Re: [arch-general] Think twice before moving to systemd

2012/8/22 Sebastian Günther : > * Felipe Contreras (felipe.contre...@gmail.com) [22.08.12 02:22]: >> Funny that you say "around the same time", when it's clearly less than >> 6 seconds, so it's 15% slower, but that's the second instance of kdm. >> The first instance starts at 2s in 1000 hz, and 4s

Re: [arch-general] how to add autowifi to rc.conf

At the end of your rc.conf, juste like that: DAEMONS=(daemon autowifi daemon) archlinux know where are initscript, and that she have to just start them. She just need to know which you want to start.

Re: [arch-general] testing xorg-server 1.8 [xorg18]

2010/4/6 Marek Otahal > Thank you for a great job, Jan. > I can confirm the xorg-server 1.8 works great for me! :) > I'm running on [testing], i686, kernel 2.6.33.2, xf86-video-intel, > touchpad(synaptics), keyboard, usb keyb/mouse hotpluging works as well, > sound(intel hda) & guvc video webcam

Re: [arch-general] Xz, space savings and delta ... my findings

In theory, from what I've understand from archlinux, you can't downgrade by downloading a package. You must fetch it from pacman's package cache. So size doesn't matter at all. But I may be wrong. -- Cordialement, Coues Ludovic 06 148 743 42 -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010/3/30 Xavier Chantry > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Heiko Baums > wrote: > > Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:10:22 +0800 > > schrieb Ian-Xue Li : > > > >> As for MOC, I recommend cmus over MOC because it got more decoder over > >> different types files. > > > > Well, just tried cmus. It's so comp

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010/3/30 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook > I could add and delete files to and from this directory tree and know that > the next "File->Open URL->PathToMusicDirTree" would result in kaffeine > playing all of them. At most all I needed to do was to set shuffle and > repeat options to enjoy my background m

Re: [arch-general] How to disable automatic svn updates in Konqueror 4.4?

2010/2/13 David Rosenstrauch > On 02/12/2010 09:09 PM, ludovic coues wrote: > >> 2010/2/12 David Rosenstrauch >> >> So it looks like an annoying "feature" got added to a recent upgrade to >>> KDE4. (Maybe in the recent 4.4 beta?) >>> &g

Re: [arch-general] How to disable automatic svn updates in Konqueror 4.4?

2010/2/12 David Rosenstrauch > So it looks like an annoying "feature" got added to a recent upgrade to > KDE4. (Maybe in the recent 4.4 beta?) > > When using Konqueror as a file manager, apparently there's some new > subversion integration - which is getting enabled by default. > > If you go int

Re: [arch-general] kde44beta - 'virtuoso -t' grabbing ~80% of the CPU every few minutes

2010/2/5 David C. Rankin > On 02/05/2010 03:00 AM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > On Friday 05 February 2010 14:08:11 David C. Rankin wrote: > >> Looking at the processes, it is 'virtuoso -t' that is to blame. Can > anyone > >> else confirm this behavior ... and .. does anyone know of a wor

Re: [arch-general] Mounting tmpfs on /dev. Why?

2010/2/4 Arvid Picciani > On 02/04/2010 02:33 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > I'd like you to find any modern Linux distribution that doesn't do it >> this way. Good luck with that. >> > > > HereticLinux :P > isn't Heretic an adjective meaning '20 years old' ? -- Cordialement, Coues Ludovic 06

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

There is no rescue shell for when the kernel is broken ? I remember having broken archlinux 3 times, mostly the graphical interface. I have installed only one time archlinux. No need to reinstall to fix it. By the way, I'm fine with the way kernel are handled. And I doesn't understand why we shoul

Re: [arch-general] core/linux-api-headers?

Could there be a rename/fork rss feed ?

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010/2/1 Xavier Chantry > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:59 PM, ludovic coues wrote: > >> > >> WAIT WHAT? > >> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/i686/kernel26-lts/ > >> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/kernel26-lts/ > >> > >

Re: [arch-general] Multiple Kernels

2010/2/1 Emmanuel Benisty > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan > wrote: > > How to install multiple kernels using pacman ? > > > > Arch should do something like Fedora/Redhat. Maintain 1-2 previous > kernels > > so that if a new one is buggy, then the old one can be used. > > QF

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

2010/1/27 Gaurish Sharma > > please respond purely on technical basis. > Dev don't care about technical basis. They are ok with the fact that 13 releases per year is better than only one each single year. The problem is that there is no legal stuff from lawers. I've seen two times people asking

Re: [arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

By the way, why Joerg ask that Allan do the jobs about legal stuff ? That Joerg that want that cdrkit go to official repo. Not Allan. I'm not right ?

