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Whenever I try to log in and start X, whether it be through a DM (SDDM and LightDM tested) or startx after logging in on a TTY, I get a black screen and I need to switch to another TTY and back to fix this. Curiously, now that I can see the X session, switching to another TTY again and back now results in the same blac... | Just curious: are you using the nvidia blob driver? |
Hello, I just came back to Gentoo after like 10 years of hiatus to try sway / wayland. Looking at various documents, I need to set following environment variables for applications to work properly on Wayland. XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 GDK_BACKEND=wayland I am using systemd, but do not have any login... | Yes, I would set them in .zshrc (even though I don't use zsh, so I set them in .bashrc). Don't forget to also enable it for SDL2 if you play games via Steam. More info here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wayland BTW: Welcome back to Gentoo, and welcome to the world of Sway and Wayland! I've been dabbling in Sway... |
SlashBeast wrote: Check wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Non_root_Xorg and create new thread if you need help. Ok, I will. Code: $ startx -- vt1 doesn't startx. Instead, Xorg.0.log is returned, apparently without much of an error. (Sigh) Root can startx. Why can't user? Code: $ groups tty wheel audio video input users admin emerge... | On the assumption that the advice from SlashBeast will reveal that you have no session registered in elogind, then your next step should be to check your PAM configuration to verify that pam_elogind would be executed for the type of login you used, since that is responsible for notifying elogind that you exist and have... |
Hi, conky fails to start on my system: Code: conky: desktop window (79c) is root window conky: drawing to desktop window conky: drawing to double buffer conky: forked to background, pid is 27996 conky: can't load font '6x10' conky: can't load font 'fixed' USE flag truetype is set and query list "*" |grep "font" shows C... | saski4711 wrote: Any Idea what went south? AFAIK, the fonts available for conky are checking so: Code: fc-cache -f -v fc-list | grep -i desired_font (The first command regenerates the font cache.) |
I am trying to follow a tmux tutorial but whenever I run tmux in the terminal I get the following error message: Code: /usr/libexec/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server Despite of this I am apparently inside tmux, but if I switch workspaces something simply crashes: Code: /usr/libexec/Xorg.wrap... | Why is running a shell under tmux trying to run Xorg at all? Do you have a startup script ( ~/.bash_profile or similar) that tries to start X automatically? |
During splashscreen, an authentication dialog box pops up, labelled "Authentication required to operate on files" [raw translation], querying for login/password with root as unique user in combobox. Box can be cancelled though, leading to regular behavior, e.g. saving modified documents working fine, Any idea what's ha... | tail -f /var/log/messages Code: Oct 2 10:32:08 amd64 pkexec[3483]: pam_unix(polkit-1:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=1000) Oct 2 10:32:08 amd64 pkexec[3483]: luc: Executing command [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/] [COMMAND=/usr/libexec/gvfsd-admin --spawner :1.1 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/1 --addres... |
Hi guys, Lately I am having this problem where when I scroll down a page in firefox, the page periodically lags (i.e. gets temporarily stuck and then catches up). This happens whether I use the touchpad, keyboard arrows, or USB mouse. Here is my glxinfo Here's what I found to be wrong in dmesg: Code: dmesg | grep -i 'e... | This could be as well linked to I/O and process going into D-state waiting for storage, or write buffer getting full and then waiting for flush. Are you using SSD or have swap enabled? You can try limit dirty bytes, by default it's 5% and 10% of installed memory, which means that it gets worst the more ram you have. in... |
Hi, I need to work with SMB shares at gnome. My nautilus did not support smb first (was not able to mount smb:// by "connect to server at other locations" at all). It started to work after recompiling gvfs with smb useflag. So I can mount smb fs at nautilus and work (copy) with files, but it is not mounted anywhere. I ... | Hi if you can access the files via Nautilus then the share IS mounted somewhere. What happens if you run Code: mount | grep <name-of-share> You might wish define a cifs mount in /etc/fstab. Then simply access it via your homedir in nautilus. |
I just cant apply the swapfocus patch for dwm . I am running the current stable version of dwm: Code: ~> equery list dwm * Searching for dwm ... [IP-] [ ] x11-wm/dwm-6.2:0 ~> and have already two other patches successfully applied to my dwm instance: Code: ~> ls /etc/portage/patches/x11-wm/dwm/ 01-dwm-hide_vacant_tags-... | Due to the nature of the process, whether you can mix any given combination of patches depends entirely on what they do and how close to one another. Sometimes you get lucky and there are a large number of wholly isolated patches that you can toggle in any combination you want. Other times, you get unlucky and two or m... |
As far as I remember in the old gentoo installation I have been using kde-apps/kcmshell for settnings fonts in kde apps. I can't find this package in my latest installation. Tool bar fonts in Kate, Konsole and Okular are small and I am not able to enlarge them. I can't run command Code: kcmshell5 fonts as in the past. ... | @sebaro after emerge kde-plasma/kde-cli-tools I can run kcmshell, but font is not in modules list anymore @Hund qt5ct solved problem thanks to both of you |
First of all, Why do I have two Xorg logs ? /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/Xorg.1.log ? I only have a laptop with one screen ?? Here is Xorg.0.log , which has no errors(EE)'s: https://pastebin.com/VE4bT5Mv Here is Xorg.1.log , which has two errors(EE)'s: https://pastebin.com/eG2iPYyw what is causing the slow startx ?... | The number is based on which X DISPLAY was used, not which physical device the server rendered to. Xorg.1.log appears to be from several months ago. Perhaps you were running a second server at the time while migrating to elogind. |
