On 08/25/2009 09:34 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On Monday 24 August 2009 06:34:32 pm Andreas Radke wrote:
Today I've added a 2nd kernel to our svn called "kernel26-lts". It
should help to make you less caring about kernel updates. The
intention is to
1) have a 2nd choice for the kernel pkg that
On 08/26/2009 02:23 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Andreas,
How do you handle the situation where you are running the nvidia driver on
the normal kernel and then boot to the lts kernel? The kernel boots fine, but
X is dead, presumably because the nvidia driver isn't compiled against that
kernel
On 08/25/2009 06:34 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
While on this stray tangent -- is there anyway to make kde4 readable over
vnc? IIRC, kde4 looks terrible when using vncserver because it is a native 32-
bit color app and the vnc session doesn't handle it. Two questions: (1) is
this right, if not,
On 08/26/2009 01:22 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
DR,
Yes, I've tried nx (I'll try it again to see if it solves the KDE4 problem).
The reason that I've "tried it", but don't currently "use" it was that it
offered no better performance than vncserver/vncviewer (poorer in some cases)
and the cert
On 09/04/2009 06:52 AM, o...@larstennstedt.de wrote:
Hello,
I am searching for an audio cd ripper for my Arch Linux box and have some
questions about that.
1.) K3B fails to encode to mp3 (lame) on my computer maybe because of being an
alpha version. Encoding to ogg works fine. Can anyone confir
Just wondering:
It looks like many of the KDE packages are now orphaned. e.g.:
kdebase-dolphin, kdebase-konsole, etc.
Anyone know why and/or if there's any plans for someone else to adopt them?
Thanks,
DR
On 09/18/2009 11:17 AM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
* forget about XDM/GDM/KDM and use startx, or a direct autologin from
/etc/inittab!
Or use qingy.
DR
On 10/05/2009 11:30 AM, David Houston wrote:
If you want ultimate stability use NetBSD, wouldn't recommend it for a
desktop but as a Server goes its the balls! Man I got one thats been up for
over a 1000days!
Getting OT a bit, I know, but just wondering:
What, specifically, do you see as more
On 10/06/2009 10:33 AM, Bram Schoenmakers wrote:
For the record, I have no problems with Plasma on two very different
machines (32bit and 64bit), both running KDEmod.
Just curious what your reasons are for run KDEmod4, since Arch now has
modular KDE4 packages?
DR
On 10/08/2009 12:32 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
Which setting in Arch prevents forwarding apps when you ssh -X in an Arch box,
su and then try to start a kde app, etc.? X forwarding works just fine as a
user, but when trying it su'ed to root, I get the following error:
[23:29 archa
On 10/09/2009 10:00 AM, Thiago Varela wrote:
Hi,
After yesterday's update I can't get any sound off my box anymore :-(
I tried mpd, xine, mplayer and youtube in firefox, and all of them are
completely silent.
Looked in alsamixer and the master volume is in the appropriate level, also the
respe
On 10/09/2009 01:06 PM, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote:
Hi, I'm having a problem with disk encryption using luks. I have
my /home disk (on a separate disk 'sdb') encrypted using luks.
Could your disk be failing? If so, then maybe try dumping the partition
to another disk and see if that helps.
HTH,
On 10/18/2009 06:30 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
..That's when the lightbulb winked on and when the feeling of SHAME begin
to settle in on my consciousness. Further investigation revealed that on 10/8
when I had updated my box and the new pacman package was installed, I used the
pacman.conf f
On 10/21/2009 03:34 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On the plus side, e17 is one helluva a good looking desktop (especially with
the dark a-sblack-esp1 theme -- Wow!) Screenshot showing e17 running via
vncviewer from my Arch server (it is light weight enough to be a great remote
dt):
http://www.31
Some cool pics in there (esp. the space ones). Tnx for the pointer!
DR
On 10/21/2009 10:19 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 09:55:22 am David Rosenstrauch wrote:
On 10/21/2009 03:34 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On the plus side, e17 is one helluva a good looking desktop
On 10/22/2009 04:56 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Archers,
For those that haven't used the quicklaunch widget, you need to take a look.
I like the concept very much, but I think it's a poor implementation.
