Re: [arch-general] unclean filesystem

2010-01-21 Thread gt
To control the frequency of automatic checks, you can use tune2fs.

Re: [arch-general] mail client

2010-02-11 Thread gt
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Jeroen Op 't Eynde wrote: I've been using Opera's Mail client. It is a no nonsense mail client with > support for all above and it integrates with Opera itself obviously. It is > closed source and not in the official repo's but you can find it in AUR. > It is also

Re: [arch-general] VIM history

2010-02-11 Thread gt
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Hi, while I was on Fedora, whenever I opened a file using vim, the next > time I open it, it used to open at the same line where I closed it. > > What is the setting to enable this feature ? Its a big pain in the a$$ to > scroll throug

Re: [arch-general] Update Conflicts

2010-02-13 Thread gt
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Samuel Baldwin wrote: > I'm trying to update my system with 'pacman -Syu', but doing so > discovers a conflict with phonon; phonon conflicts with qt, but > kdelibs apparently needs both. What should I do? Trying to install > phonon by hand requires uninstalling q

Re: [arch-general] Nuking a MySQL Install

2010-02-13 Thread gt
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Samuel Baldwin wrote: > Howdy. > > I fucked up an old mysql install and I want to start completely over, > but pacman -R mysql (even with --nosave) doesn't remove everything; > I'm still unable to run '/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation' after > reinstalling mysql;

Re: [arch-general] zen kernel

2010-02-15 Thread gt
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Otávio Módolo wrote: > T.T > > sorry for that, i'm going back to silence again. cya > > Again with Top posting :D

Re: [arch-general] zen kernel

2010-02-15 Thread gt
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > IMAP doesn't delete mails from mail server. You can use IMAP on multiple > machines. > He probably meant that it isn't feasible to maintain mailing clients on multiple machines. but anyway, gotta love IMAP (saying this while using w

Re: [arch-general] Pacman Error: upgrading to same package version again & again

2010-02-15 Thread gt
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: > Hi, > Pacman is acting weird. > Its asking me to upgrade same set of packages over & over. Even, I have > just > updated said packages.I posted my query on forums[1] but helpful reply. So > posting it here: > > gaurish ~ > upgrade > :: Sync

[arch-general] Planet Arch Linux atom feed.

2010-02-19 Thread gt
Guys, if any of you are subscribed to planet arch, then you must have noticed a problem with some of the feeds. The problem is, the summary of the feed displays fine, but when i open the feed, it shows the xml of the feed instead of showing the website. http://planet.archlinux.org/atom.xml (this

Re: [arch-general] Planet Arch Linux atom feed.

2010-02-20 Thread gt
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > Can you please clarify what you mean by "opened the feed"? The feeds > items you describe *do* link to planet.archlinux.org and not the > feed's parent. This may be a bug in those feeds (both are wordpress) > or it may be a bug in planet. I

Re: [arch-general] Planet Arch Linux atom feed.

2010-02-20 Thread gt
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > > This is nothing to do with the atom feed specifically. Go to the main > planet page and click on the links for articles from Godane or Arch Haskell. > They do not link through to the blog they came from. > > Yes, they simply show the websi

[arch-general] init showing as ini

2010-02-20 Thread gt
Hi guys, this has been known for a while, that init shows as ini. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15362 Now that we have ditched klibc, can this bug be fixed now?

Re: [arch-general] How to obtain development headers for package

2010-02-23 Thread gt
Wow did all of you post simultaneously ;)

Re: [arch-general] Microsoft keyboard and unworking keys

2010-02-24 Thread gt
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:47 AM, André Ramaciotti < andre.ramacio...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've found something interestingly weird. The output of ls -lh > /dev/input/by-id shows that this keyboard has three /dev/input entries: > /dev/input/event14, /dev/input/event15 and /dev/input/js0 (?) . Even

Re: [arch-general] init showing as ini

2010-02-25 Thread gt
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:08 AM, gt wrote: > Hi guys, this has been known for a while, that init shows as ini. > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15362 > > Now that we have ditched klibc, can this bug be fixed now? > After today's mkinticpio update, the issue seems to be fixed.

