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I have an RX5500XT using amdgpu per the Gentoo Wiki on an OpenRC install. It runs fine single monitor, but if I try to start XFCE with more than one monitor plugged in it fails. After poking about in my Gentoo install all day, I tried booting from an Ubuntu 20.04 flash drive. It yields the same result, boots and runs f... | I have up to three displays (a mix of DP and HDMI) working with an RX 5700 XT and LXQt/KWin. I don't remember doing anything special, going with the "For ease of installation, it is recommended to choose "AMD GPU" as a module (M) and skip the firmware selection below." method regarding firmware. Do the displays work wh... |
When I reboot my system, plasma-nm widget does not establish a wifi connection automatically, I should do it manually The same thing happens after sleeping. How to fix the issue? Code: $ lspci | grep -i wireless 00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] (rev 10) | Should tell networkmanager to allow the network connection to be usable by anyone on the system if it's not already set. |
Posting this in case some noob like me struggles with Elantech touchpad config in future. -> In /etc/portage/make.conf :- Input devices="libinput" (do not use synaptics, evdev isn't necessary). -> emerge xorg-drivers -> In /etc/X11/, create a directory called xorg.conf.d & paste the below in a new file called "30-touch... | You can do without adding to make.conf INPUT_DEVICE="libinput" , if it is not present it sets libinput by default (Same goes for VIDEO_CARDS , if unset it will install all drivers) ... To see its value just type: Code: portageq envvar INPUT_DEVICES |
After having removed infinality, I faced the problem with fonts almost immediately. However, I came across this topic , added there mentioned parameters to my ~/.Xresources and this seems to have salvaged Latin fonts. But, CJK are still desperately garbled. Cf infinality https://imgur.com/a/QblRsi8 vs no infinality htt... | After having experimented a bit, I think I've found the solution. Here I post the steps for those, who ran in this problem in the hope that it'll be of help: First, you have to find quality fonts you want for rendering CJK texts. In my case it was Google's Noto family. These fonts are available from portage: Code: # em... |
My AMD CPU is integrated with Graphic: "AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics" Code: lspci | grep -i VGA 09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Picasso (rev c8) I try to compile kernel with: Code: < > ATI Radeon" < * > AMD GPU" and load: "-*- Firmware loading facility" (amdgpu/p... | kukibl wrote: I have exactly the same APU. I do not have access to my Gentoo machine at the moment, but I am pretty sure you should use amdgpu for VIDEO_CARDS. Also, in my kernel configuration I left everything related to amdgpu and Radeon enabled as module (although only amdgpu module is used). https://wiki.gentoo.org... |
Hi, I'm having trouble that font is being rendered horribly since I updated my system on the 11th of March. I was using freetype with infinality use flag previously to get a good font but after my font stopped working properly I thought it was time to move over to freetype only since as far as I know infinality isn't r... | You need at least some form of hinting turned on. |
Hi. I am making my way through a Gentoo install for a home built machine for the HD TV. I have done a test installation of Gentoo on an old laptop, so I am somewhat familiar with the process, but I am new to getting a real graphics card to work. I believe I just solved the linux-firmware issue (I asked about that on th... | Maybe you are missing the kernel settings. Look here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Libinput https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/USB/Guide#Config_options_for_the_kernel |
This is embarrassing. I took xdm (lightdm) out of default, stopped xdm, logged out (even rebooted), but cannot startx as my normal user. The exact same .xinitrc that works perfectly on my other box, brings me to either a blank gray or black screen with a mouse cursor but no controls, or a black screen with no mouse. I ... | Tony0945 wrote: It led me to add everything X to my local overlay so I am not caught without an X display on the workstations. Nothing of that kind is going to happen............. Tony0945 wrote: Am I understanding that xdm is going away or, as the ebuild suggests, only the the openrc init scripts are being changed and... |
Let me start by pointing out that while I am a long-time Gentoo user, this is my first post on the forums. So far I have always been able to find the information I neded either by using the search, in the Wiki, man pages, or elsewhere. So if I missed a resource or made some other beginners mistake with this post, I apo... | GDH-gentoo posted a request for some information that may be relevant, but that request seems to have been overlooked. Please collect that information and post it. We need to eliminate possible reasons for failure. With the information we have, all of these are possible (and the list may not be exhaustive): PAM is not ... |
Hi, I've done an encrypted install of gentoo using distkernel and dracut. I'm unable to start X and I get the following error: https://ibb.co/80zJ1Vt I've add i915 driver to dracut, installed xf86-video-intel, added elogind to run level boot. My video cards section of make.conf reads : "intel i915 i965 iris" (initially... | the_actuary, From your image, you are missing DRI support in the kernel. Please put your kernel .config onto a pastbin site. |
Dear Gentoo experts! Today I upgraded qtwebengine from 5.15.2 to 5.15.2_p20210224. after that kmail does list all my emails but doesn't display the content. (display the source works). I now go back to old version but that will take hours. I tried to reemerge kmail libkdepim kdepim-runtime kdepim-addons kontact, no luc... | Split the two preceding posts off of Konqueror support thread , because this affects a lot more than just Konqueror, and I hope more people will find the information this way. Atha wrote: I just updated dev-qt/qtwebengine from version 5.15.2 to version 5.15.2_p20210224 yesterday and since then I cannot get a page rende... |
I'm currently customizing the looks of my XDM, but I have problems setting the label for the password field. All guides I have found say that it can be set in the Xresources file using the xlogin*passwdPrompt setting, but this setting has no effect for me. Other label settings, like xlogin*namePrompt , work. There's no... | Have you tried other variations like passPrompt, passwordPrompt? You could try running "strings" on the xdm binary to see if you can spot the setting name it's looking for. |
