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Does anyone have it working? Doesn't look good , doesn't it? I have absolutely zero success to get it working. The documentation for tray is also lacking or I just don't find it. :( | I seem to recall it worked out of the box for me a few months ago. Auto hide is/was not implemented so I went back to i3. I think it uses your same config for i3, just moved. copy ~.3i/config to .config/sway/config and I think .config/i3status/config does the bar... |
I'm trying to install Xorg, in anticipation of installing a desktop environment. I'm working my way through Xorg/Guide in the Wiki. I recompiled my kernel. Now I'm working on the /etc/portage/make.conf file. The Wiki says that I need to set the VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES variables. For my machine, that first variabl... | mojosam wrote: Again, it appears that the variable is already populated somewhere else. The profile populate these variable see $(portageq get_repo_path / gentoo)/profiles/arch/amd64/make.defaults. mojosam wrote: Do I need to add explicit entries to my /etc/portage/make.conf file? Or is this already taken care of for m... |
Apologies if this is the wrong forum. I've just emerge --sync 'd, and my --update --deep --foo @world died on app-office/kmymoney. The message before it died: Code: ninja: error: '/usr/lib/libmpir.so', needed by 'lib/libkmm_mymoney.so.5.0.5', missing and no known rule to make it sci-libs/mpir-3.0.0 has a /usr/lib64/lib... | emerge -1 libalkimia |
In continuation to the previous discussion : Graphics in Qt (?) slow in specific applications I tried to move from "intel" to "glamor" and can't start X with glamor configured What was done : The system was previously installed with intel (and VIDEO CARDS="intel i915"), but slow in few specific places : Plasma screen l... | Ashie wrote: Code: [ 28.668] Require OpenGL version 2.1 or later. [ 28.668] (EE) modeset(0): Failed to initialize glamor at ScreenInit() time. You need the gallium driver for that to work, if it works at all. |
I'm trying to test a gentoo image I've been working on in a virtualbox. Because I don't know what I'm doing that well I wanted to start by running it off a usb stick and virtual machine, and so I think I've run into some hiccups because of changing graphics drivers, but even after attempting to clear that up I can't ge... | Arg, figured it out myself eventually ... thanks to having another virtualbox running Solus Apparently you need both the vboxvideo and vmwgfx driver for vmware, which should have been obvious when I looked at lspci and at some point I did have both vboxvideo and vmware but at that time I also had nvidia/etc. So with th... |
Hello, today i have finished to install all of my system on my laptop, but i have seen ig problem. alsa-firmware package don't have hda-intel use flag for ALSA_CARDS global use flag ??? It's big problem, because i have no sound ... | Fulgurance, Lack of firmware is probably not your problem. What does Code: cat /proc/asound/devices say and how are you expecting sound to work? Analogue from the pale green front stereo jack socket or over a digital video link? |
Cinnamon is having issues loading, there is a segfault error in dmesg | tail cinnamon[2325]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f24c2e901c9 sp 00007ffd7ed50c20 error 4 in libmuffin-cogl-0.so XFCE loads fine, and lightdm launches. I re-merged libmuffin but it did not fix the issue. I'm not sure where else to look. I'm using vmware v... | Maybe I should have tried to see if opengl was working ... glxinfo showed it was not, and the problem was my opengl profile was set to nvidia So I used eselect opengl set xorg-x11 to fix and now it's cinnamon is working. KDE/plasma also loads now, whereas it did not before for similar reasons I'm sure. KDE/plasma does ... |
Hey, I've recently updated my system and since then, my mutter throws me this error when I try to start it: Code: GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 23:00:24.681: Settings schema 'org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchscreen' does not contain a key named 'display' Trace/breakpoint trap I'm not sure if this is related to the desktop schem... | Maybe this can hlp |
I can't seem to apply certain keybindings in both Terminator and Guake. Typically, I bind Ctrl+\ to hide my terminal window, but it doesn't work in Terminator. And in Guake I get a warning when I try to apply that binding to its respective setting ("A problem happened when trying to apply "Ctrl+\" key"). Because this i... | I figured this out after some digging. It's an issue with Wayland and global key bindings, which explains why I was seeing it in both Terminator and Guake. If anyone stumbles on this here's the Arch Wiki page that helped me solve this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Guake#Toggling_Guake_visibility_does_not_work_(... |
This is kinda dumb thing I can't seem to figure it out (logically) although I'm sure if I did more research the answer would appear somewhere, but this seems like a good time to pose the question and get some help maybe. In the more or less "untouched" system following a minimal installation with no desktop environment... | Solved it...it was to use xdg-mime default application type |
Hi I have an old GPU (Quadro FX 4800) which can't use the newest nvidia drivers. What always worked for me was to use nvidia-drivers-340.107-r1. After installing the new kernel (linux-4.19.57-gentoo) i reinstalled the above version of nvidia-drivers, and wanted to do 'modprobe nvidia' (as described in the wiki) but the... | What return uname -a ? |
Hi, I've noticed that the 1.0.16 version of x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau adds a hard dependency on virtual/libudev. This prevents its use with device managers others than udev and eudev, and, since I am currently using mdev, this effectively forbids me from updating it (which, in turn, prevents xorg-server from updat... | POSIX_ME_HARDER, It builds for me and I don't have libudev. Code: # eix xf86-video-nouveau [I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau Available versions: 1.0.15[1] 1.0.15-r1[1] 1.0.15-r100[1] 1.0.16{tbz2} (~)1.0.16{tbz2}[1] {udev} Installed versions: 1.0.16{tbz2}[1](20:08:49 22/06/19)(-udev) Heh x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau-... |
