Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

Philip Webb wrote: > PS what does 'tl;dr' mean ? -- I've seen it in other msgs. To long; didn't read. I'm fairly sure that is it. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

160417 Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: > Am Sonntag, 17. April 2016, 03:30:15 schrieb Philip Webb: >> So another question arises : >> has it always been necessary to add the user to the video group > no it hasn't in the past, but with 3d acceleration creeping in everywhere. The puzzle for me is that I

Re: [gentoo-user] suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 18:59:57 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > Also, I've always used '-v' rather than '-a', as it's simpler. >>> It's not simpler, it's different. >> Oh dear (red face) : I meant to write '-p' ... > I'm sure you can find an exotic keymap to blame it on,

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 04/16/2016 04:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday, April 16, 2016 09:47:15 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 16/04/2016 18:58, »Q« wrote: And the most complex thing >> portage had to deal with was virtuals. I don't think even SLOTs >> were

Re: [gentoo-user] Layman defunct on my box?

Andrej Rode [16-04-18 04:03]: > Hi, > > >Any hint which puts my feet back to the holy road is very > >appreciated... ;) > > I usually throw "emerge --regen" after adding a new overlay. > > Regards, > Andrej > > -- > Sent from my Wintendo > Hi Andrej, YEAH! That fixes it!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xscreensaver 3D modules don't work

160329 »Q« wrote: > 160329 Philip Webb wrote: >> 160328 Corbin wrote: >>> The "x11-misc/rss-glx" screensavers work just fine. >> I hadn't come across it before. >> If I emerge it, will it automatically be adopted by Xscreensaver ? > Yes -- after emerging it you'll see its

Re: [gentoo-user] suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 18:59:57 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > >> Also, I've always used '-v' rather than '-a', as it's simpler. > > It's not simpler, it's different. > > Oh dear (red face) : I meant to write '-p' ... I'm sure you can find an exotic keymap to blame it on, one where v and p are

[gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:51:22 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 14:22:44 -0500, »Q« wrote: > > > > ... What about aliasing emerge to sudo emerge? :-) > > > > Because sometimes I want to use sudo with emerge and sometimes > > not. I do have sudo-included

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

160417 »Q« wrote: > It sounds like you'd be happier just running everything as root. Oh no ! -- I'ld never run ordinary user apps as root. > It wouldn't be any more dangerous > than giving me access to a root terminal on your machine. ;) My user terminal (Desktop 2) always has a white

Re: [gentoo-user] suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

160417 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:40:04 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> Also, I've always used '-v' rather than '-a', as it's simpler. > It's not simpler, it's different. Oh dear (red face) : I meant to write '-p' ... --

Re: [gentoo-user] DPMS not working with fbdev driver on Xorg

On 17-04-2016 07:04 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: On 04/17/2016 01:46 PM, Sebastián Pedersen wrote: Anyway thanks Dan. The original question (why DPMS is not working with the fbdev driver) still remains open thou. Sebas Yes, I misread that, sorry. Regarding your original question, I have had DPMS

Re: [gentoo-user] DPMS not working with fbdev driver on Xorg

On 04/17/2016 01:46 PM, Sebastián Pedersen wrote: > Anyway thanks Dan. > > The original question (why DPMS is not working with the fbdev driver) > still remains open thou. > > Sebas Yes, I misread that, sorry. Regarding your original question, I have had DPMS not work on some onboard video

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

On 17/04/2016 14:09, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Mick [16-04-17 14:00]: >> On Sunday 17 Apr 2016 11:44:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 17/04/2016 11:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alan McKinnon [16-04-17 11:08]: > On 17/04/2016 05:45,

Re: [gentoo-user] suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:40:04 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > Also, I've always used '-v' rather than '-a', as it's simpler. It's not simpler, it's different. -v clutters up the output with extra information you may or may not need. -a saves running the dependency calculations twice which is the case

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 14:22:44 -0500, »Q« wrote: > > ... What about aliasing emerge to sudo emerge? :-) > > Because sometimes I want to use sudo with emerge and sometimes not. I > do have sudo-included aliases for a couple of the more common cases, Use \emerge when you don't want the alias?

[gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:40:04 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: > 160417 »Q« wrote: > > I too often forget to use 'sudo' along with 'emerge --ask', > > which gets me a prompt to add '--pretend' to the options. > > I never want to add '--pretend' to the options : > > if I've used

Re: [gentoo-user] DPMS not working with fbdev driver on Xorg

On 17-04-2016 05:28 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: On 04/17/2016 12:44 PM, Sebastián Pedersen wrote: Have you have a look in your dmesg and your Xorg.0.log to see what they report? Is the firmware for the card specified correctly and does it load? I think that's the problem, I have a sis 771/671

Re: [gentoo-user] DPMS not working with fbdev driver on Xorg

On 04/17/2016 12:44 PM, Sebastián Pedersen wrote: >> Have you have a look in your dmesg and your Xorg.0.log to see what they >> report? Is the firmware for the card specified correctly and does it >> load? > > I think that's the problem, I have a sis 771/671 video integrated card: > >

[gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:54:16 +0300 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 8:57 PM, »Q« wrote: > > I too often forget to use sudo along with emerge --ask, which gets > > me a prompt to add --pretend to the options, e.g. > > > > $ emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] DPMS not working with fbdev driver on Xorg

Have you have a look in your dmesg and your Xorg.0.log to see what they report? Is the firmware for the card specified correctly and does it load? I think that's the problem, I have a sis 771/671 video integrated card: [sebas@parabolaSebas64 ~]$ lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible

Re: [gentoo-user] suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

160417 »Q« wrote: > I too often forget to use 'sudo' along with 'emerge --ask', > which gets me a prompt to add '--pretend' to the options. > I never want to add '--pretend' to the options : > if I've used '--ask', I also meant to use 'sudo'. If your machine isn't in a public place, why don't you

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 10:32:02 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I might add, I added --oneshot to my make.conf command for emerge a long >> time ago. When I really want something in the world file, I add it with >> the --select y option on the command line, add -n if already

[gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:02:54 +0200 Ralf wrote: > ... What about aliasing emerge to sudo emerge? :-) Because sometimes I want to use sudo with emerge and sometimes not. I do have sudo-included aliases for a couple of the more common cases, alias

[gentoo-user] Re: VLC could not decode the opus audio

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:49:06 +0300 gevisz wrote: > 2016-04-17 20:45 GMT+03:00 gevisz : > > 2016-04-17 19:12 GMT+03:00 »Q« : > >> I'm pretty sure what happened was that vlc had a security issue, > >> and a new version had to be stabilized,

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 10:32:02 -0500, Dale wrote: > I might add, I added --oneshot to my make.conf command for emerge a long > time ago. When I really want something in the world file, I add it with > the --select y option on the command line, add -n if already installed. Good idea, but you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

Am Sonntag, 17. April 2016, 03:30:15 schrieb Philip Webb: :) > So another question arises : > has it always been necessary to add the user to the video group no it hasn't in the past, but with 3d acceleration creeping in everywhere... > If the latter, how are users supposed to know re such

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 14:48:51 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > So a big thanks to all the developers who've brought about this happy > state of affairs! +1 -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 14: Temporary tax increase pgpIH7iszB7xQ.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Layman defunct on my box?

Hi, Any hint which puts my feet back to the holy road is very appreciated... ;) I usually throw "emerge --regen" after adding a new overlay. Regards, Andrej -- Sent from my Wintendo

Re: [gentoo-user] suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 8:57 PM, »Q« wrote: > I too often forget to use sudo along with emerge --ask, which gets me > a prompt to add --pretend to the options, e.g. > > $ emerge -a firefox > This action requires superuser access... > Would you like to add --pretend to options?