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2010-03-05 Thread gt
People using gmail's web interface are not likely to notice any problem with top or bottom posting, since gmail collapses the quoted text. but when we use a mail client, then we see the difference. Source: Personal experience. After reading a lot about posting style on this mailing list, i decided

[arch-general] urxvt colours and Xresources

2011-12-10 Thread gt
Hello folks I have been facing this issue from a long time. The issue is that sometimes the bold colours aren't loaded by urxvt. I mainly use the terminals inside screen, and then the colours are loaded properly (not always though). But when launching the terminal standalone, the colours aren't l

Re: [arch-general] urxvt colours and Xresources

2011-12-11 Thread gt
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 03:40:09PM +0100, Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 08:44:14AM +0530, gt wrote: > > I have been facing this issue from a long time. The issue is that > > sometimes the bold colours aren't loaded by urxvt. > > > > I

Re: [arch-general] urxvt colours and Xresources

2011-12-11 Thread gt
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:20:08AM -0500, nico wrote: > Have you tried updating your machine? "$TERM too long - sorry" is a > quite old bug, which has already been fixed for several months. Hmm.. I was using screen-vs from aur. Just switched to screen from extra and this bug is gone. But, settin

Re: [arch-general] urxvt colours and Xresources

2011-12-11 Thread gt
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 06:30:52PM +0100, Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:54:22PM +0530, gt wrote: > > But, setting termName to rxvt-unicode-256color in .Xresources still > > doesn't have any effect on non-screen terminals, i.e., no bold colours

Re: [arch-general] urxvt colours and Xresources

2011-12-12 Thread gt
Well, changing the termName to rxvt, has solved things for now. I know it's not good to force termNames, but i didn't see any other solution for now. Let's wait and see if this gives trouble or not. -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [arch-general] urxvt colours and Xresources

2011-12-12 Thread gt
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 09:48:23PM +0100, Koen Wilde wrote: > On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:21:55 +0530, gt wrote: > > But, why only vim is displaying this behaviour is beyond me. If it's of > > any use, i am attaching my vimrc. > > Did you try a different (256-color) vim co

Re: [arch-general] urxvt colours and Xresources

2011-12-13 Thread gt
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:34:02PM +0530, gt wrote: > Well, changing the termName to rxvt, has solved things for now. I know > it's not good to force termNames, but i didn't see any other solution > for now. Let's wait and see if this gives trouble or not. Well i came u

[arch-general] Top Posting Revisited

2011-12-15 Thread gt
Hello folks, i'll probably get flamed for reviving a very controversial, yet consistently brought up topic. I have seen a similar thread last year, and every other day, someone points out to someone that top posting is bad. I was off the list for a while, and now when i came back, the story is st

Re: [arch-general] Question regarding the default file manager in XFCE

2011-12-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 02:32:42PM +0100, Vladimir Nikšić wrote: > > I think this is handled by the same XDG 'mimeapps.list' which contains > > file type associations. Just add an entry for "inode/directory" pointing > > to Nautilus: > > > >    ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list > > > >    [

[arch-general] archiso rebuild

2012-01-04 Thread gt
Hello folks I was wondering if there is a way to rebuild a custom live disc, using archiso, without having to download all the packages over again. The problem is that after making a few changes to the configuration, mainly inside root-image directory, i want to rebuild the iso. But, running bui

Re: [arch-general] archiso rebuild

2012-01-04 Thread gt
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 11:05:25PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > In the official builds, the downloaded packages are always reused. I am > not intimitely familiar with the internals of archiso - you could > subscribe to the arch-releng list and post there, at least Gerardo reads > that list and wi

Re: [arch-general] archiso rebuild

2012-01-04 Thread gt
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:24:17PM -0500, Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > I don't know how to rebuild the ISO, but for the meantime, you could back > up your > > /var/cache/pacman/pkg > > dir, since that is where your packages are stored. I hope that helps from > not having to redownload 500 MB again.

Re: [arch-general] About cron utility

2012-01-06 Thread gt
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 05:50:06AM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Sat, 7 Jan 2012 11:49:48 +0800 > schrieb 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) : > > > Which cron utility should I use,cronie or dcron? > > I would still recommend fcron. I am using dcron, and am quite satisfied with it. Can you elaborate why you r

Re: [arch-general] Chromium KDE4 optional dependencies

2012-01-10 Thread gt
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:13:09PM +0200, Chris Sakalis wrote: > Hello everyone. > I am not sure if this is the right place to post this, or if this is actually > worth posting. > > I am using KDE4 (4.7.4-1) and Chromium 16, which added support for the native > KDE file dialog. I think that 'kdeba