Every single time I start liferea, I have to go into the settings window and reapply all the changes I can remember, by hand, then restore zoom and window geometry. Somehow it retains the feed list and its state correctly. How do I make it save settings, short of resorting to userpatches to hardcode them in? I know it'... | Turns out epatching sane defaults in wasn't as hard as I expected: all of them are stored in ./net.sf.liferea.gschema.xml and documented there too. |
hello community, I'm pretty new to gentoo. I have a fresh install here, everything looks functional but all things related to video and ati drivers become a two weeks pain so I decide to ask in here. I have two monitors, one is actually a TV. Video comes out on both monitors mirrored. But xrandr -q seems to recognize o... | lrx0x0, Welcome to Gentoo. From your Xorg.0.log Code: [ 487.776] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported. That suggests you have a kernel problem. dmesg says Code: [ 1.173840] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/JUNIPER_pfp.bin failed with error -2 [ 1.173913] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware... |
Since drivers greater 390 i only get a black screen, can't even switch with ctrl+alt. All i found is in messages and i don't use systemd. Code: kernel: systemd-udevd[1939]: seq 1445 '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/0000:01:00.0' is taking a long time kernel: systemd-udevd[1939]: seq 1935 '/module/nvidia' is taking a l... | Have you tried to reinstall the nvidia-drivers, from the looks of it some of the utilities have older versions which does seem strange. I would recommend removing it completely (and while not usually something I do try a --depclean option to remove old dependencies before you reinstall). I personally have not had much ... |
Hi Problem: Starting a pure Plasma Wayland Session fails. System: Code: kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.15.5 dev-qt/qtwayland-5.12.3 media-libs/mesa-19.0.8 GPU: Code: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06) (Skylake) 20-modesetting.conf: Code: Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" ... | dasPaul wrote: my skylake IGPU is only capable of delivering 30Hz@4k.. that is a no go! I NEED to get 1080p@100Hz. Are you sure about that? My older Haswell HD 4600 iGPU is able to deliver 60Hz@4K, maybe you just need to get a better DP cable? |
Hello what command is required to access the KDE (aka plasma) settings? thanks | If you're just wanting to launch it it's systemsettings5 |
I have a strange issue with one laptop at the office. Since the update last night the system boots fine, but I only get the shell login when done. This stays on the screen forever if nothing is done. However, if you press enter six or eight times (the login prompt simply scrolls) then SDDM shows up. THe X log only has ... | It isn't same problem described here ? |
Hi All I've been having some problems and think I may be really messing up my system for the past 3 weeks I have been fighting with my i3-status setup and can't figure out why it won't use color Emojis in my status .. Best way to show you what is happening is by giving a pic NO COLOR PIC [/url][/b] thanks Mike | Finally Solved my problem with not being able to get the Color Icons in I3BLOCKs Finally found that the unicode was not from EmojiOne-Color.ttf like I was told but in fact was NotoColorEmoji.ttf and you can make it work by doing the following: 1) mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts 2) mkdir github && cd ~/github 3) git clone... |
This is my very first post, YAY. I'm on default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib profile and I can't emerge ktp-call-ui-19.04.3 because the compile task can't find libtelepathy-farstream.so library. The problem is that the library is installed on /usr/lib64 and not in /usr/lib . I think I should open a bug for this, but I ... | rebuild net-libs/telepathy-qt |
Hi Was browsing with Firefox when it suddenly crashed. After various attempts (safe mode etc) failed to get it to start properly, I started closing the "pinned" tabs just before it crashed in safe mode. Then discovered that any attempt to use Google immediately crashed the browser. At the time I was on numberempire.com... | Appears to be issue with UBlock Origin. Curious. |
Hi I need help on locale to display Chinese characters under Konsole under KDE my locale output is Code: $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-... | Which font is configured in Konsole? Does it support Chinese characters? Please post the contents of the file '/etc/locale.conf' Please post the contents of the file '/etc/locale.gen' Please post the output of Code: locale -a and of Code: eselect locale list |
# emerge -uDpvNt --backtrack=100 --verbose-conflicts @world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ... ... ... ......... .......... done! [nomerge ] games-util/steam-meta-0-r20160817::steam-overlay USE="steamruntime" [nomerge ] games-util/steam-games-meta-0-r20190316::st... | djdunn, Help us all to help you. Put the entire emerge output onto a pastebin site and post the link. Splitting things into multiple posts breaks the View unanswered posts search, which a lot of potential helpers use to find posts to answer. When you have a new topic, keep it to a single post by using pastebins or by a... |
I haven't instaIled a DE but I have installed i3wm.I don't know my touchpad's name.But I can use it with a finger.Using two fingers or three fingers has the same effect as one finger.I want to use two fingers to scroll , just like in most Linux distributioln. here is the output of my touchpad information. Code: $ cat /... | I solved it myself I recompiled my kernel,and add some configurations (though I don't know which one took effect): Code: $ sudo make menuconfig CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS_SMBUS CONFIG_HID_MULTITOUCH probably the last one,because I remember the first two are in my original configuration |
Hello community, after a profile update xdm has stopped working. At first /etc/init.d/xdm could not find the xdm executable, and told me to emerge xdm package. Which I did. Now /etc/init.d/xdm prints [ok], but there's no other effect. No desktop environment is started, no messages printed. How do I get my desktop back?... | pygoscelis wrote: after a profile update xdm has stopped working. What profile update? |
