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While scrolling through about:config for something else I came across this unpleasant surprise: Code: toolkit.telemetry.enabled | locked | boolean | true And sure enough, the UI checkbox to turn this stuff off is greyed out. What's going on? | That's silly, but I'll assume they're being honest. The rest of The Internet is pretty good at calling them out when they do underhanded things with privacy. |
Hi all! First off, apologies if this isn't the right forum to ask, or if I've misdiagnosed the problem I'm having. That said... A while back, I noticed that my computer changed its behavior when I try to mount a partition through Mate. In the past, when I've clicked on any of my partitions listed in the "Places" menu, ... | Right. I figured it out on my own: I needed to install mate-polkit. After installing it, changing the "yes" options back to "auth_admin", and rebooting my computer, I'm now properly asked for my password when I try to mount an internal drive. Problem solved! |
The menu items do exist in the system menu, however not working. When click to shutdown or restart system, it would just logoff and bring me a SDDM login screen. Environments: Plasma 5.13.3 SDDM 0.18.0 elogind 238.1 dbus 1.12.8 upower 0.99.7 cannot find any clue from the log.. It happened after a system update, and I'v... | djhyland wrote: This sounds like it could be an "improvement" of a Polkit policy that your update brought in. The same thing happened to me along the way with Mate, and I fixed it as follows: Check to see if you have a /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.consolekit.policy file. If you do, open it and you'll see... |
Here emacs GUI warns @launch: Code: Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct Any idea how to fix? Thks 4 ur attention. | Oops, my bad... 'xft' USE flag did the trick. Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support. |
Hello, I've been using Xfce4 for some time, with the Caja (from Mate desktop environment) file manager. Currently I'm playing with dwm, on the same computer. This means a very light window manager, and no desktop environment. Caja works properly, but it does not display any icon. Just the file names and a bland, generi... | if i had to wager a guess, you might be using a gtk theme that works in xfce but not mate... does it work if you use "traditionalok"? |
Hello, I have a gentoo virtualbox guest (Windows 10 host). Mostly stable, but virtualbox-guest-additions-5.2.16. Xorg video driver is xf86-video-vboxvideo. The setup used to work fine, but rendering has always been done by modesetting_drv. Vboxvideo_drv could never load correctly, so xorg fell back to modesetting. I al... | Apheus, I had something like this. Its because Xorg does not implement real dynamic linking and requires that its modules get loaded in the right order. See Xorg fail to start intel_drv.so: undefined symbol: v[SOLVED] The module list there may or may not work for you but its a starting point. |
I have been using i3 for quite a long time but also I've been using most of the xfce stuff. Lately I fully switched to xfce4. The problem I'm having is when I change the workspace it changes on all displays. This wasn't the case with i3 (on default configs at least. Does xfwm4 have this capability? Yes. I could tweak t... | With xfwm isn't possible -> https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13634 . https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=9319 https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=11719 |
I got this message from my last emerge world : Code: !!! The following installed packages are masked: - dev-qt/qtcore-4.8.7-r4::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> (26 Jun 2018) # Mask Qt4 for removal. Bug #631788 - dev-qt/qt3support-4.8.7::gen... | Why do you try to solve a block before there actually is a block? It is completely nonsensical to remove Qt5. Just clean Qt4 from your systems. |
I ran into this today and I am not really certain if it was a bad compile on my system or what, but I don't even know to what package this belongs and therefore what to rebuild or downgrade. I tried to mask the kde-plasma packages that were upgraded today, but I they all seem to be interconnected and I get a dependency... | It is a known bug of LO[kde] which is why it is stable-masked. |
I've gotten sway to start after I've logged in but I couldn't get it to start in the .bash_profile the error message Code: sway socket not detected <date> - [ipc-client.c:37] Unable to connect to This still shows up but it successfully starts sway if I manually typed it from the bash tty prompt my bash_profile code sni... | something-something-horri wrote: Code: if [[ -z DISPLAY ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]]; then I hope this is a transcription error. You test a literal string DISPLAY for whether it is empty. You probably meant to test the expansion of the variable $DISPLAY . something-something-horri wrote: Code: export SWAYSOCK=$(ls /r... |
Hi again. I have recently installed a brand new KDE/Plasma machine — I'm a long time Xfce user, Plasma is all new to me. I've come across a few settings that require root privileges to change. In the GTK world there is gksu. I can only find kdesu here. Thing is root has no password on my machine — and I don't intend to... | Can help this ? |
when i try startx with xorg.conf file and opengl set to nvidia X not working -> says no screen found when i try startx without xorg.conf file and opengl set to nvidia -> black screen saying plasma is unable to start as it could not correctly use Opengl2... when i try startx with xorg.conf file and opengl set to xorg-x1... | try to blacklist nouveau Driver in : Code: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf Quote: blacklist nouveau good luck |
Once in a while I try again KDE Plasma 5, to see if this time it has become acceptable (last time I tried it would not keep a screen configuration between sessions!!). It's been out for 4 years today!! Problem du jour: Some fonts are displayed in a way that could not be read, like mere blocks instead of characters, esp... | Typically, when font shots up as strange characters or blocks, it is often one of 3 things. First, the language doesn't have the requested character code (i.e. UFT-8 wasn't set). Second, the system is trying to use a language that it isn't setup for (i.e. the system wants to use French, when only English is set). Third... |
