On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 01:39:45PM -0400, Penguin Lover Randy Westlund squawked:
> - log in
> - startx
> - login on tty2
> - edit .xinitrc (shown below)
> - startx -- :1
>
> .xinitrc goes from:
>
> > exec xmonad
> > #exec startxfce4
>
> to:
> > #exec xmonad
> > exec startxfce4
>
> Then I can sw
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:09:12AM +0800, Penguin Lover tlze squawked:
> > The actual models are A8 (trinity, RD 7560D GPU) and A10 (richland RD 8570D
> > GPU), or a plain AthlonIIx4 (no GPU).
> > My question is: Are these GPUs supported properly under linux? Does anyone
> > have experiences with t
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:46:59PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked:
> @set1+@set2/@set3 reduces to:
>
> all the elements of set1 and set2 without the elements that are in set3
> (/ is difference).
>
Speaking as a mathematician (and A. Gottlieb will agree with me), I
would be rather a
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 09:45:46PM -0300, Penguin Lover luis jure squawked:
>
> just for the record (i started the thread), i never could make the dropbox
> installed by the ebuild work. so i downloaded the binaries from the dropbox
> site and they worked fine from the cli with the dropbox.py scri
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:28:59PM +0200, Penguin Lover Marc Joliet squawked:
> I believe that is available as net-misc/dropbox-cli. It's how I start/stop
> dropbox here.
Ooh, it has been in the tree for almost a year now and I didn't notice? Wow.
Especially since I've just started using dropbox a
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 01:15:53PM -0300, Penguin Lover luis jure squawked:
> and what about /etc/init.d/dropbox, should i start the service?
>
> i also noticed that there's a file /etc/conf.d/dropbox, i had to add my
> use to DROPBOX_USERS, otherwise there where errors when i tried to launch
> d
I don't know whether this has percolated to Gentoo users yet.
http://pyfound.blogspot.ch/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.html
A company in the UK is trying to trademark the use of "Python" for
IT related products. The Python Software Foundation is seeking
evidence for consistent pr
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 05:18:24PM -0600, Penguin Lover Kevin Brandstatter
squawked:
> coorect, you could concievable run something like
> ebuild ebuildname qmerge if all the steps have been completed
>
I will give something like this a try next time.
W
Hi list, just discovered something slightly unexpected.
I am on gentoolkit-0.3.0.7.
I started running revdep-rebuild on the console.
The process starts, found the broken deps, and started with the
emerge.
Before it starts the emerge process, I can interrupt revdep-rebuild
with Ctrl-C
After i
Hi list,
Suppose that I tried to emerge a package, and the compilation phase
went through without problems, but it got stopped in the installation
phase. Is there a way to (after I fixed the problem) to tell portage
to install the (now all already compiled binaries sitting in
/var/tmp/portage) di
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 09:08:52AM +0200, Penguin Lover Marc Joliet squawked:
> 2.) The full blown interactive solution: IPython. You can create a session and
> configure which modules you want preloaded via startup scripts. This is
> overkill for what you want, I think, but IPython is a much nicer
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 12:00:15PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked:
> Or, when previewing what
> emerge world wants to do, note that a new flag is enabled, remove it
> yourself and let emerge world proceed when you are happy with it.
s/remove/add
and your advice works equally well fo
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 07:29:57AM +0200, Penguin Lover J. Roeleveld squawked:
> Aside from installing an FTP-server, you can also install "AirDroid", it
> lets you control the phone via a webbrowser over a WIFI-connection.
>
> It lets you backup nearly everything from your phone, including the
>
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 10:41:12AM +0800, Penguin Lover 赵佳晖 squawked:
> I have use your method , it didn't work .
> Like:
> sudo echo "sys-boot/grub:2 **" >>
> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/package.keywords.grub2 echo
> "sys-boot/grub:2 **" | sudo tee
> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/p
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 02:43:17AM +0100, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked:
> Best thing to do is to remove video/ffmpeg from world in favour of
> virtual/ffmpeg so that Portage can work things out for itself.