Have a little bar like that a) takes too much space, b) looks very
cluttered, and c) it'
On 10/23/2009 03:25 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Dave,
I have had knock-down drag out fights with the KDE4 devs over the loss of the
ability to add a subtree of your menu to the kicker in KDE4. The only problem
I have with folderview to desktop files is you have lost the ability to expand
into
On 10/26/2009 06:57 AM, RedShift wrote:
I've been working these past few months with KDE 4.3 and it feels very
sluggish
and incomplete. I can't enable the desktop effects because that makes
things
even slower. I'm doing this on a fairly decent setup, an AMD Sempron 2
Ghz with
an nVidia FX5500.
On 10/26/2009 07:35 AM, RedShift wrote:
* KDE still has better abstraction of file locations than windows or gnome
Yup, the KIO stuff rocks. In fact, even though I switched to Xfce, I'm
still using Konqueror for the file manager, since it's awesome, and
since Thunar doesn't support network f
On 10/26/2009 12:53 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Honestly, I think it is KDE's programming framework that has caused most of
the problems.
I disagree. The problems (at least from my perspective) stems from the
KDE devs' decision to "start fresh" with all their apps in order to
"simplify" them
On 10/26/2009 01:30 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
I think the biggest problem
that kde4 will have to overcome is the stain on kde's reputation caused when a
few major distros pushed kde4 out the door as a "New Desktop" when it was
barely beta (kde 4.04 was released by SuSE as the desktop for 11.0
Where should we report bugs for packages in community?
Using the main Arch bug tracking system? If so, there's no selection
under the "Category" pulldown for "Packages: Community" - just core,
extra, and testing.
If not, then where? Email the maintainer?
Tnx,
DR
On 10/28/2009 12:11 PM, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote:
http://xkcd.com/538/
lol!
DR
On 11/03/2009 03:40 PM, Karol Babioch wrote:
Hi,
my hard drive suffers from the "clicking" problem, therefore I
deactivated the APM (Advanced Power Management) totally.
From what I've heard, clicking means that your drive is dying. Maybe
time to buy a new one?
HTH,
DR
On 11/08/2009 12:42 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
I don't know if the kde3 sources still live on a server some where, but I
would be interested in finding them. I still have all the PKGBUILD files for
the kde3 install, but I need a few sources. kpdf for starters, and there are a
couple mor
On 11/11/2009 08:41 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On Monday 26 October 2009 13:34:43 and regarding:
I disagree. The problems (at least from my perspective) stems from the
KDE devs' decision to "start fresh" with all their apps in order to
"simplify" them and/or apply their new philosophy/approach
On 11/24/2009 04:00 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
the system beep is so loud it will scare the heck
out of you when you backspace too far, etc... I need to reverse both.
Solution for this is to either 1) lower the volume, by lowering the
slider on the "PC Beep" channel in your mixer (e.g., kmix,
On 11/25/2009 04:43 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
I find wallet to be a complete pain. Even if I set it to
always remember my password, I still get prompted to enter it at the least
expected times. I tried to live with it on this latest install, but that
relationship ended in divorce ;-)
FYI - I
On 11/25/2009 10:51 AM, Daenyth Blank wrote:
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:05, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
On 11/25/2009 04:43 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
FYI - I've set the kwallet password to nothing, and it's seemed to work out
nicely, as it no longer prompts me for the wallet p
On 12/01/2009 01:31 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
If you want to check which files are inside kernel26 , you have to do :
pacman -Ql kernel26
pacman -Ql kernel26 | grep snd-hda-intel
would be much more interesting and meaningful than
pacman -Q kernel26 | grep snd-hda-intel
which was just a small ty
On 12/03/2009 01:19 PM, Nathan Wayde wrote:
On 03/12/09 18:14, Arvid Picciani wrote:
- most software depending on it, will crash when dbus
crashes, or fail to start uncracefully, or behave unexpected.
i've honestly never seen dbus crash
+1.
Ever.
