Re: [arch-general] To those that are testing Gnome 3.14

2014-09-27 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
On 27 Sep 2014 08:56, Florian Pelz pelzflor...@googlemail.com wrote: Yes, it seems to still be broken in 3.14. I have had no issues without switching, but now that I tried it: - - The first time I switched users to myself, GNOME froze in the activities when I tried to open a terminal (because

[arch-general] To those that are testing Gnome 3.14

2014-09-26 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
Hi list, I have a favor to ask to those that are currently testing Gnome 3.14. In gnome 3.12 I am having problems with user switching, which is quite important for me. In particular, I had this annoying bug [1] since I installed Gnome in this computer. When Xorg 1.16 came out, it broke

Re: [arch-general] Dropbox requires setup each time I boot

2014-09-23 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
Hi Squall, 2014-09-22 20:46 GMT+02:00 Squall Lionheart headmastersqu...@gmail.com: I use the dropbox client as provided on their web site. Everything works as expected however, when I reboot my machine it requires me to setup my local folder each time. I also run a Fedora 20 system with a

Re: [arch-general] How to track packages dropped from the repos?

2014-04-21 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
2014-04-19 21:33 GMT+02:00 Maximilian Bräutigam m...@xbra.de: I am using yaourt to track packages from aur (and possibly packages moved from official repos to aur). Note, that it is not an official peace of software and you should read the wiki carefully. [1] Hi Maximilian, Thanks for your

[arch-general] How to track packages dropped from the repos?

2014-04-19 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
Hi list, Sometimes packages are silently dropped from the repos. This happened for example in the last few days with mash 0.2.0-3, which apparently I installed as a dependency for gnome (I guess it is no longer required). I follow arch-general, arch-dev-public and aur-general, and as far as I

[arch-general] Libreoffice Impress 3.5.6-1 - problems opening *.ppt

2012-08-22 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
Hi everyone, Yesterday I upgraded Libreoffice from 3.5.5-1 to 3.5.6-1, and I started to notice problems opening several *.ppt files. When I double click on the ppt, an ASCII Filter Options popup appears - I never saw this popup before. Anyway, I have to click Ok for Libreoffice to start importing

Re: [arch-general] Libreoffice Impress 3.5.6-1 - problems opening *.ppt

2012-08-22 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
2012/8/22 Lukas Jirkovsky l.jirkov...@gmail.com: On 22 August 2012 14:43, Lorenzo Bandieri lorenzo.bandi...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday I upgraded Libreoffice from 3.5.5-1 to 3.5.6-1, and I started to notice problems opening several *.ppt files. (snip) This happened to me less than five

Re: [arch-general] Reliable documents (was Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch)

2012-04-30 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
2012/4/30 Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:30:23 +0200 Gour wrote: we did embrace LaTeX/LyX etc. To get the benefit of your experience. Do you use Lyx as your editor or something else. Sorry if I jump in, but as a LaTeX user I usually suggest to stay away from

Re: [arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]

2012-01-04 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
Think of Doctors. Sometimes when you feel sick, you go online and you try to do your due diligence. Trying to find out what is wrong with you (Diagnosing yourself), even though you aren't a doctor. But you try to do it anyways because searching for information, and finding a solution tends to

Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

2011-12-22 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
Or maybe try using pacmatic: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/pacmatic/ +1 I strongly suggest to the OP the use of pacmatic [1]. It's really an useful tool, especially if you don't check regularly the news (as you should). [1] http://kmkeen.com/pacmatic/ Regards, Lorenzo --

[arch-general] Bad LUN and bad target number messages during boot

2011-11-12 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
Hello archers, I'm running Arch Linux on an Acer Aspire One D257 [1]. Since last month, I've notices these messages showing up during the boot process: (from dmesg | less) [6.714686] Bad LUN (0:1) [6.715042] Bad target number (1:0) [6.715437] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI

Re: [arch-general] KDE panel broken after last upgrade

2011-11-07 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
One or both of the following are confirmed to be affected: plasma-desktoprc plasma-desktop-appletsrc We don't need to remove/edit anything else. It's probably something about resized panels. Anyway this is just an FYI-update for anyone else facing this. Thank you Ray.

Re: [arch-general] KDE panel broken after last upgrade

2011-11-06 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
This also means the issue is with the configs somewhere. Yes, it's likely a config problems. Removing my ~/.kde4 prevents the crash. Tomorrow I should try to move my settings directory to a backup location and try in a clean environment. Hi Alessio! As I stated, I removed my ~/.kde4 and

[arch-general] KDE panel broken after last upgrade

2011-11-05 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
Hello archers, Last massive KDE upgrade broke my KDE desktop. In particular, after the reboot, the panel was gone. I tried to Add Panel: Default Panel crashes Plasma Shell; Empty panel works. Then I added one by one the widget I had in my original panel (which was pretty standard). I determined

[arch-general] Error when upgrading texlive-bin-2011.1-3-i686

2011-10-29 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
Hi archers! On 2011-09-15 TexLive was upgraded (see [1]). Initially I had no problems, but in the following days there had been two subsequent upgrades of texlive-bin, the last of wich yesterday (or today, last time I upgraded was two days ago), that caused errors. In both cases, the error was

Re: [arch-general] A question about installing Arch

2011-10-16 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
Hi Christian, Accidentally, I installed Arch just the day before the new installation cd came out, so my experience could be useful to you. I had no problems in the installation phase, but when I rebooted my system, I was welcomed by a broken installation: apparently, grub didn't find the

[arch-general] Can't install e4rat from AUR: pacman fails to install missing dependencies

2011-10-09 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
Hello everyone! I'm having problems installing E4rat from the AUR ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=e4ratSeB=x). Installation fails: $ makepkg -s == WARNING: Sudo can not be found. Will use su to acquire root privileges. == Making package: e4rat 0.2.1-2 (Sun Oct 9 17:34:22 CEST 2011) ==

Re: [arch-general] Can't install e4rat from AUR: pacman fails to install missing dependencies

2011-10-09 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
Thanks everyone for the quick responses! I'm embarassed, it was really trivial... I didn't even think it could be in the AUR! Cheers! And thanks again! I love arch community!