Most likely (if you are on a desktop system), ffmpeg would be pulled
in as a dependency
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:01:00AM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked:
> > Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think:
> >
> > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
> >
> Jeez Am I _STILL_ showing up on this list of high posting people?
> I've honestly worked to g
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:38:21AM -0400, Penguin Lover Doug Hunley squawked:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 04:47, Helmut Jarausch
> wrote:
> > I am at glibc-2.15-r1 on AMD64 with no problems so far,
>
> ditto here
>
Hey guys, I think we've pretty much established that Michael is
running into an is
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 05:28:12PM -0500, Penguin Lover »Q« squawked:
> That's true. There used to be a places.sqlite-journal file as well,
> which should be deleted from the profile a places.sqlite file is being
> copied to, but I don't see it any more in either Firefox or SeaMonkey.
>
While I
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 09:44:25AM -0300, Penguin Lover Claudio Roberto França
Pereira squawked:
> Anyway, does anyone with a similar setup had any problems with atheros
> nics? And how did you solve it?
Does your problem happen with WEP or WPA networks?
There is a known bug introduced in the 3
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 12:15:05PM +0200, Penguin Lover Willie WY Wong squawked:
> Does anyone know what these guys are and/or if they are documented
> anywhere?
Ah, found it.
What I was looking for and more are in the /usr/portage/profiles/desc/
directory.
W
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Data aequatione quot
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 01:53:22PM +0200, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann
squawked:
> > > > [ebuild U ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.2 [0.10] FFTOOLS="-aviocat%
> > > > -cws2fws% -ffeval% -graph2dot% -ismindex% -pktdumper% -qt-faststart%
> > > > -trasher%"
> > > >
> > ~ $ euse -i aviocat
> > g
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 12:58:18PM +0200, Penguin Lover Volker Armin Hemmann
squawked:
> Am Freitag, 6. April 2012, 12:15:05 schrieb Willie WY Wong:
> > emerge --pretend --update world today brought up a new version of
> > ffmpeg. This time it has a new set of configuration
Hi list:
emerge --pretend --update world today brought up a new version of
ffmpeg. This time it has a new set of configuration options FFTOOLS
[ebuild U ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.2 [0.10] FFTOOLS="-aviocat% -cws2fws%
-ffeval% -graph2dot% -ismindex% -pktdumper% -qt-faststart% -trasher%"
Do
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 05:43:00PM +0100, Penguin Lover David W Noon squawked:
> In that case, the source of the breakage is almost certainly Portage.
>
> If a slotted package is in the world file without a slot specification,
> Portage should really take that to mean "all installed slots are
> re
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 07:09:26PM +0100, Penguin Lover Willie WY Wong squawked:
> I wonder if it would be advisable to file a bug to have wicd provide
> net? (Is there any reason why this would be a bad idea?)
>
Ah, in fact it seems that having wicd provide net is already in the
work
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 07:00:52PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked:
> You should read the thread " rfc: only the loopback interface should
> provide net" on -dev. They were discussing the changes in this. Maybe
> those changes had something to do with what happened here.
>
> Dale
>
Thanks D
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 05:31:23PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked:
> Here's what I've found after much up & down-grading and rebooting:
>
> First, I've had netmount in the default runlevel for ages and it's
> worked for ages even though it does nothing.
> Second, openrc has been launc
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 06:00:46PM +0100, Penguin Lover Dan Johansson squawked:
> > Yes, that was it, killing the dhcpcd made it possible to bring the
> > interface up and associate with the AP.
> > As openrc was one of the packages upgraded yesterday (0.9.8.4 -> 0.9.9.1) I
> > assume (guess) tha
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:35:35AM +0100, Penguin Lover Willie WY Wong squawked:
> Can someone help me figure out how to find the offending initscript that is
> needlessly calling dhcpcd?