Hey guys! Could you please help me to narrow down problem I faced on my gentoo ? I turn on WIFI and KDE stop responding, but it works good when I use internet via usb tethering from my phone..... which is using my home wifi.... What should I look at ? | _ |
After a long absence, I installed Gentoo over the last few days (systemd profile) and then installed wayland and sway. Its all [sortof] working, and I even managed to install firefox from source. 2 questions: - I have my USE flags set to "wayland". Should I include "X" or perhaps "-X"? Its not clear to me how those two... | Hi gevious, welcome back to Gentoo! I guess a few USE flags are missing on your machine. 'default/linux/amd64/17.1/systemd/desktop' would be the right profile, but it doesn't exist. You will roughly get the profile 'default/linux/amd64/17.1/systemd/desktop' if you perform the steps below: Run Code: emerge --update --de... |
I'm trying to run XP-Pen pentablet drivers on my system-- they launch just fine under my normal user, but because they are drivers I need to run them as root, which gives me the following error: Code: sleepy@magi ~/Programs/Pentablet/Linux_Pentablet_V1.2.13.1 $ sudo QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 ./Pentablet_Driver QFactoryLoader:... | It looks like this was just a simple X error, copying Xauthority to root fixed the issue: Code: sudo cp ~/.Xauthority /root As described here: https://forum.qt.io/topic/118543/linux-qt-qpa-plugin-could-not-load-the-qt-platform-plugin-xcb-in-even-though-it-was-found/3 Just posting in case anyone comes across this thread... |
For the last couple of weeks, when the mouse pointer hovers over an item in the taskbar, plasmashell crashes. The crash reports were consistent in saying where the crash was (libthread_db), so I rebuilt glibc which has that lib, and it still crashed. I then rebuilt plasmashell (plasma-workspace), and even then it still... | Crash dump hints at a crash in mesa or X, but you don't have nearly enough debug symbols to tell anything more. I would try with different versions of kernel, mesa, nouveau. In the last couple of weeks there were no big changes to Plasma components in stable. |
Is it possible ? | You need to give the X server process read/write access to your input/DRI devices, and it needs to not change VT at startup (that requires root). Some config tweaks required, but it's doable. |
Hi all penguines, I cannot launch up any instance of /usr/bin/X from non-root account. What's probable reasons? Is it because I have compiled x11-base/xorg-server without the suid flag? I'd like to have your knowledge in advance to another re-compilation of xorg-server, because the related laptop, albeit low voltage an... | I knew the bad advice in that thread would cause problems. I just did not expect it to mislead someone so quickly. |
so i've got a server running gentoo and hosting a small ldap directory. i've got a few desktops on the same network, acting as ldap clients and authenticating against the directory. all the clients have been able to login to the command line and to gnome (via gdm) for _years_ (over 5 years). one of the desktops does no... | Try with gdm-3.30.3 please if you haven't yet |
Hey guys, after I updated yesterday, many gnome packages were updated. I did read the news about the session but as I use Systemd I didn't care bout it. Today Xorg won't launch with my Nvidia card and so I cant use my external display, it just falls back to the intel card. This is the log output. Any help will be GREAT... | Assuming you use them, what version of nvidia-drivers? I hope it's not 390, lot of recent nonsense regarding that one and becoming hard to keep up with how to make it work properly (especially with multi-gpu/offloading setups) when I don't use it myself. Edit: seen the log you posted below, it's 450.66 so all good for ... |
[url]Just finished a new build and was going through the setup fine.. but I seem to always run into issues getting graphics and X running lol. Anyway, the setup is an AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT with a Radeon RX 5700XT graphics card. The system boots fine and I had absolutely zero issues doing the install and building all packa... | Chances are you didn't enable DRI in the kernel setup... Device Drivers -> Graphics Support -> <M> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) ---> If you did, you need to post the output of lspci -k to see if the amdgpu driver loaded properly. If it didn't you might be able to figure out why by typ... |
Hi All, I'm new at this, so please forgive my lack of experience. Ever since the last world update (which went successfully), I cannot seem to start plasma. I'm getting a ksplashqml crash message window on xdm start, and cannot get passed this message... not sure how to fix this.... please help... | It may not be, but since you said you did a world update, and you did not describe in any detail what that entailed, it was reasonable for readers to assume you had installed a new kernel and updated to it as part of the general update. If you had updated the kernel, that advice would be a good first step. Please show ... |
Wow, I have tried many times now to compile www-client/chromium-85 and it repeatedly fails with the following error message: Code: ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed. * ERROR: www-client/chromium-85.0.4183.83::gentoo failed (compile phase): * ninja -v -j9 -l0 -C out/Release chrome chromedriver failed * * Call stac... | NathanZachary, Code: MAKEOPTS="-j9" allow 2G RAM per make thread for big C++ builds, so gcc may want 18G RAM, all to itself. tmpfs content can be moved to swap, if you have the swap space but that defeats the purpose a bit. |
I emerged GFTP and it shows up in the Plasma menu. When I start it, I get no errors but no window with GFTP. ps -auxw shows there is something: Code: user 33120 0.0 0.0 7132 3924 ? S 11:23 0:00 /usr/bin/gftp-text Do I need to be member of a special group to be able to use GFTP? I cannot remember that I had to do someth... | Ok, couldn't get it showing. After a bit of Google I installed Filezilla. No problem with that one. Just as good for my use. |