I have just finished installing gentoo with icewm, but it seems I cannot get harrdware acceleration to work: Code: adel@samsung ~ $ glxinfo name of display: :0 Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig adel@samsung ~ $ glxgears Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual my graphics card, lspci -k: Code: 0... | wrt minimal you don't want that, most of it is "fine" with nvidia except one thing, it does --disable-glx (so yeah...). Minimal is mostly intended for a headless machine wanting to run Xvfb or so. Given your card, I assume you are using nvidia-drivers-390.xx branch, right? When you built 390, did it complaint about ena... |
Code: xdm info (pid 3030): Starting xdm 1.1.12 xdm info (pid 3030): Starting X server on :0 X.Org X Server 1.20.9 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 4.17.19-gentoo x86_64 Gentoo Current Operating System: Linux Casti 5.4.72-gentoo #2 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 29 20:43:43 CDT 2020 x86_64 Kernel com... | I think there is some tolerance for inactive upstreams when the project in question has no users complaining about problems. Based on the copyright dates (which may have little or no relation to actual release dates), it looks like we're only about a year overdue for another release (should have come out in 2019, but d... |
I recently upgraded the kernel in my Gentoo system. Running xorg I had no mouse or keyboard until i noticed that udev-trigger didn't start on boot and that starting it manually solved the problem. Here's what I don't understand; udev-trigger seem to be added to sysinit but does not start. Code: $ rc-config show all [..... | If using eudev, my personal suggestion would be try migrating to sys-fs/udev. It tend to have fixes for misc/obscure things that eudev hasn't picked on (I barely test eudev anymore outside trying to figure out people's issues in a VM). Not that I ever figured out what cause this issue, pretty sure there'd be more users... |
Hello. Sometime ago i noticed that mc cannot open rar files anymore. When i press enter on the rar file for the first time it show me strange error windows titled "Cannot parse" and some non readable trash inside. After that nothing is displayed in any of rar files, just like a regular empty directory but everything is... | does a unrar x filename work with the rar file? Just to check if mc is the problem and not rar/unrar itself |
On the same system, when I am in KDE, the unicode characters of the file names displays as a question mark inside a diamond, and they are not able to be opened; but in GNOME/XFCE, the same files displays properly (both using Dolphin). Could anyone show me some hints that what might be wrong? Dolphin worked in KDE befor... | After look everywhere, I did these to resolve my issue: 1. Remove any LANG / LC* variable in .bashrc and .profile 2. Remove LINGUAS="en" and L10N="en" in make.conf and update my system |
Need 2 or 3 hours to get me display i update system to latest sddm-0.18 and plasma-meta cpu is i7 and 16Gb ddr3 ram graphic card is Nvidia i done this as nvidia ask Code: Device Drivers ---> Graphics support ---> <*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) ---> [*] Enable legacy fbdev support fo... | Code: options nvidia-drm modeset=1 This or DRM+KMS_HELPER stuff is not needed unless you want to use wayland (which I don't recommend with nvidia), but it should be harmless on its own. Keeping KMS_HELPER enabled does let the module have full features though and that's why the ebuild warns about it. There's also no nee... |
Hi! since a while, after some update I performed, emacs insists in opening in console-only and not with an X interface. This happens on both my laptop as well as workstation: so I have either a common configuration error or a bug in the emacs package. Code: [ebuild R ] app-editors/emacs-27.1-r3:27::gentoo USE="Xaw3d ac... | You should enable gui use flag for enable support for a graphical user interface. |
I want to install pantheon as my DE but I currently in amd64/17.1/hardened profile and gentoo wiki want amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome. If I don’t want to switch profile can I just add pantheon required keywords to package.accept_keywords? Since the gentoo pantheon wiki say Code: package.accept_keywords For those who want tr... | OmamoriIchika, Run emerge --info now and keep a list of your USE flags. Choose the amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome profile. Looking is harmless. Run emerge --info again and keep o lish of your USE flags now. Revert you profile. Look at the differences in the USE flags. The new ones were added by the gnome profile. If you are ... |
Hello everybody I'm having random issues with firefox (at least i think its firefox) running gentoo in a old lenovo t420 laptop, 8 gig ram and 8 gig swap space. From time to time it freeze completely while using firefox, it never happens using other package, i tried latest kernels but no luck, i use 5.4.97 now (i maske... | I suggest leaving the thread as unsolved until you find an explanation and fix for your problem. If you never find an acceptable solution, leave the thread open indefinitely. |
Im on a mac osx w paralells...I CAN boot up an older Live DVD of gentoo with plasma, I used it to gather some info for a full install... Im a bit stumped on what is missing here..The kernel seems to have the correct settings, I loaded fbdev and vesa because a previous Xorg.log complained, FB is enabled in kernel. Manag... | adding on...noticed after searching the packages list that the QEMU VirtIO GPU was listed as xf86-video-qxl and so I loaded it and got to this set of EE's 5353.057] (--) PCI:*(1@0:0:0) 1af4:1050:1ab8:0010 rev 1, Mem @ 0xb0000000/134217728, 0xe2000000/4096, 0xe2040000/16384, I/O @ 0x00006000/32, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072... |
Hey guys, All of a sudden kmail is not working for me, saying "The Akonadi information management service is not operational". When I run "akonadictl start", it I get... Code: ➜ akonadictl start org.kde.pim.akonadictl: Starting Akonadi Server... org.kde.pim.akonadictl: done. Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnect... | Maybe related to bug #688746 |
