Re: [arch-general] Dbus and archlinux chroot question

2020-02-17 Thread Mikael Eriksson
This is probably the same problem that arch has on WSL. The fix there is to 
install dbus-x11 from the AUR.

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020, at 20:50, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel via arch-general wrote:
> Dear specialists,
> Ihave tried to use Arch Linux on Android device thanks to Proot, Termux and
> thanks to The Arch Linux script by Mr Rausty, which is available on Github.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have found out, that there is very complex problem with
> Dbus. Many apps, which require inter process communication work only, when I
> type.
> dbus-launch app name
> But even when I start Dbus and some app by this way, some more complex
> applications not work. There are more rreasons.
> Firstly in strictly userspace oriented Linux environment, Arch Linux do not
> support to run services. So Dbus can not be started as A service.
> Is there some technique, which can allow me to use Dbus by more efficiently?
> Or in such non ssstandard environment, there is no way how to setup The
> system so Dbus would be used more efficiently.
> 
> What can I allready use?
> Orca screen reader and many GTK apps including Gradio. But again, some apps
> start dbus-launch with some command line option and system refuses to start
> Dbus so app can not commit the changes to Gconf database for example.
> 
> Any help will be very appreciated.
> Thank you for yours patience and for yours advices.
> With kindness regards.
> Janusz Chmiel
>


Re: [arch-general] Ncurses over ssh

2014-07-26 Thread Mikael Eriksson


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014, at 10:09 PM, luc.li...@mailoo.org wrote:
> But when I invoke it that way : `ssh [ip] newsbeuter`, newsbeuter
> fails with 'Error opening terminal : unknown'.

Pass the -t switch to ssh to make it open an pty to run the command.


Re: [arch-general] systemd

2012-08-15 Thread Mikael Eriksson
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:50:01PM +0200, Fred Verschueren wrote:
> My problem:
> When booting with init=/bin/systemd I have the following phenomenon:
> 
> Job dev-mapper-nvidia_cjjcaiiep1.device/start timed out and booting
> stops and I'm in a rescue shell.
> my /home partition is not mounted.
> 
> /dev/mapper/nvidia_cjjcaiiep1 exists.
> 
> Systemctl start dev-mapper-nvidia_cjjcaiiep1.device gives the same
> result timeout.
> 
> and my /home is not mounted
> 
> When I do a manual mount of the /home partition
> mount /dev/mapper/nvidia_cjjcaiiep1 /home
> /home is mounted
> 
> Systemctl default
> 
> my system resumes booting and finally comes online.

I have the exact same problem with systemd-188-2, downgrading back to
systemd-187-4 makes it work again.


Re: [arch-general] 2 Killer kde4 dark themes - DR you listening??

2010-01-20 Thread Mikael Eriksson
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:09:28PM +0200, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> And most importantly, how the /heck/ do you handle the *bright*
> *white* pages of the web... I'd tried creating a custom CSS for me,
> but it broke too many pages...

I use the BYM[0] extension for firefox. It removes image backgrounds, changes 
the
background color to black and text to grey and is easily toggled with a
icon on the statusbar.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7166


Re: [arch-general] X dead with intel video - what provides module "fbcon"

2009-10-15 Thread Mikael Eriksson
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 06:30:29PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> After picking around in the logs, one recurring error seems to be:
> 
> FATAL: Module fbcon not found.

This comes from modprobe.
> 
> What provides the "fbcon" module? I presume it some framebuffer connect 
> module. I have loaded xf86-video-fbdev package, but still no luck. 

fbcon is a kernel module, but it should be compiled into the kernel.
Do you have the latest kernel26?

> 
> Still stumped with intel :-(