Basically, I cannot do anything in the Code: awesome-client , any input except the empty one gives Code: Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.awesomewm.awful was not provided by any .service files I wanted to debug rc.lua script without restarting xorg everytime. What is wrong? | Checklist for you: 1. Is x11-wm/awesome built with dbus USE flag? 2. is dbus running as system service? 3. Is sys-apps/dbus built with X USE flag? 4. How do you start awesome? As 'awesome' in .xinitrc, or 'dbus-launch --exit-with-session awesome'? The 3rd one is important as I've noticed GTK3 as example will fail here ... |
Hi, guys. After recent update I got a problem: neither mouse nor keyboard works in my KDE. I checked portage news and found that there is a news about libinput. So I added libinput to "INPUT_DEVICES" variable an ran emerge -N @world, as it was suggested in that news. emerge fetched and installed libinput, but it didn't... | what happens if you run Code: emerge -uUDNav @world ? |
When I am running nano editor inside xterm in Awesome, I cannot use the Alt key to produce meta-combinations. Moreover, when I try to set some binds in the rc.lua file (namely, alt+tab to switch between previous clients), Alt is not working too: Code: awful.key({ "Mod1", }, "Tab", function () awful.client.focus.history... | kotee wrote: Outside the X Alt is accessible as a meta key in nano, so that points to the Awesome. Not necessarily. All you have shown so far is that Alt does not work under X. You have not shown that Awesome is at fault. Please try running a different window manager, such as twm , and test Alt there. |
I`ve installed Gentoo (Plasma + OpenRC) but when i start system I see terminal. For starting sddm I need manually type Code: /etc/init.d/xdm stop /etc/init.d/xdm start By default xdm is crashed. What is wrong? | You use nvidia-drivers? |
As far as I can tell the following should tell i3 to use the german keyboard layout: Code: Section "InputClass" Identifier "keyboard" Option "XkbLayout" "de" Option "XkbVariant" "de_nodeadkeys" MatchIsKeyboard "on" EndSection But I could it only get to work with placing the following in the i3 config: Code: exec --no-s... | @halcon which values do I need or where do I find them? @fturco current: https://delta-labs.org/sp/DDg old: https://delta-labs.org/sp/EbE |
Hello, Since I updated yesterday and it installed latest kde plasma 19.12.3 I have a problem with kwin_x11 process. Let me show the process monitor, it will be easier to explain https://i.imgur.com/j1TYM6P.png kwin_x11 is progressively eating memory until it reaches around 33% of memory used (I have 32GB). Then it rele... | Ridrok wrote: Stability should be before "last version". 5.18.5 is the 5th (fifth) point release of Plasma 5.18, not some new experimental thing, it was stabilised in the same fashion as 5.17.5 before. Rest assured this was sufficiently tested over a time of several months and undoubtedly all kinds of systems, includin... |
How do I change the title of a running xterm? I have spent hours searching - and found lots of answers - but nothing seems to actually work. Typing the following in the xterm window almost works, but it also changes the prompt and I only want the title to change. Code: PS1="echo -ne \"\033]0;foo\007\"" | Finally found what works Code: xdotool getactivewindow set_window --name NewName Would be interested in a more light weight solution, so alternatives are welcome. |
I just rebuilt my system with the latest updates, and for the life of me I can't get these packages to build. I've tried -j1 and USE="-jumbo-build" and all the other tricks I could find, but nothing works. They both just die with the same error: Code: ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed. * ERROR: dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.... | What you posted just says "something went wrong due to an earlier error" and isn't the cause, it's in the build log. Something like the last `tail -n 1000` lines of the build log are usually enough for the error to be included. |
Hello, After updating kernel from 5.7.12 to 5.8.0-r1 I noticed performance degradation on my desktop: - kernel compilation time ~26 min instead of ~7 - hdparm -Tt for 5.7 Code: /dev/sda2: Timing cached reads: 25448 MB in 1.99 seconds = 12797.63 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 1418 MB in 3.00 seconds = 472.19 MB/sec ... | Please add [solved] to the title. Just edit the post with the edit button, And thanks for the info. I'm still on 5.4.48 |
My goal is to have a bash script that launches multiple xterms where each xterm is running a program (of my choice, like "find ..." for example) and where each xterm has job control. I don't get job control in an xterm if it is launched from within a bash script like so Code: /usr/bin/xterm -ls -sb -leftbar -font -*-fi... | Let's use 'strace' to find out what happens. I use 'top' instead of your command, because it's easier to test. Code: term -e "top" --> starts top directly. No bash involved, no job control xterm --> starts bash in interactive mode. You have job control xterm -e "bash" --> starts bash in interactive mode. You have job c... |
I updated my system yesterday night with about 80 packages, but it was mainly up to dated before. But since then kmail crashes: Code: kmail Connection to speech-dispatcher failed Connection to speech-dispatcher failed Connection to speech-dispatcher failed Connection to speech-dispatcher failed Connection to speech-dis... | solved by the magic hand of reboot...sorry |
Hi... I've got Yet Another Non-root Xorg Problem. I've already done a bunch of googling but cannot solve the problem. I've got what I think is latest xorg, 1.20.8-r1 . I have re-emerged this and xf86-input-evdev a few times. Kernel is 4.9.228 . I've seen in other threads that this may be related to elogind. I don't hav... | It's not xinit that needs to be suid but Xorg. The message is about input (IINM) how are you starting the whole x process, startx, display manager, etc? Edit to add: since you mention elogind have you read the latest https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Non_root_Xorg |
