Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Sat 24 Sep 2011 11:15:43 PM IST, JD Horelick wrote: > On 24 September 2011 12:33, James Broadhead wrote: >> On 24 September 2011 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >>> Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in >>> `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? >> >> What

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde4: no hardware info without sys-apps/hal

2011-09-24 Thread Andrey Moshbear
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[gentoo-user] Re: kde4: no hardware info without sys-apps/hal

2011-09-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/24/2011 09:43 PM, Andrey Moshbear wrote: Now that hal is out of he portage tree and uninstalled, I've noticed that the following occur: 1) no battery info (and other ACPI doesn't fare well too) 2) Suspend key is broken; must use $sudo pm-suspend instead 3) USB hotplug is broken; device noti

Re: [gentoo-user] kde4: no hardware info without sys-apps/hal

2011-09-24 Thread L. B.
> Now that hal is out of he portage tree and uninstalled, I've noticed > that the following occur: > 1) no battery info (and other ACPI doesn't fare well too) > 2) Suspend key is broken; must use $sudo pm-suspend instead > 3) USB hotplug is broken; device notifier is oblivious to > inserted/removed

Re: [gentoo-user] kde4: no hardware info without sys-apps/hal

2011-09-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Andrey Moshbear wrote: > Now that hal is out of he portage tree and uninstalled, I've noticed > that the following occur: > 1) no battery info (and other ACPI doesn't fare well too) > 2) Suspend key is broken; must use $sudo pm-suspend instead > 3) USB hotplug is

[gentoo-user] kde4: no hardware info without sys-apps/hal

2011-09-24 Thread Andrey Moshbear
Now that hal is out of he portage tree and uninstalled, I've noticed that the following occur: 1) no battery info (and other ACPI doesn't fare well too) 2) Suspend key is broken; must use $sudo pm-suspend instead 3) USB hotplug is broken; device notifier is oblivious to inserted/removed USB devices

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread JD Horelick
On 24 September 2011 12:33, James Broadhead wrote: > On 24 September 2011 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >> Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in >> `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? > > What you're missing is the experience of having used it. (Or havin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Macbook Air

2011-09-24 Thread Mick
On Saturday 24 Sep 2011 17:30:54 Grant wrote: > >> > I don't have a Macbook Air, but I have two iMac desktops and one > >> > macbook pro laptop. The two imacs run Gentoo without any problems. I > >> > installed refit to switch between Gentoo and osx. > >> > > >> > For the laptop, I had trouble boo

[gentoo-user] Editing the "open with" dialog of PCMANFM

2011-09-24 Thread Alex Barrios
Hi everybody. I use PcManFM, its just perfect for everything but i wanna edit the options that appear in the "open with" sub-menu when i right click some file. For example, if I right click an image, it appears GIMP, Gpicview and like six times "Wine core", for some reason. So i wanna fix that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 11:23 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Okay the thing is, I don't like Ubuntu. So I don't want to install it on > my system. > > Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in > `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? I'm sure *when* there is eno

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread James Broadhead
On 24 September 2011 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in > `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? What you're missing is the experience of having used it. (Or having *tried* to use it). Once you have, you will see why no o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Macbook Air

2011-09-24 Thread Grant
>> > I don't have a Macbook Air, but I have two iMac desktops and one macbook >> > pro laptop. The two imacs run Gentoo without any problems. I installed >> > refit to switch between Gentoo and osx. >> > >> > For the laptop, I had trouble booting from the installation cd. A few >> > days ago someon

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 September 2011, at 06:53, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Okay the thing is, I don't like Ubuntu. So I don't want to install it on > my system. > > Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in > `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? It's available for Arch & Fe

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimising apache on a single core 32bit machine with hyperthreading

2011-09-24 Thread Mick
On Saturday 24 Sep 2011 11:12:48 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 24.09.2011 11:32, schrieb Mick: > > If I haven't enabled USE= apache2_mpms_prefork and apache2_mpms_worker, > > how does apache behave with regards to threading responses? > > [...] > > If you have neither enabled, the ebuild (apache-2

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimising apache on a single core 32bit machine with hyperthreading

2011-09-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 24.09.2011 11:32, schrieb Mick: > If I haven't enabled USE= apache2_mpms_prefork and apache2_mpms_worker, how > does apache behave with regards to threading responses? > [...] If you have neither enabled, the ebuild (apache-2 eclass, to be specific) chooses one of them based on USE=threads. E

[gentoo-user] Optimising apache on a single core 32bit machine with hyperthreading

2011-09-24 Thread Mick
If I haven't enabled USE= apache2_mpms_prefork and apache2_mpms_worker, how does apache behave with regards to threading responses? This question is for a box with an Intel P4 single core cpu: # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: google search results (was: Modifying LiveCDs)

2011-09-24 Thread Mick
On Friday 23 Sep 2011 17:02:03 Mick wrote: > On Friday 23 Sep 2011 15:48:29 Jonas de Buhr wrote: > > >This is because Google uses geo-targeting to determine what results > > >you may be interested in (assuming your geo-location from your IP > > >address), and > > > > are you sure google uses ip ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer(2) ???

2011-09-24 Thread Mick
On Friday 23 Sep 2011 21:26:56 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/23/2011 12:54 AM, Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 22 Sep 2011 09:15:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 09/22/2011 12:58 AM, Mick wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 21 Sep 2011 09:19:39 Sebastian Beßler wrote: > > Does mplayer2 work with smplay

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread Tamer Higazi
Hi! As I know "Unity" is a cannonical thing, not a gnome or ubuntu issue. I even wouldn't wonder if that application is closed source that is destributed only through the apt cannonical package mirror APT list. Tamer Am 24.09.2011 09:31, schrieb Dale: > Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >> Okay the thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Unity on Gentoo?

2011-09-24 Thread Dale
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Okay the thing is, I don't like Ubuntu. So I don't want to install it on my system. Unity is kinda famous, want to try it on Gentoo. Can't find a package in `eix -sS unity', I'm missing something? I found this: http://forums-web1.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6688195.html