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Firefox reports updates are locked by admin, I tried enabling updates in about:config, the option says locked and cannot toggle it. I would like firefox-bin to update from mozillas servers rather than portage since its more frequent. | With firefox from portage you cannot update from mozilla directly. One (bad) solution is download firefox from site and put it on /opt changing permission to firefox dirctory. |
Hallo liebes Forum, bin langsam am verzweifeln habe mir Gentoo mit KDE installiert. Hat alles bestens funktioniert. Jetzt wollte ich mein System updaten, doch das zeigt mir nur eine nicht verständliche Ausgabe, mit der ich so gar nix anfangen kann. Code: emerge -avuD world Total: 226 packages (204 upgrades, 12 new, 9 i... | ROGA, Welcome. English here please. We do have a German language section if you prefer. Try adding Code: --backtrack=50 to your emerge command. It tells portage to try harder to find a solution. Capital letters will be interpreted as SHOUTING. Please don't do that. |
Greetings. After a recent update X has stopped working. I have two Gentoo file systems on this computer. One always lagging a bit behind the others for reasons exactly like this. G0 is the working file system. G1 is the one with the broken X. Both have xorg-server 1.19.6 G1 had nvidia-drivers-390.25 G0 with nvidia-driv... | make friend with wgetpast because we won't go anywhere with that, my eyes are bleeding |
On my box, Plasma / System Settings -> Online Accounts has the heading: Configure your internet accounts such as Google, Live, Owncloud But when I click on Create, there is no option to set-up nextcloud nor for owncloud. How do I set-up nextcloud? Am I missing any dependencies ? emerge --info Code: Portage 2.3.8 (pytho... | Maybe you need nextcloud-client installed? |
Trying to upgrade to latest unstable KDE I run Code: # emerge -uUD -j15 --backtrack=90 @world and portage gives: https://paste.pound-python.org/show/ubmNqcehc6TEQhHDlJB5/ Package accept keywords: Code: www-client/firefox-bin app-office/libreoffice-bin sys-kernel/gentoo-sources kde-frameworks/* kde-plasma/* kde-app/* de... | There's a typo in your package.keywords file, can you spot it? Hint: It is related to the major blocker in your emerge output. |
Hi, I don't understand the implicated behavior of this option. Can anyone explain it? Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support. | Do you mean you want to create a dock using LXPanel? If you do, the following screencast explains how to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAXHO4Ou5BQ Also, from the PCLinuxOS article LXDE: Configuring LXPanel : Panel Preferences > Advanced > Properties Quote: Make window managers treat the panel as a dock: when c... |
Having an issue with KDE 5 whenever I launch it, the kwalletmanager manager asks for password, WHY does it not remember it? What should be done to correct this. | We don't need Arch for documentation: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE#KWallet_auto-unlocking |
Due to a failed SSD I have re-installed Gentoo but 'startx' is failing as shown. Luckily, I have been testing (~amd64) on a second SSD but with NoX as amdgpu does not support this GPU (Oland GCN 1.0). So I disabled amdgpu and enabled radeon driver. This setup worked on the failed SSD though as stable (amd64) not testin... | Can help this ? |
So, I installed ~amd64 kde plasma with sddm. So I have a pretty standard keyboard, IBM model M with a PS/2 cord, and your standard 2 button optical mouse with a wheel button thing Loading sddm with /etc/init.d/xdm So I'm really stuck with this, in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d I have 10-amdgpu.conf(works), and I have the 40-... | kajzer wrote: There's a problem with xorg-server-1.19.99.901 , try to mask it and then update the world, see if you will have that problem with xorg-server-1.19.5 Could you provide a citation for this problem? What is the nature of the problem? Where was it first reported? |
So. At the topic says. I'm in need of a pdf reader that can fill pdf forms. Also, preferably, then save the pdf for sending to other person for filling/signing the rest of the pdf. Thanks in advance. | okular and evice I think can fill pdf form. Chromium seems to be able to edit pdf form too (but not save inserted data) |
I just noticed that I no longer get an .xsession-errors file. I'm running KDE5 and recently switched to elogind but still using openrc. One of the user accounts I use has a file from Feb 7 2017 but that seems to be the last one. I guess there is a new logging scheme somewhere, does anyone know what that would be? How d... | You are running Plasma-5, but the application responsible for the location of .xsession-errors is your display manager, probably sddm. The paths for sddm are found in /etc/sddm.conf: Code: [Wayland] ... SessionLogFile=.local/share/sddm/wayland-session.log [X11] ... SessionLogFile=.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log |
Recently, whenever I open a text file such as, e.g., source code, Firefox opens it. Looking in the file associations of KDE, I see that Firefox is listed as the first option for many text-based file types. This was not that way before. I think the problems started after updating to plasma 5.11.5. Can others confirm the... | equaeghe wrote: Recently, whenever I open a text file such as, e.g., source code, Firefox opens it. Looking in the file associations of KDE, I see that Firefox is listed as the first option for many text-based file types. This was not that way before. I think the problems started after updating to plasma 5.11.5. Can ot... |
