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GNOME fresh install, systemd/gnome profile, everything default. No sound. If I run pulseaudio --start then sound starts working. What did I miss? Code: # emerge --info Portage 3.0.30 (python 3.9.12-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome/systemd, gcc-11.3.0, glibc-2.34-r13, 5.15.41-gentoo x86_64) ==============... | For me a recent update changed a config file, making the change back did it, on /etc/pulse/client.conf , setting: autospawn = yes got it working as normal again.... adding some documentation for context https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Running/ edit ... From the message after emer... |
Hey guys, after yesterday's update Xorg doesnt start (gdm) and the only thing I get is the error Xorg used greatest stack depth: 11624 bytes left. Yesterday I ran a full system update and Xorg-server was one of the packages updated, dunno if it was that. Any help is appreciated | It was mysteriously solved by a kernel recompilation for some weird reason it's the only thing I did (and it's accompanying emerge @module-rebuild oc). |
I tried this a while ago since it takes literally all day to compile TB but it didn't pick up any of my config/history/etc so I froze TB until -bin was on a later version but trying again today it still fails to see the old data. Has anyone managed to non-destructively move from Thunderbird to Thunderbird-bin? | Yes. It broke the theme and I still don't have it looking quite right, but all the mail and server settings came over cleanly. |
What's wrong here? Code: # eselect java-vm list Available Java Virtual Machines: [1] openjdk-jre-bin-11 # eselect java-vm set system 1 !!! Error: Target "1" doesn't appear to be valid! exiting | You can post ls -l /usr/lib/jvm output? |
EDIT : Fixed, I removed crocus use flag with mesa and used classic i965 driver instead. No more crash. Hi, After upgrading xorg-server from 1.20.14 to 21.1.3, X crashes everytime I start palemoon, here is the error in log : Code: [ 2179.672] Failed to compile FS: 0:1(10): error: GLSL 1.30 is not supported. Supported ve... | Maybe, I have no idea. I forgot to mention that it only happens on my laptop (a Thinkpad x200), which uses an igpu. (Intel 4500MHD), the desktop computer (amd gpu) is not affected and palemoon starts just fine as usual and doesn't cause X to crash with latest xorg-server. I will try to remove crocus from mesa to see if... |
Hi. I am on running Sway . I was trying to make OBS screen sharing work. As stated in this section of the guide I added the relevant USE flags (sorry for the messy make.conf, the flag is in there): Code: sicro@sicro ~ $ cat /etc/portage/make.conf ... INPUT_DEVICES="libinput mouse keyboard synaptics" USE="elogind -syste... | I don't know exactly how I solved it, I called in the Sway config file xdg-desktop-portal-wlr instead of xdg-desktop-portal- and emerge Wireplumber and at the next boot it worked on OBS and Firefox . Discord still doesn't work but after months of trying to solve this I'm just gonna celebrate this and fix it later |
Hi, I have Firefox installed and I noticed that some symbols are shown in place of Arabic and Chinese symbols like this , it also happens with some icons from nvim-web-devicons . My /etc/portage/make.conf is: Code: COMMON_FLAGS="-march=znver2 -O2 -pipe" CFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}" CXXFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}" FCFLAGS="${COM... | I second sergiotarxz answer. Installing media-fonts/noto-cjk should do the trick |
Hi, I am running Sway and I installed Android Studio from the Gentoo repository. I added this line to ~/.zshrc : Code: export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 If I run Android Studio from the terminal it works perfectly, but if I launch it from its Desktop Entry with Rofi I get a grey window. This is the content of /usr/s... | sicr0 wrote: I added this line to ~/.zshrc : Code: export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 Is this variable actually set in Rofi? Depending on how you start X, and how Rofi handles its environment, the variable may be absent from Rofi, and therefore absent from Android Studio. sicr0 wrote: I don't know why the grey window... |
Code: startx -- :1 vt5 xauth: file /home/dimko/.serverauth.15565 does not exist X.Org X Server 1.18.4 Release Date: 2016-07-19 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 4.4.6-gentoo x86_64 Gentoo Current Operating System: Linux localhost 4.4.6-gentoo #5 SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 23 18:16:19 Local time z... | You can't use VT5 if some other process is using it (agetty runs on VT1-6 by default). Try a number above 7. |
Hi, I have two physical monitors connected to my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GPU (which form one virtual screen in X), one connected via HDMI and the other via DisplayPort. The two monitors are different sizes and have different resolutions and X detects the HDMI one (which has a lower resolution) as the primary monitor an... | TheMasterBuilder, Try this and ask questions. |
hello folks, how is it going. hope everyone of you is doing well i have a problem with x i cannot startx. when i run as a normal user i get this error http://dpaste.com/5WQ2XA5ZE and when as root the error is this http://dpaste.com/6VX7S2NXY the log when running as non root is here http://dpaste.com/76DQ37RVV log of ro... | abdus, As root, it worked. Code: [ 34083.824] (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. but it found nothing to do, so it exited. By default, it tries to run three xterms and an analogue clock all wrapped in twm but gentoo does not install them unless you ask it to. As a normal user, startx needs some ... |
I have ryzen 7 5700g, amdgpu kernel driver, unsuccessfully trying to enable TearFree Trying to do it in two ways: through xorg.conf.d and through xrandr First approach - config /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf: Code: Section "Device" Identifier "AMD Graphics" Driver "amdgpu" Option "TearFree" "true" EndSection Looks... | akolechko, Welcome to Gentoo Code: [ 172.470] (==) AMDGPU(0): DRI3 disabled [ 172.470] (==) AMDGPU(0): Backing store enabled [ 172.470] (WW) AMDGPU(0): Direct rendering disabled [ 172.470] (II) AMDGPU(0): 2D and 3D acceleration disabled tells that all your hardware acceleration is turned off. Code: [ 172.435] (--) PCI:... |
Anyone use evolution with gmail and have oauth2 working? Looks like google is requiring oauth2 now and I'm locked out of my gmail (thankfully I don't have much mail going there, though some is kind of critical). I tried setting evolution authentication to google-oauth2 but evolution just errors out: Code: Failed to ope... | Code: $ equery uses evolution-data-server | hand-munge-output [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-3.44.1: U I + + gnome-online-accounts : Enable net-libs/gnome-online-accounts b... |
