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

2016-09-23 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:45:26PM +, Grant Edwards wrote > Would anybody care to make a recommendation? How about ditching "Desktop Environment" altogether and using a "Window Manager" instead? I use ICEWM. It has to be configured with a text editor, but you can then set it and forget

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

2016-09-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Grant Edwards wrote: >Would anybody care to make a recommendation? Ever checked out WindowMaker (x11-wm/windowmaker)? The default config is quite clunky though, but there's many themes and stuff. >The requirements are: > > * simple and lightweight Check. Without

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5 & Disabling search and recent documents & thoughts

2016-09-23 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 04:55:05PM -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: > OK > > WHY can't we have a single checkbox to disable all this crap? I found > one and it didn't work (search in system settings.) Then when I was > searching around online I found out it will reenable itself magically > randomly

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

2016-09-23 Thread Alecks Gates
On 09/23/2016 06:45 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I've been running XFCE for many, many years, and I was perfectly happy > with it until 4.11 came out. Support for multiple displays[1] was > broken in xfdesktop by a commit made in 2013. It's been broken ever > since, and there doesn't appear to be

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

2016-09-23 Thread Grant Edwards
I've been running XFCE for many, many years, and I was perfectly happy with it until 4.11 came out. Support for multiple displays[1] was broken in xfdesktop by a commit made in 2013. It's been broken ever since, and there doesn't appear to be any intention of fixing it. About a year ago, when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Madly flickering display

2016-09-23 Thread Mick
On Friday 23 Sep 2016 21:11:12 Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Fri, 23 Sep 2016 19:11:33 +0100 > > schrieb Mick : > > On Friday 23 Sep 2016 10:36:23 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > I have the following: > > > $ grep INPUT /etc/portage/make.conf > > > INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Vim puts command in when starting up

2016-09-23 Thread William Ernesto Cárdenas Gómez
El Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:24:02 -0700 Daniel Frey escribió: > On 09/23/2016 08:00 AM, pc0147 Sistemas Will_ecg wrote: > > El jue, 22-09-2016 a las 08:32 -0700, Daniel Frey escribió: > >> For some reason, on one box, whenever I start vim it puts > >> "://" on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Madly flickering display

2016-09-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: >I've broken this out from the thread it appeared in, Problems with Xinerama >I found from Xorg.0.log that X11 wasn't finding an evdev module, even though >I had INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" in make.conf. So I added USE=evdev to dev- >qt/qtgui* and

[gentoo-user] Re: Madly flickering display

2016-09-23 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 23 Sep 2016 19:11:33 +0100 schrieb Mick : > On Friday 23 Sep 2016 10:36:23 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Friday, September 23, 2016 09:13:00 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I've broken this out from the thread it appeared in, Problems with > > > Xinerama > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Madly flickering display

2016-09-23 Thread Mick
On Friday 23 Sep 2016 10:36:23 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday, September 23, 2016 09:13:00 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I've broken this out from the thread it appeared in, Problems with > > Xinerama > > after upgrade to Plasma (KDE5): > > > > On Friday 16 Sep 2016 11:18:18 I wrote: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Vim puts command in when starting up

2016-09-23 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/23/2016 08:00 AM, pc0147 Sistemas Will_ecg wrote: > El jue, 22-09-2016 a las 08:32 -0700, Daniel Frey escribió: >> For some reason, on one box, whenever I start vim it puts >> "://" on the command line. I've looked in vimrc and can't >> see any reference to this. Hitting Enter

Re: [gentoo-user] Vim puts command in when starting up

2016-09-23 Thread Daniel Frey
On 09/23/2016 12:29 AM, Franz Fellner wrote: > Could you try > vim -u NONE > to see if there is an issue with your config or one of your plugins? > Yes, that started up correctly, for all users on the affected machine. I have several systems at home and only one machine is affected this way. I

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE5 & Disabling search and recent documents & thoughts

2016-09-23 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/10/2016 04:55 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > OK > > We're in 2016 now. And KDE *still* doesn't make it easy to disable their > damn indexer. I've never wanted to search through my menu, I've never > wanted it to remember every damn file I've opened. It's a personal > preference. > Just an

Re: [gentoo-user] Vim puts command in when starting up

2016-09-23 Thread pc0147 Sistemas Will_ecg
El jue, 22-09-2016 a las 08:32 -0700, Daniel Frey escribió: > For some reason, on one box, whenever I start vim it puts > "://" on the command line. I've looked in vimrc and can't > see any reference to this. Hitting Enter yields "E486: Pattern not > found > :" > > I've noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash failed to compile

2016-09-23 Thread konsolebox
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:14 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > may be bash is missing a lib? > > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -L./builtins -L./lib -L./lib -L./lib/glob > -L./lib/tilde -L./lib/sh -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed-march=native -O2 -pipe > -msse3 -ggdb -o bash shell.o eval.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash failed to compile

2016-09-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >may be bash is missing a lib? > >x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -L./builtins -L./lib -L./lib -L./lib/glob >-L./lib/tilde -L./lib/sh -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed-march=native -O2 -pipe >-msse3 -ggdb -o bash shell.o eval.o y.tab.o general.o

[gentoo-user] What is current "worst practice" for maximum bells?

2016-09-23 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
What is a good strategy for setting use-flags to get the most out of a fairly recent graphics card these days? It used to be (for me at least) that I just made sure I had the latest opengl and associated libs, and the latest mesa if my card was supported. These days things get more complicated,

Re: [gentoo-user] Madly flickering display

2016-09-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, September 23, 2016 09:13:00 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've broken this out from the thread it appeared in, Problems with Xinerama > after upgrade to Plasma (KDE5): > > On Friday 16 Sep 2016 11:18:18 I wrote: > > --->8 > > > I upgraded yesterday from 5.7.4 to 5.7.5. I hoped the

[gentoo-user] Madly flickering display

2016-09-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
I've broken this out from the thread it appeared in, Problems with Xinerama after upgrade to Plasma (KDE5): On Friday 16 Sep 2016 11:18:18 I wrote: --->8 > I upgraded yesterday from 5.7.4 to 5.7.5. I hoped the problem I have had > been fixed, but no. If I switch desktops too many times, or too

Re: [gentoo-user] Vim puts command in when starting up

2016-09-23 Thread Franz Fellner
Could you try vim -u NONE to see if there is an issue with your config or one of your plugins? On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:28:34 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 09/22/2016 09:17 AM, Matthias Gerstner wrote: > > Hi, > > > >> For some reason, on one box, whenever I start vim it puts

Re: [gentoo-user] Vim puts command in when starting up

2016-09-23 Thread Matthias Gerstner
Hi, > Hmm, I've just upgraded to vim v8 and it is still doing it. I'm quite > confused. I'm sorry to hear that. I didn't try an update myself yet. Maybe the cause of your issue is a different one then. I think the cause of this effect is in the area of the terminal handling and termcap

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash failed to compile

2016-09-23 Thread Jeremi Piotrowski
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 04:14:24AM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > may be bash is missing a lib? > > /usr/lib64/libtinfo.so.5: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line Nope, this is a well known class of build system bugs, we have a tracker for it in our bugzilla