Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, May 15, 2024 at 07:08:11PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > Hi Alan, > > On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:23:47 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > […] > > So I'm looking at getting an AMD Ryzen 7 7700X processor, and using its > > inbuilt graphics rather than buying a distinct graphics

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-14 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, May 14, 2024 at 06:28:17AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > […] > remember either, or write notes to remember them.  I also wanted to > avoid the desktop copy and paste, or clipboard, mechanism.  I'm not sure > how that data is stored in the clipboard and how good it is at erasing > it when

[i18n] [Bug 474572] Plasma5-pk-updates with mixed languages

2024-05-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474572 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added CC||dev-...@felsenfleischer.de --- Comment #7

[plasmashell] [Bug 486646] New: Wrong tooltip text in kcms/desktoppaths/ui/main.qml

2024-05-05 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486646 Bug ID: 486646 Summary: Wrong tooltip text in kcms/desktoppaths/ui/main.qml Classification: Plasma Product: plasmashell Version: 6.0.4 Platform: Arch Linux OS: Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] cross-compiling environment for Rapberry

2024-05-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 11:26:49PM +0200 schrieb ralfconn: > Hello, > > I recently got me a Raspberry Pi4b to use as a PiHole [1]. As a first step I > put user-space Gentoo (i.e. aarch64 stage3) on it and now I am trying to set > up my desktop to cross-compile binary packages for the PI, to keep

[dolphin] [Bug 486219] Dolphin crashes when dragging an item into the breadcrumb address bar

2024-04-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486219 --- Comment #1 from Frank Steinmetzger --- Created attachment 168957 --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=168957=edit New crash information added by DrKonqi DrKonqi auto-attaching complete backtrace. -- You are receiving this mail beca

[dolphin] [Bug 486219] New: Dolphin crashes when dragging an item into the breadcrumb address bar

2024-04-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486219 Bug ID: 486219 Summary: Dolphin crashes when dragging an item into the breadcrumb address bar Classification: Applications Product: dolphin Version: 24.02.2 Platform: Arch

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 07:26:30AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > If you don't play games, then definitely get integrated graphics. > > I'd add to this, you could still play many games, especially older games > > using > > a modern APU. The integrated graphics capability is broadly comparable > >

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 01:18:39PM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 9:33 AM Dale wrote: > > > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > > All AM5 CPUs have GPUs, but in general motherboards with video outputs > > > do not require the CPU to have a GPU built in. The ports just don't > >

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:04:15AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > The physical connector is called M.2. The dimensions of the “sticks” are > > given in a number such as 2280, meaning 22 mm wide and 80 mm long. There > > are > > different lengths available from 30 to 110 mm. M.2 has different “keys”,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 08:33:20AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > (moving this to gentoo-user as this is really getting off-topic for -dev) > […] > We're going on almost 20 years since the Snowden revelations, and back > then the NSA was basically doing intrusion on an industrial scale. Weeaalll,

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS box and switching from Phenom II X6 1090T to FX-6300

2024-04-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 08:23:27AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 8:11 AM Dale wrote: > >> My biggest thing right now, finding a mobo with plenty of PCIe slots. > >> They put all this new stuff, wifi and such, but remove things I do need, > >> PCIe slots. >

[gwenview] [Bug 485430] New: Rename file with F2: initial keyboard focus should be in the filename text field

2024-04-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485430 Bug ID: 485430 Summary: Rename file with F2: initial keyboard focus should be in the filename text field Classification: Applications Product: gwenview Version: 24.02.1

[i18n] [Bug 484993] Settings energy-saving mode mixed

2024-04-10 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484993 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added Resolution|--- |FIXED Status|ASSIGNED

[i18n] [Bug 484993] Settings energy-saving mode mixed

2024-04-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484993 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added Ever confirmed|0 |1 CC

[konsole] [Bug 484890] URL hint numbering has offset

2024-04-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484890 --- Comment #1 from Frank Steinmetzger --- Addendum with a different observation. I just viewed a message in mutt and wanted to open an address from the message. This time the numbering started at 1, but the offset was 2. In detail: The mutt sidebar

