Re: [gentoo-user] RootCommand in blackbox

2004-01-31 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:34:31 -0500, Andrey Kartashov wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 12:51:42AM -0500, Andrey Kartashov wrote: I'm using blackbox wm and have noticed that the styles don't set the root window background because the feature is disabled by the epatch

Re: [gentoo-user] any translation work program for gnome in portage?

2004-01-08 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:57:33 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am workin' on translation job of po files. I'd prefer to use gnome environment. Is there any program for po files in gnome? (in portage tree) # emerge -s gtranslator -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I share the soundcard?

2004-01-06 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 01:41:21 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Now the obvious question is - How do I share the soundcard in a way that I don' t have to kill some processes in order to make others work? you need alsa. Kill artsd, alsa-capable apps should be able to use the dmix plugin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-17 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:46:57 + (UTC), Eamon Caddigan wrote: Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 09:47, Eamon Caddigan wrote: Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I realize I wasn't very clear: Tcl and Tk are the only masked packages on my system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping packages up todate with a 56k modem

2003-10-16 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:39:39 +0200 (IST), Scharf Yuval wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, David Gethings wrote: Secondly, downloading all the packages over a 56k modem is a non-starter. Espcially as I only have one phone line and a chatty wife.;). Is there a tool I could use to download the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Poll #8

2003-09-29 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:26:30 -0700, Fred Van Andel wrote: There was a dissapointing 46 respondants. The responses to these polls has been slowly dropping every week. At this point I feel that a short break is in order. Polls will resume in a few months. That's why I suggested to move it

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo / 2.6.0 Kernel / Hyperthreading / Stuff

2003-09-29 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:17:13 +1200, Thomas Eastman wrote: 1. During the installation process when it comes time to set up the kernel can I simply tell it to install development-sources? Will Gentoo balk at me? Is genkernel safe with 2.6.0? Is genkernel safe at all? I've never used it. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail-header

2003-09-15 Thread Alexander Futasz
On 15 Sep 2003 09:28:23 +0200, Lutz Feldgen wrote: would it be a big problem for you or the list-manager to change the sender-address to the mailing-list-address? It is really uncomfortable to have half of the mails to this list filtered out by gmx-anti-spam...there is no way to tell the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #7 results.

2003-09-15 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:52:25 -0700, Fred Van Andel wrote: These are the results for the seventh gentoo poll. This whole poll should be taken off of the list and added to the newsletter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of Kernel Sources

2003-09-14 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 20:35:51 -0700, Ian Truelsen wrote: On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 04:10:03 +0100 Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm personally after is the best sources for a headless general-purpose server: all it does is serve mail, DNS a few webpages, and crunches away in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Blackbox

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:06:10 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it easy to install Blackbox on a Gentoo system? Is it more stable and faster than KDE? Do you suggest me any other GUI? I would suggest openbox. It looks and performs better than fluxbox or blackbox, IMHO. # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86

Re: [gentoo-user] window focus in fluxbox

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 11:11:12 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I have fluxbox as my WM. When I'm using Mozilla, if I switch windows by using Mozilla's 'Window' menu, the new one comes to the front, but the old one still has focus in the background until I click in the new one. Why don't you try

Re: [gentoo-user] Blackbox

2003-08-10 Thread Alexander Futasz
On 06 Aug 2003 15:16:44 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 14:01, Alexander Futasz wrote: I would suggest openbox. It looks and performs better than fluxbox or blackbox, IMHO. # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge =x11-wm/openbox-2.3.1 Hi. I've been pretty happy with fluxbox

Re: [gentoo-user] How to unmask gcc 3.3?

2003-07-31 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:45:08 +1000, Jonathan Kelly wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:26:49 +0200 Christian Aust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: package.unmask only works for packages masked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, not for ~arch masking. Actually, I think you've got this the wrong way

Re: [gentoo-user] Xargs error on boot new installation.

2003-07-25 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:49:27 +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Baselayout 1.8.6.9 is a bugfix release with only a few minor features In the meantime, you can add baselayout to /etc/portage/package.unmask if you wish to emerge it. No, you cannot. package.unmask only unmasks stuff which is in

Re: [gentoo-user] portage question

2003-07-25 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:11:50 +0300 (IDT), Leonid Podolny wrote: I know this question was asked here at least dozen of times, but I still have the following problem. I have postfix-2.0.13-r1 installed, and every emerge -u world is trying to downgrade it to version 2.0.11. So I've put

Re: [gentoo-user] Spam Query

2003-07-25 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:17:39 +0100, Tom Wesley wrote: Is there any spam filters out there, that can maybe redflag certain email, which it thinks is spam, so that I can use my mailer to filter it out, and then change the 'spam filter' if it gets it wrong? [EMAIL PROTECTED] emerge -s spam

Re: [gentoo-user] bin2iso problems

2003-06-06 Thread Alexander Futasz
On 05 Jun 2003 00:35:30 +0200, Brian Reichholf wrote: i have a bin file, and wanted to extract one file from it, so i emerged bin2iso and converted it to an iso file (at least so i hoped) strangely enough the result was: filename-01.iso and filename-02.iso(the bin is an image of an SVCD)

Re: [gentoo-user] Web-frontend for portage?

