Re: [arch-general] Can't get iBus to work on GNOME

[Gan Lu]

In gnome, you can always go to Settings, find 'Region & Language' and add
your input method. By the way, I don't know ibus-table or ibus-avro, but
iBus-rime works like a charm.

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Chorom Potro 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've installed GNOME on a fresh box. I can't get iBus to work. Previously
> I made it work in KDE. Here's what I did :
>
> pacaur -S ibus ibus-table
> pacaur -S base-devel --needed
> pacaur -S ibus-avro-git
> ibus-daemon -xdr
> Now I can't see the ibus panel or change input method. I am stuck with
> English only. What should I do ?
>
> Thanks,
> N
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Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

[gan lu via arch-general]

Do you have flashplugin installed? I have Epiphany crashing all the time under 
Wayland 发自网易邮箱大师 On 2016-10-29 23:09 , Zorro via arch-general Wrote: Op 
29-10-2016 om 9:20 schreef Alex Theotokatos via arch-general: > On 10/29/2016 
04:56 AM, John Briggs wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 09:35:39PM +0200, Zorro 
via arch-general wrote: >>> Op 28-10-2016 om 18:17 schreef Alex Theotokatos via 
arch-general:  Then, lets start from the basics...  Run memtest. >>> 
Just installed it but if I understand it well I need to boot with it. >>> Need 
to figure out how. >>>  If you use wayland, use Xorg. >>> I am using LXDE. 
>>>  What is your graphics card? >>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: 
Intel Corporation Mobile 945GSE   >>> > Express Integrated Graphics Controller 
(rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA >>> controller]) >>> >> This is your problem. From my 
experience sites that have illformed >> javascript do not work well with Intel 
graphics controllers. >> >> Check out the Forums and the Wiki for clues on how 
to overcome these >> problems. >> >> Regards >> >> John >> > On second thought, 
maybe microcode might help > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microcode > I 
installed intel-ucode microcode and tried again but after a reboot still the 
same. I did run memtest 86 but that didn't report any error. The boot log does 
contain an exception though: [    2.030878] Modules linked in: [    2.030881]  
i915 video button i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt 
fb_sys_fops drm intel_agp intel_gtt agpgart [    2.030906] CPU: 1 PID: 6 Comm: 
kworker/u4:0 Tainted: G U           4.8.4-1-ARCH #1 [    2.030908] Hardware 
name: Acer AOA110/        , BIOS v0.3305 05/09/2008 [    2.030917] Workqueue: 
events_unbound async_run_entry_fn [    2.030921]  c16e1927 614408d8 0286 
f590bd18 c12a2c04 f590bd5c f8658730 f590bd48 [    2.030933]  c105c88a f8664cb2 
f590bd7c 0006 f8658730 01a0 f86036c6 01a0 [    2.030943]  0001 
 f6d3c000 f590bd68 c105c8f6 0009  f590bd5c [    2.030954] 
Call Trace: [    2.030964]  [] dump_stack+0x58/0x74 [    2.030971]  
[] __warn+0xea/0x110 [    2.031083]  [] ? 
intel_fb_initial_config+0x366/0x680 [i915] [    2.031089]  [] 
warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x60 [    2.031201]  [] 
intel_fb_initial_config+0x366/0x680 [i915] [    2.031314]  [] ? 
intel_crtc_fb_gamma_get+0x40/0x40 [i915] .. [    2.031513]  [] 
ret_from_kernel_thread+0xe/0x24 [    2.031517]  [] ? 
kthread_worker_fn+0x130/0x130 [    2.031521] ---[ end trace fd663cc4a2fdb230 
]--- [    2.034471] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device [    2.057412] 
[ cut here ] Maybe that's related? Regards, Harm-Jan

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3.6, No logout entry? (Gnome-unstable and testing)

[Gan Lu]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:53 AM, martin kalcher
martin.kalc...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Am 13.10.2012 19:00, schrieb Brandon Watkins:

 I've just upgraded my arch install to [testing] and [gnome-unstable].
 Almost everything works fine, except there is no entry for logout in the
 gnome-shell user menu. I disabled all my extensions to make sure that
 wasn't the cause. Is this a known issue? Any workaround?


 Gnome removed the 'Log Out' and 'Switch User' for single user machines [0]
 (Search for 'Shutdown'), because of... i dont know.

 The obvious workaround is creating a second user or waiting for an
 extension. Probably alternative-status-menu [1].
alternative-status-menu doesn't work, it just adds suspend.

 [0]
 http://www.farisvoice.com/2012/09/27/the-new-linux-desktop-generation-under-the-microscope/
 [1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5/alternative-status-menu/

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3.6, No logout entry? (Gnome-unstable and testing)

[Gan Lu]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Brandon Watkins bwa...@gmail.com wrote:
 I've just upgraded my arch install to [testing] and [gnome-unstable].
 Almost everything works fine, except there is no entry for logout in the
 gnome-shell user menu. I disabled all my extensions to make sure that
 wasn't the cause. Is this a known issue? Any workaround?
I used to logout with 'systemctl restart gdm, don't know why gnome
3.6 removed the logout option with single user, which is quite
inconvenient.

Re: [arch-general] [translation] pacman 4.0.3 string freeze

[Gan Lu]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote:
 Only very minor updates, very few strings have changed.