Solved: If you're using dwm, check workspace 9! I have a clean Gentoo install. X server has been set up. I am running it successfully and using dwm. I am posting this from links on xterm. I emerged firefox-bin. When running firefox-bin from the command line, I do not get a browser, nor any output. It is as if nothing h... | what happens if you try the following: - start save mode firefox-bin --safe-mode - remove/rename manually the profile directory before starting - rm or mv /home/(user)/.mozilla? |
Throws Code: (org.gnome.Nautilus:7838): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 14:45:13.962: unable to send notifications through org.freedesktop.Notifications: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying at console when unmounting any iso, but only at first attempt. F... | Warning raised under LXDE. Testing under gnome gets notification working, which is about unmounting status. Guess I've got to find out the process nautilus is trying to notify to. Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support. |
Hi, After updating mousepad to 0.5.2. I'm unable to use "select all", either by the shortcut (ctrl+A) or clicking in the menu "select all". Now the strange thing begins.. On my desktop (which uses GCC 10.2.0 and bdver2 march), there is no issue. Works as expected. It only happens on my laptop, which uses GCC 9.3.0 and ... | Thanks figueroa. Good to know I'm not an isolated case I filled a bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/772245 Actually I use leafpad as well, which is quite nice. Another good one although not in tree yet and with Qt deps : https://github.com/tsujan/FeatherPad |
When I start gnome I get a desktop the has this message: Quote: Oh no! /something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system ca't recover. Please log out and try again. Then a 'logout button'. The only thing on the desktop that starts is 'gnome-terminal'. Code: root@dt1:~# ps aux|grep gnome gene 97550 0.0 0.... | This is a very open ended query... I can only give my experience when I got this before -- it was due to hardware failure. Turns out the hardware was causing gnome-shell to crash and it couldn't recover. Had to replace motherboard. Check you dmesg for possible video or hardware issues. If your hardware is good you shou... |
Hi, folks, So, I have a fairly reproducible issue when I come back from hibernate with my desktop - the screen goes black with a line or two of horizontal pixels at the bottom and vertical on the right. I still get input, so can unlock the screen, switch VT, switch back and the screen is back. The setup is: * Thinkpad ... | gabrielg wrote: While writing this post, I thought about: * Adding a bit of time between world update finishes and loginctl hibernate - I know this would be sidestepping the problem, but many things have been resolved in a similar way This didn't make any difference gabrielg wrote: * Instead of running rmmod+modprobe w... |
Hi, i recently installed lyx and it all seems to work fine apart from the fact any graphic(pdf, jpg) i insert into the document doesnt load and instead shows the error Code: Error converting to loadable format in the console it shows this error: Code: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/lyx/scripts/conv... | What version you installed? |
After a reboot, X will not start on my system. I have gone back a kernel version with no good result. The system uses MATE and OpenRC. My system only has a Displayport output and I use an adapter from Displayport to DVI: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/Fatal1ty%20B450%20Gaming-ITXac/ Here is the Xorg.0.log: Code: [ 121.2... | Problem was solved by adding "radeonsi" to make.conf and re-emerging mesa. |
Why Gnome power button look like this? How to fix? https://imgur.com/nS6CvW0 | should be configured by your gnome theme |
Hi, After upgrade KDE from 5.19 to 5.20 Mattermost and Nextcloud tray icons missing. I only deleted .config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc before update. Also Nextcloud asks login every login. Do I need to delete all config files ? How can I debug ? Edit: Tray icons works after a logout and a login. | Fixed by deleting all related settings. Code: rm -rf ~/.config/pl* rm -rf ~/.config/k* rm -rf ~/.config/org.kde* |
How can I search for a specific version of firefox? So that it can be installed as latest rather than ESR? | Anathonous, Code: $ eix firefox [I] www-client/firefox Available versions: 78.6.1(0/esr78) (~)78.7.0(0/esr78) (~)84.0.2(0/84){tbz2} (~)85.0(0/85){tbz2} {bindist (+)clang custom-cflags custom-optimization dbus debug eme-free geckodriver +gmp-autoupdate hardened hwaccel jack lto neon +openh264 pgo pulseaudio screencast +... |
Hi, I had too delete my google calendar from Korganizer, and now I'm not able to add it back anymore. When I try to add it a window pop up to authenticate me in Google (so far, so good), but when I write my e-mail, after clicking "Next", I get Quote: Couldn’t sign you in. This browser or app may not be secure. I don't ... | mani001 wrote: Today I "solved" some security risks in my google account...that might have something to do. Yes, if you added security checks to your account and then when trying to sync received a complaint that your browser wasn't secure enough, I'd say that one of your changes will be the cause, in which case cleari... |
Hello, After rebuilding the kernel a few times I was able to get gpm to work, I originally wasn't getting any /dev/input/mouse0 but realized I hadn't had it enabled in the kernel. It's working now but I am not getting any input in X. I had it working in a previous install. Now no input from the mouse or keyboard. I can... | Anathonous, Pastebin the output of Code: emerge --info so we can see your settings and the content of Xorg.0.log as the last attempt to start Xorg left it. The location of Xorg.0.log varies depending on hov you start Xorg. |
Hello. In ST, i use the dracula colorscheme. In Vim, i use the nord colorscheme. The issue is, the Nord colorscheme isnt appearing right in vim. It has some dracula colors on top of it. Is there any way to separate the two color schemes (i assume the colors are wrong cause vim inherits colors from ST) SOLVE: I put this... | figueroa wrote: What is ST? Probably x11-terms/st |
Hello. I'm a new gentoo user. I've recently finalized my installation with Plasma desktop. But, my display brightness gets reset in every reboot. I'm not sure if it's related to my DE or not. So, I've posted it here. Plz hlp me to solve it. | Hi In /etc/crontab create a new job Code: @reboot root /bin/echo 300 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness Plz adjust a value that is agreeable to you and the processor type |
