Re: [arch-general] When will Arch switch to Upstart

2011-01-18 Thread Junior
I would also love to see this, but I can imagine the task is pretty hefty. In any case, great jobs guys! I love arch! On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Madhur Ahuja wrote: > Ubuntu and Fedora has already embraced it. > > Any ideas when will Arch switch to upstart based booting system ? > > http:/

[arch-general] When will Arch switch to Upstart

2011-01-18 Thread Madhur Ahuja
Ubuntu and Fedora has already embraced it. Any ideas when will Arch switch to upstart based booting system ? http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ Thanks, Madhur

Re: [arch-general] how to perform selected gnome installation with pacman?

2011-01-18 Thread jesse jaara
You can use gpm nouse daemon too in tty its very usefull. Just pres the button and select wanted text and yhen press the midle mousebutton to paste. It also works from tty1 selected ,paste to tty2 :-D alaa double click selwcts wordif i remember right On 19.1.2011 9.08, "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: >

Re: [arch-general] how to perform selected gnome installation with pacman?

2011-01-18 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:35:34 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 06:23 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Boy, what's an opportunity to exercise my typing. I'm working in tty >> now. :-( >> >> Is there any way to use cut-and-paste to compile the list and then to >> copy it into a comm

Re: [arch-general] Please settle 'base' in 'depends' for all

2011-01-18 Thread Allan McRae
On 19/01/11 15:19, Kaiting Chen wrote: Okay everyone, every time I ask I get a different answer. According to Dziedzic and Allan 'glibc' does *not* belong in 'depends'. Also Dziedzic votes that *no* package in 'base' should be in 'depends'. Can we settle once and for all what the correct policy i

Re: [arch-general] how to perform selected gnome installation with pacman?

2011-01-18 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 06:23 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Boy, what's an opportunity to exercise my typing. I'm working in tty > now. :-( > > Is there any way to use cut-and-paste to compile the list and then to > copy it into a command line? > You could pipe the list of installed packages

Re: [arch-general] Please settle 'base' in 'depends' for all

2011-01-18 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:19:50 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote: > Okay everyone, every time I ask I get a different answer. According to > Dziedzic and Allan 'glibc' does *not* belong in 'depends'. Also Dziedzic > votes that *no* package in 'base' should be in 'depends'. Can we settle once > and for all wh

Re: [arch-general] how to perform selected gnome installation with pacman?

2011-01-18 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:48:04 -0700, jwbirdsong wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/18/2011 08:06 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> I'd like to install GNOME for my freshly installed base system >> following instructions provided on this page >> 'https://wiki.archlinux.

[arch-general] Please settle 'base' in 'depends' for all

2011-01-18 Thread Kaiting Chen
Okay everyone, every time I ask I get a different answer. According to Dziedzic and Allan 'glibc' does *not* belong in 'depends'. Also Dziedzic votes that *no* package in 'base' should be in 'depends'. Can we settle once and for all what the correct policy is? And then can we update the wiki page a

Re: [arch-general] how to perform selected gnome installation with pacman?

2011-01-18 Thread jwbirdsong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/18/2011 08:06 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I'd like to install GNOME for my freshly installed base system following > instructions provided on this page 'https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ > GNOME#Base'. As you can see it reads: > > "Instal

[arch-general] how to perform selected gnome installation with pacman?

2011-01-18 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I'd like to install GNOME for my freshly installed base system following instructions provided on this page 'https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ GNOME#Base'. As you can see it reads: "Install the base GNOME desktop" # pacman -S gnome And then: "This is a meta-package; which is a group of pack

Re: [arch-general] LibreOffice issues

2011-01-18 Thread Martin
Cool, thanks! On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:35:30 -0300, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 21:17 -0300, Martin wrote: libreoffice-extension-presenter-screen is just the Presenter Console extension, right? It seems to me that it is not working at all, since it is not showed under extensions-mana

Re: [arch-general] LibreOffice issues

2011-01-18 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 21:17 -0300, Martin wrote: > libreoffice-extension-presenter-screen is just the Presenter Console > extension, right? It seems to me that it is not working at all, since it > is not showed under extensions-manager plus using Impress through a > DataShow makes no change.