 More info: http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/translation-help.html
 Transifex page: https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/archlinux-pacman/r/4-0-3/
 Due by: 2012-04-02

 Thanks!
 -Dan
Done for Chinese simplified translation.

Re: [arch-general] How can I change thunderbird profile dir form .thunderbird to .mozilla/thunderbird?

[Gan Lu]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Axilleas Pi axillea...@ymail.com wrote:
 On 03/11/2012 04:10 AM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:

 Is there any compile flag or something I could alter? I think that
 would be easy to do. I just want to clean my home folder, backup
 firefox and thunderbird data. I only want to backup a .mozilla
 directory and not .mozilla and .thunderbird them two.

 So,anyone knows?

 Besides, I don't want to symlink .mozilla/thunderbird to .thunderbird,
 that won't solve the problem, I am willing to recomplie the whole
 thunderbird if necessary.

 Regards,
 Techlive Zheng

 Use

 thunderbird --profilemanager
Yes, thunderbird -P, you can even make a desktop file for it,
something like (it's my Aurora):
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Aurora
GenericName=Web Browser
Exec=/home/ganlu/Downloads/firefox/firefox %u
Icon=/home/ganlu/Downloads/firefox/icons/mozicon128.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
StartupNotify=true
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;


 Make a new profile to your desired location and move your old profile to the
 new one ;)

Re: [arch-general] How can I change thunderbird profile dir form .thunderbird to .mozilla/thunderbird?

[Gan Lu]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:12 AM, 甘露(Gan Lu) rhythm@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Axilleas Pi axillea...@ymail.com wrote:
 On 03/11/2012 04:10 AM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:

 Is there any compile flag or something I could alter? I think that
 would be easy to do. I just want to clean my home folder, backup
 firefox and thunderbird data. I only want to backup a .mozilla
 directory and not .mozilla and .thunderbird them two.

 So,anyone knows?

 Besides, I don't want to symlink .mozilla/thunderbird to .thunderbird,
 that won't solve the problem, I am willing to recomplie the whole
 thunderbird if necessary.

 Regards,
 Techlive Zheng

 Use

 thunderbird --profilemanager
 Yes, thunderbird -P, you can even make a desktop file for it,
 something like (it's my Aurora):
 [Desktop Entry]
 Name=Aurora
 GenericName=Web Browser
 Exec=/home/ganlu/Downloads/firefox/firefox %u
 Icon=/home/ganlu/Downloads/firefox/icons/mozicon128.png
 Terminal=false
 Type=Application
 MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
 StartupNotify=true
 Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
Sorry, it should be Exec=/home/ganlu/Downloads/firefox/firefox %u -P test


 Make a new profile to your desired location and move your old profile to the
 new one ;)

Re: [arch-general] Gnome Shell freezes

[Gan Lu]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Max m...@posteo.de wrote:
 Dear arch users and developers,

 I have posted this issue also in the archlinux forum [1]. I didn't get
 much feedback there. So I'm hoping some people here might have an idea
 of how to resolve the problem.

 Problem:
 gnome shell freezes from time to time (actually daily).

 Freezing:
 Freezing means, the screen becomes unresponsive but everything seems
 to continue working (sound and videos continue playing; even the mouse
 pointer can still be moved). Most of the time I'm able to switch to a
 virtual console although sometimes it takes 10-20 seconds after
 CTRL+ALT+F1 to show up. Then, however, everything is running smoothly.
 It's not possible to restart X since it will freeze again at the gdm
 login screen, or even without using gdm when loading the desktop.

 What triggers the problem:
 Usually it happens while scrolling on websites or pdfs. I feel like it
 happens more often if there are large images.

 Hardware:
 IBM T60
 ATI X1400

 I think it's an issue with the open source radeon drivers. However, this
 problem doesn't occur using other desktop environments. I tried to look
 into some log files but I couldn't find noticeable error messages.
Since you guess ati driver would be the reason, why try it with vesa
or binary driver, then see the result.

 Looking forward to your suggestions,
 Max


 [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129481

Re: [arch-general] [translation] pacman 4.0.0 string freeze

[Gan Lu]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote:
 If you've helped us out before, or are looking to get involved, the
 string freeze for the magic 4.0 release is now in effect.

 Translators: http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/translation-help.html
 Transifex release page:
 https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/archlinux-pacman/r/4-0-0/

 I've set the deadline 7 days from today.
Big release finally, almost done, thanks for the hard work.

 -Dan

Re: [arch-general] Issues with Firefox 6 not starting after update

[Gan Lu]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Karol Blazewicz
karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Samuel Baldwin
 recursive.for...@gmail.com wrote:
 The topic says it all. I recently pacman -Syu'd and firefox has
 refused to start after this. I've tried rolling back to firefox 4 (and
 xulrunner 2) but I just get an error about XPCOM not loading.
Can't start even with a new profile? It seems an add-on problem to me.

 Trying to start firefox 6 just yields hanging. I've tried running
 firefox with LD_DEBUG=all and I've uploaded it here:
 http://lusitania.logik.li/files/firefox.log . Any help would be
 appreciated. Pointers about how successfully rollback to firefox 4 are
 also an acceptable substitute.