Hi, I've recently updated @world and I am no longer able to run firefox when emerging www-client/firefox . The ebuild runs without any problems, but when launching /usr/bin/firefox it crashes with Segmentation Fault . I've enabled the debug USE-flag, which gives some more info: Code: $ firefox [9673, Unnamed thread 7fe... | FF83 works fine in my T9400 box. If ESR get the same error,the problem most likely outside FF. A broken RAM can trigger Segmentation Fault too. |
Hi Guys Its been a few days that I am experiencing occasionally a kind of flicker in browsers fields ,or popups not being displayed correctly or void or sometimes color lines appearing. This only happens with web-browsers. I use ggogle-chrome-bin and brave-bin and firefox-bin I downgraded mesa but it didnt help. I use ... | After googling around a lot I managed to resolve it by invoking any chromium based browser by Code: --use-gl=desktop |
I just installed spacefm with the following 2 flags disabled: "startup-notification" and "video-thumbnails" The panels in spacefm is only showing the "Name" column, although I'v enabled all other columns: "size", "type", "permissions", "owner", "modified". Where're the missing columns? | I figured it out. I had to change the "panel1_detcol_name0-y" in "~/.config/spacefm/session" to a smaller value. I guess the default value 1820 is too big and takes all the space available, no space left for other columns. |
Hi and thanks for reading this! I recently updated my box, and decided to start from scratch with a new drive (my old Gentoo installation dated from 2010) but inheriting my home folders. The thing is everything seems to work as expected but the "switch user" menu entry which is missing, as you can see in this screensho... | Fitzcarraldo wrote: My Compal laptop running Gentoo ~amd64 with OpenRC, SDDM and KDE Plasma does not exhibit that problem, and neither does my Clevo laptop running Gentoo amd64 with OpenRC, LightDM and KDE Plasma. Is your installation using systemd, by any chance? I see that Arch Linux users have reported the same prob... |
Hello. Recently my desktop environment suddenly freezes sometimes. I use i3wm. What I can when the environment freezes are: Move my mouse cursor. Turn on and off the LED of the CapsLock. If YouTube was playing something when the environment freezes, I can continue listening to it. I can continue talking over ZOOM. What... | I've heard about people having similar problems with some intel driver on recent kernels. AFAIK it was present in 5.8, 5.9 and 5.10 (although latest series of 5.10 have brought some intel fixes). Try with some older kernel, like the current stable 5.4.92? Or 5.4.80? |
On executing sway I am getting this error: Code: WARNING: Kernel has no file descriptor comparison support: Function not implemented 2020-12-20 10:35:52 - [swaybg-1.0/main.c:299] Found config * for output eDP-1 (Unknown 0x4C48 0x00000000) Any help is highly appreciated | charles17 wrote: So what am I missing? For these two at least, probably D-Bus. More precisely, the login session message bus. charles17 wrote: On start I get: Code: ... 00:00:00.008 [swaybar/tray/tray.c:42] Failed to connect to user bus: No such file or directory Then when I try to end sway using SUPER+SHIFT+c I get: C... |
After late update , dolphin is can not mount any device with automount. I have an output "An error occurred while accessing 'KINGSTON', the system responded: An unspecified error has occurred: Not authorized to perform operation" or with internal storage drive "An error occurred while accessing 'Home', the system respo... | Hi, I get the same errors since a few days and I believe the problem arises from libcap/udev problem. The update to sys-fs/udev-247.2 fails with the following error: Code: FAILED: src/udev/libudev.so.1.7.0 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -m32 -o src/udev/libudev.so.1.7.0 src/udev/libudev.so.1.7.0.p/.._libsystemd_disable-mempoo... |
Xfce only runs when there is no ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml file, and I would like someone to help me fix this. I am using startx to start it as a normal user. (~/.xinitrc contains only the line "exec startxfce4", with no quotes). Here is the ~/.xsession-errors file from when it crashes (which ... | I needed the correct Nvidia firmware files. For anyone else that has this problem look into building firmware into the kernel. |
This is perplexing. I just installed on a new AMD system and for some reason, the spell check highlighting in pidgin isn't working at all. This worked fine on my old x86 machine using the exact same USE flags (including spell) and with the exact same configuration (with Preferences -> Conversations -> Highlight misspel... | I'm revisiting this one...very annoying as I could really use this. Pidgin apparently uses gtkspell and I have app-text/gtkspell-2.0.16-r1 installed. Any ideas on this one? I'm coming up totally empty. EDIT: Got it! I needed to add the "aspell" USE flag to app-text/enchant. Marked as solved. Tom |
Quick question: How do I replace xfwm4 with i3? I have edited ~/.xinitrc to have i3 in it, but neofetch still shows me that xfwm4 is my window manager. | This can help ? |
Unaccountably, my Xorg.0.log in /var/log is way out of date. The current one is found in ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log. This is true of at least two systems i maintain. Is this something odd in my configuration? Have I missed a trick here? | rickj, Xorg used to run as root. It had the suid bit set. That's still an option if you build it with USE=suid It still needs to be root for some of the setup. Now, by default, that's managed by systemd or elogind. See the news item. Code: [49] N 2020-06-24 xorg-server dropping default suid |
Hello, I have problem with sddm after update system. Sddm on vt7 create black screen with no blinking cursor on top-left corner. Startx working fine. If I run sddm as root from console, it gives Code: /usr/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad "remove" command line /usr/bin/xauth: (stdin):2: bad "add" command line If I run sddm vi... | Add sddm user to the video group. |
Im trying to install Xorg for XFCE and whenever I do it, it fails. Here is the log: https://dpaste.com/56XE78S7Z and here is my make.conf: https://dpaste.com/G8UQYQTWP | qubloo, configure.log: configure:3534: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=native -02 -pipe -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed conftest.c >&5 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-02' Is the error. You have numeral 0 in place of letter O. That's not what you have in Code: COMMON_FLAGS="-march=native -O2 -p... |