Hi. Dolphin file manager doesn't show devices, neither internal drives, nor removable USB devices. The same for "Disks & Devices" plasmoid in tray. dmesg indicates that device attached. fdisk and blkid shows devices and I can mount them by hand and access mounted filesystems. I had such a problem before and fixed it by... | Blind_Sniper wrote: Just one question: does no-multilib profile support USB devices mounting from dolphin's left panel or from tray plasmoid? Should dolphin show devices in no-multilib profile? Yes, multilib is useful if you should run pre-compiled software that have only 32bit support (or for playing game with steam). |
Dear all, it seems that with the recent upgrade to adwaita-icon-theme-42.0, the xterm icon (/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/32x32/legacy/utilities-terminal.png) is missing. That said, it seems that my recent (about weekly, mostly amd64 stable) emerge round brought along some slight changes to my desktop appearance in general,... | Quote: That said, it seems that my recent (about weekly, mostly amd64 stable) emerge round brought along some slight changes to my desktop appearance in general, e.g. different icons in emacs as well. That happened on my machine, too. One of the updates switched the default symbol set from Oxygen to Adwaita. I switched... |
Some senders use colorful Unicode icons in their subjects. In the mail header view of Evolution this looks fine (the area above the mail preview). But in the mail list, those icons are that big, that only a small part of the icon is visible. Why are those characters scaling that bad in the mailing list but not in the h... | It's solved in the upstream ticket. Code: # eselect fontconfig enable 8 # eselect fontconfig list |grep scale [8] 10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf * # find /etc/fonts -name "*scale*" /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf Btw. what is the recommended setup for fontconfig... |
Hello, I just installed vscode but login with github failed with a error about gnome keyrings. After searching over the Internet, I found that I should create a keyring on my own with seahorse, which unfortunately failed again with a error : No such secret collection at path :/ And I founded that I should source /etc/X... | Are you using gnome? If not or if you dont care about the stupid gnome keyring Plz run Code: grep -r gnome /etc/pam.d and in each file that contains pam_gnome_keyring.so add "optional" or even comment out the line. If you are not on Gnome and you hate the keyring enough you can 1.USE="-gnome -gnome-keyring" in make.con... |
My DE is a mixture of XMonad and some Xfce4 programs which has been working fine for years. Though my recent update brings some weird behavior into my system: whenever xfsettingsd starts, the screen seems to freeze and I can only move my mouse - dragging windows / keyboard input does nothing. However if I SSH and kill ... | Did some searching around and found https://bugs.gentoo.org/841857 - although not the exact problem, but Xfce4 does get affected - I'll downgrade libX11 and see how it goes. |
Hello everyone! I changed my nvidia driver (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers / VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"" to nouveau (x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau / VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau") and I have several doubts: - I installed sys-firmware/nvidia-firmware but I don't know which firmware to use for my GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (I followed this guid... | cafaia, You can set the screen resolution in the console so that its not 4k. I guess your problem is that when the framebuffer starts the text is very small. I can't find it on the Gentoo wiki but the font of all wisdom is at kernel.org It will make your eyes glaze over. The key line is Code: video=<driver>:<xres>x<yre... |
Hoi! im not sure if such specific questions r allowed but as far as i understood it nothing speaks against them. a few weeks prior i made a fresh new gentoo install which got out of hand and i made a new one again! Gentoo it self works without problems but as last time i get stuck at trying to set up an X server. i alr... | g63oo, Welcome to Gentoo. Your dmesg says Code: [ 1.188019] Loading firmware: amdgpu/renoir_asd.bin [ 1.188041] amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load for amdgpu/renoir_asd.bin failed with error -2 Code: [ 3.465288] EXT4-fs (nvme0n1p6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null). Quota mode: none. ... [... |
There have been several updates to KDE plasma recently so I'm not sure which one is the culprit (or if it is some other update e.g., nvidia-drivers), but something in the last few days appears to have broken window placement after my monitors have awoken from sleep. I've always had minor issues with Firefox windows whe... | I don't have an answer for you, only another data point. I have three 4K monitors, four virtual desktops, and the same desktop environment/versions you have, other than I'm using the amdgpu open source drivers for my AMD Radeon Pro W5500 card. I haven't seen the window placement issues you describe. When my monitors en... |
i have a fresh new gentoo install on my laptop, xorg is set up with bspwm and polybar. the last addition I would like to add is my TouchPad working. i tried following this gentoo guid: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Synaptics at first, but with little to no success. then i looked through the forum and tried a few solutio... | g63oo, There are lots of different ways your touchpad can be connected. USB or I2C are both popular. Please post the output of Code: lspci -nnk so we can see your hardware and the kernel drivers in use. Post the output of Code: lsusb too. |
I have an HP Elitebook 855 G7. The closest laptop I could find on the Wiki is this (the Intel CPU-based equivalent of two generations prior). It says the touchpad is Synaptics, so I activated the necessary flags on the kernel, recompiled and updated GRUB. To make the cursor appear I had to make the tweaks referred here... | sicr0 wrote: Does anyone know how to help me make this work? Maybe ... First of all, you have to find out whether it is your sway configuration (here I cant help) or your kernel (probably). Maybe you have choosed a wrong Wiki article (this is for old synaptics). What I recommend you to do first is: Find out the exact m... |