Hi, I've tried thunar and pcmanfm. I have things like gvfs,udisks,dbus etc related stuff in place. The issue is that in the sidebar I cannot see any of my drives (mounted or otherwise). I found a similar issue here https://forum.manjaro.org/t/problems-with-mounting-disks-in-xfce-thunar-gtk-d-bus-gvfs-issues/89848/4 And... | Tony0945 wrote: I love Gentoo, but installs are no solution . ftfy |
Hi How can I change that too dark icons in libreoffice? http://p-bg.de/pics/libreoffice.png (is there no [img] tags available?) EDIT: using latest kde desktop | Solved by changing icon set in libreoffice-->Options-->View-->icon style. |
I have just replaced my computer monitor. It is very similar to the previous one, but the same configuration file does not work. I can use nvidia-settings to get the desired resolution, but logging out and logging back in gives the low resolution. This happens even if I ask nvidia-settings to update the xorg.conf file ... | Fred Krogh, Trim your xorg.conf to just Code: Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce GTX 970" EndSection and let the autoblackmagic do its thing. You will get a right handed mouse and USA keyboard. The nVidia driver will not use your modelines unless you... |
This is ~amd64 but since it's in portage I figure it should at least build. I built with MAKEOPTS="-j1" to isolate the error. At the final link: Code: Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: dbus make[3]: *** [Makefile:49: sub-src-lthemeengine-qtplugin-make_first] Error 3 make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/x1... | It would mean the ebuild of 1.4.0 is missing dependency on dev-qt/qtdbus:5. |
Does anybody have any idea about what's going on here: Code: leif@balapapa ~ $ akonadictl restart Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) leif@balapapa ~ $ org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Starting up the Akonadi Server... akonadi.collectionattributetable OK akon... | But kmail/akonadi works very well with postgresql backend Since your solution is really only a workaround, here is the bug with a fix to make it work after 10.4 upgrade: https://bugs.gentoo.org/688746 |
All of a sudden I can't login to my desktop. Code: pam_unix(sddm:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost= tty login works. ssh login works too. I'm using xfce with sddm and openrc I think it must be something in /etc/pam.d/ But there were no new config updates. Code: # etc-update Scanning... | What version are you running? You might try downgrading sddm to 0.15.0. I run three Gentoo ~amd64 systems, and no version higher than 0.15.0 has ever worked for over a year. It is masked, but they keep it available just for this reason- some Gentoo systems can't seem to use anything else, and for me at least the reason... |
I've been running Mate-1.12 mostly out of local overlay. I missed the latest drops and there is only 1.22 left in the tree. I tried to construct overlay ebuilds for the missing parts, but although creating ebuilds from the copies installed in /var is easy. I can't find the neeeded patches. Okay, you say, why not update... | Tony0945, You have to lightly toast the gvfs ebuild. I have mate-1.22.1 on my static /dev system, so udev, udisks ... is out of the question. I presently have gnome-base/gvfs-1.38.1 installed. The gnome-base/gvfs-1.38.1.ebuild is there. I have added the USE=olde-gentoo use flag to preserve normal behaviour for those th... |
EDIT: i enabled module signing in my kernel. when i installed the nvidia driver i put the commands to sign the modules from the wiki page into a shell script. unfortunately, i didn't think to add nvidia-drm in there. ugh. marked solved. hello all. i'm getting a black screen with no backlight when running startx. i have... | GPU switching on Linux is not as automatic as on Windows. The nVidia GPU is not connected directly to the screen, so if you configure it like that, it won't work. Have you taken a look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVIDIA/Optimus ? |
There's some annoying flickering issue with SDDM (and Plasma) where moving the cursor (over the password entry box in the default theme) causes the screen to start flickering. In plasma, it's less of a problem. It can be used normally with no issues until I try to lock\unlock the screen. Hovering over items causes the ... | Switch from xf86-video-intel to modesetting driver. |
Since some update openrc to 0.30 or sddm to 0.15, I got following Code: ~ $ sudo rc-service xdm stop xdm | * Stopping sddm ... xdm | * start-stop-daemon: no matching processes found [ ok ] ~ $ sudo rc-service xdm restart xdm | * Setting up sddm ... xdm | * start-stop-daemon: /usr/bin/sddm is already running xdm | * ERR... | Perfect Gentleman wrote: sddm is running -> Code: ~ $ sudo cat /run/sddm.pid 3041 cat /etc/init.d/xdm -> Code: sddm) EXE="/usr/bin/sddm" START_STOP_ARGS="-m --background" PIDFILE=/run/sddm.pid ;; that doesn't show the process is running, just the pid file is present. This comes back to what ct85711 stated... maybe the ... |
Hi, folks! I'm running KDE and currently trying to use it in multi-head configuration on my laptop with Intel integrated video card. But I'm entirely missing any screen configuration options related to multi-head thing in System Settings. Since I don't need all that stuff. that comes with KDE, I've installed only kde-p... | cz0 wrote: Since I don't need all that stuff. that comes with KDE Apparently you do need that stuff. Hint: plasma-meta installs stuff that comes with KDE Plasma, not all software that is produced by KDE. |
Hello. I just noticed recently, that Kate is unable to use the installed aspell-en dictionaries for spell checking. Previously, there was no problem with this, but since I updated kde-frameworks (to 5.57 from 5.54), I cannot set an English dictionary from within kate for spellcheking (Tools -> Spelling -> Change Dictio... | Which USE flags is kde-frameworks/sonnet built with? |
Hello. Please help me understand the situation. Was openoffice decided to remove it and put libreoffice. Added to /etc/portage/package.keywords Code: app-office/libreoffice-bin app-text/hunspell After I run the libreoffice installation My system Linux 4.9.182-gentoo x86_64 Incomprehensible mistake for me. Code: serv0 ~... | Moving from OpenOffice to LibreOffice is a good idea. Please do what the messages told you: Code: * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=app-text/hunspell-1.6.2-r1::gentoo'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=app-text/hunspell-1.6.2-r1::gentoo'`. * The complete build log is l... |