Hello emerge --info: https://pastebin.com/aHiPxX1W emerge -pv --nodeps efl enlightenment: https://pastebin.com/np0Jnega elogind & dbus both started up, consolekit is not installed. https://bugs.gentoo.org/726762 I got the same error, did someone find a workaround for this bug? This guy claims he got it running without ... | It's starting to look more and more like it's not supported with elogind anymore. Last when I tested it, it worked with elogind. I don't use wayland on my main desktop pc (elogind), but I do use it on my laptop which has systemd so wayland does work. For some reason it always looks like a dbus issue when trying with el... |
Hi. I just updated the @world on my laptop, it has been several months since my last update. My laptop has both an intel and an NVIDIA graphics chip... I think they are now calling this a hybrid graphics solution. In the past, I used Bumblebee and primus to be able to access the nvidia gpu. A little hack, but definitel... | You can try to libglvnd for switch to intel/nvidia prime system |
Hello, I'm just curious how I can fix some of the icon and font issues at Gnome 3.36. Gnome Extension Icons https://imgur.com/h6eWGuC https://imgur.com/8976T9I Applications Settings Icon https://imgur.com/dyj8eKs Shotwell Font https://imgur.com/ovQepmT In general, everything looks pretty neat, except for these cases. | Upgrade to librsvg-2.48 for the icon problems. Upgrade to adwaita-icon-theme-3.36 for the missing applications settings icon, strongly suggested to be done AFTER librsvg is upgraded, because otherwise symbolic icon PNG processing during build time will still end up with some broken symbolic icons. These should get norm... |
I know, there are some other threads for this issue but I can't get it to work on my own so I hope you will go easy on me. Some notes first: * Using slim as a DM * Using elogind globally / globally enabled * pam globally enabled emerge --newuse @world Code: Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Auto-cleaning packages..... | `loginctl list` should get you information what TTY is allocated to you, then `env |grep XDG_` to confirm it, and try just bare `startx`. |
I have installed Xorg-server, sddm, plasma-desktop, twm and xterm. But I cannot get any of those running someting usable. 1: I log in as my regular user. - if I want to start sddm I get Code: user@desktop ~$ sddm [14:42:04.819] (II) DEAMON: Initializing... [14:42:04.824] (II) DEAMON: Starting... [14:42:04.824] (II) DEA... | Why would you want to log into your user only to start sddm and... log into your user again? |
Hello, I'm having problem using 'startx -- :1' as to to start a second X session. I have elogind for all things KDE-plasma and now I'm running xfce4, I can log in normally the first time. When I was busy editing and didn't want to stop the session I would try to run Windowmaker quickly to check something out. I have th... | How are you starting the first Xorg session? |
I emerged the plasma desktop and a few applications like libroffice. I have been configuring it to my liking and this went ok after a bit of searching where the options where. Still a few small things but there is one major issue, I cannot set the keyboard layout. Here in Belgium we use "azerty" keyboards. And there ar... | Spanik wrote: [...] So it might be X related. Yes. Now it depends how clean your installation is ... If you are using "libinput" (=standard) then you only must edit " /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf". Here is mine (german setting): Code: [....] Section "InputClass" Identifier "libinput keyboard catchall" MatchIsK... |
Code: ~ $ xscreensaver-demo (xscreensaver-demo:10160): libglade-WARNING **: 12:08:45.134: Could not load support for `gnome': libgnome.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory xscreensaver-demo: too early for warning dialog? Warning: Directory does not exist: "/usr/share/wallpapers" Why does xscree... | Anon-E-moose wrote: What happens if you create /usr/share/wallpapers ??? Also /usr/share/wallpapers is a warning and xscreensaver works anyway. |
Hello, Today I went to wiki to setup a autologin system. I did everything just like this article and this other one . After that, Xorg returned me a "Switching VT failed" error. When I start my machine, the autologin on virtual console seems to works fine and when xorg will startx, the system fails and awaits for somet... | Had exactly the same problem, added two lines to my ~/.bash_profile on the auto-login user, this is the whole file... Code: # .bash_profile case "`tty`" in *tty8) chvt 8 #new line startx chvt 1 #new line sudo init 4 ;; esac My auto-login only works at runlevel 5, and spawns X with kodi on tty8; I use a diffrent method ... |
I found out that my Ryzen 9 system crashes due to app-arch/snappy Code: emerge -pv --depclean snappy Calculating dependencies... done! app-arch/snappy-1.1.8 pulled in by: dev-qt/qtwebengine-5.14.2 requires app-arch/snappy:=, app-arch/snappy:0/1= >>> No packages selected for removal by depclean Packages installed: 1842 ... | As far as I know, snappy is not used in building the kernel. If it is used, and it causes the kernel to be unstable, then you should file a defect report and link to it here. If you mean that merely having snappy installed on a system is causing the kernel to panic, then you have deeper problems. If your hardware is in... |
Wasn’t it great to open the laptop for work and presentation and be presented with a fail? Brought to us by a gremlin This problem is also described here but the solution does not work for me. What am I missing? Caffeine? https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1116478-highlight-parsevtsettings+dev+tty0.html https://foru... | HeXiLeD wrote: loginctl user-status Code: Could not get properties: Unknown object '/org/freedesktop/login1/user/self'. This is enough to see where is the problem. You have no logind session thus you cannot use logind interface. Have you re-logged after enabling elogind globally? The pam_logind should start daemon for ... |
Everything was working fine went all the way to log in and then desktop, all of a sudden I get a command prompt so after I log in I do a startx and I get twm instead of KDE. The Kernel was compiled by genkernel i also noticed in the xorg log some modules are not loading. Code: [ 4.256] (--) Log file renamed from "/var/... | NibblesMctwitch wrote: Everything was working fine went all the way to log in and then desktop, all of a sudden I get a command prompt so after I log in I do a startx and I get twm instead of KDE. You added exec startplasma-x11 in ~/.xinitrc for start plasma with startx? NibblesMctwitch wrote: Code: [ 6.105] (EE) Faile... |
