Re: [arch-general] Setting Computer Hostname via DHCP Server

2011-09-28 Thread Taylor Hedberg
dhcpcd should do this automatically. From dhcpcd(8): If the hostname is currently blank, (null) or localhost, or force_hostname is YES or TRUE or 1 then dhcpcd sets the hostname to the one supplied by the DHCP server. It seems to work for me. If you're setting the hostname manually in

Re: [arch-general] bash variable PS1 confuses the terminal somehow

2011-09-28 Thread 清显
yeah, you are right, i didn't do what you say correctly earlier, now everything is right. thanks!

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] gnome 3.2 in testing

2011-09-28 Thread Flavio Costa
After the upgrade GDM was stuck on a black screen with only the mouse cursor. Wiping /var/lib/gdm fixed it. On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Ionut Biru wrote: > Hi, > > take for a spin gnome 3.2 from testing and report any packaging bugs to our > tracker. > > TUs, check your packages and rebuild

[arch-general] Setting Computer Hostname via DHCP Server

2011-09-28 Thread Thomas Misilo
Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to have archlinux set it's hostname based on what the DHCP server tells it is? As I noticed while using a CentOS Server, that it does do this by default. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction on enabling this, as I searched around and was unable

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sep 28, 2011 3:53 PM, "Tom Gundersen" wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > > > Or maybe I'm missing a third possible scenario. > > The way it works is that both the frontend (the unprivileged process, > e.g. the GUI for setting your timezone) and the backend

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 08:55:30PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher >> wrote: >> > meanwhile and provides a CLI interface it still requires polkit. Polkit >> > requires consolekit and both

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.09.2011 14:33, schrieb Philipp Überbacher: > Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-09-28 13:14:06 +0200: >> Am 28.09.2011 11:53, schrieb Philipp: >>> Hi there, >>> I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while >>> but after a couple of minutes I get disconn

Re: [arch-general] Enable FLTK Octave backend?

2011-09-28 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Stefano Avallone wrote: > Hi, > > I read in the Octave documentation [1] that a newer (than gnuplot) plotting > capability is provided by the FLTK/OpenGL backend. This new backend is not > available in the current octave arch package, because the fltk library is >

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 08:55:30PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher > wrote: > > meanwhile and provides a CLI interface it still requires polkit. Polkit > > requires consolekit and both mean configuration and maintenance trouble. > > Just a quick c

[arch-general] gnome 3.2 in testing

2011-09-28 Thread Ionut Biru
Hi, take for a spin gnome 3.2 from testing and report any packaging bugs to our tracker. TUs, check your packages and rebuild for eventually soname bumps(e.g evolution-data-server). NVIDIA users be aware that xorg-server 1.11 from testing is incompatible with the current nvidia driver, eve

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > meanwhile and provides a CLI interface it still requires polkit. Polkit > requires consolekit and both mean configuration and maintenance trouble. Just a quick comment in case someone happens to read this: neither PK nor CK should requi

Re: [arch-general] bash variable PS1 confuses the terminal somehow

2011-09-28 Thread Dwight Schauer
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:46 AM, 清显 wrote: > 13 PROMPT_COMMAND=' > 14         if (($?)); then > 15                 warn="^[[31mWARNING^[[m" > 16         else > 17                 warn= > 18         fi > 19         date=`date` > 20         > PS1="\[^[[s\]\[^[[$(($COLUMNS-28))C\]\[^[[0;33m$date\]\[

Re: [arch-general] bash variable PS1 confuses the terminal somehow

2011-09-28 Thread 清显
13 PROMPT_COMMAND=' 14 if (($?)); then 15 warn="^[[31mWARNING^[[m" 16 else 17 warn= 18 fi 19 date=`date` 20 PS1="\[^[[s\]\[^[[$(($COLUMNS-28))C\]\[^[[0;33m$date\]\[^[[u\]\[^[[0;31m$warn\]\[^[[0;32m[\]\[^[[1;33m\u\]\[^[[0;32m@\

Re: [arch-general] bash variable PS1 confuses the terminal somehow

2011-09-28 Thread Ray Kohler
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:22 AM, wrote: > 13 PROMPT_COMMAND=' > 14         if (($?)); then > 15                 warn="^[[31mWARNING^[[m" > 16         else > 17                 warn= > 18         fi > 19         date=`date` > 20         > PS1="^[[s^[[$(($COLUMNS-28))C^[[0;33m$date^[[u^[[0;31m$war

[arch-general] bash variable PS1 confuses the terminal somehow

2011-09-28 Thread bfsc . yb
13 PROMPT_COMMAND=' 14 if (($?)); then 15 warn="^[[31mWARNING^[[m" 16 else 17 warn= 18 fi 19 date=`date` 20 PS1="^[[s^[[$(($COLUMNS-28))C^[[0;33m$date^[[u^[[0;31m$warn^[[0;32m[^[[1;33m\u^[[0;32m@^[[1;36m\w^[[0;32m]\$^[[m" 21 '

[arch-general] Enable FLTK Octave backend?

2011-09-28 Thread Stefano Avallone
Hi, I read in the Octave documentation [1] that a newer (than gnuplot) plotting capability is provided by the FLTK/OpenGL backend. This new backend is not available in the current octave arch package, because the fltk library is required to be installed at build time. I read that the FLTK back

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Cédric Girard's message of 2011-09-28 14:37:01 +0200: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Philipp Überbacher > wrote: > > > It's important to me that wlan is completely disabled when ethernet is > > available. > > > > Ethernet routes should be mounted with a lower Metric than wireles

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-09-28 13:37:29 +0200: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Philipp wrote: > > I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while > > but after a couple of minutes I get disconnected and need to reconnect > > manually. I think that

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Cédric Girard
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > It's important to me that wlan is completely disabled when ethernet is > available. > Ethernet routes should be mounted with a lower Metric than wireless one. Thus, even if you have both connections active the ethernet path should be us

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-09-28 13:14:06 +0200: > Am 28.09.2011 11:53, schrieb Philipp: > > Hi there, > > I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while > > but after a couple of minutes I get disconnected and need to reconnect > > manually. I think th

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Philipp wrote: > I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while > but after a couple of minutes I get disconnected and need to reconnect > manually. I think that happens pretty regularly, so I assume that some > kind of connection renewal

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.09.2011 11:53, schrieb Philipp: > Hi there, > I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while > but after a couple of minutes I get disconnected and need to reconnect > manually. I think that happens pretty regularly, so I assume that some > kind of connection renewal

[arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

2011-09-28 Thread Philipp
Hi there, I use netcfg for my university wlan (eduroam). It works fine for a while but after a couple of minutes I get disconnected and need to reconnect manually. I think that happens pretty regularly, so I assume that some kind of connection renewal doesn't work for some reason. Any idea what cou