Let me try to explain the situation. lightdm is set up to automatically login to xfce and it works fine. I compile a system on a more powerful machine, using a "generic" make.conf. I create an image which I then install on several systems. Everything works fine, except on one pc where at first boot everything is ok and... | antonellocaroli, you want the same solution as I have (combining NO-MULTILIB with a desktop profile; in my case it is PLASMA) and therefore you may be interested in a "cleaner" solution: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8694188.html#8694188 The advantage over a manual setting of Use-Flags is: If our gentoo develop... |
I noticed that portage overwrites 2 specific SDDM configuration files on upgrade without flagging that there are changes to these files. These 2 files are located in the /usr/share/sddm/scripts folder and are the Xsetup and Xstop files. There is no warning that portage is overwriting these files on an update to SDDM. I... | gsra99, /usr/share is portages, not yours. You are not supposed to change anything in /usr/share for the reasons you have discovered. Local overrides go into /etc/ somewhere. /etc/sddm? but I'm guessing. There will be a SDDM Wiki page. |
I have a problem that i can not start X server. I am getting a message after startx command: Quote: Incompatible processor. This Qt build requires the following features: rtm Aborted. Incompatible processor: missing feature 0x20000 - rtm. I have tried to /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh and emerge -e world (EDIT actua... | Given intel+rtm, I'm guessing this is the same as this thread If my old guess was right (never verified/tested), this may happen if you've built dev-qt/* stuff with old microcode or before setting it up, then started using a newer one (could also come from firmware updates). Solution noted in that thread (rebuilding de... |
Hello, I have my system in French. lightdm works well, but i use GNOME. If i change lightdm to GDM display manager, the keyboard is in qwerty. In the wiki, : https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GNOME/GDM#GDM_ignores_my_keyboard_layout Code: root #su -s /bin/bash gdm gdm $dbus-run-session gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-... | i don't know about current gnome (using mate only here), but maybe using a '30keyboard.conf' in '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d' will help. this is mine - German style: Quote: Section "InputClass" Identifier "keyboard" MatchIsKeyboard "on" Option "XkbLayout" "de" Option "XkbRules" "evdev" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbVar... |
I started an emerge a day ago and it looks like some Gnome 42 packages were installed. Now I get to the "oops something went wrong" at gdm start. This is the error: Code: /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[55035]: dbus-daemon[55035]: [session uid=103 pid=55035] Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.Bus' gnome-session[55036]... | Based on the output, ninja failed. If you need assistance, please follow the instructions shown in that output, requoted here: Code: [31;01m*[0m If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.34.6::gentoo'`, [31;01m*[0m the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=net-libs/web... |
Hello Gentoers ! I'm running into many troubles after a fresh install of my Gentoo (a 15 years' old HDD that died, forcing me to re-install Gentoo from scratch. Fortunately, my /home and all my data were stored on 4 others HDD running RAID1 Only Gentoo's OS has needed a reinstall) Everything went fine (after some strug... | SYSFB_SIMPLEFB doesn't matter if you're using FB_EFI (which is enabled and in-use looking at dmesg, meaning no problem), it also has no relation to the good workings of Xorg gentoo-kernel-bin uses FB_EFI too and disables SIMPLEFB currently Unfortunately I'm not spotting anything related to Xorg that seems off at the mo... |
At first I thought I had a problem with my login manager, but now I'm pretty sure it's xorg. I just updated a number of packages so likely this broke something as it was working fine prior to the update. Process so far. I've been using slim for ages. Attempted to log on today and after giving user/password I just got a... | Skippy204, When things break, run screen or tmux. |
Hi guys, I am trying to figure out why I am getting the following behavior: Code: $ LC_ALL=en_US python -c 'print( "\u2713", "\x7c" )' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u2713' in position 0: ordinal not in range(256) and ... | Hi Mike and thank you for your help. 1) I am using xterm and also mrxvt. 2) I played around with locale (that's why I just set the flag LC_ALL from the command line); anyway, when I open the terminal I have Code: $ locale LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE="en_US" LC_NUMERIC="en_US" LC_TIME="en_US" LC_COLLATE="en_US" LC_MONETARY="en_... |
I have the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics card. This page under SUPPORTED PRODUCTS suggests that nvidia-drivers-510.60.02 supports this card but it segfaults the Xorg server. This does not happen for < nvidia-drivers-495 . Is it possible to get the new drivers to work with this card? Is there any disadvantage on remainin... | What DE/WM? There's a bug in xorg-server's xpresent that may cause Xorg to segfault with newer drivers (this is not really a nvidia-drivers issue even though it started happening with newer drivers). xpresent is used by some compositors, like xfwm4[xpresent], also known to cause issues with MATE and probably others. If... |
Since updating to latest on ~amd64. An emerge lastnight broke GDM. The system just hangs at a black screen upon boot. Disabled systemd service and using a different login manager. When attemping to load. System just hangs when trying to start gdm. | SOLVED Think it was webkit gtk but not sure. |
KDE's "Log Out" now no longer stops the window system. I don't know when this change happend, but "log out" now restarts the window system (which indeed is a good thing). But now there seems to be no way to exit KDE entirely. At least not using the KDE menu. It used to be <ctrl>-<alt>-<backspace> would terminate the wi... | Solved. If you use the "Log out" from the <ctrl>-<alt>-<delete> menu (identical logo too), then it has the correct effect of actually halting the window system. |
Does Gentoo have an alternative for "media-fonts/inter" https://rsms.me/inter as I seem to be only able to get it from an overlay... For some reason all my KDE desktop notifications are unreadable strings of random characters without inter fonts. I checked https://packages.gentoo.org/categories/media-fonts but cant see... | If you don't get a better answer, configure KDE to use different fonts, or download and install them locally. Here is the install-linux.txt file from the download: Code: $ cat install-linux.txt Installing on Linux: There are many different Linux distributions and some handle font management differently. These instructi... |