The upgrade of vim/gvim/vim-core from 8.0.0386 to 8.0.1298, for something that appeared to be a minor upgrade, has been a source of endless headaches for me. First I ran into the complete breakage of syntax highlighting (mostly in large files), which I was able to work around as discussed here: https://forums.gentoo.or... | As I understand the Vim versioning convention, that is not as minor an upgrade as you might think. Vim-8.0.0386 is Vim-8.0 with 386 additional patches. Vim-8.0.1298 is Vim-8.0 with 1298 patches. Some of those patches are irrelevant to you (only applicable to non-Linux, or to the self tests, or to features that you migh... |
Hi, I have chromium installed and when I try to install "chromedriver-bin" I get a block Code: [blocks B ] www-client/chromium ("www-client/chromium" is blocking www-apps/chromedriver-bin-2.40) I checked chromium's USE flags to see if chromedriver can be compiled along with chromium (since chromedriver is supposed to b... | This because chromium already contains chromedriver |
Hello, Since a few months, all my KDE applications (k3b, kmymoney, etc.) have huge problems with non-ascii characters in filenames, and cannot open those files or directories. I'm pretty sure this is not a KDE bug but some mistake I did in my compilation environment. But I cannot find what or where. Any help or hint wo... | In my plasma system no problem with foreign characters in filename. What locale is set in your system? |
Hallo friends. As I said before, with your great help, I managed to emerge kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.13.3 onto my pc box. In short, I have - a Gigabyte Z147X a/c maiboard - an Intel core i7 7700t processor with 2.9 GHertz - 8 GByte DDR4 Ram with 2133 MHz - a 240 GByte Intel SSD with210 GBytes free From a root terminal t... | Hallo friends. I will report that this topic is solved. The long boot time until random: crng init done which were many seconds, I could prevent only, when I disabled systemd services like networkmanager . Only then, my pc box booted fast. So, I let this service disabled until I found a solution here: https://forum.man... |
On a new Gentoo system (Intel Core i9) I am having occasional lag/unresponsiveness in my desktop (OpenBox) when moving windows. Also sometimes music that I am playing stutters. This only seems to happen when the system is almost idle. (When all the cores are busy, say emerging a package, I can move windows around witho... | You should use pstates driver with this CPU. |
today I realized, that marking a word here locally with the mouse (either within a KDE kojsole or within Firefox) and trying to insert that piece of text into a KDE konsole window, where I ssh'ed before into a remote stable Debian ("stretch") and run vi won't work at all. When I quit vi, then I'm able to put that text ... | khayyam wrote: toralf ... I'm assuming that 'vi' is 'vim' ... debian doesn't enable +xterm_clipboard: Code: # ssh user@host "cat /etc/debian_version ; vim --version | grep xterm_clipboard" 9.4 +eval +mouse_dec +statusline -xterm_clipboard However in my case middle button works (urxvt), you might try ':set paste'. best ... |
hey, After updating to kernel version 4.14.52 my xfce4 starts with a black screen(no output). https://paste.pound-python.org/show/bR4nl8ix7W5rAFWvFElD/ | Have you checked the guide ? |
I just did a fresh install on a laptop and I see that the Applications menu doesn't work, except for logout/restart/shutdown. By doesn't work, I mean click on application, nothing happens. This is when I log in right after booting up. If I simply log out and then log back in, the menu works normally. What bugged out? | The issue is gone for me but I can't remember what fixed it. I probably did a complete reinstall and I don't have this problem any more. Both the installation where the menu issue occurred and the current installation are from stage 4's I compiled, so probably something went wrong in an earlier stage 4. |
On my ~amd64 system: Code: emerge -pvDu --with-bdeps=y --newuse @world I get a list of gst-plugins to update, starting with gst-plugins-base-1.14.1. This immediately fails with: Code: checking for libdrm/drm_fourcc.h... yes checking for glTexDirectVIV in -lGLESv2... no checking whether it is possible to include both GL... | You can't remove gles2 globally having regard to the fact that is opengl for embedded system? Otherwise post emerge output when you remove gles2 use flag? |
After a recent qt5 update I can't run qdbus any more: Code: cassiopeia% qdbus qdbus: could not find a Qt installation of '' What I found out so far: /usr/bin/qdbus is provided by qtchooser but the real qdbus binary seems to come from either /usr/lib64/qt[45]/bin/qdbus. I recently uninstalled all traces of qt4 and there... | dr.nil wrote: I recently uninstalled all traces of qt4 and there is no /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/qdbus. Code: $ equery b /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/qdbus * Searching for /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/qdbus ... dev-qt/qdbus-5.9.6 (/usr/lib64/qt5/bin/qdbus) qdbus:5 is installed in your system? |
Hey everyone, So I am going to install xorg to set up my desktop environment and had a few questions about configuring the kernel for KMS. I want to make sure I understand the xorg installation guide on the gentoo wiki before I make any changes that bricks my computer. From my understanding of guide, I need to disable ... | You're overthinking it. Start by putting the correct VIDEO_CARDS in your make.conf, along with a global X use flag, and emerging the window manager or desktop environment of your choice. The dependencies will get pulled in automatically. If you don't want to set the appropriate image use flags (gif, jpeg, png, etc.) th... |
Hi guys, I've recently done profile upgrade to 17.0 and done tree rebuild which along other packages also updated: media-libs/freetype-2.6.3-r1 to media-libs/freetype-2.9.1-r3 media-fonts/dejavu-2.35 to media-fonts/dejavu-2.37 This has made my DejaVu Mono look weird on terminal and elsewhere. Screenshots: Before After ... | JohnLM ... try setting 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf (or 'Xft.rgba: rgb' in ~/.Xresources). best ... khay |