DR
On 12/03/2009 12:29 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote:
Mechanisms have existed for like 20 years before dbus to communicate
with other programs. dbus is just another way to do it that has a
smell of "architecture astronomy" - as if they all scoffed at the
actual ways to do IPC on various Unicies and said "
On 12/04/2009 07:24 AM, Jan de Groot wrote:
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 03:38 +0100, Arvid Picciani wrote:
Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> What does upstream have to say about this dependency? Does not seem
> 'necessary' to me
http://blogs.igalia.com/itoral/2006/03/30/adding-dbus-support-to-gedit/
priceless f
On 12/04/2009 03:50 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote:
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 02:09:49PM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
The answer to *that* question, as he wrote, is so that "when you
start a second Gedit process, it opens a new tab in your current
Gedit window instead of creating a ne
On 12/04/2009 04:11 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote:
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:02:06PM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
But this is besides the point. There's legitimate functionality
here that requires the use of dbus (or something similar). Whether
you personally *like* that function
Anyone know where the "media:/" kioslave has gone? When I enter that
into konqueror it tells me "Protocol not supported media".
For that matter, "system:/" and a few others seem to be missing as well.
Am I missing some packages? Or did these go the way of the dodo in KDE4?
Thanks,
DR
On 01/03/2010 10:04 AM, RedShift wrote:
Hi all
Does anyone have a suggestion for some software, a tiny webserver that
is able to run as root and execute CGI scripts? It should be smaller
than apache and preferably even smaller than lighttpd. It doesn't need a
whole lot of features, it only n
On 01/19/2010 02:09 PM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
Hi,
sorry for hijacking your thread but speaking of dark themes, I have been
looking for ages for a nice reverse theme for gtk+ but every single one
I remember wasn't perfect... Anyone 100% happy with a reverse theme?
I currently use Xfce (w
On 01/20/2010 11:51 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
It was ironic, because I was using WindowMaker when I installed the
kernel
Just a suggestion: I usually drop down to single user ("sudo telinit
s") before I install major packages like a kernel.
DR
On 01/27/2010 05:12 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote:
Hi,
I was able to launch Amarok via the extra media key present on my
keyboard. been using the exact same method for speedcrunch, it does
not work :(
Regards,
Gaurish Sharma
I had the same problem with the calculator key under KDE. It must be a
On 01/28/2010 12:08 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
I tried installing kernel26-lts. It fails some dependency -
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "udev-compat>=147", a dependency of "kernel26-lts"
:: the following package(s) cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable
dependencies:
On 02/11/2010 01:24 AM, andrew james wrote:
i think I am soon tired of thunderbird 3.. I could revert to vers 2 but
why is the newer vers slow, laggy, semi-stallish?
has anyone else a funky thunderbird vers 3? any switch values to cause
it to work quicker?
alternatively,
what is your favoured
Having a weird problem in the latest firefox, and was wondering if
anyone is seeing anything similar. (And/or know cause/workaround.)
When I shut down FF and start it again, the new FF window is a smaller
size than the old one. But it's not just that it's not remembering the
correct setting
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 into "konqueror --profile filemanagement"
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?)
When using Konqueror as a file manager, apparently there's some new
subversion integra
Not sure if the cause is recent upgrades to svn, or the recent upgrade
to the KDE 4.4 beta, but svn integration with kwallet as a password
store doesn't seem to be working anymore. Anyone else seeing this
and/or have any idea what's up?
Thanks,
DR
On 02/27/2010 07:27 AM, John Black wrote:
On 02/26/2010 06:06 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
Not sure if the cause is recent upgrades to svn, or the recent upgrade
to the KDE 4.4 beta, but svn integration with kwallet as a password
store doesn't seem to be working anymore. Anyone else s
On 03/01/2010 04:29 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote:
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 11:32:15AM -0700, jwbirdsong wrote:
Patch shadow your self w/ aforementioned gentoo patch. works fine
after building w/ the patch.
(maybe a completely stupid question)
Is there a systematic way to get the source ve
On 03/01/2010 07:55 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 00:56 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote:
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 06:03:54PM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
Step 1:
...
...
HTH,
Very much, thanks !
I was imagining some way to get individual packages,
clearly that was a wrong
Normally the nm-applet puts me online automagically. Not today. :-(
nm-applet showed up as disconnected when I booted up and logged in
today. (Only time I've ever seen that happen before is when I had
accidentally turned off the wireless switch on the laptop.)
Looking through the logs show
On Thu, March 4, 2010 1:32 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> Normally the nm-applet puts me online automagically. Not today. :-(
>
> nm-applet showed up as disconnected when I booted up and logged in
> today. (Only time I've ever seen that happen before is when I had
> acciden
Doh! Looks like this is the same PEBKAC bug that someone else ran into.