[konsole] [Bug 484890] New: URL hint numbering has offset

2024-04-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484890 Bug ID: 484890 Summary: URL hint numbering has offset Classification: Applications Product: konsole Version: 24.02.1 Platform: Arch Linux OS: Linux Status: REPORTED

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 09:26:33PM -0500 schrieb Grant Taylor: > On 3/27/24 13:58, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Hi all, > > Hi, > > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers. > > Changes > > can occur on both sides which means I need to have it synchronise in both > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 05:33:43PM +0100 schrieb ralfconn: > Il 28/03/24 07:30, J. Roeleveld ha scritto: > > > Unison creates a local index of all files it syncronised. So when you > > > move a > > > file around on one end, Unison will notice that because the file at the > > > new > > > location

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 01:08:03AM +0100 schrieb Alarig Le Lay: > On Wed 27 Mar 2024 20:37:27 GMT, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > +1 for Unison. I’ve been using it for many years now to synchronise between > > the four PC systems in my household. > > > > Unison creates

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 03:59:18PM -0400 schrieb Matt Connell: > > Syncthing is also a good idea. The major difference: syncthing is a > > permanently running daemon, so changes are synced very fast (the > > interval is configurable, IIRC). OTOH, Unison is run individually by > > you. That’s why

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 03:42:07PM -0400 schrieb Matt Connell: > On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 19:58 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers. > > Changes can occur on both sides which means I need to have it > > synchronise in

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 08:18:14PM +0100 schrieb ralfconn: > Il 27/03/24 19:58, J. Roeleveld ha scritto: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers. > > Changes > > can occur on both sides which means I need to have it synchronise in both > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I zap a specific area of a gnumeric spreadsheet page?

2024-03-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 05:46:31PM -0400 schrieb Walter Dnes: > The province of Ontario does weekly Covid data updates which I > summarize and post on the DSLReports Canchat subforum, e.g. > https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r33854514-#google_vignette Note the > data gap in the pink and brown

[i18n] [Bug 462458] Default window size ever so slightly too small to display tall/desktop view with German language

2024-03-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462458 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added CC||dev-...@felsenfleischer.de --- Comment #5

[Telly Skout] [Bug 481783] New: Move the main view with mouse dragging

2024-02-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481783 Bug ID: 481783 Summary: Move the main view with mouse dragging Classification: Applications Product: Telly Skout Version: 23.08.5 Platform: Arch Linux OS: Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-02-07 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 06:15:09PM - schrieb Grant Edwards: > I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo > machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of > them used rsnapshot in the past but the crontab entries that drove > that have vanished :/

[kinfocenter] [Bug 480805] New: Battery charge graph shows no data when charge reaches 100 %

2024-02-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480805 Bug ID: 480805 Summary: Battery charge graph shows no data when charge reaches 100 % Classification: Applications Product: kinfocenter Version: 5.27.10 Platform: Arch Linux

[kinfocenter] [Bug 480804] New: Battery charge graph: layout flicker

2024-02-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480804 Bug ID: 480804 Summary: Battery charge graph: layout flicker Classification: Applications Product: kinfocenter Version: 5.27.10 Platform: Arch Linux OS: Linux Status:

[frameworks-baloo] [Bug 438074] baloo reindexing files on every start

2024-01-23 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438074 --- Comment #19 from Frank Steinmetzger --- (In reply to tagwerk19 from comment #18) > Watch out for indexing email files, particularly those encoded or with > attachments. For .eml files see Bug 460882; .mbox files can be absolutely > massi

[frameworks-baloo] [Bug 438074] baloo reindexing files on every start

2024-01-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438074 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added CC||dev-...@felsenfleischer.de --- Comment

Collision between accidental and tuplet

2024-01-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello list, while typing down the score from an old scan, I discovered a collision between an accidental and a tuplet spanner, or rather the number in it: \version "2.24" \language "deutsch" \relative c' { \tupletUp \times 2/3 { g'=''8 b4 } des8 h~ h4 r4 } Perhaps this is worthy of an

[frameworks-purpose] [Bug 478653] New: Pastebin sharing should not paste without confirmation

2023-12-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478653 Bug ID: 478653 Summary: Pastebin sharing should not paste without confirmation Classification: Frameworks and Libraries Product: frameworks-purpose Version: 5.113.0 Platform: Other