I have 2 systems recently installed from scratch about some months ago, and both got kmail installed some weeks ago, which causes crashes at different situations. There seem to be 2 issues which are already known and which (1) cause akonadi to crash on first startup and (2) kmail to crash when an email is opened on a s... | tomtom69 wrote: Q1: I have seen kmail-18.12.1 in portage. How can I contribute to testing this new version? kde overlay provides unmask files for that purpose. You don't have to actually add the overlay for that, you can download them manually (use the .keywords files): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git/tree/Docum... |
Hello, I was tinkering around with the kernel so that I can use the HDMI port on my laptop. Before installing the new kernel I backed up everything under Code: /boot/ then installed the new kernel. As you would imagine, the new kernel failed to boot properly so I used my backup to revert the kernel and boot loader to t... | shinjitumala wrote: However, now Code: startx refuses to work and gives an error. Since you're using startx manually, don't forget to verify permissions for /usr/bin/Xorg. |
I'm running Gentoo with gnome3 and systemd on a tower. If I use gnome-terminal (3.30.3) I get the following error with 'less' and 'man' Code: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional - If I use xterm on the system all is fine. - If I ssh from a Debian 9.9 machine using gnome I get the SAME WARNING. - If I ssh from my ... | I think TERM=linux is not correct for the graphical terminal emulators, though it is close enough that it mostly works. I use TERM=xterm-256color in x11-terms/xterm with =sys-libs/ncurses-6.1-r2 and man ls works fine for me. |
Using Firefox Quantum 60.7 ESR on Win7 and know how to backup my profiles and such from Windows so that's not an issue. Main question is how do I import a working Firefox profile and session from Win7 to Linux? This means Cookies, bookmarks, previsous session and all the related stuff that Firefox places in the appdata... | Can help this ? |
When I start a newly-built Cinnamon desktop, all that appears is an undecorated dialog showing: Code: Cinnamon just crashed. You are currently running in fallback mode. Do you want to restart Cinnamon? As per this , I rebuilt spidermonkey and cjs; no change. What next? | I don't know cinnamon, but you can post ~/.xsession-errors and ~/.cinnamon/glass.log files (I read that the logs are contained in these files) with wgetpaste ? |
Hello, I tried the sessions called "Plasma". I guess it is KDE + something called Plasma. One of them seems to be Plasma on Wayland, according to environment variables. So I guess the other one is Plasma on X. This is completely broken, everything is black but some text and rectangles exist, all images are disabled (ex... | I have two system with plasma on X and works perfectly |
I have an "optimus" laptop (haswell iGP and nvidia 740M GPU) running Gentoo with kernel 4.19.37 and nvidia driver 430.14 where X server works through PRIME (XrandR offloading as per http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/418.74/README/randr14.html ) Until recently everything was just fine, but after some re... | Hello alnash. Did you also update your kernel? Then you need to make sure to rebuild the modules Also this could help: Code: emerge @module-rebuild --ask emerge @preserved-rebuild--ask emerge @x11-module-rebuild --ask Perhaps an overkill but if it works... |
Hi! QGIS can't load python plugins. The message is: Couldn't load plugin 'processing' RuntimeError: Unsafe load() call disabled by Gentoo. See bug #659348 Code: Couldn't load plugin 'processing' RuntimeError: Unsafe load() call disabled by Gentoo. See bug #659348 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/pyth... | Hi xronos, According to the information listed on bug 659348 , this should be resolved now in pyyaml-5.1, which has been recently stabilized. If you --sync again and update pyyaml, your issue should be gone. A @world update would probably be advised, like this: Code: emerge --sync emerge -uv @world - John |
Hi, the first error I get is Code: In file included from ./cogl-flags.h:37, from ./cogl-debug.h:35, from ./cogl-object-private.h:39, from ./winsys/cogl-texture-pixmap-x11-private.h:44, from ./winsys/cogl-winsys-private.h:39, from cogl-context-private.h:35, from cogl-pipeline-layer-state.c:38: cogl-pipeline-layer-state.... | Ooops...there it goes: Code: root@dell ~ $emerge --info Portage 2.3.62 (python 3.6.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/gnome/systemd, gcc-8.3.0, glibc-2.29-r2, 4.19.44-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.19.44-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Du... |
I feel tempted to put this in "Installing Gentoo," since it represents a "getting it working the first time" problem, but the problems seem much worse in the Desktop Environment. I recently installed Gentoo on an HP ts_11-e004au - not a fast machine to begin with, but when in the graphical interface (xfce), the machine... | curmudgeon, Overheating, leading to CPU throttling? What CPU governer are you using, Powersave is probably a bad choice. Are you having lots of IO errors, dmesg will tell? |
Hi all! After recent update all my partitions and places disappeared from Dolphin's left panel. Only two items left: Home and Root. It occurred after recent update (there was a number of kde-frameworks/* packages updated). Attached usb sticks also missing. Device notifier doesn't show any attached devices, though dmesg... | Seems another one use flag became mandatory. This time it's a "udev" flag for kde-frameworks/solid Rebuilding this package with udev flag fixed an issue. |
Hi, i have an issue and i don`t know the solution: Quote: /usr/lib64/libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37: undefined reference to `__divmodti4@GCC_7.0.0 ' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python3.5/distutils/unixccompiler.py", line 200, in link self.spawn(linker + ld_arg... | Shared libraries can be successfully linked without resolving all used symbols, and some are even designed to require that capability. The undefined reference is only fatal when it is loaded and the symbol still cannot be resolved. |
Hi, I'm installing a new machine and cannot get XDM with Slim to start. I found out that emerging "xinit" installs the script "/etc/X11/startDM.sh.1" and XDM does not like that. I'm pretty lost at the moment | You followed the relative guide https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SLiM#Boot_service ? |
