Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)
On Saturday 14 February 2009 01:50:38 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Recently evince stopped working on one of my machines, ajglap. > > For every pdf, evince opens a window and complains > unable to open document > unhandled mime type As you use evince, you may be a gnome user, so this might not help you. I recently had all my kde associations and (very surprisingly) a number of others from other DEs go scrambled. Rebuilding kdelibs fixed all of it. I never did figure out how this could occur. Possibly it's something to do with DEs converging on freedesktop.org standards, so an oopsie in one can have system-wide side0effects. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless
> > )On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:05 +0900, daid kahl wrote: > > I was bored and playing around with macchanger to change my Wireless > > MAC address, and wireless has not worked since, even though I'm using > > my hardware MAC address again. I'm usually using NetworkManager, but > > I > > Try shutting it down, remove power (actually unplug it - most moderm > MB's stay live when supposedly off) > > Wait 10 minutes and apply power and boot. > > Its probable the hardware and software are now confused and need a clean > start. > > BillK > > Like I said, I can use the wireless card just fine in other operating systems if I reboot, so it's not hardware. I did give your solution a go, but no such luck. The problem is that when the MAC address was randomly changed, it's given me an IP address assigned to the region near Marina del Rey, California. As it turns out, I'm in Tokyo, and probably my wireless router is not happy about talking to the wireless IP my computer insists to assign itself. I've been trying to configure it all manually, since that way maybe I can assign myself a more reasonable IP address, and then if I later use wicd or NetworkManager it won't try to use the bad address. On accident I brought up wifi0 with no configurations, and you can see what it's doing * Bringing up interface wifi0 * No configuration specified; defaulting to DHCP * dhcp ... * Running dhcpcd ... wifi0: dhcpcd 4.0.2 starting wifi0: broadcasting for a lease wifi0: timed out wifi0: probing for an IPV4LL address wifi0: checking 169.254.62.179 is available on attached networks wifi0: using IPv4LL address 169.254.62.179[ ok ] * received address 169.254.62.179/16 I'm not concerned if you have this IP, because this is the non-functional California IP that my computer continues to assign itself in Gentoo. Is there a way to reset my IPv4 LL address? Clearly the computer stored this IP address somewhere and it needs to be wiped, or replaced with something more suitable for this network. ~daid
Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?
Philip Webb schrieb: > 090215 zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: >> Can I run firefox multi-process instead of multi-threads. >> I hate to see the browser hang trying to open a huge webpage ( > 10 MB ) > > A work-around is to download the file with Wget or Lynx, > then open the result with Firefox after it has all arrived. Yes, but then you already know the page is >10MB, right? Usually such devil come as a surprise when you click open a google search result. I don't know if in China network is specially boardband otherwise how to explain the forums dare to allow dozens of hi-res photo posted in-line of messages and web designers dare to design websites with a front page of more than 3MB (e.g. our local tax office website contain huge picture and flash on the front-page with several hundreds of links on it).
Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: > konqueror > > it is better than ff anyway. Are you sure it runs multi-process?
[gentoo-user] Re: &credit_card and [charge] not compatible?
> I'm trying to use: > > &credit_card=standard visa mc discover amex > > so [error mv_credit_card_number] will be set if the number isn't valid > or the date is expired, and [charge] on the resulting page, but the > card number doesn't persist to the [charge] tag. If I remove > &credit_card, [charge] works fine but there is no card number and date > validation. Can I have card validation and [charge] functionality? I > would put [charge] in etc/log_transaction but I can't get order > routing to work. > > - Grant My apologies, wrong list. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?
090215 zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: > Can I run firefox multi-process instead of multi-threads. > I hate to see the browser hang trying to open a huge webpage ( > 10 MB ) A work-around is to download the file with Wget or Lynx, then open the result with Firefox after it has all arrived. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?