Hi! I have trouble starting the xserver with Code: xinit /usr/bin/ratpoison as I was used to do, since I updated from x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.8 to x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.8-r1. The following useflags are set: Old version: Code: x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.8:0/1.20.8::gentoo USE="elogind ipv6 suid udev xorg xvfb -debu... | Quit trying to use both "elogind" and "suid" use flags at the same time. Edit to add: Geez, the logic in the ebuild for systemd/elogind/suid/suid-wrapper is still screwed up. If you enable elogind AND suid then you get elogind path in xorg-server and suid-wrapper (don't know if it automatically uses this or the user ha... |
Hi there. This is a fresh gentoo install with absolutely news $HOME. Despite that fact I also double checked with a testuser. I want to use my imap/smtp mailbox, bu I can't send any mails with KMail, receiving works fine. I've tried it with three providers which I am going to use. I double checked the setting with thun... | and the console output when you try to send a message? |
Since elogind migration I cannot use Xorg / i3 properly I did re-emerge world with -suid elogind -systemd -consolekit Keyboard and synaptics doesn't respond anymore unless I'm root. elogind user-status returns Code: Could not get properties: Is a directory while /etc/init.d/elogind status returns Code: * status: starte... | Do you have any input configuration in /etc/X11 (xorg.conf or xorg.conf.d)? Also, get me output of xorg running without SGID input Code: grep -i input ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log And lastly, are you running udev? I have feeling like you're not running udev or there's some other problem with udev. |
Hopefully this helps someone When launching net-im/psi-0.12 I got this error: $ psi: Cannot mix incompatible Qt libraries Googling for that message brought up this helpful thread on the Skype forums , to use the ldd command to check the libraries loaded by the application. So as suggested by the thread, I listed them: ... | Taking this thread off the unanswered list |
I just did a fresh install. I installed nvidia driver compiled kernel wihout nouveau. When i run startx and run glxinfo i obtain: Code: server glx vendor string: SGI client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc. I suppose it is not the expected behaviour ? I understand that there is ... | solved.. this was actually a duplicate of this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1111284-highlight-initialize+glx+module.html |
Hi, I got an issue with bash-completion, it seems to happen only with package names e.g. here's what happens when I type equery list -p wine-v[tab] Code: equery list -p wine-vbash: cd: /var/db/repos/calculate: No such file or directory bash: cd: /var/db/repos/calculate: No such file or directory anilla The completion g... | This might help https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1115760.html TLDR : Check that you don't have any backup file (files ending with ~) in /etc/portage/repos.conf/ |
Hello, I'm trying to update packages and get waylyand conflict: Code: $ sudo emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse @world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-lang/rust-bin-1.44.1 USE="-clippy -doc -rustfmt" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" CPU... | Try to remove wayland use flag to net-im/telegram-desktop |
I decided, after reading the recent news, to try migrating my xorg-server to run -suid. It works fine, except that I can't launch an xserver in a different vt than the one I am currently at. This is problematic because previously I would launch a server on vt6 from my current session in vt5, as a way to play games at f... | halcon wrote: Skotlex wrote: is there a (SAFE) way to have a user open a server on a different vt than they are currently at? I know one way to do that: Code: chown user:tty /dev/tty7 (where user is the name of your user). This could be placed, for example, in /usr/bin/startx (with sudo). Thanks, this really helps! I c... |
Hi, all. Searching in Google didn't help ( the most promising link was in fact useless for me)... I have several machines with Gentoo on which I'm trying to maintain (almost) the same system configuration: no DE, startx+openbox. After recent migrating to non-suid non-elogind xorg one of the machines not that refuses to... | startx always trys tty7 first if no vt? arg is given, you can read startx it's just a shell script. |
Good morning all! I have a new installation of Gentoo & kde (stable), and everything appears to be working normally. However, I have one small issue which is puzzling me: I have set the "Screen Energy Saving" in the "Energy Saving" section of the system settings, but when the timer is up, the screens shut down as expec... | Ok, so I seem to have resolved this issue. I am reluctant to call it a hardware issue, but clearly a combination of hardware is not working with powerdevil, but is working with other software (xset, and windows) I have two monitors connected to the RX 5500 XT graphics card: one uses a displayport to DVI cable, and the ... |
Code: equery depends libxklavier * These packages depend on libxklavier: mate-base/libmatekbd-1.24.0 (>=x11-libs/libxklavier-5.2:0[introspection?]) mate-base/mate-control-center-1.24.0 (>=x11-libs/libxklavier-4) mate-base/mate-settings-daemon-1.24.0 (>=x11-libs/libxklavier-5.2) mate-extra/mate-screensaver-1.24.0 (x11-l... | Clad in Sky, Code: $ eix libxklavier [I] x11-libs/libxklavier Available versions: 5.4(0/16) {+introspection vala} Installed versions: 5.4(0/16)(15:35:37 19/06/18)(introspection -vala) Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LibXklavier Description: A library for the X Keyboard Extension (high-level API) Tha... |
Posting for awareness... For those that want a system tray indication of received mail, something sorely lacking in Thunderbird, many posts I have encountered recommended Birdtray application. I had used it before but had installed it manually from source. I finally got around to using the Birdtray ebuild . Unfortunate... | digifuzzy wrote: Start TB - keep it open on desktop Start terminal Enter xprop Click TB window directly ( NOT the panel ) Note the the entry for WM_NAME(STRING) key entry. It should follow the pattern user@email.domain - Thunderbird Daily Open Birdtray, select Settings -> Advanced and enter in Code: - Thunderbird Daily... |
