[gentoo-user] portage alternatives
Hello list, just for fun I am reading about alternatives to portage. So far the most interesting I found are: paludis and pkgsrc. paludis mostly because it seems to come from some gentoo-like enviroment and pkgsrc because of the nice thought to have the same pkg files for multiple OSes. Is anybody of you using one of them and can tell me about pros and cons? regards -- Michael
Re: [gentoo-user] unmasking qt5 and plasma 5
Am 09/01/15 um 03:37 schrieb Dale: Jc García wrote: 2015-01-08 11:02 GMT-06:00 behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com: Hi. I was wondering that is it predictable that when qt5 and plasma 5 will be unmasked? Keep an eye on the bug-tracker for the unmasking of qt5[1] or hang around the #gentoo-qt irc channel[2] , there you can get first hand information, It's work that needs to be done, and usually developers work on their free time and bugs might keep arising, so prediction doesn't work. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454132 [2] irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-qt On this topic, has anyone used qt5 and plasma 5 yet? Is it at least workable? I ask because I may give it a try unless people think it is to early yet. I have encountered several Gentooers in #gentoo-qt and #gentoo-kde that use it already. It seems to work, thought not perfectly. Some Ubuntu-using friends of mine use Qt5 on a daily basis without problems, I wondered: what's different in Gentoo? cheers -- Michael
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new install using lxdeL no `run' cmd
lxde is deprecated, imho. [1] lxqt is the future of that lineage [2] [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/mailman/message/32927295/ [2] http://lxqt.org/ LXDE is still in development, LXQt is just a new project by some people who also developed LXDE. [3] When pressing the all important `run' item in the lxde main menu (at left of bottom panel), it does nothing more than flash the bottom panel. I am not a LXDE user so I am not quite sure what the run item is. In case it's the main menu you might try right clicking on the menu and go set a .menu file. At least that is what I had to do in LXQt. Good luck. Michael [3] http://blog.lxde.org/?p=1310
Re: [gentoo-user] hibernation
Maybe you need to pass the resume-partition parameter to the kernel in the bootloader. Point it to your swap device. Maybe I should add: I have EFI notebook, and my kernel is copied to /boot/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi. So I boot over that EFI thing because it seemed the easiest thing to set up.. b) suspend to disk, which means that the whole content of the RAM is being written on your HDD and after that your computer is being shut down entirely? Yes, thats what I want to achive.
Re: [gentoo-user] hibernation
Did you try suspending using the echo command I mentioned earlier? Yes, it seemed to work (just starting up again didn't). You can set the resume partition in the kernel. Might be an option. Okay, so I changed my kernel command string from root=/dev/sdb2 to root=/dev/sdb2,resume=/dev/mapper/g-SWAP. Then typed your suspension command again, now the system isn't booting up anymore: kernel prints trace. -- Michael
Re: [gentoo-user] hibernation
Am 04/12/14 18:10, schrieb Randolph Maaßen: 2014-12-04 17:58 GMT+01:00 Michael Vetter michael.vet...@uni-konstanz.de: Did you try suspending using the echo command I mentioned earlier? Yes, it seemed to work (just starting up again didn't). You can set the resume partition in the kernel. Might be an option. Okay, so I changed my kernel command string from root=/dev/sdb2 to root=/dev/sdb2,resume=/dev/mapper/g-SWAP. In my menuconfig I have a space separated list, not comma separated. So I guess the boot failure is, that the kernel can't find the root partition /dev/sdb2,resume... Okay, sorry thought this is equivalent to [1]. Anyways, I changed it to space and my system boots now. So I tried the suspend command again, but when rebooting its like a fresh reboot. Any ideas? [1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/bootparam.7.html -- Michael
[gentoo-user] hibernation
Hello there, I use i3 as my window manager and use xfce4-power-manager for saving battery and stuff on my laptop. Today I tried hibernation for the first time and realized: it does not work. All I did so far was installing fce4-power-manager selecting some sections in kernel config that seemed necessary and installed polkit. However when I close my notebook's lid (I configured xfce4-power-manager to switch into hibernation in this case) it shuts down, but when i press the start button, it just does a normal restart. What am I missing? Michael
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: qt5
