> > Doesn't Chromium use its own font rendering system?
>
> Not really. It has to do a lot of font-related work to implement the
> web
> standards but they're using freetype2/harfbuzz like everyone else.
>
> > I've noticed that on other OSes it has its own rendering style that
> > doesn't use
On Sun, 2015-05-24 at 10:52 +0200, Vladimir Nikšić wrote:
> Hi guys!
>
> I've done a pacman -Syu this morning. The upgrade went fine, all the
> key
> components are working properly, except a slight issue I'm having
> with
> chromium. Chromium no longer obeys the subpixel antialiasing, but
> in
On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 15:33 +0100, LoneVVolf wrote:
> On 26-11-14 12:00, Robbie Smith wrote:
> > I am at a loss as to what the hell is going on with my laptop. It's a HP
> > Pavillion with the dual AMD graphics (7520G + 7500M), and I will never
> > again buy a laptop
On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 15:33 +0100, LoneVVolf wrote:
> > On 26-11-14 12:00, Robbie Smith wrote:
> > I am at a loss as to what the hell is going on with my laptop. It's
> a HP
> > Pavillion with the dual AMD graphics (7520G + 7500M), and I will
> never
>
I am at a loss as to what the hell is going on with my laptop. It's a HP
Pavillion with the dual AMD graphics (7520G + 7500M), and I will never
again buy a laptop containing components from either manufacturer.
More often than not when I boot, when the kernel tries to do modesetting
the screen wil
Hi everyone. Is anyone else having issues trying to start GNOME 3.14
with the Catalyst driver for AMD/ATI cards? I've got one of those
laptops with the dual AMD cards (discrete and onboard), and the
open-source drivers have never worked for me, forcing me to use
Catalyst. With the latest update to
On 20/04/14 06:07, Chris Moline wrote:
> Hi, every time I upgrade okular chrome starts opening two instances. One
> has a dialong saying it couldn't find '%I' and the other has the document I
> want. All I have to do to fix it is to remove %I from the .desktop file.
> How do I preserve this change
On 15/04/13 19:00, Damien Robert wrote:
Robbie Smith wrote in message <5165674e.4080...@gmail.com>:
I’ve written the following user service, and it should do the same
thing, but it doesn’t seem to work:
$ cat ~/.config/systemd/user/gpg-agent.service
[Unit]
Description=GnuPG private key
On 11/04/13 23:51, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote:
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Robbie Smith wrote:
On 11/04/13 22:20, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote:
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Robbie Smith wrote:
I’ve been working on my own fork of luakit, building and installing it to
test
On 11/04/13 22:20, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote:
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Robbie Smith wrote:
I’ve been working on my own fork of luakit, building and installing it to
test changes, and I’ve come across some weirdness in the PKGBUILD. The
original luakit-git PKGBUILD[1] has a set of
On 11/04/13 15:11, Simon Gomizelj wrote:
systemd --user runs in its own separate login/cgroup. I doubt
environmental variables set with `systemctl --user set-environment`
going to be available outside of that login/cgroup. I doubt they're
even made available to anything outside of future processe
I’ve been working on my own fork of luakit, building and installing it
to test changes, and I’ve come across some weirdness in the PKGBUILD.
The original luakit-git PKGBUILD[1] has a set of options to pass to make
to (for example) enable luajit.
I rewrote it to conform with pacman/makepkg 4.1
How can I get gpg-agent to work with ssh keys? The following script that
I’ve put in /etc/profile.d sets it up, but I’d like to move my user
daemons (such as gpg-agent) over to systemd --user.
$ cat gpg-agent.sh
#!/bin/sh
envfile="${HOME}/.gnupg/gpg-agent.env"
if test -f "$envfile" && kill -0
On 10/04/13 16:46, William Giokas wrote:
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 04:38:42PM +1000, Robbie Smith wrote:
I’ve been porting my old PKGBUILDs to the 4.1 format for VCS
packages, and for some reason I keep getting errors building the
package, with the pkg/ directory being created with 000 (d
I’ve been porting my old PKGBUILDs to the 4.1 format for VCS packages,
and for some reason I keep getting errors building the package, with the
pkg/ directory being created with 000 (d-) permissions. My umask
isn’t malformed as I can create directories and files just fine, and if
I chmo
On 29/03/13 00:39, Leonid Isaev wrote:
On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:23:03 +1100
Robbie Smith wrote:
TL;DR: More toying with mobile broadband and systemd; would like help
automatically stopping service depending on device availability.
