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Hello. I just ran Code: emerge -avuDU --backtrack=120 --verbose-conflicts @world and after a reboot i have no system tray icons on Gnome. HPLIP status is arguing that no system tray detected on this system and some other apps also argue about the same thing. Mega sync displays a window on login and no systray. can't se... | GNOME doesn't support tray icons. I think it was removed a few years ago. Perhaps you were using an extension that's not compatible with your version of GNOME? |
Hello, everytime I start X(startx /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal), X prints log to stdout then wipes the screen and freezes the system. I can't switch to different tty's after startx because keyboard is frozen and only way I can escape X is by pushing power button, which kills X and powers off my system but it doesn't because... | nuuhojuu, Your log is truncated because something crashed. Code: [ 64.671] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs Make it work with the vesa video driver first. You won't like that as its slow. Once in works, we have a much smaller problem space to work in. |
Hi everyone! A couple of days ago I updated plasma to 5.23 and I started getting a lot of error messages while working. It says "We are sorry, kded5 closed unexpectedly. We cannot report this error, becasue kded5 does not provide a bug reporting address. Details: Executable kded5 PID ...... Signal: Segmentation fault(1... | it looks like I found the solution. kde-plasma/kdecoration needed to be rebuilt. revdep-rebuild did the trick. |
Hello guys, I am using DWM as my window manager, but i am using "windows" key as my MOD key, and I want to stay with this one, but I'd like to replace MODKEY + SHIFT + C to ALT+F4 to close the windows. Do you know how I can do that in the config.def.h file? | Have you tried changing the killclient line to Code: { Mod1Mask, XK_F4, killclient, {0} }, By the way, you should change config.h, not config.def.h. |
I have xorg, FVWM, an AMD Radeon FX 5700, with picom installed. I have some obnoxious tearing issues in all cases: scrolling, moving video, gaming, etc. Can anybody give me advice for how to tweak my system to fix this? My xorg.conf file is blank, so it's just using default settings. Thanks for the help, EE | ExecutorElassus, Tearing is a video artefact cased by updating the pixel buffer at the same time as its being used to refresh the image on the screen. Its unsightly but harmless. Its normally addressed by using two (or more) separate pixel buffers so that one is used to refresh the screen while the other is updated wit... |
The title says it all. Every boot I get a Code: Executable: baloo_file_extractor PID: 22188 Signal: Segmentation fault (11) It is mostly just annoying but would be nice to make it go away. Any ideas? Thanks | [quote="Fitzcarraldo"]I find Baloo fragile and a nuisance. Sometimes it works OK on my amd64 and ~amd64 machines, other times not. If you are not interested in file indexing, you can disable it: [code]$ balooctl disable[/code] See also https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1092732.html[/quote] Thanks. I'll disable it. |
Plasma 5. Missing shutdown, reboot, suspend, hibernate buttons when using OpenRC Screenshot - https://ibb.co/CJdVbGV | https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE#Prerequisites |
I am interested to install xfce on my system. Before installing it https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xfce/Guide the site says to first install Xorg in the system .My profile list is "3" Well when I use the following it shows the following dependencies required Code: # emerge --pretend --verbose x11-base/xorg-drivers shows t... | alamahant, Isn't choosing the desktop profile supposed to take care of that sourcing? Also USE is cumulative, like CFLAGS to gcc so DESKTOP=${USE} USE="${DESKTOP} -bindist" is the same as USE="-bindist" Come to think of it USE="-bindist" is the default in profiles. The stage3 has to be built with USE="bindist" but its ... |
edit: this has nothing to do with elogind ! that's why i changed the subject (if it's ok) hello, want to try out sway (AMD RX 590), after getting some informations beforehand, it worked fine at first, but after changing some settings the keyboard surprisingly failed - no keyboard input anymore. even though i put the co... | Using stock gentoo ebuilds, works fine here , amd as well, don't have anything keyboard related in the sway config Code: [root:~] # equery uses sway [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for gui-wm/sway-1.6.1-r1: U I ... |
I use firefox-bin. On dwm the firefox ui (tabs, preferences panel etc.) uses sans-serif fonts, but on swaywm, it uses serif fonts. Here is the difference: https://ibb.co/GvLDZvs My Code: eselect fontconfig list : Code: [1] 09-texlive.conf [2] 10-autohint.conf [3] 10-hinting-full.conf [4] 10-hinting-medium.conf [5] 10-h... | FF on sway has wrong text here so I went back and tried some things and found gsettings, which of course is different from gconftool. Code: $ gsettings list-recursively |grep font ~snip~ org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'Cantarell 11' and of course that's wrong, so I tried Code: $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.i... |
Hi All, I have a desktop install running on an old Dell Latitude E5420, 4GB RAM with Xfce, fully up to date with latest stable kernel. The video is Intel integrated and has a Synaptic touchpad. Everything works properly with one minor issue. Within Xfce, the touchpad does not respond to a finger tap (which should repre... | Plz navigate to Code: XFCE->settings-manager->mouce and touchpad->touchpad->touchpad->tap touchpad to click |
I have installed Gentoo "Desktop (stable)", and want to use twm for window manager with X. Basically I want to boot into my home console and use GUI later, I copied /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc into ~/.xinitrc (note this is now a dot file) and tweaked it to have my own decoration. startx gets me to my usual twm opening scree... | Did you find that as a result of a twm error message (and if so, where was the message?) or through general inspection? Even threads caused by user error can be useful if they end with instructions for how future readers can recognize that they have the same problem, and how to fix it. |
As the title, when I boot I get this line in the output, and also when I restart a service I don't start xdm because I don't need it and it isn't in a start level Why this line appear? I points out that my system works without problem, I only want to understand this line to remove it an example Code: gentoo ~ # /etc/in... | Code: gentoo ~ # ls /etc/init.d/ agetty cronie fsck localmount net.lo runsvdir sysfs alsasound cups-browsed functions.sh loopback netmount s6-svscan sysklogd apache2 cupsd fuse lvm net-online saned termencoding avahi-daemon dbus git-daemon lvmetad nullmailer savecache udev avahi-dnsconfd devfs gpm lvm-monitoring numloc... |
