Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE config problem

2017-02-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 22:54:29 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Thanks Frank, but I just have a mini-script > > $ cat /usr/local/bin/gu > #!/bin/bash > grep -s --color=auto $1 $2 /usr/portage/profiles/use* > > The extra parameter is so's I can add a -w to grep. You could use $* instead of $1 $2, or

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE config problem

2017-02-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 12 Feb 2017 23:08:41 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 10:21:36AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Something which will help is if you clear out as much of your USE > > > flags in make.conf and package.use as you can, before you run emerge > > > -e. > > > > You may ha

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE config problem

2017-02-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 11 Feb 2017 10:21:36 I wrote: > On Friday 10 Feb 2017 10:15:10 Mick wrote: > > Peter, some years ago I also reverted from testing to stable arch, > > because I was spending more time fixing breakages than actually using > > the OS. From what I recall it took more than a month for things

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE config problem

2017-02-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 10:21:36AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Something which will help is if you clear out as much of your USE flags in > > make.conf and package.use as you can, before you run emerge -e. > You may have it there. Goodness knows how long they'd been there, being > copied fr

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE config problem

2017-02-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 10 Feb 2017 10:15:10 Mick wrote: > Peter, some years ago I also reverted from testing to stable arch, because > I was spending more time fixing breakages than actually using the OS. > From what I recall it took more than a month for things to settle. I did it the easy way, by building

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE config problem

2017-02-10 Thread Mick
On Friday 10 Feb 2017 09:43:03 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 08 Feb 2017 09:49:51 I wrote: > > Having reverted from ~amd64 to amd64 and created a new user for myself, > > I now can't right-click on the background to change its properties. Does > > anyone here know what might be causing this,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE config problem

2017-02-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 08 Feb 2017 09:49:51 I wrote: > Having reverted from ~amd64 to amd64 and created a new user for myself, > I now can't right-click on the background to change its properties. Does > anyone here know what might be causing this, or what config files I can > edit instead? An emerge -e ha

[gentoo-user] [OT] KDE config problem

2017-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Having reverted from ~amd64 to amd64 and created a new user for myself, I now can't right-click on the background to change its properties. Does anyone here know what might be causing this, or what config files I can edit instead? -- Regards Peter