2003-04-04 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:44:38 +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote: is there some web-frontend for portage? Where one could see which packets are in which versions in portage, what is new/dropped? http://sourceforge.net/projects/webportage not exactly what you are looking for, but cool

Re: [gentoo-user] ttt = tele traffic tapper

2003-04-04 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:25:36 +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote: anybody ever heard of/used ttt? http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/kjc/software.html#ttt seems to be something like mrtg, giving you traffic by host/port in a graphical analysis. You don't happen to coincidently read the

Re: [gentoo-user] openbox-2.3.0

2003-04-01 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:41:03 -0800, Susie wrote: How do I get it to install it after I unmask it in keywords and not have it fetch the earlier stable version? What are you talking about? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] openbox-2.3.0

2003-04-01 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 09:01:52 -0800, Susie wrote: I unmasked openbox-2.3.0 in it's ebuild. Then emerged it. I then put into my world file =x11-wm/openbox-2.3.0 to prevent it from removing that version(ie downgrading). Here is what i did: # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge openbox which

Re: [gentoo-user] openbox-2.3.0

2003-04-01 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 10:18:05 -0800, Susie wrote: Here is what i did: # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge openbox which installed 2.3.0 I didn't try it that way. Does that simply turn it on for that one instance? Yes, just like Brett said. I know there is some place to

Re: [gentoo-user] cool games WAS [Re: [gentoo-user] still usingredmond for this]

2003-03-25 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:10:09 +0100, Dominic Buchstaller wrote: I'd say give crack-attack a try (my personal best is 1618 and my girlfriend has scored 2992, try to beat that ;) What kind of gilfriend do you have - man? 2992 is just crazy! (my personal best is 1067.) how the hell do you get

Re: [gentoo-user] I finally have sound!....but now stop themadness.

2003-03-15 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 01:44:21 -0300, Norberto BENSA wrote: [kde] well, my solution would be, remove that bloated annoying piece of crap. and install a simple window manager =) Bah, just remove the stupid window manager!! Who needs one? X is bloated. Real *nix admins do not use WMs ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo as a firewall/router

2003-03-15 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 04:09:22 -0800, Matt Tucker wrote: When I want to know about command-line options, I generally check --help and then read the man page if I can't find what I want. With emerge, however, I've never really bothered with --help because the output is so damned long. Isn't that

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa software mixing

2003-03-13 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:39:15 +, MAL wrote: Hey peoples, I want alsa to mix all inputs in software, (given that I doubt my SB AWE32 supports hardware mixing). This page: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/asoundrc.php3?module=sbawe#why under 'Software mixing', seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa software mixing

2003-03-13 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 00:31:10 +0100, Alexander Futasz wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg06918.html looks like this only works with code from cvs. after more reading i think dmix is already included in alsa-lib 0.9.0_rc8 ..hmm, i will have to try that. -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] compress rsync?

2003-03-12 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:13:24 -0500, gabriel wrote: when connecting to rsync1.uk.gentoo.org via rsync, i get the following message: if you're not doing so alread, please consider compressing the connection here by using rsync -z ; you can edit /usr/sbin/emerge (or /usr/bin/emerge in newer

Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS no plugins

2003-03-12 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:48:01 +, MAL wrote: Hi ppl... new gentoo system using alsa.. I emerged XMMS, run it, and it has no input plugins! In fact, no plugins in any of the sections, (apart from the alsa output plugin, which is there fine), and thus refuses to play anything. Hell, it

Re: [gentoo-user] XMMS no plugins

2003-03-12 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:28:58 +, MAL wrote: Alexander Futasz wrote: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-devm=104745885627701w=2 is this your problem? wouldbe strange though since i use the same version as you and have no problems. Yes it's my problem, see below for where

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20 and Via Sound

2003-03-07 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:41:29 -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: Drat. Do you have any problems when using it with alsa? If I am using XMMS and browsing the web, anytime the flash plugin is called, I get a device busy and the browser locks up until I stop XMMS. The browser then works again...

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 07:55:34 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which desktop (KDE/Gnome) suits the best based on 1. Performance 2. Efficiency 3. Multithreaded application handling process 4. Ease of use 5. Best look

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:04:56 -0800, Susie wrote: I do have openbox on here but generally am in blackbox. Waimea seems more unusual out of the blackbox family of window managers(at least look wise ie no tool bar and moving the mouse shifts desktops, etc). I'm still trying to figure out what

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinion Poll: KDE Vs Gnome

2003-03-05 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:29:35 +0100, Alexander Futasz wrote: Waimea seems more unusual out of the blackbox family of window managers(at least look wise ie no tool bar and moving the mouse shifts desktops, etc). i forgot to mention: with openbox you can choose wether you want the toolbar

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA problem

2003-03-03 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:45:45 +0100, Pawe wrote: Did anyone managed to get ALSA working for via8233? I followed the instructions given in The ALSA Configuration Guide found on gentoo.org, but it didn't work. Eventually I decided to compile it manually -as a result all necessary modules can be

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge clean after emergeing modules

2003-02-27 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:22:05 +0100 (CET), Peter Gantner wrote: Now if one emerges a third-party modules, like the NVIDIA kernel driver, emerge moves the module to the /lib/modules/version dir of the current kernel, that is, the one the /usr/src/linux symlink points to. After that, in the

Re: [gentoo-user] ibook

2003-02-27 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Thu, 1 Jan 1970 02:15:46 +0200, ryan oberto wrote: now thats an old email. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo init system : was [Re: [gentoo-user]service parameter passing?]

2003-02-19 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:28:18 -0500, Phil Barnett wrote: On Tuesday 18 February 2003 8:56 am, Alexander Futasz wrote: shellscript #!/bin/sh /etc/init.d/$1 $2 /shellscript put that in /usr/sbin or whereever you like, name it service, give it the right permissions and you will have

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo init system : was [Re: [gentoo-user]service parameter passing?]

2003-02-18 Thread Alexander Futasz
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 08:48:17 -0500, Phil Barnett wrote: What I miss in Gentoo is the simple format for services like found in Redhat and many others, ie: service servicename stop/start/restart It eliminates needing to know where the service directory is or including it every time.