An interesting project that has come up is called Crossover Chromium, which is a specially packaged version of Chrome and Wine, but yeah in the meantime Konqueror does a pretty good job even if it does render slightly differently on my system. On Feb 14, 2009 11:11 PM, "Joshua Murphy" wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:57 PM, wrote: > I always wonder if I can run fi... Google Chrome's another that has this wonderful feature... and doesn't run on Linux (yet). -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:57 PM, wrote: > I always wonder if I can run firefox multi-process instead of > multi-threads. I hate to see the browser hang trying to open a huge > webpage (>10MB) and that's frequent case in China. > Usually at such case I have to lanuch a different browser (e.g. > epiphany) in order to keep browsing during loading the big page in Fx. > And I think, if fx is itself multi-processed, then each tab or window I > open is a process, then it is pretty much alike that I open eiphany when > firefox is busy. It should work better. > > If this is not possible just with a USE flag, is there a browser that > works in Gentoo and is designed to be mult-process? > > I only know safari is multi-process (per window) but it doesn't work on > Gentoo. > > -- > Real Softservice > > Huateng Tower, Unit 1788 > Jia 302 3rd area of Jinsong, Chao Yang > > Tel: +86 (10) 8773 0650 ext 603 > Mobile: 159 7382 > http://www.realss.com Google Chrome's another that has this wonderful feature... and doesn't run on Linux (yet). -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?
On Sonntag 15 Februar 2009, zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: > I always wonder if I can run firefox multi-process instead of > multi-threads. I hate to see the browser hang trying to open a huge > webpage (>10MB) and that's frequent case in China. > Usually at such case I have to lanuch a different browser (e.g. > epiphany) in order to keep browsing during loading the big page in Fx. > And I think, if fx is itself multi-processed, then each tab or window I > open is a process, then it is pretty much alike that I open eiphany when > firefox is busy. It should work better. > > If this is not possible just with a USE flag, is there a browser that > works in Gentoo and is designed to be mult-process? > > I only know safari is multi-process (per window) but it doesn't work on > Gentoo. konqueror it is better than ff anyway.
[gentoo-user] &credit_card and [charge] not compatible?
I'm trying to use: &credit_card=standard visa mc discover amex so [error mv_credit_card_number] will be set if the number isn't valid or the date is expired, and [charge] on the resulting page, but the card number doesn't persist to the [charge] tag. If I remove &credit_card, [charge] works fine but there is no card number and date validation. Can I have card validation and [charge] functionality? I would put [charge] in etc/log_transaction but I can't get order routing to work. - Grant
[gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?
I always wonder if I can run firefox multi-process instead of multi-threads. I hate to see the browser hang trying to open a huge webpage (>10MB) and that's frequent case in China. Usually at such case I have to lanuch a different browser (e.g. epiphany) in order to keep browsing during loading the big page in Fx. And I think, if fx is itself multi-processed, then each tab or window I open is a process, then it is pretty much alike that I open eiphany when firefox is busy. It should work better. If this is not possible just with a USE flag, is there a browser that works in Gentoo and is designed to be mult-process? I only know safari is multi-process (per window) but it doesn't work on Gentoo. -- Real Softservice Huateng Tower, Unit 1788 Jia 302 3rd area of Jinsong, Chao Yang Tel: +86 (10) 8773 0650 ext 603 Mobile: 159 7382 http://www.realss.com
Re: [gentoo-user] FIle type recognition in Gnome
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 00:15 +, amar.co...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hello list >> >> I have this weird issue with Gnome and diferent file types. For ex. if >> I double click on .avi file it try's to open it with document viewer >> (gedit i guess). And If I go right click>properties>open with> then >> chose Movie player.. then it opens .avi in Totem. But thing is after >> that it will try to open every file type in Totem ie. .txt .zip .. Its >> like it doesnt recognize and assign right aplication to file type. Any >> sugestions on this? >> > > I've never seen this before. Something is really messed up. BTW > "Document Viewer" is usually Evince. > > Well you didn't specify what version of GNOME you are using. Perhaps > your > ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list, > /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache or /usr/share/application-registry is > hosed. > > -a We are seeing something similar here on my wife's machine. All the file associations started going to gedit and we're having to reassociate file types with applications. It seems that somehow it starts using the most recent association as the default for the next unknown file type. Once we set things up then the app seems to stick with the file type. - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] FIle type recognition in Gnome