 Thanks,
 --
 Samuel Baldwin - logik.li


 What went wrong when you downgraded to Firefox 4 via ARM?

Re: [arch-general] [translation] Pacman 3.5.2 string freeze

[Gan Lu]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote:
 This is a message to all past/present/future translators that I'd like
 to do the pacman 3.5.2 release around the end of this week, so if you
 could take a look at the translations and get them up to date that
 would be great:
 https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/archlinux-pacman/r/3-5-2/

 There are only a handful of new and/or changed strings (6 to 20
 depending on the language and last update), so updating should be
 quick for most languages. There are also a handful of languages that
 have not seen an update in a bit, and would appreciate your help:
 Catalan, Danish, Portuguese, Slovak, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Norwegian
 Bokmål.

 To the German translator, as I got no feedback after the initial
 comment: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23575

 Thanks everyone! Please direct your questions/comments to the
 pacman-dev ML or include me in any replies as I no longer receive
 arch-general mailing list posts.

 -Dan

Done for Chinese simplified translation, don't know when pacman
release will be annouced here.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] repository cleanup

[Gan Lu]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:31 AM, 甘露(Gan Lu) rhythm@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote:
 I know I'm crossposting this, but this rather belongs to arch-general
 than to aur-general.

 Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:19:40 -0500
 schrieb Kaiting Chen kaitocr...@gmail.com:

 I think it's kind of hard for me to see why I should maintain a
 package that's already been discarded by its developer. In my opinion
 such packages should be moved to [unsupported] where the one more two
 people who might want to use them can simply build them themselves.

 Why should those packages be removed from the repos as long as they are
 running? That doesn't make sense. And such packages doesn't make any
 work for the developers. They can just be staying in the repos without
 doing any harm like e.g. eboard.
 You got my point.

 Regarding ding as an example doesn't make much work for the devs
 because it's updated by upstream every two years. And this package is
 really popular at least in Germany, because it's an English-German
 dictionary. And this tool is really old - but not outdated and
 unmainted. It's one of the first Linux applications and available in
 every repo of every distro.

 And the question is not cleaning up the repos in principle. The
 question is this mass cleanup and the removal of several popular and
 important packages even if they are orphaned.

 If there's an orphan quite popular then an unorphaned packages which is
 not popular or important could be moved to AUR and the orphaned and
 more popular package could be adopted by this dev. Just an example.

 squashfs-tools are necessary for building LiveCDs incl. the Arch Linux
 installation CD as far as I know. So I'm not sure if this package
 actually wouldn't belong to [core].

 btrfs-progs also doesn't belong to AUR. This package belongs into
 [core] and should be supported by AIF. Even if it's still marked as
 experimental, many people in the web report that it's pretty stable and
 that it's only missing an fsck. And many people report that it's
 usable on systems which don't need to be absolutely reliable.

 Btw., instead of the stable package btrfs-progs there's a package
 btrfs-progs-unstable in [extra] which really makes sense as the repos
 are meant to be stable repos.

 eboard, a still working and good chess GUI, was moved from [extra] to
 AUR. It's not maintained by upstream anymore but it's still working,
 it's quite popular and doesn't make any work for the devs. Having this
 in [extra] means there's a compiled and working package which doesn't
 need to be maintained. Having this package in AUR means that every user
 who wants to install this package must compile this package by himself.
 So what sense does this cleanup make? It makes completely no sense!

 epdfviewer is a very popular because lightweight PDF viewer for GTK.
 Galculator is the best calculator for GTK I know and also quite
 popular, at lest recommended quite often e.g. in the Xfce wiki. What's
 such a package doing in AUR?

 And, please, don't tell me anything about missing interest of the devs.
 As if every dev is using every package which he maintains himself or
 every dev only maintains only packages he is using himself.

 This is what I name and shame.

 This mass cleanup was just done inconsiderately.

 I really respect the voluntary work of the devs and TUs. And I really
 honor their work in their spare time. And I don't expect too much. But
 if a repo shall be cleaned up this must be done a lot more considered.
 We are practical people, aren't we? Please reconsider this cleanup,
 thanks. I don't mean it's bad, but please reconsider some.

 Five step plan to success:
 1) Actually contribute instead of whining on a mailing list
Yes, I see your point and I support it. The following statement makes
me think that do you judge contribution by only if I or other are a TU
or dev? How do you know we are not contributing because I or others
are not a TU/dev. Anyone has his/her expertise.
 2) Get your name known in the TU/dev circles
 3) Apply for a position where you can contribute more
 4) Have your opinion actually count because we know you do work
 instead of act as a roadblock
 5) Become jaded like the rest of us, realizing that users always think
 the world is ending, and when they say this is shame, I'm leaving,
 you suck, developers are selfish, none of the developers have ever
 really cared and would rather poisonous people leave anyway.
If some says  this is shame, I'm leaving,
you suck, developers are selfish,  you could certainly discard
them, but not I or Heiko, we just talk about our opinion.
Does a great community contain only TU/devs? Does Arch is driven by
them alone? If you think so what a upstream developer will think you
are?