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17349
Never mind ...
DR
On Thu, March 4, 2010 3:19 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> On Thu, March 4, 2010 1:32 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>> Normally the nm-applet puts
On 03/09/2010 04:00 AM, Manne Merak wrote:
On 03/09/2010 10:31 AM, Bram Schoenmakers wrote:
2010/3/9 Manne Merak:
Hi Manne,
I have problems with the latest update and EncFS.
Did check out the bug reports at Arch and EncFS and after downgrading
Boost
to 1.41 I now do not get the config file re
On 03/09/2010 05:23 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
Is it a bad idea to install nVidia display drivers manually by
downloading them from nvidia.com and installing it by hand...or should
I use 'Pacman'? I read that I could mess up my system by manually
installing packages and should always use Pacman.
On 03/09/2010 05:58 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
Latest updates to poppler require the removal of poppler-qt3 which
fails due to
kdemod3-kdegraphics-pdf (kpdf) dependencies. How do we handle this? Do we just
remove poppler-qt3? Won't that break kpdf? Thought I would check before I
s
On 03/09/2010 10:48 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Thanks Allan, Dave, Isaac& Ty
I'll pester the guys at kdemod. I keep pushing for KDE to embrace the
concept
of "KDE Classic". We see how smart the Coke board was when it tried to replace
Coke with "New Coke". In less than two weeks the boa
On 03/10/2010 12:11 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
There has been a really good upside to the kde4 fiasco. I never would have
learned about all the really good desktop choices out there.
That is a useful side effect! Anything that makes you learn something
can't be a bad thing! :-)
Things wou
On 03/12/2010 05:22 AM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote:
If you run one of the fat desktops (KDE, Gnome) they will
have a GUI tool to configure iptables.
FYI - I've found firestarter to be a good, simple one for small home
network use.
DR
On 03/16/2010 01:58 PM, Thayer Williams wrote:
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
It does look like getting Arch Linux configured the way I need it is going
to take a bit more work than I'm used to. But if the "rolling release" part
of what I've read about it means I
I'm having a little annoyance with TBird 3, and was wondering if anyone
was experiencing the same thing and/or had a workaround.
I have a large tree of folders in TBird, from 2 different IMAP accounts.
So I use the "Unread Folders" view, in conjunction with the
mail.check_all_imap_folders_for
On 03/17/2010 10:46 AM, Ionut Biru wrote:
maybe is not a matter of configs. maybe this is really a bug and should
be submitted upstream.
Could be. If so, though, I'd like to get some more info on the problem
first.
Anyone else experiencing this issue with TBird automagically selecting a
di
On 03/17/2010 10:46 AM, Ionut Biru wrote:
On 03/17/2010 04:41 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
I'm having a little annoyance with TBird 3, and was wondering if anyone
was experiencing the same thing and/or had a workaround.
I have a large tree of folders in TBird, from 2 different IMAP acc
On 03/17/2010 10:37 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Likewise, I have 2 imaps configured with ~ 60 folders total. I just use
the
inboxes for the imap itself and then use the normal threaded view and/or sort by
sender and move messages into their respective folders. I haven't worked with
seive
On 03/17/2010 10:44 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
fish, sftp, kdiff3 integration
It is the most
bleeding fantastic file manager going
+1
Konqueror is an awesome filemanager - and the fish/sftp/etc. kioslaves
are the reason why. It gives me a unified file management system that I
can
On 03/17/2010 10:51 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Hopefull back on topic...
I have gotten kde3 working on my new server (mostly). Currently, I
simply
soft-linked libjpeg.so.62 and libpng12.so and libpng12.so.0 to the current libs
which was enough to get kde3 going. There are still major pr
On 03/18/2010 11:13 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
In Arch, how do I make kde3 appear as a choice in the kdm greeter? I
thought I
just had to add a kde.desktop launching /opt/kde/bin/startkde in
/usr/share/xsessions, but that didn't do it. What's the trick?