Hi there, i have a little Problem with my Cinnamon, specially i mean the Language Support. I have configurated KDE for my language (german), i start it, its in german and all the apps / programs start in german. But in cinnamon i cant find anything to change the language. I have also read the Gentoo localizion Guide . ... | I have installed Cinnamon with unmask the 3.6.6 Version ( See in this topic ). The problem was to unmask the new version for "gnome-extra/cinnamon-translations", too. Code: echo "=gnome-extra/cinnamon-translations-3.6.3 ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords That solved te problem, thank you very much! |
Hello, i dont know if it's good topic for post this question, but , how is it possible to show japaneses characters on xterm ? Because i have many files with japanese characters name, and when i do ls command, xterm show many "???" | Fulgurance wrote: ls command, xterm show many "???" Code: export LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.utf8" |
I have recently acquired a new notebook I'vem installing Gentoo on, and I have already finished doing everything in the Handbook. installed Gentoo on, but I'm trying to install LXDE and I am currently unable to emerge gtk+3 due to a strange error related to identifying the image types on the Adwaita theme: Code: glib-c... | emerge -s libpng if not installed emerge png emerge gtk+ still broken ?? |
Hey all, I run KDE plasma 5 and after the latest plasma-meta update and an nvidia module rebuild, when I run startx, it goes to the initial Plasma loading screen, then back to the terminal where it starts displaying scrolling debuggin ginformation. It's the same on kernels 4.9.76 and 4.14-8-r1, both with independent ex... | EugeneTheJeep, Code: [176985.868] (--) PCI: (0:0:2:0) 8086:29c2:8086:5044 rev 2, Mem @ 0xeb400000/524288, 0xd0000000/268435456, 0xeb300000/1048576, I/O @ 0x00003460/8 [176985.868] (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:1287:3842:3731 rev 161, Mem @ 0xea000000/16777216, 0xe0000000/134217728, 0xe8000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x00002000/128,... |
During world update, I get Code: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=x11-proto/xproto-7.0.31" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - x11-proto/xproto-7.0.31::gentoo (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) (dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-server-1.19.1::gentoo" [eb... | You are in ~amd64 system? You need to unmask =x11-proto/xproto-7.0.31 with command echo " =x11-proto/xproto-7.0.31" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords |
After 'emerge -e world' rebuild various kde frameworks components depending on qt5 components like QSvgWidget and others fail to compile. I have tried gcc 6.4 and 7.3, repeated partial world updates and am at the end of my wits( as in minutes away from another clean install ). I know for sure kde-frameworks 5.40.0 comp... | https://bugs.gentoo.org/646504 |
I have a recent gentoo install and for the first time I needed to access and edit some files located in another machine which I can only access via ssh. I can connect perfectly via ssh and locate the files, but when I try to open them I get the following error Code: vinicius@mossadegh ~ $ ssh jack@servidorbom jack@serv... | Despite the 'uniformity' of un*x, there are so many flavors and versions out there, and this is one of those problems. One fix: upgrade or upgrade to ncurses on the remote machine. Chances are this is impossible. Another fix: change st such that it doesn't set the TERM to custom values. This is likely also ugly. You ca... |
Following the two xorg.0.logs one with amdgpu and X starting normally https://paste.pound-python.org/show/xx6kJE4sXaVzXQYOVyKa/ It seems there is old cruft around, as it starts to start modules no longer installed. Where does that come from and how to clean ? And here is the other log, where X does not start as soon as... | I have received help from the guy who wrote the guide linked in wiki https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/complexity/people/staff/delgenio/amdgpuprogentoo The problem was the bus id. Changing it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-device.conf provided by amdgpu-pro driver to correspond with what my lcpci showed me, lets me start... |
I have an HP printer and the appropriate PPD file which I pulled from HPLIP I installed the printer over network as it was detected by cups and used the ppd but whenever I try to print I get: file /usr/libexec/cups/filter/hpcups - not available from KDEs printer utility, infact that file does not exist and I beleive cu... | H, As you already said, this backend is in hplip. Install this package via emerge and you should be ready to go. Code: $ equery f hplip | grep hpcups /usr/libexec/cups/filter/hpcups /usr/share/cups/drv/hp/hpcups.drv $ greets, bb |
I installed gnome on full encrypted disk with openrc (not systemd) referring to https://wycd.net/posts/2015-01-04-gentoo-full-disk-encryption-lvm-on-luks.html and https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GNOME/GNOME_Without_systemd . Now I'm wondering whether installing systemd on encrypted desktop. Theoretically, it looks possibl... | rufnut wrote: Hi, I cannot see why not. I have gentoo systemd genkernel on an encrypted drive but using plasma. The setup wiki you have linked to has too many partitions for me. good luck Thank you. But in my case, boot partition is also encrypted in /dev/sda1 (so only one partition). With my reference, it was the only... |