Hi! My Mad Catz mouse has stopped working yesterday on my gentoo desktop (I've checked with another machine - it works fine there). Another usb mouse works perfectly fine. Here output from dmesg (disconnect/connect) both mouses: Code: [34253.812730] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 17 [34271.946349] usb 1-2: new ... | I've decided to add a second post, as the previous one becomes unreadable after several edits. So, the problem is, that my mouse is detected as a joystick Code: udevadm info /dev/input/event6 P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/0003:0738:1714.0004/input/input6/event6 N: input/event6 S: input/by-id/usb-... |
It is two years that I haven't had this annoying issue. Back then I had to add a line to .xinitrc to get X to load my keymap. The devil is back forcing me to Code: setxkbmap de -model pc105 on the console. Xorg.log tries to load it Code: [ 48.645] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Razer Razer Ornata Chroma" (t... | transsib, Reading Code: /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst the layout de_DE does not exist. Its just de. Is de_DE a special layout you installed and portage has removed as part of an update. |
hey, after updating my system "shutdown reboot" is greyed out again. my .xinitrc contains Code: ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session xfce4-session i start xfce4 with .bash_profile (no windowsmanager) Code: # This file is sourced by bash for login shells. The following line # runs your .bashrc a... | I'm not sure all of that is necessary. What happens if your .xinitrc says only Code: exec startxfce4 ? |
After my latest emerge -DNuv @world, minecraft stopped working. I haven't been able to find any changes to Xorg or intel. I've tried updating to the latest intel driver and libraries. I'm using the integrated intel chipset which is sandy bridge I think: intel® HD Graphics 4600 The error message implies that openGL is n... | Did you set any Java arguments? Could be cause because of invalid memory allocation. You stated that you have a Sandy Bridge Processor? Then it could be your Java version. Try using a Oracle Java Runtime Environment version below 8.0 Update 60, might be a security risk, but will likely resolve your issue. Because the O... |
Hello World, what I did: gcc-5 -> gcc-6 openrc -> systemd gnome-3.26::dantrell ->gnome-3.22 mate 1.18 -> 1.12 profile 13 -> 17 then Code: emaint sync --auto eix-sync eix-update layman -S emerge --verbose --ask --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y --complete-graph=y @world perl-cleaner --reallyall -- -av emerge -av -... | Having \| and `~ not work is indeed annoying... Is it only within a gnome-terminal? If so I'd make sure your gnome-terminal profiles (if that's what you're using) are up to date, perhaps clearing them if needed. Questions for debug: - Do the keys still work at all - do they print out funny escape sequences or not? - Wh... |
Hello everyone, i've run into some trouble while trying to install kde in gentoo emerge always gets stuck at: kde-frameworks/kwindowsystem here's the output of the emerge: Code: # emerge --ask --quiet kde-frameworks/plasma * IMPORTANT: 11 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating. [ebuild N ] kde-frameworks/kwindows... | If you need anymore logs i can post them |
Greetings, I'm currently running into strange freezes which are probably X-related. These freezes started to occur after a system update which included virtualbox and the kernel. Sometimes when logging in with slim to herbstluftwm I get stuck, however the mouse can still be moved around. This happens only around 1 out ... | I have to say I've seen this issue for long time now. I have Mint in VM, do not use it often, never cared much. However, you better open a bug with VirtualBox. Maybe it is Gentoo-related. Still, they should figure it out. |
I'm trying to update a box that was last done more than a year ago. I went through all the USE, Mask, and keyword files to clear them. to start pretty much from scratch. x11-base/xorg-proto fails and x11-proto/xproto is installed, but masked. There are many others, but is there a fix for this? TIA EDIT: I find updating... | What you mean with 'x11-base/xorg-proto fails'? |
I have installed xfce with lightDM. My problem is that i have a swiss keyboard, but the greeter of lightDM is set to "en_US.utf8" and there are no alternatives to choose from. Following advice on posts to similar questions i have added an I /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf : Code: Section "InputClass" Identifier "... | jody wrote: I have installed xfce with lightDM. My problem is that i have a swiss keyboard, but the greeter of lightDM is set to "en_US.utf8" and there are no alternatives to choose from. Following advice on posts to similar questions i have added an I /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf : Code: Section "InputClass" ... |
My kde panel, for some reason is refusing to autohide. I know the remedy when a similar situation occurs in windows (kill the "explorer" process and restart it). How can I do that in the plasma desktop (kill the panel and then restart it)? | As steve_v say but usually I redirect std error and output in /dev/null Code: killall plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell &> /dev/null |
Recent updates have broken twm. Apparently some adobe fonts are missing that used to be there, and twm refuses to start without them. How do I install the missing adobe fonts? They must be part of some package somewhere that got either updated or removed. Thanks! | Look at /var/log/emerge.log to find out which packages were removed. I guess that you need media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi and/or media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi. |
Hi, after some updates, my old "Formosa21 USB IR Receiver", which xinput -list has been listing as a keyboard, is now being listed as a pointer: Code: ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ MLK Keyboard Mouse Set id=9 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Formosa2... | from what we see it should be in both lists (pointer and keyboard), but you only provide pointer list (which prove it is in pointer list, not that it is not in keyboard list too). Code: [ 506.205] (**) Formosa21 USB IR Receiver: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall" [ 506.205] (**) Formosa21 USB IR Receiver: Ap... |
