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It has been some time that randomly I get what I can only describe as hiccups while using the desktop. Description: - Randomly the OS freezes and unfreezes - Usually happens when listening to music and or related to music activity, but once a blue moon, it has happened when no sound was playing. I have no idea what is ... | What kind of memory, speed, etc. I've lately had to bump the memory voltage up by a (very small) amount, to stabilize spurious problems like yours. This is on a couple of year old system. |
This is a minor, harmless error message on the console, and after a dogged research found the cause and fixed it. So I post it just in case somebody is interested. I'm using slim for login and X session start. My gui desktop is a no frills, twm "window manager". The error on the console shows up only while the system i... | Yes, indeed. Thx. |
I'm trying to start nm-applet manually from the terminal, when I run nm-applet it does not show up on my icewm bar, there are no output messages either or debug information here's how i installed them both: Code: [ebuild R ] x11-wm/icewm-3.3.1::gentoo USE="alsa nls truetype -ao -bidi -debug -gdk-pixbuf -imlib -xinerama... | I tried enabling both but it would still not work |
I'm looking for an app that would magnify the text under my cursor, on the spot similar to the MS window magnifier. I have tried xmag but it does not magnify on the spot, instead I have to click on a spot to get it magnified, then I have to switch applications to see the result, I want something that would help me read... | I think easiest is to look if your window manager (or wayland compositor supports) such feature already. I know wayfire does support at least something similar: hold meta-key and scroll --> it zooms the whole screen and puts the cursor at the center of the new viewport. So. Tell us what kind of desktop setup you have. |
I'm not an expert at Gentoo, but I really do love it. One issue that I have had multiple times when building a Gentoo system is if I have the Nvidia drivers installed, it loses the title bars on the windows. I had the same issue today when I put in an Nvidia card. I had it working just fine with my onboard Intel GPU. I... | Hi sgtmcc. Well, I can confirm that XFCE's title bars (by which I assume you mean the ones drawn by xfwm4... you could potentially be using a different window manager in your own XFCE environment) draw perfectly well on many different Nvidia cards (and Intel cards) on Gentoo systems here. So it seems unlikely to me tha... |
I have hyprland with thunar installed Previously I dont have issues. Came home few days ago after few months, ran an update and noticed that after update, thunar takes alot longer to load. Like 30 seconds or so after first boot. I dont know tbh if its a hyprland issue or gentoo but I dont have this issue on my arch. I ... | https://imgur.com/a/bG60qgm thats the screenshot. lsblk command can show it. |
Apparently some users (myself included) have been unable to move or copy files between folders with dolphin. A file manager not being capable of managing files is a bit of an issue when trying to get work done. Pcmanfm-qt works fine, CLU mv, cp, etc works fine. The error message in dolphin is: "The file or folder Messa... | jesnow wrote: I'm getting no help from the Gentoo community. [...] I really hope that someone can step in to help because I'm out of answers. I had the same problem because of a missing FUSE in kernel. Before I have got the info I installed MidnightCommander (mc) as alternative. After enabeling FUSE I had no problems a... |
i have a cron job that makes sure at the end of the day display is not in 'presentation mode' and will turn off: Code: DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -p /xfce4-power-manager/presentation-mode -r it worked just fine for years, yet after the last weekly update started producing an error message... | my google foo tells me it could be something use related. Does the cron runs as the same user as the started X/xfce session? |
hello! Im back! When i reinstall gentoo with a minimal X and openbox install. X starts fine, but in the openbox app menu, i see unesscary applications like openoffice,rynthmbox and kde control center. However, these do not work because theyre not installed right now and they fail to open with a failed to execute child ... | x11-misc/obmenu-generator can update your menus. |
The Nautilus has a feature where the current directory can be right-clicked and opened in the terminal. I know that this feature works with MTP devices too because it works on my Debian machines running GNOME. On Gentoo, I have the mtp flag on, globally. I can drag files to and from my Android phone via Nautilus with n... | look here https://www.baeldung.com/linux/mounting-mtp-devices >>> Mount MTP Device Using the CLI |
Hello, I just finished a world update, and now Chromium is segfaulting at startup: Code: $ chromium [0626/221832.103106:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found Received signal 11 SI_KERNEL000000000000 Possibly a General Protection Fault, can be due to a non-canonical address dereference. See "Intel 64 and I... | That might be an issue that has occasionally hit Firefox as well. In the Firefox case, and if Chromium is what I suspect, then in its case too, the problem is a design bug in the browser. They set a seccomp filter that kills the process if any library anywhere in the process uses any system call that was not on the all... |
Hi all, Currently running on Kernel 6.5.4, along with the Nvidia Drivers 635.113.01, the issue I have is that when trying to run 'glxgears' for example I get the following error: Quote: Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual if i run: Code: glxinfo | grep OpenGL I get the error: Quote: Couldn't find RGV GLX... | Did you compile xorg without glx? One way to do this is by setting the USE="minimal" flag. |
Hello everyone, This is my first time installing Gentoo and I don't have much experience. I can't believe I managed to successfully install it! Anyways, I want to install the LXDE desktop environment which requires X. When run the command "emerge --verbose x11-base/xorg-drivers", it errors out. Here is the output of th... | chris_on_linux, Code: configure:3953: checking whether the C compiler works configure:3975: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=native -O2 -pipe X -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed conftest.c >&5 /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/ld: cannot find X: No such file or directory That X should not be there. Its in both Code: CFLAGS="-ma... |