Not sure what kind of touchpad it uses... the touchpad itself worked while installing gentoo via a ubuntu live usb, so it's compatible with linux somehow... lspci output: Code: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 11th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 05) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporat... | KShots wrote: Can't read the language (I assume it's German)... but blindly enabling all the referenced modules eventually triggered something. I have touchpad support now. Yes, its german. Great it works now. KShots wrote: For future reference, is there some trick to identifying which touchpad you might have? Yes and ... |
Since last update to firefox-esr-91.6.0, I got some tabs that crashes as they load (e.g my bank homepage https://www.caisse-epargne.fr/ ), or when my mouse cursor hovers them (e.g. when hovering results from a youtube search results page), while they used to work flawlessly. Been trying to start FF in safe mode to open... | Maybe related to bug 828070 (do you have dev-libs/glib[fam] ?)? |
Hello all, It looks like basically all of the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts are masked except for noto-cjk which is a massive ~1.8G file. What is the recommendation for people who just want to be able to display CJK fonts? Thanks! Cheers, Nathan Zachary | My fault; I had an error in my script. It looks like the only Japanese fonts that are masked (all by license keywords): aquafont aquapfont kochi-substitute mikachan* |
I have firefox-bin installed, really just for the occasional crap web site that won't work with my usual palemoon. This is all from within fluxbox-1.3.7-r4. I just had to downgrade from www-client/firefox-bin-91.0.2 back to www-client/firefox-bin-78.13.0 due to one of the stranger things I've run into. With version 91 ... | Wow...I'm sure you're right, and yes, that title bar option was already checked. Do the Mozilla devs (or the freedesktop.org devs for that matter) ever actually improve anything, or are they too busy breaking everything with the latest shiny object, and giving no way to fix it? Are we all supposed to confirm and use Gn... |
Hello, Since updating I have lost my top bar. Entirely. How do I get it back? -Nate | Lot out, log back in can solve lots of problems. |
Dear Gentoo Community Support, I hope to recover from my stumblings. During an attempt to update, I read the message "The ebuild selected to satisfy "sys-apps/dbus has unmet requirements. - sys-apps/dbus-1.12.22::gentoo USE="X elogind systemd -debug -doc (-selinux) -static-libs -test "ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" the foll... | What return command grep -r systemd /etc/portage ? And emerge -uUDtpv @world ? |
My KDE Plasma desktop becomes sluggish and freezes up sometimes. It happens especially while emerge which uses almost 100% cpu. It does not recover even after emerge finishes. The freeze happens most seriously the to taskbar. Click on an opened application (to switch), mouse over to view the preview, or adjusting the v... | Thanks figueroa. Yes I was looking into portage niceness and I will try it in next emerge. FYI I am using Intel 4790K with 4 cores and 8 threads. I am using MAKEOPTS="-j5" . Too much load from emerge may trigger the KDE Plasma problem. But after a clean reboot, plasmashell fails to start after killall, with the same er... |
Hi everyone, I'am trying to emerge mate DE and one of dependencies is net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.30.3 doesn't emerge emerge --info '=net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.30.3::gentoo https://pastebin.com/9HwNYDDu emerge -pqv '=net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.30.3::gentoo' Code: sim-bio ~ # emerge -pqv '=net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.30.3::gentoo' [ebuild N... | Code: error: #error "Building release without compiler optimizations: WebKit will be slow. Set -DRELEASE_WITHOUT_OPTIMIZATIONS if this is intended." Try to change your CFLAGS from -march=native -pipe to -march=native -O2 -pipe |
Hi!! When i run it to test my videocard: Code: glx info | grep direct I got it: Code: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 150 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 24 (X_GLXCreateNewContext) Value in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of fail... | That error could mean something else, but in a lot of cases it's because you didn't add your user to the "video" group. |
Hi there, First of all, thanks for everyone that have been making Gentoo a reality. Since a while I've been using this distribution, and am more than happy. Now, the question! In one of the latest updates, rxvt-unicode lost the ability to create tabs. So far, I was able to create tabs using Shift-Down. I'd say the rxvt... | Welcome to gentoo forums! Can be relateted to bug #830329 . |
Hey I'm trying to get the X server working but it won't go through, it complains that there are no screens found. Xorg log is as following: http://dpaste.com/8CDMTL3UM Kernel config: http://dpaste.com/9G6PQ9WU3 Am I missing something here? Edit: Make.conf: hhtp://dpaste.com/365YC75GJ | jerol, Code: [ 3283.633] (EE) parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (Permission denied) You have configured Xorg to be run as a normal user but probably not started the helper it needs to do the root things that still need to happen when it starts. Check that you have elogind in the default runlevel and that its act... |
Hi all I'm using Gentoo Linux stable branch with systemd profile. Currently, I have set up i3wm + LightDM. This is my /etc/pam.d/lightdm file: Code: auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start auth substack system-local-login account substack system-local-login password substack ... | I hadn't ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub with my public key defined. (It was empty) |
Trying to use libreOffice Base but connection fails. The same works well on my xubuntu laptop. LibreOffice was first installed compiled from source (a 20 hour process), then I emerged mysql-client but still the same problem. Then I deselected these and emerged libreoffice-bin - same connection error. Wanted to paste th... | Quote: Connection strng: I don't know. Registered the .odb file on the newly installed LibreOffice, then opened base module in LibreOffice. In the opening screen it offered the registered .odb file as an existing database. Opening succeeded same way as in my xubuntu laptop. Then I clicked on Tables or one of my Forms a... |