 Because I enjoy getting things done, I'm now done with arch-general,
 and I know several other devs have unsubscribed

Re: [arch-general] kernel26-headers breaks VMWare and VirtualBox

[Gan Lu]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Fess killall_hum...@lavabit.com wrote:
 On 06:52 Wed 29 Sep , Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
 On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 14:44 -0700, John Holbrook wrote:
  Thanks. I just found it in testing. Install fixed my problem. Very
  frustrating though.

 Kernel updates always go through [testing] first.

 Last 2 or 3 new kernels brought us pain.
 Maybe developers had diarea. Or something like that.
 --


I do realize the best part you can do is join the test process, and
stop crying for that.

Re: [arch-general] Old news

[Gan Lu]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Mike Sampson m...@sambodata.com wrote:
 On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, jesse jaara jesse.ja...@gmail.com wrote:
 Did anyone else revice some old maiöing list messages i got few about
 xorg1.8 miving to extra and announment if 2010.5 install meedia and some
 others


 Yeah, me too.
My RSS reader listed 10 new old news too.

 Mike

Re: [arch-general] $startdir/src, $startdir/pkg and || return 1 in official packages

[Gan Lu]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Ionuț Bîru ib...@archlinux.org wrote:
 On 09/17/2010 04:35 PM, Lukas Fleischer wrote:

 Although this isn't really significant... I was just curious :)

 `grep '${\?startdir}\?/src' /var/abs/*/*/PKGBUILD | wc -l` - 648

 `grep '${\?startdir}\?/pkg' /var/abs/*/*/PKGBUILD | wc -l` - 1385

 `fgrep '|| return 1' /var/abs/*/*/PKGBUILD | wc -l` - 9274

 Isn't that something that could be fixed easily using sed(1)/awk(1)?
 E.g. using:

 `find . -name 'PKGBUILD' -exec sed -i 's/$startdir\/src/$srcdir/g;
 s/${startdir}\/src/${srcdir}/g; s/$startdir\/pkg/$pkgdir/g;
 s/${startdir}\/pkg/${pkgdir}/g' {} ';'`

 ... to replace all that $startdir/[...] stuff?

 we don't have to rush things like this. eventually everything would be all
 right with time when the packages are updated/rebuilt.
So it's more convincing if someone will calculate this the next year.

 --
 Ionuț

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux

[Gan Lu]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:23 AM, John Holbrook johnholbr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Installed Arch on my X500 and it works amazingly well. Pretty fast and
 I have a lot of features working that I could never get working with
 OpenSUSE.


T43P works well too, but is there a model X500 from lenovo?

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Xorg 1.8 moves to extra

[Gan Lu]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Ionuț Bîru biru.io...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 06/21/2010 06:34 AM, jwbirdsong wrote:

 On 06/20/2010 09:13 PM, Allan McRae wrote:

 On 21/06/10 13:04, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

 On 06/21/2010 02:31 AM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Andreas Radke
 wrote:

 Andreas Radke wrote:

 This release works with udev for input hotplugging and supports
 /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf as a replacement for the hal .fdi files.
 After
 upgrading to this release, configuration for input devices in hal is
 ignored.
 Documentation about this change can be found on:
 http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#xorg.conf.d_.28Xorg_1.8.29
 Nvidia-173xx
 and -96xx drivers currently don't support the new Xorg release. We
 recommend
 using the xf86-video-nouveau driver package for now.

 URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/
 ___
 arch-announce mailing list
 arch-annou...@archlinux.org
 http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce

 WOW nice. So HAL is not needed anymore ?


 Not for X. You may still need it for other things...
Not far away, not far away, I just got gnome-vfs and podsleuth
depending on it, which is scheduled to be removed by GNOME3 and
banshee.  New xorg update brings me a apparently smoother feeling when
I scroll pages in Firefox, which is a big advantage for me, thanks for
devs.

 Allan

 Most notabaly KDE and Thunar

 and in gnome with gnome-power-manager to have some special keys support


 --
 Ionuț

Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

[Gan Lu]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Jan de Groot j...@jgc.homeip.net wrote:
 On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:14 +0200, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
 Hello,
 I'd like to ask what are the plans for the xorg-server 1.8, especially
 now when RC1 of xorg-server 1.9 is out. Please don't get me wrong, I'm
 not demanding anything but I'm wondering what is holding back the move
 to [extra].

 I'm using new xorg-server on two different computers (notebook with
 intel and desktop with nvidia's blob) for some time without any
 problems.

 Though xorg-server 1.8 is not completely issue-free, I don't think 1.7
 from extra isn't issue-free either. I've been running these packages for
 months now without much problems.
 Before we start moving xorg-server 1.8, I would like to know when we can
 move kernel26. The latest kernel has a lot of fixes for Intel and
 ATI/AMD DRM. Do we have really important open bugs for 2.6.34, or are we
 just waiting for the magic .1 release?

In fact for xorg/kernel, I mean such big packages, there are quite a
few bug reports in the bug tracker, and a few questions in our forum,
which are a good signal in my opinion.

Re: [arch-general] Fixes for alot of PKGBUILDs

[Gan Lu]

2010/6/12 Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com:
 On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 03:38 -0400, Christopher Rogers wrote:
 I have fixes for alot of packages in extra and community.

 you can find the fixes here:
 http://github.com/godane/abs-source/tree/my-fixes

 its best to 'git clone git://github.com/godane/abs-source.git' without
 quotes.