I am trying to increase my mouse acceleration speed using xset, which runs with no error, xset q also resturns the value I had specified but I'm not feeling any difference om my mouse acceleration speed, I'm using icewm. It's also worth mentioning that changing the auto repeat using xset works. Code: [ebuild R ] x11-wm... | If you are using Xorg then you can set the mouse acceleration speed there. |
So I recently had some Java applications I needed to run, and I'm having problems. As you can see in the linked image, any GUI element that includes text is being rendered as though the text has zero height, even though the text is being rendered properly. This persists in any Java Swing based GUI application I run. Us... | Does anything change if you add export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 to your .bashrc and then relogin to your computer? |
For some reason I can not start any application from the application launcher in KDE plasma 5. For example, if I try to launch Firefox from either the application launcher or the quick launch I can see the Firefox logo next to my mouse pointer as if plasma is attempting to launch Firefox, but then nothing ever happens.... | How did you install KDE Plasma (meta, minimal, etc)? How you start KDE (sddm, startx)? Do you have kde-plasma/xdg-desktop-portal-kde installed? Is dbus running? |
When firefox-bin:rapid is installed, the icon in KDE task manager appears normal. If I use firefox-bin:esr, the icon is a generic wayland (W) icon. The reason is that the window class (application) is defined as firefox-esr and the desktop file is not found. In contrast, the window class (application) in :rapid is foun... | ERROR: type should be string, got "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1530052 From that bug report, I found the simplest fix is to modify a desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications and add \"--name=firefox\" to the exec lines. From: Exec=firefox-bin %u to: Exec=firefox-bin --name=firefox %u" |
I realize that Gentoo decided to include the Oracle flavor of StartOffice, called LibreOffice in Portsage, yet I prefer the simpler, less frequently updated Apache flavor, called OpenOffice. Main reasons are very long compile at each update and too much sophistication - I prefer KISS. I managed to install the rpm packa... | According to various LWN.net articles, Apache OpenOffice maintenance is in a sad state. I would not use it to open any document of even slightly questionable provenance. https://lwn.net/Articles/699047/ https://lwn.net/Articles/729460/ https://lwn.net/Articles/834121/ Those are just what I could find quickly. |
Currently trying to get everything set up on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 11, with Intel Iris Xe Graphics and a 13th gen 17-1355U. On my system, everything seems to compile fine and has the air of almost working, but it quickly gets stuck on 1 or 2 frames, flashing back and forth between them. I don't want to include vulka... | prettyflyfora- wrote: At this point I am more lost than when I started, but at least now I know what I should have set the title to (now if only I could move this topic, but I'm not even sure where I'd put it). You can change the title of the thread by editing your first post and adjusting its subject. You can request ... |
As the tittle says, I'm having problems adjusting the brightness on xfce since there is absolutely no option related to brightness. i did ls /sys/class/backlight/: Code: $ ls /sys/class/backlight/ amdgpu_bl0 and echoing a value into /sys/class/backlight/amdgpu_bl0/brightness does change the brightness level this is the... | What kind of values are you echoing? To get a feeling run Code: cat /sys/class/backlight/amdgpu_bl0/max_brightness and echo appropriate values like maybe 300,400 etc. Code: echo 500 > /sys/class/backlight/amdgpu_bl0/brightness Quote: and i dont know if its useful but when installing gentoo i used a distribution kernel ... |
Hi, I have made the dumb mistake of deleting an important config file without making a backup. I deleted the xorg.conf.d directory with the intent of re-installing xorg and regenerating that file. That didn't work out, and now I have no input in my X session. Not sure why this is but I'm now stressing out over it, havi... | If you mean you removed /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d, then just use: Code: emerge --oneshot /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d This will rebuild every package which installed there. Please be detailed if it is something else. |
I have been using the Python subprocess module in a script used by a kmail filter to open a kate editing window and replace a mail with one whose source I edit. (This comes in handy when a mail has a formatting issue.) Recently, instead of showing kate opening the tempfile I created, it opened a new file with the same ... | This is a common problem with GUI editors. In order to return the shell prompt quickly while the GUI continues running as a separate window, the process you start will fork, exit, and the child will go on to create the window and interact with the user. This likely started when Kate began doing that instead of remainin... |
I'm in the process of setting up a new laptop and X is failing at the moment. That's not the issue though. I've never noticed before, but because X failed and I was looking closely, I noticed that my location is being determined. Quote: X.Org X Server 1.21.1.8 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Current Operating System:... | I don't get that message in my Xorg logs on any of my systems, the text for this line is also not in the Xorg sources. Are you really sure you don't have redshift? I checked its source and: Code: $ grep -rA 1 "Waiting for initial" redshift-1.12/src/ redshift-1.12/src/redshift.c: fputs(_("Waiting for initial location" r... |
Hello there. GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti Driver version: 535.54.03 Kernel: 6.1.31 Portage: 3.0.46 (python 3.11.4-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/hardened/selinux, gcc-12, glibc-2.36-r8) DE: KDE Plasma 5.27.5 DM: SDDM dev-libs/wayland-1.22.0::gentoo USE="-doc -test" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" x11-base/xorg-server-21.1.8:0/... | Can't help but notice the Nvidia drivers you are using are unstable. The latest stable is 525.116.04-r2 Why don't you try the stable driver and let us know how you get on? |
So I installed gnome via the gnome-base/gnome meta package which brought in a lot of applications, most of which I want. How would I go about removing the one's I dont. Would I add a file to package.use for gnome then -application the one's I don't want? | That only works for USE flags exposed by the gnome meta package. |