[...]
What I cannot figure out how to do is automatically stop
On 29/03/13 00:39, Leonid Isaev wrote:
On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:23:03 +1100
Robbie Smith wrote:
TL;DR: More toying with mobile broadband and systemd; would like help
automatically stopping service depending on device availability.
[...]
What I cannot figure out how to do is automatically stop
On 28/03/13 22:12, Allan McRae wrote:
On 28/03/13 21:04, Robbie Smith wrote:
Is there a publicly-accessible list to follow the development of
netcfg’s successor-to-be, netctl?
From my experiments with systemd and netcfg, there’s a few features that
could definitely come in useful, and I’m
Is there a publicly-accessible list to follow the development of
netcfg’s successor-to-be, netctl?
From my experiments with systemd and netcfg, there’s a few features
that could definitely come in useful, and I’m certainly willing to help
contribute where I can, be it testing, coding, or writi
TL;DR: More toying with mobile broadband and systemd; would like help
automatically stopping service depending on device availability.
I’ve been adjusting the .service file for netcfg@ppp-mobile.service so
it plays nicely with my modem. It will only start if the USB modem is
plugged in and exp
On 24/03/13 04:02, Tobias Groß wrote:
Robbie Smith wrote:
Is what I want to do even possible?
I won't say it's impossible. The easiest thing I can recommend is building a
layer 2 tunnel with openvpn over the ppp connection and enslave this.
I don't know if bonding is eve
So I’ve got access to two networks, a wireless one on wlan0 and a mobile
broadband one (with a 3G modem) on ppp0, and both have a tendency to be
rather unreliable. I decided to look up bonding the two, and while I can
sometimes manage to enslave wlan0, ppp0 always fails.
I’ve followed the info
On 26/02/13 22:44, Daniel Micay wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Robbie Smith wrote:
For some reason, after my last reboot (a kernel update), none of the XDG
variables[1] (such as $XDG_CONFIG_HOME) are being set, which broke a lot of
my configuration, as I rely on those in scripts.
I
For some reason, after my last reboot (a kernel update), none of the XDG
variables[1] (such as $XDG_CONFIG_HOME) are being set, which broke a lot
of my configuration, as I rely on those in scripts.
I was able to fix it by writing a script[2] to drop in /etc/profile.d/
that would create those d
On 06/02/13 06:45, Armin K. wrote:
Hello,
I have been playing with Catalyst on ArchLinux in order to get my Hybrid
Graphics working. Catalyst supports PowerXpress 4.0+ in Linux, so
muxless graphics can work.
It took me some time to get it to work, I had to workaround many stuff.
Here follows:
On 14/12/12 19:37, Rodrigo Rivas wrote:
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Robbie Smith wrote:
On 14/12/12 01:04, Neil Perry wrote:
On 13 December 2012 13:52, Robbie Smith wrote:
vipw and vigr don't seem to do anything for me. It doesn't matter what
changes I make, they both r
On 14/12/12 19:37, Rodrigo Rivas wrote:
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Robbie Smith wrote:
On 14/12/12 01:04, Neil Perry wrote:
On 13 December 2012 13:52, Robbie Smith wrote:
vipw and vigr don't seem to do anything for me. It doesn't matter what
changes I make, they both r
On 14/12/12 01:04, Neil Perry wrote:
On 13 December 2012 13:52, Robbie Smith wrote:
vipw and vigr don't seem to do anything for me. It doesn't matter what
changes I make, they both report that nothing was changed.
# vipw
(Makes changes in $EDITOR, writes and quits)
vipw: no changes
On 07/12/12 03:59, Daniel Micay wrote:
You can use vipw and vigr to safely edit the passwd and group files with
your editor of choice, and make the changes (or use the cli utilities
instead). There's no need to manually edit shadow/gshadow, you can update
them by running pwconv and grpconv which
On 02/12/12 10:01, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Version 2012.12.01 of our install and rescue medium is available on our
[Download][1] page. The latest snapshot contains:
* arch-install-scripts 9 with an improved fstab generator
* linux 3.6.
Hi list
I don’t recall when this started occurring (as most applications that
open files open them one at a time so I seldom come across it), but the
directory selection dialog seems to always open my home directory
regardless of what I navigate to. The programs that spawn the dialog
subseque
On 21/11/12 04:18, Sebastian Lipp wrote:
Hey there!
I've got a problem with my Huawei E220 (not entirely sure about this) 3G modem
stick. It used to work for several days without any issues but someone closed
my laptop's lid so that it slept away and since I can't reach any remote
machine.
