Re: [arch-general] /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime

2012-08-15 Thread brainworker
> Does anyone know why both /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime are required > for > systemd? It looks like duplicated data. Also, "man 5 timezone" seems > to flash > something for a split second and close, which is also rather strange... /etc/timezone is not needed really. I just created symlink (

[arch-general] Thunar: incorrect sort order

2012-08-15 Thread brainworker
>>> Thunar doesn't use LC_COLLATE, it has its own sorting algorithms, which >>> had some bugs with Latin characters in the past. So this is an upstream >>> issue which should be reported to the Thunar devs. >> >> I wrote about it in thunar mailing list. Nobody replied. >> > They are so lame :( Any

Re: [arch-general] note about beginners guide

2012-08-10 Thread brainworker
> I corrected my mail, with a second mail. For a beginner it's easier to > follow the structure if the user several times changes the dir and list > several times the contents. Changing directory with 'cd' makes sense only when we have to do some (several) operations with files in this directory.

[arch-general] note about beginners guide

2012-08-08 Thread brainworker
In installation chapter we can see: > Available time zones and subzones can be found in the > |/usr/share/zoneinfo//| directories. > > it's helpful to see the available time zones. To do so, cd to the > directory: > > # cd /usr/share/zoneinfo/ > > then type: > > # ls Why not type just this ? ls

Re: [arch-general] incorrect sort order in thunar

2012-07-31 Thread brainworker
> Thunar doesn't use LC_COLLATE, it has its own sorting algorithms, which > had some bugs with Latin characters in the past. So this is an upstream > issue which should be reported to the Thunar devs. I wrote about it in thunar mailing list. Nobody replied.

Re: [arch-general] incorrect sort order in thunar

2012-07-31 Thread brainworker
> @Ray, he said it used to work before upgrading thunar, so I suspect it's > not a problem with his locale config. That's right. In another message I already said that. Everything was OK, until "update" came from repo.

Re: [arch-general] incorrect sort order in thunar

2012-07-31 Thread brainworker
> You may have more chance directly looking with the thunar-dev application > mailing list instead of Archlinux, which is an operating system. I wrote there already long time ago. No reply. Ignoring... By the way,.. I saw that people here discuss not only OS, but their problems with other applica

Re: [arch-general] incorrect sort order in thunar

2012-07-31 Thread brainworker
> You might check if "ls" sorts in this same odd fashion. It might be a > locale setting - if LC_COLLATE is set to your actual locale, it text > will be sorted as if were natural language (i.e., prose), rather than > sorting in the usual "technical" manner. This means that some kinds of > character

[arch-general] incorrect sort order in thunar

2012-07-31 Thread brainworker
Hello, folks, once again. Maybe somebody of you encountered with that problem in thunar. ...especially if you use cyrillic letters in file and directory names. So, I have installed the latest version of thunar (1.4.0), and it incorrectly sorts contents of my folders. I can not even understand the

Re: [arch-general] How do I should install and configure arch linux

2012-07-26 Thread brainworker
>> 3) instead of LOCALIZATION section I should specify timezone in >> /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime. And again the same question. Why? > > /etc/timezone is not used by initscripts, don't know what the benefit of > that one is. What matters is /etc/localtime. >From https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread brainworker
>> If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr >> superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved >> out >> of /usr, not moved in. > > well no > the point is to have a single top-level directory for a single purpose. > > so distribution provided fi

Re: [arch-general] How do I should install and configure arch linux

2012-07-25 Thread brainworker
>> And now the main question. If new plan of reorganization of >> configuration >> files can not manage without rc.conf, why there is so need to split it? > > rc.conf should now only contain what is necessary to configure the > initscripts. See arch-dev-public for details. > So systemd is instead o

[arch-general] How do I should install and configure arch linux

2012-07-25 Thread brainworker
Hello, folks Due to recent changes in arch linux, I have some qustion about new process of installation and configuration of arch linux. I am really not computer geek, so I apologize if I express anything incorrectly. First. About absence of core images. When I just read about it, I thought why