[gentoo-user] Systray app notifying of updated packages?

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hi there!


Does anyone know an app sitting in the systray sending/popping
notifications when installed packages can be updated?

Thanks!



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a USB graphics cards with Linux?

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hi there,


On 02/15/2012 09:14 PM, gk wrote:
> Hallo
> I used one some time ago, and it worked but very slow.
> The label only says made in China.
> lsusb output is:
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0711:0900 Magic Control Technology Corp. SVGA Adapter
> The Kernel module which is loaded is:
> sisusbvga
> If your interested in the dongle and you live somewhere around Germany, I can 
> send it to you, because I don't need it anymore.

I'm afraid if it's slow I do not have much real use for it.  Many thanks
for the offer, though!  And sorry for the ages that it took to reply.

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Wiki test page?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 07/06/2012 10:25 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Another option might be to simply work on the new page, and not
> publicize the URL until it's ready.

Either that or a page in your user space (or the user page itself).

Best,




Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a Gentoo Expert in NYC?

[Sebastian Pipping]

hey,

it sounds like a list of troubles, not a single problem.
i wonder: is there any data on the notebook that needs saving?
is starting from scratch an option?

best,




sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hello,


On 07/05/2012 08:28 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2012-07-05, James  wrote:
>> Has anyone seen/tried this guide?
>>
>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/docs/grub2-migration.xml
>>
>> The devs seem to be moving along with migration to grub2.
>>
>> as evidence in the gentoo-dev thread. I curious if folks are going to
>> follow the docs, or are we each going to wing out way to grub2 with
>> the legacy installs of gentoo?
> 
> I plan on dragging my feet for as long as possible, and won't switch
> until I'm forced to.  And by "forced to" I mean that grub-legacy
> simply won't work anymore -- regardless of whether there's a Gentoo
> package for it or not.

a few weeks ago I was one of those people about to stay away from GRUB 2
as long as possible.  What I didn't know is that part of what I knew and
disliked about GRUB 2 was (only) specific to Debian, the fact that you
no longer edit /etc/grub/grub.cfg directly: you edit parts that are
combined for you.

Short version: if it's fear of the unknown with you too, I recommend
getting to know that beast a little better.  You'll either end up with
many good arguments against it or find out that it's better than you
expected in the beginning.  My guess is the latter.  Anyway.  Give it a try.

Best,



Sebastian

[gentoo-user] Re: genkernel 3.3.8 fails to build initramfs

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hello David,


it seems that this bug has been reported before:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424579

Best,




Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird - Anyone else with this problem?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 05/26/2012 12:16 AM, Colleen Beamer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ever since the last time Thunderbird was updated when I synced, the
> process does not die when I shut down Thunderbird.  I have to kill it
> before I can start up Thunderbird again.  Is anyone else experiencing
> this problem.

Yes, same here.


> Thought I would ask here before I complained to the
> Mozilla folks.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Colleen
> 

Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.19 | "there are files installed outside the prefix"

[Sebastian Pipping]

hello daniel,


please report a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org/ about it.

thanks,



sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs with lvm

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 04/19/2012 03:56 AM, 林守磊 wrote:
> I get problom with my initramfs.:
> 
> 1. I used to boot my kernel with genkernel-initramfs, but I must
> genarate the initramfs again by genkernel. when I change the kernel
> vernsion.
> 2. I have the '/' partition created with lvm, when I use genkernel to
> make the kernel and initramfs( with option --lvm ), the error "block
> device /dev/mapper/vg-gentoo_root is not a valid root device" show up.
> kernel version 3.2.2

Do you have "dolvm" in the kernel boot options?  That's needed.

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/local/bin/python???

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 04/16/2012 04:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> As already mentioned in a previous mail of mine,
> the package is app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0.5. The
> effected scripts are:
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  root  1032 2012-04-15 11:27 eclean
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  root  1370 2012-04-15 11:27 revdep-rebuild.py
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  root  1470 2012-04-15 11:27 epkginfo
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  root  1280 2012-04-15 11:27 enalyze
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  root 13100 2012-04-15 11:27 glsa-check
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  root  1296 2012-04-15 11:27 equery
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  root   232 2012-04-15 11:27 eshowkw

I have checked mine, same version, no /usr/local/ in these files over
here.  I have no idea what would have caused such a change.