Re: [arch-general] Email via mutt+offlineimap+msmtp

2012-01-13 Thread gt
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 05:14:13PM +0200, Mantas M. wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 08:33:36AM -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > Pardon me for jumping in here, but if mutt isn't smart enough to > > automatically use In-Reply-To: and/or References: headers on replies? Or > > likes to add ext

Re: [arch-general] Email via mutt+offlineimap+msmtp

2012-01-13 Thread gt
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 07:14:38PM +0200, Mantas M. wrote: > On 2012-01-13 17:56, gt wrote: > > Firstly, Alpine isn't maintained anymore. > > There is a fork "re-alpine", though. Yeah, I know of that, but i heard of it, after i got hooked to mutt :) -- O< ascii

Re: [arch-general] Just thinking out loud...

2012-01-14 Thread gt
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 01:34:23PM +, Clive Cooper wrote: > > I have a Beagleboard running Arch Linux from http://archlinuxarm.org/ > > and it is great! > > > > Easy to install and everything just works :D > > That's a very expensive board compared to the Raspberry pi price of > $25 (Model A)

Re: [arch-general] Email via mutt+offlineimap+msmtp

2012-01-15 Thread gt
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 01:19:29AM -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > -- snip -- > > And I note that as a multi-boot/multi-Linux-distribution user That the > "alpine" packages found in at least some of the distro's repositories > appears to be compiled from re-alpine sources since If I understa

Re: [arch-general] Email via mutt+offlineimap+msmtp

2012-01-15 Thread gt
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:15:50AM +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote: > I don't understand why that much people are using MUAs without a GUI, > anyway, a penfriend is blind, reading braille, a good reason to use a > GUI free MUA. An Email I received yesterday was written with User-Agent: > Alpine 2.00 (DEB

[arch-general] bashrc path not being enforced

2012-01-27 Thread gt
Hello list Earlier I had appended my personal bin directory to /etc/profile's PATH, and it worked perfectly. Now, i am trying to add PATH to my user's .bashrc, but it doesn't come into effect. Though adding it to .bash_profile works. I am using urxvt and have set it to start as a login shell. Wh

Re: [arch-general] bashrc path not being enforced

2012-01-27 Thread gt
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 03:42:17PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 27.01.2012 15:20, schrieb gt: > > Earlier I had appended my personal bin directory to /etc/profile's PATH, > > and it worked perfectly. > > > > Now, i am trying to add PATH to my user's

Re: [arch-general] Beep no longer works

2012-02-07 Thread gt
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 05:18:03AM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:08 AM, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban > wrote: > > #beep > > Could not open /dev/tty0 or /dev/vc/0 for writing > > open: No such file or director > > [...] > You need root / sudo. Works here. Well looking a

Re: [arch-general] DPMS

2012-02-09 Thread gt
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 09:59:44AM +, P Nikolic wrote: > On Thursday 09 Feb 2012 10:54:15 Christoph Vigano wrote: > > On 02/09/2012 10:37 AM, P Nikolic wrote: > > > > > > > > > So where can i put the xset command for it to work correctly every time > > > > you could always put settings like

Re: [arch-general] DPMS

2012-02-09 Thread gt
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:13:57PM +, P Nikolic wrote: > On Thursday 09 Feb 2012 16:11:05 gt wrote: > > How do you login? i.e., which login manager do you use? > i use KDM I don't think that kdm uses xinitrc by default. You'll have to make it use xinitrc. It sup

Re: [arch-general] [mirrorlist] Remove ftp mirrors from the default list

2012-02-13 Thread gt
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:06:49AM +0800, Abdul Halim Mat Ali wrote: > I don't find download small files is slow especially when the mirror is at > your country. > Furthermore, my country namely Singapore only have one mirror and that one > mirror using FTP. > > Arch-devs. Kindly do not delete FTP

Re: [arch-general] Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY]

2012-02-14 Thread gt
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:45:54PM -0500, Rob Lewis wrote: > I am running into an issue I have never really run into in the past with my > current laptop. Upon installing arch linux I reboot and face the following > issue which hangs forever during the bot process: > > Waiting for UDev uevents to

[arch-general] Fw: Re: Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY]

2012-02-15 Thread gt
Well it would seem he still found it useful. But forgot to cc the mailing list. - Forwarded message from Rob Lewis - Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:20:20 -0500 From: Rob Lewis To: gt Subject: Re: [arch-general] Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed [BUSY] Thanks! That thread at least

Re: [arch-general] Cannot upgrade.