Apparently the culprit is /etc/init.d/netmount
I am not sure how it got into the default run level, s
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 05:35:30AM -0800, Penguin Lover walt squawked:
> The value of ${IFACE} is set (I think) by looking at the ".lo"
> or ".eth0" file extension of net.lo or net.eth0 (or whatever
> symlink you created when you installed gentoo). If you don't
> have a net.whatever symlink to net
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 07:32:43AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked:
> This may not be it but worth taking a look at. /etc/rc.conf From that
> file:
>
> # rc_hotplug is a list of services that we allow to be hotplugged.
> # By default we do not allow hotplugging.
> # A hotplugged service is on
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:34:01AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:19:56 +0100
> Dan Johansson wrote:
> > After running an update yesterday (about 50 packages) on my ~x86
> > laptop, wicd stopped working, and no wicd was not updated neither was
> > any other n
On Thursday night, I emerged some packages
Thu Feb 23 23:26:44 2012 >>> net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.6.3-r300
Thu Feb 23 23:29:44 2012 >>> www-client/midori-0.4.3
Thu Feb 23 23:45:36 2012 >>> sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.49
Thu Feb 23 23:52:50 2012 >>> media-libs/libpng-1.5.9
Thu Feb 23 23:53:45 2012 >>> sys-
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 03:32:16AM +0100, Penguin Lover Alex Schuster squawked:
> Now I'd also like to use Midori, as a lightweight browser for using
> Google+. The reason is that when I open Google+ in Firefox, I am
> also logged in at Google when I using other tabs with Youtube or other
> Google
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 01:36:00AM +, Penguin Lover Peter Humphrey squawked:
> On Thursday 23 February 2012 11:48:59 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> > I prefer to update portage first, just in case it co-coincides with some
> > update to the tree
>
> What does "co-coincides" mean? I know that vario
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 06:24:29PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked:
> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 08:42:00PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> >
> >> (a) using less, and have it take just 10 screen lines; (b) using cat etc.,
> >> and have the interesting part scroll away.
> >
> > (c) use l
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 02:59:31PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked:
> > They're working on it... They actually have started generating 64-bit
> > nightly builds for Windows and Linux:
> > https://nightly.mozilla.org/
>
> What is it about my systems wherein every one of these https links
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 09:26:56PM +0100, Penguin Lover András Csányi squawked:
> On 23 February 2012 21:13, Willie WY Wong wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > Is there a way to set the Java VM based on program?
> >
> > For the most part I would like to keep icedtea-bin
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:43:47PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras
squawked:
> If you think it's worth the hassle, why not. Personally, the only
> reason I would build from source on such a slow system is to get a
> 64-bit build, since the -bin package seems to be 32-bit. That means the
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 09:55:07PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras
squawked:
> The PGO optimized build that Mozilla is shipping. You can also build
> with PGO from source, but that means building FF *twice* in a row (by
> enabling the "pgo" USE flag). I doubt that with the old laptop an
Hi list,
Is there a way to set the Java VM based on program?
For the most part I would like to keep icedtea-bin-7 as my system VM,
but there is one program (jabref-2.6) which doesn't run well with
java-7, but works fine with icedtea-bin-6.
Is there a "Gentoo" way of setting this?
Thanks,
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 01:48:59PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked:
> I'm not worried about broken portage commits, I have
> FEATURES="buildsyspkg" enabled so as long as I have a working tar I'm
> good to go with any fix.
Wait... isn't portage itself no longer in the system set?
W
--
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:22:27PM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked:
> I compiled FF 10.0.1 on amd64 without any problems :
> it needed 3,61 GB disk space for the link stage
> & most/all of my 2 GB memory.
Argh. 3.6 diskspace and 2G memory? I guess it is finally getting to
the point t
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 08:04:36PM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked:
> > 2) Mask everything in an overlay except exactly what I actually want
> > installed.