Re: [gentoo-user] suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

... What about aliasing emerge to sudo emerge? :-) Cheers Ralf On 04/17/2016 07:57 PM, »Q« wrote: > I too often forget to use sudo along with emerge --ask, which gets me > a prompt to add --pretend to the options, e.g. > > $ emerge -a firefox > This action requires superuser access... > Would

[gentoo-user] suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

I too often forget to use sudo along with emerge --ask, which gets me a prompt to add --pretend to the options, e.g. $ emerge -a firefox This action requires superuser access... Would you like to add --pretend to options? [Yes/No] n $ doh Password: These are the packages that would be merged,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VLC could not decode the opus audio

2016-04-17 20:45 GMT+03:00 gevisz : > 2016-04-17 19:12 GMT+03:00 »Q« : >> On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 11:47:19 +0300 >> gevisz wrote: >> >>> "VLC could not decode the format "Opus" (Opus Audio)" >>> >>> I have tried to add the opus use flag to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VLC could not decode the opus audio

2016-04-17 19:12 GMT+03:00 »Q« : > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 11:47:19 +0300 > gevisz wrote: > >> "VLC could not decode the format "Opus" (Opus Audio)" >> >> I have tried to add the opus use flag to media-video/ffmpeg >> and to add the matroska use flag to

Re: [gentoo-user] DPMS not working with fbdev driver on Xorg

On Sunday 17 Apr 2016 13:23:35 Sebastián Pedersen wrote: > On 17-04-2016 12:43 PM, Dale wrote: > > Sebastián Pedersen wrote: > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> Sorry to bother because I'm actually using Arch, but since in the past > >> this list has given to me outstandings solutions, I git a try here. > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] In search of an XMPP client with OTR

Max R.D. Parmer [16-04-17 18:20]: > Hello Meino, perhaps this will help: > https://github.com/maxrp/profanity-overlay > > Profanity is a great client IMO. There's another called Jackline > (written in OCaml) that is pretty cool and supports OTR too. > > -- > 0x7D964D3361142ACF

Re: [gentoo-user] DPMS not working with fbdev driver on Xorg

On 17-04-2016 12:43 PM, Dale wrote: Sebastián Pedersen wrote: Hi guys, Sorry to bother because I'm actually using Arch, but since in the past this list has given to me outstandings solutions, I git a try here. I'm having a problem: in Xorg, with the vesa driver the DPMS works just fine, but

[gentoo-user] Re: VLC could not decode the opus audio

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 11:47:19 +0300 gevisz wrote: > "VLC could not decode the format "Opus" (Opus Audio)" > > I have tried to add the opus use flag to media-video/ffmpeg > and to add the matroska use flag to media-video/vlc > > No results. > > Any suggestions? > > I just

[gentoo-user] Layman defunct on my box?

Hi, I followed this instructions: http://www.kadu.im/w/English:Download:Gentoo it works ... except for the part where it comes to emerge a newer version of kadu (kadu 3.0). No errors...simply emerge does not "see" the overlay. Then I tried to fix the problem with this instructions:

Re: [gentoo-user] In search of an XMPP client with OTR

Hello Meino, perhaps this will help: https://github.com/maxrp/profanity-overlay Profanity is a great client IMO. There's another called Jackline (written in OCaml) that is pretty cool and supports OTR too. -- 0x7D964D3361142ACF On Sun, Apr 17, 2016, at 02:20, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, >

Re: [gentoo-user] DPMS not working with fbdev driver on Xorg

Sebastián Pedersen wrote: > Hi guys, > > Sorry to bother because I'm actually using Arch, but since in the past > this list has given to me outstandings solutions, I git a try here. > > I'm having a problem: in Xorg, with the vesa driver the DPMS works > just fine, but with the fbdev driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde 5 and portable media mounting

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 17/04/16 05:26, Francisco Ares wrote: >> On KDE 4, it was ok, it mounted removable media in >> /run/[username]/[medialabel] , as the users were already in "plugdev" >> group and, just in case, the "disk" group as well - and they are there >> up to now. > > When the