Best,


Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel, mounting /usr and dmraid

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 04/15/2012 01:20 AM, Keith Dart wrote:
> Dear Gentoo Users,
> 
> I've got the situation where I need to pre-mount /usr. I was already
> using dmraid and genkernel to make in initramfs so that's not a real
> big deal. However, I now get the following in the console when booting:
> 
> -
> /lib/udev/write_root_link_rule: line 17: udevadm: command not
> found /etc/init.d/udev: line 74: udevadm: command not
> found /etc/init.d/udev: line 74: udevadm: command not
> found 
>   
>  * Starting
> udev ... /lib/udev/udevd: error while loading shared libraries:
> libkmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory  
>  * start-stop-daemon: failed to start
> `/lib/udev/udevd' 
> 
>  * Failed to start
> udev [ !!
> ] 
> 
>  * ERROR: udev failed to start

It sounds like that error appears after the initramfs has done its work.
 Have you run revdep-rebuild to make sure all your binaries are linked
to existing libraries?



> The udev elog also has this:
> 
> ---
> │If you build an initramfs including udev, then
> please
> │ │make sure that the /usr/bin/udevadm binary gets
> included, 
> 
> ---

If I am not mistaken, genkernel creates an initramfs free of anythibg
udev.  It makes use of mdev of busybox.

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/local/bin/python???

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 04/15/2012 06:11 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> In the meanwhile I found:
> 
> The reason was the first lines in the effected scripts:
> #! /usr/local/bin/python
> 
> Fixing this to
> #! /usr/bin/python
> 
> fixed that problem.

I which script of which package did you fix this?

Best,




Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs - problem rendering pdf files

[Sebastian Pipping]

I recommend to file bug report at bugs.gentoo.org .

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Happy 10th birthday (in advance)

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 03/30/2012 03:00 PM, Axel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to wish you all a happy birthday, 10 years already since
> first release (Gentoo 1.0)! Here is a little thing [1] we made to
> celebrate it. Recipe: two layers of Génoise (for each: 6 eggs, 180g
> sucre, 180g farine, vanilla sugar), between layers and on top: full
> cream with beaten eggs and caramel. Add between the middle layers on
> top of the cream: raspberry. ENJOY ;)
> 
> [1]: http://imgur.com/iMjLi
> 

Nice cake!

FYI it seems some people count the age of Gentoo differently:
http://www.gentoo.org/news/20090722-anniversary.xml

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] hylafax+

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 03/27/2012 03:48 AM, Joseph wrote:
> It seems to me finally hylafax was removed from portage :-(
> 
> I need this application so I installed one via layman paddymac "hylafax+"
> however the init script did wasn't install. How to write the init script
> for this hylafax+?

According to [1] hylafax+ never made it into the Gentoo main tree.  So I
suppose you refer to the recently removed net-misc/hylafax?  You can
resurrect ebuilds of the latter from [2].  Good luck!

If you end up maintaining hylafax in an overlay of yours, please get in
touch with overlays@g.o. so we can add that overlay to the layman registry.

Best,




Sebastian



[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168890
[2]
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-misc/hylafax/?hideattic=0

Re: [gentoo-user] Line-In input doesn't get forwarded as output

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 03/26/2012 02:54 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I upgraded to gentoo-sources 3.3, but it seems there's either a bug or
> feature in the kernel. ALSA doesn't seem to forward line-in input to the
> output, while the same happens with gentoo-sources 3.2.11.
> 
> Anybody else facing this issue?

My microphone is dead for some time and it could be an ALSA problem.
You don't have an Intel HDA audio card by chance, do you?  I found this
 some time ago but it didn't help me.

Best,




Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE DVD device with kernel 3.2.11

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hello!


Do you have /dev/sr0 in your system?  I noticed that recently my
/dev/dvd disappeared while /dev/sr0 is present and works fine -- maybe
its related.