2012-02-15 Thread gt
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:48:57PM +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > On 02/14/12 at 11:49pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > The pacman upgrade didn't cause trouble here. When I run pacman -Syu the > > first time, only pacman was shown. Directly after installing it I run > > pacman -Syu again and there where

[arch-general] /var/log/btmp empty

2012-02-21 Thread gt
Hello folks My failed login attempts aren't being recorded, and lastb shows no output. The permissions are correct: -rw--- 1 root root 0 Nov 15 06:39 /var/log/btmp Reading a previous message on the mailing list, i tried setting FTMP_FILE /var/log/btmp in /etc/login.defs. But this g

Re: [arch-general] /var/log/btmp empty

2012-02-23 Thread gt
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:11:06PM -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: > I think FTMP_FILE is obsolete. Logging of failed login attempts is handled by > pam. Try running faillog(8)... Also I am not sure if /var/log/btmp has to be > kept at all. Thanks, i didn't know about faillog. Unfortunately, it doesn't

Re: [arch-general] Building taskjuggler 2.4.3 form AUR fails

2012-02-26 Thread gt
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:28:02AM +0100, Thorsten wrote: > > Hi List, > on a freshly updated arch with a freshly pulled AUR I can't install > taskjuggler (2.4). Taskjuggler3 can be installed, but I want to use > Emacs orgmode's taskjuggler export, thats geared towards taskjuggler > 2.4. > Anybo

Re: [arch-general] renaming files

2012-03-01 Thread gt
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 11:13:03PM +, pete wrote: > Hi folks > > Bit sort of off topic but hopefully ok > > I have some 350 picture files with names along the lines of > "IMG_7127 EOS-1D Mark III copy.jpg"i would like to rename them all > to more like "IMG_7127.jpg" i have tried a fe

[arch-general] partition mount, strange entry in log

2012-03-07 Thread gt
>From the past few weeks, i get this in the log during boot: kernel: [8.165927] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem kernel: [8.194637] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) Here's the relevant part of the fstab: UUID=<---

Re: [arch-general] partition mount, strange entry in log

2012-03-08 Thread gt
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 07:31:57AM +, Jason Steadman wrote: > On 8 March 2012 07:28, gt wrote: > > > From the past few weeks, i get this in the log during boot: > > > > kernel: [8.165927] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounting ext3 file > > system using the ext4 subsy

Re: [arch-general] partition mount, strange entry in log

2012-03-08 Thread gt
> - Original Message - > From: Jason Steadman > Sent: 03/08/12 02:40 PM > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Subject: Re: [arch-general] partition mount, strange entry in log > > On 8 March 2012 09:05, gt wrote: > > > > Is it something new in the

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-19 Thread gt
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:54:20AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Track01 on dvd's always comes up with unknown length when trying to burn a > > dvd with wodim. That's out of two different containers of dvd's too. > > These dvd's are single-sided so no danger of bl

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:01:08PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Thomas Bächler wrote: > > > That reminds me, I was going to re-add cdrtools to the repositories, but > > I forgot, because I never write CDs or DVDs anyway (and when I do, it > > works with what I have installed right now). > > I

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 01:01:35PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > gt wrote: > > Anyway, i just removed dvd+rw-tools, and k3b whines about not finding > > growisofs in the PATH. What should i do? > > If you install cdrtools, this message should disappear. I do have cdrtoo

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:33:38AM -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > > On 03/20/2012 10:30 AM, gt wrote: > > perhaps you also need dvd+rw-tools? That's the whole discussion of the thread. I did have dvd+rw-tools installed, but after Joerg insisted that they are not necessary, i

Re: [arch-general] wodim unuseable

2012-03-20 Thread gt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:50:30PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > gt wrote: > > > I do have cdrtools installed, and k3b does detect cdrecord, mkisofs, > > readcd etc. > > > > But still k3b says this on startup: > > > > Unable to find growisofs executabl

Re: [arch-general] aria2c left a mess on system

2012-03-25 Thread gt
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 08:57:48AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I've now cleared it off, but what had happened was a download of an iso > with a torrent file and afterwards the iso had a unique inode it couldn't > be checked with md5sum because md5sum claimed it didn't exist. I didn't > even t

[arch-general] fsck on each boot?