After upgrade to 2.22 (in 2.23 problem persists) alpine doesn't store password between sessions anymore. The file .pinepwd is present with proper permissions, and it is modified by by alpine although in new session it asks for password again. No USE flags have been changed between upgrades, the package is compiled with... | If you haven't already, try this. I don't recall when I did this, but I am running alpine-2.22 and no need to repeat password. Code: Remove Master Password from mail reader `alpine` ================================================ cd ~/.alpine-smime/.pwd mv MasterPassword.key MasterPassword.key.orig openssl rsa -in Mas... |
hi guys, is there a way to automaticly remerge all xfce4 packages?? i have issues with the integrated display settings tool (turning black and freezing display settings app) where nvidia-settings works fine. i had the issues with core5 and gtx1050. and still have them with ryzen7 and 1650gtx.... any suggestions ? thank... | can you paste the log output of Xorg.log? How do you start your DE? |
Tearing from up left to down right at fixed position when scrolling in firefox on W500 with integrated intel X4500HD,when plasma+i965. If I change i965 to intel ,there will be a horizon tearing look like a wave ,not fixed. When change to i915,everything is fine only firefox's hwaccel eating a lot of cpu,tearing will sh... | You need to either enable Option TearFree in xorg.conf or use a compositor that vsyncs correctly. |
Scenario: A few months ago I cloned my desktop configs to the laptop. I dont use not want to use display manager and or login manager. Been loving it for years without fashion. No configs have been changed from the time that the laptop was perfectly working to now. Why does the console stops booting because of a graphi... | You only need /usr/bin/xdm if you want to run /etc/init.d/xdm start . You say you do not want a display manager, so the real issue is that you should not be starting /etc/init.d/xdm . Why is it starting? Does rc-update show say it should start? If not, what init script needs it to start? |
I have SDDM configured to automatically login my user. X boots and there's a cursor arrow on a black background but KDE never boots. As a workaround, I switch to another VT and kill X, which brings me to the SDDM login window. From there providing my password boots X and then KDE normally. Any debugging hints will be g... | Could be recent pam and pambase upgrade. At least it broke login for me with 1.4.0 update. Try to downgrade pam from 1.4.0 to 1.3.1-something and downgrade pambase accordingly. |
Hi there, I have the symptoms described at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-885662-start-0.html unresolved post though *kits configured matching https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html - at my best... In short: at logout I have the logout window delayed and responsiveness... | News. I followed https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-905296.html Hypnos advise and included polkit in USE flag list and also -policykit . However, the main problem - delayed logout, no reboot-halt function - has remained. Quote: Dec 13 13:09:13 [dbus] [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.UPower' (using s... |
_ | Do you use Plasma? (if yes, change the Applications setting in systemsettings for how web pages are opened - just open web browser, don't decide based on content) |
so after i'm killing X i get into the sddm screen. there i enter my password (that belongs to my user of course) and after pressing ENTER, nothing happens. i get "X" symbol instead of the symbol of the mouse and thats it. i can move to another terminal (CTRL-ALT-F3 for example) and can log in there to my user. so what ... | [EDIT] ** silverqx wrote: Try look at /var/log/Xorg.log or journalctl -u sddm.service if there is some error. here is the log of Code: journalctl -b | grep sddm : http://dpaste.com/1W6BZH5 this is what i did: i reboot my system. then i killed X. then i get into sddm and entered my username (and ENTER, and then it stopp... |
Hello everyone, I tried to install XServer on my fresh gentoo install, but unsuccessfull. My make.conf vars: Code: # X11 server settings INPUT_DEVICES="libinput synaptics" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon r300" uname -a output: Code: Linux dcha 5.4.38-gentoo #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 17:01:40 MSK 2020 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6320 @ 1... | Welcome to gentoo forum! You can post your kernel config with wgetpaste ? |
I updated Qt to 5.15.0 and LXQt to 0.15 and the Qt application colors turned to something like Windows 98: https://ibb.co/ZKMLsrH Before that, it had much more pleasant shades of gray and blue. Anyone know the easiest way to change it? I don't see a color scheme editor in LXQt's config center. | Upstream went for a workaround which I'll make available soon'ish (just waiting for a bit more for possible fixes for said workaround). |
Been a long time since I used Gentoo. Roughly 15yrs.... But I am trying to get back into it. I initially setup my system with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64". So I know I am using testing packages. Building awesome... This is the error output. https://pastebin.com/zXqbDdBV emerge --info https://pastebin.com/SaV54fTL emerge -p... | MNKyDeth wrote: I assume this is an issue with building against GCC 10.1.0 It is. Bug #707262 See this thread . |
Hello there, I have a fresh install and i can't get X running. I Have tried all from the handbook and wiki and this https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1081408-start-0.html from gentoo forum but nothing works... I tried modesetting ddx, intel-ddx and old intel driver. Xorg.log for: modesetting http://dpaste.com/1A7BA... | bambus89, You have a case of Xorg loading things in the wrong order , resulting in undefined symbols. Give it a nudge in the right direction. |