Re: [arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

2010/1/12 Aaron Griffin > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Guus Snijders > wrote: > > On 12-01-10 06:27, Loui Chang wrote: > > > > [top posting & trimming ] > > > >> I think part of the problem is that some email clients like gmail > >> webmail help persist the bad behaviour. They default with

Re: [arch-general] Making pacman check multiple repos

As far as I've understand the main problem, it's about mirror which are not up-to-date. So could it be possible to make a dummy package of the day ? Every morning, the main server will produce a dummy package containing the today's timestamp. So if the dummy package is 3 days old, this means that

Re: [arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules -> Gone?? (kernel bug?)

2009/12/3 Raghavendra Prabhu > > haha... > I think we may soon see RTFM replacing DTFG(Do the F* Googling) or > something > better > It is not Do that Friendly Google ? : ) -- Cordialement, Coues Ludovic 06 148 743 42 -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.

Re: [arch-general] Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

> None at all. > > > Now i'm running xmonad, with a mix of gui (gimp,inkscape,browser) and non > gui > My english wasn't one of the best, but isn't a windows manager the same thing as a desktop ? -- Cordialement, Coues Ludovic 06 148 743 42 -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /

Re: [arch-general] GDM + Xfce

You can give a try to slim, as a login manager. Very simple, it does the job. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

Re: [arch-general] archlinux.org/~thomas/autowifi = 404

as far as I know, autowifi is a automagic tools to connect you when your are deconnected. It work like a wrapper for wpa_* -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

Re: [arch-general] postgresql 8.4

2009/9/9 Caleb Cushing > like to help get these up to date in any way I can. I can maintain > postgres and related packages if necessary. > > Common way to upgrade a package for bare user is to attach a updated PKGBUILD. CC the maintener is good too. This package look like it simply need to be

[arch-general] PKGBUILD for updated libldap

I've see that libldap is version 2.3.43 on arch, and the last release on there website is 2.4.17 . I attach the PKGBUILD with this mail. PKGBUILD Description: Binary data

Re: [arch-general] Why doesn't plasma-panel show open apps in 2 rows in arch?

>Like I said, I finally got to the taskbar properties, but if you > have 5-6 > apps open, to get to the settings you have to right-click exactly on the ( > 1 > pixel ) wide vertical line between two open application icons on the > taskbar > to have the menu option available. You are just

Re: [arch-general] Why doesn't plasma-panel show open apps in 2 rows in arch?

there is a setting for this, but the task manager is some pain to open his settings dialog. If you set "force rows settings", you get several rows.

Re: [arch-general] Painful installation of 4.3 - some general advice needed.

> > > > I think you need to go to System Settings -> Advanced -> File Associations > and change the association of inode/directory to use Konqueror with higher > priority than Dolphin. > > Edgar > I've done this one, with no more success. Probably need a bug report.

Re: [arch-general] Painful installation of 4.3 - some general advice needed.

I'll talk about my machine, with KDE4. I don't know why you get all these weird stuff. > 1) the libjepg.7 vs 62 problem - I've exhaustively tried every solution > over > the last few hours on the forums and cannot get kmail to work - loads but > 'poof; up in smoke once the gui appears My kmail

Re: [arch-general] '*' in PKGBUILD for the conflicts array

> > > > > I just replied in the bug report but for those that are interested > > something like: > > > > conflicts=("kdebase-*") > > > > may be achieved using > > > > conflicts=$(pacman -Ssq kdebase-) > > or simply cut and paste the output of "pacman -Ssq ..." into > conflicts=(). > Simply pas

Re: [arch-general] kde4 Help system error - Arch or KDE error?

As for as I know, this error means that there is no doc for this part of konqueror config. Amarok have the same issue.

Re: [arch-general] Weird png corruption issue from Gwenview using "crop" -> "Save As" -> to a smb share

Firefox doesn't want to open the corrupt file, because it contain errors. Maybe it's related to smb. Have you try to simply "Save As" to the smb share ?

