the correct password file, it started messing up shortly after that. Sounds like the prefs.js is corrupt after editing. Which editor did you use? And surely SM was closed while editing, hm? ;) Actually, I used about:config to edit it. I did restart Seamonkey tho it shouldn't be necessary. My old passwords did show up then tho. Again, that site worked the first couple times. Keep in mind that all I did is correct the name of the password file. That could be done. I guess it could be that something is messed up with the password file. And i guess that something went wrong with editing the prefs.js. *g* This is the line that i changed: wallet.SchemaValueFileName And I changed it to: 60988542.s Which is the name of the file that contains my password info. Is there a way to export then import my password info? I can't find one other than the way I did it. Create a new profile with Tools-Switch Profile-Manage Profiles..., switch to it and do nothing else than calling http://wireless.att.com/ in the browser. Do so! [ seamonkey-1.1.16.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz from mozilla.org ] I would hate to have to install it locally that way. I sort of let portage handle all that. I mess up enough already with portage helping me. lol I doubt i will be necessary after using a testprofile. And there is no danger in unpacking and running SM locally. It will not interfere with gentoo and can be safely removed after testing without leaving traces. But probably not necessary. Did i mention already that you should use a testprofile? I have done that on windoze before. It does work. I just pulled out enough hair this week. o_O I have ran Seamonkey as root before but never used sudo. Than there is no danger. Running as root is okay. Hartmut Cool. I got to have my adblock. I'm on dial-up and I try to save all the downloading I can. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Mythfrontend segfaults
I ran emerge -avuD world on my system today, and now mythfrontend segfaults. Here's my info: camille ~ # emerge -pv mythtv These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1 USE=alsa debug dvb dvd jack lirc mmx opengl perl python -aac (-altivec) -autostart -directv -fftw -ieee1394 -lcd -xvmc VIDEO_CARDS=-nvidia 0 kB camille ~ # mythbackend 2009-04-11 18:31:16.670 Using runtime prefix = /usr 2009-04-11 18:31:16.686 Empty LocalHostName. 2009-04-11 18:31:16.686 Using localhost value of camille 2009-04-11 18:31:16.747 New DB connection, total: 1 2009-04-11 18:31:16.787 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2009-04-11 18:31:16.790 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0' 2009-04-11 18:31:16.791 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2009-04-11 18:31:16.821 New DB connection, total: 2 2009-04-11 18:31:16.827 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2009-04-11 18:31:16.839 Current Schema Version: 1214 Starting up as the master server. 2009-04-11 18:31:16.966 mythbackend: MythBackend started as master server 2009-04-11 18:31:17.102 New DB connection, total: 3 2009-04-11 18:31:17.103 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2009-04-11 18:31:17.203 New DB scheduler connection 2009-04-11 18:31:17.204 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2009-04-11 18:31:18.552 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension 2009-04-11 18:31:18.553 mythbackend version: 0.21.20080304-1 www.mythtv.org 2009-04-11 18:31:18.554 Enabled verbose msgs: important general 2009-04-11 18:31:18.557 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 0.0 GB w/freq: 15 min 2009-04-11 18:31:20.212 Reschedule requested for id -1. 2009-04-11 18:31:24.479 Scheduled 281 items in 4.3 = 3.10 match + 1.16 place 2009-04-11 18:31:24.496 scheduler: Scheduled items: Scheduled 281 items in 4.3 = 3.10 match + 1.16 place 2009-04-11 18:31:24.504 Seem to be woken up by USER 2009-04-11 18:31:26.976 mythbackend: Running housekeeping thread 2009-04-11 18:31:27.306 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap VIDEO scan starting in :/share/Movies/dvd: 2009-04-11 18:31:27.306 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap Done. Found 0 objects mich...@camille ~ $ mythfrontend 2009-04-11 18:31:47.740 Using runtime prefix = /usr 2009-04-11 18:31:48.608 XScreenSaver support enabled 2009-04-11 18:31:48.609 DPMS is active. 2009-04-11 18:31:48.628 Empty LocalHostName. 2009-04-11 18:31:48.629 Using localhost value of camille 2009-04-11 18:31:48.748 New DB connection, total: 1 2009-04-11 18:31:48.753 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2009-04-11 18:31:48.832 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0' 2009-04-11 18:31:48.856 Primary screen 0. 