Hello! I can't start Xfce4 unless I delete config dir on my home, which is expected because of some bad config but after I log out without changing anything, I can't login unless i delete config folder on my home dir again! I have also deleted cache folder on my home dir but issue still persists. Then i kill my display... | nuuhojuu wrote: Code: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/startxfce4 This may not be the issue, but I don't recall having seen .xinitrc with "#!/bin/sh". |
As the title I can't set a correct resolution to gdm Code: ─[$] cvt 3840 2160 # 3840x2160 59.98 Hz (CVT 8.29M9) hsync: 134.18 kHz; pclk: 712.75 MHz Modeline "3840x2160_60.00" 712.75 3840 4160 4576 5312 2160 2163 2168 2237 -hsync +vsync here my file 50-monitor.conf Code: Section "Monitor" Identifier "eDP-1" Modeline "38... | I solved, I had to change monitors.xml Code: # cp ~/.config/monitors.xml /var/lib/gdm/.config/ # chown gdm:gdm /var/lib/gdm/.config/monitors.xml Code: <monitors version="2"> <configuration> <logicalmonitor> <x>0</x> <y>0</y> <scale>1</scale> <primary>yes</primary> <monitor> <monitorspec> <connector>eDP1</connector> <ve... |
Hello guys I am having trouble with xorg-server-21.1.3 running openrc-0.44.10. The error I am getting when i run startx is: Code: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (Permission denied) Package versions and USE flags: Code: sys-apps/openrc-0.44.10::gentoo USE="ncurses netifrc pam unicode -audit -bash -debug -newnet (-selinux) -sysv-... | Either install xorg-server with USE flag "suid" - or install and enable elogind. If you choose the latter approach, loginctl should print something like: Code: SESSION UID USER SEAT TTY c1 1001 mike155 seat0 tty1 |
EDIT: As per my reply below I've changed the subject here. Wow...Feel like I'm loosing my mind here. Some time back I installed x11-libs/libnotify and started using the notify-send program for a few monitoring cron jobs I run for my user. When I did that, I found some way to configure it so as to center the notificatio... | OK...now this is making a little more sense. I'd forgotten that the actual notification server I'd installed was dunst. In my update that was in fact updated from 1.6.1 to x11-misc/dunst-1.7.3. The config file is at ~/.config/dunst/dunstrc and must not be working in the new version...will dig further. Tom |
A recent upgrade (within the past 2 weeks or so) has made cut/copy and paste stop working. Cut (ctrl-x, or with the mouse menu) for example will remove selected text, but it won't then paste (ctrl-v, or shift-insert, or mouse paste). This affects multiple applications (I've tested Chrome, Firefox, Kate, Libreoffice) cu... | For issues with 'highlighted' paste, see for example: highlight when paste (bracketed paste) |
Hello. I am new to gentoo and this is the last 'major' thing that I have yet to get working. I save a bunch of email credentials in an authinfo.gpg file which I unlock in scripts using gpg2. The first time I run these scripts pinentry prompts me for the authinfo.gpg passphrase. On my other OSes (I use Debian normally) ... | Thank you for posting the solution. In the non-working configuration, what pinentry was used for the password that was then not saved? Was the same pinentry also used for passwords that were saved successfully? |
Hi all, am attempting to work my way methodically through the documentation to set up a working XFCE desktop such that I not simply arrive at a working environment but that I also understand the what and the why of my choices. To that end I've got a working DE in Xfce4, using autologin with no display manager. So far s... | Plz get rid of gnome keyring. In order to do this plz First make sure there is no reference to "gnome-keyring" in /etc/portage/package.use. And also set a universal Code: USE="-gnome -gnome-keyring" in make.conf followed by a rebuild @world. Also you could try this: Code: USE="-gnome-keyring" emerge -1av app-crypt/pine... |
Hello, Sorry if this issue has been asked a bunch of times, but for some reason, I can't get polybar to work with the powermenu on i3. I tried looking at forums and It won't solve my issue, can anyone please explain to me why it is not working. My Gentoo installation runs on OpenRC, which means that systemctl won't wor... | just use loginctl. man loginctl you can use it as regular user (non-root). Code: i3-msg exit <<< to exit loginctl reboot <<< reboot loginctl poweroff <<< shutdown and or to shutdown after some time: Code: loginctl poweroff 180 seat0 time is in minutes greetings EDIT: i found a little script: Code: #!/bin/bash # Power O... |
Title. I tried to sync the repositories, update the system, and libreoffice doesn't open in cinnamon, it opens in kde.. any idea? Thanks. | Also, as a general criticism, the opening post has no version numbers. Please tell us the package versions involved, so we can determine whether you are running a version with a known issue. |
Since the xf86-driver-keyboard has been removed from portage, I have been forced to move from "kbd" to "evdev" in my InputDevice section in xorg.conf. I have changed the driver and added the deice path and everything seemed fine, or so I thought. I noticed much later that I cannot change the volume on my Das Keyboard 4... | Before nearly two years Gentoo had a change from evdev to libinput. It is now the default and I would recommend to use it. See more here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Libinput I have also plasma and no problems with libinput. Maybe you want to change also ? |
Hello, right after connecting to wireless lan (and just then !!!) i can't start any appication from plasma. Example: Code: maddeepee@localhost ~ $ systemsettings5 Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyqt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0 qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was... | my fault i was missing a correct /etc/hosts .... :/ sorry. |
With all gtk+ software, when I am into a window with a file list, as example the window we get when doing File -> Open, the only way I can scroll it is by clicking on the scroll bar on the right, keep the click or keep the mouse pointer over that scroll bar, and move the mouse up and down or use the mouse scroll when t... | Hi Dominique. That's weird: it can't be a mouse configuration issue, as it's working with your QT software...yet it's not Adwaita-dark's fault either, as I can use that theme (with XFCE though, not FVWM) and the GTK programs behave as expected (both mouse wheel scrolling and page up/down key scrolling work, without any... |
Hello Guys, i like the new plasma system monitor. (4.23.4 with: kdeframeworks 5.88.0 xcb, Qt 5.15.2) trying to use the applications tab its telling me "not supported on this system". what keywords / software am i missing? Thanks! | Do you use OpenRC ? |