Hi, I can't get X to start on a new install. uname -a Linux svt 4.19.23-gentoo #4 SMP Tue Mar 5 08:46:00 EST 2019 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Running Xorg :0 -configure gives this output: https://pastebin.com/FSvwsDXd dmesg output: https://pastebin.com/DWZxz8HL However, if I ru... | Progman3K, That's Xorg working then. How do you intend to start gdm? There are two ways. Edit your ~/.xinitrc, so startx brings up gdm. Configure xdm to start gdm and add xdm to the default runlevel. The former is per user, the latter is system wide. |
Hi, LXDE desktop preferences doesn't allow to show Documents on the desktop. I'd like to restore the feature. Since $USER/Documentx exists, it's assumed there might be a missing package or USE flag, if not mistaken. Any idea? Thks 4 ur attention. | Code: USE=gtk emerge xdg-user-dirs did the trick. gtk USE flag seems required. Code: emerge xdg-user-dirs-gtk likely to be equivalent, leaner as gtk USE flag isn't required. Thks 4 ur attention. |
My goal is to have similar to Arch behavior in tty session prior of startx, where it renders the native resolution on the biggest monitor, and my second monitor stays in the sleep state, until I login with startx. I want to do that using the proprietary nvidia driver. I have two screens (connected through) 2560x1440(DV... | etnull, There is no nvidia console driver. The kernel configuration you refer to is to ensure that the kernel will support the nvidia kernel module. nVidia says that horrible things happen when you use anything other that a text console. It is in part true. You must choose a framebuffer driver that makes no attempt to ... |
I am setting up a novel gentoo install using DWM as window manager. I managed to properly configure everything I wanted in DWM itself, but regarding ST (the suckless.org simple terminal) I just dont know how to set up some of the patches, namely those which refears to changes in the file "config.mk". Here is an example... | .mk is a traditional suffix for files in Makefile syntax. Based on the name, I suspect that the Makefile includes config.mk to define various user-configurable settings. It is most likely distributed with the package's Makefile, or possibly generated based on a configure script. Where did you get this patch? Why do you... |
hi So after 3rd attempt eventually the emerge -e world step finished (42 hours...) However KDE fails to start properly.... all I get is a black screen and a cursor I can move around. No idea where to start with fixing this, as everything was working fine before the whole "migrate to 17" step. Solutions desperately rece... | I have read your messages but had no answer until the hint from PrSo removing the files of ~/.cache gave me my desktop back. But now all applications from the start menu were gone. kbuildsycoca5 did not help but finally after (re)moving the plasma* files from ~/.config I had everything back. |
I did (1) 'emerge -av libreoffice' and yes. after failure, (2) 'emerge-webrsync' && 'emerge -avutDN --with-bdeps=y @world' and then, 'emerge -av libreoffice' after failure, (3) 'emerge --sync' and 'emerge -avutDN --with-bdeps=y @world', 'emerge -av libreoffice' all resulted in the same fail output. Below is link for /v... | Just emerge --sync after you get back home, should be enough to get -r1. |
Hi, I am using i3-gaps with 5.0.9 and when first loading the system if i launch a browser or spotify i get no sound, it's only after i launch pavucontrol and then launch a browser or spotify do i get audio. Therefore as i understand pulseaudio is not getting launched with i3, is there a way to spawn pulseaudio when lau... | I'm not sure but try to add start-pulseaudio-x11 in your .xinitrc man start-pulseaudio-x11: NAME start-pulseaudio-x11 - PulseAudio Sound Server X11 Startup Script SYNOPSIS start-pulseaudio-x11 [pulseaudio options] DESCRIPTION This script starts pulseaudio (if not already running) and loads modules to publish access cre... |
My kernel 5.0.0 boots KDE normally. To compile kernel 5.0.1 I copied the . config from 5.0.0 and then ran make oldconfig . This added nothing so the two .config s are the same. However, booting from 5.0.1 crashes with a KCrash window identifiying ksplashqml as the culprit. Any debugging hints will be gratefully receive... | On the KDE Wiki page it states that only one of elogind and consolekit is allowed and that consolekit is "preferred" since it's the default for the desktop/plasma profile (which I have). But Code: $ equery depends elogind * These packages depend on elogind: media-sound/pulseaudio-12.2-r1 (elogind ? sys-auth/elogind) ne... |
[Moderator edit: Changed title to try to attract relevant answers. Original title was Problem with Firefox . -Hu] Hello, yesterday, i have launching firerox to search something, and when firefox is opened, firefox ask me my extensions are disabled. I have gone to my extensions menu, and i look all of my extensions are ... | Thanks bunder. :) Somehow I need to remeber to set that back to 'true' when the fix has been brought to my Firefox... |
Rotating my other screen with xrandr doesn't seem to work. Code: elmo@Host-T ~ $ xrandr --output DVI-1 --rotate left xrandr: output DVI-1 cannot use rotation "left" reflection "none" Code: elmo@Host-T ~ $ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384 DisplayPort-0 disconnected primary H... | Problem was my own fault. Misunderstanding when reading the radeon wiki. Making this change in make.conf fixed the issue. Code: -VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" +VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonsi" |
It is a fresh Gentoo install, and I decided to try GNOME in this old machine(Acer Aspire One D255E). I decided to install gnome-light, and at some point, I got an out of memory error-like during the emerging of some gtk library. Anyway, I set -j1 in /etc/portage/make.conf and everything were fine. I set -j2 again. Now ... | How did you enable the second swap volume? |
Greetings all. New clean install with systemd and a stable 17.0 profile running Mate. I installed plank-0.11.4 from the rinaldus overlay, and all seems to be good except that when I start plank I get the following: [Environment:161] XDG_SESSION_CLASS not set in this environment! [ERROR 15:39:25.458204] [Utils:42] GSett... | I figured it out. I re-emerged dbus with USE="user-session". I still get the error, but it works now. |