Hi Updated KDE apps, now when I drag file from one side to other in split window, it only offers "copy" or "link here". No "move". is this just me or a bug? Tried to find if some setting was broken but could not find anything ... Dolphin Version 23.04.2 Thanks, Ian | I am up to date (stable) and cannot reproduce that issue here. The move option is still available for me. I would rule out a configuration issue -- backup/rename ~/.config/dolphinrc to ~/.config/dolphinrc.bak and relaunch dolphin to see if the issue persists. If issue persists, try with a new user. You can also move or... |
Hello guys, I'm getting this error message when I try to open zathura . Code: zathura: symbol lookup error: zathura: undefined symbol: gdk_wayland_display_get_type I faced similar problems with all my gui programs a few days ago and all the gui programs similar error, symbol lookup error , and it's always the gdk_wayla... | How did you invoke revdep-rebuild ? As I read sam_'s comment, you need to rebuild the consumers of the gtk+ libraries. If those libraries are not absent, the basic invocation of revdep-rebuild will not see an issue. You need to force it to search for dependencies on those particular libraries. |
Hi, I noticed that the Firefox installed through emerge is at v102 only. I need fixes in the very latest version. So I do understand the mechanics in maintaining a stable app etc, as well as testing and what-not, but still, is there a way to at least temporary bump the version? Thanks | See available versions in Gentoo: Code: $ eshowkw firefox Keywords for www-client/firefox: | | u | | a a p s l r a | n | | m r h p p i o i s l m m | e u s | r | d a m p p c a x a o s 3 p 6 i | a s l | e | 6 r 6 p p 6 r 8 6 n c 9 h 8 p | p e o | p | 4 m 4 a c 4 c 6 4 g v 0 a k s | i d t | o ---------+-------------------... |
help! when i did an emerge depclean, all my fonts in xfce became squares! though the fonts in firefox are not affected though. is there a way to recover them? i forgot which package did that... https://ibb.co/rvh1PLL | You can check what font you unmerged with qlop -u 'media-fonts/*' command. |
Hello, after a recent update, i've lost GPG support in Gnome Keyring. There was a minor update of gnome-keyring but it was only from gnome-keyring-42.1-r1 to gnome-keyring-42.1-r2. The keys are still there and i can see them with Seahorse but i need to enter a password every time i want to use those keys. It was workin... | Do you have USE=gnome-keyring set on sys-auth/pambase? |
Hi, I wanted to try wayland with a window manager.My first try was to try to make it work with the nvidia drivers by installing dev-libs/wayland , gui-wm/sway, x11-base/xwayland. In /etc/portage/make.conf, there is: Code: USE="X dist-kernel binary pulseaudio" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Sway refused to start, even with --unsu... | Alexdarcy wrote: Code: libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to open crocus: /usr/lib64/dri/crocus_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (search paths /usr/lib64/dri, suffix _dri) That's coming from Mesa. The loader is looking for an Intel driver, crocus_dri.so , and doesn't find it. Is this a... |
Hi, I have installed gentoo on my Acer Aspire 5 (A515-57G) and when I try to use Xorg with applications like firefox or kitty. It only renders once and get stuck there. If I maximize or change its size of the window, it displays the new content on tot the screen. I tried to use multiple wm's (awesome, i3, xfce) and it'... | 0x006e wrote: I think the problem, in my case was that, Xorg was trying to load the ancient i965 driver which was not installed( is it even available?). So by specifiying device driver as "modesetting", it sets it to the correct driver?. I have no idea what I am talking about. But it seems that everything is working no... |
I'm using xorg-server-1.20.8-r1, and plasma-desktop-5.19.4 with kernel 5.8.3 at the moment. Within Plasma, under System Settings --> Power Management --> Activity Settings, I have "Never turn off the screen" and "Never shut down the computer or let it go to sleep" both enabled. I do not have xscreensaver installed. I a... | I don't know if it's going to change anything beside remove the need for a script but personally I have it set in my xorg.conf.d: Code: Section "ServerFlags" Option "BlankTime" "0" EndSection And I don't disable DPMS nor use xset, never seen blanking/screensaver/settings-reset no matter how much I turn off my monitor. ... |
Hello, I posted this to Reddit (because my eyes needs dark theme), but it was marked as spam so, copying here: I moved Gentoo to another PC, the same displays. Now my GPU is integrated to AMD 7950x. I use daisy chaining, through DisplayPort. Code: $ xrandr --output DisplayPort-3 --rotate left xrandr: output DisplayPort... | SOLVED. /etc/portage/make.conf: was VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu" Now: VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu radeonsi" |
Hi, when I manually start wayfire on an openrc system, google-chrome-stable fails with trap int3 (which seems to mean that some bad state was reached in the code; presumably some kind of "assert" in the code fails). Note that I do not have pam, and seatd uses the seatd server (USE="server -builtin -elogind -systemd"), ... | pingtoo wrote: Not 100% sure from your description, but my guess is that sddm is started as root, whereas your manual start are none root account. All wayfire related stuff runs only with root permissions when starting from sddm. So sddm must have done something before with root permissions, but what? As mentioned in m... |
Hello. I have a problem with some windows resultution. I use google-chrome. The resolution is fine but when i want to upload/download file the pop up window's resolution is low. https://imgur.com/a/RhplB57 I also have this problem with sddm sceen when booting. Code: lspci | grep -i vga 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller... | Have you checked your logs for any information which might help? Because you've not given us much information to go on on here. |
Hello everyone I am trying lapce(a written-in-Rust editor) these days,but I got a strange scaling problem But finally I started it up with a normal DPI by using this: Code: GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5 GDK_SCALE=2.0 lapce I want to write this into some place that only affective for lapce(Because other applications are fine by Xft... | You can put it into a sh or bash script in ~/bin. Be sure that directory is into your PATH. |
Hi Unable to update Webkit-gtk due to error "/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/psych-5.1.0/lib/psych/parser.rb:62:in `parse': undefined method `_native_parse " From bulid.log: Code: [1934/6831] cd /var/tmp/portage/net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.40.1-r410/work/webkitgtk-2.40.1_build/Source/WebCore/PAL/pal && /usr/bin/cmake -E copy... | I managed to solve the problem. I did this: Code: emerge -C `qlist -IC ruby` sed -i 's#RUBY_TARGETS="ruby39"#RUBY_TARGETS="ruby31"#' /etc/portage/make.conf grep RUBY /etc/portage/make.conf RUBY_TARGETS="ruby31" USE="ruby_targets_ruby31" emerge -NuDatq --verbose-conflicts @world $(cat /var/lib/portage/world_sets) @prese... |
