Re: Aw: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] local mirrors (summary, leading to more questions)

2019-04-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 29 April 2019 22:50:18 BST n952...@web.de wrote: > But that seems strange - why would I need both GENTOO_MIRRORS and > http_proxy? > > GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://myserver"; > http_proxy="http://myserver:3142 No. Here are my entries in make.conf: GENTOO_MIRRORS=" https://mirror.byt

Re: Aw: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] local mirrors (summary, leading to more questions)

2019-04-30 Thread Mick
On Monday, 29 April 2019 22:50:18 BST n952...@web.de wrote: > But that seems strange - why would I need both GENTOO_MIRRORS and > http_proxy? > > GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://myserver"; > http_proxy="http://myserver:3142 > > Does the http_proxy imply that I'd need a proxy app, like squid. Between my >

Re: [gentoo-user] udisks and exfat

2019-04-30 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 30 April 2019 04:07:23 BST Jack wrote: > On 2019.04.29 21:19, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > How does one execute a file on an exfat formatted usb key? > > > > I have an encryption app that must be executed from the drive to work > > (secure-stick). Works great in windows, linux is a real

Re: [gentoo-user] udisks and exfat

2019-04-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 30/4/19 6:51 pm, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 30 April 2019 04:07:23 BST Jack wrote: >> On 2019.04.29 21:19, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >>> How does one execute a file on an exfat formatted usb key? >>> >>> I have an encryption app that must be executed from the drive to work >>> (secure-stick). Works

Re: [gentoo-user] udisks and exfat

2019-04-30 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 09:19:55AM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote > How does one execute a file on an exfat formatted usb key? > > I have an encryption app that must be executed from the drive to work > (secure-stick).  Works great in windows, linux is a real pain because I > think udisks is forcing

[gentoo-user] Libreoffice and copying web pages

2019-04-30 Thread Dale
Howdy, As some know, I got a printer.  Now I'm trying to get some info and print it using LOo for the most part.  This is the way I do this.  I go to a web page, sites will vary, and I highlight what I want and copy it to the clipboard.  I then go to LOo and paste it as HTML, since that is what it

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice and copying web pages

2019-04-30 Thread Jack
On 2019.04.30 18:12, Dale wrote: Howdy, As some know, I got a printer.  Now I'm trying to get some info and print it using LOo for the most part.  This is the way I do this.  I go to a web page, sites will vary, and I highlight what I want and copy it to the clipboard.  I then go to LOo and

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice and copying web pages

2019-04-30 Thread Dale
Jack wrote: > On 2019.04.30 18:12, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> As some know, I got a printer.  Now I'm trying to get some info and >> print it using LOo for the most part.  This is the way I do this.  I go >> to a web page, sites will vary, and I highlight what I want and copy it >> to the clipboar

Re: [gentoo-user] udisks and exfat

2019-04-30 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Got sidetracked - turns out fuse and exfat on usb do not play well with mounts as a user due to changes late last year.  It can now only be mounted/unmounted by root. The second part (also due to fuse) is that to stop fuse (silently as ls still showed the execute bit set) from interfering with exe

Re: [gentoo-user] VA-API support on Chrome

2019-04-30 Thread P Levine
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 12:02 PM Grant wrote: > Does anyone have VA-API working on Chromium or Chrome? I've chased > down a few possibilities but ended up at dead ends. > > - Grant > > I never attempted to patch Chromium for vaapi but there are several posts related to the issue that I've come