Digging in the web I found out that this problem (Xfce with no system sounds) is way old. The libcanberra USE flag for xfce-base/xfce4-settings supposedly, " Enable sound event support using media-libs/libcanberra " while the package media-libs/libcanberra itself has USE flag of sound , which " Install x11-themes/sound... | First, you must check what is the value of $SESSION into your system. If it is not set or set to something else than 'GNOME', the second case '*)' of the case statement apply, which set GTK_MODULES variable. What is the output of 'echo $SESSION' and 'echo $GTK_MODULES'? |
Hi guys, I searched for a while and I cant figure this out: I cant get virtualbox to resize virtual screen1 (options are blank) and I also cant get to shared folder to work. Here is what I have done so far: I followed this wiki Here is the host machine info: Code: $ uname -a Linux dude 5.4.38-gentoo-x86_64 #2 SMP Mon M... | You installed guest additions in arch |
Hi, Following the instructions listed here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xmonad And selecting xmonad at the login, all I get is a black screen with a non-flashing text cursor in the upper-left corner of the screen. Does anyone know what is missing? I read somewhere else that (apparently) this would mean that xmonad is ... | Hi Charlz_Klug, I'm using GDM. I've got KDE XFCE, Gnome and a few others listed as choices. |
On all of my machines the sddm greeter does not work: It displays a black blank screen with a non-blinking(!) cursor. There is no problem if I avoid the greeter and use autologin. (There is also no problem if I use slim instead of sddm.) The only visible error message I see after /etc/init.d/xdm start is in Xorg.0.log ... | Can help this bug ? |
[Moderator note: changed title from Link to clarify the thread's purpose. -Hu] Hello Does any recent Linux file manager GUI exist that supports any kind of Links? e.g. it might deal with, and create, symbolic links (in a non tedious way), or handle some other kind of links similar to waht Windows has. I'm sure these th... | You can better explain what do you need links for? If you need link for open a program then it's better to create a dektop file. In dolphin for example you can install a service for it . |
Hi everybody, I have installed Gnome 3 and KDE5 Plasma, but primarily I am using KDE. I also have installed LibreOffice. When I try to do this: Code: emerge -auDN @world I get the following: Code: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies \ !!! Problem resolving dependencies for ap... | You should add one (and only one) of the following lines to /etc/portage/package.use in order to make your choice permanent: Code: app-office/libreoffice-bin kde -gnome app-office/libreoffice-bin gnome -kde Edit: fix typo |
Dear All, If I want to install zsh and powerlevel 10K on my box how do I do that? I can follow the recipe in the gentoo wiki on installing zsh........ But the only the powerlevel 9K install command is given Code: source "/usr/share/zsh-theme-powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k.zsh-theme" which you add to the Code: .zshrc file...... | first, make sure you have read those two wiki pages: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Zsh https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Zsh/Guide and then have a look here: https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k#get-started |
After today update all my custom shortcuts gone away. Systemsettings lacks such a matter as custom shortcuts at all. Only standard shortcuts and global shortcuts. And there is no way neither to add new custom shortcuts nor edit some of existing shortcuts (to reassign them for my needs). In fact I need two shortcuts: th... | How did you install Plasma? Did you run --depclean after your last update? What did it remove? |
I often reconnect my keyboard, and each time I do it my language layouts are resetting, I constantly passing setxkbmap -layout **** to get my layouts back, can I do it in more automatic way? | How about trying the automated approach using a udev rule explained in the following article?: https://facility9.com/2019/07/remapping-keys-in-linux/ |
So I just finished my Gentoo install yesterday and have everything pretty much configured the way I want it, except for one thing. I generally use the U.S. International keyboard layout with dead keys I have my keymap set to us-acentos in /etc/conf.d/keymaps and have ibus loading when I log in to LXDE. I have two layou... | So I ended up figuring it out. I needed to emerge setxkbmap. Once I did that, everything started working. |
Since the update kwin would immediately crash on startup and restart itself with no desktop effects. Toggling the rendering backend would cause it to crash again. Previous version worked fine. The fix is to rebuild kde-frameworks/kconfig with dbus support. Hope this saves somebody else some time. | No error log for us? To be fair, there's a reason why dbus is default for desktop profile. |
I'm using the graphical interface dwm on a 2k monitor, and the mouse cursor appears very small in all applications, except google chrome. | Do you have mouse theme installed? What desktop enviroment do you use? |
I've just swicthed monitor cable to alternate HDMI output: Monitor now blank. Any way to recover desktop display without GUI server restart? Thks for ur attention, interest & support | You could use xrandr to switch which display is active. xrandr --output HDMI-0 --off --output HDMI-1 --auto or similar might work. Those names may not match what xrandr uses for your system. Run xrandr without arguments to see the current configuration, including output names. |
i do press CTRL and L to lock the desktop, by entering my password i become everytime the message that my password is incorrect. i am 100% sure that is the right password, i can show it - but i am anunable to unlock the screen. how can i fix this?! | What program are you using to implement the lock screen? Are you sure it is able to validate passwords? If I recall correctly, in some cases, failure to validate the password can be incorrectly reported as an incorrect password. |
Hi there, as per the post title: Code: [17759/27103] /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -MMD -MF obj/third_party/blink/renderer/platform/platform/audio_resampler.o.d -DUSE_UDEV -DUSE_AUR> [17760/27103] /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -MMD -MF obj/third_party/blink/renderer/platform/platform/audio_resampler_kernel.o.d -D... | https://bugs.gentoo.org/700988 |