Hi, I have a fresh install, now running OpenRC, KDE/Plasma. I have in "Power Management" turned off everything, but screen still locks regularly, about 10 minutes I believe. That in itself is a little annoying, but worse is that it will not accept my password! I now suspect I don't have everything for power savings to ... | Is a separate screensaver program somehow running? Try e.g. Code: pgrep -l screensaver |
Hello everyone. Recently, fcitx-configtool started to list nothing after booting Gentoo. It lists the correct methods, however, after rerunning fcitx from the dmenu. This doesn't affect the actual behavior. I can input texts with the English layout and switch to Mozc by pressing Ctrl + Space even if fcitx-configtool do... | I couldn't see anything wrong in your .xinitrc file. If you can use fcitx normally then I assume there shouldn't be a problem about the daemon on the background. Perhaps you could try starting it after entering the X session. There is a script that is included with the package "fcitx-autostart" which waits a little bit... |
Hello, I have updated my system after a couple of months and after restarting I have noticed that GTK+ applications seem to now ignore the monitor DPI and are probably using the default of 96. Their interface/fonts are smaller than they used to be. Unfortunately due to the number of packages updated I have no way of fi... | Sylpheed uses GTK2, not 3, which is probably why it's well-behaved. Run `gtk-query-settings dpi`. It should show what gtk3 thinks the current dpi (×1024) is. Setting Xft.dpi explicitly in ~/.Xresources should fix it but you might have to log out and in. You might find https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI#GUI_tool... |
Hello everyone I am using microsoft-edge-stable for my nrowser on DWM And today I found that I can not launch edge anymore So I ran Code: microsoft-edge-stable Returned this(screenshot of that error): http://0x0.st/Hb5P.png And a new window(edge) with that error and a Unlock button I clicked the button unlock and my br... | The first error sounds like a permission issue in your profile folder, the second one is caused by a corrupted GPU cache (happens in chromium sometimes, especially after an update). Delete both and start it again. Chromium stores the cache in .config/chromium/Default/GPUCache/ |
Hi, Lot's of things happened at once, hopefully no correlation but for no apparent reason, my Firefox started to report that "Your browser is being managed by your organization." At the same time I lost contact with this forum, the Wiki went down and possibly more. I then found https://infra-status.gentoo.org/#pk_campa... | This only happens because gentoo disables automatic firefox updates as they are handled by the package manager. Nothing you need to worry about (the message appears in mine too). |
Hi. I'm using a 22" TV as 2nd monitor, but when using 1920*1080 resolution on it, xrandr (or xfcr settings) won't allow to go over 24 Hz refresh rate. That TV is perfectible capable of handling such resolution at 60Hz. When set on 1280*720, I get 60Hz refresh rate. Here's the get-edid | parse-edid Code: This is read-ed... | krumpf, Code: Modeline "Mode 17" 148.500 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 +hsync +vsync That's 1920x1080 from the TV EDID data. The frame time is 1/148.5*2200*1125 fro 16.66666ms. The 1/148.5 is the pixel time in microseconds, the 2200 is the number of pixels on a line and 1125 is the number of lines per frame. ... |
hello, im new to this forum , i finally installed gentoo and installed xorg and after some days i decided to create a user. im unable to start x as regular user. when i run xinit or startx, it says connection refused. i have the elogind openrc service enabled and running. if i run it as root, it starts normally. my use... | cornplayz256, Welcome to Gentoo, What alamahant said. If you look around your system you will have a file called Xorg.0.log, Probably somewhere in /home/cornplayz256/... It is probably showing a Permission denied error. Xorg needs to do some setup at the start as root, so you need to run Xorg suid, so it always runs as... |
My issue appears to be more related to xdg-open and its failure modes. More info given below. --EDIT--- I have an odd issue that I'm not entirely sure how to debug. If I open a pdf by selecting it in the file manager vifm, it opens it in my default application mupdf. Then, if I close vifm before exiting mupdf, then clo... | Not familiar with vifm, but perhaps also check your ~/.mailcap file, if you have one. |
Hello, I decided to try Gentoo recently. I'm having some trouble starting KDE though. I used to be able to run it in both Xorg and Wayland; now xorg is completely unusable, and Wayland has issues. I've been trying to start it by xorg using startx . My .xinitrc file reads Quote: #!/bin/sh exec dbus-launch --exit-with-se... | Make sure that VIDEO_CARDS="intel" in make.conf and that xf86-video-intel is not installed in the system. See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel for details. My instructions will relate to the Modesetting DDX here. |
There are certain applications that I use that within the last few weeks seem to take a long time to open. This includes opening a new application (eg. pavucontrol, easyeffects), or opening a new window in an already open app (eg. composing an email in evolution). I am currently using GDM and bspwm. I have seen these i... | So, it turns out the culprit was xdg-desktop-portal-gnome. The key line in my logs was "xdg-desktop-por[3100]: Failed to create settings proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gnome: Timeout was reached" That lead me to this post: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/is... |
Got a strange one with tigervnc. It's on a raspberry pi, but don't think it has ANYTHING to do with arm64 so not posting in the arm forum. LXDE runs fine TigerVNC runs fine. My problem is that tigerVNC will not launch a lxde desktop for me. It always falls back to twm. Once I connect with a vnc client, I can run startl... | Tigervnc can be started as a server using Xorg or as a user process. You need the xorg vnc extension and load explicitely the vnc module in the Module section of the Xorg configuration for it to be active and you must tell where is the password file in the Screen section or disable password there. It's documented. As a... |
I get the following message in build.log: Code: FAILED: obj/v8/v8_base_without_compiler/js-display-names.o I can quite believe qtwebengine needs a V8! Any thoughts, or should I just file a bug. I have loads of memory etc. build options: Code: USE="alsa jumbo-build pulseaudio system-icu widgets -bindist -debug -designer... | Try to disable system-icu use flag. |