I have just opened a bug for my view on the issue:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409709

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 03/21/2012 03:02 AM, Joshua Murphy wrote:
> 1) make backups and... 1.a) verify backups... consider this my disclaimer...
> 2) mkdir /mnt/root-bind/ /mnt/usr-bind/
> 3) mount --bind / /mnt/root-bind/
> 4) mount --bind /usr/ /mnt/usr-bind/
> 5) rsync --archive --hard-links --sparse --progress /mnt/usr-bind/
> /mnt/root-bind/usr/

At first it looked like you were copying things onto themselves.  Then I
noticed I was wrongly assuming --rbind mount operation rather than the
actual plain --bind that you use.  Nice approach!

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 03/20/2012 09:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> If you keep a separate directory for your initramfs files, this is true.
> But if your initramfs config is a list of files to include, the current
> versions of everything will always be included.

Fair point.

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 03/18/2012 06:44 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Ok, I have never used genkernel, and have no desire to...
> 
> I have no idea what dracut is or how to use it...

While genkernel also can generate kernel configs for you, both dracut
and genkernel are initramfs creators: they take repeated creation (after
each kernel update) of a potentially complex initramfs off your shoulders.


> I have a remote system that has /usr on a separate partition.
> 
> So...
> 
> How do I find out if I am actually *using* an initramfs right now (I
> know it is built into the kernel)

Afaik the in-kernel one is a dummy, only.  If you don't remember
anything about genkernel or dracut from the past you do not have an
initramfs in your Gentoo installation(s).


>, and
> 
> If I am not, how do I do this without using genkernel? Is dracut the
> *only* other option? Is it easy/trivial to set one up manually?

A manual initramfs is not that easy, no.  And it becomes outdated more
easily than an initramfs-creator-based approach.


> On that note - is it possible, and if so, does anyone have any decent
> detailed How-to's on how I might be able to convert a separate /user to
> one on directly on / on a running system?

>From my current understanding (please double-check, no warrenties):

 0. Make backups

 1. Boot some sort of live/rescue CD
(so you can fiddle with /usr without shooting your foot)

(2. Enlarge space on partition/device  (the one holding /))

(3. Enlarge file system sitting on partition/device )

 4. Make a new folder /usr

 5. Copy content from / to /usr/

- Watch out for use of Xattr (extended file attributes)

- Watch out for use of POSIX ACLs

- Use something like --archive with cp/rsync to maintain attributes

 6. Update /etc/fstab

 7. Reboot

 8. Resolve partition 

Good luck.

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 03/18/2012 09:42 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> BTW, where would one go to get involved in organization of the wiki? I
> found myself wishing for templates for consistent formatting of things
> like files, one-liners and naming of ebuilds, but I don't think I
> ought to simply create the templates I'm looking for without talking
> with someone first.

For file content and kernel config I have seen templates up there
already.  I'm not sure what you mean by one-liners and naming of ebuilds.

Please get in touch with these people:

  http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/wiki/

You can reach all of them on alias .

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] mdev for udev substitution instructions web page is up

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 03/17/2012 03:51 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> The page will be permanently "under construction", i.e. evolving as
> we find out more about how mdev works.

Unless you want to maintain total control of the data flow I would
suggest turning that page into a new wiki page at
 to ease contribution to others and to
increase availability and accessibility of that content.

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 03/14/2012 04:49 AM, William Kenworthy wrote:
> According to the docs I have found you need to patch genkernel to
> run /sbin/resume - it was a longstanding argument between two now
> retired devs with the result that genkernel wont (ever) support
> hibernation.  I dont know from reading the bugs if it was ever fixed now
> the dev who "wouldnt" has retired, or is genkernel is still broken.

I'd be interested to hear more details.
Can you share links to your sources with me?

Thanks,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Update of cryptsetup 1.4.1 fails

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 03/13/2012 10:00 AM, Uwe Scholz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an annoying problem with the current version update of
> cryptsetup-1.4.1. Already in the configure step emerge stops with the
> error message:
> 
> ...
> checking for gcry_check_version in -lgcrypt... no
> configure: error: Cannot find static gcrypt library
> ...
> 
> Actually, libgcrypt-1.4.6 is installed with the static-libs flag. Also
> after reemerging libgcrypt the update to cryptsetup-1.4.1 fails.
> 
> I'm working on a amd64 machine, cryptsetup useflags are "static"
> (compulsory) and "nls". Can anyone confirm this problem and has a
> solution for it?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Uwe

Please report this as a bug on https://bugs.gentoo.org/ .