Re: [arch-general] LibreOffice issues

2011-01-18 Thread Martin Zecher
Sure, but there are some packages that depend on openoffice-base and thus cannot be installed with just libreoffice in the system (such as unoconv in AUR). I recommend to put "provides", not "replaces". On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:17:35 -0300 >

Re: [arch-general] LibreOffice issues

2011-01-18 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:17:35 -0300 schrieb Martin : > I also think libreoffice should provide openoffice-base. Why? LibreOffice is not OpenOffice and it seems that both don't conflict anymore. Heiko

[arch-general] LibreOffice issues

2011-01-18 Thread Martin
libreoffice-extension-presenter-screen is just the Presenter Console extension, right? It seems to me that it is not working at all, since it is not showed under extensions-manager plus using Impress through a DataShow makes no change. I also think libreoffice should provide openoffice-base

Re: [arch-general] Xfce 4.8 thunar/ristretto issues

2011-01-18 Thread Ricky Thomson
Thankyou, thumbnails immediately appeared after installing. Seems i missed the "open folder" option in ristretto... Cheers, problem solved :-) On 01/18/2011 04:33 PM, Xavier D. wrote: > Hey, > > You have to start tumbler for your thumbnails > (/usr/lib/tumbler-1/tumblerd). > Concerning ristretto

Re: [arch-general] Xfce 4.8 thunar/ristretto issues

2011-01-18 Thread Xavier D.
Hey, You have to start tumbler for your thumbnails (/usr/lib/tumbler-1/tumblerd). Concerning ristretto, if you click on one image it only opens the image and not the entire folder. You can also change this behavior in the preferences and select "Open entire folder on startup". BRs, On 01/18/

[arch-general] Xfce 4.8 thunar/ristretto issues

2011-01-18 Thread Ricky Thomson
Hello Having 2 minor problems with xfce since the update to 4.8. First problem is that no thumbnails are being cached/displayed by thunar anymore. I have tried deleting ~/.thumbnails and all xfce related config files in ~/. Previously i had installed the xfce4-goodies package so i believe the thu

Re: [arch-general] kde4 Okular + Hp Laserjet PCL 4/5 driver - prints greyscale inversed

2011-01-18 Thread David C. Rankin
On 01/15/2011 03:04 AM, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > I believe you're seeing https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21388. > > It has been fixed upstream, but a new ghostscript release hasn't been > made and the fixes haven't been applied to Arch's package yet. > Thanks Evangelos. I think you na

Re: [arch-general] wxpython in Arch?

2011-01-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Manne Merak wrote: > On 01/18/2011 01:14 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> OK, thank you. I suppose wxpython is one of those programs that still >> require python2... >> >> J. >> > > Yes, if you look at the dependencies. > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/w

Re: [arch-general] wxpython in Arch?

2011-01-18 Thread Manne Merak
On 01/18/2011 01:14 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: On 18 January 2011 19:00, Jorge Almeida wrote: $ python Python 3.1.3 (r313:86834, Dec 1 2010, 12:35:23) [GCC 4.5.1 20101125 (prerelease)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license

Re: [arch-general] wxpython in Arch?

2011-01-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 18 January 2011 19:00, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> $ python >> Python 3.1.3 (r313:86834, Dec  1 2010, 12:35:23) >> [GCC 4.5.1 20101125 (prerelease)] on linux2 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > impor

Re: [arch-general] wxpython in Arch?

2011-01-18 Thread Ray Rashif
On 18 January 2011 19:00, Jorge Almeida wrote: > $ python > Python 3.1.3 (r313:86834, Dec  1 2010, 12:35:23) > [GCC 4.5.1 20101125 (prerelease)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. import wx > Traceback (most recent call last): >  File "", line 1

[arch-general] wxpython in Arch?

2011-01-18 Thread Jorge Almeida
What did I miss? I'm new to Arch, so maybe I failed to do something obvious. I was a Gentoo user and I know that python configuring is not always trivial. Maybe something should have been done after installing the packages? I checked that there is no WiKi page for wxpython, and the python page does

Re: [arch-general] Alex Matviychuk wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

2011-01-18 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:25:34 +1030 "Ty John (sand_man)" wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 08:46 +, Alex Matviychuk wrote: > > LinkedIn > > > > > > > > General, > > > > I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. > LOL major fail Captain awesome! Dieter

Re: [arch-general] Alex Matviychuk wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

2011-01-18 Thread Ty John (sand_man)
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 08:46 +, Alex Matviychuk wrote: > LinkedIn > > > > General, > > I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. > > - Alex Matviychuk > > Alex Matviychuk > Software Engineer > Japan > > Confirm that you know Alex Matviychuk > https://www.l

[arch-general] Alex Matviychuk wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

2011-01-18 Thread Alex Matviychuk
LinkedIn General, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Alex Matviychuk Alex Matviychuk Software Engineer Japan Confirm that you know Alex Matviychuk https://www.linkedin.com/e/j2jirp-gj2k8868-1k/isd/2161969956/yna0iLD9/ -- (c) 2010, LinkedIn Corpo