 Do a 'git diff abs-20100611 my-fixes' without quotes to see the fixes i
 added to them.

 You can ignore aumix-gtk since it was updated. Also all texlive-*-doc url
 are broken. There url is you guys so i didn't bother to fix those.

 I hope this helps.

 Any reason why you're maintaining these fixes without submitting them to
 the proper places (Arch devs/TUs for packaging patches, upstream for
 app-patches)?
Yeah, I have the same question, in my memory, devs/TUs are quite happy
to emerge good patches.

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio package group

[Gan Lu]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:36 PM, b1 fo...@b1online.de wrote:
 Hi

 Since I am just a comperativly inexperienced user, it took me some time
 to get pulseaudio working (Digging the forum to change the asound.conf,
 getting vlc to work with pulse by the aur-package).
 I think it would be great having a package group, with which I could
 install all this stuff at once, alongside with the necessary
 configuration (asound.conf).
So do I, not really complex, but you have to do it again when you
re-install system or do it again for anyone else, which could be
boring.

 However I can't really assess the packaging problems, so if this isn't
 possible, bad luck.

 But I would really appreciate it.
I support this idea, and in fact I don't meet any problem with Fedora
since version 11, which (I mean Fedora or pulseaudio) runs well on my
wife's laptop, so I think it's time to adapt it someway.

 Thanks

 Benedikt

 On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 00:25 +0200, Jan Steffens wrote:
 I could make PulseAudio installation significantly easier by putting
 specially-built packages (e.g. sdl-pulse, openal-pulse) into
 [community] and grouping them in a pulse group.

 This group would also include a pulse-asoundrc package containing a
 pulse-configured asound.conf, as well as depending on alsa-plugins.

 Should I go ahead with this? Any suggestions?

Re: [arch-general] final release candidate images for testing

[Gan Lu]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote:
 new images are done.
 version: 2010.05.13

 these are the images I want to rename to an official 2010.05 release
 after testing.

 http://build.archlinux.org/isos/Changelog
 http://build.archlinux.org/isos/

 how should they be tested?

 for every file, that is:

 archlinux-2010.05.13-core-dual.iso
 archlinux-2010.05.13-core-i686.iso
 archlinux-2010.05.13-core-x86_64.iso
 archlinux-2010.05.13-netinstall-dual.iso
 archlinux-2010.05.13-netinstall-i686.iso
 archlinux-2010.05.13-netinstall-x86_64.iso

 I want to get a report from someone that an installation went fine.
 what kind of install doesn't really matter. manual, automatic,
 autoprepare, net/core whatever. this has been tested enough before, so
 any kind of install with each single image.


 On top of that, I want:
 A) confirmation for virtio_pci and virtio_blk on the install ISO's
 initramfs  http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19401?project=6
 B) at least one installation performed from a usb stick, using any of
 the above images.


 So if you test: send a reply mentioning which file you tested, and
 optionally if you can confirm A/B
My current system is installed from previous
archlinux-2010.04.05-core-i686 image, but no idea about the release
candidate image.
I am using an IBM T43P.

 thanks for you help,
 Dieter

Re: [arch-general] Firefox graphics licensed under MPL

[Gan Lu]

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Denis Kobozev d.v.kobo...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi archers,

 If you believe the comment on Mozilla's bugtracker [1] and the change
 to the license file [2], the previously non-free Firefox graphics are
 now licensed under the MPL. Does that mean that we'll be able to have
 official logo in the supported Firefox package?

 [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541761#c3
 [2]: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/99d80bc3f18b

And NAME of Firefox too?
 Denis.

Re: [arch-general] Looking for czech and simplified chinese speakers for a quick pacman translation update

[Gan Lu]

Sorry for being late, I am occupied by really busy life, haven't
checked my mail for days.

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Xavier shinin...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:25 AM, member zhurai zhu...@archlinux.us wrote:
 Although I don't know chinese (as I'm an american born chinese) (I do know
 Japanese if that's needed.)

 I might be able to get some of my cousins to do it if they want in their
 free time...should I do so?


 Don't bother, 3.3.1 was released :)
 Thanks anyway !

Re: [arch-general] new AIF release

[甘露(Gan Lu)]

Does this mean we can furtunately have a new release ISO at the end of
this year? Thanks for your hard work.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote:
 Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

 Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

 There are some known issues (which are not critical, just avoid them or
 live with them).  Here are the biggest ones (for more, see TODO)
 - don't remove lvm LV's if you have more then one in one lvm VG.  So
 think before you create :-)

 fixed

 - make the correct devicemapper devices directly because they are not
 cleaned up correctly if you remove them again

 fixed

 - keyboard and timezone settings from installer don't go into target
 systems config

 low prio

 - long selections (eg packages) are very cumbersome to do in CLI mode.

 low prio

 - rollback of dm_crypt partitions doesn't work yet

 fixed

 forgot to mention: I hope to be able to resolve (most of) these issues
 before Xmas


 Have fun!
 Dieter

[arch-general] Why there is duplicate dependencies when searching package on the home page

[甘露(Gan Lu)]

Is this a bug or something?