Hello, i have question. I use i3wm (windows manager),i love this concept. But who know what i install to have all windows with transparency ? | One solution seems to install x11-misc/compton https://www.reddit.com/r/i3wm/comments/2yytvs/make_terminals_transparent/ https://www.reddit.com/r/i3wm/comments/4p0u2h/transparent_windows_in_i3_with_compton/ |
Hello again! (old user coming back). I am writting because I am having problems with a new AMD GPU on my main desktop (It has been working fine with a Nvidia card, but I decided to replace it in order to be able to use newer kernels and free drivers). The card I did choose is a ATI Radeon RX570 (but lspci reports it as... | vladimir1986, Its worth trying the new amdgpu driver in the 4.15.0 kernel. That's still a -rc version, |
Hello, I'm having an issue with KDE Plasma where it loads and successfully shows the KDE splash screen, then reverts to terminal and only shows scrolling debugging text. It happened after the most recent KDE update and a kernel recompile. I'm not sure which if either caused it, because I hadn't rebooted my computer bet... | asturm, I asked for a new thread, as I am not a KDE user. Lots of reads will miss a change in topic but the unanswered posts search helps spot new issues. |
Hi So I just finished filling in my 14 pages PDF with form fields (in qpdfview) and clicked on PRINT (on a Brother Laser Printer) and as it finished I realized that it printed nicely all PDFs but without any form content. I aslo tried to print it to cups-pdf but the fields are also empty. Did I read correctly that ther... | I don't know about qpdfview, but I have been filling out PDF forms (specifically: USA Form 1040) with evince for many years, and they've printed out fine - not the best looking, but clear and sufficient for use. |
For a strange reason, it seems my nvidia driver load correctly but opengl can't be detected by some applications (for example wine). Code: glxinfo name of display: :0.0 Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig I've tried to reinstall an older version of nvidia-drivers with dame result Switching eselect opengl to... | you Code: [ 714.001] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so me Code: [ 14.219] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so so totally related, reswitch to xorg and back to nvidia to fix it. |
I can't start consolekit, this is the output I get: Code: /etc/init.d/consolekit start Starting consolekit... start-stop-deamon: /usr/sbin/console-kit-deamon is already running Failed to start consolekit ERROR: consolekit failed to start I have already setup and started D-Bus without any problem, but don't know how to ... | Here is my # emerge --info output: Code: ortage 2.3.13 (python 3.5.4-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-6.4.0, glibc-2.25-r9, 4.9.60-std512-amd64 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.9.60-std512-amd64-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-4770K_CPU_@_3... |
Hello everybody! It is about a week dropbox not starting. I unistalled and tried to emerge again. I've tried any hint 'n tip i've found but i couldn't manage to make it work. (i use KDE) Installing Code: eix -I dropbox [I] net-misc/dropbox Available versions: 34.3.19^ms 35.4.20^ms[1] 36.4.22^ms[1] (~)37.3.28^ms 37.4.29... | i have the same problem |
I compiled x11-base/xorg-server with wayland USE flag and this enabled on all other installed packages. I have xwayland enabled. I installed dev-libs/sway and typed /usr/bin/sway. Then, this happened. SwayWM did nothing but print this error message: Code: [main.c:48] [wlc] Failed to add socket to wayland display I trie... | Wayland itself doesn't 'work'. It is *always* the compositor of your choice that may be better or worse. Now, of course you can check if your graphics stack is prepared for Wayland, but you can have that much cheaper: nvidia-drivers works not, everything else does. |
I must have missed something, thankful for ideas on how to troubleshoot and fix: I thought I had done the installation according to tfm ( https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/UTF-8 ) Most of the system works just perfectly fine with utf8 support. BUT: dolphin: klick/drag'n'drop of non plain ascii filename will not work, displa... | What is the output of Code: export | egrep "(LANG|LC_)" |
Hello With Claws-mail, "Send" a new email returns six copies of "write on fd15: Broken pipe", the application crashes and the document is left in queue. "Send later" returns "execvp: No such file or directory Segmentation fault", and the document left unsent in queue. In the application window, "Send" sends the emails ... | Solved by downgrading from app-text/enchant-1.6.1 to app-text/enchant-1.6.0 . |
Hello, I want to switch to KDE from Gnome I installed Gnome through Sakaki EFI Install Guide and i followed everything from KDE Install Guide and for services i have DBus, for Device Manager and Session Tracker i have systemd which were installed in Gnome And i reinstalled Xorg Server and Drivers and i followed everyth... | startkde is not enough, I see you are aware of the KDE guide already, it also has a section on how to start it without a display manager (although personally I've never tried that on a systemd setup). |
You can see through my post history and see that most is for X11. I used Wayland, but dropped it because it was to bloated: it used way too much RAM and excessive CPU usage. Bye Wayland, you suck, I'm back to using a 30-year-old program. But the dinosaur program has its issues. I typed startx, Xorg log: https://paste.p... | How can a protocol be bloated? If anything, blame the compositor. |