2012-03-26 Thread gt
I recently added the fsck hook to mkinitcpio.conf after seeing it being recommended in the forums. I don't have a separate /usr though. Anyway, now after every boot i see: performing fsck on It shows up clean, and happens in a flash of a second. So my question is that is the hook supposed to p

Re: [arch-general] Funny issue with bash-completion and __git_ps1

2012-03-28 Thread gt
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 08:49:15AM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 08:05:48AM +0200, martin kalcher wrote: > > Hey hey > > > > After the last bash-completion and git update there is a funny issue > > with the Git Prompt [1]: __git_ps1 is not defined > > > > The bash-completio

Re: [arch-general] Funny issue with bash-completion and __git_ps1

2012-03-28 Thread gt
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:19:37AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 03/28/2012 03:28 AM, gt wrote: > >What would you recommend instead? I too face problems time and again > >with bash-completion and would like to get rid of it. Do you have some > >special settings in your .

Re: [arch-general] mkisofs question

2012-03-31 Thread gt
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 06:18:33PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Can any options be used with mkisofs to tell it if an single image will > have a size larger than 1 dvd can hold, make as many additional images as > necessary so that everything will fit on more than a single dvd? >From the mkiso

Re: [arch-general] elinks is unverifiable

2012-04-01 Thread gt
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 10:43:20AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Script started on Sun Apr 1 10:40:14 2012 > [root@localhost ~]# exitpacman -Ss > soundsexitpacman -Sy elinks Apart from what Christoph said, never run pacman -Sy . This can cause trouble, as the dep

Re: [arch-general] fake archlinux list message

2012-04-10 Thread gt
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 06:29:43PM +0300, George Nikolopoulos wrote: > hi all, > i received the attached message. > I don't know much about email headers but it seems to have all the > headers as if posted from arch linux servers. > > Furthermore the address gerolde.archlinux.org points to an irre

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-15 Thread gt
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 04:38:01PM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > Right my /etc/updatedb.conf is as follows > # directories to exclude from the slocate database: > PRUNEPATHS="/media /mnt /tmp /var/tmp /var/cache /var/lock /var/run > /var/spool /home/pete/nas /home/pete/Movies /home/pete/Music /home

Re: [arch-general] findutils and locate

2012-04-16 Thread gt
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 08:22:03AM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root locate 39512 Mar 3 05:53 /usr/bin/locate > > it is running with the default as you can see this is getting a bit > strange to say the least think the next is going to be uninstall and > reinstall it see if that he

Re: [arch-general] Screen locking problem in KDE

2012-04-21 Thread gt
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 10:52:54AM +0300, Dmitry Korzhevin wrote: > Hello guys, > > Please give me advice - how can i debug problem with screen locking in > KDE? I don't find any similar problems in arch forums/mailing lists. > This problem appeared after update. > > Standart Ctrl+Alt+L doesn't w

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD "provides" not handled correctly?

2012-05-01 Thread gt
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:01:16PM -0300, Norbert Zeh wrote: > Thanks for all your quick replies. Immediately after firing off this email, I > thought it would be something like this, but for some reason I didn't bother > to > read the manpage :( Some would have considered this reason enough for

Re: [arch-general] wget

2012-05-02 Thread gt
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 12:55:59PM +0530, Debashish Saha wrote: > are the commands are different for archlinux and linuxmint? > i dont know, if it is so sorry for disturbing you.can u say what is > mailling list for linuxmint? It's not about commands. Archlinux is a different distribution than lin

[arch-general] qt applications gone black

2012-05-09 Thread gt
Hey guys I am facing a strange issue. All qt applications have become black, making them impossible to use. Here's an example showing vlc and avidemux-qt https://imgur.com/a/PR5vH Anyone else facing this issue? The closest i found someone with a similar problem is: https://www.linuxquestions.o

Re: [arch-general] qt applications gone black

2012-05-09 Thread gt
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:28:42PM +0700, Diep Pham Van wrote: > I have same problem before, you must install libgnomeui and change GUI > style in qtconfig. I had removed libgnomeui a year back, and everything was working fine in the meantime. Unfortunately libgnomeui fetches a lot of unnecessary

Re: [arch-general] qt applications gone black

2012-05-09 Thread gt
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 10:20:13AM +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Wednesday 09 May 2012 14:34:27 gt wrote: > > Unfortunately libgnomeui fetches a lot of unnecessary gnome stuff, gvfs, > > udisks2 etc. Isn't there some other solution? > > Qt comes with qtconfig. H