I have a gentoo guest running inside KVM/qemu/virt-manager under a gentoo host. Everything works beautifully except copy-and-paste which only occasionally works. Even within the VM (not cross host<->guest) the copy-and-paste doesn't work. It seems to work the first time, but afterwards when I try to paste it doesn't wo... | I can confirm that this also messes with copy-and-paste on the host system as well. I'm having problems selecting words/sections on the host. If I shut down the VM the problem goes away. |
Hi, since some recent updates I notice an issue that happens occasionally. Moving windows on Xfce is not possible. Using Alt+mouse I can move a window some pixel then it stops. Same issue when using window context menu -> Move. Code: Mon Mar 20 11:43:25 2017 <<< x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-7.8.0 Mon Mar 20 11:43:30 2017... | Try to downgrade, one at a time, the packages xf86-video-ati and xfwm4 to even begin to understand if problem is one of these two package. |
Hi all, I cannot connect to my VPN using plasma-nm. If I try to connect to the VPN, plasma-nm opens a dialog and asks for username and password. After pressing the login button I get the notification: "Necessary secrets for the VPN connection were not provided.". The connection works if I use openconnect from the comma... | Definitely issues with Plasma 5 and NetworkManager openconnect VPN right now. I've had three systems encounter this same problem when upgrading to Plasma 5. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure it's a KDE issue and not a Gentoo issue. I just filed a bug for it on bugs.kde.org if you're interested in chiming in. https://bugs.... |
Hi all, This morning nautilus was updated to gnome-base/nautilus-3.28.1, but now it won't open. Has anyone else ran in to this problem? Tried making a new user account, that didn't work. Restarted my machine, that didn't work either. When I run it from the terminal, here is the output: Code: $ nautilus (nautilus:9747):... | Did you recently upgrade from tracker-1 to tracker-2 and haven't rebuilt everything from the ABI change? Searches of this type of error suggest symbol clashes between them, e.g. nautilus using tracker-2, but something also grilo/grilo-plugins in the same process with that still using tracker-1, and then it goes wonky; ... |
I have an old machine I like to keep as a spare, which has an old ATI Rage 128 video card. I'm trying to get it going after letting it sit off too long and since I have done my fresh install, X works great, but my biggest problem is that I am stuck at a 640*480 resolution. Both in my TTYs and X. X runs fine without con... | superdeez, Code: X -configure has been broken for many years. Its been replaced almost entirely by automatic detection of hardware. AMDGPU isn't for ATI Rage 128 cards. Move your xorg.conf file out of the way, so the automaics do there thing, then try startx. Put the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file on to a pastebin ... try wg... |
I'm having an issue with X after re-working my system. X will work for root, but the display is garbled. I can see that twm is working behind it and it responds to keyboard and mouse inputs. If I run it as my user, it shows this garbled screen briefly and then immediately exits of its own accord. It doesn't crash out, ... | superdeez, nouveau and nvidia-drivers require different and conflicting kernel configurations. Sometimes this can be worked around with a blacklist, so you can build both, sometimes not. It appears to vary with versions of nvidia-drivers. All of the hardware framebuffer drivers on the Framebuffer menu are for hardware ... |
Hi folks! I have a system with lspci Code: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] (rev a1) 07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] (rev a1) cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia.conf Code: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen... | Messire, Jaglover is too kind with his comments on Xorg -configure and nvidia-settings. Start off by writing an xorg.conf by hand for a single display. When it works, add another display ... and so on until you have all four. If you write the xory.conf by hand, you will understand how it works too. Be sure to leave cop... |
Hi, im thinking im doing something wrong i installed this http://loh-tar.github.io/tbsm/ with this ebuild https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1096068.html The program work i can launch bspwm but it seems sxhkd doesnt work because i cant lauch dmenu or urxvt if i use cdm or just startx the system work as it should. an... | adcdam wrote: why i dont know but it work at least. sxhkd is a shortcut daemon which is often used with bspwm, it is a separate program unlike i3 or other wms where shortcuts are part of the window manager. obviously you need to start sxhkd after boot to be able to use shortcuts. You can mark your post as [SOLVED] |
Hey guys, After a recent update, about a week ago, I can not run nvidia any more (primusrun, optirun, nvidia-xrun). Here's what I tried so far: - recompiling the kernel and recompiling nvidia-driver - getting latest linux-firmware, recompiling the kernel and the nvidia-drivers - reinstalling xorg, following gentoo guid... | Try emerging nvidia drivers with USE="-compat" https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1050786/linux/nvidia-drivers-430-09-causes-xorg-segfault-at-start-/ |
Hello everyone! This is my first post here as I am a noob at gentoo, so pls don't be too harsh. I have installed gentoo on VirtualBox VM. Now I tried to install Xorg/X11 server and would later install the Fluxbox to have a gui. I was following this tutorial: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide I did not configure/r... | In your log there is no error, but on possible cause is an out of memory error (you have only 1Gb ram). You should add more RAM on virtual machine and you can also set a lower MAKEOPTS |
[Moderator note: updated title to reflect the true solution; original title was Non root Xorg - cron problem . -Hu] I followed this guide : https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Non_root_Xorg all is well except that every 10 minutes I get email : Code: Subject: cron for user root root /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1 /bin/sh: root: comman... | kajzer wrote: ISubject: cron for user root root /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1 That's a sysstat cronjob, nothing to do with Xorg that I can fathom. kajzer wrote: /bin/sh: root: command not found And it appears to have a spurious "root" at the start of the command line. Grep for it in /etc and fix it. |
