Re: [gentoo-user] syncing via via git and signature failure

Hi Bill, On Sat, 07 Jul 2018 07:40:00 +0800 Bill Kenworthy wrote: I still have this error and  Ive tried a number of things including: gemato create -p ebuild -K /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc /usr/portage/ next emerge --sync error-ed on a lot of private manifest files but missin

Re: [gentoo-user] syncing via via git and signature failure

On Wed, 04 Jul 2018 22:57:05 -0400 John Covici wrote: I got the following when running your command: gemato verify -K /tmp/gentoo-release.asc.20180703 /usr/portage/ INFO:root:Refreshing keys from keyserver... INFO:root:Keys refreshed. To be more specific, I wasn't interested in verifying the

Re: [gentoo-user] syncing via via git and signature failure

On Wed, 04 Jul 2018 23:25:16 +0100 Mick wrote: Thanks gevisz, the first line to refresh keys fails, because in /var/lib/ gentoo/ I only have a news/ subdirectory. Interestingly, I already have app-crypt/openpgp-keys-gentoo-release installed, but still get 'gpg: Can't check signature: No public

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Extracting year from data, but honour empty lines

Hi Daniel, On Fri, 11 May 2018 16:16:52 -0700 Daniel Frey wrote: […] Does anyone have a quick tip for my tired brain to make this work and just output a blank line if there's no match? I swear I did this months ago and had something working but I apparently didn't bother saving the script I

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 and sysctl

On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 07:57:17 +0100 Klaus Ethgen wrote: Hi, ... but I does have an ipv6 question too. Currently I have the following in /etc/sysctl.conf: net.ipv6.conf.default.use_tempaddr=2 net.ipv6.conf.lo.use_tempaddr=2 net.ipv6.conf.eth0.use_tempaddr=2 net.ipv6.conf.wlan0.use_tempad

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is udev-mount still valid?

On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 17:25:36 -0700 Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2018-04-15 00:10, Floyd Anderson wrote: > https://very.loosely.org/paste/symlinks-pl Because argument ROOTDIR is mandatory, the script should do something when ROOTDIR is not given, e.g. print usage. Maybe ‘-r’ should be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is udev-mount still valid?

Hi Ian, On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 09:58:51 -0700 Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2018-04-13 23:18, Floyd Anderson wrote: # find /{etc,lib,usr,var} -path /etc/config-archive -prune -o \ -type l -xtype l -print there is also the app-misc/symlinks package, TBH, I don’t expected there exists a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is udev-mount still valid?

On Fri, 13 Apr 2018 11:01:40 +0100 Mick wrote: […] Yes, the broken symlinks are from the sysinit runlevel. I checked another system of mine and it *also* has these broken symlinks ... :-/ So, whatever mistake I made, I must have made it at least twice! LOL! I think this is nothing specia

Re: [gentoo-user] Is udev-mount still valid?

On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:11:17 +0100 Mick wrote: I've noticed udev has been playing up lately. In particular, switching on wireless/bluetooth would cause udev to be pegged to 100% CPU and bluetooth won't work. USB won't work thereafter; e.g. unplugging a USB mouse and replugging it is not detect

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt database option

On Sat, 07 Apr 2018 14:42:49 +0100 Mick wrote: On Saturday, 7 April 2018 14:35:27 BST Floyd Anderson wrote: Hi Mick, On Sat, 07 Apr 2018 11:21:23 +0100 Mick wrote: >So far I had been using gdbm, but I now see that emerge also added lmdb. Same here, so I gave lmdb a try as hcache back

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt database option

Hi Mick, On Sat, 07 Apr 2018 11:21:23 +0100 Mick wrote: So far I had been using gdbm, but I now see that emerge also added lmdb. Same here, so I gave lmdb a try as hcache backend. Which one is best to use? What have you chosen? I assume you mean for speed? I don’t know and it may become v

Re: [gentoo-user] The return of the dreaded "Cannot run C compiled programs"

On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 08:38:10 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 16:47:32 BST Floyd Anderson wrote: Just a guess, because you’re compiling multilib – look whether your kernel is able to run 32bit binaries. Check, e.g. the setting for kernel option CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION

Re: [gentoo-user] Error with infinality font while emerging sane-backends

On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 13:58:21 +0800 Danny YUE wrote: Thanks for your quick reply :-) I created the symbolic link as you told, That solves the: Fontconfig error: failed reading config file Fontconfig error: Cannot load config file "infinality/conf.d" errors – they’re gone.