EDIT - solved, it was typo. Hello and thank you in advance emerge -uDUv @world --with-bdeps=y --backtrack=250 --keep-going I have been using XFCE, no multilib Gentoo OpenRC Code: The following 3 packages have failed to build, install, or execute * postinst: * * (dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.920.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild schedu... | Code: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details Code: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -I"/usr/include" -O2 -march=native -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -march=native -03 -pipe -DVERSION=\"1.92\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.92\" -fPIC "-I/usr/... |
KMail has actually been stable for a long time now. But today, after my monthly reboot, I can't get Akonadi to start. Here is the contents of ~/.local/share/akonadi/Akonadi.error: Code: 2023-05-08T12:56:55 [INFO ] org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server... 2023-05-08T12:56:55 [WARN ] org.kde.pim.akona... | Aaand suddenly, after the third reboot, it worked. I'm still missing the KMail 1.x, and I don't get why I have to run a database server to read my mail, but I haven't found a decent replacement for KMail. |
Hi, I am for now starting my KDE/Plasma via 'startx' command. This works well, but sometimes I want to drop to text console. I know I can simply switch to a tty, but what would the correct way to stop the GUI be? Like 'stopx' I know I can seek up and kill the processes, but that is not likely the best way, right? Thank... | I haven't used KDE for a long time, but as I recall it was never intended to use startx at all. It is designed to be started from a log in manager. As I recall the log out button didn't work properly. This might be very old news. Control+c on your tty should do the trick. It might not be the most graceful way to do it ... |
Hi, Using KDE/Plasma, and I knew I had muted sound on the computer, but still it made a strange sound occasionally. I just found it, it is the Power Management, notifying that mouse battery is at 10%... That in itself may not be so strange, but going into settings I can see that there is a particular setting to allow n... | Your sound may be configured differently from mine as I use pulseaudio. In System Settings > Audio, there is a separate mute for Notifications under Playback Streams. On my system, the Notifications volume has to be muted separately from the main volume control. |
Hi, I have a problem from time to time where applications I open, opens in a lot higher resolution than the monitor is capable of. I have a dual monitor setup, which are quite far apart resolution wise, one "full hd" and the other one 4k. So while it is what it is, and I also like the different resolutions, is there a ... | I can't give you an exact guide as to how to do it, but you can create window rules in System Settings > Window Management > Window Rules. You would resize your application to desired size. Then in Window Rules, click 'Add New'. Use the "Detect Windows Properties' button which will allow you to then click on and select... |
[EDIT 29. april 2023] It was probably something with gentoo, other distributions has been quite good with updates. First Gentoo update without errors, first update without partially updated flatpak apps. Well done, thank you Gentoo developers! Hello! I have sucessfuly installed flatpak, but I have problems with flathub... | Every flatpak output you have posted so far mentions a GPG signature verification error. Why is that failing? Have you tried fixing that? |
Hi all, trying to get an HP LaserJet Pro M201dw to work with CUPS. It is a network attached printer. I discovered it and set it up using "recommended driver" thru the CUPS' localhost:631 interface. I *can* print a test page thru the CUPS web interface, but nothing else I've tried will work. None of Firefox, LibreOffice... | mbrehon, First of all, is cupsd started and running? In http://localhost:631/printers/? does the printer show as idle? I use a HP Color LaserJet Pro M479 with the postscript driver. The libreoffice print dialogue shows a dropdown with my printer (by its name) and print to PDF. .service files are for systemd. Unless you... |
Hi, I am using net-im/element-desktop-bin but it asks me for a "Default keyring" password on every startup. This dialog seems to be coming from Gnome keyring. This is a KDE/Plasma desktop system with -gnome and -gnome-keyring general USE flags in make.conf - which means I am using kwallet and do not want to be bothered... | Note that KWallet will, eventually, one day, maybe have its own secret service implementation: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313216. It was merged, but still quite buggy in practice so isn't usable yet. |
Hi, I now have another peculiar issue. It started with me don't having sound support in KDE/Plasma, so I got that fixed and now use Pulseaudio. However, I have two speaker icons/or volume controls in the activity field. They more or less show the same thing. Is this normal, or have I doubled on something I perhaps shou... | Right click on the down arrow to the far right of the system tray, the popup should say 'Configure System Tray'. Click on that and look under "Entries" to see if it shows two entries for audio. If it does, set one of them to hidden. I only have one sound icon in the tray and one corresponding entry called 'Audio Volume... |
Hello everyone The cursor is becoming tiny in some software(vscode,emacs,chromium,etc.) Without opening some software,it is in correct size Xft.dpi is set in ～/.Xresources Not effecting usage but effecting mood How should I fix this? OS:Gentoo GNU/Linux Session:X11 WM:dwm Resolution:3200*2000 | Linux users report these issues with HiDPI monitors seem to be aggravated with fractional scaling. To avoid fractional scaling (if you can), per: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI Quote: For Xft.dpi, using integer multiples of 96 usually works best, e.g. 192 for 200% scaling. I would avoid using fraction scaling, ... |
I'm trying to use yt-dlp (a newer fork of youtube-dl), but when I type or paste a URL in at the end of the command, my urxvt terminal auto-formats it with an underline, and then yt-dlp doesn't recognize it as a URL. I've already checked that it's not expanding the "?" character (see here ), but that's not it. Any advic... | Have you already tried: Code: URxvt*underlineURLs: false |
EDIT: I've discovered the issue is specifically a bizarre behavior with my base Gentoo system recognizing the exFAT filesystem on my USB drive. When a exFAT filesystem is initially formatted on the USB stick in KDE Partition Manager, the partition is recognized by the system and KDE automounts it and I have full read/w... | Quote: I had a working functionality where KDE would detect and automount USB drives, with the drive visible in Dolphin and appearing in the Removable Devices system tray feature. This is done in System Settings. I have not had any issues but I do not have auto-mounting enabled. If I need to mount a USB drive, I do it ... |
