Re: [arch-general] okular print preview error
Aha, I see. I'll look further into it -- I rarely need to use print preview, but I resort to evince when I have to, and this is really a bug that needs to be squashed. Thanks for the link! -- Leonid On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 02:05, pradp...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:41:56 -0400 Leonid Grinberg lgrinb...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know what else might cause this? leonid, i got this response from the forums: Since it's a print preview, the file is stored in /tmp, which okular doesn't like. You need to move the file or get another viewer program for it to work, unless there is a setting in okular that can fix this. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=74026 however, it makes no sense to me that okular won't like /tmp since i thought /tmp was supposed to be used for just such a purpose by programs. nor could i find anything in okular options to make a change. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's
Re: [arch-general] okular print preview error
Just to bump this discussion -- I too am having this problem. /tmp is definitely not empty, and there is no DRM in this document (it was produced by me via pdflatex). Does anyone know what else might cause this? -- Thanks, Leonid Grinberg
Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel-2.6.29.1-4
I just want to report that after upgrading, the kernel refused to recognise my main partition and thus refused to boot. The only way I could fix it was to rollback to 2.6.28.
[arch-general] Keyboard repeat in KDE
Hi, I know I sent this before, but this is a new version of KDE and the problem is becoming really bad. Every once in a while, keyboard repeat will suddenly be unset. I can fix it in systemsettings, only to have it get unset again randomly. Sometimes it will only take a few minutes, sometimes hours. It is very very annoying. Is there anything I can do to fix it? I am running 4.2.2 (not kdemod, vanilla). -- Thanks in advance, Leonid
Re: [arch-general] Keyboad in KDE locks up
Well, it just happened again, and I realised that the past two times it has happened has always been when alt-tabbing. So I decided to restart kwin and, sure enough, everything works. That's the problem.
Re: [arch-general] Keyboad in KDE locks up
It does often happen when I'm typing something, or using Alt-[number] to switch tabs in Firefox, but this might just be coincidence -- especially since this is, as I said, a laptop, I tend to use the keyboard as much as I can. As far as global shortcuts go, I only installed yakuake recently and this happened before I installed it. It *might* be associated with switching virtual desktops, though. 2009/3/4 Bram Schoenmakers li...@bramschoenmakers.nl: On Wednesday 04 March 2009 01:35:57 Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello Leonid, Every once in a while -- not too frequently to be unusable, but certainly enough to be annoying -- the keyboard in KDE will simply lock up. Mouse will still work fine, and keyboard inputs that don't go through KDE -- switching to virtual terminals, resetting X via ctrl-alt-backspace still work (and, indeed, resetting X and logging back in is the only thing that fixes it). I can't see any real pattern as to when this happens -- programs that I basically always have running, though, are Pidgin, Firefox and keytouchd, as well as, obviously, plasma, etc. I am running the vanilla KDE 4.2 packages. Thanks in advance. This is really starting to become annoying. Maybe it is the same bug which is open for quite some time in KDE Bugzilla [1]. I had this problem too before, on Gentoo Linux with KDE 3.5.x. This has something to do with the global shortcuts and I didn't notice that anyone had a real clue what triggered it. I wouldn't be surprised if it is still in KDE 4.x. Perhaps the Gentoo bug [2] may contains some pointers too. So, do you know if the problem is triggered by using global shortcuts (window manager related, or invoking Yakuake with F12)? [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109322 [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129793 Kind regards, -- Bram Schoenmakers What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. (Punch, 1855)
[arch-general] Keyboad in KDE locks up
Hello, Every once in a while -- not too frequently to be unusable, but certainly enough to be annoying -- the keyboard in KDE will simply lock up. Mouse will still work fine, and keyboard inputs that don't go through KDE -- switching to virtual terminals, resetting X via ctrl-alt-backspace still work (and, indeed, resetting X and logging back in is the only thing that fixes it). I can't see any real pattern as to when this happens -- programs that I basically always have running, though, are Pidgin, Firefox and keytouchd, as well as, obviously, plasma, etc. I am running the vanilla KDE 4.2 packages. Thanks in advance. This is really starting to become annoying. -- Leonid Grinberg
Re: [arch-general] Keyboad in KDE locks up
Does anyone know if this bug is upstream? 2009/3/3 Cristian Wilgenhoff cristian.wi...@gmail.com: me too.. +1 for bugfix
Re: [arch-general] Keyboad in KDE locks up
Actually, it's a laptop.
Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd
Pyther, RedShift et al, Without meaning to start a flame war, your complaints are a bit unjustified. Yes, the question is a pretty basic one and is answered in other places. Yes, it's probably prudent to try and ask search engines, forums, etc. But the OP has no way of knowing what's a n00b question and what isn't. He was polite and cooperative, following the advice people gave him, and thanking us when it helped. The point of this mailing list is to help people solve problems. This thread, until people started acting rude, was a perfect example of that system working. Why break it? -- Leonid
Re: [arch-general] Weird acpid issue
After many hours of searching, I still cannot figure it out. The problem is definitely not in the xset dpms force off command -- it's in the fact that ACPI simply stops realising that the lid is closed. Is there anything that can be done?