2009-04-11 18:31:48.857 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2009-04-11 18:31:48.859 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0 2009-04-11 18:31:48.964 New DB connection, total: 2 2009-04-11 18:31:48.965 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2009-04-11 18:31:48.970 mythfrontend version: 0.21.20080304-1 www.mythtv.org 2009-04-11 18:31:48.970 Enabled verbose msgs: important general 2009-04-11 18:31:51.785 No theme dir: /home/michael/.mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T 2009-04-11 18:31:51.788 Primary screen 0. 2009-04-11 18:31:51.789 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0 2009-04-11 18:31:51.791 No theme dir: /home/michael/.mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T 2009-04-11 18:31:51.792 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T) 2009-04-11 18:31:52.026 Using the Qt painter mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: No such file or directory 2009-04-11 18:31:52.027 lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages 2009-04-11 18:31:52.028 JoystickMenuClient Error: Joystick disabled - Failed to read /home/michael/.mythtv/joystickmenurc Segmentation fault mich...@camille ~ $ Has anyone else experienced this or have any idea how to fix this? We record a couple of hours of television every day and I don't know if it's still being recorded. Mysql and mythbackend are both running: camille ~ # ps ax | grep mysql 20526 pts/1R+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto mysql 25839 ?Ssl0:05 /usr/sbin/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/my.cnf --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock camille ~ # ps ax | grep mythbackend 20528 pts/1S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto mythbackend Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB But I won't know if mythbackend is actually working correctly unless I can check it (with mythfrontend, which of course isn't working.) Please help!
[gentoo-user] Re: remove all kde and start again ...
Uwe keksvernichter at googlemail.com writes: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde-config.xml I wonder when this page will be updated with KDE-4 information, and other related issues? Anyone with insight or inside info? James
[gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Dale: Hartmut Figge wrote: No crash in the testprofile and you know, that something is wrong in the old one. And if the testprofile crashes you can go back to the old profile and have nothing lost but some minutes. This is what I did the other day when I renamed .mozilla to .mozilla.old. Seamonkey did NOT crash when I did that. Fine. No crash before ... It also didn't after I transfered my emails and didn't for a little bit after I transfered the password files. ... you touched the profile ... Sounds like the prefs.js is corrupt after editing. Which editor did you use? And surely SM was closed while editing, hm? ;) Actually, I used about:config to edit it. I did restart Seamonkey tho it shouldn't be necessary. My old passwords did show up then tho. Again, that site worked the first couple times. ... but that could mean that SM with the unchanged profile could have crashed also if only you had tried long enough. Unlikely, though, because you seem the only one with this specific crash. Now i have looked in the former thread and found |After some testing, it is when I copy the pref.js |file that the emails disappear again. and i remembered you difficulties with emails. Did you really copy the prefs.js from your old profile, edited it and use it now? Shudder. *g* And i guess that something went wrong with editing the prefs.js. *g* This is the line that i changed: wallet.SchemaValueFileName And I changed it to: 60988542.s Mhm. This pref is for form history and should point to number.w. The pref for passwords is signon.SignonFileName and points to number.s. Form history pointing to number.s is, eh, quite unusual. ;) Which is the name of the file that contains my password info. number.s contains password info, that's correct, but the corresponding pref is signon.SignonFileName and not wallet.SchemaValueFileName. Is there a way to export then import my password info? I can't find one other than the way I did it. Moving to a new profile isn't too hard. Years ago i had done so sometimes, mostly, to get get rid of a corrupted prefs.js. E.g. at the time as i tried sudo. *g* Never use the old prefs.js or parts of it. I don't like changing prefs with about:config and prefer user_pref in the user.js. There i can comment and i know later what i had done. And i can use the user.js in a new profile. And for number.s and number.w, well, i had edited prefs.js, naturally after making a backup. Did i mention already that you should use a testprofile? I have done that on windoze before. It does work. I just pulled out enough hair this week. o_O Reminds me on my migration to xorg 1.5. *g* Hartmut