Gentoo Colleagues, I have just build a joshuto file manager in my Gentoo workstation while I found some unicode invoked by joshuto not rendered correctly, like the file-icon. I have installed efont-unicode already. How can I let the fonts load and rendered correctly. I have tryied Code: sudo fc-cache -r There's not err... | Did you enable the font using eselect fontconfig ? |
I just switch DE from KDE to Gnome and I'm having some crazy issues with display, that I think is because Gnome is forcing me to use Wayland instead of X. I'm getting constant flickering, even as I'm typing it's like the composer (?) is having trouble drawing the new characters in text boxes. When I resize windows it c... | Hi in /etc/gdm/custom.conf or /etc/gdm3/custom.conf Make sure you have Code: [daemon] WaylandEnable=false |
Chrome and edge start only blank interface with not any font shows, both package are bin pkg emerged. I found errors show that font is empyt, but I have installed and report at crbug.com/724880: range: {3,4}, rtl: 0, level: '', script: -1, font: '', glyph_count: 0, pos: 3, glyph_to_char: Code: ......... report at crbug... | Solved by add L10N="en" to make.conf and emerge google-chrome again. |
When i stat cupsd, it immediately crashes without any error message: Code: $ sudo /etc/init.d/cupsd status;sudo /etc/init.d/cupsd start;sudo /etc/init.d/cupsd status * status: stopped * Starting cupsd ... [ ok ] * status: crashed Running `s udo /etc/init.d/cupsd -d start the final part of the outut looks like this: Cod... | What happens when you run /usr/sbin/cupsd -f -c /etc/cups/cupsd.conf -s /etc/cups/cups-files.conf as root? |
I am trying to use xfce4-power-manager on my xfce4 DE. Unfortunately, I cannot add the power-manager widget to my panel. Specifically, when I try to add it to the panel I get a popup window with the following message: Code: Plugin "Power Manager Plugin" unexpectedly left the panel, do you want to restart it? The plugin... | Welcome to Gentoo i don't use xfce4, therefore i'am not sure. what does rc-service dbus status and rc-update show default , show ? Code: * status: started Code: chronyd | default cronie | default dbus | default dhcpcd | default local | default syslog-ng | default thermald | default tinydm | default is xfce-base/xfce4-m... |
Hi, How would one go about removing packets that are part of chosen profile? I use Code: default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome/systemd (stable) and unmerged most of the games for example, but as soon as I did an emerge -avuDN @world , they are suggested to be installed again. How can I avoid them being pulled in by th... | Try to disable games use flag to gnome-base/gnome-extra-apps package. |
Bluetooth isn't working properly in gnome for me, and sending files over bluetooth doesn't work at all. I've gone through the wiki page for bluetooth and installed all the drivers in my kernel config, and I have the linux-firmware package installed. I also added a global use flag for "bluetooth" in my make.conf and ran... | I managed to figure it out. I'll leave the answer here in case it helps someone else in the future. As stated in the wiki article for bluetooth, if you don't see any dmesg entries about RFCOMM and BNEP being initialized, compile support for them as modules, rather than having them built in directly. That was a simple f... |
I have installed kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.26.5 and also for trying 5.27.2. When i tried to save any file in qt-apps (flameshot, vlc, keepassxc, telegram, skanlite) this particular application freezes for about 3 seconds, then opens the save dialog and after clicking OK saves for about 10-12 seconds, while one of the CP... | Crashing doesn't sound like the same problem at all. It might be related, but it's also not obviously the same (it might be the same, but it's not clear that it is). You've also seemingly cut off the backtrace output. We need more than the top function. |
I noticed that athe currently available mesa versions above 22.2.5 break Vulkan support for me (Intel Haswell). Is this intended or should I file a bug? I did know that Vulkan support is incomplete on this thing but after a few world updates it was completely gone, vulkaninfo not detecting any devices and Ultra Street ... | I think this was fixed in bug 888057 earlier today. |
trying to update @world but it always ends up skipping many packages that should be getting updated. Quote: Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: kde-frameworks/kconfig:5 (kde-frameworks/kconfig-5.102.0:5/5.102::gentoo, ebuild s... | What return command emerge -uUD @world --backtrack=30 ? |
I newly installed Asus 1016P and it seems I can't switch default behavior of touchpad. Touch fingers: 1 - left 2 - middle 3 - right It would be great to have lrm so I changed in xorg config: Code: Option "TappingButtonMap" "lrm" And it seem it works before LXQT starts and in DE it goes back to lmr. Does anybody have so... | I see something in Xorg log - maybe just wrong identificator: Code: [ 28.018] (II) config/udev: Adding input device ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse (/dev/input/event8) [ 28.018] (**) ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse: Applying InputClass "libinput pointer catchall" [ 28.018] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'ImPS/2 Logitec... |
I'm getting about a 20 second delay after typing startx. I think it's hanging on something like "xauth: /mnt/archive/Users/Andrew/Desktop/archive/.serverauthXXXX does not exist." *concerning this, i moved home to another partition by editing /etc/passwd, could that be causing problems? cat /etc/passwd | grep andrew Cod... | aim nano, A line in /etc/hosts Code: 192.168.1.55 desktop.nanohome desktop might help, so the systems real IP address resolves to itself. Xorg really does talk to itself over the network. |
When I execute emacs --debug-init I get these errors at the terminal: Code: Unable to activate package ‘parseedn’. Required package ‘a-0.1.0alpha4’ is unavailable Unable to activate package ‘parseclj’. Required package ‘a-0.1.0alpha4’ is unavailable Unable to activate package ‘parseedn’. Required package ‘a-0.1.0alpha4... | How about emacs-28.2-r4 and emacs-28.2-r6? |