Try putting it in /etc/X1
On 03/18/2010 04:42 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
On 03/18/2010 11:13 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
In Arch, how do I make kde3 appear as a choice in the kdm greeter? I
thought I
just had to add a kde.desktop launching /opt/kde/bin/startkde in
/usr/share/xsessions, but that didn't
On 03/23/2010 04:17 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
Just dropping a note on the build and install of libpng12 and libjpeg6
from AUR
to fix the problem I had with the kdemod3 install on my new arch box. After
installing the two packages, kde3 seems to be 100% healthy. Immediately, all
i
On 03/23/2010 02:52 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 03/23/2010 11:57 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
I already emailed you about this earlier:
Guys,
In Arch, how do I make kde3 appear as a choice in the kdm greeter? I
thought I
just had to add a kde.desktop launching /opt/kde/bin/startkde in
On 03/24/2010 09:34 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
2. Once a package is installed from the AUR, when I do a system
upgrade via Pacman, will outdated packages I installed via AUR get
automatically upgraded or do I have to do all my AUR packages
manually?
Pacman does not upgrade AUR packages. Only pa
On 03/30/2010 02:46 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
Could somebody recommend another media player I could try that will let me
create temporary music lists on the fly by typing the path to a parent
dir containing multiple music directories???
One that understands keyboard commands for it's fun
On 03/30/2010 01:39 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:46:10 -0400
schrieb David Rosenstrauch:
I still use audacious. It's definitely able to be highly keyboard
drive. Not sure about the "add music dir recursively" functionality
though.
This works in audacious, t
I upgraded my extremely not-up-to-date server last night (523 packages
upgraded). The upgrade generally went well, except for one significant
issue: the keyboard is no longer working under Xorg. It works fine in
a command line tty though (i.e., ctrl-alt-F1).
Not sure what the problem is, as
On 04/07/2010 10:46 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote:
Can you attach full Xorg log and config ?
I'm not using any xorg config. Log is at:
http://www.darose.net/Xorg.0.log
And does it work with xf86-input-keyboard driver ?
I have xf86-input-keyboard installed. I assumed X was just
automatically
On 04/07/2010 10:55 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
On 04/07/2010 10:46 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote:
Can you attach full Xorg log and config ?
I'm not using any xorg config. Log is at:
http://www.darose.net/Xorg.0.log
And does it work with xf86-input-keyboard driver ?
I have xf86-
On Wed, April 7, 2010 2:11 pm, Xavier Chantry wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:59 PM, David Rosenstrauch
> wrote:
>>
>> Anybody have any ideas on this? GUI is completely unusable on the
>> server
>> until I solve this! :-(
>>
>> I really have zero i
On Thu, April 8, 2010 9:51 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> So WTF?!?!?!? Hal sees the keyboard. And xev running inside the x
> session sees the keyboard. SO WHY ON EARTH IS MY KEYBOARD STILL DEAD IN
> MY X SESSIONS?!?!? AHH
Wee hee! It gets weirder!
* Bizarre
On Thu, April 8, 2010 11:09 pm, Daenyth Blank wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 23:05, David Rosenstrauch
> wrote:
>> * Bizarrely enough, *some* of the keys on the keyboard actually work
>> (such
>> as / * - + on the numeric keypad).
>>
>> * I'm getting a
On 04/09/2010 06:11 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote:
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:05 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
On Thu, April 8, 2010 9:51 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
So WTF?!?!?!? Hal sees the keyboard. And xev running inside the x
session sees the keyboard. SO WHY ON EARTH IS MY KEYBOARD
Just noticed today that all the comments are gone from the AUR pages.
Is that intentional? Or if not, is there any way to get them restored?
Thanks,
DR
On 04/09/2010 09:54 AM, bardo wrote:
2010/4/9 David Rosenstrauch:
* I'm getting a load of errors in the slim.log file that look like this:
expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_1 line 8 of xfree86
W T F ? ! ?
Not sure it's the same problem, but I experienced something similar a
On Fri, April 9, 2010 10:18 am, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> On 04/09/2010 09:54 AM, bardo wrote:
>> 2010/4/9 David Rosenstrauch:
>>> * I'm getting a load of errors in the slim.log file that look like
>>> this:
>>> expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_V
On 04/13/2010 02:51 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
I am really needing to install VirtualBox
(http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads) on my Arch 64-bit
machine. I noticed that there is obviously no official download for
Arch specifically on their site. I then checked Pacman and it appears
ther
On 04/13/2010 03:22 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and
stopping
processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all suse did
was to create links to the files in /etc/rc.d/... with a naming convention
On 04/15/2010 12:02 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
After the latest openssl updates, the AUR packages for createrepo and repoview
are failing. I know it must be the result of the openssl changes.