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Mick [16-04-17 14:00]: >> On Sunday 17 Apr 2016 11:44:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 17/04/2016 11:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alan McKinnon [16-04-17 11:08]: > On 17/04/2016 05:45, meino.cra...@gmx.de

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 5 and portable media mounting

On 17/04/16 05:26, Francisco Ares wrote: On KDE 4, it was ok, it mounted removable media in /run/[username]/[medialabel] , as the users were already in "plugdev" group and, just in case, the "disk" group as well - and they are there up to now. When the pop-up notification comes up that says a

Re: [gentoo-user] VLC could not decode the opus audio

> On Sun, 17 April 2016, at 9:47 am, gevisz wrote: > > "VLC could not decode the format "Opus" (Opus Audio)" > > I have tried to add the opus use flag to media-video/ffmpeg > and to add the matroska use flag to media-video/vlc vlc itself has an opus USE flag. At least,

[gentoo-user] DPMS not working with fbdev driver on Xorg

Hi guys, Sorry to bother because I'm actually using Arch, but since in the past this list has given to me outstandings solutions, I git a try here. I'm having a problem: in Xorg, with the vesa driver the DPMS works just fine, but with the fbdev driver (framebuffer) the screen goes blank but

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

Mick [16-04-17 14:00]: > On Sunday 17 Apr 2016 11:44:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 17/04/2016 11:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Alan McKinnon [16-04-17 11:08]: > > >> On 17/04/2016 05:45, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> >

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

On Sunday 17 Apr 2016 11:44:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/04/2016 11:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Alan McKinnon [16-04-17 11:08]: > >> On 17/04/2016 05:45, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> ...and the novice was buffled and even the master shifted

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

On 17/04/2016 11:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Alan McKinnon [16-04-17 11:08]: >> On 17/04/2016 05:45, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> ...and the novice was buffled and even the master shifted a little bit >>> after recognizing this words of the eternal

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

Alan McKinnon [16-04-17 11:08]: > On 17/04/2016 05:45, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > ...and the novice was buffled and even the master shifted a little bit > > after recognizing this words of the eternal being named emerge. > > I know, that there is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday, April 16, 2016 07:07:16 PM Dale wrote: > >> I was thinking fence post but we have the same idea. ;-) > You're referring to a LART? > http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=LART That's the one. ROFL > Actually, I think the only info I got from it

[gentoo-user] In search of an XMPP client with OTR

Hi, I am looking for a XMPP client with OTR support. I prefer programs like mutt rather than the GUI-heavy things... I tried centerim but it does not recognized my F keys and seems to be a little old too (?). Then I tried profnity and followed the instructions from here:

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

On 17/04/2016 11:00, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/04/2016 05:45, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> ...and the novice was buffled and even the master shifted a little bit >> after recognizing this words of the eternal being named emerge. >> I know, that there is a difference in knowing the

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

On 17/04/2016 05:45, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > ...and the novice was buffled and even the master shifted a little bit > after recognizing this words of the eternal being named emerge. > I know, that there is a difference in knowing the path and walking the > path, but it seems that

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 07:07:16 PM Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Saturday, April 16, 2016 11:25:23 AM Dale wrote: > >> Top posting since John started it. lol > > > > Refusing to top-post, even when others do... > > Makes for even more fun to trace the conversations... > > > >>

[gentoo-user] VLC could not decode the opus audio

"VLC could not decode the format "Opus" (Opus Audio)" I have tried to add the opus use flag to media-video/ffmpeg and to add the matroska use flag to media-video/vlc No results. Any suggestions? I just have read that opus is an open sourse audio format that is much better that mp3. Why it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice problem importing file : solved

On Saturday 16 Apr 2016 21:30:15 Philip Webb wrote: > So another question arises : > has it always been necessary to add the user to the video group > -- in which case, I must have made a mistake somewhere, > perhaps when I installed in my new box 1510xx -- or is it a recent change ? > If the