Re: [arch-general] repoman tool

[甘露(Gan Lu)]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Andrea Scarpino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 2008/9/2 Ángel Velásquez [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 I am using repoman right now, until now this tool works good for me, i
 really like it, and i hope don't find any bug *yet* hehe =].
 If you find one please contact fastly me ;)

 So I will do the Spanish translation ;) (finishing right now), good job from
 the Italian Team :-)
 Very thanks to you and voidnull for translations!!!

 Anyone want can get repoman.pot and send to me your translation
 (really thanks if you do it)
The attached is my Chinese Simplified translation, please check out,
thanks for your useful work.


 Regards

 --
 Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino
 Arch Linux Trusted User
 Linux User: #430842



zh_CN.po.tar.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to tranlate installer?

[gan lu]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Justin Gx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 gan lu wrote:
  I hope I can, or I will report a bug for tracking, thanks.
 

 Not being able to translate the installer into your language proper does
 not qualify as a bug. It would be best if you left the bug tracker for
 tracking serious, *real*, bugs - like systems that freeze for no
 apparent reason, slow video after a package upgrade etc...

 ~Just because you cannot do something.. do not think it impossible for
 another~ ;)

Yes, with notice from *Charles-Henri d'Adhémar
(chicha)http://bugs.archlinux.org/user/1847
* , I reported a feature request instead :-0, see:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10425?project=1order=dateopenedsort=desc**.
However this kind of discussion reminds me if I am thinking the way too much
more from marketing or user's view?

Re: [arch-general] unable to select ppp package when installing 2008.04-rc

[gan lu]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 2:11 PM, gan lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



 On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Roman Kyrylych [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

 2008/5/18 gan lu [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

  Yes, I know it's in the core, it's here, but I can' find it in select
  packages step, that's why I ask for confirmation. Ok, I will take the
 rc
  iso cd, and try again. Thanks all dudes.
 

 Probably this is because packages.txt file is incorrect.

 Oh, I checked, it's here in support section of packages.txt. I must boot
 the cd up, and check again.

Weird problem. only if you select support first or alone, packages in
support catogary can show in the list (which is eventually installed). If
you select base - devel-libs-supports (or select another than supports
first) like most of people do, no luck.




 --
 Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

Re: [arch-general] unable to select ppp package when installing 2008.04-rc

[gan lu]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Jeffrey Parke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 gan lu wrote:

 I have tried once or twice, even if you select all four catogaries and all
 packages, I don't see ppp listed there. I don't check it one by one but by
 press P, so I don't know if anyone can confirm it too. It's in the CD
 though. PPP is import package for one using adsl connection etc.

 just install the base package. it has all the packages you need for
 internet stuff.

 No, there isn't when I tried.

Re: [arch-general] unable to select ppp package when installing 2008.04-rc

[gan lu]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Jeffrey Parke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 gan lu wrote:



 On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Jeffrey Parke [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

gan lu wrote:

I have tried once or twice, even if you select all four
catogaries and all packages, I don't see ppp listed there. I
don't check it one by one but by press P, so I don't know if
anyone can confirm it too. It's in the CD though. PPP is
import package for one using adsl connection etc.

just install the base package. it has all the packages you need
for internet stuff.

 No, there isn't when I tried.

 yeah the ppp package is in the core.
 http://archlinux.org/packages/search/?q=ppp

Yes, I know it's in the core, it's here, but I can' find it in select
packages step, that's why I ask for confirmation. Ok, I will take the rc
iso cd, and try again. Thanks all dudes.

Re: [arch-general] unable to select ppp package when installing 2008.04-rc

[gan lu]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:37 PM, gan lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



 On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Jeffrey Parke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

 gan lu wrote:



 On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Jeffrey Parke [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

gan lu wrote:

I have tried once or twice, even if you select all four
catogaries and all packages, I don't see ppp listed there. I
don't check it one by one but by press P, so I don't know if
anyone can confirm it too. It's in the CD though. PPP is
import package for one using adsl connection etc.

just install the base package. it has all the packages you need
for internet stuff.

 No, there isn't when I tried.

 yeah the ppp package is in the core.
 http://archlinux.org/packages/search/?q=ppp

 Yes, I know it's in the core, it's here, but I can' find it in select
 packages step, that's why I ask for confirmation. Ok, I will take the rc
 iso cd, and try again. Thanks all dudes.

 It's not there, anyone could try, I can only use chroot, or manually
install it after reboot. so this is a bug definiitely.

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to tranlate installer?

[gan lu]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Abhishek Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:02:43AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
 
  It's a fact of open source software that things are only taken
  seriously if the contributor to the project NEEDS/WANTS it. I don't
  think i18n is a huge deal to any of our developers, so this won't come
  up as a high priority for any of us.
 
  That is not to say that i18n is *unimportant*. It most certainly is
  not. But I know for a fact that it will get done much faster by
  someone who actually cares about translations.
 
  My suggestion: find someone willing to write a patch for the installer
  who actually cares about i18n. If you expect the devs to do it
  themselves, then it will get done, just not as quickly as you'd
  expect, which may end up frustrating you.
 
