Re: [arch-general] Why does network interface sometimes change name?

2015-04-13 Thread Felix E. Klee
After a reboot (due to BSOD in the Windows host - faulty RAM) the interface name changed from eth0 to eno1636: $ ifconfig eno1636 eno1636: flags=4163UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.101.129 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.101.255

Re: [arch-general] Why does network interface sometimes change name?

2015-04-06 Thread Felix E. Klee
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Guus Snijders gsnijd...@gmail.com wrote: First make sure that vmware always uses the same mac address for this vm. If the MAC address changes, I would expect the name to change from `eno1636` to something like `eno52423433`. I wouldn’t expect it to change to

Re: [arch-general] How to change Wayland resolution to 1024x768?

2015-04-06 Thread Felix E. Klee
`vga=792` in the kernel command line did the trick at least for 1024x768: http://pierre.baudu.in/other/grub.vga.modes.html

[arch-general] Why does network interface sometimes change name?

2015-04-06 Thread Felix E. Klee
I am running Arch as a guest in VMware Player on Win7X64. On every odd boot, the name of the network interface changes. Sometimes it is: eno1636 Sometimes it is: eth0 This makes it really hard to configure a fixed IP, which I do by having in `/etc/dhcpcd.conf`: interface

[arch-general] How to change Wayland resolution to 1024x768?

2015-04-02 Thread Felix E. Klee
System: VMware Player I added as kernel parameter: drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=edid/1024x768.bin However, when I run `weston-launch`, then I always get an 800x600 desktop.

Re: [arch-general] Window manager with resolution independent decorations?

2015-03-30 Thread Felix E. Klee
Now checking out [Wayland compositors][1]. Thing is that on different virtual desktops I need different resolution, and I was told that Wayland would handle resolution changes better than X. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_display_servers#Wayland

[arch-general] Window manager with resolution independent decorations?

2015-03-30 Thread Felix E. Klee
For example, I want to specify that the title bar should be 5mm tall.

Re: [arch-general] Window manager with resolution independent decorations?

2015-03-30 Thread Felix E. Klee
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Felix E. Klee felix.k...@inka.de wrote: Wayland would handle resolution changes better than X. Or rather the compositor could zoom the entire desktop.