My kmymoney setup migrated smoothly to 5.0.1-r2, thanks guys, except all printing seems to be a null operation. I wanted to send some reports to PDF, but that doesn't work, nor to a printer. I can get the same print dialog box from other KDE apps, and they print properly. I though I'd trace requesting the print, but fr... | @genterminl: webengine support is disabled because the upstream buildsystem was broken last time I checked. At the time it also required a non-stable version of Qt, and I did not have the time to fix it anyway. |
My system was working ok, then after a recent update it started freezing when logging in. Lightdm appears with a login screen, I type in the user password then the screen goes blank and there is no response, it is frozen and ignores ctrl-alt-del or ctrl-alt-F1 commands, so i'm forced to do a hard reboot. I recently fou... | Code: VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" You might need to add i965 to make.conf. |
tldnr sollution https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVidia/nvidia-drivers/en#Permissions Code: #gpasswd -add <name> video When using nvidia as openGL [ eselect opengl set <nvidia's nimber> ] GL apps fail with Code: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed reques... | When using glx and nvidia driver you should had their version output in your xorg.log like this: Quote: [ 13.144] (II) LoadModule: "glx" [ 13.180] (II) Loading /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so [ 13.628] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" [ 13.628] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0 [ 13.628... |
I sudenly installed Gentoo with KDE desktop and via GUI Settings switched language to Czech, it worked. Later on I tried to switch it back to English, the root is back in English in terminal, but my user is not: Code: zangetsu@venus ~ $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en... | Ahh, closing, just removed in KDE gui Czech from selected along with English back to available and it was the trigger action to take again English as default. |
A recent update has apparently messed up some adobe fonts. I originally thought this was confined to a single machine, but I find now that it has affected many machines. When I try to start the twm window manager, it fails with: Code: baruch ~ # DISPLAY=:1 twm & [2] 5506 baruch ~ # twm: unable to open fontset "-adobe-h... | media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi |
I have to connect manually, the key is stored it just doesn't auto connect every time I startx into kde. Whats causing this? | I had similar problem with plasma 5 and networkmanager, I resolved with Right click on the plasma-nm applet icon in your panel and select 'Configure Network Connections...' Select the connection you want to work with and click 'General configuration tab' Check the boxes 'Automatically connect to this network when it is... |
Not sure this is the right section. Gparted ran well before I upgraded @world on the 22nd. Here is part of xorg-session.log Code: Initializing "kcm_input" : "kcminit_mouse" kcm_input: Using X11 backend QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 28841, resource id: 62914564, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), min... | Plasma does not really care about gparted. So you should look at what else got upgraded there... |
While playing with dwm , I found the default st terminal to be lacking flexibility. (This might well be my own perception.) So I installed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode with the 256-colors USE flag enabled. However, trying to start anything even moderately complicated, like weechat or even vi , from urxvt results in the same ... | pun_guin wrote: [...] results in the same error: "rxvt-unicode-256color" could not be found. I get the same error with st , but st has no USE flag for 256 colors at all. pun_guin ... I doubt they are the same, st has the 'st-256color' TERM ... so always post the exact error. Anyhow, those "terminal capabilities/informa... |
I'm afraid I need to bring a screenshot this time... Setting: dwm with rxvt-unicode set as the default terminal. Problem: Shift+Alt+Return. Two prompts! Screenshot. Every time I open another terminal, the number of prompts is even increased, i.e. in the next terminal I get three prompts and so on. What have I done? | pun_guin ... can you reproduce with another window manager? This, and the other issue you've posted, both seem odd corner cases, how are you starting dwm? best ... khay |
As a consequence of a recent emerge world , CUPS ( localhost:631 ) produces an Unauthorized error message when I, for example, try to Set Default Options . In the past, a graphic window would pop up in which I could provide root authentication. I am still a member of the lp and lpadmin groups. My work-around is to boot... | figueroa wrote: I updated cups on my Intel x86_64 system this morning. It was uneventful, though stopping cupsd is tricky. There was an elog about what to do: Code: killall cupsd /etc/init.d/cupsd zap /etc/init.d/cupsd start The zap command argument was new to me. Thanks for the suggestion. I did this but still have th... |
I'm back playing with Gentoo! I know y'all missed me... How can I get the background working on Window Maker on this Gentoo box? I can get solid color, but no gradient and no image. I click on gradient and nothing happens. I've installed window maker a couple of times, changed some use flags, nothing. What am I missing... | Have you tried another tool like xsetroot, feh or Nitrogen? |
I'm running a fairly new desktop PC with LXDE where choice of xcursors is controlled with the program lxappearance, "Customize Look and Feel" under Preferences on the menu. I have a number of cursor installed which are found in /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/ such as Adwaita, handhelds, redglass, Silver, whiteglass. The p... | I've answered my own question. I had to create symbolic links in /usr/share/icons to the cursor themes installed in /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11 as follows: Code: ln -s ../cursors/xorg-x11/whiteglass . ln -s ../cursors/xorg-x11/redglass . ln -s ../cursors/xorg-x11/Silver . ln -s ../cursors/xorg-x11/handhelds . ln -s ../... |