After a system update my mousepointer only moves vertically when i move the mouse horizontal, all other directions does nothing also the mouse buttons. I have tried it with two diffrent mice. This behavier appears in X11 and in gpm. So I suspect it is not a xorg.conf problem. I think the PS2-mouse-protokoll is broken i... | MiRoSa wrote: So I suspect it is not a xorg.conf problem. I think the PS2-mouse-protokoll is broken in some way. Is there a kernel-module which could cause that problem? Do you see any relevant information in /var/log/Xorg.0.log . This is an example of the information I get about my mouse: Code: [ 63.185] (II) config/u... |
Help! I'm going nuts with this one. I'm running Thunderbird 52.2 on my Gentoo machine as well as on a VM running CentOS 6. The two are behaving differently and I cannot figure out why. This is a bit hard to explain: I always use text format emails. Thunderbird on my CentOS VM is working the way I want: As I'm entering ... | I've read several things about settings in Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Config Editor, but all settings there I can find related to line wrapping are the same: mail.wrap_ling_lines true plain_test.wrap_long_lines false I'm gonna loose my mind with this one. Tom |
Hi everyone, I'm not quite sure whether this topic belongs here, but recently I've installed a fresh Gentoo (stage3-amd64-20171123) on my new laptop and ran into some problems. Namely, subj. First abnormality with scim I encountered was failed build with brand new gcc 6.4.0 which is now default on x86-64 (something C++... | It's been a while since I used SCIM with Openbox (I switched to fcitx and lxde), but have you exported the right environment variables like XMODIFIERS, QT_IM_MODULE and GTK_IM_MODULE? |
Libreoffice-5.4.2.2 will not start as user, not errors at command line. It will run as root but not as user. Code: emerge --info Portage 2.3.13 (python 3.5.4-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop, gcc-6.4.0, glibc-2.25-r9, 4.9.72-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= Syste... | Don't jump to conclusions here, it is not like we are getting swamped with bugs like these. I'm wondering if OpenGL could be the issue here; if your user session is lacking the rights, and it is default enabled, LO could simply fail to start. Check this: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/OpenGL |
Every time I "get mail" in Claws the status bar shows filtering to spamassassin for 7-8 minutes. But then I get any new mails correctly. To try and narrow down the problem I ran Code: egrep "@" /var/log/messages | egrep -o "spamd:.+$" | sort | uniq -c | sort -n which showed it was the same messages each time. 198 of th... | And then things turn nasty. I shut down claws and when I reopened it the same sequence of events started to take place and then it crashed ... Code: suspecting a corrupt file in UTF8 conversion running in debug mode Code: claws-mail --debug Code: spamassassin.c:214:Filtering message 3566 procheader.c:155:generic_get_on... |
Trying to get my login manager (SLiM) to use Enlightenment. I'm using this guide. I manage to start SLiM, login, and the screen keeps going back to login prompt again. Output of the slim log file only shows: Code: slim: unexpected signal 1 slim: connection to X server lost. I have dbus running Code: meeseeks /home/bigu... | sdoubleyou wrote: did you read that and tried? Quote: You may have to add an entry to your X sessions directory, if you use SLiM for example Code: root # echo "enlightenment_start" >> /etc/X11/Sessions/Enlightenment root # chmod +x /etc/X11/Sessions/Enlightenment https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Enlightenment#Tips_and_tric... |
Hi I am using KDE and I find it cool but I want to know whether there is a night mode in KDE and how to install it. Kind Regards | klas, Being old fashioned, I use xflux, started when I run startx .xinitrc: # !/bin/sh /opt/xflux -l 56 -g -3 exec mate-session |
When I run pcmanfm-qt the default gtkstyle theme from qt4 is not used. If I do this Code: pcmanfm-qt -style gtk the gtkstyle theme is used as expected, but if I do this (as suggested by [1]) Code: QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=gtk pcmanfm-qt gtkstyle is not used. What am I doing wrong? [1] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qapplication.html#Q... | You are doing everything right, it's pcmanfm-qt. They use a proxy style. QApplication only parses the cmdline, pcmanfm handles the style. But noone parses (in this configuration) the environment for QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE. A possible solution is here: https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla/commit/7a1f4c77cd228ac1cbe13288d6a17... |
Hello, I finally managed to install and get it running bumblebee on my PC. But if i enable bbswitch (modprobe bbswitch), when i use startx, screen freeze and it isn't possible to do anything (totally freeze). Is it possible to fix this bug? (I use primus for information) Emerge info: Code: fulgurance@MSI-GS73VR-6RF ~ $... | That is not a kernel Kconfig option. That is a kernel command line change. You would pass that in the same place that you set root= , init= (for systemd users), real_root= (for some encrypted-root initramfs users), etc. For long term use, that would be in your bootloader (or you could build it into the kernel via Kconf... |