Re: [gentoo-user] Error with infinality font while emerging sane-backends

On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 11:17:59 +0800 Danny YUE wrote: Hi folks, I am trying to emerge xsane, which requires sane-backends. However, the sane-backends package fails forever with error message like below: --- BEGIN --- Fontconfig error: Cannot load config file "infinality/conf.d" Error: /invalidfon

Re: [gentoo-user] The return of the dreaded "Cannot run C compiled programs"

On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:19:07 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: […] It's some years since I last saw this error, and I'm stuck. I've looked through /etc hoping to find something skew-whiff, and I've compared the environment with this box's, but nothing stands out. […] Has anyone a clue? Just a guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pdftk - replacement

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:55:23 -0600 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 03/15/2018 10:49 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2018-03-15, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 03/15/2018 08:48 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: Did you try the non-gcj ebuild for pdftk? I would like to try it. Where did you find it?

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --oneshot portage

Hi, On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:38:40 -0600 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: […] just a side note: [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.3.24-r1 [2.3.6] USE="(ipc) native-extensions xattr -build -doc -epydoc -gentoo-dev% (-rsync-verify) (-selinux) (-linguas_ru%)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_5*

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems to update caused by nvidia-drivers?

On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 07:44:54 +0100 tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 03/10 07:35, Floyd Anderson wrote: On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 05:42:16 +0100 tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > (x11-base/xorg-server-1.19.5-r1:0/1.19.5::gentoo, installed) pulled in by >x11-base/xorg-server:0/1.19.5= required by (x1

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems to update caused by nvidia-drivers?

On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 05:42:16 +0100 tu...@posteo.de wrote: (x11-base/xorg-server-1.19.5-r1:0/1.19.5::gentoo, installed) pulled in by x11-base/xorg-server:0/1.19.5= required by (x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.10.5:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^^ x11-base/xorg-serv

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg broken?

On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:52:24 +0100 Christoph Böhmwalder wrote: I think I broke something once again... Rebooting after a recent update caused my X Server to completely die. I faintly remember some x11-related packages being blocked on that particular update, but because I was short on time I d

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] Ripping "enhanced" CDs with abcde/cdparanoia

On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 18:45:57 +0200 Lasse Pouru wrote: Lasse Pouru writes: [This sender failed our fraud detection checks and may not be who they appear to be. Learn about spoofing at http://aka.ms/LearnAboutSpoofing] Floyd Anderson writes: On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:01:00 +0200 Lasse Pouru

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] Ripping "enhanced" CDs with abcde/cdparanoia

On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:01:00 +0200 Lasse Pouru wrote: You know, the ones with video or software tracks shoehorned into the end. Whenever I try to rip one with abcde I get the error "selected span contains non audio track at track X", even when I've chosen a range not containing track X (e.g. abc

Re: [gentoo-user] Bouncing Messages

On Fri, 02 Mar 2018 08:36:23 -0800 Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2018-03-02 12:04, Floyd Anderson wrote: <https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/message/a29910d5d9a24cb23461a68302c029b1> <https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/message/e6b46a7c62da9497d8303e0b9ba255c2> <https://arch

Re: [gentoo-user] Bouncing Messages

On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 23:28:51 -0600 Dale wrote: Floyd Anderson wrote: On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 20:21:52 -0800 Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2018-03-01 18:12, Dale wrote: Here is the list of the bounced messages: - 182748 - 182749 - 182751 If you succeed in retrieving them, please let us know which

Re: [gentoo-user] Bouncing Messages

On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 20:21:52 -0800 Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2018-03-01 18:12, Dale wrote: Here is the list of the bounced messages: - 182748 - 182749 - 182751 If you succeed in retrieving them, please let us know which ones they were, so we can guess as to the cause. Just send an empty mai

Re: [gentoo-user] File collision dvtm

On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 05:01:14 +0100 tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, while updateing I got a file collision. The error message starts with a lengthy explanation what to do NOT (reporting a bug, if there is only one ackage affected) but it is say nothing WHAT to do, when one package is affected. So,..