Re: [arch-general] Weird acpid issue
The backlight stays on. I am going to try a different command (a much more visible one); if it gets run correctly each time, then it's xset's fault; else, acpid's. 2009/2/18 Thayer Williams thay...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Leonid Grinberg lgrinb...@gmail.com wrote: After many hours of searching, I still cannot figure it out. The problem is definitely not in the xset dpms force off command -- it's in the fact that ACPI simply stops realising that the lid is closed. Is there anything that can be done? Is it that the backlight stays on after close, or does it stay off and being opened? Have you tried any commands other than xset, such as xscreensaver, etc.? I have the exact same laptop and experience no such behaviour.
Re: [arch-general] Weird acpid issue
OK, the problem is definitely with ACPI -- I just tried it with a completely different app, and it failed as well (while running xset dpms force off manually from the command line worked). Might this be an upstream bug?
Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd
Hi Preston, Basically, you should think of mounting a file system as placing it under some root in your larger file system. In this case, /dev/sdXY can be thought of as a representation of the file system you want to mount (the one on the external HD). You can place it anywhere you want, and that will be its root in your larger file system. Typically, people do something like /media/disk, but it really can be anything. So $ sudo mount /dev/sdXY /media/disk works, but so does $ sudo mount /dev/sdXY /monkeys/are/awesome/ provided that you had first created a directory called awesome inside a directory called are inside a directory called monkeys at /, your root point. As far as the #identify goes -- I actually think that it doesn't do anything. In BASH (the shell you are probably using), the pound sign denotes a comment, which means that everything before it and the end of the line is ignored. So $ a-random-command # lions are pretty cool too just runs a-random-command. I think the poster put #identify there just so you know what you are doing -- it's not actually necessary. Hope this helps. -- Leonid Grinberg
Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd
denotes a comment, which means that everything before it and the end of the line is ignored. So I'm sorry, I meant that everything *between* it [the # sign] and the end of the line is ignored. -- Leonid
Re: [arch-general] how to mount external hdd
Yes, it is typical that USB external drives are /dev/sdb or /dev/sdb1 (the number at the end indicates the partition number, generally).
Re: [arch-general] HAL issues
Remember that this configuration inside policykit will allow EACH and EVERY user on your system to do these actions, which is wrong. There's consolekit for this. Sessions should either be launched via kdm or gdm which have native consolekit support, or using ck-launch-session when starting from xinitrc. There's also a pam module that can be used, but somehow it doesn't always work fine (slim doesn't work with it at least). This is a laptop with only one user, and that would be fine with me. At present, though, it doesn't work at all. Attached is my /etc/PolyKit/PolicyKit.conf file. Can someone help? This is really starting to get troublesome :-(. -- Thanks, Leonid
Re: [arch-general] HAL issues
It shouldn't, no. However, in this case, it's not allowing it even to the specified user.
Re: [arch-general] HAL issues
Wait, I am using KDE (vanilla 4.2, not kdemod) not SLiM. Should I do something analogous for KDE?
Re: [arch-general] HAL issues
So, though I am using KDE, I am actually doing it through GDM. Is there a way to get GDM to integrate it? 2009/2/13 Jan de Groot j...@jgc.homeip.net: On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:37 -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Wait, I am using KDE (vanilla 4.2, not kdemod) not SLiM. Should I do something analogous for KDE? KDE 4.2 has native consolekit integration when using kdm, so in that case there's nothing you have to change. If you want to use startx, you should use exec ck-launch-session startkde4 instead of just exec startkde4.
Re: [arch-general] Weird acpid issue
So, after a few days of problem-free acpid functionality, it, again, failed to work last night and required a /etc/rc.d/acpid restart, which fixed it. Does anyone know what might cause this? 2009/2/9 Thayer Williams thay...@gmail.com: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Leonid Grinberg lgrinb...@gmail.com wrote: xset needs to connect to the X server, so it needs both for the DISPLAY to be specified and also to have access to the XAuthority cookie for the X server. Otherwise it will not work - can't connect to the X server. Since acpid runs as a sytem service it ussually doesn't have access to that information. Hmm, so, so far, everything seems to be working fine... One can play DISPLAY=:0 before xset dpms force off, but how does one grant it access to the XAuthority cookie? Can't help you guys much there. I never blank my screen without enabling some sort of screenlock/screensaver. For instance, I use slock which locks the X session and, as a side effect, shuts off the monitor.