Re: [arch-general] qt applications gone black

2012-05-09 Thread gt
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:31:08AM +0200, CodeVision wrote: > On Wed, 9 May 2012 14:34:27 +0530 > gt wrote: > > > I had removed libgnomeui a year back, and everything was working fine > > in the meantime. > > > > Unfortunately libgnomeui fetches a lot of

Re: [arch-general] procps dependency

2012-05-09 Thread gt
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 05:59:04PM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > I am trying to build and burn the archboot iso file on my x86_64 Arch. > > *|[gabx@magnolia Desktop]$ sudo pacman -S archboot > Password: > resolving dependencies... > warning: cannot resolve "procps>=3.2.8-4", a dependency of "archbo

Re: [arch-general] wallpaper for 1920x1080 screens.

2012-05-09 Thread gt
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 08:06:12PM +0200, Boris Le Ninivin wrote: > I've uploaded a bunch of variations : > http://borisln.deviantart.com/gallery/ , feel free to distribute/use > them :) Nice, a color for everyone. Maybe, they should indeed be bundled into the archlinux-wallpaper package. > I've

Re: [arch-general] FS#29803 - Kernel 3.3.4-2 panic

2012-05-12 Thread gt
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 02:56:02PM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: > Maybe pasting some output would help? [1] > > cheers! > mar77i > > [1] http://paste.pocoo.org/ Offtopic: lodgeit died a few days back :(

Re: [arch-general] broken zip after upgrade

2012-05-13 Thread gt
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 09:52:54AM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > Dear list, > > after a whole bunch of fresh upgrades yesterday, 2012/05/12, I can > not unzip with File Roller (default app), with expanding tar.gz > still working. > > Here are the two error messages: > > */There is no command inst

Re: [arch-general] Mirrors

2012-05-31 Thread gt
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:34:05AM +0100, P .NIKOLIC wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2012 08:33:46 +0100 > Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote: > > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:19 AM, P .NIKOLIC > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi .. > > > > > > I am getting lots of errors from the  mirror.lividpenguin.com > > > stating :

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.3.8-1

2012-06-07 Thread gt
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:51:26AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am 06.06.2012 17:13, schrieb Sudaraka Wijesinghe: > > On 06/06/12 18:31, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > >> Hi guys, > >> please signoff 3.3.8 series for both arches. > >> package is not in testing, please grab it from here: > >> http:

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.3.8-1

2012-06-07 Thread gt
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 08:08:43PM +0530, Sudaraka Wijesinghe wrote: > On 06/07/12 19:52, gt wrote: > > > > I am getting the following error: > > > > linux-headers-3.3.8-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz: invalid or corrupted package (PGP > > signature) > > I believe

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

2012-06-13 Thread gt
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:14:06PM -0300, Victor Silva wrote: > Oki I reverted to the old kernel and I'm back to the old scenario how can I > properly downgrade a kernel? > > Regards and thx for the help so far guys. This community rocks. Since you have already reverted to the old kernel, you don

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

2012-06-13 Thread gt
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:18:17AM -0300, Victor Silva wrote: > 2012/6/14 gt > > Since you have already reverted to the old kernel, you don't further > > need to downgrade it, as you have already downgraded it. > > > > (Assuming, you did a pacman -U ) > > >

[arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-15 Thread gt
Hey guys, after upgrading to 295.59 from 295.53, i am seeing the following in the dmesg output: NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other con

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-15 Thread gt
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 06:55:10AM +0100, Jason Steadman wrote: > On 16 June 2012 06:46, gt wrote: > > > Hey guys, after upgrading to 295.59 from 295.53, i am seeing the > > following in the dmesg output: > > > > NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to dr

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-16 Thread gt
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 01:40:08AM -0700, Don deJuan wrote: > On 06/15/2012 11:33 PM, gt wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 06:55:10AM +0100, Jason Steadman wrote: > >>On 16 June 2012 06:46, gt wrote: > >> > >>>Hey guys, after upgrading to 295.59 from 295.53

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-16 Thread gt
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 01:19:58PM +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: > On 06/16/2012 08:46 AM, gt wrote: > > Hey guys, after upgrading to 295.59 from 295.53, i am seeing the > > following in the dmesg output: > > > > NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a V

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-17 Thread gt
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:16:55AM -0700, Don deJuan wrote: > Are you still seeing the output in the newest one that came after > this update push? I am still seeing it. Not sure I really get what > the issue even is. Just upgraded to the latest driver, and yes i am still seeing it as well. The is