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200::gentoo failed (compile phase)

Hi Thelma, On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 12:01:54 -0700 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I'm getting an error. make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200/work/webkitgtk-2.4.11' make: *** [GNUmakefile:25837: all] Error 2 * ERROR: net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200::gentoo fail

Re: [gentoo-user] detox'ing files by keeping their time stamp?

Hi David, On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 17:34:21 +0100 David Haller wrote: Hello, On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Floyd Anderson wrote: On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 14:44:24 +0100 tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 02/18 01:55, Floyd Anderson wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 13:07:33 +0100 > tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On

Re: [gentoo-user] detox'ing files by keeping their time stamp?

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 14:44:24 +0100 tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 02/18 01:55, Floyd Anderson wrote: On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 13:07:33 +0100 tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 02/18 11:38, Stroller wrote: > > > > > On 18 Feb 2018, at 08:21, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] detox'ing files by keeping their time stamp?

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 13:07:33 +0100 tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 02/18 11:38, Stroller wrote: > On 18 Feb 2018, at 08:21, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > when downloading files from non-UNIX sites, they often contain > "poisonoys" characters like '#', ' ', ''' or that alike. > > With the tool 'detox' th

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect mystery

On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 12:57:40 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: i.e. it still searches for oracle-jdk-bin-1.8 and doesn't know about oracle-jdk-bin-9 Is this a bug or is there any means to bring eselect up-to-date ? Comment 2 on bug #641690 [1] say no. As mentioned there, the point seems to be

Re: [gentoo-user] "eselect (c)python --list" corrupted somehow?

On Sat, 03 Feb 2018 07:25:08 +0100 tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, I want to compile/install FreeCAD. I checked my python/cpython installation, because FreeCAD wants python 2.7 I got this output /root>eselect python list --cpython Available Python interpreters, in order of preference: [1] pytho

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

Hi Helmut, On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:34:23 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: With glibc-2.27 installed I cannot compile anything, since most packages try to include which doesn't exit any more. And downgrading glibc using a binary package doesn't work. It looks like I have to restore my system from

Re: [gentoo-user] sync fails : ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed

On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:11:38 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I cannot run emerge --sync I always get ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed: gpg: Signature made Fri 02 Feb 2018 09:38:18 AM UTC gpg:using RSA key E1D6ABB63BFCFB4BA02FDF1CEC590EEAC9189250 gpg: Can't check signa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 23:48:19 -0500 allan gottlieb wrote: "The ice cream that is in the fridge is cold" restricts the assertion of coldness to the ice cream in the fridge as opposed to some other ice cream. …and that completes the circle ;-) "The ice cream id est in the fridge is cold" "The i

Re: [gentoo-user] NeoMutt and GnuPG

On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:18:08 -0500 Lucas Ramage wrote: Hello again, I feel really stupid. So I had set imap_user/pass, but not smtp_url so I was receiving emails fine, but then instead of sending them, it was just encrypting them and saving them via `set record = "+[Gmail]/Sent Mail"`. ** fac

Re: [gentoo-user] NeoMutt and GnuPG

On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 20:50:13 +1300 "Roger J. H. Welsh" wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 05:17:45AM +0100 , Floyd Anderson wrote: > On my neomutt, when I press "v" to view attachments, all I can > see is text/plain. I think my neomutt does something automatic

Re: [gentoo-user] NeoMutt and GnuPG

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:48:02 -0800 Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2018-01-31 05:17, Floyd Anderson wrote: Instead I suggest to set ‘gpgme’ USE-flag and *only that* – no ‘crypt’, ‘gpg’, ‘pgp_classic’, ‘smime’, ‘smime_classic’. Look at the ebuild and especially the comments. This way I only need to

Re: [gentoo-user] NeoMutt and GnuPG

Hi Roger, On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:01:39 +1300 "Roger J. H. Welsh" wrote: Hi Lucas, Here is my muttrc on github: https://github.com/lramage94/dotfiles/blob/master/.mutt/muttrc It looks like you are using gpgme, I personally have not set this up for my neomutt, instead I use a gpg.rc file from