Hi Since version 5.7.0 QtGui has no Gtkstyle theme, the module needed for this was moved to the Qtstyleplugins project. https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtstyleplugins.git/ I have not found an ebuild for qtstyleplugins , how to properly install these themes? Cheers PS. Sorry for my english. EDIT: A few minutes after writing ... | Remove bindist use flag from make.conf and then run Code: # emerge -UD @world |
xfce4 "shut down" "restart" button are disabled "suspend" and "hibernate" are not even showing consolekit - is up and running. | How do you start Xfce? |
Hi All, Today, I loaded up clementine and I noticed it looked terrible. I loaded up qtconfig and saw breeze was no longer available and it too looked terrible. This is very strange, breeze is installed and working with plasma and gtk apps (see image). Do you know how to troubleshoot this? These are the versions of bree... | clementine use qt4, maybe set qt4 use flag to breeze? |
hello, When i login to xfce as a user the functions suspend, hybernate are no longer visible, and restart shutdown is greyed out. This works as root so i think it has something to do with permissions. I login manualy by typing startxfce4 in user mode I want to give more information, but i have no clue where to start.. ... | Has it ever worked on your current installation? I will have to assume you're using openrc - so, do you have either USE=consolekit or using elogind? You'll need to use one or the other. Knowing which you're using will lead to next steps... |
Dear Folks, Is this the correct part of Gentoo forum site to discuss a problem I am having with libreoffice-bin? Please direct me elsewhere if this is the case. I am running gentoo stable (amd64 version) on an amd kaveri box. I am currently using libreoffice-bin 5.2.72r1 - the standard version for the gentoo stable ins... | Try to install libreoffice 5.2.72 also in windows and then make a comparision. |
Hello, now, I do not use anymore desktop environment, I took the step of using only a window manager. I'm happy I have installed Compiz, and i have enabled alsa global use flag for have sound. But when i would like to add service alsasound at boot, openrc complain service doesn't exist: Code: fulgurance@MSI-GS73VR-6RF ... | For the 'alsasound' service, you'll probably want 'media-sound/alsa-utils'. :] |
Hi, I run gentoo as virtualbox guest with xfce4 desktop, kernel-4.16.6, xorg-1.19 and vbox-guest-additions-5.2. Slim refuse to login in xfce otherwise i can login in console with startxfce4. The message is : impossible to contact configuration server, connection refused my xorg log : Code: [ 408.591] X.Org X Server 1.1... | I believe that you have edited your slim.conf... Code: login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login /usr/share/slim/Xsession %session This should be the default. |
Hi, I just noticed that since last upgrade of libreoffice it does not open docx files. I checked on 5.4.2.2 and 5.4.3.2 and also on libreoffice-bin-5.4.2.2 -- all versions currently available in the portage. Unfortunately older versions were conveniently removed, so I'm stuck without any way to open docx files... The e... | You shouldn't jump to conclusions from a couple of reports. |
Hi, ALL, Is it possible to have qt4 and qt5 slotted in one machine? Or I will have to upgrade my KDE environment as well? Thank you. | You can post eselect profile list and ls -l /etc/portage/ ? Yes a sync can make profile invalid if this is removed from protage tree |
Hello, I have a Cherry Strait 3.0 black keyboard. It works fine on any WM (dwm, pekwm), but on KDE I'm getting a curious behaviour, it randomly drop keystrokes so I sometimes need to type a key twice or more. It never happens on the internal laptop keyboard and an other USB one. I realized using xev that these keys are... | Using libinput-debug-events I can reproduce the problem. I press some keyboard keys: Code: -event8 KEYBOARD_KEY +2.68s *** (-1) pressed e event8 KEYBOARD_KEY +2.74s *** (-1) released event8 KEYBOARD_KEY +3.00s *** (-1) pressed e event8 KEYBOARD_KEY +3.06s *** (-1) released event8 KEYBOARD_KEY +3.37s *** (-1) pressed e ... |
Hello, Almost every second time I press the shutdown button in the upper right corner in my GNOME environment to shutdown or reboot my machine, GNOME freezes around for 30s until the little dialog for shutdown/reboot appears. I recently re-emerged my whole system (official stable GNOME with systemd) and the problem per... | Code: Dez 01 18:07:41 lenovo-yoga gnome-shell[5406]: JS WARNING: [/home/richard/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/suspend-button@laserb/extension.js 191]: assignment to undeclared Dez 01 18:07:41 lenovo-yoga gnome-session[5348]: gnome-session-binary[5348]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT... |
When my ordinary user shuts down from the XDM menu, it says it's shutting down but instead it just restarts XDM. When root does it, it actually shuts off. The user belongs to wheel, /sbin/shutdown's mode is 755 and I have implemented Neddyseagoon's fix of adding Code: %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot... | Tony0945 wrote: I hate to tell my user to use the power switch to shut down a running computer. Could you elaborate on this concern? I agree that teaching users to use the press-and-hold that hard stops a computer is a very bad idea. However, modern systems generate an ACPI event for a press-and-quick-release of the po... |
Hi, when starting calc I get this: javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! Warning: failed to read path from javaldx /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/libscfiltlo.so: undefined symbol: _ZN5orcus17load_file_contentB5cxx11EPKc And yes O rebuild dev... | All sorts of strange things may happen if you had >=GCC-5 present (even if not switched to) and built stuff with GCC-4.9.4. So just revisit LibreOffice after you are done with the (proper) switch to GCC-6.4. |