You could give libgcrypt 1.5.0-r2 a try.  Please add to the bug report,
if the problem persists with libgcrypt 1.5.0-r2 or not.

Thanks!



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for aftp?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 03/10/2012 02:53 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> for transferring data to an embedded linux system I am looking for 
> a replacement for aftp, which been removed from portage a longer
> time ago.

The only trace of atfp in Gentoo I find is

  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25440

Gentoo CVS doesn't have deleted ebuilds for net-ftp/aftp, no idea.


To be sure: net-ftp/atftp is not what you want?
 ^
Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Need help with a Makefile

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 03/09/2012 11:29 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> ...which means to me and the problems I have: Reemerge make 3.81
> ???or...

I would prefer a patch to the Makefile (like Tood Goodman proposed
earlier) over a downgrade of make.  I just meant to provide more
information about the issue.  Let us know if you have trouble patching
that very Makefile.

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Need help with a Makefile

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hello,


zhe troublesome changes occured between 3.81 and 3.82.  There is a
tracker bug on related breakage in case you are interested:

  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=gmake-3.82

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] rng-tools

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hello Michael,


On 03/03/2012 02:48 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> The version of the rng-tools Debian package I'm using is
> '2-unofficial-mt.14-1~60squeeze1'. Are the -T and -R parameters unique
> to Debian, or is the Gentoo package simply out of date?

Yes, version 2-unofficial-mt.14* is a Debian fork.  Quoting from its
README file:

  rng-tools, unofficial Debian fork
  =

  NOTICE:
  This is an unofficial version of rng-tools with a lot of added
  functionality and bugs, for which I assume total blame.  Don't bother
  rng-tools upstream with problems you find in this version of
  rng-tools.

  rng-tools unofficial-mt is a living reminder to myself to not modify
  upstream code without sending the changes upstream at every step.
  Suddenly, you have a mass of changes too big to send upstream, and
  yet you find yourself without the energy to break them into smallish
  patches to submit upstream (i.e. to "unfork").

  [..]

If you would rather use Debian's version in Gentoo, give

  sys-apps/rng-tools-2_p14

a try, which I have just added to overlay betagarden:

  # layman -a betagarden
  # emerge =sys-apps/rng-tools-2_p14

If you would like to see features from Debian's fork in rng-tools 3.x
and beyond, please step up and help rng-tools' upstream integrate
Debian's changes.

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel and busybox

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 01/24/2012 10:37 AM, András Csányi wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I would like to ask what should I do in this case? I would like to
> make a new kernel using genkernel but there is no 1.8.1 version of
> busybox and it's not available in portage. To be honest I don't want
> to do a new kernel by hand despite the fact it would be a few
> commands.
> 
> Thanks for any help in advance!
> 
> sa-home Downloads # genkernel --menuconfig --no-mrproper --no-clean all
> * Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 3.4.23.1
> * Running with options: --menuconfig --no-mrproper --no-clean all
> 
> Could not find source tarball
> /var/cache/genkernel/src/busybox-1.18.1.tar.bz2. Please refetch.

>From inspecting the ebuild of genkernel 3.4.23.1 I can tell that
genkernel 3.4.23.1 is meant to work with busybox 1.19.3 out of the box.
 So if genkernel asks for 1.18.1 that means you still have "1.18.1" in
your genkernel config.  Either a call to etc-update is outstanding or
you actively decided for that version of busybox in the past.  In the
latter case, just get busybox-1.18.1.tar.bz somewhere and drop it in
/var/cache/genkernel/src/.  I hope that helped.

Best,





Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Genkernel 3.4.24 broken?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 02/06/2012 02:20 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> I was just compiling my kernel using genkernel, and it seems genkernel
> 3.4.24 is broken. I have specified INSTALL=YES in /etc/genkernel.conf;
> the installtion does not happen, instead awk throws an error saying
> failed to read /var/tmp/genkernel//grub.map no
> such file or directory.

Please open a bug about it including the error output you get.  Thanks.





Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for a fee?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 02/17/2012 04:09 AM, Grant wrote:
> I'd like to pay to have an ebuild built.  Can anyone recommend a way
> to get in touch with a good person for the job?

ebuild doesn't equal ebuild: packaging java is different to packaging
python software etc.  find an existing ebuild similar to what you need
and contact it's authors.  that's what i would do.

best,




sebastian

[gentoo-user] Running a USB graphics cards with Linux?

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hello,


I would love to use two external displays with my notebook.  I have seen
USB graphics cards on the net and was wondering if anyone around here
has tried to run such a thing with Linux.  If it worked for you I'd be
interested in as many details as you are willing to share.  Thanks in
advance!

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] 200MB waste from /usr/share/locale ?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 11/28/2011 02:41 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> Since I didn't write it at work it's all yours. :)

Thanks.  Posted here:

https://blog.hartwork.org/?p=1516

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 200MB waste from /usr/share/locale ?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 11/26/2011 06:23 PM, walt wrote:
> Someone recommended app-admin/localepurge, which removes them after
> installation.  Reclaims hundreds of MB when I run it every month or
> so.

Thanks for that hint.

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] 200MB waste from /usr/share/locale ?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 11/26/2011 01:36 AM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
> (not that 200MB is really that big by today's standards).

In my case it is.  I am caching all of /usr/share/ into a cache working
on file system level with space limited to 1GB taken from RAM.  It's an
experiment and it doesn't seem to perform very well, so you don't really
miss anything, though.

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] 200MB waste from /usr/share/locale ?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 11/26/2011 07:32 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
>> Can anyone explain what is going on ?
> 
> Different packages include different levels of support for filtering
> their installed localization messages, typically one of "install
> everything", "install what's requested", or "whats a locale?"
> 
> The reason you mostly have files under LC_MESSAGES is because that's 99%
> of what is needed to localize a package. The files in there are string
> resource packages, translations of the strings used by the program,
> which are picked up by the localization library (gettext) automatically
> based on your locale settings. (coreutils installs file into LC_TIME for
> locales with date/time formatting requirements; I don't think I've ever
> seen any other locale files.)
> 
> The standard way to inform a package which languages you want is to set
> your LINGUAS variable in /etc/make.conf to the locale name(s) you want
> installed (without the charset specifier). LINGUAS works like any other
> portage expansion variables: for those packages that support it, you get
> a set of USE-flag-like language keywords set on build. (LINGUAS is the
> well-known environment variable used by most autotools-based packages to
> select languages, but portage provides support above and beyond that.)
> 
> Unfortunately, proper locale support is spotty -- mostly due to upstream
> maintainers being too lazy to properly add it to their builds. Instead,
> the package will install every message file it has available all the time.
> 
> You can safely delete any folders from /usr/share/locale for locales
> that you don't have installed, since the normal locale support in glibc
> will never ask for them. But they'll just get put back next time you
> upgrade the package.
> 
> --Mike

Excellent description -- thank you!

In case I find time to blog about this on Planet Gentoo:
would you allow using the above text under some Creative Commons
license, say CC-BY-SA/3.0?  Do you have a personal website or blog that
I could add a link to?

Best,




Sebastian

[gentoo-user] 200MB waste from /usr/share/locale ?

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hello!


It seems that /usr/share/locale is keeping files for many languages not
of any use to me: around 200MB in total.

Is there a way to configure this away that I am not aware of?

Thanks in advance,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?

[Sebastian Pipping]

Update:


I managed to get the light-themes (Ambiance and Radiance)[1] of Ubuntu
running for both GTK 2 and 3.  Their GTK 3 versions make use of the
unico engine which requires rather recent gtk3 and glib.

To get it running you need install

  x11-themes/light-themes

from the betagarden overlay [2].  You'll need to handle KEYWORDS=""
using keywords "**" one way or another.  Use these packages at your own
risk.


On 08/02/2011 07:44 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
>  A) /usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/theming-engines/libclearlooks.so
>  B) /usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/engines/libclearlooks.so
> 
>GTK seems to looks for (A) only according to strace.

Correction, (A) is missing "3.0.0/" so it's rather:

  A) /usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/theming-engines/libclearlooks.so
  B) /usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/engines/libclearlooks.so



Sebastian


[1]
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/06/ambiance-finally-ported-to-gtk3-ubuntu.html
[2] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/betagarden.git;a=summary

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?