Re: [gentoo-user] NeoMutt and GnuPG

Hi Lucas, On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:20:23 -0500 Lucas Ramage wrote: When I send an encrypted message I see two files: - noname (1kb) - msg.asc (10kb) # <-- this one changes size depending on my message. please be more specific, i.e. where did you see those two lines of files? In the attachme

Re: [gentoo-user] rust 1.23.0 fails to install

Hi John, On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:58:56 -0500 John Covici wrote: Hi. In my world update Rust 1.23.0 failed to install with the following error: install: installing component 'rustc' Rust is ready to roll. < Rustc { stage: 2, target: "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", host: "x86_64-unknown-linux-gn

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck check of /usr on a separate partition fails during boot

Hi Andrew, On Sun, 14 Jan 2018 12:06:23 +0100 Andrew Barchuk wrote: Thanks everyone, I've nailed it \o/ A more detailed story follows. Thank you for your conclusion and that you share your solution which will certainly have some benefit for future readers. Well done, keep it up. -- Regard

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck check of /usr on a separate partition fails during boot

On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 11:58:43 +0100 Andrew Barchuk wrote: Hi folks, […] Any ideas what is going on and how do I make the fsck check succeed? It seems the init script(s) within your initramfs implements no logic/hooks for fsck but just mount your /usr partition. After switching to real roo

Re: [gentoo-user] 'firmware_install' won't on 4.14.7-gentoo

On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:51:04 + Mick wrote: On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 16:03:02 GMT Mike Gilbert wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Mick wrote: > You are quite right, there is no firmware_install in the 4.14.7 release. > What does this mean? How are we meant to install firmware

Re: [gentoo-user] 'firmware_install' won't on 4.14.7-gentoo

On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:22:29 + Mick wrote: Has something changed in 4.14.7-gentoo sources from its predecessors? I'm getting this on two systems: [snip ...] INSTALL sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-codec-hdmi.ko INSTALL sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-codec.ko INSTALL sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko DEPMOD

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading a Firmware Module By hand?

If you want to build into the kernel again, check ‘/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/firmware-6.bin’ exists and set: CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="ath10k/QCA6174/hw2.1/firmware-6.bin" CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware" I must correct myself. I’ve seen that

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading a Firmware Module By hand?

On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:15:04 + Hunter Jozwiak wrote: On 12/18/17, Mick wrote: On Monday, 18 December 2017 05:11:20 GMT Hunter Jozwiak wrote: Hmm. I have kernel 4.14.7 and linux-firmware 20171206. I tried version 9 as well, but that didn't help matters, either. Nor did compiling th

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading a Firmware Module By hand?

On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 05:11:20 + Hunter Jozwiak wrote: On 12/17/17, Andrey Utkin wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 12:34:14AM -0500, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: Hi, I have an ath10k_pci device that I'm trying to get hooked to the Internet, but I'm having some strange issues. It is trying to load th

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling maim/slop failed

Hi, On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 02:36:23 + tu...@posteo.de wrote: […] As always...any survival tips are very welcome...;) In case your search is broken, I’ve done it for you: Bonus: When signed in there, you can put yourself to the CC list and

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Firefox "Pocket" (Built-In Adware)

On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 02:30:52 + R0b0t1 wrote: I would like to know if there is any recourse. I have disabled it, but it is still present in the menus. It looks like it generates a unique advertising ID, which I have cleared in "about:config." Hi, since I felt losing and wasting lifetime h

Re: [gentoo-user] Does Gentoo support more than 8 bits per color channel?