I did a world update yesterday and the qt libraries changed to 5.13.2. Unfortunately I am unable to enter an LXQt session. I have lightdm as DM and when I try to log in it comes back to the login screen. I use Gentoo LXQt in a VM with VirtualBox. When I do CTRL Right + F2 I get to a tty and after logging in I launch st... | pourpier wrote: When I do CTRL Right + F2 I get to a tty and after logging in I launch startlxqt and I get these messages: qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin co... |
I finally got the gonome-remote-desktop working but when I try to connect from another Gnome machine on my LAN I get the following in my messages log: Code: Dec 26 19:23:28 macpro gnome-shell[2412]: g_udev_client_query_by_device_file: assertion 'device_file != NULL' failed Dec 26 19:23:28 macpro kernel: gnome-remote-de... | Depending on how it invokes ssh, and how much effort you want to expend, you might be able to make it work with 2FA anyway. If you enable ssh connection multiplexing, manually connect a freestanding ssh process to the server, complete your 2FA challenge in that shell, and leave that shell sitting as the connection mult... |
I know, I know, deleting does not really delete; it just marks for deletion and you have to expunge (ctrl-E). It doesn't work. Emails remain in my remote INBOX when they are dragged to my local IMAP server (i.e., they are copied not moved) and if I delete an email then expunge, it's still there. ls in the inbox on the ... | Whatever it was, a restart of Evolution has fixed it. |
I have a fresh installation of Gentoo/Plasma. When I now try to install cifs-utils, sys-libs/db-5.3.28-r5 will be installed in a new slot, alongside the already installed version 6.0.35-r3. But that is impossible due to file collisions (/usr/lib64/libdb.so) between the two versions. I masked all versions of sys-libs/db... | https://bugs.gentoo.org/765625 Supposedly already fixed after your next sync: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=e154526e7b59f94428b302b6360e54b5f689b9a5 |
I did the kde-frameworks update (5.74 → 5.77, I think) yesterday evening. After logging out and in again, I cannot start applications using krunner: normally, when I type, I get a list of applications and I select, but now no suggestions at all appear. Moreover, also in the menu, there are no applications, so I cannot ... | Can you start xterm , so that we can have a text interface with which to do further work? If yes, please start konsole from the xterm , so that any error output printed by Konsole appears in the xterm, where we can see it. I hope we will get some message there that will hint as to what is causing konsole not to work pr... |
Whenever I do emerge —ask x11-terms/kitty it gives me this: https://dpaste.com/9PT37BMPC does anyone know how to fix this? Here is my emerge —info https://dpaste.com/3YXVN7LBH | Masked by keywords means that there is no a stable version so you should use /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords for unmask it |
Xflock locks the screen, but never asks for a password at any time. If I type in the terminal xflock4 it locks normally, suspend, but also without asking for the user password. Any Jedi knows something for help? Tip: Using lightdm as a display manager. | Hi I think it might be a polkit thing. Try creating a file /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/40-lockscreen.rules Code: polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) { if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.lock-sessions" || action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.suspend" { return polkit.Result.NO; } }); If you get problems then just de... |
Hi all. I've just upgraded my Gentoo laptop and now I can see xscreensaver throws the following warnings with my currently selected "module" (flurry): Code: xscreensaver: unable to find any alternatives to "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-180-*-*-*-iso8859-1" xscreensaver: unable to find any alternatives to "-*-helvetica-bol... | Thanks Xavier and kurisu. Will try that. This said, is it not possible to define aliases for those missing fonts? EDIT: I tried media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi but it doesn't seem to work. I ran xset fp rehash as suggested, killed then restarted the screen saver daemon, no change. I find it weird as I have media-fonts/li... |
In my last thread, I ran into a problem where nouveau had been built in to xorg-drivers (I've got an AMD GPU card). I'd not properly defined my VIDEO_CARDS, and built xorg-x11, and things got weird... I have an amdgpu card, and the module is loaded. I had to add radeonsi to my VIDEO_CARDS... I rebuilt a lot of things, ... | whitt, Lets start at the very beginning and try some analysis. Boot however you like, it need not be Gentoo. Put the output of Code: lspci -nnk onto a pastebin. Get into your chroot and put the output of Code: emerge --info onto a pastebin. Put your Gentoo kernel .config file onto a pastebin. That's usually at /usr/src... |
First to just get my rant out of the way...If it were possible I'd never go withing a million miles of anything mozilla. I'd be using something like claws mail for sure, but because of my work and the fact that everyone out there insists on using HTML email (which I personally detest with a passion, but must be able to... | nick_gentoo wrote: Hi, this was useful for me in the past: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_folder_-_Thunderbird Inside ~/.thunderbird, there is a profiles.ini file that defines the location of each profile. Thanks! Unlike everything else I've read that actually helped. All good! What I did specifically wa... |
Lately this behavior started manifesting.. Like in zsh..But I do not have zsh installed. Is there a way to stop this annoying behavior? Thanks guys........ | It's because of new readline-8.1 which made this default, if want it off: Code: echo set enable-bracketed-paste off >> ~/.inputrc Will then be disabled on new shells. |
Hello there! I just finished my new Gentoo install yesterday. It seemed to work fine until I tried to install a DE and found I don't have permission to start a GUI session. This is what I have done so far: -I am currently using the Desktop profile, but I have done with Desktop/gnome just in case it would be magically f... | Does this page help: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Non_root_Xorg |