I've been using Linux exclusively for the past 10 years (xubuntu on a laptop and Redhat Fedora3 highly customized and CentOS-6 on an old machine). Now I have a fitlet2 machine with most current hardware (Intel 4-core-Celeron, SSD, 8G RAM). I try to install a customized, simple linux (no games, etc. but select gui progr... | Welcome to gentoo forum. jankom wrote: First I tried no-multilib, base method. OK, I was able to boot after install, but could not proceed with X needed for twm and gui programs. The error was xorg USE issues. Then I tried with multilib, desktop hoping to resolve X. For install a desktop profile multilib or no-multilib... |
Hi Newbie here. Just installed Gentoo. I fallen love with it However, I'm struggling with lxappearance. Every time I'm trying to run it, it fails with segmentation fault (core dumped). I'm using Sway. Please guide me what to do and what information you need. Thanks in advance | heppen wrote: Sorry for pl lang in the output You can prevent localization by exporting LC_MESSAGES=C into the environment of the command(s) you want shown in English. |
mutter ebuild: Code: BDEPEND=" wayland? ( >=sys-kernel/linux-headers-4.4 || ( x11-libs/libxcvt <x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.11-r3[xorg,-minimal] ) ) libxcvt ebuild: Code: RDEPEND="!<x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.11-r3" after unmasking, update returns: Code: [nomerge ] gnome-base/gnome-light-40.0:2.0::gentoo USE="-cups gnome-... | libxcvt is a bit like xwayland and was formerly part of xorg-server (still is in stable right now). So you need both ~arch's xorg-server, and libxcvt to match. |
Greetings, guys~ This problem occurred starting at version 1.6.x after updating today. Sorry, I don't remember exactly what the first version that has this problem is. Edit: The problem is starting at 1.6.1. The 1.6 version is working ok. And the reason why posting the problem of sway here but not in sway github issue ... | Because wayland related development is rapidly changing, I update wlroots and compositors at the same time. The people that are doing development on wlroots are also the ones doing work on sway. Though other compositors do keep up with wlroots also. |
Here is the error message: Code: Client: Breakpad is using Single Client Mode! client fd = -1 [CZPClientLogMgr::LogClientEnvironment] [MacAddr: 70:85:C2:B9:17:D2][client: Linux][OS: Gentoo/Linux x64][Hardware: CPU Core:16 Frenquency:3.5 G Memory size:128971MB CPU Brand:AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core Processor GPU... | No problem here, you have some problem with opengl? What return command glxinfo? |
Hi there, I'm trying to switch my video card from radeon to geforce, using nvidia drivers. I followed the guides https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVIDIA/nvidia-drivers , https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SDDM#Service and https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide , but all I get when I boot the system is a black screen with the ju... | Maybe this helps? https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1097502-start-0.html |
I wanted to try chromium again and I compiled it with gcc, no custom cflags. It took 4 hours and half, but the worst part of it are those results: Code: https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.0/ Chrome: 116 Chromium: 46.97 https://web.basemark.com/result/?4d0lumwQ Chrome: 935.76 Chromium: 448.31 https://browserbench.org... | I checked out of curiosity Code: https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.0/ google-chrome - 116 firefox-bin - 105 chromium - 66.3 chrome - windows - 72.4 firefox - windows - 78.9 Must be worth bc google cripples it on purpose it seems This looks like joke but lower must be better !!!!!!!!!!!!! Windows chrome and firefox ... |
Hi. I've been trying to update my laptop now for the past 5 days. Some of that time is from sorting through dependency issues, but most is compile time. I'm in the home stretch here, but I have a bothersome package: motif-2.3.8-r2 (which is the only version in portage right now). This has vexed me for the last two days... | See bug #798834 |
Hi! I have been using the rxvt-unicode terminal emulator for quite some time now with the same config and compiled with the following useflags: Code: [ebuild R ] x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.26-r2::gentoo USE="font-styles gdk-pixbuf mousewheel perl startup-notification unicode3 utmp wtmp xft -24-bit-color -256-color -blink... | After some further investigation, I found out that the issue seems to lie in fact with the keybindings not being picked up properly: When changing Code: urxvt*keysym.Control-Shift-F9 to Code: urxvt.keysym.C-S-F9 the colours are changed properly. Probably some library handling these keybindings got updated, but I do not... |
Code: media-video/libva-utils-2.12.0::gentoo USE="X drm -examples -putsurface -test -test-va-api -vainfo wayland" ABI_X86="(64)" any-of ( examples putsurface test-va-api vainfo ) No idea how to select here... Any idea? Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support. | Code: $ equery u libva-utils [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for media-video/libva-utils-2.12.0: U I + + X : Add support for X11 + - drm : Enables VA/DRM API support. - - examples : Build and install decode, enc... |
I wanted to emerge plasma-meta but this wants to pull in networkmanager. This wants wifi and bluetooth. And after reading the wiki of it I don't see the use for it in this pc. This is a desktop that has no wifi and no bluetooth and I have no use for it either in this desktop. Problem is that the only other option looks... | Do you tried to disable networkmanager use flag from plasma-meta package? If yes post emerge -pvt plasma-meta output |
Hello Gentoo community, I have a weird issue about copying and pasting in terminal. I sometimes copy commands from browser and then paste them into terminal; or just use double click and middle button within terminal to do this. Usually there's no highlight on pasted text. But now the pasted text keeps highlighted unti... | Probably 'bracketed paste' that was enabled in 'readline' a while ago. See for example: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1129137.html |