Re: [arch-general] Relating to missing lzma manuals.

lzma format and tools ahve never reach the stable stage. There are stuck as beta, and have been replaced by .xz format. from http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-file-format.txt: "It is intended that this this format replace the old .lzma format used by LZMA SDK and LZMA Utils." So its probably an upstream

Re: [arch-general] In defense of pacman.static

It's a problem with the default pacman.conf I suppose. By default, pacman is configured to upgrade itself first. If he have upgrade itself, but forget to bring dependencies with it, it's a shame. I think this is a bug with the FirstSync option in pacman.conf

Re: [arch-general] kde4.3-0.1 - Many plasma-addon package conflicts

I've get problem with file owned by kdeplasma-addon-wallpaper, which belong now to kdeplasma-addon-wallpaper-* I've removed kdeplamsa-addon-wallpaper, and now the upgrade is going smoothly.

Re: [arch-general] ext3 driver for windows

I'm more concerned about compatibility between mac and ext3. Anyone have tried before ?

Re: [arch-general] compile flags with ABS

I need some compile flag for PHP. I'm using ABS for that. The only thing I do is to change the "build" section in the PKGBUILD. Can this help you for your app ?

Re: [arch-general] PHP 5.2 makedepends

2009/7/8 Dan Vratil > Hi, > I'm trying to build PHP 5.3. I use PKGBUILD for current PHP 5.2.10 and I > found > there something weird in makedepends field. There are packages imap and > smtp- > server. Smtp-server is provided by courier-mta, but courier-mta conflicts > with > imap, so we have unre

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [announcement draft] New module-init-tools changes modprobe configuration file location

I suppose that the location of this file isn't really important for the system, as long as the system can put his hand on it. And from my point of view, it's better to have a consistent system, in other word all apps.conf file in /etc, side by side with the apps.d my 2 cents

Re: [arch-general] okular print preview error

2009/6/18, Nicolas Bigaouette : > No, but that check box should disable it if there is any DRM in the pdf > (which might not be the case for most pdf!) > > Maybe verify if the disk hosting /tmp is full? Try "df" to see if it is... > > > 2009/6/14 prad > >> On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:12:52 +0200 >> Pie

Re: [arch-general] kde-unstable install - Round 2 - There is a BUG here...

look at package directory, and try to see if there is any leftover after have removed kde. There should be none, be there should be no bug too. 2009/6/18, David C. Rankin : > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 19:13:54 David Rosenstrauch wrote: >> On Wed, June 17, 2009 7:49 pm, David C. Rankin wrote: >> >

Re: [arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

So I'm wondering why package are causing issues. Try to do what pierre have said, install only kde-base, and add bit by bit. As far as you have show, only kde-graphics refuse to install. Maybe the issue is only here. And on the other hand, desktop effects seems to not be driver related problems f

Re: [arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

> Err -- Ah Ha! > > So Arch uses /opt/kde for both kde3 and kde4 instead of leaving kde3 as > /opt/kde and installing kde4 in /usr/bin. That's got to be the difference > and > the reason I can't have both kde3 and kde4 live side-by-side?? Is that > correct? > > my /opt contain only openoffi

Re: [arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

look like I'd installed koffice from aur, and haven't update it for some times. I can't found the error message in pacman.log, but I have an install in march, and that I've remove it today, plus a build in my home. By the way, kde4.3 is really cool.

Re: [arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

I'll dive into pacman logs. I've install koffice after upgrade and log-out/in, and it have install like a charm :-\ I reply in a couple of minute.

Re: [arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

If you are planning on moving to KDE4, wipe out KDE3 and install KDE4. I'm moving to KDE unstable atm. Koffice was complaining at the begin, so I've remove it as he want kde-base4.2 I'll tell you if there is any trouble in the upgrade.

Re: [arch-general] Anyone coming to LSM '09?

I'll at the other end of the country. near of dijon to be exact. So it'll be difficult for me. Maybe another year. 2009/6/17, Pierre Chapuis : > The 10th Libre Sofrware Meeting will take place in Nantes (France) from July > 7th to July 11th. It is the biggest Open Source event in the country (see

Re: [arch-general] Openbox - great lightweight desktop, similar to icewm, but better in several regards

2009/6/10 David Rosenstrauch > Andrei Thorp wrote: > >> Yeah, I think the big thing about using a tiling window manager is >> that it works best if you have a lot of terminals >> > > If you have a lot of terminals, a tabbed or split-screen terminal app, like > Konsole or Terminator is probably mo

Re: [arch-general] Openbox - great lightweight desktop, similar to icewm, but better in several regards

I've used Wmii some few times. But the last, I've finished sick, and I've had to stop my computer for one hour or two. Every windows taking all the place is a bit oppressing, especially with wide-screen. But I can give a try to Awesome, as an alternative Wm, for when KDE is broken. Or for every da

Re: [arch-general] Weird OpenOffice Disappearing Menu and Toolbar Text?