>
> The way I do this is to layman -a the overlay but not put it in
> make.conf. Then I symlink only the ebuilds I want to my loca
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 09:37:44AM +0100, Penguin Lover Helmut Jarausch
squawked:
> How can I find out which (installed) package requires a given package
> (sci-libs/hdf5 in my case) with a specific use flag (cxx in my case)?
>
> I can't see how specifiy the use flag when using qdepends.
>
eque
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:23:32AM -0500, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked:
> Rather than keep music on my hard drive, I'm going the "cloud" route
> by keeping a list of my favourite Youtube clips. Ideally, I'd like
> something that I can activate from the command line, and even launch
> Firef
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:11:14PM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked:
> I was sceptical when it first arrived, but it's really easy to use and
> no password needed since the card reader generates it for you. It looks
> like a small calculator with a card slot, so easy enough to carry arou
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:14:28PM -0600, Penguin Lover »Q« squawked:
> I want sound muted on boot, but it always starts unmuted. I don't know
> when this problem started; I only noticed it because I recently went
> through a stretch of being unable to hibernate, so I booted a lot.
>
> grep -i =\
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 08:41:53AM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:35:54 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
> > I use Lastpass which does about the same as other password managers.
>
> Doesn't LastPass store your passwords on their servers, and weren't they
> compromised l
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 05:32:35AM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked:
> I've been in the habit of creating PDFs of .odt files using LibreOffice.
> Today somewhere, I was reminded of 'ps2pdf', which I'd never used before.
> The result is these 4 files :
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 purslow users
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 10:50:19AM -0700, Penguin Lover Joseph squawked:
> I tred to compile epdfview but it failed:
>
> JobPrint.cxx: In member function ‘guint ePDFView::JobPrint::setUpPageRange()’:
> JobPrint.cxx:379:56: warning: suggest parentheses around ‘&&’ within ‘||’
> PDFDocument.cxx: In
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 10:36:29AM -0700, Penguin Lover Joseph squawked:
> On 01/05/12 09:59, Willie WY Wong wrote:
> >It should be the same font as other user interface elements, and
> >controlled via the "-font" option. Hum actually that shows where
> >the
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 08:51:22AM -0700, Penguin Lover Joseph squawked:
> adding to /etc/xpdfrc:
>
> displayFontT1 Times-Roman
> /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n021003l.pfb
> displayFontT1 Times-Italic
> /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n021023l.pfb
> displayFontT1 Times-Bold
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 02:52:38PM +0100, Penguin Lover Florian Philipp
squawked:
> Am 04.01.2012 11:52, schrieb Willie WY Wong:
> > Xpdf is looking for fonts in places that are strange:
> >
> >
> > open("/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022004l.pfb", O_RDON
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:42:43PM -0700, Penguin Lover Joseph squawked:
> On 01/04/12 00:20, Florian Philipp wrote:
> >Am 03.01.2012 23:15, schrieb Joseph:
> >> xpdf it complains about missing fonts
> >> xpdf hl5370d_ukeng_usr.pdf Error: No display font for 'Courier'
> >> Error: No display font fo
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:35:10AM -0800, Penguin Lover Alan E. Davis squawked:
> After realizing that most packages I was installing, I used
> package.keywords and ~amd64, so I went ahead and jumped---I have started
> using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS for ~amd64 in /etc/make.conf . I think most of the
> inc
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 03:37:02AM +0100, Penguin Lover Frank Steinmetzger
squawked:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:59:27AM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Frank Steinmetzger writes:
> >
> > It seems you can install graphicsmagick along with imagemagick, if the
> > imagemagick USE flag ist not set.
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 12:44:50PM +, Penguin Lover Mariusz Ceier squawked:
> w3m,links and elinks. w3m and links as they support displaying images
> under framebuffer, and elinks for it's javascript support.
> If you don't need these features, any text browser is good for
> browsing html docum
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