[arch-general] Subpixels and append mode in Font Config 2.10

2012-11-22 Thread Martin Panter
Hi all Yesterday I replaced fontconfig-2.8.0-2 with fontconfig-2.10.1-2, and I noticed that subpixel rendering was no longer working. I can get it working again by restoring mode=“assign" in /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf, but I would like to understand why the new package’s mode=“append”

Re: [arch-general] File permissions with udisks/udisk2 mounts

2012-11-22 Thread Paul Marwick
Curtis Shimamoto wrote: Have you tried manually mounting with something like: # mount -o exec /dev/whatever /mount/point I don't use udisks, but I use pmount and (I think) it automatically mounts with the noexec option. I have never had a reason to try to get around this, so I also cannot spea

[arch-general] systemd sessions, su -l, and access to /dev/

2012-11-22 Thread MSal
Hello. I asked about this in the forum. But it looks like this is a better place to discuss systemd-related issues. If I login to user1 or user2 then try to play audio which requires access to /dev/snd/* , proper access to the logged in user is set by the session and everything works correctly.

Re: [arch-general] File permissions with udisks/udisk2 mounts

2012-11-22 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 09:31:38PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > The need to constantly review the source to work out exactly what > polkit allows is my primary reason to disable it. What is your way to disable it once and for all ? -- FA

Re: [arch-general] USB 3G Modem: no remote host reachable, while connection (seems to) establish correctly

2012-11-22 Thread Sebastian Lipp
On 2012-11-22 08:11, Sebastian Lipp wrote: > On 2012-11-21 01:12, Krzysztof Warzecha wrote: > > 2012/11/20 Sebastian Lipp : > > > --> Using interface ppp0 > > > --> local IP address 10.140.52.61 > > > --> remote IP address 10.64.64.64 > > > --> primary DNS address 212.23.115.132 > > > --> second

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] the future of /media

2012-11-22 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > I have udisks 1 and 2 installed but use neither. I have permanent > folders in /media/. Will /media/ changes by pacman simply fail and > everything continue happily or will I simply have to recreate or make > them immutable? As long as eith

Re: [arch-general] Polluted login prompt

2012-11-22 Thread Curtis Shimamoto
On 11/22/12 at 06:19pm, kachelaqa wrote: > On 21/11/12 16:00, Sudaraka Wijesinghe wrote: > >I start both Apache and MySQL services on boot, and both of them display > >the start complete message after the login prompt. > > > >Something like this: > >>Starting MySQL > >>Starting Apache > >>login: [

Re: [arch-general] File permissions with udisks/udisk2 mounts

2012-11-22 Thread Curtis Shimamoto
On 11/22/12 at 05:00pm, Paul Marwick wrote: > I tried asking this on the forum, didn't get any real answers, so > I'm hoping someone here can help. > > I have a script located on a Vfat-formatted flash drive. When > mounted using udisks, there are no execute permissions showing on > the files, and

Re: [arch-general] File permissions with udisks/udisk2 mounts

2012-11-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:00:20 + Paul Marwick wrote: > - I want to be > able to modify things like execute permissions on mounted devices > when I need to. I'm not all that partial to being effectively told I > can't do that - reminds me much too much of Windows. The need to constantly review

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] the future of /media

2012-11-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> There are very good reasons for this change (mainly security), I think it had very little to do with security, unless you count device type privacy information from folder names. I use /media/usb? and they are accessible only by root and whichever user mounted it, logically findable by order of

[arch-general] File permissions with udisks/udisk2 mounts

2012-11-22 Thread Paul Marwick
I tried asking this on the forum, didn't get any real answers, so I'm hoping someone here can help. I have a script located on a Vfat-formatted flash drive. When mounted using udisks, there are no execute permissions showing on the files, and they cannot be set. After some research, it seems

Re: [arch-general] Polluted login prompt

2012-11-22 Thread kachelaqa
On 21/11/12 16:00, Sudaraka Wijesinghe wrote: I start both Apache and MySQL services on boot, and both of them display the start complete message after the login prompt. Something like this: Starting MySQL Starting Apache login: [ OK ] MySQL started [ OK ] Apache started Although this doesn't

Re: [arch-general] USB 3G Modem: no remote host reachable, while connection (seems to) establish correctly

2012-11-22 Thread Sebastian Lipp
On 2012-11-21 01:12, Krzysztof Warzecha wrote: > 2012/11/20 Sebastian Lipp : > > --> Using interface ppp0 > > --> local IP address 10.140.52.61 > > --> remote IP address 10.64.64.64 > > --> primary DNS address 212.23.115.132 > > --> secondary DNS address 212.23.115.148 > > Can you ping your gat

Re: [arch-general] Polluted login prompt

2012-11-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> Problem is that it's too quiet now and even suppressing the possible > error messages. So I don't think this (kernel boot parameter quiet) is > the right answer to my problem. Is there no way to redirect the output to a seperate terminal. It took some rather longer commands than I'd like and sym

Re: [arch-general] Polluted login prompt

2012-11-22 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 22.11.2012 02:16, schrieb Sudaraka Wijesinghe: > On 11/22/12 06:23, Ashim Acharya wrote: >> quiet quite > > Aha, yes I did misspell that on command line also. good catch. > And, yes it does quiet down everything. > > Problem is that it's too quiet now and even suppressing the possible > error

Re: [arch-general] Polluted login prompt

2012-11-22 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 22 Nov 2012 01:07:22 Martín Cigorraga wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Sudaraka Wijesinghe < > > sudaraka.wijesin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Problem is that it's too quiet now and even suppressing the possible > > error messages. > > This is something I'm looking for too, I wo