Once logged into a wayland session, SWAY here for the matter, VT switch will cause: A unusable SDDM greeter when switching back (e.g. Ctrl+7) , and as a consequence Loss of access to the opened SWAY/wayland session. kill -9 at sway does unlock the situation by raising a usable SSDM greeter, with loss of previous sessio... | Sway should be on TTY8 Cf. https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/3900 |
I have been migrating mu setup from one drive to another. During this process, at some point my login manager, SDDM started not starting by itself apparently. I had the impression that I needed to start loging in to a console first or shifting between virtual console and startup screen (Ctrl-Alt-2, Ctrl-Alt-1). But tha... | https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1091998.html |
Code: $ qgit No protocol specified qt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display :0 Could not connect to any X display. This started happening recently, I have no idea why and I have no idea what to do. I re-emerged, deleted the configuration, and looked in the logs, all without success or leads. | You can connect simple X applications to that X server? xmessage OK displays a pop-up? |
Hi, So I’ve got a working gentoo system really happy so far, I’ve moved from arch and I’m using i3, as I’m on open RC and not systemd when installing i3status-rust I get a failure with missing dependency ‘lib pulse.so’ Now as I understand this is because I don’t have pulse audio installed, and the reason for that is pu... | braz2kuk wrote: Now as I understand this is because I don’t have pulse audio installed, and the reason for that is pulseaudio requires systemd. pulseaudio don't need systemd EDIT: pulseaudio seems optional for i3status-rust you can exclude with cargo build --release --no-default-features (I can be wrong. I don't know m... |
Video Card: GTX 950 My version of nvidia-drivers: 415.18 My X desktop operates normally outside of this problem. This problem can happen a wide time-frame (minutes to several hours), but when it happens the desktop freezes in place and I'm locked out of doing anything about it without ssh'ing in. The fact that I can us... | As for "how bad is this": best case, the nVidia driver has a bug that corrupts process page tables (but only those, no other forms of kernel memory are in danger of corruption). Worst case, depending on perspective: the nVidia driver has a bug that corrupts arbitrary memory and, left alone, may corrupt something that s... |
Here's Code: ~ $ equery h gles2 * Searching for USE flag gles2 ... ... [IP-] [ ] x11-libs/cairo-1.16.0-r2:0 whereas Code: ~ $ euse x11-libs/cairo [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for x11-libs/cairo-1.16.0-r2: U I... | I think that equery uses don't show masked use flag |
Using stable dmenu-4.8 amd64 with sway, when activated it seems to hide the beginning possible choices beyond the left the display. I can ask for the command I want, and execute it with return, but won't get it display (? in reverse video) in the selection zone of dmenu. Any idea how to fix? Thks 4 ur attention. | I remember reading somewhere that dmenu doesn't work with wayland, so you have to use something like bemenu instead. ^ From my memory |
Hi, I have i3 installed and I’m currently going through and configuring it to my liking, one thing I can’t get my head around is how to start a program on launch however start it minimised to the tray. The reason I need this is I have ckb-installed which when launched sets your settings for your keyboard and mouse once... | I haven't perceived a minimize option. Maybe that's partly why the scratchpad exists? I haven't yet tried it, so can't say how well it works. Quote: As the name indicates, this is useful for having a window with your favorite editor always at hand. However, you can also use this for other permanently running applicatio... |
Hi, I am running i3 and have a 3 monitor setup, i have made a script file that contains the xrandr executable and parameters that work for my setup, if i execute the xrandr command in a terminal it works so i know the command is not at fault, however if i try and run it at i3 startup it does not work. The script file i... | That solution suggests that $PATH is not set correctly when called from the window manager. |
I use SLiM as display manager and Xfce as Desktop Environment. I love both. What I hate, though, is the appearance of xscreensaver: font and layout are both really basic and they do not merge with the rest of my system. Is there any way to use SLiM also when the screen is locked? It would be extremely nice. I tried ins... | I don't know slim very well, but try to look this section in archwiki |
Hi, I just finished fresh install on Dell XPS 13 (I note this as it is really better to use distcc and binary host), those 2 cores doesn't perform well, enough for desktop, but not for compilation... My problem is with KDE plasma settings, I have following versions installed: Code: [U] kde-plasma/systemsettings Availab... | Did you follow the gentoo kde wiki and install plasma-meta? Probably not? |
Hi. I just upgraded to KDE 18.12 in the stable branch, and the first thing I noticed is that the Information panel Dolphin had on the right side is now missing. There is no menu entry to turn it back on either. Here's a random image from the web just to show you what I'm talking about. The panel on the right side with ... | The Information panel in >=18.12 is only available with USE=semantic-desktop enabled. Previous versions had a (broken) fallback based on kdelibs4support that depended on unavailable nepomuk. Commit that ported away from kdelibs4support: https://cgit.kde.org/dolphin.git/commit/?id=6674c9c387d0986e99698332727bf797257bf07... |
I use GnuCash with a mysql database. I have used it for years. Since yesterday I cant safte to the database anaymore. The error is 'Niet in staat om databank op te slaan' In English 'unable to safe tot database'. I have no idea why this error occurs. I checked wether or not my mariadb is running and it is: Code: elmar@... | When I look at '/tmp/gnucash.trace' I see this: Code: lmar@errornix /tmp $ tail -f gnucash.trace * 12:53:18 CRIT <gnc.engine> [xaccSplitSetReconcile()] Bad reconciled flag * 12:53:18 CRIT <gnc.engine> [xaccSplitSetReconcile()] Bad reconciled flag * 12:53:55 CRIT <gnc.backend.dbi> [error_handler()] DBI error: 1292: Inco... |