  The installer has a git repo here:
  http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=installer.git;a=summary
  Find someone to patch in gettext macros (see makepkg for a good
  implementation), and it will get applied very quickly. Otherwise, we
  have much more pressing matters to spend our time on (i.e. getting out
  the next ISO)
 

It's understandable, it's just over my capability to make a patch, I am not
a programmer anyway, so I add a feature request in bug tracker for
reminding.



 I just saw through the makepkg script, adding gettext support seems to
 be easy. I'll start work on it on the weekend.

Great, thank you very much.



 Regards,
 --
 Abhishek Dasgupta http://abhidg.mine.nu
 GPG 67972DOF pgpkeys.mit.edu

Re: [arch-general] top posting

[gan lu]

Yeah, I love gmail.

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Sten Larsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 If everybody used Gmail this wouldn't be a problem :-)

 On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:22:01PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
  On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   Ok, to be serious for a minute, judging from a few posts, not everyone
understands, so just to clarify for newcomers, or for anyone who
 doesn't
have English as their first language.  (Though many of the latter
 write
better than we native speakers, but that's another thread.) :)
 
 
  Woah. /me blinks
 
  This should be wikified 8)
 
  There's a much better article about it by a friend of mine, over at
 
  http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php
 
  He'd probably be ameneable to having it put on a wiki--if you like, I
  can ask him.  (Though he'll be away for several days, so I might not get
  an answer for a little while. )
 
  --
  Scott Robbins
  PGP keyID EB3467D6
  ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
  gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
 
  Xander: Calm may work for Locutus of the Borg here, but I'm
   freaked out, and I intend to stay that way.
 
 

[arch-general] Anyway to tranlate installer?

[gan lu]

I hope I can, or I will report a bug for tracking, thanks.

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to tranlate installer?

[gan lu]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Aaron Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:56 PM, gan lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I hope I can, or I will report a bug for tracking, thanks.
 

 Right now the installer isn't really ready for translations. I'm sure
 it could be switched to gettext macros in the same way makepkg does
 it, but it's just not done yet.

 So I made a bug report [1], I hope this situation would be taken seriously
by devs and improved quickly. I am making a list for i18n improvement for
Archlinux, which is one of it.

[1]:http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10425

Re: [arch-general] netcfg2: background running

[gan lu]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Philippe Miron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Yep.  Actually the deamon name is net-profiles, so it should be
 @net-profiles .

I tried and failed (not be recognized) unless you mean  I should add
net-profile in the deamon section(never tried).



 On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:13 PM, gan lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



 On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Emmanuel Benisty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

 On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:21 AM, gan lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Do your great devs plan to add support of  background running
 capability
  (adding @ like in the rc.conf daemon section) for netcfg2
 (net-profile), I
  have set a ethernet-static and adsl internet connection when booting
 up, but
  if adsl got some trouble to connect, which makes my computer waiting
 for it
  like ages. Thanks.
 

 I'm starting netcfg2 in the background since ages.

 How please? with net-profile in the rc.conf (as simple as adding @ )?




 --
 Philippe

Re: [arch-general] netcfg2: background running

[gan lu]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Aaron Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:21 PM, gan lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Do your great devs plan to add support of  background running capability
  (adding @ like in the rc.conf daemon section) for netcfg2 (net-profile),
 I
  have set a ethernet-static and adsl internet connection when booting up,
 but
  if adsl got some trouble to connect, which makes my computer waiting for
 it
  like ages. Thanks.
 

 Couldn't you just reorder the profiles so that the ethernet starts
 (and possibly fails) first, then the adsl connection is tried?


No, no, my ethernet is OK, but sometimes with ISP problem it will take quite
some time to get connected. Thanks for your reply.

[arch-general] netcfg2: background running

[gan lu]

Do your great devs plan to add support of  background running capability
(adding @ like in the rc.conf daemon section) for netcfg2 (net-profile), I
have set a ethernet-static and adsl internet connection when booting up, but
if adsl got some trouble to connect, which makes my computer waiting for it
like ages. Thanks.

[arch-general] Rename 'unstable' to 'developing'

[gan lu]

As we know, many packages saying even firefox or openoffice in unstable repo
don't mean unstable, instead, they are quite stable. The name of repo
simply doesn't reflect the fact, so how about a rename?
It's harmless and may even bring some good point, at least from a marketing
point, it may courage more devs or TUs to follow the upstream developing and
put more packages there, in return attract more people who are interested in
the package to do more (testing) work, which can eventually make the package
better quality.
Just my 2 cents.

Re: [arch-general] Rename 'unstable' to 'developing'

[gan lu]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Giovanni Scafora [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 2008/5/1 bardo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
   Why? It's true that we're all waiting for our own testing repo, but
   using unstable won't help: the problem is AUR integration: a lot of
   work still has to be done before community can move to svn, and then
   support for an overlay repo has to be added from scratch.

 The unstable repo is using svn now.
 Maybe, we could rename it to community?


We have community repo already, hand svn packages to community may work, but
I still think it could be better to distinguish such packages from anothers.
Unstable repo is useless if only a few people use it. Drop it if we can't
make it more useful, that's why I propose for a rename, to try to bring it
to the right direction.