Fresh installed Gentoo Systemd Gnome system. On boot a blank screen with a cursor in the upper left corner. I can via Ctrl/Alt/F2 logon as root. systemctl stop gdm systemctl start gdm gdm starts up and I can logon with my normal user into gnome. Already tried to disable gdm and reenable it. no luck. | Any errors in xorg.log? |
When I move a window across the Chromium window, it leaves a "blur." As soon as you mouse over the Chromium window, the blur disappears. I'm using chromium-88.0.4324.50 and I believe this problem started one or two versions prior to this one. Any debugging hints will be greatly appreciated. [SOLVED] Thanks to Ant P. fo... | Chromium expects you to be using a compositor and does not bother to implement xdamage correctly. |
I've recently been getting sucked into the world of dwm and other suckless.org apps. Having a little issue with my custom .dwmrc script though, probably a dumb mistake but hopefully somebody here can help. I'm using lightdm to log in, and it seems to call a script in /etc/X11/Sessions/dwm: Code: #!/bin/sh DIR=${HOME}/.... | Why dont' you kill a script before logging out ? Code: killall -9 dwmrc Though it's probably a lighdm thing, I don't use it so I can't tell, if you're the only user maybe you can switch from it to 'startx' Or change the status generation to something else https://dwm.suckless.org/status_monitor/ |
so i noticed while installing gentoo via chroot in arch linux, that the title of the terminal app (think it was konsole), would change to show which package was being installed and that it was number x out of the total. how can i bring this into konsole (plasma)? | Hi milomak, I don't have my system in English. But it should be something like this: Open Konsole: click "Settings" - "Set up console" - "General" - "Show window title in title bar" Ma |
Hello guys, I use Openbox as my window manager. By adding these lines to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf Code: Section "InputClass" Identifier "thinkpad60" Driver "evdev" Option "XkbLayout" "gb,gr" Option "XkbVariant" "extd,extended" Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:caps" MatchIsKeyboard "on" End... | kbdd solved the problem! Thanks a lot for your help both of you! |
Can anyone put an older version of dev-qt/webengine on the gentoo packages site ? Quote: dev-qt/qtwebengine Available versions: (5) 5.14.2(5/5.14)^t ~5.15.0(5/5.15)^t {alsa bindist debug designer geolocation jumbo-build kerberos pulseaudio +system-ffmpeg +system-icu test widgets} Installed versions: 5.14.2(5/5.14)^t(13... | It might be easier to fix the errors depending on what exactly they are. :] |
Hello guys, i come here as a last resource after exausting every research i could do. I have a unicode support problem in my freshly installed Gentoo. First let me tell you about my setup: DWM, ST, DMENU, DWMBLOCKS Font used: FantasqueSans Nerd Font Shell: zsh with starship.rs I have libXft patched to display colored e... | fabricio7p wrote: etnull wrote: fabricio7p wrote: i found a bgra.diff patch and reemerged it with this patch Can you share it? I'm interested to do it myself. https://github.com/fabricio7p/GentooBox/tree/master/portage/patches/x11-libs/libXft-2.3.3 Link not working. Get 404 |
Hi, I got this as the last line in my Xorg.0.log: Code: (EE) Failed to open authorization file "/var/run/sddm/{6e949719-fe9d-4a71-b7fd-52e665c19cb4}": No such file or directory But the file exists: Code: micha@mobiletux ~ $ ls -l /var/run/sddm/ insgesamt 4 -rw------- 1 sddm sddm 54 1. Jun 22:58 {6e949719-fe9d-4a71-b7fd... | koschi wrote: My logs but they don't give me a hint... /var/log/sddm.log: Code: [07:25:51.592] (II) DAEMON: Initializing... [07:25:51.596] (II) DAEMON: Starting... [07:25:51.596] (II) DAEMON: Console kit interface found [07:25:51.597] (II) DAEMON: Adding new display on vt 7 ... [07:25:51.597] (II) DAEMON: Loading theme... |
hi i have had a square around the cursor in plasma for some time now and dont know how to fix it.the square goes away when i log out to sddm and log in to plasma x11 again. if i switch to xrender it goes away to but i lose some effects i like to have . it started with kernel 5.9 . i am on kernel- 5.9.14 ATM and running... | fixed by updaing to kernel 5.10.1 |
Running Gentoo in a Virtualbox machine. I have xdm in the default runlevel. From a TTY I can startxfce4 and it works, but from lightdm, after selecting Xfce session, I get a "Unable to contact settings server. Could not connect: connection refused" error. Dbus is running. Not sure what I'm missing. I don't see any erro... | I knew it would be something simple. Thanks, much appreciated. |
When I start xterm from a shell,I got Code: xterm: did not find a usable wide bold italic TrueType font I try some fonts,no luck. which font should I install and how should I configure? .Xresources Code: xterm*termName:xterm-256color xterm*geometry:108x35 xterm*utf8Title:true xterm*xftAntialias:true Xft.dpi:96 xpdf.tit... | Install a decent font like 'media-fonts/dejavu' and change the line 'xterm*faceName:' to: Code: xterm*faceName:DejaVu Sans Mono:size=10:antialias=true Run Code: xrdb ./.Xresources and start an xterm. Do you want a different font? Install 'media-fonts/source-pro' and change the line to: Code: xterm*faceName:Source Code ... |
Hi! I'm running gnome 3.38.2 under wayland, but my mouse speed is incredible low - even when I change the setting to max in the GUI. I have a Logitech gaming mouse. Any ideas? Thanks! libinput list-devices: Code: Device: Logitech G502 HERO Gaming Mouse Kernel: /dev/input/event15 Group: 3 Seat: seat0, default Capabiliti... | The default speed is determined by what libinput thinks the sensor DPI is according to udev, which if unspecified will probably be very wrong. Here's how to set it manually: https://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/libinput-rtd/device-configuration-via-udev.html Those values should be put in a file in /etc/udev/rules.d/. |
Hello everyone, I have an issue regarding my new Dell Latitude 5410 Laptop and its touchpad. I recently installed Gentoo and Gnome 3.36.5. The touchpad is correctly detected and I can use it with libinput, but tno gesture is recognized, except two-finger vertical scrolling. When listing my devices using xinput, I see t... | What's your touchpad's configuration and how does that touchpad show up in dmesg? |
I have run into issues with xorg after a recent gentoo install. I duplicated process used recently for another laptop which did not have any such problem. The laptop in question is a Lenovo x200 with libreboot, Core 2 Duo cpu and integrated intel graphics. when I try startx I get an error for tty0 permission denied: ht... | Are you using non-root setup to run X? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Non_root_Xorg |