On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 22:05:27 + mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: Linux will support at least 24 bit color on cards it can drive (nearly anything current). Look at the subject, Helmut ask for Deep Color (30/36/48-bit) [1] not for True Color (24-bit). [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

On Di, 05 Sep 20:00:56 + Floyd Anderson wrote: On Di, 05 Sep 13:29:13 + Grant wrote: […] But X should get it right if I use: DisplaySize 294 166 Looks like a typo. I got: 349.6462 mm × 165.6207 mm with: $ bc <<<'scale=4; ppi=276.05; cx=3800; inch=25.4; c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

On Di, 05 Sep 13:29:13 + Grant wrote: Is there a way to digitally discover the true height and width of your screen in mm? If you know the shadow mask/dot pitch [1] or the real pixel per inch of your screen, then calculate it. This way you see if software reports wrong values. Got it:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

Hello Grant, On Mo, 04 Sep 12:24:00 -0700 Grant wrote: Is there a way to digitally discover the true height and width of your screen in mm? If you know the shadow mask/dot pitch [1] or the real pixel per inch of your screen, then calculate it. This way you see if software reports wrong val

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: chromium 60 build failure

On Di, 01 Aug 16:09:07 + Grant Edwards wrote: On 2017-08-01, Floyd Anderson wrote: If you look at https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-devel/gcc It showls eleven versions for amd64 in green with a '+' symbol. I thought that meant they were stable. But, as there's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: chromium 60 build failure

On Di, 01 Aug 15:33:11 + Grant Edwards wrote: On 2017-08-01, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 01 Aug 2017 16:00:07 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 01/08/2017 15:55, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2017-08-01, Mart Raudsepp wrote: >> Everyone is expected to be on at least GCC 5 now. > > OK, next dumb question: >

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE "Set Title" hotkey

On Do, 15 Jun 13:54:15 +0800 Bill Kenworthy wrote: Hi, I am using the XFCE4 Terminal in drop down mode on an XFCE4 desktop. Something has caused the "Set Title" hotkey to be set with the letter "o" trapping that key whenever it is pressed. Very frustrating as "o" is a common letter :) I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

On Sa, 29 Apr 05:15:50 +0200 tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, before changing my system I took a look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Hardware_3D_acceleration_guide Down the page there is a test, whohc on my system reports: glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: Yes GL_NV_path_rendering,

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world

On Fr, 28 Apr 01:27:23 +0200 wabe wrote: Floyd Anderson wrote: On Do, 27 Apr 16:56:00 -0500 Dale wrote: >One thing about alt sysreq, once you get to a certain point, you >have >to go "all the way" with it. I've found that just the R and E >generally >get

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world

On Do, 27 Apr 16:56:00 -0500 Dale wrote: One thing about alt sysreq, once you get to a certain point, you have to go "all the way" with it. I've found that just the R and E generally gets things back to a point it is accessible and I don't have to go through it all. I think once you get to the

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world

On Do, 27 Apr 19:43:46 +0200 wabe wrote: "J. Roeleveld" wrote: On April 27, 2017 7:20:29 PM GMT+02:00, wabe wrote: On tty12 I can see messages […] Try to switch to an other virtual terminal (with Ctrl+Alt+2) and start from there. But I cannot open another terminal. I don't even see what

Re: [gentoo-user] In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

On Mi, 26 Apr 04:55:46 +0200 tu...@posteo.de wrote: I tried xfce4-terminal as suggested by Floyd...and got exactly the reversed timings. He found xfce4-terminal six times faster than urxvt and I got the reversed result. See my previous response for this. If I could find the culprit on my box I

Re: [gentoo-user] In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

On Mi, 26 Apr 04:38:29 +0200 tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 04/25 07:38, Floyd Anderson wrote: On Di, 25 Apr 17:47:22 +0200 tu...@posteo.de wrote: A few minutes ago I emerged xfce4-terminal and tried the cat-time-test of yesterday: 29 secondes with xfce-terminal and 5 seconds with urxvt. H

Re: [gentoo-user] In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

On Di, 25 Apr 17:47:22 +0200 tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, currently I am using urxvt as my standard terminal application, which is FAST and reliable. But it only emulates 24bit colors if instructed so. It maps 24bit rgb to 256 color using a fast but not total correct formula to to do (which is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set size to windows in Openbox in local config [SOLVED]

On Fr, 21 Apr 00:12:28 +0200 Miroslav Rovis wrote: On 170420-05:57+0200, Floyd Anderson wrote: On Do, 13 Apr 21:55:29 +0200 Miroslav Rovis wrote: ... > >But I forgot floyd has got a "patch to keep the window position while >resizing the font" and offered it: > >ht

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set size to windows in Openbox in local config [SOLVED]