--
 Giovanni Scafora
 Arch Linux Trusted User (voidnull)
 http://www.archlinux.org
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [arch-general] Banshee needs an update

[gan lu]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Alec Hussey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 08:59 +0200, JJDaNiMoTh wrote:
  On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:00:26 +0200
  Xavier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   Justin Gx wrote:
Alec Hussey wrote:
Hello,
   
I was glad when you guys (or Jan de Groot, whichever) decided to
 push
the banshee alpha out to extra. However, it is missing many pretty
essential features and it now far behind the releases put out by
 the
banshee developers. I think that either we need to keep up or
 provide
two seperate versions of the package until a final release of 1.0
 is
made.
   
   
Thanks for writing this - I was going to write something along the
 same
lines. the Banshee in the repos is much too basic.
   
  
   Where is your PKGBUILD up-to-date and with essential features, so that
   people interested would know what you are talking about?
  
 
  This is a developer's work.
 
  If Jan requests his help, Justin or Alec can email him directly to his
 e-mail.
  And yours isn't the answer much appropriate, the best way would was
  'use the out-of-date checkbox and not this mailing-list'
 
  /* Leave from your brain this 'patches welcome' mind. They only want
   * to help.   */
 
 But last I checked, the repository browser on archlinux.org doesnt
 support that and the banshee pacakges in the AUR are SVN releases done
 by other users.

 http://www.archlinux.org/packages/search/?q=banshee

 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0L=0C=0K=bansheeSeB=ndPP=25do_Search=Go

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 10:19 +0300, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
 Current banshee version is 0.98.1 and latest is 0.98.3. Even
though i
 dont know i doubt the features added are that essential to
cause this
 fuzz.

Oh, they are. Banshee had a complete rewrite and the 0.98.1
version is
really really basic.

0.98.3 adds new stuff like shuffling, video support etc.

I think I would call that major features.

 On top of that none of the plugins from before had been ported yet in
 0.98.1 including Podcasts, DAAP, and MTP/iPod support.


MTP and podcast support - according their website - is not fully implemented
in 0.98.3 neither.

Re: [arch-general] Banshee needs an update

[gan lu]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Timm Preetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 10:19 +0300, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
  Current banshee version is 0.98.1 and latest is 0.98.3. Even though i
  dont know i doubt the features added are that essential to cause this
  fuzz.

 Oh, they are. Banshee had a complete rewrite and the 0.98.1 version is
 really really basic.

 0.98.3 adds new stuff like shuffling, video support etc.

 I think I would call that major features.


 0.98.3 compiles fine with little version modification of PKGBUILD, and the
patch isn't needed any longer

Re: [arch-general] Way of flaging out of date?

[gan lu]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 6:26 PM, 王凯 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 You can just ping the pkg maintainer. Why make things complex.

 2008/4/12, gan lu [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
  In my opinion, Arch is the best distro can really do bleeding edge with
  stablility, thank devs for their excellent work. However due to some reasion
  (saying shortage of time, man power, instersts etc), some applications
  can't be updated in time. We can certainly flag it out of date in the web
  page easily, but is there a way we can record when it was flaged at the
  first time and count how many people (useres) want to flag it (like enable
  people to vote, but of course only  send a remind email at the first/person
  )?
  Just my idea, I am not a programmer so don't blame me not to do it real
  by myself.
 
 
 To make him/her crazy? I prefer to compile them myself if I would ping the
package maintainer, the email should have done the thing if that works.

Re: [arch-general] Way of flaging out of date?

[gan lu]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Attila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Samstag, 12. April 2008 17:33 Jan de Groot wrote:

 At first i don't want to create a bureaucratic monster.-)

  The first thing I stated isn't actually true though: we can unflag
  packages, which we'll certainly do when people think development
  versions of packages like GTK are newer than the stable version in our
  repository. This happens on a daily basis when GNOME development
  releases are pushed to the FTP for example, or in cases when people
  think gnome-common should be 2.22.0 because GNOME is at 2.22.x (while
  there's only gnome-common-2.20.0 on the upstream FTP).

 I never think about it but as i wrote your lines i think about a comment
 filed
 as in the bug tracker. So a dev can unflag the package with a comment as
 It
 is the actual one or Will get updated if package xyz from testing is
 ready
 or The newer one don't compiles because  In the third case it is
 possible that more people can search for a patch or can contact the dev
 from
 mainstream and the maintainer of the package don't need to tell the same
 even
 and even again.

Yes, the thing bothers me is that you see how many times a package has being
flaged for quite a long time, but without any feedback from maintainer or
devs, which is sad for you.



 But if this makes more work than it is a help than forget my idea.

Agree.



 See you, Attila

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts changes

[gan lu]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Jan de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 00:24 +0200, RedShift wrote:
  Thomas Bächler wrote:
   RedShift schrieb:
   Thomas Bächler wrote:
   I am hacking initscripts and can't quite decide on two issues:
  
   1) I'd like to hardcode /dev/pts/ mounting in rc.sysinit.

-1 for me. fstab supposes to be complete and should not be touched if user
doesn't know how to deal with it, Hard-coding something doesn't mean user
will not break it incidently or intently

[arch-general] Hardcoded or not

[gan lu]

I put my words here but it's just my opinion:
1. Arch's devs are great and cute.
2. I am against to hardcoded-things.
3. If possible, I prefer what has been hardcoded in file system mounting
should put int one file: fstab.
4. Should I open a bug tracker for the discussion.