Hi everyone! I decided to get rid of Spidermoney since updating it on my grandpa laptop was really painful. equery d spidermonkey pointed only polkit to be using it so I looked for alternatives and I found musl overlay that offers polkit with duktape instead of spidermonkey . I gave it a try but after rebooting, I real... | Daemon14 wrote: Quote: Absolutely. This is the very patch that enables replacement of spidermonkey with duktape. any idea why it wouldn't work? i use 'polkit' with 'duktape' patch form 'pg_overlay'. but using a complete overlay often jumbles gentoo system, therefore, i always get a copy e.g. from git - just use the url... |
Hi. On one of my laptops with recently installed Gentoo I've got an interesting issue: terminal commands in worker file manager do not work. On several other desktops and laptops it works fine. Does anybody have a clue why can it be happening? https://sourceforge.net/p/workerfm/bugs/41/ | The program author, Ralf Hoffmann, replied to my ticket (the link above) and resolved the issue The problem was in noexec for /tmp ... |
Hi all, Until recently, I was able to connect to a host via SSH (with X11 forwarding) and run any graphical application on my remote PC. A few days ago, I noticed that some applications now won't open on the remote PC... the window opens on the host instead. For example, about a week ago, on my remote PC, I could do: C... | mike155's question matches my first suspicion. If that pans out, then the explanation is that one of your updates switched to use Wayland instead of X11 for a display protocol, and Wayland doesn't handle network transparency. There's been talk of it for years, but as far as I know, you still can't forward Wayland over ... |
It seems firefox is just getting more broken with every release, as of 90.0, whenever I toggle compositing on my (plasma) desktop, any open firefox windows fail to redraw their contents properly. As of 91.0, they don't redraw at all, and the only fix I can find is to forcibly kill the window and restart the browser... ... | Are you using binary or building? Does the ESR have the same issue? and its binary? Any messages in dmesg? TBH I'd blame hardware given the data you've given here... I've been using firefox since forever too, and I'm sure not jumping ship to chrome... |
System is an HP Pavilion laptop running an A10-8700P with Radeon R6 graphics. Running LightDM into either Plasma 5.22 or XFCE4. Upgraded kernel to 5.13.0 from 5.12.13 by copying the .config per the wiki and running make olddefconfig, also per the wiki. When the screen blanks from idle and I try to come back, the backli... | 5.13.0 was masked due to the NFS server problem. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/profiles/package.mask?id=825a76a29e443fae726e588302eecc24061133e3 |
just emerged firefox and it crashes for me every time i use my cusor (when i move using only keyboard it does not crash). also, when i launch firefox it spits this message: Code: $ firefox (firefox-wayland:3129) Gdk-WARNING **: 23:19:19:272: Failed to load cursor theme Adwaita (/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox:3213): Gdk-WAR... | firefox and waybar use gtk, AFAIK sway does not use gtk. What version of wayland, sway, wlroots, mesa, libdrm and firefox? |
I have this odd behaivor with Konsole when I save my profile with transparency, then re-open konsole transparency is gone. I need to check "blur backround", then save, then uncheck it, then save again. Then transparency is working again for my current session. But I need to rinse and repeat every time I re-launch konso... | Recent konsole versions come with already predefined default profile which is unfortunately readonly, and it can silently accept changes but the changes are not being applied. I guess this is the problem. Try to create a new profile, set it as default and then try to set transparency again I can not reproduce with cust... |
Boot message: Code: Service `xdm' needs non existent service `xdm-setup' Using openrc here. No idea what 2 do 2 fix... Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support. | Now service is called display-manager, see related news |
I run openrc, and startx. X is setup for setuid, -elogind, -pam. (I'm an single user system - I've nothing against elogind, but I wanted to excise pam - I couldn't do so without -elogind) I've been running fine this way for a year or two I just did a world update - I was about 3 months out-of-date. Some hiccups, but ma... | Was nvidia-drivers updated? In "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d" do you have a file that specifies the nvidia driver/ |
As can be seen in the screenshot https://i.stack.imgur.com/y23iU.png . Sometimes fonts renders ugly and aliased. It seems to only affect downloaded fonts. If I set it to use internal fonts only it looks ok, but breaks some pages, so it's not a great workaround. Also looks great in Chrome. | firefox-bin have the same issue? |
I can run xorg just fine as the root user, but not as a normal user. The x server appears to start, then closes with no error message - for no obvious reason. Running through the advice in the wiki article: Non_root_xorg - I have added elogind to the boot run level (dbus to the default run level) - loginctl user-status... | Hi Plz make sure you have universal USE="elogind" Code: emerge --info | grep elogind if not add elogind in make.conf USE. and rebuild @world. Plz use lightdm to start xfce. Also make sure your user is member of audio and video groups Code: sudo usermod -aG audio,video $USER If you are not happy with this you can build ... |
Had 2 restore x11-misc/qt5ct-1.1 in local repo, as update doesn't work. I may be missing something... Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support. | Gentoo wiki Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support. |
This is so strange that I am not sure if this is the proper place for this, and even if it is, I am not sure what logs to even post. I am hoping that if I describe the problem, maybe someone out there can point me in the right direction to even start looking. OK -- so I was running Dantrell's Gnome 3.30 and my laptop w... | runningnak3d wrote: I am hoping that if I describe the problem, maybe someone out there can point me in the right direction to even start looking. This issue was reported on the support thread and I have been waiting for more feedback but no one got back to me. Looks like you are it. runningnak3d wrote: That gave me an... |
Hello, I have the following problem: If I try to open a file containing a space character, some programs fail while others work as expected. E.g. I double-click on a file named "/home/user/The Test.abc" then evince, libreoffice, mousepad, firefox an some others fail. They say that they cannot find the files "The" and "... | What do you mean when you open "via command like"? You ran firefox 'The Test.abc' , exactly as written, including the single quotes, and Firefox failed to find the file? When you open by double-click, how does your GUI tool know what program to run? |