I have been using firefox-bin for a while now, and decided to try to switch back to using the source-based ESR version in the www-client/firefox package. But I was surprised to find that the ESR doesn't share all the config/profile information that the binary uses, as I would expect. When I start it up I just see a bla... | For the benefit of future readers, could you cite where you discovered this to be a more general issue, and the recommended solution for people who dislike the default? |
Hi, I've recently installed Gentoo on a gen 3 Intel i7 PC and mostly everything is OK. I've used the default/17.1/desktop profile and installed XFCE, with LightDM as the display manager. Logging in is fine and works no problem, however when I'm away and the screen turns off and locks the desktop I have a little trouble... | What is locking the screen? xscreensaver? Something else? |
Although I don't use KDE as a whole (or any other full desktop environment), Okular is my main PDF reader. I'm having a mildly annoying problem with it, though: whenever I click a link, it tries to open it with /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox , which does not exist (I don't even have Firefox installed). I can't find any rel... | I'm not sure about using Okular in a non-KDE environment, but perhaps the following may help you: To check the current association for PDF files: Code: $ xdg-mime query filetype sample.pdf application/pdf To find the Desktop Configuration File of the default application for opening PDF files: Code: $ xdg-mime query def... |
Solved by setting QT_SCALE_FACTOR_ROUNDING_POLICY to anything except "PassThrough" - but why? Hello, I am having issues with a couple Qt applications and broken rendering, namely Qbittorrent & KeePassXC. The applications themselves are missing text and icons, as well as any text/icons that do appear being offset a litt... | Can you reproduce the problem with sane CFLAGS |
I nca't emerge chromium.... I have running version 79 Also I have mesa-20.1.10 with vulkan support Error: Code: [4650/22606] touch obj/third_party/angle/libANGLE.stamp [4651/22606] python "../../build/toolchain/gcc_solink_wrapper.py" --readelf="readelf" --nm="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nm" --sofile="./libGLESv2.so" --tocfile=... | You should post full build.log and also your emerge --info |
I have been trying to get firefox to work with only the X server, i.e. no window manager. I've found that there are various bugs with this, most of which, for my use cases, I can probably workaround. However, the main issue I am having right now is that I cannot get Firefox to pull in my profile from another distro. I ... | Gidgers wrote: I have been trying to get firefox to work with only the X server, i.e. no window manager. I've found that there are various bugs with this, most of which, for my use cases, I can probably workaround. Also, I am completely open to hearing alternatives to firefox. I basically want a keyboard driven web bro... |
i got a task to install gentoo+KDE ( and later LFS ) from my CTO , this is my first time messing around with Linux I'm working on KDE now and it's been horrible, been trying to figure it out for days now but i lost hope here is my Startx log - https://dpaste.com/3ZNWF25B2 let me know if anything else is needed thank yo... | emmanuell, Welcome to Gentoo. First, some advice on getting the best from the forums. When you need to add information to your topic, that only contains your original post, edit that post. When you make a new post, your topic drops out of the 'Unanswered Posts' search, so potential helpers will miss it. Code: [ 61.475]... |
I recently had emerge --depclean run away and delete a random bunch of stuff. My latest is my EasyStore 500 Gb backup disk drive. When I plug it in, my get the usual Device Notifier message giving 2 actions for the device. File Manager and Download photos. When I select the "File Manager" option, I get a "You are not a... | Is this not related to your other thread Can't Mount backup disk under KDE ? If you have logs, finding what was removed shouldn't be that difficult. You could also try emerge -p @world or @system. |
I am running i3 without DM now. My screen keep turning off after 10 min idle, Is it elogind doing this?How to disable it ? I try to find '600' in conf files in /etc and some folders else,but no luck. | Xorg has built-in screensaver. Try 'xset -q' and you'll see your 600. |
Things are weird! Code: #!/bin/sh echo a > /home/USER/aaaaaaaaaa This in that folder executed as I expected but if I add this line: Code: i3lock -n The echo executed fine,but i3lock failed! I got this in dmesg: Code: (sd-executor)[4253]: /lib64/elogind/system-sleep/3 failed with exit status 1. Why? | If i3lock -n exits 1 , the shell can return 1 as well, which would explain what is in your logs. How exactly did you invoke i3lock? Does it have permission to talk to the required server? |
Hello, I've got a problem with SDDM (0.18.1-r3), Xorg (server 1.20.8-r1) and Plasma (5.19.5). I've made a lot of changes, just regular updates, new packages and a kernel upgrade and suddenly after rebooting Plasma won't start anymore. SDDM starts fine, I can enter my password on the Greeting Login. But after that there... | Alright, I've solved it myself. The issue appeared, after I setup keychain with ksshaskpass following https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Keychain#Alternatively_use_KWallet_with_kde-plasma/ksshaskpass_under_Plasma_5 . ssh-agent waited for an input of the password for the ssh key. Seems like the Gentoo Wiki is wrong on this. |
Hi Where is cups tools, like as lpinfo, lpadmin and lpstat? Cups version: Code: net-print/cups-2.3.3-r1 -abi_mips_n32 -abi_mips_n64 -abi_mips_o32 -abi_s390_32 -abi_s390_64 abi_x86_32 abi_x86_64 -abi_x86_x32 acl dbus -debug -kerberos lprng-compat pam selinux ssl static-libs -systemd threads usb -X -xinetd -zeroconf net-... | Jacekalex wrote: Where is cups tools, like as lpinfo, lpadmin and lpstat? These are provided by net-print/cups[-lprng-compat] : Code: # equery f cups | grep -e 'lpinfo\|lpadmin\|lpstat' /usr/bin/lpstat /usr/sbin/lpadmin /usr/sbin/lpinfo There is an explicit warning about this in the ebuild: net-print/cups/cups-2.3.3-r1... |