[okular] [Bug 476636] New: "Welcome" popup message after opening a document

2023-11-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476636 Bug ID: 476636 Summary: "Welcome" popup message after opening a document Classification: Applications Product: okular Version: 23.08.1 Platform: Archlinux OS: Linux

[okular] [Bug 476636] New: "Welcome" popup message after opening a document

2023-11-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476636 Bug ID: 476636 Summary: "Welcome" popup message after opening a document Classification: Applications Product: okular Version: 23.08.1 Platform: Archlinux OS: Linux

[okular] [Bug 476635] New: After opening a document, Okular moves the view down by a few pixels/mm

2023-11-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476635 Bug ID: 476635 Summary: After opening a document, Okular moves the view down by a few pixels/mm Classification: Applications Product: okular Version: 23.08.1 Platform:

[okular] [Bug 476635] New: After opening a document, Okular moves the view down by a few pixels/mm

2023-11-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476635 Bug ID: 476635 Summary: After opening a document, Okular moves the view down by a few pixels/mm Classification: Applications Product: okular Version: 23.08.1 Platform:

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync options after backup restore. Transfer speed again.

2023-10-23 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 02:29:26AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Dale wrote: > > > > Second problem.  The transfer speed is back to the old slower speed.  > > I'm pretty sure I am using the same old options on both ends.  Still, > > it's back to being slow again.  Some info: > > > > > > <<< SNIP >>> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync options after backup restore. Transfer speed again.

2023-10-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 09:20:45PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > > As most know, I had to restore from backups recently.  I also reworked > my NAS box.  I'm doing my first backup given that I have more files that > need to be added to the backups.  When I started the rsync, it's > starting from

[Merkuro] [Bug 453068] Pane for event details should always be visible, so the layout stays constant

2023-10-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453068 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added Resolution|WAITINGFORINFO |FIXED Status|NEEDSINFO

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting output of a program running in background after a crash

2023-10-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 08:35:21PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:44:39PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > > > >> Why don't you test throughput without encryption to confirm your > >> assumption? > > What does `c

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting output of a program running in background after a crash

2023-10-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:44:39PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > > It only does this when I'm copying files over. Right now I'm copying > > about 26TBs of data over ethernet and it is taking a while. Once I > > stop it or it finishes the copy, the CPU goes to about nothing, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting output of a program running in background after a crash

2023-10-09 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 07:44:06PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Just as a update.  The file system I was trying to do a file system > check on was my large one, about 40TBs worth.  While running the file > system check, it started using HUGE amounts of memory.  It used almost > all my 32GBs and most of

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from desktop to desktop without function keys.

2023-10-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 06:44:09PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 10:47:31PM +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > >> On Saturday, 30 September 2023 20:59:04 BST Dale wrote: > >> > >>> Is there a way with the keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] 6.1.53-gentoo-r1 kernel not booting

2023-10-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:25:46PM +0200 schrieb Håkon Alstadheim: > > Den 30.09.2023 22:57, skrev Valmor F. de Almeida: > > > > Hello, > > > > For a while now (3 weeks or so) I have been upgrading the linux kernel > > on a Dell XPS laptop starting from 6.1.41-gentoo (which is my current > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from desktop to desktop without function keys.

2023-10-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 10:47:31PM +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > On Saturday, 30 September 2023 20:59:04 BST Dale wrote: > > > Is there a way with the keyboard to switch to a desktop above 10? Even > > if it just switches up one at a time, that would work. Say switch to 10 > > and then keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

2023-09-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 05:54:21PM +0200 schrieb ralfconn: > On 9/23/23 14:04, Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > As most everyone knows, I redone my NAS box.  Before I had Truenas on it > > but switched to Ubuntu server thingy called Jimmy.  Kinda like the > > name.  lol  Anyway, Ubuntu has the

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

2023-09-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 02:30:32PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > I read the other replies and I think it is caching the data, the drives > writes and catches up and then it asks for more data again. Tool tip: dstat It puts out one line of values every x seconds (x == 1 by default). With arguments you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to move ext4 partition