I have never set up the ps3 controller to act as an xorg mouse pointer. I have not installed x11-drivers/xf86-input-joystick. I have installed steam but have not used it in a while as I play games using steamos installed on a separate disk. Before I installed steamos on a different disk, I had the steam controller work... | What input drivers do you have installed? Only libinput should be present. You can make X ignore the controller with this (untested): /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ps3.conf: Section "InputClass" Identifier "PS3 controller blacklist" MatchProduct "Sony PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller" Option "Ignore" "on" EndSection |
Hi everyone, when I start kmail, kontact, konqueror, qupzilla, bibletime I obtained: Code: gdb kmail [New Thread 0x7fffb738e700 (LWP 26024)] [New Thread 0x7fffb6947700 (LWP 26025)] [New Thread 0x7fffb6146700 (LWP 26028)] [New Thread 0x7fffa7fff700 (LWP 26039)] [New Thread 0x7fffa6c68700 (LWP 26042)] [New Thread 0x7fffa... | Are you using the nouveau driver for your graphic card? This driver crashes qtwebengine |
Hi, After rebuilding fontconfig with infinality, some fonts in tvbrowser and projectx (both java apps) are really ugly, see this screenshot . In tvbrowser, it's only the fonts in the menu and dialogs, not in the program table. Here's my configuration: Code: eselect fontconfig list Available fontconfig .conf files (* is... | I found out this is a problem with the JDK: Fonts look relatively good with sun-jdk-1.6. Fonts look not so good with oracle-jdk-bin-1.7. Fonts look ugly with icedtea-bin-6 and icedtea-bin-7. |
Hello, gentoolers: I have installed gentoo linux in virtualbox but doesnt work. The video driver seems to load at the beginning but it does not work, the guest additions either . I pass the paste with my file /etc/xorg.conf generated with X - configure: https://paste.pound-python.org/show/OKAXWzjGOTK3vMQbKVPe/ I also p... | manara39, Xorg should start with no xorg.conf. You will get a USA keymap and right handed mouse. xorg.config can actually get in the way too. Get Xorg to work first, then tune it to your preferences. |
I have an odd issue in Plasma. This has been happening since the release of Plasma, so it may be my setup. When you plug in a USB drive, insert a CD/DVD, whatever, the notifier pops up witht he option to open the device in Dolphin, but if I try this, I am told I do not have permissions to mount the device. However, if ... | Can help this? |
Hello, After update I've noticed that gVim becomes slow (mostly on scrolling, visual mode highlighting) especially with large window - up to 3200x1200 in my case. I took some testing/searching and now I found the problem: gVim is much slower when emerged with USE="+gkt3 gtk" then with "-gkt3 gtk". I don't know if this ... | It's probably to be expected. Programs have to be designed for Gtk3 for it to work well; the result when GTK2 software is shoehorned into it is usually problematic like this. Just keep using the default and ignore it. |
Hi there, not sure what/how but after some relatively recent update (I had computer on/off on sleep for maybe month) when I rebooted today it fails with undefined symbols below. I tired revdep-rebuild, re-emerge Xorg, xorg-drivers and all xf86-video-* drivers, but nothing helped. It was working flawlessly for some year... | mahdi1234, I don't have a fix for this problem yet but its interfering with my wifes online shopping, so I have to work on it. :) That Code: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so: undefined symbol: shadowRemove is affected shows that its something that xorg-server depends on, or should depend on. The modes... |
I have an OpenVPN server for which I have generated ovpn files. This works, as I tested it with the Android OpenVPN client. I want to use it from the KDE networkmanager plasmoid. There is an option to import the ovpn config there and so I get an OpenVPN entry in my connections. However, when I try to use it, it fails. ... | Hi, maybe this helps: http://matthewcasperson.blogspot.de/2015/03/fixing-openvpn-authenticatedecrypt.html greets, bb |
Just bought an AMD acer laptop. It don’t have a GUI so it’s hard to paste my X log. The laptop has a Vega Mobile graphics card in it. So I’m trying the amdgpu driver. I’m getting this error when I start up X. Also, the screen flickers and I have to kill X. https://pasteboard.co/HolL4vI.jpg Where can I start digging to ... | maiku, Pastebin is your friend. You need VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu radeonsi" and a recent kernel. 4.17 might be out by now. Your lspci output will help too. |
Hello, When I install Notepadqq 1.4.8 through portage it crashes after being started with the error "Segmentation fault". But when I follow the instructions here https://github.com/notepadqq/notepadqq#build-it-yourself (you have to emerge qtwebsockets additionally for it to work) and start it, then it runs just fine. I... | I tried to install in my system and seems work without segfault. You can post your emerge --info ? Maybe some cflags that cause that? |
Hi, I have system without PulseAudio nor Apulse. FF 58 works correctly. But after upgrade to FF 59 no more sound. Only these messages in console: Code: [Child 5661, MediaPlayback #1] WARNING: 7fbbdd0f3940 OpenCubeb() failed to init cubeb: file /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-59.0.2/work/mozilla-release-239e434d6d2b... | https://bugs.gentoo.org/654156 |
I think that by mistake I removed ~/.config directory. Now when I close konqueror window clicking on the "x", the window is closed, but I cant restart konqueror. Checking processes I can see, that konqueror is still running. After killing process I can start konqueror again. As I am not KDE user, I cant use KDE control... | Thanks for answer. In the meantime I have made several thinks. - recompiled konqueror ( no success ) - removed all konqueror and kde related config files in my home directory, I had made it before, no changes - in linuxquestio.org I found Quote: Go into the Control Center --> KDE Components --> KDE Performance and unde... |
Hello, I was updating world after few days without doing and now I have a problem with last cinnamon desktop version. In the cinnamon-translations. Content of my /var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/cinnamon-translations-3.6.3/temp/build.log Code: * Package: gnome-extra/cinnamon-translations-3.6.3 * Repository: gentoo * Mainta... | Message tell you that a file (/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/cinnamon-settings-daemon.mo ) already exists in your system. This file seems provided by gnome-extra/cinnamon-settings-daemon-3.0.1 package. Try to update first cinnamon-settings-daemon to 3.6.1-r1 version maybe is a mixed packages (3.0.x with 3.6.x) proble... |