Hi, please bear with me as this problem is difficult to diagnose and report on. I'm more than certain I've a working system underneath and I've installed Gentoo on this exact same hardware before; literally nothing has changed. Reproducing the problem causes me to have to chroot back into my system to revert it back to... | ISHAIM, Code: CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="amdgpu/polaris11_ce.bin amdgpu/polaris11_k_smc.bin amdgpu/polaris11_k2_smc.bin amdgpu/polaris11_k_mc.bin amdgpu/polaris11_mc.bin amdgpu/polaris11_me.bin amdgpu/polaris11_mec2.bin amdgpu/polaris11_mec.bin amdgpu/polaris11_pfp.bin amdgpu/polaris11_rlc.bin amdgpu/polaris11_sdma1.bin am... |
Hi everyone! I'm installing fresh Gentoo, actually starting from 0 second time in a week. First installation went ok, after some obstacles I ended up with everything but networkmanager and latte-dock. Networkmanager wasn't able to compile, but I used connman so I was ok. However after some update or make.conf change (I... | Some special packages need to retain some of their symbols. Portage normally strips things that can be stripped, and has exemptions for those packages, so stripping via CFLAGS does not save you space on most packages. For those few where it does, you may be causing problems. I recommend removing -s and relying on Porta... |
Following the Gentoo wiki guides: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Hardware_3D_acceleration_guide https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel#Kernel I was able to enable direct rendering, but it seems like 3D acceleration is still disabled. glxinfo -B: Code: name of display: :0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes Exten... | Welcome to gentoo forums. You can post also Xorg.0.log? Anyway only one of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-modesetting.conf is loaded https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel#Modesetting_DDX wrote: Note If both 20-intel.conf and 20-modesetting.conf files are defined in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/, th... |
Hello everyone, today I discovered a bug in GNOME(or just me). When I try to change timezone, in gnome-control-center it's always UTC and doesn't change everything, but it shows for a split second in real time. If I set TZ variable in .xinitrc or /etc/timezone, GNOME understand it as UTC and shows the wrong time in app... | Fixed with symlink to Code: /etc/localtime Still waiting for the config option for timezone-data to work properly(symlink instead of copying file) |
As the title says. All I did was a system upgrade and a depclean and a restart. No idea what changed! Here are my .Xresources and .zshrc: Code: URxvt*scrollWithBuffer: true URxvt.letterSpace: -1 urxvt*transparent: true urxvt*shading: 70 URxvt.font: xft:MesloLGS NF:style=Regular:size=10 Xft.autohint: 0 Xft.lcdfilter: lc... | Upgrade again, there was a rxvt-unicode-9.26-r2 released shortly after to address this (stable rxvt-unicode wasn't affected). Turned out the new 24-bit-color patch affected the build even with USE=-24-bit-color (not intended), so the patch was made conditional entirely rather than rely on a configure flag to disable it... |
Has there been any changes related to login in new kernels? If I boot gentoo-sources 5.12.13 and try to login in via sddm, it fails and I get the following in the log: Code: [15:49:16.914] (II) DAEMON: Message received from greeter: Login [15:49:16.914] (II) DAEMON: Reading from "/usr/share/xsessions/fluxbox.desktop" [... | Exactly what permission is denied on the bad kernel? Can you increase log verbosity to the point that it shows something actionable? |
I've noticed x11-terms/mlterm has wayland USE flag, since I'm on Wayland I've decided to try it , even though I never heard about it before, I was curious. So, I've emerged it and because I have wayland in make.conf it compiled with that flag enabled, it had X flag enabled as well. It starts, seems to be working fine, ... | Code: file "$(which mlterm-wl)" to see if its a shell script of even an empty file. |
****Cable issue **** Hi guys, Trying to set up a Dell Optiplex 3020 as a spare workstation, was hoping to use integrated graphics, but running in to resolution problem. The system contains a I5 4590 (4th gen if i have the correct information) So far, it is just a standard stage 3 install, with Xorg and Fluxbox. X start... | ALF__, Xorg should ask your display for its capabilities. Some drivers print it in the log, some don't. Code: [ 28.342] (II) intel(0): switch to mode 1024x768@60.0 on VGA1 using pipe 0, position (0, 0), rotation normal, reflection none That's not the Xorg default, so Xorg got it from somewhere. Code: x11-misc/read-edid... |
So I've been running Gentoo fine for about a year. I have 2 video cards: an older AMD (using amdgpu driver) which I use for the DE (Plasma) and an Nvidia 2070 (no drivers loaded) that a passed to a VM for gaming. This all has been working great. Yesterday, I was thinking "Hey wouldn't it be great to have the Nvidia car... | nvidia kernel modules shouldn't block your AMD, they can co-exist. Something else is wrong. Code: [ 232.530] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0) This is probably your nVidia, there should be another device - card1 - for AMD. If it is not there then your kernel is not configured properly for AMD. |
Hi, After an upgrade today, sddm[pam, systemd] is no longer working: Whenever I try to login as some user, I get immediately displayed the message "Login failed". Unfortunately, I changed several places simultaneously, besides doing an emerge -NDu @world: I changed the user and group id of sddm. However, no files seem ... | It has nothing to do with the password: When I do auto-login, I see only a scrambled text screen, no matter whether I try a wayland or an X session. The normal greeter displays correctly, though, and running wayfire manually works. |
Hi, I just notice me what kwin_x11 eats my CPU. Code: Tasks: 182 total, 2 running, 180 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 25,2 us, 0,2 sy, 0,0 ni, 74,6 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st MiB Mem : 15920,3 total, 12938,9 free, 1456,7 used, 1524,7 buff/cache MiB Swap: 2048,0 total, 2048,0 free, 0,0 used. 13645,6 avai... | Thanks for response alamahant I do not what happened, after a reboot, normality is back. Code: Tasks: 189 total, 1 running, 188 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 7,0 us, 4,3 sy, 0,0 ni, 88,5 id, 0,2 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,1 si, 0,0 st MiB Mem : 15920,3 total, 9982,3 free, 2450,4 used, 3487,5 buff/cache MiB Swap: 2048,0 tot... |