I've get a similar issue some time ago with konqueror. No text was displayed in text area when I was tipping, but the text come back magically when I select it. I have change the font, and every thing come back right. I think that it's a "font of the color of the background" issue. You should have

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

> For me it's about 'expectations'. I expect a package manager to manage > packages > (unpack a new one over the old one in a sensible manner) and don't expect it > to > decide what's best for me in terms of what's running or not. I still find it > 100% better to *let me know* that config might hav

Re: [arch-general] pidgin memory leak?

if pidgin is a problem, you can give a try to emesene. But I don't know if it have sound. And don't use msn dailly

Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?

I've install it directly from the Arch repos. And with a mobility radeon X2300, default setting, my computer is moving from 40°C to 50°C. By the way, I've no 3D cool desktop stuff. And KDE4 can provide this to you, like a really cool desktop cube for desktop switching. i love it with only 12 deskto

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

I'm agree with that. Bug report should be filed for operation on daemon in .install script. 2009/5/28, Jan de Groot : > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 18:47 +0200, ludovic coues wrote: >> That >> >> 2009/5/28, Jan Spakula : >> > Excerpts from ludovic coues's

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

That 2009/5/28, Jan Spakula : > Excerpts from ludovic coues's message of Do Mai 28 17:09:52 +0200 2009: >> A solution in pacman, getting rid of user adding in .install script, >> can allow security like asking user to confirm creation of group and >> user. >> >> This would be a secure way of doing

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

A solution in pacman, getting rid of user adding in .install script, can allow security like asking user to confirm creation of group and user. This would be a secure way of doing thing, and users/admin would be aware of new user/group. And like glenn, I'm wondering how package can add or remove

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

It's just matter of few line in a PKGBUILD, isn't it ? For my, it should be ask for packager to fix it for the next upgrade. And a work on the UID / GID database is the solution for me. Maybe it might be better to work on this rather than fix every PKGBUILD.

Re: [arch-general] KDE, Bluetooth and Wifi

I'm using netcfg too, with through the autowifi daemon ( wiki.archlinux.org/Autowifi ) But I'm using too some netcfg-proof network (worst than terrible wifi), and for this, I'm using archassistant.

Re: [arch-general] Koffice help won't work in kde3 - Any suggestions?

As far as I know, Koffice has never reach the stable stage a the moment. Maybe cause dev have jump from RC to "working on KDE4 version". So I don't know if you will found any stable koffice apps for KDE3. Like Grigorios Bouzakis have said, I guess it's time for an upgrade to KDE4. I'm using it atm

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

For sure. There are people on the eve's forum talking about worst fps with vista than older PC with XP. I just need to found an XP... There is no more thing like that in shop.

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

After some test, wined3D appears to doesn't work at all on win7. Basic game like freecell cannot be launch at all after this, and few thing like that. If I can found my vista installer DVDs, I'll try with it. If I can't, I'll search for an XP install. I hate these M$ product with no compatibilit

Re: [arch-general] Autowifi not in AUR

All I've done si to grab the lastest PKGBUILD at http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/autowifi/ I've mainly send this e-mail to know if he want to not put autowifi in AUR, if he haven't think at this. 2009/5/15, Eric Bélanger : > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:06 AM, ludovic coues wrot

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

I did it ! I've install wined3D on the piece oh sh*t that is M$ vista and up. I'll update the wiki in order to bring instruction to install it. A brief summary here. You will: start windows in without fail mode by pressing F8 lunch wined3D as administrator when the first warning come, go to the sy

[arch-general] Autowifi not in AUR

Hi listmates, I've seen sometimes ago a link to autowifi. And I wonder why this one can't be found in AUR. I'm using autowifi since I found it, and it's great. No need to care about anything when wpa_supplicant have a right config. Just open a browser, and go on. It could be a great app in the th

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

I've give a try to wine, and eve reply to me that my graphic card doesn't support shader 2. For wikipedia, a mobility radeon X2300 support directX9c, which mean shader up to 3... I wish eve-online is an openGL game... I go back to the VM

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

no luck installing the wineD3D apps. No right to write into the directX file on the win7 system, and I can't set this with corrupted graphics. I've yet some problem with the VM. I'll give a shoot at wine then cedega right now, then try back the VM if this doesn't work. I'll keep you informed.