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: Hartmut Figge wrote: No crash in the testprofile and you know, that something is wrong in the old one. And if the testprofile crashes you can go back to the old profile and have nothing lost but some minutes. This is what I did the other day when I renamed .mozilla to .mozilla.old. Seamonkey did NOT crash when I did that. Fine. No crash before ... It also didn't after I transfered my emails and didn't for a little bit after I transfered the password files. ... you touched the profile ... Sounds like the prefs.js is corrupt after editing. Which editor did you use? And surely SM was closed while editing, hm? ;) Actually, I used about:config to edit it. I did restart Seamonkey tho it shouldn't be necessary. My old passwords did show up then tho. Again, that site worked the first couple times. ... but that could mean that SM with the unchanged profile could have crashed also if only you had tried long enough. Unlikely, though, because you seem the only one with this specific crash. Now i have looked in the former thread and found |After some testing, it is when I copy the pref.js |file that the emails disappear again. and i remembered you difficulties with emails. Did you really copy the prefs.js from your old profile, edited it and use it now? Shudder. *g* I did at one point but then I removed the profile and started over again. What I do is this. I make a copy of my .mozilla directory to another hard drive for extra protection. Then I rename, start fresh and do whatever. I may delete the clean profile a dozen times until I get things sorted. I would bet I deleted the clean profile a dozen times while trying several different things to get that site to load without crashing. With the last clean profile, I only copied the emails, password files, bookmarks then edited the prefs.js file to point to the new clean profile. I figured out that copying the prefs.js file was the problem so I stopped copying that. I did change some preferences under the Edit menu. I just wonder if one of those triggers something that is somewhat unique to me. I am weird according to some. I may have some setting that no one else uses. And i guess that something went wrong with editing the prefs.js. *g* This is the line that i changed: wallet.SchemaValueFileName And I changed it to: 60988542.s Mhm. This pref is for form history and should point to number.w. The pref for passwords is signon.SignonFileName and points to number.s. Form history pointing to number.s is, eh, quite unusual. ;) Which is the name of the file that contains my password info. number.s contains password info, that's correct, but the corresponding pref is signon.SignonFileName and not wallet.SchemaValueFileName. Well, according to a how to, that was the correct file and it did load my passwords as soon as I pointed it to that file. I found that by looking at about:config and finding the new password file it generated while making the clean profile. I then replaced the location to point to my old file. I may try that in a bit tho just in case. I still have my old .mozilla backups. Is there a way to export then import my password info? I can't find one other than the way I did it. Moving to a new profile isn't too hard. Years ago i had done so sometimes, mostly, to get get rid of a corrupted prefs.js. E.g. at the time as i tried sudo. *g* Never use the old prefs.js or parts of it. I don't like changing prefs with about:config and prefer user_pref in the user.js. There i can comment and i know later what i had done. And i can use the user.js in a new profile. I need to research user.js. I have never heard of that one. And for number.s and number.w, well, i had edited prefs.js, naturally after making a backup. Did i mention already that you should use a testprofile? I have done that on windoze before. It does work. I just pulled out enough hair this week. o_O Reminds me on my migration to xorg 1.5. *g* Hartmut Xorg is why I have very little hair right now. I went back to the OLD xorg and did -hal to boot. I masked the new xorg for now. Dale :-) :-) P. S. About to try the updated Seamonkey. Dale crosses fingers, toes and whatever else he can cross
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works wonders
After installing Xorg-server 1.5.3 adopting the Evdev approach, I can unplug + replug my mouse keyboard without losing usage: previously, you had to restart X to get them back. I assume the idea behind the change is to allow hotplugging these devices. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.5.3 doesn't like 'freetype' and 'vga' modules?
