[arch-general] XFCE removable storage unmount notification gone

2018-06-25 Thread Paul Marwick via arch-general
I'm running three copies of Arch with XFCE as DE. Recently I've noticed that the normal desktop notification when a removable storage device is unmount has gone. As a test, I turned on auto-mount. When a USB drive is plugged in, I'm still getting mount notifications, but nothing when the device

Re: [arch-general] problems accessing samba share through Xfce gui

2017-06-14 Thread Paul Marwick via arch-general
ITwrx.org wrote: On 06/14/2017 08:28 AM, Paul Marwick via arch-general wrote: ... Any help would be very gratefully received. have you tried reinstalling gvfs-smb? Yes, one of the first things I tried. Makes no difference. It almost looks like some sort of timing issue, but I've so fa

[arch-general] problems accessing samba share through Xfce gui

2017-06-14 Thread Paul Marwick via arch-general
Arch Linux, fully updated, running Xfce, installed on a Lenovo T420 laptop. I’m having strange, intermittent problems accessing samba shares through the GUI. The problem varies, no pattern that I can detect. Sometimes, clicking on the “Browse Network” icon in Thunar does nothing, eventually r

[arch-general] Intermittent problem accessing samba shares

2017-03-01 Thread Paul Marwick via arch-general
Fully updated Arch install, running Xfce. I don't use Samba very much, but need it for access at various times, so I have gvfs, gvfs-smb and smbclient installed. Normally no problem accessing Samba shares from Thunar. However Recently I spent some time trying to work out why a client was u

Re: [arch-general] Removing infinality

2016-09-27 Thread Paul Marwick via arch-general
Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote: Just a thought. If you find the excerpt in the pacman logs where you did the transaction got you into this mess, you might be able to reverse just that without risking too much for the current install and save you a complete reinstall. Ignoring dependencies is

Re: [arch-general] Removing infinality

2016-09-27 Thread Paul Marwick via arch-general
Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote: Just a thought. If you find the excerpt in the pacman logs where you did the transaction got you into this mess, you might be able to reverse just that without risking too much for the current install and save you a complete reinstall. Ignoring dependencies is

Re: [arch-general] Removing infinality

2016-09-27 Thread Paul Marwick via arch-general
Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote: Just -Rcs and look twice at the removal. It does catch the whole tree of explicit, asdeps of the packages passed as argument, as well as packages depeding on either, but look twice on the list of packages you'd like to have removed. Thanks. Tried a dummy run

[arch-general] Removing infinality

2016-09-24 Thread Paul Marwick via arch-general
A short while ago, I installed the infinality bundle and fonts as an experiment. Hit problems with some applications, so I'd like to revert to the standard font handing. But I'm having all sorts of problems doing so. My first attempt was this: fang@altair ~]$ sudo pacman -S --asdeps freetype2

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

2013-04-22 Thread Paul Marwick
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 out and falls back to the session manager (LXDM). I'm not even able to see an

Re: [arch-general] Problem with NFS on shutdown

2013-01-29 Thread Paul Marwick
Martín Cigorraga wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Paul Marwick wrote: I've got two machines in my local network that provide NFS shares. One is an old Raidsonic NAS (running a current version of OpenWRT), the other a dedicated server running Slackware). I normally mount the s

[arch-general] Problem with NFS on shutdown

2013-01-19 Thread Paul Marwick
I've got two machines in my local network that provide NFS shares. One is an old Raidsonic NAS (running a current version of OpenWRT), the other a dedicated server running Slackware). I normally mount the shares manually (the machine that is giving me a problem is a laptop, so its often not con

Re: [arch-general] SeaMonkey outdated. Critical security holes in the current version!

2013-01-17 Thread Paul Marwick
Manuel Reimer wrote: Hello Archlinux team, the SeaMonkey package is outdated. Many critical issues have been fixed in the current version: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey.html So in my opinion a fixed package is required as soon as possible. As SeaMonkey cont

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] 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] [seamonkey] Update is strongly required

2012-10-21 Thread Paul Marwick
On 20 October 2012 22:18, Christopher Reimer wrote: > 2012/9/26 Ionut Biru : >> this is the last version i'm building. >> >> i'll move this into aur because nobody wants to maintain it. >> > > Seamonkey is out of date again. Is there still nobody who wants to maintain > it? I updated ABS and have