Re: [arch-general] nvidia 295.59-1 dmesg output

2012-06-18 Thread gt
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:25:07PM -0700, Don deJuan wrote: > On 06/18/2012 12:05 PM, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: > > > >GRUB2 documentation is notably difficult to read, but from > >http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Simple-configuration.html#Simple-configuration > >I > >guess that the rel

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread gt
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:08:02PM +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 06/19/2012 11:56 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I plan to settle in the comimg months a web server to deliver many > > services to the trading community (I am myself a trader). > > > > I daily use Arch as my syste

Re: [arch-general] create Arch based distro

2012-06-19 Thread gt
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:11:15AM +0300, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας wrote: > no, no, it was just an example... > On Jun 20, 2012 12:08 AM, "Ike Devolder" wrote: > > > Op woensdag 20 juni 2012 00:05:01 schreef Δημήτρης Ζέρβας: > > > chakra?? > > > > chakra project: kde-centric originally arch based distro >

Re: [arch-general] [Offtopic] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread gt
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:36:17AM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > Dear all, > [snip] > TY for advising. Hello Arno Sorry for the offtopic bit, but i have noticed that your threads tend to branch out from some other thread, many times. I believe that you use the reply button on an existing topic an

Re: [arch-general] [Offtopic] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread gt
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:51:03PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 14:38:27 +0530, gt wrote: > > Hello Arno > > [snip] > > Please always start a new thread ;) > For the mutt users, just press "#" to decouple the message from the parent &

Re: [arch-general] locale variables

2012-06-24 Thread gt
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 06:23:47PM +0200, nelsonmaram...@gmx.de wrote: > > TY for your answer. > > For now, I use *sdiff* to edit and merge with new *.pacnew* files. > > I was confused this time because Thunar explorer show me local.gen as a > > binary! But this is not the case, so I will merge th

Re: [arch-general] merging files from pacnew

2012-06-24 Thread gt
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 06:28:15PM +0200, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Arno Gaboury > wrote: > > Is there a simple command line I can use, appart sdiff and Vimdiff?? > > if use pacdiff from pacman-contrib AFAIK pacdiff uses vimdiff too. @ Arno If you are not

Re: [arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

2012-06-25 Thread gt
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:24:26AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:07:34AM EDT, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > > [..] > > > > Bit of a shame Archlinux does not provide a live environment that lets > > > you verify you can run X11.. connect to the network.. etc. > > > You can c

[arch-general] k3b/cdrecord problem burning dual layer disc

2012-06-26 Thread gt
Hey folks A few days ago i was trying to burn an iso to a dual layer dvd, but i got an i/o error. Thankfully though the burn failed, but it spared the disc :) I tried downgrading cdrtools but that didn't fix it either. I found out that the iso was about 4200 MB in size and apparently trying to bu

Re: [arch-general] A question specifically about upgrading an existing arch system from grub legacy to grub without UEFI or GPT

2012-07-02 Thread gt
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:26:23PM +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > I have been following the discussions in various places including on > this list about the forthcoming change from grub to become grub-legacy > and the default bootloader becoming grub2. > > On all my arch systems I have grub with MBR

Re: [arch-general] mpd, ncmpcpp

2012-07-10 Thread gt
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 01:47:48PM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > Dear list > > I am switching lots of my GUI apps to CLI ones. > Currently, I am moving from Clemetine music player to ncmpcpp. > [snip] So, when are you switching to mutt :P

Re: [arch-general] arch with a specific kernel version

2012-07-12 Thread gt
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 03:11:51PM +0100, andrea crotti wrote: > I would like to create multiple arch linux installations with a > specific (a quite old 2.6 version) kernel version. > Is that in theory possible/easy? > > I have a new one recently created but the downport doesn't seem so > easy, so

Re: [arch-general] claws-mail is it possible to see own posts to mailinglist?

2012-07-19 Thread gt
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:16:57AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi, > I have a big problem with claws-mail, is it somehow possible to see own > posts to mailinglists? > I'm using gmail imap and somehow my own posts are not shown. > Thunderbird does not have this issue. > > greetings > tpowa

Re: [arch-general] claws-mail is it possible to see own posts to mailinglist?

2012-07-19 Thread gt
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:07:40PM +0530, gt wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:16:57AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a big problem with claws-mail, is it somehow possible to see own > > posts to mailinglists? > > I'm using gmail imap and so

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