[Sebastian Pipping]

I played a bit more and found out a few bits:

 - Changing "Style" in XFCE's appearance switches the theme
   for both GTK+ 2.x and 3.x, no matter what key "gtk-theme-name"
   of /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini say
   though these files are read according to strace

 - The GTK+ 3.0 engine for Clearlooks (libclearlooks.so) seems to be
   provided by both

 A) x11-themes/gtk-engines-clearlooks-2.91.5 (gnome overlay)
 B) x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.91.1 (gnome overlay)

   at different locations:

 A) /usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/theming-engines/libclearlooks.so
 B) /usr/lib64/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/engines/libclearlooks.so

   GTK seems to looks for (A) only according to strace.

 - Neither package A nor B provide a file

 /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

   which is required to even activate the Clearlooks engine.
   To active the engine, put the line

 * { engine: clearlooks; }

   in.  Expect this to look ugly.

 - By putting

 [Settings]
 gtk-theme-name = Clearlooks

   into /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
   you can produce endless loops.  Nice!

>From a workaround perspective the most interesting question to me is:
where do I get (default or good looking) CSS files for GTK+ 3.0 Clearlooks.

Best,



Sebastian

[gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hello!


I got x11-themes/gtk-engines:3 from the gnome overlay installed so GTK 3
engines are there.  My problem is I don't know how to set a global theme
for GTK 3 (and the default is dead ugly).  If it is file
~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini then I haven't got that to work, yet.

What's your recipe to select GTK 3 themes?
Any quality links or guidance would be great.

Thanks in advance,




Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] rootfs over lvm - /dev/mapper only populate control

[Sebastian Pipping]

Do you have "dovlm" in your boot parameters?

If so and you still have trouble plesae open a bug for it including
versions of relevant stuff, boot parameters etc.

Best,




Sebastian

[gentoo-user] Test request: open-iscsi 2.0.872

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hello!


Would be great to have a few people test open-iscsi 2.0.872 before
moving it from overlay betagarden to the main tree.  To get it installed
please run:

  # layman -a betagarden
  # emerge -av =sys-block/open-iscsi-2.0.872

Important: Please include a description of what you did while testing in
your feedback.  At best, post your feedback as a reply to bug 340425:

  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340425

Thanks in advance!

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Cmdline image resizer understanding gamma ?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 05/05/2011 01:06 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> I stumbled upon the article
> 
>   Gamma error in picture scaling
>   http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html#Use_a_correct_software
> 
> recently.  I was actually pointed to it be some tool applying the proper
> algortihm.  I think it was command line.

In the meantime a person called Jure kindly pointed me to

  media-gfx/imageworsener

now, which is what I initially was looking for.

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Genkernel + ROOT=/tmp/rootfs ?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 05/16/2011 03:24 PM, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Kfir Lavi  > wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I'm building a catalyst target for installing with ROOT=/tmp/rootfs
> Looking on the genkernel man page and I can't find a way to install
> the kernel
> to ROOT.
> Is there a way to do that?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kfir
> 
> 
> Anyone?

I could imagine that

  # Set the boot directory, default is /boot
  #BOOTDIR="/boot"

in /etc/genkernel.conf is what you need.

Does that work?

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Tool to check PDF against PDF/X-3 ?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 05/05/2011 11:01 PM, Florian Philipp wrote:
> I'm not aware of any real verification tool. I guess you could easily
> build one using one of the free pdf libraries for introspecting the file
> and matching all requirements.

If you ever find yourself making such a tool please make it free
software and send me a link.


> A quick and dirty check would be to look for the identification string.
> Every PDF/X has to specify its conformance using a plaintext string. I
> can't provide you with an PDF/X example but this is how it looks for
> PDF/A1 created by OOo:
> `strings  | grep PDFA
> < IEC61966-2.1)/DestOutputProfile 76 0 R>>

Thanks.

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Cmdline image resizer understanding gamma ?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 05/06/2011 05:06 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> What about using gimp in scripting mode?

I've been working on a pygimp-based plugin for the GIMP yesterday.

