Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3.8 and desktop background

2013-04-23 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Jonathan Hudson wrote: > On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:49:24 +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > >>Gnome 3.8 has now hit the official repos and it looks great. They >>only thing I can't seem to get to work is the desktop background. I >>try to set it to a nice image I have,

Re: [arch-general] libxml2 out of date

2013-04-23 Thread Ross Lagerwall
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 04:05:34PM -0700, Anatol Pomozov wrote: > > As far as I can tell, it breaks a lot of applications. > > Do you have list of applications that are broken? Could it be "fixed" > by recompiling those applications against 2.9.X? > > I see that upcoming ubuntu is using 2.9.0 > h

Re: [arch-general] Integrating Virus Scanning for Packages Handled by Pacman

2013-04-23 Thread Tanner Danzey
On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 06:56:56 PM Daniel Micay wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Mark E. Lee wrote: > > While building packages on the AUR, I was wondering that except for > > manual user intervention (by reading the code), I didn't have any other > > methods of knowing if a package h

Re: [arch-general] libxml2 out of date

2013-04-23 Thread Anatol Pomozov
Hi On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > On Tuesday 23 April 2013 09:05:33 Ross Lagerwall wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there a reason (other than lack of time) that libxml2 has not been >> updated from 2.8 to 2.9 (now 2.9.1)? >> >> Regards > > As far as I can tell, it breaks a lot o

Re: [arch-general] Integrating Virus Scanning for Packages Handled by Pacman

2013-04-23 Thread Daniel Micay
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Mark E. Lee wrote: > While building packages on the AUR, I was wondering that except for > manual user intervention (by reading the code), I didn't have any other > methods of knowing if a package had malware or viruses. Hence, I was > wondering if virus scanning v

[arch-general] Integrating Virus Scanning for Packages Handled by Pacman

2013-04-23 Thread Mark E. Lee
While building packages on the AUR, I was wondering that except for manual user intervention (by reading the code), I didn't have any other methods of knowing if a package had malware or viruses. Hence, I was wondering if virus scanning via clamav should be called before pacman installs packages.

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] Failure to boot after update yesterday evening (CET)

2013-04-23 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Tianyi Wang wrote: >> There are many bug reports about this issue on https://bugs.archlinux.org >> >> Tbh, before GNOME 3.8 got moved to stable repo, someone posted this bug on >> the mailing list, but it

Re: [arch-general] libxml2 out of date

2013-04-23 Thread Hussam Al-Tayeb
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 09:05:33 Ross Lagerwall wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a reason (other than lack of time) that libxml2 has not been > updated from 2.8 to 2.9 (now 2.9.1)? > > Regards As far as I can tell, it breaks a lot of applications.

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3.8 and desktop background

2013-04-23 Thread Jonathan Hudson
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:49:24 +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: >Gnome 3.8 has now hit the official repos and it looks great. They >only thing I can't seem to get to work is the desktop background. I >try to set it to a nice image I have, but my desktop background >remains a dull grey. The only plac

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3.8 and desktop background

2013-04-23 Thread Guillermo Leira
> -Mensaje original- > De: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org] En nombre de > Martti Kühne > Enviado el: martes, 23 de abril de 2013 13:39 > Para: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Asunto: Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3.8 and desktop background > > On Mon, Apr 22, 20

[arch-general] ntp-signd support for Samba4

2013-04-23 Thread John Lane
Now that Samba 4 is the deault, I think the ntp package needs to be configured with '--enable-ntp-signd' because this is needed for Active Directory clients to be able to synchronize time via the Active Directory component of Samba 4. As far as I know this is necessary but the wiki makes no men

Re: [arch-general] journalctl equivalent for /var/log/kernel.log

2013-04-23 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 23 Apr 2013 15:14:41 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 23.04.2013 15:08, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: > > Hello all, > > > > This should have been easy to find, but I haven't had any luck. What's > > the > > systemd equivalent to "tail -f /var/log/kernel.log"? I'm trying to slowly > > start usi

Re: [arch-general] journalctl equivalent for /var/log/kernel.log

2013-04-23 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 23.04.2013 15:08, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: > Hello all, > > This should have been easy to find, but I haven't had any luck. What's the > systemd equivalent to "tail -f /var/log/kernel.log"? I'm trying to slowly > start using journalctl instead of syslog... journalctl -f _TRANSPORT=kernel

[arch-general] journalctl equivalent for /var/log/kernel.log

2013-04-23 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
Hello all, This should have been easy to find, but I haven't had any luck. What's the systemd equivalent to "tail -f /var/log/kernel.log"? I'm trying to slowly start using journalctl instead of syslog... Paul

Re: [arch-general] XFCE broken with Gnome 3.8?

2013-04-23 Thread Pedro Alejandro López-Valencia
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:01 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > Apparently when I whack my XFCE session cache file > (~/.cache/sessions/xfce4-**session-daroselin:0) the problem goes away and > I can start up XFCE no problem. But as soon as I save the session, > creating a new session cache file,

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3.8 and desktop background

2013-04-23 Thread Martti Kühne
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: [...] > > I guess you are using some sort of an extension to get "icons on the > desktop"? > That "sort of an extension" is nautilus' (imo annoying) property to create its "desktop window" when it's not already there. To set a desktop backgro

Re: [arch-general] XFCE broken with Gnome 3.8?

2013-04-23 Thread Mauro Santos
On 23-04-2013 06:01, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > On 04/22/2013 01:12 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: >> I picked up some Gnome package upgrades last night during a pacman >> update, and I haven't been able to log into XFCE ever since. It gets >> most of the way through the login process, then craps

Re: [arch-general] Empathy and Google Talk

2013-04-23 Thread Ross Lagerwall
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:53:11PM -0400, Jayson Rowe wrote: > Greetings all, > I've been using Xfce for quite a while as I've been dissatisfied with > GNOME-Shell, but since 3.8 made it to the stable repos, I decided to try it > out in Classic mode. I really like it. However, I can't seem to add m

[arch-general] libxml2 out of date

2013-04-23 Thread Ross Lagerwall
Hi, Is there a reason (other than lack of time) that libxml2 has not been updated from 2.8 to 2.9 (now 2.9.1)? Regards -- Ross Lagerwall

[arch-general] Empathy and Google Talk

2013-04-23 Thread Jayson Rowe
Greetings all, I've been using Xfce for quite a while as I've been dissatisfied with GNOME-Shell, but since 3.8 made it to the stable repos, I decided to try it out in Classic mode. I really like it. However, I can't seem to add my Google Talk account to Empathy. When the Accounts Window pops up, t

Re: [arch-general] XFCE broken with Gnome 3.8?

2013-04-23 Thread Kinney Baughman
On 04/22/2013 11:05 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 04/22/2013 02:42 PM, Narve wrote: I'm running Xfce with LXDM and it works smoothly even with the new gnome version - tho the only packages from the gnome-group I have installed are those: narve ~ % pacman -Qg gnome [20:38:45 on 13-04-22] gn