Hi, My system: Notebook: Clevo W230SS Graphics card: Intel HD 4600, VendorID:ProductID: 8086:0416 X11-Driver: XF86-video-intel i965 I'm suffering this bug: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/323. It was created in 2014. The last entry is from 2016. But the problem does still exist on my notebook. They write about chan... | 404 on that page... I don't have much faith unless upstream fixes and it gets an ebuild. I had an issue with the lightdm GTK greeter where it had a problem leaking memory, and never got fixed until a version bump finally got rid of the bad version that was "stable" for the longest time... The leak was slow... but usual... |
So. As the topic says. I'm also out of ideas here. :( Anyway. I lost OpenGL. Actually the whole dri cabability, i think. I cannot play videos unless I'm specifying x11 as video output driver. Firefox makes random crashes also. This is propably the only error message I can get from anywhere: LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo:... | And after compiling few packages with gcc4 I have dri working again . Need to be more careful with compiling central stuff with different versions of compilers. Actually it's best to use the same version only, unless some package needs a different version compiler. |
I recently noticed that some applications under Wine were glitching out, but I didn't need them much so I didn't investigate. Today I tried starting Steam, and found that it would only show a colored window with a few boxes , which I can interact with (same with Wine). At this point I realized that there must be someth... | What other system updates occurred between these times that you noticed the applications in Wine and 32-bit stuff not working anymore? Could either Steam or Wine have also been updated and caused it? Since you have no log to point you anywhere, how about a fresh install of Steam could that be worthwhile at this point. ... |
I can't seem to figure out why there is a requirement for the AMDGPU LLVM_TARGET when trying to upgrade to Firefox 57: Code: # emerge -avuDN --exclude chromium @world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] dev-lang/python-3.4.6-r1:3.4/3.4m::gentoo USE="gdbm ... | DOH! You're completely right! I don't know how I missed that in the output, but setting -AMDGPU for clang's LLVM_TARGETS fixed the problem. Good catch, and thank you! Much better: Code: # emerge -avuDN --exclude chromium @world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [eb... |
I was trying to install sudo and firefox into my brand new built of gentoo configured with Gnome using systemd. Neither of these install so I tried doing an update to emerge --ask --update --verbose --deep @world after an emerge --sync and received an error to do a emerge @preserved-rebuild. When I do the rebbuild, I g... | LIsLinuxIsSogood wrote: Can you post emerge --info dev-libs/openssl You right is tipically openssl 1.1.0 error. tbingeman downgrade openssl to 1.0.2m (see bug ) |
So I know this isn't exactly the right place for things related to window managers that aren't "supported" but I thought I would try anyway since it is on my gentoo laptop that something had happened and I would like to try to get some guesses as to figuring out why maybe. I use wmx (a very old window manager), which s... | I figured it out, for some reason there is an off on button for the "grabbing" windows activity, which makes use of all things the Num-lock. Weird (but I guess that is what happens when you compile your own windows manager from source code) |
I originally thought this was just a problem with Discord's font rendering, but now it's become an issue with the atom editor as well. It's hard to describe the issue, but it's like this: In the atom text editor, the side-menu, and in the Settings tab, font rendering looks fine. However, both the menus at the top and t... | Hot diggity, that was, indeed, the problem with both programs. Masking solved the issue. Thanks so much! Marking [solved] Cheers, EE |
All I want is a little program running that puts a screenshot of my current X session in the GNOME/Gtk+/whatever clipboard when I press PrtSc. | forrestfunk81 wrote: media-gfx/scrot is a screenshot programm. Maybe you can use it with gnome keybindings. ++ I have that bound (plus options) to the prtscn key. This is for openbox but I am sure you can edit keybinds in gnome |
With the upcoming (Dec 14,2017) KDE Applications 17.12 and associated Plasma/Frameworks updates, are we at long last going to be able to remove qt4 and kdelibs-4, etc., and the associated USE flags? Any info and/or links to such info are greatly appreciated. Guess there may be a few apps still not ported to qt5, but it... | For the moment I need qt4 for qgis, with version 3 I can switch to full qt5 |
I have 2 problems. 1. I can't use startx or startkde to start Plasma5. It shows "$DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server. " 2. I can start sddm to start plasma5 without any problem. But recently, after I did some updating, I failed to start any program after Plasma 5 starts with sddm. I tried to launch fi... | pd1986 wrote: This works. So, what is the problem? How can I fix it and start my desktop only by "startx" https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE#No_display_manager |