I installed kde-meta (took like 3 hours 0.0), now I'm trying to do startx Gives me the following xauth: file /root/.serverauth.17495 does not exist xauth file /root/.Xauthority does not exit xauth: file /root/.Xauthority does not exist /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc: line 2: /usr/bin/X: No such file or directory xinit: givin... | kahrkunne, From this and some of your other posts, you have taken the install it all then throw the switch and look for smoke approach to Gentoo. You get better results if you install it and configure it in small pieces, making sure each bit works before you install and configure the next bit that depends on what you a... |
Under the wiki page for X drivers there are multiple options I would like to use default Xorg intel driver the one that's opensource. Does anyone know if there are a package for it that needs to be emerged? Should I write config like this? is this the proper name and location? Code: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20.intel.... | Kamey, Welcome to Gentoo. Log files are important both for what they actually contain and what is missing but should be there. We need the whole Xorg.0.log to spot the latter. Its too big for a post, so use wgetpaste to put it onto a pastebin. Using the nVidia offload and the Intel driver are mutually exclusive. To use... |
Hello, Using Gentoo Currernt. Installed with the nvidia drivers, had to select a older kernel. Was able to complete install. Now when attempting to update world run into the following errors. https://dpaste.com/EY5QGEFPP Would like to fix to make updating world a little easier. Thanks, Nate | Please share emerge -p -uvDU @world. But note that this might just be.. correct? It has to skip the upgrade because those older drivers don't support 1.21. |
When KDE booted it quickly died and brought me back to SDDM. So, I used startx from the command line which resulted in this X server log indicating a segfault. Any debugging hints will be greatly appreciated. [SOLVED] Thanks to Ionen for pointing out this was a problem with nvidia-drivers-495.xx I installed nvidia-driv... | cfgauss, Xorg.1.log ? The .1. in the file name means its the second instance of the xorg-server runnnig. Did you expect that? |
Between a system's previous gentoo sync (end of October 2021) and another sync December 16 2021, a number of ebuilds were updated. This included firefox-78.15.0 -> firefox-91.4.0 and, as I recall, a number of xorg and Mesa updates. xorg-server may have been 1.20.13 and now it is 1.20.14. mesa may have been 21.1.7 and n... | Regrettably, this forced DRI2 also causes random firefox segfaults, particularly on commercial sites like yahoo. Code: [ 20449.854] (EE) Backtrace: [ 20449.854] (EE) 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x40) [0x55f1aaf99420] [ 20449.854] (EE) 1: /usr/bin/X (0x55f1aadfa000+0x1a2c75) [0x55f1aaf9cc75] [ 20449.854] (EE) 2: /lib6... |
Hello. Today all of a sudden when typing "su -" to switch from my normal user to root, you have changed the prompt: Code: -su-5.1# If I write "su" without the "-", the behavior is as expected. What has happened? How could I leave it as it was? Thanks. | What prompt were you expecting when you use su - ? Where is it configured? What have you changed on the system since the last time this did what you wanted? With what terminal(s) do you see this? |
When I try to open "ps" file with evince I get an error: Code: evince W-9\ Form.ps (evince:6866): dconf-CRITICAL **: 16:50:27.034: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. ls /run/user/1000/dconf/user -rw------- 1 root root 2 Dec 23 16:48 /run/user/1000/dconf/u... | Why is there a 2 byte long root-owned file in your user's private dconf directory? What is in that file? If you remove that file, does evince work? If yes, under what circumstances does that file reappear? |
My twm works well with startx. But I wanted graphic login, so I emerged sddm and followed Gentoo instructions. The only problem is that the login screen stays after login and everything else is not ereased, leaving a cluttered background screen. The .xsession_errors file says Quote: Error: Can't open display: :0 I have... | You could use xsetbg (media-gfx/xloadimage) or xsetroot (x11-apps/xsetroot) to simply load an image or clear the background. |
$ systemctl --user status ● localhost State: degraded Jobs: 0 queued Failed: 4 units Failed unit counter increments on application launch by Plasma/Kickoff. Application works without issues. Failed unit example: Code: systemctl --user status app-org.kde.kate-0ba03c5f0ffa4bd19bee81c96441bfa3.scope x app-org.kde.kate-0ba... | See bug 829596 . Stabilisation of fixed systemd is underway in bug 829887 . |
Is it possible to have it disappeared until nearby mouse hovering? Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support. | CaptainBlood wrote: Is it possible to have it disappeared until nearby mouse hovering? You can set this as a standard behauvier within the settings of the taskbar: (I cant explain better because I have a german kde) 1. right click in an empty area of the task bar and choose -> 2. (the last setting; Alt-D;Alt-S) 3. On t... |
I followed the Gentoo KDE setup guide to install Plasma 5. It was using for around two months without issues. Recently after I upgraded my kernel from 5.10.52 to 5.10.76, KDE Plasma does not start automatically. I was trying to find which part is going wrong. And I found that my display manager status is crashed. What ... | midnite wrote: I am trying to use the nouveau driver instead of the proprietary Nvidia driver. See below, does it mean nouveau does not support GTX 1650 ? The nouveau website says it supports by NV167. But why my PC says it is an unknown chipset? It may be the case that the kernel part is done. However the xorg DDX dri... |
Hello fellow gentooers, I run multiple computers with KDE and OpenRC, configuration and hardware are quite similar. Recently I noted that System Monitor can display only the "process list" (like the top utility), but the "application view" is empty, showing just the message "Application view is unsupported on your syst... | Application view only works with cgroups v2 support via systemd. |
Original title: Problems with firefox displaying text in certain fonts? For example, this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5RO6UFfUS0 looks like this https://i.gyazo.com/60cd2466923a139d5460032005735bc8.png (I can't figure out how to embed an image on here) I had this problem at some point on arch and the fix wa... | This seems korean symbol so you should install a korean font like media-fonts/unfonts |