Dear All, I am running gentoo amd64 stable on an old hp laptop with an athlon X2 processor. I have done a recent successful deep world update. I have now installed lightdm and lxde on the machine. A current problem I have is that the root login and password recognition isn't working correctly. The user account and pass... | https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-23378.html |
Upgraded all of the usual suspects (llvm - which took a hideously long nine hours to compile, mesa, xf86-video-amdgpu, xf86-video-ati, and xorg-server), and now X won't start. Any ideas? Log file follows: Code: X.Org X Server 1.20.7 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 4.19.44-gentoo x86_64 G... | Is there a segfault in dmesg? |
I'm using XFCE. When inserting a USB drive, the xfce4-terminal (v 0.8.9.1) does not recognize the drive. lsblk "confirms" this: Code: lsblk -o +fstype,label,uuid,partuuid NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT FSTYPE LABEL UUID PARTUUID sda 8:0 0 298.1G 0 disk └─sda1 8:1 0 290G 0 part /hdd ntfs 46460D60460D51DB 282368... | The terminal is just a terminal. It has no sense of whether anything is mounted. It just shows you what your shell can see. Your shell output says that the device was never mounted. What have you configured that you expected plugging in a drive would automatically mount it? (As an aside, except in physically well secur... |
Hi When viewing a video via vlc, the screen turns off every 10 minutes. Tool->Options->All->Video Disable screensaver is checked. How do I make that the screen doesn't go off when watching a video, but it turns off in all other cases? I am using: vlc 3.0.8 Operating System: Gentoo Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.5 KDE F... | Maybe some settings in Energy Saving? |
Until a few days ago I log in as User-1 after boot. The display for User-1 is than F7. I occasionally at the same time I log in as User-2 (root) through Alt-Ctl F1 and startx. The display for User-2 is then F8. I can then switch between User-7 and User-8 with Alt-Ctl F8 and Alt-Ctl F7 and back. The DE is Xfce with Slim... | Hello C5ace. Do you have Code: sys-apps/systemd installed? Does it depend on software you have currently installed? Code: equery d sys-apps/systemd |
Hi Guys, I have installed openbox following this https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Openbox However I just cant create any menus both using menumaker or openbox menu. When i use openbox-menu I get: Code: File applications.menu doesn't exist. Can't create menu and for menumaker Code: mmaker -vf Openbox3 * scanning desktop... ... | Get an XML editor and edit ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml ... or just use any text editor. |
Solved : I just had to load module : nvidia-drm Hi, I use OpenRC. I just migrated from consolekit to elogind, but sddm doesn't start anymore. user sddm is in video group. elogind is started. sddm.log only says : Code: [01:14:05.123] (II) DAEMON: Initializing... [01:14:05.128] (II) DAEMON: Starting... [01:14:05.129] (II... | See this topic |
Here's: Code: gnome-base/gnome-light Installed versions: 3.34.4(2.0)(00:30:47 21/04/2020)(gnome-shell -cups) Working fine in X11 mode started from GDM. Wayland Sway works fine. Wayland Gnome doesn't start... Not sure where to look...But at least got the following in /var/log/gdm: Code: (gnome-shell:10531): mutter-WARNI... | Damn another obvious USE flag dependancy missing. This is what setting USE="-*" in make.conf is all about. Fixed. Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support. |
first, best wishes to you and yours during the covid-19 pandemic At the tail end of February I created a new gentoo build with xfce4, which is standard for me. A few days after successfully creating the build I noticed that the desktop was getting a bit choppy. Looking at 'top', I saw xfwm4 was using maybe 50-60% of th... | https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15963 |
I made the switch to elogind and libinput. Generally things are well, but Suspend, Hibernate and Shutdown are now greyed out. My system has been full updated in preparation to switching to Profile 17.1 I noted in the possible loss in making the switch. I'm running XFCE. EDIT: The script nowlodek has suggested seems to ... | How you start xfce? With startx or a login manager? dbus service is started? |
Hi, I am using KDE / Dolphin since a long time, but it never happened to me before. Strating Dolphin takes a long time until ist pops up. Code: time dolphin QObject::connect: No such signal QDBusAbstractInterface::DeviceAdded(QString) QObject::connect: No such signal QDBusAbstractInterface::DeviceRemoved(QString) real ... | problem solved by setting CONFIG_USER_NS=Y in kernel config |
_ | maybe a mix of https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/fluxbox-change-languages-keyboard-layout-393468/ and https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/5-fluxbox-keys/ |
Dear All, I am running gentoo stable on an amd 64 kaveri box. I thought to try installing the deepin desktop. I am currently using Code: sddm . I notice that you are supposed to turn off Code: dhcpcd as part of the installation process. My internet connection uses Code: dhcpcd at present in gentoo. Would a conventional... | Many thanks for your suggestions. I have followed the instructions on installing deepin. I have got stuck here: Code: localhost /etc/portage # !527 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge --ask --verbose --keep-going dde-base/dde-meta These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies / !!! Problem... |
Hi all, I have done a fresh installation of Gentoo and I installed XFCE as DE. Since several Display Managers can be installed, I tried to use lightdm. There is one annoying problem: lightdm (but also sddm and lxdm) stucks on boot, leaving a black screen with a static cursor. Nothing is allowed to me, except rebooting ... | popetto, Disable the display manager, using the chroot if you need to. Install wgetpaste if you don't have it yet and use it to put the output of dmesg, from booting your own kernel and /var/log/Xorg.0.log onto pastebins please. Also post the output of Code: lspci -nnk so we can see your hardware. Your kernel .config f... |
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