2023-09-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 10:57:00PM +0100 schrieb Victor Ivanov: > On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 22:29, Grant Edwards > wrote: > > > > That depends on how long it takes me to decide on tar vs. rsync and > > what the appropriate options are. > > I've done this a number of times for various reasons

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

2023-09-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 04:51:36PM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > > Anyway, when I do that and use the new passwords successfully, I make a > > > backup copy and on my rig, I can encrypt it with a right click. I then > > > shred the original. > > > > Just on a sidenote, once you’re on an SSD,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

2023-09-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:49:24PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Anyway, when I do that and use the new passwords successfully, I make a > backup copy and on my rig, I can encrypt it with a right click.  I then > shred the original. Just on a sidenote, once you’re on an SSD, shredding has no use and is

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

2023-09-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 01:28:09PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > > I have a question tho. Can a person use a password/pass phrase that is > > like this: 'This is a stupid pass phrase.' Does it accept that even > > with spaces? I know file names can have spaces for a long while now but > > way

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

2023-09-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:01:48AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > > The higher-end motherboards have switches, and not all > > > the lanes may be the highest supported generation, but I don't think > > > any modern AMD motherboards have any kind of PCIe controller on them. > > > > Here are the

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

2023-09-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 09:17:45AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > Well they allow you to put larger cards in, but they don’t have the lanes > > for it. Somewhere else in the thread was mentioned that the number of lanes > > is very limited. Only the main slot (the big one for the GPU) is

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

2023-09-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 04:43:02AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Wols Lists wrote: > > Oh, and to the best of my knowledge, you can combine a video card and > > an AGPU. BTW: it’s APU, without the G. Because it is an Accellerated Processing Unit (i.e. a processor), not a GPU. > I been on Newegg using

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

2023-09-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 01:01:42AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > They have added a lot of stuff to mobos since I bought one about a > decade ago.  Maybe things have improved.  I just like PCIe slots and > cards.  Gives me more options. I definitely know the feeling. That is why I went with µATX instead

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 06:40:52PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> I tend to need quite a few PCIe slots.  I like to have my own video > >> card.  I never liked the built in ones. > > You’re just asking to be asked. ;-) Why don’t you like them? (I fear I may > > have asked that before). > > > > I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 02:20:56PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> […] > >> The downside, only micro ATX and > >> mini ITX mobo.  This is a serious down vote here. > > Why is that bad? µATX comes with up to four PCIe slots. Even for ten > > drives, > > you only need one SATA expander (with four or six

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 02:59:22PM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > I have a four-bay NAS with server board (ASRock Rack E3C224D2I), actually my > > last surviving Gentoo system. ;-) With IPMI-Chip (which alone takes several > > watts), 16 GiB DDR3-ECC, an i3-4170 and 4×6 TB, it draws around

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 07:16:17AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:13 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > > Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:17:20AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > > […] > > > The downside, only micro ATX and > > > mini I

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:17:20AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > […] > I've found a few cases that peak my interest depending on which way I go > with this.  One I found that has a lot of hard drive space and would > make a descent NAS box, the Fractal Design Node 804.  It's a cube shaped > thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Certain packages refuse to use binary from build save, the -k thing.

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 11:44:03PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, Hi instead of going berserk mode and wasting kWh on rebuilding “just in case it might help”, why not try and dig a little deeper. > A couple of my video players are not playing videos correctly. Whicch players? > I've > rebuilt

[kate] [Bug 474532] New: Git sidebar: error message after cancelling Open Commit

2023-09-14 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474532 Bug ID: 474532 Summary: Git sidebar: error message after cancelling Open Commit Classification: Applications Product: kate Version: 23.08.0 Platform: Archlinux

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 12:50:20PM +0100 schrieb Wols Lists: > Bear in mind a lot of systems are thermally limited and can't run at full > pelt anyway ... Usually those are space-constrained systems like mini PCs or laptops. Typical Desktops shouldn’t be limited; even the stock CPU coolers

Re: [gentoo-user] TrueNAS not helping me now.