I switched themes to Adwaita dark for Qt (adwaita-qt) and Gtk 2 but can't get it work for Gtk 3 applications. Code: $ cat /usr/share/themes/Adwaita-dark/gtk-3.0/gtk.css @import url("resource:///org/gtk/libgtk/theme/Adwaita/gtk-contained-dark.css"); Is there a way to switch this dark theme for Gtk 3 apps also? | Can help this ? |
Hello everyone! I installed Gentoo yesterday on my computer and now i'm trying to setup CDM and DWM, i already installed Xorg (x11-base/xorg-x11, i need xrandr to fix my screen resolution), CDM (x11-misc/cdm) and DWM (x11-wm/dwm). The first thing i have done was configure CDM: Code: #!/bin/bash # # Example config file ... | What guide did you use to make the install? Gerard. |
Hi, For a week now I've been trying to launch Plasma. SDDM was first started. The mouse and keyboard worked, but Plasma did not running. You input the password and everything freezes, for a few seconds. Then it becomes unfreezes, but Plasma did not running. If you enter an incorrect password, SDDM says "login failed". ... | gangstervano, Lets fix your Xorg first. Code: [ 270.761] (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 1002:6819:1043:042c rev 0, Mem @ 0xe0000000/268435456, 0xf7e00000/262144, I/O @ 0x0000e000/256, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072 says you have a Radeon HD 7850 / R7 265 / R9 270 1024SP card. Xorg shows that the preferred drivers are Code: [ 270.783] (... |
Hello, I'm trying to run piklab which is an old KDE4 application. The application was running OK before recent update, now I have only: Code: piklab: version 0.16.2 (rev. distribution) kbuildsycoca4 running.. Could not find katepart: Install Kate. KCrash: Application 'piklab' crashing.. ... Last time it was fixed by in... | I believe katepart was moved to kde-sunset overlay. Beware of ancient marauding dragons when adding that overlay though. Is there no one upstream working on piklab anymore? It would need to be ported to Qt5/KF5. |
A couple of weeks ago I switched to the unstable firefox, (firefox-58.0.1), which required the following in /etc/portage/package.keywords: Code: =media-libs/libpng-1.6.34 ~amd64 =dev-lang/rust-1.23.0-r1 ~amd64 =virtual/rust-1.23.0 ~amd64 =dev-util/cargo-0.24.0 ~amd64 =dev-libs/nspr-4.19 ~amd64 =dev-libs/nss-3.36 ~amd64... | I have the same problem. My workaround is to use compositing such as xcompmgr or compton. |
Hello. I have seen wonderfull theme for zsh, it's powerlevel9k, but i don't understand how to install it on Gentoo, because there isn't package for install it... Link: https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k How you install it ? And second question, who know the name of this zsh theme ? Link: https://imgur.com/r/unixp... | I'm not sure but you should follow instruction for 'Install for Vanilla ZSH' and for the font you should install media-fonts/powerline-symbols package |
Hi. I upgraded to KDE 17.12.3 today from the stable branch, and I was surprised to see that ktexteditorpreviewplugin doesn't seem to be part of Kate. I looked through the plugins section in the settings window, but no luck. I found a separate masked package, but shouldn't this plugin be part of Kate now? If it is part ... | In Settings -> Configure Kate... -> Plugins I see Document preview. |
Good evening, some time ago I had a problem with java/icedtea which is solved by now: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1077086-highlight-.html I tried to solve this problem with different actions (like re-compiling all sorts of things) and unfortunately I made a big mistake when I thought I could try a newer (unst... | OK, I think it's solved. Since then I have always updated dev-qt/*, kde-plasma/*, kde-frameworks/* and kde-apps/* to the latest unstable - last Friday kde-apps/* was put to kde-apps/*-18.04.0. And afterwards kmail/kontact didn't crash anymore (even not with the 'test-emails' I used to test if it would crash). Now I hop... |
Hello community, I have been trying to install X and I can't startx. It seems it is a problem with the evdev INPUT_DEVICES, though I am not quite sure. I leave the log here in hope someone is able to tell me what is wrong: Code: [ 153.376] X.Org X Server 1.19.5 Release Date: 2017-10-12 [ 153.380] X Protocol Version 11,... | Semantika ... there are no "(EE) errors" there, so I suspect it has nothing to do with evdev or the xserver, do you have something providing a window manager or DE installed, and/or are you 'exec <wm>' in ~/.xinitrc? If you've installed x11-base/xorg-server rather than x11-base/xorg-x11 then this won't provide a window... |
Ii have latest powerdevil 5.12.2 with latest KDE unstable and I enabled brightness-control flag however I cannot change screenbrightness using function keys. However I can change it useing the scroller in power managment settings even thought it jumps around when I scroll it, it doesen't jump around when I login with r... | This is a known bug in >= Plasma-5.12 the KDE developers are currently trying to figure out how to fix. The_Document wrote: I find it harsh how gentoo users must wait a long while to obtain latest revisions of many softwares. Things like these are the reason why we do not stabilise early versions of a new release. |
I have been having this little problem for a while. I'm running KDE on a desktop machine with an AMD RX 480. However, while the 3d performance is great, the KDE GUI is horribly lagging. Everything else works great, including Vulkan. The only problem seems to be plain desktop applications, such as Konqueror or Kile. The... | Im facing other problems. Vulkan is not working for me, and glxinfo report me some errors. Im using vulkan overlay ebuilds x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.70-r1::vulkan x11-drivers/amdgpu-pro-16.60.379184-r1:1::vulkan media-libs/mesa-9999::vulkan https://github.com/Lucretia/vulkan-overlay glxinfo | grep libGL Quote: Xlib: extensio... |
Hello. I installed Plasma and am using sddm. I have installed xog and nvidia-390.42. Sddm loads up and lets me enter my psswd, but then loads me into a black screen with an over sized cursor but can not interact with anything. I have to alt+f1 to restart my system. Here is the /var/log/Xorg.0.log http://bpaste.net/show... | I guess I had a frame buffer selected in my kernel settings under my graphics support. I edited it out and rebuilt the kernel and rebooted succesfully into gentoo. It is Sooo nice to be back in gentoo plasma again!!! cheers! |