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 00:15 +, amar.co...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello list > > I have this weird issue with Gnome and diferent file types. For ex. if > I double click on .avi file it try's to open it with document viewer > (gedit i guess). And If I go right click>properties>open with> then > chose Movie player.. then it opens .avi in Totem. But thing is after > that it will try to open every file type in Totem ie. .txt .zip .. Its > like it doesnt recognize and assign right aplication to file type. Any > sugestions on this? > I've never seen this before. Something is really messed up. BTW "Document Viewer" is usually Evince. Well you didn't specify what version of GNOME you are using. Perhaps your ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list, /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache or /usr/share/application-registry is hosed. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:41:31 -0500 Jake Todd wrote: > On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:10:22 -0500 > list-catcher wrote: > > > > > I'm taking an online Spanish course which requires the use of > > accented vowels along with the ñ character. Right now I'm forced > > to cut and paste these letters when I need them but that's slowly > > driving me insane. Is there a way I can use a control or alt key > > along with the vowel (or n) to make the appropriate accented > > version? Is there another way to handle this? > > > > xmodmap > Now that I know about xmodmap I can google, thanks! http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/OLD/keyboard_us2es.txt --
Re: [gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:39:03 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > list-catcher schrieb am 15.02.2009 00:10: > > I'm taking an online Spanish course which requires the use of > > accented vowels along with the ñ character. Right now I'm forced > > to cut and paste these letters when I need them but that's slowly > > driving me insane. Is there a way I can use a control or alt key > > along with the vowel (or n) to make the appropriate accented > > version? Is there another way to handle this? > > > > As XFCE is based on GTK+ you should be able to use this combination > CTRL+SHIFT+U+Hexcode [1]. I thought of this but it only works in some applications, ones that use GTK. You also didn't read the whole question. Nice try though.
Re: [gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:10:22 -0500 list-catcher wrote: > > I'm taking an online Spanish course which requires the use of accented > vowels along with the ñ character. Right now I'm forced to cut and > paste these letters when I need them but that's slowly driving me > insane. Is there a way I can use a control or alt key along with the > vowel (or n) to make the appropriate accented version? Is there > another way to handle this? > xmodmap
Re: [gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)
list-catcher schrieb am 15.02.2009 00:10: > I'm taking an online Spanish course which requires the use of accented > vowels along with the ñ character. Right now I'm forced to cut and > paste these letters when I need them but that's slowly driving me > insane. Is there a way I can use a control or alt key along with the > vowel (or n) to make the appropriate accented version? Is there > another way to handle this? > As XFCE is based on GTK+ you should be able to use this combination CTRL+SHIFT+U+Hexcode [1]. You can release CTRL+SHIFT after typing U then type the hexcode and hit Enter. After that the character appears. When holding CTRL+SHIFT then typing U+Hexcode the character appears after releasing CTRL+SHIFT. From [2] N WITH TILDE, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER 00D1 N WITH TILDE, LATIN SMALL LETTER00F1 CTRL+SHIFT+U+00D1 = Ñ CTRL+SHIFT+U+00F1 = ñ [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input [2] http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html PS: Google is your friend Regards, Daniel signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] FIle type recognition in Gnome
Hello listI have this weird issue with Gnome and diferent file types. For ex. if I double click on .avi file it try's to open it with document viewer (gedit i guess). And If I go right click>properties>open with> then chose Movie player.. then it opens .avi in Totem. But thing is after that it will try to open every file type in Totem ie. .txt .zip .. Its like it doesnt recognize and assign right aplication to file type. Any sugestions on this?Amar Ćosićamar.co...@gmail.coma...@amar.ba+38761240095http://www.amar.ba signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Using multiple languages in XFCE (and the console)
I'm taking an online Spanish course which requires the use of accented vowels along with the ñ character. Right now I'm forced to cut and paste these letters when I need them but that's slowly driving me insane. Is there a way I can use a control or alt key along with the vowel (or n) to make the appropriate accented version? Is there another way to handle this? --
Re: [gentoo-user] EEE netbook and gentoo
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:07:55 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote: > Just got an Asus EEE 900A and would like to install gentoo linux using > the USB boot stick method. Xandros must go! Don't even get a shell! Ctrl-Alt-T > Thing is, how do I get into the BIOS on the netbook to tell it to boot > from the USB stick? Press Esc right after powering on to get a boot menu. -- Neil Bothwick Data to Picard: 'No, Captain, I do NOT run WINDOWS!' signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] EEE netbook and gentoo
Hi group, Just got an Asus EEE 900A and would like to install gentoo linux using the USB boot stick method. Xandros must go! Don't even get a shell! Thing is, how do I get into the BIOS on the netbook to tell it to boot from the USB stick? maxim
[gentoo-user] Re: protect older kernels from depclean?