I do a lot of Gentoo builds on IBM and Lenovo Thinkpads of all ages, up to this point I've encountered no great problems getting them working. I recently purchased an old G40 Thinkpad which was a different design to the core T-series and R-series Thinkpads (T40, T41, T42, R51, etc.) of the same time in that it has a fu... | fredbear5150, Code: [ 16.646] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module modesetting [ 16.646] (EE) Failed to load module "modesetting" (module does not exist, 0) That suggests that xorg-server did net build or install properly The build log would be good. Something broke at the install. modesetting is free with Xorg. You can'... |
I have previously installed waybar and it is working properly: Code: # equery l waybar * Searching for waybar ... [IP-] [ ] gui-apps/waybar-0.9.7:0 When I try to recompile, I get the following compilation error: Code: [39/82] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Iwaybar.p -I. -I../Waybar-0.9.7 -I../Waybar-0.9.7/include -Iprotocol ... | Welcome to gentoo forums. You should post full /var/tmp/portage/gui-apps/waybar-0.9.7/temp/build.log file with wgetpaste |
Hello, I'm trying to configure my new graphic card AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT on my Gentoo system. I followed the guide https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMDGPU even if the chipset Navi 22 is not listed. But I cannot get X server working. For information, I have installed linux-firmware and compiled the kernel with amdgpu as a m... | ludo82, Code: [ 429.781] (--) PCI:*(11@0:0:0) 1002:73df: .... [ 429.786] (II) AMDGPU(0): [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported. That's a Radeon RX 6700/6700 XT Either amdgpu is missing from the kernel or the navy_flounder* firmware files are not being loaded, or maybe both. Install wgetpaste and share your dmesg... |
In X, it was possible to run a browser with a low-privileged user: All you needed was an appropriate .Xauthority file in the home directory of the low-privileged user (and some variables exported). How is the analogous thing done in wayland, in particular with seatd? I assume that the question reads more precisely: Is ... | No, I think mv is asking about using a separate uid just for the browser, so that standard Linux permissions can prevent the browser from reading the regular home directory, signaling other processes, etc. I am not aware of a way to do this in Wayland, but I have not looked for such a thing. I might start with Firejail... |
So I picked up some 200 updates in the last four days for kde and plasma, and one of them has messed up my panels, as seen here . Also, the icons on the launcher and the task manager are now different sizes, some programs are rendering icons too small too. I'm going to start working backwards to try and find the culpri... | paintchip wrote: I'm having the same issue and it's driving me crazy. Can you list your steps so I know exactly which files you copied? Code: cp /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.panel ./ -Rf cd org.kde.panel/contents/ui/ rm * wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KDE/plasma-desktop/v5.21.90/containments/panel/conte... |
Hello, I'm Ali. Before starting i wish everyone a good day. I'm opening this topic in Desktop Environments because i couldn't find a "Window Managers" section. The problem is, URXVT terminal shows as "broken" in the title just like this: https://i.hizliresim.com/luxg2jr.png I don't know how to solve it, i emerged it a ... | I don't know why exactly does it say 'broken' , but it should be empty for terminal windows anyway, if you launch some terminal app then it should change. If you're emerging something you should see emerge status for example. Try running htop or top |
Following an upgrade to Gnome 40, most of the windows on my desktop are experiencing significant graphic damage. This consists of small squares or rectangles of misplaced graphics, transparency or erroneous color. If I scroll the window the graphics damage tends to accumulate, making most of the window unreadable. If I... | An upgrade from the stable mesa-21.0.3 to unstable 21.1.2 solved this problem. |
I have installed Gentoo on a HP Elitebook 835 G7. When I start a xfce4 session, the arrow keys do not work as expected. I start a xfce4-terminal, type some text, and when I try to move the cursor with the left key, the cursor does not move. Instead a popup in the top right corner appears: "energy management: display br... | I checked with xev with the following results: 1. Freshly started xfce4 session; started xev via xfce4-terminal; hit "up"-key; Result: Code: FocusOut event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001, mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor FocusIn event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001, mode NotifyUngrab, deta... |
Hi, just installed IceWM on older PC and there are settings in DE for systemd: Code: test -e /run/systemd/system && systemctl reboot test -e /run/systemd/system && systemctl poweroff test -e /run/systemd/system && systemctl suspend What are the correct commands for openrc? Thanks in advance | If you installed elogind the commands are equals but with loginctl instead of systemctl. |
Hi all, This is my first post here, and guys I need your help. I start Openbox via startx , autostart runs, but xrandr doesn`t. I tried sleep 2 && and also doesn`t help. But if I try manually sh .config/openbox/autostart it runs as expected: set resolution to external display move external display to the left Code: # ~... | Although convenient for testing, using sleep in this way is almost always wrong, because the time required is not precisely constant. Either you set the sleep time too short, and the sleep serves no purpose, or you set the sleep time too long, and wait longer than necessary before the desired command executes. In both ... |
It is a fresh installation. I tried a standard widget and an extra one (so called better inline clock), but both failed to show time. The standard widget is just an invisible box, whereas the better inline clock is a black box. KDE Plasma desktop 5.20.5-r1 KDE Frameworks 5.80.0 Qt 5.15.2 (built against 5.15.2) How to f... | Aranycsapat wrote: It is a fresh installation. I tried a standard widget and an extra one (so called better inline clock), but both failed to show time. The standard widget is just an invisible box, whereas the better inline clock is a black box. KDE Plasma desktop 5.20.5-r1 KDE Frameworks 5.80.0 Qt 5.15.2 (built again... |
Hi, New system, no idea why but it seems when kmix autostarts with the system it won't open on left mouse click but if right click and select restore then it shows. I have the same issue on another system so it's not the init system since it happens on both systemd and openrc. BTW not sure if this helps but running kmi... | Bump |