It's a bit slow but it does the job, and comes with a simple GUI [1].
After running

  # sudo layman -a betagarden
  # sudo emerge -av media-plugins/gimp-imagescaler

you should find an item

  "Scale Image with correct Gamma..."

at the bottom of the "Image" menu as seen on [2].
The sources are up at [3].

Best,



Sebastian


[1] https://blog.hartwork.org/__images/imagescalerplugin-dialog-332x395.png
[2] https://blog.hartwork.org/__images/imagescalerplugin-menu-394x449.png
[3] http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=imagescaler.git;a=summary

Re: [gentoo-user] Cmdline image resizer understanding gamma ?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 05/06/2011 05:06 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> What about using gimp in scripting mode?

There seems to be options on Scheme, Python and Lua (Gimp plug-in "gluas").

Eric Brasseur (the author of the article on Gamma) offers a Lua script
for gluas, which is why I wrote an ebuild for gluas now:

  # sudo layman -a betagarden
  # sudo emerge -av media-plugins/gimp-gluas

The script throws an error in my setup though, that I am not able to fix
myself quickly.  I have just contacted Eric about it.


I have not looked into the Scheme and Python options yet.

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Cmdline image resizer understanding gamma ?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 05/06/2011 12:05 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> Doesn't Netpbm satisfy your criteria? It's the very first program on
> the list of "good" software in that web page.

I have a had a closer look at netpbm's pamscale now.


pamscale doesn't support PNG input out of the box:

  "pamscale: bad magic number 0x8950 - not a PAM, PPM, PGM, or PBM file"

So to let pamscale operate on my PNG it seems I would need to run this

  # pngtopam in.png > in.pam
  # pamscale [..] in.pam > out.pam
  # pamtopnm out.pam > out.pnm
  # pnmtopng out.pnm > out.png

I haven't checked yet if that preserves transparency.

While there is a tool pamrgbatopng shipped with netpbm it didn't like my
out.pam produced above:

  "pamrgbatopng: PAM must have depth at least 4 (red, green, blue,
   alpha).  This one has depth 3"

Interestingly netpbm tools point to a respective man page when run with
--help, which points to a man-like website with the real content.  So it
seems without internet the tool is effectively unusable.  Great.

I'm also not sure if I really want to add 300 binary files from a single
package:

  # equery f media-libs/netpbm | grep '^/usr/bin' | wc -l
  331

Best,



Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] how to emerge a package for python2.5 while python2.7 is default?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 05/06/2011 11:52 AM, Evgeny Bushkov wrote:
> Try to add USE_PYTHON="2.5 2.7" to your make.conf. After that rebuild
> your package.

.. using app-admin/python-updater !




Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Cmdline image resizer understanding gamma ?

[Sebastian Pipping]

On 05/05/2011 07:48 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> Especially as I don't trust ImageMagick with files that matter I would
>> love to find (or re-find) a command line tool that properly handles
>> Gamma when resizing images.  Needs be free software.  Anyone?
> 
> ImageMagick works. I downloaded the Dalai Lama photo from that page
> and converted it by doing:
> 
> convert -colorspace sRGB gamma_dalai_lama_gray.jpg -scale 50%% -set
> colorspace sRGB gamma_dalai_lama_gray50.png
> 
> And the resulting image is correct.

As I said, I do not trust ImageMagick with quality.  I am looking for a
different tool.



Sebastian

[gentoo-user] Cmdline image resizer understanding gamma ?

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hello!


I stumbled upon the article

  Gamma error in picture scaling
  http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html#Use_a_correct_software

recently.  I was actually pointed to it be some tool applying the proper
algortihm.  I think it was command line.

Especially as I don't trust ImageMagick with files that matter I would
love to find (or re-find) a command line tool that properly handles
Gamma when resizing images.  Needs be free software.  Anyone?

Thanks,



Sebastian

[gentoo-user] Tool to check PDF against PDF/X-3 ?

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hello!


I am looking for a Tool to check PDF files against the PDF/X-3:2002
standard that some printing vendors seem to request in case of providing
vector sources.

The tool needs to

 1) be free software as defined by the FSF [1], and

 2) work on Linux.


Has anyone seen such a thing?

Thanks in advance,



Sebastian


[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html