Hello, First of all: i've already searched for fixes, but i can't seem to find a fix. If this is the wrong category, please tell me. Unsure wether this is a hardware or software problem. My problem is that for example that with rofi it just skips items and in minecraft in the hotbar it skips items too. So its not only ... | aznd wrote: Where can i look for a ebuild an older version? In Gentoo git: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/log/dev-libs/libinput https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/dev-libs/libinput?id=eb93a90ccd9edb9914e836ae718bb272764b0d7a |
I have been using virtualbox-bin until yesterday, when it was removed from the tree and I was forced to switch to virtualbox from source. I'm using ~amd64, so version 6.1.14a. I can no longer start my existing VMs, I get this error: Code: The virtual machine 'VM' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit cod... | Some interesting links https://bugs.funtoo.org/browse/FL-5924 http://www.mgreene.org/?p=211 |
Hi guys, I rarely post because 99.9% of the time, i found solutions by using the search button. No luck this time. I recently upgraded my workstation (after a whole year of being offline), went somewhat smoothly. However, the desktop is flickering, and I am not sure where to start troubleshooting. Just to be clear, it ... | Sharp_Rulez, Your emerge --info is truncated. Please share it all. Code: sys-devel/gcc: 8.3.0-r1::gentoo, 9.2.0-r2::gentoo, 9.3.0-r1::gentoo, 11.2.0::gentoo What are you keeping those old compilers for? You have gcc-11 selected now but what is everything else built with? It shouldn't matter. Do all those old compilers ... |
When I click on a gear in GDM, I see 4 options: "XSession", "GNOME", "GNOME Classic" and "Custom". I select "GNOME" and I expect it will be Wayland session after login. But after I logged in, I see it is X11 session. No idea how to dig further Code: # emerge --info Portage 3.0.28 (python 3.9.9-final-0, default/linux/am... | This is what I see in logs: Quote: # grep -iE 'gdm|gnome' /var/log/messages Dec 4 16:02:56 ibm elogind-daemon[1840]: New session c1 of user gdm. Dec 4 16:02:56 ibm gnome-session-binary[1935]: WARNING: Failed to upload environment to systemd: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Name "org.freedesktop.s... |
Already tried recompiling all dependencies with optimizations disabled and explicitly setting PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin" on make.conf, without success. When PATH is set, it stops complaining about not finding make and complains about not finding perl. Tested with qtcore, qtgui and qtdbus (all fail with the sa... | Where was which ? Was it off PATH because PATH was strange or because which was in an unusual place? |
Is it okay or not? Code: [ebuild R #] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-470.86-r1:0/470::gentoo USE="driver wayland -X -dist-kernel -static-libs -tools" 0 KiB Code: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GTX 650] (rev a1) | The GeForce GTX 650 seems supported by driver version 470.86 . |
So this seems trivial, but actually using Wayland is rather difficult because of this issue - with current Plasma themes, you can't read interface elements or pretty much anything, as all of them have a (semi) transparent background, including Plasma panels and widgets and stuff. So it gets pretty annoying. Previously ... | Which version of plasma 5.22.5-r1 or 5.23.3 |
I have installed Gentoo multiple times previously and the instructions on how to set up Xorg from the wiki always worked. Recently, I reinstalled the system copying my kernel config and .xinitrc (both of which worked perfectly with X before). However, this time I am constantly getting a fatal server error: "Cannot run ... | TimCve, It looks like your kernel is missing DPM support or dmesg would show the nouveau framebuffer drive in use. Its using EFI framebuffer instead. Code: [ 709.519] (--) PCI: (0@0:2:0) 8086:3e92: ... [ 709.520] (--) PCI:*(1@0:0:0) 10de:1c82: ... That could be a warning sing that you have an Optimus graphics system in... |
After an update, some keyboard functionalities stopped working such as XkbOptions and XkbVariant I took a look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout_switching#Generic_desktop_environment but did not find a solution I have support for both evdev as well as libinput . Are they mutually exclusive? Current config... | HeXiLeD, You have a plethora of Section "Input Device", which one is Xorg actually using? Please post the Xorg.0.log file. It should be the right one but is it? |
I sincerely apologize if this is a FAQ, noobie problem. I've been using gentoo for a grand total of less than one day, and am still trying to wrap my head around how gentoo works in general. Long story short, I have plasma installed and need kalgebra for school. I tried to update my system and kalgebra fails on compile... | Welcome to gentoo forum. The build log does not appear to be complete, you can paste full output with wgetpaste (portage tells you where the build.log file is located when package fails). |
Since that is in section 7 according to Debian manpages , I tried to locate the corresponding package with Code: e-file X e-file X.7.bz2 however nothing appropriate was found. Thanks for any help. | Hi qsmodo, Did you emerge xorg-server with USE flag doc ? |
I've got a weird one that has been going on for a month or so. My mouse pointer often flickers and disappears when I try to point to a specific location on the screen (like to click on a menu item). The pointer flickers, often being invisible. Because of this, I am often not sure where the pointer is, and so I click on... | Figured it out. I had turned on "Compositor" under "Window Manager Tweaks" int eh XFCE4 settings menu. Turning off the compositor made the cursor solid. |
I'm running gnome with systemd on a fresh install, and I think I may have made a mistake. If I look at screen 1 (Ctrl-alt-f1), I see GDM. If I do the same on screen 2 (CTRL-Alt-F2) then I see a different instance of GDM. If I switch to 3 (CTRL-ALT-F3) I have a text login. Do I have two instances of GDM running? How do ... | Can't post- it was all graphical, and just showed the Gnome sign in screen on two terminals. I ran Code: systemctl disable gdm , then I rebooted, ran Code: systemctl enable gdm and rebooted again. Only shows GDM on one terminal now, so it is resolved. |
I have been trying to get plasma installed to run it with i3 on a fresh install. But I keep getting builds that fail. Here is the build log for kwaylndserver http://dpaste.com/4F5UPN773 and etc... http://dpaste.com/65HTWHWZG http://dpaste.com/F7LAZ2XYR My make.conf http://dpaste.com/GNCVAEV5R I had more but these seem ... | Code: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/libQt5Core.so.5.15.2: undefined reference to `std::__throw_bad_array_new_length()@GLIBCXX_3.4.29' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/libQt5Core.so.5.15.2: undefined re... |