I am using KDE, and I even have -gtk and -gnome in my use flags. But I am using a few apps, like Audacity, that have UIs that use gtk. How can I easily adjust the gtk theme? Some package where I can set it without installing all of gnome. I tried creating a ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini with some settings according to... | If you enable gtk use flag in plasma-meta you can configure gtk theme on System Settings. |
Want to set mouse right click to paste from xclip instead of "Ctrl V" in Xterm, how to catch mouse button 2 in .Xresources ? Code: xterm*VT100.Translations: #override \ Ctrl <Key>V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD) Have tried: Code: xterm*VT100.Translations: #override \ ~Meta <Btn2Up>: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD,PRIMARY,CUT... | does this work without vncviewer? |
Hi. Yesterday my desktop got frozen, so I had to use hard reset button, and now I can't boot into my KDE. xorg doesn't start. When I trying to startx manually X fails with the following message: parse_vt_settings cannot open /dev/tty0 (permission denied) I read that it may be suid issue, but I can't startx neither as u... | Solved by updating kernel and rebuilding nvidia driver against new kernel |
so i cant get dunst to work i get critical cannot connect to dbus ive been at this for 2 days,any tips?i also read that if another daemon is running it wont work, this is a fresh system with dwm and i tried setting dbus-launch in .xinitrc and it always doesnt work although on boot dbus starts,then i checked in /etc/dbu... | Can you post your .xinitrc? |
Hello, I got an issue with apps requiring XWayland since the update to Gnome 40 from 3.38. The application start and is running, except that no windows pop up. For example, when I start xterm from Terminal, I got no error but nothing is displayed. I've check that Xwayland is running. gnome-shell is starting it properly... | The problem is fixed within gnome-shell-40.1-r1 The r1 ebuild contains this patch: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/commit/d9239e2cee27cad582544e769ad794ca571f35fb |
hi there, when installing dev-qt/qtgui-5.15.1-r1,i ran into this error : Code: /var/tmp/portage/dev-qt/qtgui-5.15.1-r1/work/qtbase-everywhere-src-5.15.1_build/bin/qvkgen: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.28' not found (required by /usr/lib64/libQt5Core.so.5) make: *** [Makefile:2032: vulkan/qvulkanfuncti... | Mgiese wrote: Code: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 Why do you have a libstdc++.so.6 there? It should be at /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/9.3.0/libstdc++.so.6 or similar depending on version/target with none in /usr/lib64, or at least it's like that on my system. Does it belong to any package? Does ` qfile /usr/lib64/libs... |
I'm configuring my plasma setup and I'm in trouble setting the correct keyboard. In the terminal I do have an "azerty" keyboard and this works perfectly. Once I enter plasma I have a "qwerty" keyboard. I tried setting it to "belgian" in the system settings. This looks like the best match. But when I apply the settings ... | Generally, files under /usr/share are not protected, so your next emerge of sddm will likely overwrite that change. If the change is necessary, consider adding a Portage user patch to automatically reapply the change on upgrade/rebuild. Alternatively, try to find a way to fix this while changing only files in /etc and ... |
Hello everyone! I'm having problems with sddm: when starting the system everything goes fine, but if I do a user logout I have sddm as a window (with buttons to maximize, minimize and close) that prevents me from logging back into the desktop. This all happened after an update of several qt libraries. Does anyone have ... | Yes, same here. You might be interested in this thread |
I started with X11 and pulled in TWM to check. This showed so I went further and pulled in plasma-meta. I have as users root and a regular user that is member of "audio, video, wheel, usb, dvd". Now I'm in the strange situation that depending of the user I get different results... When I start the laptop I come into a ... | For some reason or other, the .xinitrc was not in the /home of the regular user. After correcting that I can log in the terminal as a regular user and with startx start plasma. Sorry to bother you all. |
It opens them in Chrome with no problems, but refuses to launch email links in Firefox. The only workaround I've found is to have a Firefox window already open...in which case the links in Thunderbird work perfectly. What's going on here? I can't figure out what it is about having Firefox running already that's making ... | Ah! Yes, probably. That could be useful to know: if I get sick of rebuilding thunderbird with every update I might have another go with thunderbird-bin and see if some dbus magic can solve the issue. Thanks for this. |
I have a problem with networkmanager. If I upgrade to any version >=1.28 I experiment a random crash of the X desktop due to unknown factors. For some time I masked 1.28 wating for the bug to be solved. Now I see that 1.30.4 is out and stable and the bug is still there. I run and amd64 stable system with Xfce on an int... | It's too early to declare victory, but it seems that crashes disappear if I disable the dhcpcd use flag (don't know why it's enabled, it has been there for ages without issues), If it's true it's a bug and must be fixed. Either by removing the dhcpcd use flag or by fixing it. I'll file a bug it this is the case, howeve... |
Hello, I noticed two days ago that the dunst notification daemon has started to use some fallback font instead of terminus-font . I've not modified my dunst config since installing the daemon a few months ago and it has used terminus-font gladly up until now. This is my dunst config: Code: [global] ### Display ### # Wh... | Not familiar with dunst, but since it uses pango and bitmap fonts are involved, it's likely the same as this thread . tl;dr is that pango dropped support for bitmap fonts a while ago (not a bug, it's intentional so likely not coming back), Gentoo kept that version masked for a while delaying this but that changed and n... |
If I lock the screen there is no way I can unlock it even with the right password. I'm running OpenRC with SDDM, if that's the issue, I'll pass on Xfce. I can lock from Enlightenment Live without any issues, can't see anything of interest in the usual logs from the Xfce session aside that it fucks up everything around ... | What is written to the screen locker's log file when the unlock fails? |
