Re: [arch-general] Screen lock stopped working

2016-09-18 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 09/18/2016 10:45 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:23:41 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 09/18/2016 01:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:14:30 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I'm running XFCE desktop btw. On Arch Linux using Xfce not necessarily explains

Re: [arch-general] .xsession-errors - can't startx with that file

2016-09-18 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 10:14:35AM -0500, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:47:57 -0500 > Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 09:23:01AM -0500, Doug Newgard wrote: > > > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:11:45 -0500 > > > Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > > > > > > Hello all: > > > >

Re: [arch-general] .xsession-errors - can't startx with that file

2016-09-18 Thread Doug Newgard
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:47:57 -0500 Dutch Ingraham wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 09:23:01AM -0500, Doug Newgard wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:11:45 -0500 > > Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > > > > Hello all: > > > > > > TL;DR: One Arch installation will allow redirecting startx's stderr to >

Re: [arch-general] .xsession-errors - can't startx with that file

2016-09-18 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 04:29:47PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 16:24:12 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:11:45 -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > >>TL;DR: One Arch installation will allow redirecting startx's stderr to > >>a file, one won't. What is the differe

Re: [arch-general] .xsession-errors - can't startx with that file

2016-09-18 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 04:24:12PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:11:45 -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > >TL;DR: One Arch installation will allow redirecting startx's stderr to > >a file, one won't. What is the difference between systems? > > Hi, > > what actually was too long

Re: [arch-general] .xsession-errors - can't startx with that file

2016-09-18 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 09:23:01AM -0500, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:11:45 -0500 > Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > > Hello all: > > > > TL;DR: One Arch installation will allow redirecting startx's stderr to > > a file, one won't. What is the difference between systems? > > > > Is

Re: [arch-general] Screen lock stopped working

2016-09-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:23:41 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: >On 09/18/2016 01:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:14:30 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: >>> I'm running XFCE desktop btw. >> >> On Arch Linux using Xfce not necessarily explains what screen lock / >> screensaver

Re: [arch-general] .xsession-errors - can't startx with that file

2016-09-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 16:24:12 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:11:45 -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >>TL;DR: One Arch installation will allow redirecting startx's stderr to >>a file, one won't. What is the difference between systems? > >Hi, > >what actually was too long to read? >

Re: [arch-general] .xsession-errors - can't startx with that file

2016-09-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:11:45 -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >TL;DR: One Arch installation will allow redirecting startx's stderr to >a file, one won't. What is the difference between systems? Hi, what actually was too long to read? Did you for testing purpose install a display manger, e.g. lightd

Re: [arch-general] .xsession-errors - can't startx with that file

2016-09-18 Thread Doug Newgard
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:11:45 -0500 Dutch Ingraham wrote: > Hello all: > > TL;DR: One Arch installation will allow redirecting startx's stderr to > a file, one won't. What is the difference between systems? > Is X running as root or as the user (rootless)? This can change based on configuratio

Re: [arch-general] Screen lock stopped working

2016-09-18 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 09/18/2016 01:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:14:30 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I'm running XFCE desktop btw. On Arch Linux using Xfce not necessarily explains what screen lock / screensaver you are using. xflock4/xscreensaver

[arch-general] .xsession-errors - can't startx with that file

2016-09-18 Thread Dutch Ingraham
Hello all: TL;DR: One Arch installation will allow redirecting startx's stderr to a file, one won't. What is the difference between systems? I am having an issue with logging xsession errors. Specifically, if I create an .xsession-errors file in /home/user, then startx with < /home/user/.xsessi

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-18 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Sunday, 18 September 2016 07:53:56 CEST Doug Newgard wrote: > This thread is split between arch-general and arch-dev-public Ohh, my bad. Did not properly read the headers. Thank You. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-18 Thread Doug Newgard
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 14:50:09 +0200 Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > On Saturday, 17 September 2016 15:10:48 CEST LoneVVolf wrote: > > On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 21:44 +0200, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > > > Actually, why don't raise the bar higher? SSE2 has been introduced in > > > 2001 – that's 15 years

Re: [arch-general] Screen lock stopped working

2016-09-18 Thread Eric Blau
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:14:30 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > >I'm running XFCE desktop btw. > > On Arch Linux using Xfce not necessarily explains what screen lock / > screensaver you are using. > Personally, I noticed that using xscreensa

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-18 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Saturday, 17 September 2016 15:10:48 CEST LoneVVolf wrote: > On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 21:44 +0200, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > > Actually, why don't raise the bar higher? SSE2 has been introduced in > > 2001 – that's 15 years to upgrade one's hardware and given my sad > > experiences with com

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-18 Thread Mauro Santos via arch-general
I'm not sure enforcing sse3 or later for AMD64 hardware is the best course of action. > egrep "^model name|^flags" /proc/cpuinfo model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 s

Re: [arch-general] pkgstats api

2016-09-18 Thread Pierre Schmitz
On 18.09.2016 13:14, Chris Stryczynski wrote: Apologies I sent this through yesterday but without any subject so not sure if it gets picked up. I was wondering if there is an API / JSON endpoint for pkgstats? Saves me having to scrape the page! I'm interested to build a packages / aur frontend.

[arch-general] pkgstats api

2016-09-18 Thread Chris Stryczynski
Apologies I sent this through yesterday but without any subject so not sure if it gets picked up. I was wondering if there is an API / JSON endpoint for pkgstats? Saves me having to scrape the page! I'm interested to build a packages / aur frontend.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-18 Thread Martin Kühne via arch-general
It would probably also give more arguments/hardware in need of a retro-cpu archlinux variant/project which I'd like to see and would help out with. Which in turn might be a better alternative for my Geode as well. Just my 2¢ to this. cheers! mar77i

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-18 Thread Martin Kühne via arch-general
...I'm all for making arch work well for the hardware it runs well on, and I don't think expecting SSE2 is too bleeding edge wrt hardware constraints. There are other distros that work well on cpus that aren't up to par with arch's needs. I started using gentoo on my pcengines board due to already