Hello! I'm having issues with setting up X and XFCE in Gentoo guest (using virt-manager, QEMU/KVM). The installation went without any particular issues and everything is working great. However, when I try to start X, nothing happens. /var/log/Xorg.0.log and .local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log content. I looked at https://wiki... | Did you build QEMU with USE flag 'spice'? See: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU#Configuration_does_not_support_video_model_.27qxl.27 How do you start X? With startx? Did you add a command to start XFCE to your ~/.xinitrc? Something like Code: exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session xfce4-session or Code: exec startxfce4 ... |
Hi. Just updated kernel to 6.1.12. And rebuilt nvidia-drivers-390.157 against new kernel too. After reboot X doesn't start with famous error message: Code: parse_vt_settings cannot open /dev/tty0 (permission denied) id shows I'm in video and wheel groups. elogind and dbus are started and running. What's wrong with new ... | Yes, it is a NVIDIA ... (sorry; no offence; we all love nvidia drivers) Please try this at first: Disable this Code: CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB=y and maybe also Code: CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM=y (if it was enabled). |
Hi all. I have recently noticed that rxvt-unicode and i3blocks are displaying text strangely. Specifically, the text is not displayed in the specified font. When I run urxvt from the terminal, I get the following warning message. Code: urxvt: unable to calculate font width for 'Source Code Pro:slant=0:weight=200:pixels... | Most probably, a few USE flags are missing. Your profile is "default/linux/amd64/17.1". Why don't you use a desktop profile? Code: eselect profile list eselect profile set <n> emerge --update --deep --changed-use -av @world |
I have cinnamon desktop and after some update the shortcut to change between desktops is not working (Ctrl+Alt+Right_arrow or Ctrl+Alt+Left_arrow). They are still in the preferences of the keyboard, but not working anymore. Any ideas? Anybody else with same problem? Thanks, David | Are you sure that you have you've at least two workspaces? |
Hello, as the title says, no matter what I tried, I cannot connect the X server. I have a feeling it is something related to the Nvidia drivers non properly installed, or something. I am using the proprietary drivers, and I have disabled nouveau in the kernel. As a start, I am posting my Xorg.log but let me know what o... | enrico68 wrote: As a start, I am posting my Xorg.log but let me know what other files you need to help me. Code: [ 64799.008] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the [ 64799.008] (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages and [ 64799.008] (EE) NVIDIA: consult the N... |
Every time I try to startx or start display manager I get dumped to the console /var/log/Xorg.0.log https://pastebin.com/aymbFUsL .local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log https://pastebin.com/QhfMuTjw Part of dmesg containing amdgpu info https://pastebin.com/3iwDnSiJ what is sad is this actually works on Kubuntu. I want it to work... | warrens, Post your Code: lspci -nnk and pastebin your entire dmesg output please. You may as well put your kernel .config onto a pastebin too, we may want to change it. |
I have a NVIDIA 1080 ti with the latest driver on my gentoo installation. I compiled the newest kernel, but since version 6.* my display-manager won't start anymore. I tried my previous 5 kernel and it works well. (Using gentoo-sources) I already tried to reinstall SDDM with empty-tree keyword as well as trying to use ... | Star4Fun, To expand and generalise on what m.s.w said Make sure your /usr/src/linux symlink points to your new kernel Code: emerge @module-rebuild will then build all of your out of tree kernel modules for the new kernel. The nvidia-drivers kernel modules are one example. There are others too, which you may not use. |
I don't know exactly when and what happened, but qrencode stopped displaying qr codes in lxqt for some reason. Last time it was working about two weeks ago. Now when I run: qrencode -t utf8 test , I get few empty lines in QTerminal 1.2.0, few lines filled with question marks in xfce4-terminal 1.0.4, over 100 lines with... | qrencode and lsblk work nicely in my qterminal. I get the results you posted if I set the environment variable LANG to C, start qterminal and run qrencode and lsblk. Check your locale settings. Make sure you use UTF-8. Code: locale -a locale On my machine: Code: $ locale -a C C.utf8 POSIX de_DE de_DE.iso88591 de_DE.utf... |
Hello. I've been trying to set up starting Xorg as non root according to this guide https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Non_root_Xorg , but I couldn't do it even after all troubleshootings. What should I do? My loginctl user-status: Code: SDD (1000) Since: Sat 2023-02-18 12:09:56 +07; 40min ago State: active Sessions: *1 Ling... | The issue is solved by adding non root user to the video group |
I'm still new at linux. After starting the sddm with Code: rc-update add xdm default /etc/init.d/xdm start Everything works fine, but after getting to a login interface neither my mouse or keyboard work. I have already tried to ALT+CTRL+FX it works, but the xdm starts either way and then I am stuck again at the login u... | The xdm is no longer the correct init script to start the display manager . -- edit -- Welcome to gentoo forum. |
Hi, after updating to version 5.26, Plasma won't remember my monitor setup. Essentially, whenever I log in, my second (auxiliary) monitor is always off, and I have to manually turn it on. I found a couple of references online, this (unsolved) bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436648 probably being related. A fun... | Moved from Kernel & Hardware to Desktop Environments. |
I don't know what is going on today. I was setting up pipewire (for the first time), updated my system before that. At some point I was noticing firefox crash when I try to save a file (firefox itself runs fine). I think it's the file picker that crashes. After that my doublecmd was crashing on launch. After a while I ... | is x11-themes/hicolor-icon-them e emerged ? gui-libs/gtk+3.24.35 has some bugs regarding icons - https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1160977-highlight-.html upgrade or try with 3.24.36 or go back to 3.24.34-r1 which gui (graphical user interface) are you using ? |
Hello, In tweak tools on gnome3 there isn't the option Desktop for icons on Desktop. How can i do the shortcuts please? Thanks, Michel | You can do that with the gnome shell extension https://extensions.gnome.org/ For desktop icon https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1465/desktop-icons/ |
I have a problem with X, it start correctly only after the command Code: $ nvidia-xconfig --prime every time I reboot, I have to do this and after all works. If I try to start X without this command I get no screen found error, this the extract from the log Code: $ more .local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log | grep -i ee (WW) wa... | I tried to startx from root and nvidia drivers works, X start. What I miss? Maybe is something related to this thread? user su - permission denied edit: if I reboot and I startx from root, after I can startx from normal user too...how can I solve? |