2023-09-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 02:45:11PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Oh, creating a > vdev was the trick.  Once that is done, expand the pool.  It's one of > those, once it is done, it seems easy.  ROFL Note that people used to shoot themselves in the foot when lazily (or by accident) adding a single disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 01:53:21AM -0400 schrieb Philip Webb: > 230729 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I've been a loyal user of KMail for many years. > > Claws mail is often mentioned hereabouts and I'd like to try it, > > but first I'd need to export KMail's 20-odd-year maildir history > > to mbox

Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/x2goserver-4.1.0.3-r2

2023-07-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 08:50:47AM -0600 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > x2goserver emerged with notice: > > ERROR: preinst > > Installation of a symlink is blocked by a directory: > '/etc/x2go/xinitrc.d' > This symlink will be merged with a different name: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Instrumenting emerges

2023-07-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Jul 08, 2023 at 12:42:13PM -0300 schrieb David M. Fellows: > while [ true ] ; do cat /proc/loadavg |logger; sleep 60; done A spec more elegant: while sleep 60; do ... ; done -- Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network.

Re: [gentoo-user] Update requires restarting init process

2023-07-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 11:51:52AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > > Just a heads up.  I almost missed this in all the other normal messages > emerge spits out.  I think this was because of a glibc update.  Anyway, > if you update your system, look for a message about restarting the init > process

[gwenview] [Bug 471326] New: Gwenview displays EXIF metadata twice/in duplicate

2023-06-22 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471326 Bug ID: 471326 Summary: Gwenview displays EXIF metadata twice/in duplicate Classification: Applications Product: gwenview Version: 23.04.2 Platform: Archlinux OS: Linux

[i18n] [Bug 471302] Wrong translation in german for open media file button

2023-06-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471302 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added Status|REPORTED|RESOLVED Resolution

[krunner] [Bug 470471] New: Search input field animation when opening krunner seems out of place

2023-05-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470471 Bug ID: 470471 Summary: Search input field animation when opening krunner seems out of place Classification: Plasma Product: krunner Version: 5.27.5 Platform: Archlinux

[Spectacle] [Bug 470468] New: Saving a second second screenshot from a Spectacle window keeps being titled as unsaved

2023-05-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470468 Bug ID: 470468 Summary: Saving a second second screenshot from a Spectacle window keeps being titled as unsaved Classification: Applications Product: Spectacle Version: 23.04.1

[gwenview] [Bug 462088] Don't show Gwenview in its own "Open With" menu

2023-05-23 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462088 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added CC||dev-...@felsenfleischer.de --- Comment #9

[gwenview] [Bug 470126] New: "Open with" menu has off-by one error

2023-05-22 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470126 Bug ID: 470126 Summary: "Open with" menu has off-by one error Classification: Applications Product: gwenview Version: 23.04.1 Platform: Archlinux OS: Linux Status:

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.unmask: =app-text/evince-44.1 ~amd64

2023-05-02 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, May 02, 2023 at 01:37:50PM -0600 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > Trying to emerge evince-44.1 but I get: > > Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.unmask: =app-text/evince-44.1 ~amd64 > > What is it looking for? It is not looking for the ~amd64 at the end of the line. -- Grüße |

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 10:03:01AM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > > That > > > said btrfs has its less than stellar moments.  I still have systems that > > > use > > > ext4 and they "seem" reliable for light duty but I make sure I have > > > backups > > > and do not trust them with

[digikam] [Bug 427225] Showfoto GUI becomes unresponsive when used with the keyboard

2023-04-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427225 --- Comment #5 from Frank Steinmetzger --- I haven’t done much editing lately, but I will report back if I encounter the problem again. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 02:04:52PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > On Saturday, 29 April 2023 12:45:31 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > > > That > > > said btrfs has its less than stellar

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > Filesystem choice is very much to do with your particular use case. > > I am not a fan of ext4 - lost too much data too many times.  I ve found > btrfs and xfs much tougher, and the online tools much more convenient. I’ve

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 04:58:02PM +0200 schrieb tastytea: > > Does the transparent compression incur an overhead cost in processing, > > memory use, or disk writes? I feel like it certainly has to at least > > use more memory. Sorry if that's an RTFM question. > > it'll use more cpu and