Mark Knecht wrote: Is there a Gentoo way of protecting older kernels from being removed by emerge --depclean? Maybe a config file somewhere that tells it not to bother with certain things? A simple way is to put each kernel I want to protect in the world file, and I've done that, but it would be nice if there was a way to protect the whole group of kernels until I get around to cleaning them out by hand. Move them to /usr/local/src
Re: [gentoo-user] protect older kernels from depclean?
Mark Knecht wrote: > Is there a Gentoo way of protecting older kernels from being removed > by emerge --depclean? Maybe a config file somewhere that tells it not > to bother with certain things? > > A simple way is to put each kernel I want to protect in the world > file, and I've done that, but it would be nice if there was a way to > protect the whole group of kernels until I get around to cleaning them > out by hand. > > Thanks, > Mark > > > Just do a emerge of the specific version or you can add it to world manually. The key part is to have the specific version you want to keep. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] protect older kernels from depclean?
Is there a Gentoo way of protecting older kernels from being removed by emerge --depclean? Maybe a config file somewhere that tells it not to bother with certain things? A simple way is to put each kernel I want to protect in the world file, and I've done that, but it would be nice if there was a way to protect the whole group of kernels until I get around to cleaning them out by hand. Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs blocking question
Geralt wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Neil Bothwick > wrote: > > You don't need to remove anything, just let portage handle the block > > for you. Blocks marked with a b (instead of a B) can be handled by > > recent portage releases. > are you sure that his works in this case? This blocking bug was some > time before the new Portage went stable and back then you had to > resolve it by hand. > So if you're unlucky you have to resolve it by hand, but there's an > explanation in bugzilla. The blockers were resolved by portage 2.2 on 3-4 of my systems just fine, but on 2 others it did not work out and I did the upgrade manually. No idea why this is. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.2 no prefixed problems
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 13 February 2009 19:01:32 Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I installed kde-4.2 with USE="kdeprefix" two weeks ago and everything >> I needed was working all right. >> >> Then I decided to change my USE flags and delete kdeprefix in order to >> have kde in /usr. After that I: >> >> - Did an emerge -uDN world >> - Deleted my user folders .kde* >> >> The result was a kde-4.2 merged back, but with the following >> applications crashing: > > Unmerge EVERYTHING related to KDE-4.2. Every last package you can find, > including Qt. Inspect emerge --depclean carefully and run it. Examine your > world and make sure there's nothing left from KDE4. Make especially sure you > are not mixing stuff from an overlay and the portage tree. > > Then rebuild the whole lot the way you want it with the actual USE flags you > want. This seems the wrong way round, but it isn't. I spent almost a week > struggling to no avail with krunner and kopete doing the same things as yours, > when complete reinstall fixed all of it in 8 hours. > > Thank you Alan, I guess Complete reinstall is the way to go ... -- Andrés
Re: [gentoo-user] problems running doxygen from cron
Dirk Uys wrote: > I have a problem when running doxygen from a cron job. It seems like > doxygen is simply aborting at an arbitrary point during execution. I > tried to search on the internet, but could not find anything similar > reported. [...] > My cron entry is > 45 * * * * /home/user/script.sh >> /home/user/debug.log I would add a " 2>&1" to the cron entry in order to get stderr output logged, too. Maybe there are error messages you are missing. My cron problems usually come from the PATH being restricted, anthough this shoudl not matter in your case with the script, I think. Anyway, I'd start it with "#!/bin/bash -l" in order to open a login shell, and I would include the "env" command in the script so I can spot differences in the environment. Just some ideas, Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Ctrl+c kills KOrganizer 4.2 when it should copy text [Solved]