I tried without success to emerge gnome without systemd after reading the latest news on Gnome 3 for OpenRC. I get the requirement of the systemd USE flag for dbus. I did emerge --sync. I have gnome and -systemd in my make.conf If I try the USE flag in package.use I get there is no ebuild to satisfy elogind and systemd... | You are in a stable or unstable system? What is the problem? I think that install gnome openrc in a stable system is a little more complicated than in a unstable system |
Hi folks! Recently I realized, that claws-mail tray icon has disappeared. notification use flag is on, the tray icon is even enabled in the settings, but it is not present in tray, not even in the element list. All the rest tray icons: keepassxc, audacious, telegram, qbittorrent are present. Any ideas how to fix that? | It seems that all gtk based applications are affect. Pidgin icon is absent too. |
Hey guys, I can't seem to get startx to use .xinitrc instead of the standard file in /etc/X11 which automatically will open up twm and xterm. I'm trying to run i3-gaps by the way. Could somebody post their working .xinitrc so I could see how it is formatted? Much appreciated, lads. | Strange a .xinitrc file in your home directory should be work, see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/I3#Starting_i3 |
Hi everyone!, I have installed Gentoo (gnome/systemd) for the first time loosely following the Handbook and Sakaki's guide and I am almost over, everything seems to be working but the last step, starting gdm. Starting it with startx from a user account seems to work fine but whenever I try to run it with systemctl star... | For anynone who might have the same issue I solved it by switching to intel drivers. |
After about three weeks absence I updated my laptop and now it will not let me input anything in my login manager (lxdm), neither mouse nor keyboard are working. Sometimes even getting to the login manager fails and I end up on the console, which is great compared to being locked-out completely. During update GCC was u... | Thanks, yes, that is my problem, I found it in the bugtracker just now and wanted to add it to the thread. |
Hi there, I'm hitting the following error for dev-util/geany-plugins-1.34 Code: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: .libs/git_changebar_la-gcb-plugin.o: in function `clear_cached_blob_contents': gcb-plugin.c:(.text+0x76): undefined reference to `git_buf_free' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_... | To answer my own question, downgrading dev-libs/libgit2 to version 0.27.8 (i.e. masking 0.28 ) solves this problem. |
Hi, since I upgraded everything to unstable, I have this problem: Code: $ xfce4-panel Error setting device Error setting channel using 4.12 using 4.12 (wrapper-2.0:3499): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:32:19.786: Negative content width -3 (allocation 1, extents 2x2) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkButton) (wrapper-2... | SOLVED: (The problem also affected transmission-gtk) Analyzing the backtrace of gdb, I found out cairo-9999 was the problem. Downgrading to stable version (1.16.0-r2) fixes the problem. I will git bisect and then report the bug to mainstream. |
Hello all, Is it possible to start a x-desktop program from a tty prompt on raspberry Pi 64 On Debian I could do: Code: DISPLAY=:0 ./MediaPlayer &! in a Putty SSH session to start my application on the graphic desktop If I try this on Gentoo I get a message Code: qt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not connect to disp... | One thing that can confuse the situation is that if a variable is already exported, you can assign a new value to it and the exported flag will not change: Code: bash-4.4$ env | grep DISPLAY DISPLAY=:0 bash-4.4$ DISPLAY=x bash-4.4$ env | grep DISPLAY DISPLAY=x bash-4.4$ unset DISPLAY bash-4.4$ env | grep DISPLAY bash-4... |
Ever since the update to evince-3.24.2-r1 (apparently due to a GLSA: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1080014-highlight-evince.html ) I have been unable to use it on my KDE (Plasma 5) desktop because it lacks any and all window re-sizers on its borders, because it basically lacks window borders altogether. Has any... | Posting to my own dead thread, I know, but I solved this some time back. The solution was to delete all gtk* stuff in the home/.config directory and restart KDE. Old cruft apparently. |
Upgrading the system required the reinstallation of kde-apps / kitinerary-18.08.3 which resulted in the following error: Code: #emerge --info '=kde-apps/kitinerary-18.08.3::gentoo' Portage 2.3.51 (python 3.6.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-7.3.0, glibc-2.27-r6, 4.14.83-gentoo x86_64) ===========... | What error? |
Hey, cinnamon always starts in software rendering mode with slow graphics. Code: # inxi -Fz System: Host: matrix Kernel: 4.19.15-gentoo x86_64 bits: 64 Console: tty 1 Distro: Gentoo Base System release 2.6 Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: ASRock model: Z370 Pro4 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: P3.30 date: 1... | Quote: Any ideas how to solve this? Code: (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory Yes, fix your kernel. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8306922-highlight-.html#8306922 |
I recently observed tons of baloo_file_extr segfaulting in dmesg. Is this a known bug? Or should I file a bug @bugs.gentoo.org? Is there a known way to fix? Although, I am not unhappy, if this thing does not generate loads of I/O on my disk all the time Code: [ 8896.693093] Code: 05 a5 72 20 00 8b 4e 04 48 89 07 85 c9 ... | Fitzcarraldo thanks, as your tips removed the segfaulting. Strange enough, it also re-enabled my printer being visible within cups. I was already considering it dead, as it would not print within a KVM VM either. After disabling, and enabling balooctl followed by the deletion of mentioned files in linked bugreport, I r... |
Hey, I'm just doing a fresh gentoo installation, but now lightdm is not starting, instead it shows a black screen with a blinking cursor. Code: # cat /etc/conf.d/xdm DISPLAYMANAGER="lightdm" #rc-update show | grep xdm xdm | default #rc-update show | grep dbus dbus | default Any ideas what might be the problem? Thanks a... | There is some log file? |
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