Jauhien knows what he is doing. If he is waiting on the QT5 bug to be resolved, then that is where it is sitting. Surely you should open up a bgo ticket on QTcreator? I am not sure there is any bug. I thought it's only about configuration. My main reason for writing the initial mail was to get better understanding on what is going on. Actually I still haven't gotten that :-/ Anybody could tell me what's going on and answer my initial questions? Michael
[gentoo-user] qt5
Hello, Recently I started developing on LXQT. As they are using Qt5 on their developing version I added Qt overlay and unmasked Qt5. I should add normally I am more the GTK applicatio user, running i3 as window manager. So Qt and its configuration are kind of new to me. Anyways, I got LXQT to run and started hacking. However I thought a IDE would be nice. So I installed Qtcreator. All applications so far (example: pcmanfm-qt using Qt5) are looking good. But Qtcreator looks awful: grey font on white background and whitefont on black background. I wondered why this was the case, and after checking with ldd I realized that Qtcreator uses Qt4. I tried to run qtconfig and choose a nice theme, as I was used to with lxappearance for GTK. However, no matter what I selected in Select GUI style, the colors stayed ugly. I tried Cleanlooks, Qtcurve and others. Then I saw that I can manually change color palette. This is strange, on GTK themes come with nice colors without selecting them by hand. Am I doing something wrong? So I have several questions: 1. How to configure Qt4 themes/colors the right way? 2. Can I remove Qt4 totally and only use Qt5 for all applications? I am aware that Qt5 is not stable, but the mask says its more orless table but masked for doing more tests. Also I didn't see a USE flag for Qtcreator, no Qt4 no Qt5. 3. For testing I wanted to add gtkstyle USE flag to qtgui, then realized that this doesn't exist anymore for Qt5. But Qtcreator seems to be compiled for Qt4, so how to set gtkstyle for it? 4. Has Qt5 also the possibility to have gtkstyle? I am thankful for all info I can get, also background information for understanding everything totally, since this is the main goal of writing this mail. best regards, Michael
[gentoo-user] larry and znurt
Hey guys, I wondered: What's the story behind Larry the cow and Znurt? When did they get created? Does Larry have anything to do with the GNU animal? Or is all just pure fun. cheers, Michael
Re: [gentoo-user] larry and znurt
Am 04/10/14 20:15, schrieb David Abbott: Here is some info on Larry :) https://www.gentoo.org/news/20110630-larry-announcement.xml https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Artwork/Artwork Thanks David!
[gentoo-user] Gentoo on MacbookPro Retina
Hello, Since a few weeks I am using Gentoo Linux. I have used Debian for something like 12 years and now decided to switch. So far I really enjoy the learning experience with Gentoo. Up to know I have it only installed on an old Notebook, to play around with it. However I use it way too seldom and thus want to install it on my main machine which is MacbookPro Retina. I read the Gentoo wiki article and several blog posts, however some instructions heavily differ, and I am not sure if the wiki is up to date. There seem to be minor problems but maybe they already have been fixed. No idea whether battery life, backlight usage, wifi and such things work properly. And I have heart that the high resolution causes some problems, but I dont understand why exactly. I would very much appreciate if someone could explain the _why_ to me :-) So I wonder if someone here has some experience, and could tell me what works and what doesn't. Furthermore I would greatly appreciate all kinds of advice and hints before I try to install it myself, maybe someone even can share his kernel config and other important config files which will make the Macbook usable. As a start for me to customize it more to my needs. Finally some information about my model. Name: MacbookPro Retina 15 inch mid 2012 Identifier: MacBookPro10,1 Model Number: A1398 Intel i7 dmesg: http://bpaste.net/show/xjfOdm8fRiL4QRNFw2pO/ lsmod: http://bpaste.net/show/6zwQsWDpRPkO2pJyaF5K/ lspci: http://bpaste.net/show/gik2ckJL3EiE7T2hGraO/ lsusb: http://bpaste.net/show/xTPd9BScPXlWOdKl7jcU/ Maybe I should add that I use a USB-To-Ethernet adapter from CableMatters which uses ASIX AX88179. I already booted succesfully with SystemRescueCD, from which I read lsmod and the other commands. Afterwards I installed refind UEFI bootloader, since many people seem to use it, but I am not sure whether it's better than Grub. And I have heard that because it's UEFI I need to use GPT partition tables. My primary goal is to get Gentoo running on this machine, so I can use it everyday and learn more about it on the go. However I also would appreciate every background information about configuring it, what problems can occur and why, to understand the whole matter. Thanks in advance regards Michael PS: I might not be able to check mails (and thus reply) until next Tuesday..