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

for me, a bug tracker is for tracking bug. For an upstream issue, the bug is spotted, reported to the bug tracker, and flagged upstream. Why it'll be closed at this point ? While there no patch to correct the bug, the bug is still here, and need to be tracked. So closing a bug report before resolv

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

thank for this hint. Catalyst driver doesn't seem to work, I'll give this a try.If doesn't work better, I'll try to intall my *sigh* vista. I love this game (eve-online). A bit too much I think.

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

My connexion is ok now. I've just forget to read the part for wifi connexion in the wiki. Problem remain for 3D. Drive seems to don't work. I'll give a try again on wine. Thank a lot all ;-)

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

Inside Virtualbox I set the Adapter to use wlan0 as Bridged Network. > And inside Windows I use a static IP to use in my network (example > 192.168.5.2) or use dhcp. > > > Baumi > > > > Am Mittwoch, den 13.05.2009, 18:25 +0200 schrieb ludovic coues: >> hi listmate,

[arch-general] problem while bridging network

hi listmate, I'm posting 'cause I have some problem when I bridge a connexion. I wanna set up a virtual machine with windws 7 to play eve online (no support for linux at this time, and I can't make it run on wine). So I've follow the wiki for setting up network with the virtual machine. But now,

Re: [arch-general] Opera Segfaults on x86_64 after kernel update

Afaik, an Atom is an erlang term for variable without content. Usefull for error or message code. But I doen't know if opera is using erlang, or for other stuff called atom.

Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention

> cover the users who USE and EXPECT 'vim' but still type 'vi' (sigh) couldn't we suggest them to make an alias ?

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] jfsutils 1.1.14-1

2009/5/3, Tobias Powalowski : > Hi > update to latest version, please signoff for both arches. > > greetings > tpowa > -- > Tobias Powalowski > Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) > http://www.archlinux.org > tp...@archlinux.org > > > > > > > > >

Re: [arch-general] Are there sets for installing apache?

2009/4/21, David C. Rankin : > David Rosenstrauch wrote: >> David C. Rankin wrote: >>> Listmates, >>> >>> I installed apache2 with pacman -S apache, but all I got was >>> apache2 itself. >>> Is there a set of packages that will install all of the modules as well? >> >> Many of them come install

Re: [arch-general] Understanding permissions

I've just tried to ls my home folder from an foo account. Doesn't work. So I was wrong. Need more try and fail learning =p

Re: [arch-general] Understanding permissions

I'm pretty sure that +x is not set for everybody in home. Just cause you don't want that anybody can see what folder you have. If you want have have a pokemon subfolder of anime, nobody else need to now this. So, for me, +x have not to be set. But doesn't seem to be the case for my home directory.

Re: [arch-general] Bug reports for out of date packages?

I suppose that some maintainer are not looking as often as some people from the arch's community want to there package. Couldn't be multiple maintainer for package ?

Re: [arch-general] Makefile to build all packages

Sure that abs is sexier than ./abs ^__^

Re: [arch-general] Makefile to build all packages

just a question, what the difference between «cd abs» and «cd ./abs» ? Afaik, « ./ » stand for « current directory / », so it will not change the cd target, doesn't it ? 2009/4/5, Baho Utot : > Alessandro Doro wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 04:35:04PM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: >> >>> Kurt J. Bo

Re: [arch-general] Fatal Error

if coming back to X give a fatal error, there is a problem. try to find a clean way to shut down X, then see if the pipe is still broken. If so, try to comment out the block, then watch what change happen.

Re: [arch-general] Fatal Error

Maybe get the X pid, then kill it with a TERM (15) or QUIT (3) signal will do the job. Give it a try. If you log from the console, you can logout too. This will end the graphic session, then you'll fall back to the console. -ludovic.

Re: [arch-general] Fatal Error

your errors look like wmii try to display something but didn't found any display, cause X is down. You need to use another way to shut down X if you didn't get these messages, or redirect them to «/dev/null» . 2009/3/31, Jan de Groot : > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 10:04 -0700, arunix wrote: >> when i

Re: [arch-general] Computer blocking due to kernel <-> userspace incompatibility?

look like an not-recognized-by-X keyboard. i've get some weird problem like that when I've install X. But maybe your cursor have already work. In this case, sorry for the useless post. 2009/3/30, Thomas Bächler : > RedShift schrieb: >> Is it possible a computer gets stuck (not responding to keybo

Re: [arch-general] (no subject)

2009/3/30, xq : > -- > > Yogi Berra - "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore." >