On Do, 13 Apr 21:55:29 +0200 Miroslav Rovis wrote: ERRATA: I wrote... On 170413-21:19+0200, Miroslav Rovis wrote: ... [... I wrote]: Only ERRATA may follow in the topic, as far as I am concerned. But I forgot floyd has got a "patch to keep the window position while resizing the font" and of

Re: [gentoo-user] vim colorschemes: A question regarding terminal capabilities

On Mo, 10 Apr 05:00:26 + tu...@posteo.de wrote: I am playing around with colorschemes in vim […] Wrong mailing list? It seems impossible to change the fore-/background color of the cursor itself. What have you tried by yourself so far to come to this conclusion at the end? Or is it not mu

Re: [gentoo-user] New Installation

Hi Dale, lets have a break. I lose the thread and driving nearer the ditch than the track. I think the main things were said. All following would only drift away. Sorry for the noise. -- floyd

Re: [gentoo-user] New Installation

On Sun, 05 Feb 12:00:15 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Floyd Anderson wrote: That’s why Gentoo is often regarded as the freedom of choice. This includes the freedom to shoot yourself in the foot. He, nice allegory. Oh, and yes that’s what I like — you can but

Re: [gentoo-user] New Installation

chines with, is plain text, we have the ability for creating ebuilds, overlays, patches. That’s so exciting even it may be hard sometimes, to learn all those stuff and stay up to date with it. -- Best regards, Floyd Anderson

Re: [gentoo-user] New Installation

st [1] (especially the middle paragraph about the USE-flag ‘threads’ example). It let me rethink how I handle USE (which is even similar your way) and it might be worth to consider why a package maintainer defaults a flag on/off. [1]  <https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/a59f08ffe21bcf984ee82fd7125e0bf2> -- Best regards, Floyd Anderson

Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/asterisk-1.8.28.2

ay, I see your point. Maybe FEATURES="buildpkg" and “emerge --usepkgonly ATOM” would help you in the future but not for packages living five years in the past because running eclean-pkg from time to time is recommended. -- Best regards, Floyd Anderson

Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/asterisk-1.8.28.2

otherwise... If you *must* keep this build try adding --exclude='net-misc/asterisk' to the emerge @preserved-rebuild command and […] ...it’s worth in conjunction with @preserved-rebuild in that case. -- Best regards, Floyd Anderson

Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/asterisk-1.8.28.2

On Sat, 04 Feb 10:28:00 + Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 07:12:01 +0100, Floyd Anderson wrote: >I have an old version of asterisk-1.8.28.2 (it is no longer in >portage). I want to keep this version, temporarily (till I have a >chance to test a new one 11.25.1-ver. If

Re: [gentoo-user] net-misc/asterisk-1.8.28.2

iki/Handbook:AMD64/Portage/CustomTree#Defining_a_custom_repository>   [2] <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay/Local_overlay>   [3] <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/profile/package.provided> -- Best regards, Floyd Anderson

Re: [gentoo-user] What Firefox (what browser) for Online-Banking?

To test that only your banking connection is possible invoke: /usr/bin/firefox --private-window "https://www.example.com/" --no-remote -P  banking.profile [1] <https://calomel.org/proxy_auto_config.html> [2]  <https://web.archive.org/web/20040821144727/http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/proxy/adminux/> -- Best regards, Floyd Anderson

Re: [gentoo-user] Retrieving bounced list messages

ns to each other) on my storage organised in more or less bad named folder structures. This will become sooner or later the same destiny as many browser bookmark collections I saw (not only mine) — unmaintained and confusing — especially with silly bookmark managers. -- Best regards, Floyd Anderson

Re: [gentoo-user] Retrieving bounced list messages

On Tue, 03 Jan 20:12:05 -0500 Philip Webb wrote: 170104 Floyd Anderson wrote: Is it possible — and when how — to retrieve bounced mailing list messages, e.g. from or this list) ? You can recover everything from the Gentoo lists' archive : http://archives.gentoo.org/ . Thanks for

[gentoo-user] Retrieving bounced list messages

complete mailing list and be able to locally store some informative user experience from the past which may be meaningful to me in the future. Thanks and… -- Best regards, Floyd Anderson