I have a fairly basic setup - OpenRC, Alsa, Wayland and Weston - I wish to start wayland on boot but I'm not exactly sure how - I attempted to start with a basic init script (below), but it appears that it wont start with the error 'weston-launch: failed to open tty: No such file or directory'. I expect this is because... | Solved the issue somewhat, following https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Automatic_login_to_virtual_console and https://wiki.parabola.nu/Wayland#Autostart looks like I have something that partially works (though it's not as nice as an init script). My bashrc looks like this: Code: if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1... |
I am new to Gentoo and have gotten everything I like installed and working for the most part. WiFi was a bit of trouble and that took me through some init scripts so I am getting more and more familiar with the system. I am having trouble with getting lightdm to work. I have seen similar postings but none seem to work.... | Solved it! I had to add the lightdm user as is done on the talk page. Code: root #useradd -r -d /var/lib/lightdm-data/lightdm -s /bin/nologin lightdm https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Talk:LightDM By default the greeter-user was already set to "lightdm" |
Hey! I have a fresh install of Gentoo, I have installed the nouveau drivers, and i3-gaps from a layman repo My problem is that when I try to force my resolution via xrandr it errors with the following text: Code: xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default Because of this error, I'm stuck on 1024x768 (my nat... | levente, Welcome to Gentoo. With xrandr the problem must be with Xorg but lets start with the console. By default, the console resolution will be determined by your broken EDID data. What resolution do you get there? The kernel can read EDID data from a file to override issues like yours. Most Xorg video drivers have a... |
Hello, this problem is driving me mad, I've been chasing it for hours, so, help!!! My consoles obey my /etc/conf.d/keymaps and I can log on perfectly, no problem here. Code: keymap="pt-latin1-mymac" mymac is a slight variation that I had to make for my keymap. It is irrelevant though, because it is working. But not my ... | try Option "xkb_layout" "pt" |
I'm trying to remove opengl from my system, in favor of gles2/egl. So I added "-opengl gles2 egl" to make.conf and tried a full update Code: emerge -uDN --keep-going --with-bdeps=y --backtrack=1000 @system @world But still Code: [ebuild U ] x11-libs/cairo-9999 [1.14.12] USE="X glib opengl* svg xcb (-aqua) -debug (-gles... | Most likely, gles2 is masked by your profile. As for why opengl is forced on, that requires more investigation. Was there any other output explaining it? Perhaps Portage requested that you reactivate it, and explained its request? Please post the output of emerge --info ; emerge --pretend --verbose x11-libs/cairo . |
Running KDE and shutting down PC from menu list just exists me to command line, I don't use a DM I start Xorg from command line. How to fix? | You looked this article ? |
I had my laptop (nvidia with optimus) working fine up until a recent world update (but I didn't change any configs or anything). Now, lightdm and startx both fail to start. Lightdm returns a black screen, startx quits back out to console. The log file (from 'startx') reads as follows: Code: [ 47593.758] X.Org X Server ... | ZOMG that fixed it. The /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf lines were missing, for some reason (perhaps the recent lightdm update erased them when I wasn't paying attention to dispatch-conf?). Anyway, now I have X, and you are my very favorite. Cheers, EE |
I have a Dell XPS 13 laptop with KDE and libinput. When scrolling on web pages my cursor will occasionally get stuck in a scrolling mode. Utilizing the touch pad will scroll on whatever screen i'm in instead of moving the cursor. Closing the computer lid usually resolves the issue. Anyone ideas on what this could be? | I've a dell xps 15 and I also had problems with only libinput. In my make.conf I keep also synaptics in INPUT_DEVICES |
So I've been fighting with X window for a week or more trying to get it to run. I built into the Make.conf the use flags for it, I've compiled the kernel for it to work with Virtualbox. Emerged Virtualbox AND the virtual box guest addons, etc. etc. etc., I followed the handbook for it too. The gentoo environment is run... | Hironatashima, Code: [ 2328.829] (EE) dbus-core: error connecting to system bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound (Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory) Means that you need to start dbus. Add it to the default runlevel so you don't forget. Code: [ 2328.838] (II) ... |
Hello gentoorians Yesterday when updating my ~amd64 sytem portage pulled in xorg-server-1.19.5-r1. After the update, startx doesn't bring up the X server anymore: Code: (EE) Parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (permission denied) I do not use systemd or a login manager, but rather execute "startx" from text-mode a... | My X actually starts with Code: startx -- vt1 But there should have been a warning, a news item. |
I can't unlock the screenlock in plasma 5 after migrating to new SSD: I get a new SSD and I want to migrate all the files of my old hard drive to the new SSD instead of installing new system from zero. I ran the command "cp -r -p" and copied all the folders to the new SSD except for /boot, /dev, /mnt, /proc, /sys, /tmp... | If you use startx, then what is in your ~/.xinitrc? |
Hey, I recently updated cinnamon to 3.4.6, because of this . But now cinnamon always starts in "software rendering mode" with high cpu usage. This is my system: Code: #inxi -Fz Resuming in non X mode: xdpyinfo not found. For package install advice run: inxi --recommends System: Host: matrix Kernel: 4.9.76-gentoo-r1 x86... | Prof. Frink, What does Code: glxinfo | head -n6 say? |
Hello guys, Today i tried to edit a CSS file ( it's just a txt file with .css ending) with KDE-Kate editor and kate crash immediately, every time i am writing any character (even space bar). This behavior appears only in CSS files, HTML or C files i can write on them. I have already rebuild Kate twice, no luck... Any i... | papas wrote: Thank you And what was the problem? |