Hi, Since 2001 when I first time I started to use KDE, for the first time I cannot manage simple thing with KDE. How to move icons on the desktop? In Plasma 4 we could see small tab: http://i.stack.imgur.com/WvujL.png Widget are unlocked. But believe me, I cannot find it now. I know there is some key combination, but I... | long left mouse button press on icon |
For info for anyone who, like me, has used KDEPIM since before KDE5: I found that I no longer had ClamAV scanning my mail. The appropriate filters were configured in Kmail->Settings, but the anti-virus filter routes the mail through kmail_clamav.sh, and that doesn't exist. Turns out it's been moved to kde-apps/kdepim-a... | Thanks, that's good to know! I've recently added information about spam and anti-virus filter runtime dependencies to kmail elog, and will add that too. |
I use korganizer with google calendar backend. All events are shown in korganizer window and sync with google calendar works fine. But there are no notifications at NN minutes before the event starts (as configured in the event settings). KOrganizer 5.5.3, KDE Frameworks 5.37.0 Qt 5.7.1 (built against 5.7.1) The xcb wi... | No, that is unrelated. KOrganizer notifications is a known issue fixed in upcoming 17.08 release. |
Hello, i use Fluxbox with startx and an entry in .xinitrc . I want start nm-applet at boot. It doesnt work. I have add in .fluxbox/startup: Code: keinerangegeben .fluxbox # less startup #!/bin/sh # # fluxbox startup-script: # # Lines starting with a '#' are ignored. # Change your keymap: xmodmap "/home/sdoubleyou/.Xmod... | I learn from you I think you have add infos from fluxbox online ... the file is copied. MANY THANKS - all ok |
Why does my terminal emulator not "scrub" the screen for a refresh of the lines of text buffer already there? What I want is for it to work exactly the way that xterm does which does that. I am not using a window manager, other than very basic window manager that really doesn't have much in the way of settings. I guess... | No, the terminal is emulating a dumb terminal like back in the olden days - the screen does not store any state, so if you resize it, it will not redraw it... ... however, it can optionally send a signal SIGWINCH that tells the application to go ahead and redraw, if it is running directly in the window. I'm not sure if... |
Hey... Went through with the procedure of updating to Gnome 3.16 about a week ago.... once it became stable... However, as many users have noticed (on Gentoo and other Linux distros), the icons on the desktop (if these are enabled) and in Nautilus are HUGE ( ) now after the update, and there seems to be no way to reduc... | Yeah I noticed things got a bit geriatric. I got it as small as possible by the same way but it's not as small as it use to be. The desktop items I resized the same way. The trick for Nautilus was that you had to go with the "main" menu. When you select a Nautilus window, there's a "file" menu in the top bar that's rel... |
Hello World, if I try to activate nVidia for accelerated OpenGL / OpenCL I get a black screen, but nVidia is active. There is no error, but a warning and I don't know if xrandr has been executed. I have lightdm with gnome or xfce. Setup with Intel GPU only is working. I didn't try nouveau. I've also tried bumblebee and... | Your hybrid.conf is a bit crowded, see this for a clean xorg.conf: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8131222.html#8131222 Use that. Otherwise, the steps you took look correct, please post your Xorg.0.log. |
Hello folks, I just noticed a strange behaviour on my machine when I was monitoring my disk usage with iotop (LXDE was running at that time): In my root folder are files being created/changed named .xauth***** (* = random alphanumeric) and in the home directory of the normal user happened the following: Code: 4700 be/4... | For historical reasons, the X server process runs with effective UID root even when you start it from a user shell. This is undesirable from a security perspective and there are efforts afoot to replace it with a different problem. For now, seeing X running as root is not necessarily an indication you did anything wron... |
So did something stupid - I updated world some days ago without restarting then updated world again yesterday, shut off the box, and went home. (this is my office box) So this morning, X would not start - I arrived at the conole login. The only log file that gets updated with something is sddm. Xorg.0.log isnt touched,... | Bug , as workaround downgrade sddm |
Here's another annoyance from GTK land. I'm running mail-client/thunderbird-52.3.0 in a Plasma 5 environment (kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.10.5) and the scrollbars have no arrows on them. I guess it's just another manifestation of insanity among those GTK developers; I give thanks that the KDE people aren't that crazy. Qt ... | That's great. I replaced ".scrollbar" with an asterisk in my ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css file and it worked. I've got arrows on the scrollbar now. Thank you. |
Hello, I have been having issues with the last update to Plasma, which I assume, are problems with dev-qt/*-5.9.2 applications breaking it. I have tried to revert back to the previous version but keep getting conflicts. As for what plasma is doing, I have no icons that are in the tool bar, can not access the tool bar, ... | Obviously Qtwebkit should not fail to build so maybe you have an unfinished Qt upgrade? What's the error message? Do you still have Ruby 21 installed? |