"ImportError: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory"
seem
On 04/20/2010 11:27 PM, Ian-Xue Li wrote:
Security is indeed one problem I'm looking to resolve, because with
suspend, it goes back directly into the system, without having to enter
login/password...
I don't think you mentioned which WM/DE you're using. If you're using
XFCE (or would consider
On 04/27/2010 12:14 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
This is a new one. I replaced one of my last suse boxes with arch at
work a
couple of days ago. I ssh'ed into the box tonight to get a few files and noticed
my .xsession-errors file well over 300M - huh?
-rw--- 1 david david 3
On 05/07/2010 11:27 AM, Ray Kohler wrote:
At the very least, I wish you would post your tech-support
questions on the forums, which are designed for that kind of content
(and are sadly already a bit overrun). This list, as I understand it,
is intended as the primary means for users to communicate
On 05/22/2010 11:33 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:
What laptops should I have a look at?
Is there some brand (Dell, HP, ...) that is more Linux friendly than others?
My work laptop, a Dell Precision M4400, runs Arch fine. Had to install
a few extra kernel modules (e.g., broadcom-wl), but everythi
On 05/20/2010 07:38 PM, Keith Hinton wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering what the best mirror would be for someone living ni Ohio?
The rit.edu mirror is in Western NY - probably not too far from you.
I've used that one for a number of years and found it to generally be a
reliable mirror.
HTH,
DR
On 05/25/2010 09:46 AM, Vincent Schut wrote:
Hi,
I'm going to get a new pc, replacing my now more than 5 years old pc. I
would like to keep my current arch installation, and hope to prevent the
need to do a full reinstall. I like the software I have, and I like the
configuration I have...
Could
On 05/27/2010 04:21 PM, Stefan Husmann wrote:
python is no requirement for Arch Linux itself. If you do not like it,
just do not install it.
Isn't pacman written in python? That would make python a requirement
for Arch then, right?
DR
On 06/15/2010 02:13 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote:
Hi,
On the Arch Server running Apache. I have Control Panel for which I
want to hide real directory name. Don't want to disclose the real
location it.
Can I display domain.com/foo1/foo2/foo3/ as subdomain(foo.domain.com)
where foo.domain.com points
On 06/28/2010 10:53 PM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
In general I use firefox only when I have to, because it does not integrate
well with KDE and I really don't like GTK looks.
Try using gtk-qt-engine.
DR
On 11/25/2011 11:55 AM, Leonid Isaev wrote:
Actually, what is stupid is keeping /tmp in RAM. It is an important dir, where
you might have an valuable info in case of a system crash. I could never
understand the logic behind this choice.
Actually, I think it makes a lot of sense. It lets you tr
Used to be (up until about a few weeks ago) that when I close or open my
laptop lid, xfce executes "xfce4-display-settings --minimal". That
seems to have stopped recently, though. Anyone have any idea what might
have changed?
Thanks,
DR
On 12/09/2011 07:45 AM, Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana wrote:
But IMHO XFCE misses some neat features like a decent power manager.
Just curious - what's your issue with the XFCE power manager? It's
fairly minimal (which is not a bad thing, IMO) and always worked fine
for me.
DR
On 12/08/2011 05:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
KDE3 had no comeback
Actually, it did. (http://www.trinitydesktop.org/about.php) It just
hasn't really gained too much critical mass. (Yet?)
DR
On 12/14/2011 05:24 PM, Evan Martin wrote:
1) Is it intentional that I am unable to use software from upstream
like Django unmodified? Am I expected to only install software
from the Arch repositories, where it has been patched by Arch devs
to work on Arch? (See below for more on Dja
On 12/19/2011 10:42 AM, Vladimir Nikšić wrote:
I'm using xfce wm. I rarely even use a file manager, I do things through
the console almost all the time, but sometimes I need a file manager,
makes some things easier.
Thunar as a file manager is OK, but nautilus is a lot more powerful, has
decent
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