EDIT ter: finally after upgrade to kde-frameworks-5.82 and kde-plasma-5.21.5 kdeinit segfault is removed. I find this on bugs.kde https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430862 EDIT bis: Hi, after this update when I launch every applications (kate kwrite smplayer vlc libreoffice....) and select open file or save file kdei... | Same issue here Code: Application: kdeinit5 (kdeinit5), signal: Segmentation fault [KCrash Handler] #4 0x00007f25d8bf59a5 in ?? () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #5 0x00007f25d99fb039 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/thumbnail.so #6 0x00007f25d510b765 in KIO::SlaveBase::dispatch(int, QByteArray const&) () from /usr/... |
Alright guys, I'm about at my wit's end with this thing... hoping somebody can help. I am using KDE plasma on xorg, and have been for years. The other day I was changing my theme using the gui settings. I restarted my computer and suddenly the desktop environment won't load anymore. A few symptoms: When I log in using ... | Could you try to emerge some wayland compositor (or enable wayland for KDE)? sddm can start wayland compositors too. If the problem still is the same with wayland session, then the problem might lie deeper... Ignore this post if you use nvidia propietary drivers. ;) |
Hi All, I have been building a desktop PC with the Xfce DE. The environment runs fine in the root user, however, as an unpriv user I am getting: Code: xf860OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (Permission denied) I am afraid I am abysmal at Xorg debugging. I have attached the Xorg log. Code: [ 4069.256] X.Org X S... | gplcoder wrote: Not sure how to mark this as solved but please consider this closed. Edit the title of the first post. Based on the current title, you'll probably need to remove some text to make room. |
I just a did a fresh install of Gentoo. I am using the radeon driver, SDDM, and it mostly works getting to a Desktop Environment. When I login from SDDM I get to a black desktop, it appears to just be a black wallpaper. I can press alt+f2 to get the little bar at the top I can type commands and can run commands. Konsol... | Sqeaky wrote: I just a did a fresh install of Gentoo. I am using the radeon driver, SDDM, and it mostly works getting to a Desktop Environment. When I login from SDDM I get to a black desktop, it appears to just be a black wallpaper. I can press alt+f2 to get the little bar at the top I can type commands and can run co... |
Strange issue... Before a recent update, the xfce4 desktop seems to track whatever was placed in ~/Desktop/ . If a new directory or file was created there, I suspect inotify will create an icon for it on your desktop automatically. However this appears to have recently stopped working, needing a logout/login to show ~/... | Thanks, yeah this is perplexing. I think it's a one-off issue, just this machine. Have a feeling it's just a miscompile but not sure which package was borked, could be a library somewhere too. May have to do emerge -e @world *sigh* recently I found that busybox would always segfault under one specific esoteric command,... |
Yeah, so as the subject says, after I have logged in, if I lock the screen, I can't unlock it. But if I choose "login as a different user" and login again -- it's just the same as unlocking. But, you know, it's annoying. I also have this reasonably well known error in my X log: Code: Information [ 44034.245] (EE) Faile... | To confirm that you have picked up the fix that person needed, what is the output of getcap /sbin/unix_chkpwd ; ls -l /sbin/unix_chkpwd ? |
Hi! I'm having problems with a firefox tab constantly crashing when trying to access the microphone (as when trying to join a online meeting, no matter the platform). Firefox itself doesn't crash, just the tab, giving a "Gah. Your tab just crashed" message. The mic is functioning normally. I can use it in another softw... | Code: www-client/firefox-78.10.0::gentoo was built with the following: Unsure if it's what you're seeing, but there was an issue with ESR (78.x) firefox if built with rust-1.51.0 that led to crashing tabs when playing videos that may affect other features as well ( bug #773277 ) There was a hotfix for this but no revbu... |
emerge --verbose xorg-server: Code: * IMPORTANT: 7 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news read to view new items. * IMPORTANT: 5 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating. * See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS * sections of the emerge man page to learn how to... | If you want X better profile to choose is default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop |
I've installed X11 server on Gentoo with Nvidia drivers. The driver is loaded successfully: Code: # lsmod | grep nvidia nvidia_drm 40960 2 nvidia_modeset 1060864 3 nvidia_drm nvidia 13549568 85 nvidia_modeset but when I run startx to check the installation I'm getting black screen with white dash in left top corner wit... | g4s8 wrote: I've installed X11 server on Gentoo with Nvidia drivers. The driver is loaded successfully: Code: # lsmod | grep nvidia nvidia_drm 40960 2 nvidia_modeset 1060864 3 nvidia_drm nvidia 13549568 85 nvidia_modeset but when I run startx to check the installation I'm getting black screen with white dash in left to... |
I have a xfce installation which works well, with the exveption of sound: any sound be it from a vide or from zoom call is so low that it is barely audible. Also using headphones does not help. A possibly related problem is that i could find no volume control in the settings menu- I then installed xfce-extra/xfce4-alsa... | @alamahant: thanks for the suggestion Quote: If you have pulseaudio How do i find out if i have pulseaudio? |
This post is for information only. I don't have any questions or issues. I'm using OpenBox window manager for my daily desktop, with lxpanel-0.10.1-r1 (which is ~ with no current maintainer) at the top of the screen. This gives me a beautiful panel with transparency, but the weather plugin is absent in the default ebui... | I always liked tint2 for a panel/dock customizable and can run multiple of them, so they could be in different areas of the screen. I had also swapped from pcmanfm to spacefm (a fork of pcmanfm), now I mess with wayland, so I've not been playing with X. |
I have absolutely no idea what is happening, to the point I don't even know where to begin. It seems that in many applications (I am including screenshots) text always stops after around 4 characters, regardless of the length of the text. I have been running this system for a while now and this has only recently develo... | See: [SOLVED]suddenly in a lot of apps i can see only 4 chars . |
hi there, how are you guys? wish you are all good. i have a problem please help me solve it it is with nvidia drivers. i installed nvidia drivers when i first installed gentoo, the graphics were looking like there was nothing wrong however i was noticing that whenever i play a video it was like the performance for the ... | Code: [ 3652.489096] NVRM: The NVIDIA Quadro 1000M GPU installed in this system is NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA 390.xx Legacy drivers. Please NVRM: visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more NVRM: information. The 460.39 NVIDIA driver will ignore NVRM: this GPU. Continuing probe... This sounds like you... |