090411 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Denis wrote: I updated the xorg-server from 1.3.x to 1.5.3 my X wouldn't launch until I commented 'freetype' or 'vga' in xorg.conf - why is that? Basically, I am going the old keyboard and mouse route for now and I rebuilt my nvidia drivers, mouse drivers and keyboard drivers, but X still wouldn't launch because the loader complained that it can't find freetype and vga modules. Are these modules phased out of the new xorg-server or am I needing to rebuild something else still? They are not needed anymore. My 'xorg.conf' still has the Freetype line (not Vga) without problems. I'm now using 1.5.3 with Evdev. BTW the Nvidia driver is still being used (acc to 'lshal'), but its splash screen no longer appears: can anyone explain ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works wonders
Philip Webb wrote: After installing Xorg-server 1.5.3 adopting the Evdev approach, I can unplug + replug my mouse keyboard without losing usage: previously, you had to restart X to get them back. I assume the idea behind the change is to allow hotplugging these devices. You have a ps/2 keyboard and mouse or USB? Curious. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 evdev works wonders
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:47:46 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: After installing Xorg-server 1.5.3 adopting the Evdev approach, I can unplug + replug my mouse keyboard without losing usage: previously, you had to restart X to get them back. I assume the idea behind the change is to allow hotplugging these devices. Strangely enough, I do it more than ten times a day, and it works perfectly with old-style configuration. Same thing worked for PS/2 keyboard/mouse, unlike M$-OS. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Dale: What I do is this. I make a copy of my .mozilla directory to another hard drive for extra protection. Not bad. Then I rename, So did i. start fresh and do whatever. Nothing complicated, really. Start SM and create the old accounts exactly as they were before. Close SM and replace the folder Mail on the new profile with the folder Mail from the old profile. For News it should be the same, but i never had done so and preferred fresh newsgroups. Because, well, there often are ugly remains, some of the .msf may be corrupt and also some lines in the newsrc. For news i find it better to start fresh over. Except, of course, the tedious subcribing of the newsgroups. Here's how i do this. You had already created accounts for all newsservers and should have made a refresh for them also. Then all you have to do is to copy the newsrc-newsserver files from the old profile to the new one and delete in each of it in each line all after the :. Here is an example. Currently - newsrc-news.gmane.org - gmane.linux.gentoo.user.german: 1-33077 gmane.linux.gentoo.user: 1-212427 gmane.linux.gentoo.devel: 1-60793 gmane.linux.debian.user.german: 1-242119 gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.german: 1-16702 gmane.comp.emulators.wine.user: 1-43376 gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel: 1-68902 gmane.comp.emulators.wine.releases: 1-87 gmane.emacs.gnus.general: 1-68424 gmane.emacs.gnus.user: 1-12111 --- would become for the new profile - newsrc-news.gmane.org - gmane.linux.gentoo.user.german: gmane.linux.gentoo.user: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel: gmane.linux.debian.user.german: gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.german: gmane.comp.emulators.wine.user: gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel: gmane.comp.emulators.wine.releases: gmane.emacs.gnus.general: gmane.emacs.gnus.user: --- In this way i reuse my old subscriptions if i go to a new newsserver. Then you need number.s and number.w from the old profile. In the new one other numbers are used so they had to be adjusted in the prefs.js. Other useful files are abook.mab, bookmarks.html and if you are using certificates cert8.db and key3.db. With the last clean profile, I only copied the emails, password files, bookmarks then edited the prefs.js file to point to the new clean profile. Hm? That i don't understand. I did change some preferences under the Edit menu. Why not. I just wonder if one of those triggers something that is somewhat unique to me. There should be no problem. number.s contains password info, that's correct, but the corresponding pref is signon.SignonFileName and not wallet.SchemaValueFileName. Well, according to a how to, that was the correct file Sure, number.s is for the passwords. It is the correct file but belongs to signon.SignonFileName ;) and it did load my passwords as soon as I pointed it to that file. I found that by looking at about:config and finding the new password file it generated while making the clean profile. I have tried that now. Starting SM, closing it immediately and looking in the profile there is neither number.s nor number.w. You have to input at least one password before number.s is created. I then replaced the location to point to my old file. You must copy the old number.s to the new profile and then change the value in the prefs.js from the new number to the old number, yes. I don't like changing prefs with about:config and prefer user_pref in the user.js. There i can comment and i know later what i had done. And i can use the user.js in a new profile. I need to research user.js. I have never heard of that one. The user.js is a normal textfile in the profile which must be created it it not exists. In the same directory in which the prefs.js resides. Upon start SM looks into the user.js and put the found prefs into the prefs.js. Here's an excerpt from mine. - user.js - user_pref(mail.quoted_graphical, false); user_pref(mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support, true); user_pref(mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed, false); user_pref(mail.compose.other.header, Supersedes,Control); // Leerzeilenproblematik im gequoteten Text user_pref(mail.quoteasblock, false); // Beim Start Threads zugeklappt lassen user_pref(mailnews.scroll_to_new_message, false); --- P. S. About to try the updated Seamonkey. Dale crosses fingers, toes and whatever else he can cross You mean SM2? Well, it will migrate your old profile and if there are errors ... ;) Hartmut
[gentoo-user] Bye
Greetings, some nice days here but it is eating too much of my time. I'm writing this in case someone will reply to my former postings and wonder why there is no answer. Hartmut, unsubscribing
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey crashes on website.
Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: start fresh and do whatever. Nothing complicated, really. Start SM and create the old accounts exactly as they were before. Close SM and replace the folder Mail on the new profile with the folder Mail from the old profile. That's basically what I did. It was the passwords that gave me fits. I have a lot of passwords since I pay most bills online and order online a lot too. I find the cheapest price whether I have done business with them in the past or not. For News it should be the same, but i never had done so and preferred fresh newsgroups. Because, well, there often are ugly remains, some of the .msf may be corrupt and also some lines in the newsrc. For news i find it better to start fresh over. Except, of course, the tedious subcribing of the newsgroups. Here's how i do this. You had already created accounts for all newsservers and should have made a refresh for them also. Then all you have to do is to copy the newsrc-newsserver files from the old profile to the new one and delete in each of it in each line all after the :. Here is an example. Currently - newsrc-news.gmane.org - gmane.linux.gentoo.user.german: 1-33077 gmane.linux.gentoo.user: 1-212427 gmane.linux.gentoo.devel: 1-60793 gmane.linux.debian.user.german: 1-242119 gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.german: 1-16702 gmane.comp.emulators.wine.user: 1-43376 gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel: 1-68902 gmane.comp.emulators.wine.releases: 1-87 gmane.emacs.gnus.general: 1-68424 gmane.emacs.gnus.user: 1-12111 --- would become for the new profile - newsrc-news.gmane.org - gmane.linux.gentoo.user.german: gmane.linux.gentoo.user: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel: gmane.linux.debian.user.german: gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.german: gmane.comp.emulators.wine.user: gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel: gmane.comp.emulators.wine.releases: gmane.emacs.gnus.general: gmane.emacs.gnus.user: --- In this way i reuse my old subscriptions if i go to a new newsserver. I don't have any news accounts. Maybe one day tho. ;-) I get to bug a new set of people. Then you need number.s and number.w from the old profile. In the new one other numbers are used so they had to be adjusted in the prefs.js. Other useful files are abook.mab, bookmarks.html and if you are using certificates cert8.db and key3.db. I did copy the key3.db file because the how to said it was part of the passwords file set. With the last clean profile, I only copied the emails, password files, bookmarks then edited the prefs.js file to point to the new clean profile. Hm? That i don't understand. Well, at first, it wouldn't find the .s and .w file so no passwords. I had to sort of point it out to Seamonkey. I did change some preferences under the Edit menu. Why not. I just wonder if one of those triggers something that is somewhat unique to me. There should be no problem. number.s contains password info, that's correct, but the corresponding pref is signon.SignonFileName and not wallet.SchemaValueFileName. Well, according to a how to, that was the correct file Sure, number.s is for the passwords. It is the correct file but belongs to signon.SignonFileName ;) On mine, it appears to be the same for both, even in the new profile. May test that more later. and it did load my passwords as soon as I pointed it to that file. I found that by looking at about:config and finding the new password file it generated while making the clean profile. I have tried that now. Starting SM, closing it immediately and looking in the profile there is neither number.s nor number.w. You have to input at least one password before number.s is created. I then replaced the location to point to my old file. You must copy the old number.s to the new profile and then change the value in the prefs.js from the new number to the old number, yes. I don't like changing prefs with about:config and prefer user_pref in the user.js. There i can comment and i know later what i had done. And i can use the user.js in a new profile. I need to research user.js. I have never heard of that one. The user.js is a normal textfile in the profile which must be created it it not exists. In the same directory in which the prefs.js resides. Upon start SM looks into the user.js and put the found prefs into the prefs.js. Here's an excerpt from mine. - user.js - user_pref(mail.quoted_graphical, false); user_pref(mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support, true); user_pref(mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed, false); user_pref(mail.compose.other.header, Supersedes,Control); // Leerzeilenproblematik im gequoteten Text user_pref(mail.quoteasblock, false); // Beim Start Threads zugeklappt lassen user_pref(mailnews.scroll_to_new_message, false); --- P. S.