I recently updated from plasma-meta 5.10.5 to 5.11.5. Now when I startx, I get a flash of blue screen with a mouse pointer, then it got back to the character screen, gives me a bunch more log output, then stops. The machine is still running, but no X. Here's my most recent Xorg.0.log Code: [ 33.442] X.Org X Server 1.19... | Paste your .xinitrc content. |
I am trying to apply my lock to my laptop when the laptops lid is closed before it goes into hibernation to ram. Currently I can only achieve hibernation to ram via s2ram which is good, but any calls to xautolock fail presumably because of a lack of a X session. Likewise if I remove the -detectsleep from my `.xinitrc' ... | khayyam wrote: /etc/acpi/actions/lid_sleep.sh: xpid="$(pgrep -n X)" xuser="$(ps -o user --no-headers $xpid)" This will grab the current user for the X server. If the system has not migrated to rootless X, then the result will be root, not the logged in user. |
I installed my new workstation with xeon and nvidia card, so there is no GPU integrated in CPU, only PCIe Nvidia 1080 TI. I use Kde latest from poly-c and all works smoothly, I just wander why I have 2 options in eselect opengl: Code: venus ~ # eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] nvidia [2] xorg-x... | yes, nvidia is much faster. 780ti Code: # __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=0 glxgears 109095 frames in 5.0 seconds = 21818.869 FPS 111007 frames in 5.0 seconds = 22201.268 FPS 94827 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18965.375 FPS 109573 frames in 5.0 seconds = 21914.455 FPS |
I am trying to get fonts working with rxvt-unicode and i3-gaps. What is happening is when rxvt loads it displays squares probably due to bolded fonts not rendering correctly. When trying to set fonts in `.Xresources' for rxvt the terminal fails to load in i3 and I end up having to kill i3. I have emerged fontawesome li... | This is wrong : Code: URxvt.font: *-Terminus-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* replace that with : Code: URxvt.font: xft:xos4 Terminus:regular:pixelsize=16 you don't need to mess with /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/15-fonts.conf run in terminal Code: fc-list |
Heres what it says when launching from command line: Code: zakhar@laptop ~ $ dolphin kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find "stash" kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find "mtp" kf5.kio.core: Refilling KProtocolInfoFactory cache in the hope to find "mtp" kf... | The_Document: the output of dolphin you showed in your first post is fine. I get nearly the same output (especially the message 'Cannot create accessible child interface'), but dolphin starts quickly. 1) Did you emerge dolphin with USE flag semantic-desktop? If you did: what happens if you emerge it without that USE fl... |
I find that apps like okular, kwrite etc have a default printing page size of A4 (also very bad margin settings) these can be changed for a particular print job but revert sorry for this elementary question but where is the setting to permanently change default page size to letter? (of course, the cups default is alrea... | See bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/617460 For 5.9 there is a huge patchset attached. |
I have gotten the message Quote: JIT is disabled for QML. Property bindings and animations will be very slow. Visit https://wiki.qt.io/V4 to learn about possible solutions for your platform. on the command line when the git commit message editor window (kate) opens. I'm wondering whether it is something I can and shoul... | mike155 wrote: As far as I can see, this is not a bug, but a workaround. See: - https://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-kde/msg19260.html - https://phabricator.kde.org/D8544?id=21724 - https://bugs.kde.org/385413 The problem will go away as soon as you upgrade Qt and kde-frameworks. New stable versions of Qt and kd... |
Hi, I've been trying out plasma on wayland and mostly it has worked impressively well, but I find I'm unable to launch root GUI apps in a wayland session. The two examples are truecrypt and zenmap (nmap's pyGTK GUI). Both can be run as the desktop session user, but their key functions don't work as non-root. If I su to... | That is by design. But if you really must override the sensible security precaution you will need to run xhost +local: first. wiki |
Hi again. I've just finished an intensive upgrade — I hadn't installed updates for about 2 years, I've just enjoyed my machine as a regular user, so please, bear with me. All packages are compiled, up-to-date and I've just tried to start X. All it does is show a black screen, nothing else. The machine is responsive and... | Problem is now solved. What I did is Recompile my kernel with DRI support — it was disabled (I also had to disable all frame buffer drivers) Re-merge nvidia drivers with USE flags kms , compat and uvm Not sure about compat and uvm though but that did work and I got back to my favourite desktop. That's when I saw a modu... |
What file(s) should I edit/replace so that when a new user is created, things like background and appearance show up the way I specify? | Yup. /etc/skel is your best bet, but xfce seems to support some system-wide configs too. |
I have a lot of docs to ocr and I choose tesseract, heres some info: Code: [ Legend : U + final flag setting for installation] [ : I + package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for app+text/tesseract+3.05.01: U I + + doc : Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recomme... | i dont think it autodetects language. Code: tesseract imagename outputbase [-l lang] [--oem ocrenginemode] [--psm pagesegmode] [configfiles...] |
Since an update from like a month ago (not sure what was updated at the time), transparency has been broken for me using Plasma on X11 (it works fine on Wayland). Everything that's supposed to show any opacity shows black instead. For example the main panel and the Latte dock background. How my Latte dock shows (which ... | Make sure compositor is enabled in systemsettings, remove ~/.cache, downgrade to mesa-17, in that order. |
Hello I am using MATE with mate-panel-1.18.7 and as writen in topic, when I start teamviewer-13.0.6634 i get the message than notifications area stopped working What can I do about it ? | https://paste.pound-python.org/show/f00qf7f6HjEkyQeevLAw/ I don't think it's proper... |
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