Ever
On 01/11/12 08:54, Joshua Collins wrote:
The urxvtc script on the wiki is also not incredibly specific about
which "urxvtc" one should be pointing to in the script.
One should absolutely link /usr/bin/urxvtc and NOT the script itself,
which will lead to infinite recursion, and as you state, "mem
On my new install I've been using urxvtd to run terminals, and I'm
finding that it frequently crashes. Either I'll switch to a window and
it won't redraw or accept input, or I'll close a window and all of them
will close. I was using the script in the urxvtc man page to spawn a
daemon as requir
On 29/10/12 01:17, Zeke Sulastin wrote:
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Dave Morgan
wrote:
What are the the technical reasons for group membership breaking
functionality when using systemd?
With a typical desktop use case, systemd-logind's session management
handles the ability to do things
On 22/10/12 08:10, G. Schlisio wrote:
Am 18.10.2012 22:16, schrieb G. Schlisio:
hi list,
i played around with neo2, an alternative kbd layout optimized for
german. in my kde environment.
the main concept of neo is using meta keys to shift between layers.
for me, the meta4 key is not working on e
On 20/10/12 00:16, Rodrigo Rivas wrote:
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Robbie Smith wrote:
I've been having troubles mounting an external USB HDD to two of the three
USB ports on my laptop. dmesg reports a timeout connecting to the device;
plugging in other devices to the same ports
I've been having troubles mounting an external USB HDD to two of the three
USB ports on my laptop. dmesg reports a timeout connecting to the device;
plugging in other devices to the same ports works fine with no errors. I've
attached the log here[1].
The drive in question is a Seagate 1.5 TB Expan
On 15/10/12 15:11, Martín Cigorraga wrote:
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Robbie Smith wrote:
After the last updates, I was getting a kernel panic at reboot;
hard-resetting and then powering on again and it seems to boot fine.
I suspect the problem has to do with the ATI Catalyst driver
After the last updates, I was getting a kernel panic at reboot;
hard-resetting and then powering on again and it seems to boot fine.
I suspect the problem has to do with the ATI Catalyst driver, as the
panics occurred when rebooting after upgrading or downgrading the
driver. I originally upgra
Hi list
Using xmodmap to redefine my keyboard mappings was causing Openbox to
hang for about a minute, so I read up on writing my own layouts using
xkb[1]. By and large I've achived the desired results (in much fewer
lines too!) but there's still a few things that don't quite work.
1. I thin
Hi all
I've got a laptop with dual graphics: AMD A6-4400M processor with
HD7520G "built in" (?) and HD7600M dedicated GPU. At the moment I'm
using the Catalyst drivers that Vi0L0 packages[1], and it works quite
well. I can switch which card I use (albeit with a restart of X), so I
can enable
On 19/09/12 03:39, Martín Cigorraga wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:14 AM, Robbie Smith wrote:
Hi everyone
TL;DR: I've just bought a new HP Pavilion g6-2103ax, and I'm having
difficulties trying to figure out how I can dual-boot it with Windows 7
(which was preinstalled).
Wind
On 19/09/12 07:02, Guus Snijders wrote:
2012/9/18 Robbie Smith :
Hi everyone
TL;DR: I've just bought a new HP Pavilion g6-2103ax, and I'm having
difficulties trying to figure out how I can dual-boot it with Windows 7
(which was preinstalled).
Windows *still* defaults to using MBR
The wiki gives instructions on modifying the ISO[1] and the last step is
to recreate the actual ISO file. I've got my Arch installers on USB
sticks, but is it absolutely necessary to do this?
Couldn't I just copy the root-image.fs.sfs to the appropriate directory
on my USB (/path/to/USB/device
Hi everyone
TL;DR: I've just bought a new HP Pavilion g6-2103ax, and I'm having
difficulties trying to figure out how I can dual-boot it with Windows 7
(which was preinstalled).
Windows *still* defaults to using MBR partitions, and even though the
system is UEFI, HP have used some trickery s
So I switched to systemd about a week or so ago, and I'm quite impressed
with it. One particular feature I like is it's auto-restart of daemons,
but this has a tendency to behave oddly with netcfg.
My primary internet connection is a mobile broadband one using an
external USB modem and pppd vi
Although it's improved a lot, I still get the occasional colour fringes
around some glyphs, and I find that really distracting. Yet for some
reason the subpixel rendering seems set as default, and no setting I
change switches back to the greyscale rendering that looks far better to
me. This onl
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