Since I usually do multiple logins (using different users) on the same system, I always login a CLI instance. If I need a GUI interface then I do: Code: XSESSION=startlxqt startx or Code: XSESSION=startplasma-x11 startx I just built a new system and Code: XSESSION=startplasma-x11 startx fails to start 'dbus-launch' res... | Seems to be looking for system dbus, not user session's dbus. Aka what openrc/systemd would start at boot (/run/dbus/system_bus_socket is typically owned by root, users can't create this), check if enabled? With e.g. openrc, when using display-manager-init (for sddm, xdm and friends), it would normally get auto-started... |
Hi, I've just installed the Gentoo 2.9 in my Dell Inspiron 3840, but for some reason the audio doesn't work This is my output of the command lspci | grep -i audio: Code: lspci | grep -i audio 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21) Can someone help me? | marcelohsp, Welcome to the forums. Please use wgetpaste to share the kernel .config file. Also the output of dmesg. The dmesg output will show what the kernel did as it started. The .config file will enable us to advise how to fix it. |
Hi everyone. So the scenario is I have Qemu running on an Ubuntu server. I'm using Gentoo on my desktop. I know virt-manager can connect to remote instances of Qemu, but if I try to install virt-manager it wants to pull in Qemu and all the related gubbins. Is there a way to install virt-manager (with the right combo of... | I was able to get it going how I wanted, like this: Code: app-emulation/libvirt -qemu virtualbox emerge virt-manager Had to put Virtualbox there as libvirt insists you have one kind of Hypervisor listed - and I have VirtualBox already on my desktop so no extra downloads needed for that. virt-manager pulled the extra th... |
I would like a program to show thumbnails of all PDF files in a directory. My environment of choice is KDE, so Gwenview is a natural candidate for that. But in its directory view Gwenview does not even list the PDF files. In the Internet I have seen people asking how to disable the preview, so I suppose that's an optio... | I think progra to create thumb in dolphin is kde-apps/thumbnailers. For active thumb for specific file type in dolphin go in Settings -> Configure Dolphin... select General in side bar and switch to Previews tab. |
This is a new install that seemed to go fine until rebooting, when my display manager wouldn't start (and I can't seem to get any kind of graphical display whatsoever). So far, I have * Added display-manager to the default runlevel * Added elogind to the boot runlevel * Given SDDM video permissions with `usermod -a -G ... | What is the output of lspci -nnk ? Does using a 6.1.x kernel help? I base the latter on eccerr0r's remark that you may need a newer kernel, and the observation that you are currently using an LTS kernel, which may lack support for very recent hardware. |
I have many appimages, but none of them is working Code: ./LibreOffice-still.basic-x86_64.AppImage javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! Warning: failed to read path from javaldx /tmp/.mount_LibreOVxjgJ5/opt/libreoffice7.3/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libcups.so.2: cannot ope... | pingtoo wrote: Librewolf missing some library unidentified by the application. I think this one is that the library is present, but fails to provide a symbol that the application expects. The fix is to rebuild the offending library with Wayland support. Based on the name of the symbol, this is probably gtk/gdk or one o... |
02/21/2023 edit by jankom: marked SOLVED, see p 2, last post. I have customized my gentoo desktop installation (profile 5) to boot with slim login display manager with twm session. It has been working for awhile, but recently I notice an error message at the "default" stage of setting up services: ... yourXDM value is ... | Since this file is in /etc/init.d , it would be subject to CONFIG_PROTECT. Perhaps at some point that file on this system was modified in a way that Portage ceased to automatically replace it on updates, and a subsequent etc-update was either missed or executed incorrectly, such that /etc/init.d/display-manager on this... |
Hi everybody, I encounter frequent crashes of enlightenment when interacting with discord (I suspect). I would like to provide a useful stack trace or core dump and enlightenment has some safeguard which permit this [1] . I have read the gentoo wiki and applied what was suggested [2] . Enlightenment and efl are compile... | You could attach gdb prior to the crash, and it will automatically trap when the signal occurs. |
Hello, I recently switched to ~amd64 to solve another issue and since then there is a noticeable delay when starting apps under wayland. I can confirm this is a wayland issue when comparing Gnome under Xorg and Wayland, as well as sway vs Cinnamon. In Cinnamon and Gnome on Xorg apps open basically instantly. Firefox ~1... | If you are only using the nvidia card for passthrough, you don't need the nvidia driver for linux, kernel, etc. And without the driver being loaded none of the linux programs will see the card. I've got an rx 560 for my main window driver and a 1060 ti for passthrough (doesn't have a driver, passes through to windows w... |
Hello, I recently ran into problems with xca (app-crypt/xca) : Code: 000 Fatal: Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (5.15.5) with this library (5.15.8) Problem is, I cannot find *which* library could be out of date. System is up to date, as far as I can tell. All Qt libs are version 5.15.8. Xca dependency graph does not... | Start by showing us how you determined that no problem should exist. What exactly did you examine, and how? What is the output of namei -l /usr/{,local/}lib*/libQt*.so.5.* ; ldd /usr/bin/xca ? If that shows nothing of value, you could use strace to find what libraries it is loading, but that will be very noisy. |
I've recently installed Gentoo on a new PC. I have two monitors; one that's 3840x2160, and one that's 1920x1080. The 4K monitor is connected to my AMD 7900 XT via an 8K hdmi cable, and the HD monitor is connected via HDMI to my motherboard. For some reason, my mouse pointer appears on the HD monitor, but not on the 4K ... | I upgraded from an Nvidia card to a Radeon 7900XT and decided that I would try Wayland since Radeon cards seem to support it properly. I found that my cursor didn't appear, either (in lightdm, XFCE, or Openbox), but it doesn't concern me much at the moment because Wayland is finally working great after years of (albeit... |
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