[2023 more solved-ish]: Another thing that I just tried and has helped was adding this in ~/.Xresources: Code: Xft.dpi: 96 as well as this in ~/.xinitrc: Code: userresources=$HOME/.Xresources if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then xrdb -merge "$userresources" fi [/2023 more solved-ish] Hi all, something changed in the last c... | gtk-chtheme also works for that; it's gtk2-only so it won't mess with any gtk3 settings like lxappearance does. |
Hello, there is conflict between app-emulation/open-vm-tools-11.0.1-r1 and dev-libs/icu-67.1. The conflict exists already quite a while. As result my system keeps using older dev-libs/icu-65.1-r1. Is this a simple matter of updating dependencies, or one needs bug-report? Best regards | app-emulation/open-vm-tools support dev-libs/icu-67.1 post full emerge output |
Alternating booting Mate and Openbox. I want a white cursor. Xdm shows a white cursor in the greeter (good!) If I launch Mate from XDM it still has a white cursor (good!) If I launch Openbox with pcmanfm it shows a black cursor (bad!, hard to see against dark blue background, impossible against black background) I've t... | I've got a "xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources" line in openbox's autostart. Some desktops do that automatically. |
I'm running virtualbox 6.1 under Windows 10 with a Gentoo guest. The guest is set up as described at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/VirtualBox , with VMSVGA as graphics controller, and with the Mate desktop. My problem is that the monitor preferences dialogue does not even display the host display's native resolution (19... | Sweet. I didn't even know about cvt. |
Hi, i just installed Gentoo on a Laptop. After installing all the X stuff i installed the DM lightdm, the WM dwm, the terminal st, and dmenu. At first everything looked fine. Lightdm starts, dwm starts but then i noticed that i couldn't open st by pressing the standard keybinding (shift+alt+return). I tried to open st ... | If programs are terminating with a segmentation fault, something is wrong. Does xterm also terminate with segmentation fault? Can you capture a core file of one of the failed programs, and print its backtrace in gdb ? That may tell us which package is responsible for the fault, since it could be a library instead of th... |
Earlier this year I installed a brand new Gentoo system. Ever since I haven't been able to use ctrl+z in xorg and by now it's more than a minor annoyance... Other keyboard shortcuts work like expected, if I have LibreOffice open I can use Ctrl+x, Ctrl+c, Ctrl+v, Ctrl+p, Ctrl+a, Ctrl+s etc. but not Ctrl+z. I can't even ... | What window manager do you use, and how did you configure it? Some window managers, when configured to use a key sequence as a shortcut, will inhibit that key sequence from reaching the main X applications. Perhaps your window manager is intercepting Ctrl+Z, but whatever handling it does produces no noticeable results,... |
Since my latest upgrade, I've been having an odd problem with XDM (SDDM). I run KDE and use /etc/init.d/xdm to launch SDDM, but since upgrading, every time I boot my machine, I'm dropped to a regular terminal for login instead of SDDM. Running /etc/init.d/xdm status returnes a status of Crashed. All I have to do is run... | This line Code: 4.744] (EE) NV: The PCI device 0x10de0fc8 ((null)) at 01@00:00:0 has a kernel module claiming it. looks to me as the kernel is still initializing the graphic card. So it seems that the kernel needs more time than he has till xdm is strted. Maybe worth to try a quirk by delaying the xdm service start by ... |
Hello again. Well after getting my system to upgrade to the newest version of plasma, I rebooted my system and have no wallpaper or task bar. I tried these commands: Code: kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart plasmashell "Application plasmashell could not be found using service org.kde.plasmashell and path /MainApplication.... | I had done a logout and logged back in and for a second I had the wallpaper, but then it instantly crashes. I found out what the other error where, I had some messed up .desktop icon configs and I got rid of them. But I am still stuck with a broken wallpaper and panel. |
Been trying to install nvidia drivers they did all install fine but on reboot i was getting black screen Please take note i have took the card out but want to get it going at the moment i am on the onboard intel what i have discovered is for some reason i do not have a /xorg.conf.d directory startx works fine as i am s... | jburns wrote: In your make.conf should "smartsystemd" be "smart systemd" I agree that it looks wrong as written. However, I would expect that the OP should not specify USE=systemd at all, and instead should get that automatically by using a profile designed for use with systemd. Such profiles automatically set USE=syst... |
Code: $ emacs Undefined color: "WINDOW_FOREGROUND" This happens with emacs-27 , emacs-26 , and emacs-25 . This Arch forum suggests a workaround Code: $ xrdb /dev/null which works if I execute it before each invocation of emacs. What is a more permanent solution? [SOLVED] emacs-27.1-r3 executes normally and produces thi... | coderanger wrote: Could you grep this string in your .emacs.d folder so we can see which lisp code throws this error? Code: ~$ find .emacs.d -type f -exec grep WINDOW_FOREGROUND {} \; returns nothing. coderanger wrote: Also this can give some additional info https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2014-01/msg0... |
I recently updated @world and emacs works just inside the terminal. No way to get a separate window. The flags I used for the previous version (26) doesn't work -motif athena -gtk Xaw3d -sound -alsa xft I tried also gtk but nothing works Code: emerge --info emacs Portage 3.0.8 (python 3.7.8-final-0, default/linux/amd64... | Code: -gui GUI looks disabled, which seems surprising given it's in your global USE (default for desktop profile). |
Hello, it seems that running wayland without (e)logind + pam is impossible, meanwhile. (Or does anybody know a way?) (Previously I was able to patch weston to run as root, but this doesn't work anymore for unknown reasons.) It is also very unhappy that you cannot have systemd + elogind both installed, since prevoiusly ... | I tried now with weston, because this at least starts when called from a terminal as the root user. The entry I get when attempting to start it with sddm is: ~/.local/share/sddm wrote: Date: 2020-10-18 CEST [10:53:38.650] weston 9.0.0 https://wayland.freedesktop.org Bug reports to: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/waylan... |
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