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers fails to patch

2023-04-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 08:33:22PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > I cleared the tmp files to give it a fresh start.  It still failed.  The > directory and files it complains about being missing, they are.  I went > to the ebuild to see what patches are supposed to be installed.  This is > the part of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 04:29:59AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> I wonder.  Is there a way to find out the smallest size file in a > >> directory or sub directory, largest files, then maybe a average file > >> size??? > > The 20 smallest: > > `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c '%s %n' | sort -n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 06:09:15PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > I wonder. Is there a way to find out the smallest size file in a > directory or sub directory, largest files, then maybe a average file > size??? I thought about du but given the number of files I have here, it > would be a really

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-20 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 06:32:45PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > <<>> > > > > When formatting file systems, I usually lower the number of inodes from the > > default value to gain storage space. The default is one inode per 16 kB of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 01:00:33PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > I think technically they default to the physical block size internally > and the earlier ones, attempting to be more compatible with HDDs, > had 4K blocks. Some of the newer chips now have 16K blocks but > still support 512B Logical

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 12:18:14AM +0200 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > If you use ext4, run `dumpe2fs -h /dev/your-root-partition | grep Lifetime` > to see how much data has been written to that partition since you formatted > it. Just to get an idea of what you are looking at on y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 10:05:27AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Given how I plan to use this drive, that should last a long time.  I'm > just putting the OS stuff on the drive and I compile on a spinning rust > drive and use -k to install the built packages on the live system.  That > should help

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 09:53:18PM +0100 schrieb Wol: > On 18/04/2023 21:01, Dale wrote: > > > I just use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage (16GB, I'm on 32GB RAM.) Same. > /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. And on every disk I allocate a swap partition > equal to twice the mobo's max memory. Three drives

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 10:45:46AM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > And I don't know that formatting ext4 or some other FS to 16K > really helps the write amplification issue but it makes sense to > me to match the file system blocks to the underlying flash > block size. The problem is finding out

Re: [gentoo-user] Can some config files be automatically protected from etc-update?

2023-04-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 02:27:53PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > ;-) (And shame on you for being 'a few months' behind on your updates) ;-) It’s my NAS (basically my media library), which only runs every few months due to its server hardware’s high power draw. -- Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’

Re: [gentoo-user] Can some config files be automatically protected from etc-update?

2023-04-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:28:01PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 11:26 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > Now that the (no)multilib problem in my latest update has been solved, > > I have a somewhat minor complaint. Can I get etc-update to skip certain > > files? My latest

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 05:26:15PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > > I'm wanting to be able to boot something from the hard drive in the > > > event the OS itself won't boot.  The other day I had to dig around and > > > find a bootable USB stick and also found a DVD.  Ended up with the DVD > > > working

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 01:22:32PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Frank, >Thank you for the in-depth explanation. > >I need to do some study before commenting further other than to say > so far I'm finding different comments depending on whether it's > an SSD or an M.2 drive. Uhm, I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

2023-04-16 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 08:08:59AM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: > If you have an SSD or nvme drive installed then fstrim should be > installed and run on a regular basis. However it's not 'required'. > > Your system will still work, but after all blocks on the drive have > been used for file

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse and hibernate

2023-04-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 05:35:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > > I have suspend/hibernate set up on a desktop ... it's been working > > > fine for years. But recently, it's been occaisionally coming out of > > > suspension some time after suspension without any intervention on my > > >

[kmail2] [Bug 467818] Rightmost column's width cannot be changed

2023-03-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467818 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added CC||dev-...@felsenfleischer.de --- Comment #1

[kmail2] [Bug 467818] Rightmost column's width cannot be changed

2023-03-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467818 Frank Steinmetzger changed: What|Removed |Added CC||dev-...@felsenfleischer.de --- Comment #1

Re: [gentoo-user] PCIe x1 or PCIe x4 SATA controller card

2023-03-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 07:24:47AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > Of course, only you can answer that in the end. Write down what you need and > > what you care about. Weigh those factors. Then decide. Raw CPU power, > > electricity bill, heat budget (cooling, noise, dust), the “new and shiny” >

Re: [gentoo-user] PCIe x1 or PCIe x4 SATA controller card

2023-03-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 07:18:09PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > I used to use the bogomips number as a rough guide.  Thing is, the new > CPU has a lower bogomips number than my current CPU does.  That doesn't > seem right. Bogomips seems to be vry simple, because it takes the current frequency

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