Re: Article on swift, responsive computers

2014-06-22 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 06/15/2014 02:58 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Here's my latest Linux Productivity Magazine, themed The Swift, Responsive Machine: http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm Hope you enjoy it. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-18 Thread Brian
On Tue 17 Jun 2014 at 23:10:08 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: According to my understanding from the discussions I've read: under systemd, if you run 'startx' with no options from vt1, it will cause X to launch on vt1 - whereas under sysvinit, doing that will cause X to launch on vt7. Not quite.

Re: systemd - keyboard key repeat rate (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-18 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Jun 2014 at 14:31:37 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: One other thing, I sense that the key repeat is not as fast as it was before I installed systemd-sysv. It seems strange that an init system should mess with the keyboard settings. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me? Key

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-18 Thread berenger . morel
Le 18.06.2014 11:24, Brian a écrit : On Tue 17 Jun 2014 at 23:10:08 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: According to my understanding from the discussions I've read: under systemd, if you run 'startx' with no options from vt1, it will cause X to launch on vt1 - whereas under sysvinit, doing that

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-18 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Jun 2014 at 12:05:34 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.06.2014 11:24, Brian a écrit : No getty is ever spawned on tty7 so it is always available for X. According to /etc/inittab, but does systemd still use this file? brian@desktop:~$ dpkg -S inittab

Re: systemd - keyboard key repeat rate (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:33:37AM +0100, Brian wrote: On Wed 18 Jun 2014 at 14:31:37 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: One other thing, I sense that the key repeat is not as fast as it was before I installed systemd-sysv. It seems strange that an init system should mess with the keyboard

Re: systemd - keyboard key repeat rate (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 07:57:58PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Tue 17 Jun 2014 at 06:25:01 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 05:43:18PM +0100, Brian wrote: On the other hand, not running X on the console you started it from with startx brings a raft of other problems.

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 06/16/2014 09:43 AM, Brian wrote: On Tue 17 Jun 2014 at 00:40:14 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:34:58AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 16. Juni 2014, 10:11:00 schrieb Chris Bannister: I am now using it. I don't like how it starts X in the first

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-17 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/17/2014 10:38 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 06/16/2014 09:43 AM, Brian wrote: On the other hand, not running X on the console you started it from with startx brings a raft of other problems. How so? Unless you are referring specifically

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 16. Juni 2014, 10:11:00 schrieb Chris Bannister: On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 03:33:43PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: For the record I am using systemd without any issues, but then I am doing so on desktop systems. I just dislike the increasingly monolithic architecture of systemd.

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:34:58AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 16. Juni 2014, 10:11:00 schrieb Chris Bannister: I am now using it. I don't like how it starts X in the first available TTY but I guess I'll get used to it or spend a few days reading the docs and see what the

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Brian
On Tue 17 Jun 2014 at 00:40:14 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:34:58AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 16. Juni 2014, 10:11:00 schrieb Chris Bannister: I am now using it. I don't like how it starts X in the first available TTY but I guess I'll get

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 05:43:18PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Tue 17 Jun 2014 at 00:40:14 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Ahh, OK. Must have been reverted. systemd-sysv - Installed: 204-8 Candidate: 204-8 Running Jessie. X running on TTY3 at present, a bit of a pain when switching TTY's. :(

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Brian
On Tue 17 Jun 2014 at 06:25:01 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 05:43:18PM +0100, Brian wrote: On the other hand, not running X on the console you started it from with startx brings a raft of other problems. Well, I typed startx in tty4 and it started in tty3, so it

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 19:57 +0100, Brian wrote: From the man himself: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-May/198927.html Please don't post links to the troll and Linux enemy Lennart Poettering. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 19:57 +0100, Brian wrote: From the man himself: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-May/198927.html Please don't post links to the troll and Linux enemy Lennart Poettering. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 16 Jun 2014 at 21:25:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 19:57 +0100, Brian wrote: From the man himself: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-May/198927.html Please don't post links to the troll and Linux enemy Lennart Poettering. And

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 16 Jun 2014 at 21:31:03 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 19:57 +0100, Brian wrote: From the man himself: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-May/198927.html Please don't post links to the troll and Linux enemy Lennart Poettering. We heard you

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-16 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 6/17/14, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Mon 16 Jun 2014 at 21:25:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 19:57 +0100, Brian wrote: From the man himself: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-May/198927.html Please don't post links to the troll and

Article on swift, responsive computers

2014-06-15 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Here's my latest Linux Productivity Magazine, themed The Swift, Responsive Machine: http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm Hope you enjoy it. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance --

Re: Article on swift, responsive computers

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 14:58 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm At the moment we IMO should stay away from Razor-Qt for daily usage, but it can't harm to install it and to monitor it's progress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor-qt IMO much of the

Re: Article on swift, responsive computers

2014-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 21:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 14:58 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm At the moment we IMO should stay away from Razor-Qt for daily usage, but it can't harm to install it and to monitor it's progress.

Re: Article on swift, responsive computers

2014-06-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 15 Jun 14:25 -0500, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2014-06-15 at 14:58 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm At the moment we IMO should stay away from Razor-Qt for daily usage, but it can't harm to install it and to monitor it's progress.

systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 03:33:43PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: For the record I am using systemd without any issues, but then I am doing so on desktop systems. I just dislike the increasingly monolithic architecture of systemd. No, I don't bring this up to start another flame war as I am no