Re: [gentoo-user] Mothballing a ~arch gentoo system?

2009-12-28 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 20:45 -0600, Dale wrote: Marcus Wanner wrote: When an old (circa 2001) desktop came out of retirement a few months ago, I shuffled across Linuxes trying to find something that worked well, and finally hit on gentoo. I eventually switched

Re: [gentoo-user] The current correct way to start kde 4

2009-12-28 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 28 Dezember 2009, Kirill Lipatov wrote: well yeah. I just think that setting the kdm as the login manager is the easiest way to automatically start kde4 session after loging in. However, kdm is of course not mandatory and it can do more than just start

Re: [gentoo-user] The current correct way to start kde 4

2009-12-28 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 28/12/2009 1:03 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 28 Dezember 2009, Kirill Lipatov wrote: well yeah. I just think that setting the kdm as the login manager is the easiest way to automatically start kde4 session after loging in. However, kdm is of course not mandatory and it can do

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.3 tweenview does not work

2009-12-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 28 December 2009 05:54:31 Xi Shen wrote: have they changed the definition of the word, or i were wrong at the first place? I've never heard of tweenview, but Nvidia has had a thing called TwinView for ages. And nvidia also likes to do their own thing in their own way. They even rip

Re: [gentoo-user] pxe + initramfs

2009-12-28 Thread Kyle Bader
James: How would I go about taking a LiveCD and packing it into a LiveCD so that I don't have to set up NFS exports for all the other Linux distributions? I assume you mean taking a livecd and packing it into a initramfs. I would suggest you read this guide:

[gentoo-user] Howto generate a list of installed packages?

2009-12-28 Thread Alan E. Davis
Season's Greetings to one and all. I would like to be able to generate a script or list of packages of some kind that would enable me to install Gentoo with an identical profile of installed packages. Since with Debian/Ubuntu one can run dpkg --get-selections file and dpkg

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto generate a list of installed packages?

2009-12-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 28 December 2009 09:50:31 Alan E. Davis wrote: Season's Greetings to one and all. I would like to be able to generate a script or list of packages of some kind that would enable me to install Gentoo with an identical profile of installed packages. Since with Debian/Ubuntu one can

Re: [gentoo-user] Mothballing a ~arch gentoo system?

2009-12-28 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 00:27 -0600, Dale wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 20:45 -0600, Dale wrote: Marcus Wanner wrote: ... trim ... The minimal system should be quicker and simpler to update than a crufty system - and if you have to update much of gnome and

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto generate a list of installed packages?

2009-12-28 Thread Dale
Alan E. Davis wrote: Season's Greetings to one and all. I would like to be able to generate a script or list of packages of some kind that would enable me to install Gentoo with an identical profile of installed packages. Since with Debian/Ubuntu one can run dpkg --get-selections file

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto generate a list of installed packages?

2009-12-28 Thread Norman Rieß
Alan E. Davis wrote: Season's Greetings to one and all. I would like to be able to generate a script or list of packages of some kind that would enable me to install Gentoo with an identical profile of installed packages. Since with Debian/Ubuntu one can run dpkg --get-selections file

Re: [gentoo-user] The current correct way to start kde 4

2009-12-28 Thread Mick
On Monday 28 December 2009 06:49:14 Andrew Lowe wrote: Thank you gentlemen for your replies. Setting DISPLAYMANAGER to kdm in /etc/conf.d/xmd it will be then. My confusion comes from there being posts suggesting this method, others setting XSESSION in /etc/env.d/90xsession, things

[gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems, so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date. I've come across CompFused which seems to be just what I'm looking for, but it's buggy not maintained anymore.

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-28 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:58:13 +0100 (CET) Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems, so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date. I've come

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-28 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 12:58 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems, so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date. I've come across CompFused which seems to be just

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto generate a list of installed packages?

2009-12-28 Thread Roger Mason
Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com writes: Season's Greetings to one and all. I would like to be able to generate a script or list of packages of some kind that would enable me to install Gentoo with an identical profile of installed packages. Since with Debian/Ubuntu one can run

[gentoo-user] [OT] Konqueror URL links

2009-12-28 Thread Mick
Hi All, I remember that when I hovered my mouse over links in web pages on Konq 3.5, it would show at the bottom of the window the URL that the link in question contained. This allowed me to decide if I wanted to visit the URL or not. With KDE4 I can't find how to activate this. Any ideas?

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto generate a list of installed packages?

2009-12-28 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:50:31 +1000 Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Can anyone make a suggestion? Am I missing something? qlist -I (from portage-utils) or eix -I --only-names will give you a list of everything installed. Although if you straight installed everything from such a

Re: [gentoo-user] Mothballing a ~arch gentoo system?

2009-12-28 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/28/2009 3:40 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: Thats why I think removing gnome (or kde) is a good idea - replace with a lightweight desktop so you still have the required functionality. it is for emergency use after all. I find that building from scratch is usually less of a problem than

Re: [gentoo-user] The current correct way to start kde 4

2009-12-28 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 12/28/2009 1:49 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 28/12/2009 1:03 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 28 Dezember 2009, Kirill Lipatov wrote: well yeah. I just think that setting the kdm as the login manager is the easiest way to automatically start kde4 session after loging in. However, kdm

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2009-12-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 28 Dezember 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems, so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date. I've come across CompFused which seems to be just what

[gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11

2009-12-28 Thread Gmail
Hi all, My laptop runs KDE4 fine without x11-base/xorg-x11 installed. Should we install x11-base/xorg-x11 if desktop environments such as KDE4, GNOME, or XFCE4 are used? Happy New Year Hung

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11

2009-12-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 00:21:55 Gmail wrote: Hi all, My laptop runs KDE4 fine without x11-base/xorg-x11 installed. Should we install x11-base/xorg-x11 if desktop environments such as KDE4, GNOME, or XFCE4 are used? Happy New Year Hung Not necessarily. xorg-x11 is a meta package

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 - SOLVED

2009-12-28 Thread Gmail
Alan: Thanks a lot for an insightful reply. Hung On 12/28/09 15:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 29 December 2009 00:21:55 Gmail wrote: Hi all, My laptop runs KDE4 fine without x11-base/xorg-x11 installed. Should we install x11-base/xorg-x11 if desktop environments such as KDE4,

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11

2009-12-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:21:55PM -0700, Penguin Lover Gmail squawked: My laptop runs KDE4 fine without x11-base/xorg-x11 installed. Should we install x11-base/xorg-x11 if desktop environments such as KDE4, GNOME, or XFCE4 are used? Depends. For the most part if you just run emerge a DE or a

[gentoo-user] rsync reverts to old file versions

2009-12-28 Thread Grant
I've been using a command like this to sync my music files across 2 systems: rsync -vr --inplace --delete /path/to/music/ gr...@192.168.1.2:/path/to/music Periodically, I'll manually touch up cover art that I've scanned, and I've noticed that it will revert to the untouched-up version after one

[gentoo-user] Cascading autofs mounts

2009-12-28 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hi, does anyone know (or have an idea about) how to achieve cascading mounts with autofs 5?! Basically what I would like to do is to (auto)-mount an iso image which lies on an (auto)-mounted smb share. /etc/auto.master contains: # mount_directory map_file options /mnt/smb

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync reverts to old file versions

2009-12-28 Thread Boy Hartsuiker
On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 17:16 -0800, Grant wrote: Periodically, I'll manually touch up cover art that I've scanned, and I've noticed that it will revert to the untouched-up version after one of these rsyncs. Does that make sense to anyone? - Grant So it it synchronizes in the opposite