Just finished emerging Gnome on a systemd machine. When I run Terminal, it sits there with the icon indicating Terminal is loading with the swirling circle... then it disappears and looks like I never tried runnign anything. How do I diagnose and fix this? | Won't that cause all bashes that are run in other terminals, such as the Linux console, to report an incorrect $TERM? Why would this fix the problem of gnome-terminal not starting? OP: can you run other programs? Does plain xterm work? Is there any useful output written to stderr? |
On a fresh install of KDE Plasma the address bar does not respond when I try to use fish:// to connect to remote systems. Is there a use flag or plugin that this feature has been moved too that I need to enable/emerge? | I'm not sure but kde-apps/kio-extras has enabled sftp use flag? |
Hi, I'm trying to sandbox Firefox using the User function as described in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Simple_sandbox but there is no section for use on Wayland. So I integrated it with this https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wayland#Running_Wayland_or_X11_applications_as_a_different_user but in my system there is no GDK_RUN... | Hi and welcome to Gentoo. Running programs under wayland with different user is a little tricky at the moment. Curretly I know one good way: mv made sudox tool to do exactly that. You can see his post about it here . Try it first? |
Hello! I have a dualhead system with a nvidia video card. The monitors are attached by a KVM-switch. When switching the source of the KVM-switch or switching off the monitors, the arrangement of the desktops and the windows on it are preserved. Now I have another system with an amdgpu (renoir), which works fine, except... | Thank you for the answer, I am currently using KDE/plasma. The pc is started with two displays: Login, start programs, ... . Then the two displays are switched to another pc. When both are switched back, all windows are shifted to one monitor, although the desktops are correctly restored after a second. Do you have mor... |
Hello, I made a stupid mistake trying to fix a new gentoo install on some new hardware. I had done a base install but I set up the mount point wrong and ended up with another root dir in my home. So to boot into it, I had to mount my home to "/home/home/usrname" in my "/etc/fstab". I was trying to get the home moved to... | Exactly what commands were run to create this situation? Why were you using cp at all, when the correct solution was to mv the home directory itself? |
Is there a way to get fonts larger than 20 point in xterm? The small size of the text has been straining my eyes painfully. I have already installed "terminus" which supposedly has large fonts; I've searched all sorts of things and found no other useful advice. This is in my .Xdefaults: Code: xterm*font: *-*-*-*-*-*-20... | Emerge xterm with the USE flag 'truetype' Install a TrueType fond like DejaVu: Code: emerge media-fonts/dejavu Add the lines below to your ~/.Xresources: Code: XTerm*renderFont: true XTerm*faceName: DejaVuMono XTerm*faceSize: 24 Run Code: xrdb ~/.Xresources Start xterm: Code: xterm |
Hi, a few days ago markdown preview on the right hand side of Kate stopped working. Now I just see white space. I tried re-emerging kde-misc/kmarkdownwebview and, afterwards (after it didn't work), its dependencies Code: emerge -1 kde-frameworks/kconfigwidgets kde-frameworks/kcoreaddons kde-frameworks/kio kde-framework... | You should install also at least one of package among kde-misc/kmarkdownwebview or kde-misc/markdownpart. |
Gentlepeople, I updated Firefox to 91.3.0 via a normal portage update now it looks like Firefox is drunk. The problem is hard to describe as all my text is fuzzy but sometimes blinks into focus a little more, then out. It looks like graphics might be rendering OK, but it is very hard to use at the moment. I can barely ... | The output of "emerge --info" looks good. Which fonts do you use? Have you tried to disable hardware acceleration? ( Edit -> Settings -> Performance -> Use recommended settings = no -> Use hardware acceleration = no ) Have you tried to start Firefox with an empty profile? (Temporarily rename ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla-ba... |
There are a couple of threads about this already, but they are pretty old and none of them have helped me. I installed the latest www-client/vivaldi-4.3.2439.44 browser. It looks really nice so I'm motivated to use it. On boot I get an error dialog that says Quote: Vivaldi lacks a suitable component to play HTML propri... | Did you emerge vivaldi with the proprietary-codecs USE flag? |
For context, I have just installed Gentoo successfully a couple of days ago and it is my first ever distro. Please be patient with me as I am the literal embodiment of Linux noob. I have installed Xorg according to the wiki and configured my system according to "Non root Xorg" page in the wiki, but I still cannot get t... | dchoi2464, Welcome to Gentoo. Code: [ 26.974] (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. That tells that Xorg started, found nothing to do then quit. What were you expecting Xorg to do and why? You will have several Xorg.0.log files. One will be in /var/log/. Thats always a result of Xorg running as roo... |
It was working fine till yesterday night - now it takes about 15 secs to start. I've tried: 1) Firefox and firefox-bin 2) Starting firefox in safe mode 3) Creating a different profile 4) Disabling hardware acceleration 5) Deleting .mozilla folder in the home directory 6) Disabling addons & these don't work. Any idea wh... | maybe, if this is a network issue, need to look what happens on the network level with tcpdump; stop everything, start tcpdump, ensure there's no network activity, start firefox, inspect the recorded traffic. Not sure if it will be easy to interpret the results, if this is firefox doing some network activity it's still... |
Hi, I am quite new to Gentoo and openrc, so please forgive me a stupid question. It seems like those guys at the Gnome project have some issues with keyboard layouts in GDM. They also messed with the menue where you can set them an this menue is gone for now. You can only set the users keymap in gnomes settings, but no... | Schievel, xorg.conf and xorg.conf.d/* are concatenated together and whatever comes of of that is used, so settings in one file can override settings in another. Oh, I'm a dvorak-uk user. :) |
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