On 2/7/09, Arttu V. wrote: > Maybe the new xorg-server is only supposed to work reliably on a fully > ~amd64? This box has mostly stable amd64 and only select packages, > mostly end-used apps like seamonkey, OOo and firefox are allowed to be > ~amd64 along with some of their more obscure requirements (like > xulrunner). > > Anyway, thanks for everyone for the helpful comments and ideas! I'll > post a short reply about the success with the downgrade hopefully > tomorrow and then try to leave this for now. After a week of frustrating nightly recompilations with emerge -e failing at various points (gcc-43 not supported for *stable* packages?! o.O [1]) and futile downgrade-attempts not changing the situation, I've finally figured out the culprit for the keyboard trouble: acpid. I had mistakenly added it to default runlevel. (IIRC, due to something hinting to do it with the latest xorg-server.) Anyway, after dropping acpid the keyboard is back again, functioning as expected, ctrl+c copying stuff, cursor keys working (I even lost them at some point), etc. (Not to forget some keyboard related conf settings that appeared in /etc/hal/fdi during the emerge -e kde-meta.) That should teach me to remember *all* the changes I do, not just suspect the unstable packages. :) [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229269#c4 -- Arttu V.
Re: [gentoo-user] Commenting out multiple lines in vim
Hi, Stroller wrote: > Any comments gratefully received. > The ways described here are quite convenient for sure, but since comments are pretty important and frequently-used instruments in programming, I prefer extending the conveniency furthermore by using "The NERD Commenter" vim plugin found here: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1218 To comment out the 5 following lines just type 5,c or 5,cs to use multirow comments. Regards, Sebastian signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless
Try shutting it down, remove power (actually unplug it - most moderm MB's stay live when supposedly off) Wait 10 minutes and apply power and boot. Its probable the hardware and software are now confused and need a clean start. BillK )On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:05 +0900, daid kahl wrote: > I was bored and playing around with macchanger to change my Wireless > MAC address, and wireless has not worked since, even though I'm using > my hardware MAC address again. I'm usually using NetworkManager, but > I
[gentoo-user] Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless
I was bored and playing around with macchanger to change my Wireless MAC address, and wireless has not worked since, even though I'm using my hardware MAC address again. I'm usually using NetworkManager, but I also installed Wicd to see if I could avoid the problem that way. The problem seems to lie in the WEP password authentication to the local network. NetworkManager just kept asking for the password over and over again, never connecting. Wicd will claim to connect and issue an IP address, but the wireless does not function. In fact, if I give Wicd a faulty WEP password, it still claims to connect and to issue me an IP address, and it's always the same IP address, even after a reboot. Trying NetworkManager again, now it either fails to connect, just kees trying for a very long time with no results, or nm-applet crashes and I have to restart the NM daemon. I know there are no strange network problems (or blocks on my MAC address, for example) because I can connect with other operating systems just fine, which, incidentally, is not using the same wireless IP address. I'd provide more technical information, but I'm not sure what things are useful. I checked lshal and confirmed my hardware MAC is correct. Any ideas of how to reset the wireless settings or resume the connection would be very helpful. ~daid
Re: [gentoo-user] poor images printing
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:12:52 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > During few last weeks there was a protage tree update (~amd64 is in > use) which reasulted in poor pictire printing (say, with visible dots > where smooth gray was before). I use kprinter 3.5.10 whith kyocera ps > ppd driver (and I didn't change any printing related options). > > Thoughts? Use genlop to list the packages updated in that period, then start eliminating suspects. -- Neil Bothwick "Woody, I said TUCK the children in bed!" --Mia Farrow signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] poor images printing
Hi! During few last weeks there was a protage tree update (~amd64 is in use) which reasulted in poor pictire printing (say, with visible dots where smooth gray was before). I use kprinter 3.5.10 whith kyocera ps ppd driver (and I didn't change any printing related options). Thoughts?