So basically I decided to get started with Gentoo and I want a very minimal window manager, I got introduced to BerryWM which does not have an official Gentoo Package, but can be built from source. Will it still work or does the unavailability of a package mean that it wont work on Gentoo? Why did I not try this myself... | Welcome to gentoo forum. No a package not in tree don't mean that it wont work on Gentoo simply that no developer uses it and created this ebuild. Better than build from sources is create your own ebuild. |
i'm on gnome 40 now. after rebooting today i can only write (or see) 4 chars (it is writing more of course but i can't see from the char number 5 and forward). also, in the GUI itself, in the titlebar, i can see only 4 chars. also, the 4th char is bold in some apps. (in firefox, for example it seems to work as before w... | Please post the output of: Code: emerge --info Code: locale -a Code: export | egrep "(LC|LANG)" |
Hi Firefox updated last night to 78.10.0esr (64-bit). Now whenever I try to play a video on Youtube, the tab immediately crashes. It also crashed while I was reviewing ads in Adsense Blocking controls, had no idea why but now assume that page has a video ad on it. I have restarted KDE but that did not help. Google show... | Unsure if that's your issue but there was a fix that sound related yesterday: bug #773277 (I suspect you may have built just before the fix) There was no revbump, so I'd suggest to emerge --sync and emerge -1 firefox |
Hi, I need to use display :0 so I;m using x11vnc package. This happening on wayland session, not issue in plasma session. x11vnc.log Code: 24/04/2021 19:53:20 passing arg to libvncserver: -rfbauth 24/04/2021 19:53:20 passing arg to libvncserver: /etc/x11vnc.pass 24/04/2021 19:53:20 passing arg to libvncserver: -rfbport... | waypipe/wayvnc both in portage |
Hi An issue that developed this week ... possibly after updates or after I cleaned my keyboard with a damp cloth while it was plugged in. Random string of keystrokes may have made sense to the computer. (Note to self and all that ...) In Konsole, pressing "down' arrow does nothing. Pressing it 3 times, opens a new tab.... | check your keyboard shortcut settings and the accessability stuff. Maybe something has been misconfigured |
I updated my system yesterday and again today after the problem appeared. When I first restarted my computer after the first update, running startx produced the error parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (Permission denied). The Xorg log file also contains _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to ... | Generally, we do not delete support threads, even those that the participants believe were stupid. I read your thread when it was unanswered, but had no advice to offer at the time. |
Hi, in order to look at postscript file (.ps) i need to use ghostscript (gs) from the command line. The .ps files are created from .tex source files, because there's pstricks source code in them. What could be the reason for this? I do not see any error message executing okular or evince, as it seems the programs are s... | Rebuild app-text/libspectre, see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426935 |
Hello there! When I start X, it freezes, this is the log: https://pastebin.com/vpbLuxgc I have a suspicion that this might have something to do with my kernel configuration, since that's been the main source of all the problems I've had so far. If you have any experience on this, then feel free to reply. Best Regards, ... | FreeMind1, Code: [ 653.706] (--) PCI:*(0@0:2:0) 8086:3e9b:17aa:39f5 rev 0, Mem @ 0xa2000000/16777216, 0xb0000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x00005000/64, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072 [ 653.706] (--) PCI: (1@0:0:0) 10de:1c20:17aa:39f5 rev 161, Mem @ 0xa3000000/16777216, 0x90000000/268435456, 0xa0000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x00004000/128... |
Hi, I have experienced that KDE is getting worse by each update I have done recently. I have narrowed it down to the compositing. If I turn it of (alt-shift-F12) things works like it is supposed to. Turned on, there are several seconds delays for many graphical things. It is so troublesome that I am now forced to use M... | So I have built a new gentoo from scratch and so far things seems smooth and work as expected. Perhaps I have some since long crap inherited. I used to have an Nvidia-card and found out I had VDPAU etc installed. Closing this subject, not solved but well dealt with. Cheers, Erik |
Hi everyone, I'm facing this weird issue on "GDM freezing" and becoming unresponsive when launched from xdm while booting. Startx works ok, & exec gnome-session works ok in X after login. I'm unable to fall back to tty using "Alt+Ctrl+F2" when this happens & have to power off my laptop & reboot into live usb iso to rem... | the_actuary wrote: When this happens, I'm unable to reboot or poweroff. I have to press the power button to shutdown. Do you mean you are using the long-press that forcibly stops the machine, or the brief tap that initiates an ACPI based graceful shutdown? If the machine is so broken that it cannot perform a graceful s... |
Hi, I noticed that after running emerge --ask --update --deep --changed-use @world , a new dependency called gui-libs/display-manager-init-1.0-r3 is getting pulled to my system. I read https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2021-01-30-display-manager-init.html and it seems that this package is used when you have a l... | Irets wrote: So the question is, can I remove that package after the upgrade with emerge --deselect gui-libs/display-manager-init + emerge --depclean ? No. A dependency is a dependency and you can't deselect that. Irets wrote: Or is that package required? For reasons of least surprise it will remain a requirement of xo... |
Hy everybody. I am having issues with controlling alsamixer from command line using amixer. What I need, and I am failing to get, is a command line using amixer that allow me to toggle the capture of my headset microphone. Before 1 ou 2 years ago, I had one that worked, namelly "amixer set Headphone toggle". A short ba... | Thank you dbtx for your reply. You are correct: I am referring to the f6 in alsamixer. The problem however has been eliminated, although I am not sure how. In the last couple days I rebuild alsa, alsa-plugins and pulseaudio after revising whether their flags were properly set (there were some flags that I assumed that ... |
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