[gentoo-user] Any small and fast desktop search app for GNOME?

2011-02-28 Thread Thomas Yao
I dislike gnome-do and I use synapse on ubuntu with another PC So I'm wondering is there any other good desktop search applications? Or how can I install synapse on gentoo? Thank you! -- Twitter: @ghosTM55 Facebook.com/ghosThomas Mechanism, not policy

Re: [gentoo-user] The new guy

2011-01-20 Thread Thomas Yao
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Nils Andresen wrote: > Hi, > I'm Nils - "the new guy". > I have been using gentoo since 2005.0 (or something...) and linux (as > THE single os installed) since '98. Im above 30, a bit on the heavy side > but I can see my toes when I look down (and bend my head onl

[gentoo-user] Can't save the font configuration in qtconfig

2010-11-06 Thread Thomas Yao
Hi all , I'm having this headache , some characters in qt applications display as blocks , you can see the screenshot from the attachment And the problem is I don't know how configure the font of qt application , qtconfig doesn't work at all I change the font setting in qtconfig and save the confi

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo - by hand - line-by-line - command-by-command?

2010-09-26 Thread Thomas Yao
You may try Linux From Scratch and try to write the init script yourself, it's good for self-education Once you master the LFS you can learn more things interesting and amazing in gentoo On 9/27/10, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I'm curious if there's a way to capture the exact set of command >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware Workstation 7.1.1 installation failed on gentoo

2010-09-20 Thread Thomas Yao
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > You cannot install the package provided by vmware.com.  You have to use the > Gentoo ebuild.  With layman, add the "vmware" overlay and install > vmware-workstation from there.  Before you do that, make sure you cleaned > your system fro

[gentoo-user] VMware Workstation 7.1.1 installation failed on gentoo

2010-09-20 Thread Thomas Yao
Hi all , I just downloaded the VMware Workstation 7 and tried to install it on my gentoo but failed I installed 32-bit gentoo system on my PC and its kernel version is the lastest one in gentoo -> 2.6.35-r7 I successfully installed Workstation on the gentoo but when I run it , it ask me to compile

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fire the fox.

2010-09-19 Thread Thomas Yao
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:07 AM, me wrote: > Chrome's set of extensions is growing rather large, and at least > contains most of what anyone would need, a bit short of 'want', but > covers needs fairly well. If you don't like chrome's interface I'll > not argue, but if the extensions are the one t

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-18 Thread Thomas Yao
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Indeed. But FF4 is *much* faster. And much more stable. At least, that > was my experience when I tried it out. I had to go back to 3.6 because > some of the plugins that I need were not yet supported for FF4. At > least the later 3.6 releas

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] strange network problem

2010-09-10 Thread Thomas Yao
2010/9/10 路 : > > > At 2010-09-10,"路" wrote: > > > > At 2010-09-10,"Walter Dnes" wrote: > >>On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:51:48PM +0800, ?? wrote >> >>> Thinks everyone: >>> DNS woks well for me. i can ping www.google.com. Just can't access >>> it in web-browsers without rebooting system.Sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-16 Thread Thomas Yao
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Mick wrote: > Not sure if it's in an overlay, but I don't think it's in portage. > > Run eix -l backup and see how many back up tools and scripts pop up. > > I have been using tar, star and rsync.  They all work and they can all make > incremental back ups.  You'll

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion

2010-08-15 Thread Thomas Yao
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Thomas Yao wrote: > [snip] >> >> Thinkpad is perfect, I strongly recommend you buy Thinkpad X/T series >> to hack gentoo or any other Linux distros with it. >> And th

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on laptop suggestion

2010-08-15 Thread Thomas Yao
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Hello, > > I would appreciate suggestions on what ultraportable laptop to put > gentoo on. I am looking for a desktop replacement, therefore a > powerful yet very portable machine would be ideal. > > Thanks, > > -- > Valmor > > Thinkpad

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 1.65

2010-08-12 Thread Thomas Yao
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:46 AM, dan blum wrote: > > I am currently running xorg 1.7, which crashes very frequently. When I used > to run xorg 1.65 everything was running fine.  Can  anyone clue me in on how > to emerge an older version of the program. > > Thanks. > > Maybe you should have a lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Extraordinarily laggy UI, keyboard, udev weirdness, KDE 4.5

2010-08-12 Thread Thomas Yao
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Paul Hartman < paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hi, I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.6.35.1 and my KDE to 4.5. After > rebooting, I have some weird, possibly unrelated issues: > > During bootup, boot process hangs on "waiting for uevents" for ~30 > secon