[arch-general] HAL issues
Hello, I just upgraded to networkmanager 0.7, which comes with a hal upgrade. Following this new upgrade, I am unable to mount devices from Dolphin as I used to be able to -- it now gives me a PermissionDeniedByPolicy mount-removable-extra-options no error. I followed the instructions on [1] but it did not help. Can someone help me? -- Thanks, Leonid [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Permission_Denied_with_automounter
[arch-general] Weird acpid issue
Hello, My laptop has ACPI running to detect, among other things, the lid state, so that it can shut off the screen if it is closed. However, every once in a while, the functionality simply doesn't work -- I close the lid and the computer doesn't respond. Running /etc/rc.d/acpid restart makes it work again, only to fail again in a few days. I am running ACPI 1.2 on 2.6.28. Any ideas? -- Thanks, Leonid Grinberg lgrinb...@gmail.com
Re: [arch-general] Weird acpid issue
Don't laptops do this in hardware? turning off the screen when the lid is closed? (Mine does so). Whyd would you need acpid to control this? I don't think my laptop does this. If someone has a Dell Inspiron e1505/6400 and knows how to make it turn off the backlight in hardware, please tell me. -- Leonid
Re: [arch-general] Weird acpid issue
Well, that's good news, isn't it? :-) At present, I have, in /etc/acpi/handler.sh button/lid) xset dpms force off ;; *) logger ACPI group/action undefined: $1 / $2 ;; I'll replace with what you have (though xset dpms force off rather than the echo command), and see if the problem goes away. Thanks!
[arch-general] Lancelot in KDE 4.2
Hi all, It appears that Lancelot (http://lancelot.fomentgroup.org/main) is broken in Arch. Running lancelot opens no menu. According to [1], this is caused by a lack of /usrshare/dbus-1/services/org.kde.lancelot.service However, I have that file in the directory. Moreover, I discovered that lancelot seems to be provided by two different packages. One of them is kdeplasma-addons. The other is lancelot. Both, I think, are maintained by Pierre. Reinstalling kdeplasma-addons doesn't seem to fix the problem, and installing lancelot without --force is impossible, since it tries to create files that are already there (this is despite the fact that lancelot and kdeplasma-addons are not marked as conflicting with each other). If you do include --force, it gives you missing library errors, but this seems like a bad approach anyway. Does anyone know what can be done about this? -- Leonid Grinberg [1] http://lancelot.fomentgroup.org/faq#menu-doesnt-open
Re: [arch-general] Garbled Text in KDE 4.2
Oh, and I forgot to add -- the fonts seem to fix themselves when the window gets redrawn in some way -- unmaximise/maximise, switch to a different workspace, etc. -- Leonid
[arch-general] Garbled Text in KDE 4.2
Hi everyone, I have recently upgraded to KDE 4.2 (vanilla, not kdemod) and have noticed an odd glitch. Every once in a while, with no pattern I can discern, the font in the title bar of a window will have garbled text in it [1]. When I took that screenshot and was about to save it, I noticed that the file chooser dialogue also had the glitch, as did the text in the dialogue [2]. The fonts are Sans Serif 10 bold. Does anyone know why this would happen? -- Leonid [1] http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/998/garbledzr9.png [2] http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/2577/garbled2sw8.png
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE 4.2.0 in [testing]
Please let me know of any problems during the upgrade. I think about collecting them for a samll upgrade guide. Sir, if you do that, I will be eternally grateful. I have been awaiting 4.2 for quite a while, but am sort of anxious about the upgrade given the number of problems people have reported.
Re: [arch-general] How to change default terminal from xterm
Bummer! It really is a pain having my apps (MySQL Administrator, in this case) open up an xterm with its tiny little fonts. I'll see what I can do about setting this for both KDE and GNOME, and then have to just hope for the best. I am not 100% certain, but I think that MySQL administrator listens to GNOME settings. -- Leonid
Re: [arch-general] A good CPU Load/Memory/Network Activity Monitor in KDE
Hello, Thanks a lot for those suggestions. These will do wonderfully for now. Both have packages in AUR, too! [2] http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/plasma-netgraph?content=74071 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19238 [3] http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/SystemMonitorNG?content=94746 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22130 -- Best, Leonid Grinberg
[arch-general] KDE 4.2 and AUR Upgrading
Hello, I am currently running a vanilla KDE 4.1.3. There are a number of problems that I am having, all of which, I am told, are fixed in 4.2 None of the problems are incredibly serious, but they are annoying enough that I am considering upgrading to 4.2. I thus have a few questions: 1) Once 4.2 is released, how soon is it reasonable to expect that it will be in the repositories (not AUR). 2) If one installs a package from AUR, and then it is moved to the main repositories, does Pacman know that the two packages are the same? I am interested in this with regards both to this question and to others -- e.g. the main repositories currently have Amarok 1.4 while AUR has 2.0. I am wary of installing it from AUR because when it is moved to the main repositories, I don't know if Pacman will know how to handle the upgrade. Thanks in advance! Leonid Grinberg