Since yesterday my X (Fluxbox) dont start. I get an error: Code: less /etc/X11/xorg.0.log [ 826.646] X.Org X Server 1.19.4 Release Date: 2017-10-04 [ 826.646] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 826.646] Build Operating System: Linux 4.12.12-gentoo x86_64 Gentoo [ 826.646] Current Operating System: Linux localhost 4.12... | michi-monster, All the files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/* are concatinated together is lexical order. Code: "Section" is not a valid keyword in this section. reads as if you have an EndSection missing, so that Code: Section "Files" iss parsed as if it belongs to another section. What does Code: cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/* ... |
Today I discovered something about an innocent bug I have been encountering for a long time. It’s about localization. My system runs KDE/Plasma 5 unstable branch. Everything goes smooth, with one exception: a constantly returning locale error from within a terminal window: Code: setlocale: unsupported locale setting Us... | Oh and I should of course add that plasma's system settings don't help out either: Code: Available languages: <NONE> Installed languages: American English, Nederlands |
In the unstable tree I try to update as much as possible. Whether that's smart is another issue... Anyway, yesterday I had an enormous world update: ~250 packages. Among others all KDE apps got updated but KDE Frameworks also (I think). However, X won't start anymore now. Gentoo's wiki did not tell me how to start look... | No errors message? There's something in ~/.xsession-errors? Is plasma problem or sddm problem? With sddm-0.16 there's a bug |
Hi Forum, I have a 2-year-old laptop that uses an integrated Intel GPU and has an nVidia GeForce 940M dedicated GPU. My xorg.conf was just auto-configured using 'X -configure' and reads: Code: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" InputDevice "M... | hi hhfeuer, thanks for the advice. Now, when I try to boot, I get the following error: Code: [ 174.347] (II) intel(G0): Using Kernel Mode Setting driver: i915, version 1.6.0 20170403 [ 174.348] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting [ 174.348] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section. ... |
Hi, Apparently since the update of KDE Frameworks to 5.37.0 and Plasma to 5.10.5, my password is visible in cleartext when entered. Has anyone else encountered this? I'm using SDDM 0.14.0-r2. Erik | don't press the 'eye' button? |
Hey, I use, two monitors with to graphic cards, xfce4, nvidia-driver, xinerama, xorg.conf and Im desperate searching a keyboard shortcut to switch focus between monitors. Thanks for help. lovelytux | Think of an action, involving what your talking about, and then try to describe that action in as much detail as you can. The reason that I ask is because you should be able to just move the mouse to the screen you want. Drag and drop applications where you need them with the mouse. If that's not what you are seeing th... |
I changed my Gentoo password after the initial installation, and since then, KDE Wallet has not been auto-unlocking on login. I have tried changing my KDE Wallet password and rebooting, but the changes do not seem to persist once I reboot. So, for example, if I set Evolution to start on boot, since the KDE Wallet and u... | So I'm starting to really realize just how bad my speed-reading habit is, and how much I miss in doing so. Evolution uses gnome-keyring , not kwallet. Instructions for setting up gnome-keyring auto-unlock with SDDM can be found here . Followed the instructions and everything is working as intended now. Note to self: Re... |
I think I have completely lost my brain, so I'm neither finding an answer or can recall a very basic question about font settings. The issue is for one use (root) the font looks great fine, but the other user it is tiny and illegible. What is causing it? The system is kind of bare bones and definitely doesn't contain a... | Well, the fonts depend on the environment, you'll need to clarify what environment you're running in. I would assume you're not talking about the console fonts and working with some X11 environment. Now whether you're using some classic window manager that uses its own fonts through hardcoding or X resources/defaults r... |
In KDE Plasma, is there a way to make git not try to use the kwallet to authenticate when you are pushing? When I do it, it gives a bunch of D-Bus errors related to the kwalletd service not being registered, and then eventually pops up a window asking for my password. I don't even want to use the wallet, so that is why... | Try to see ~/.config/kwalletrc and section [Wallet] and [Auto Deny] (not personally tested). https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29594260/how-to-disable-kwallet-in-kde-plasma-5 |
I am using LXDE + Openbox, and LXTerminal acts strangely. When I open a tab via Ctrl-T, the new tab shows the initial command line prompt as Quote: ^Tuser@gentoopc ~ $ Why the ^T ? Likewise, pressing Shift-Ctrl-C to copy something acts as if I pressed Ctrl-C . Ctrl-V (paste) also displays some weird characters. Is ther... | According to LXTerminal's pull-down menu entry 'File', the shortcut for 'New Tab' is Shift+Ctrl+T, not Ctrl+T. Shift+Ctrl+T works in my case (LXTerminal 0.2.0). To copy/paste in LXDE+Openbox using Ctrl+Shift+C/Ctrl+Shift+V, add the following two key bindings in the keyboard section of ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml: Cod... |
Hi, I did a search and couldn't find anything (surprisingly) about a possible workaround for LibreSSL and KDE. Is it possible to use Okular and Krita while using LibreSSL? Anything I can try to perhaps force the compilation and ignore the openssl dependency? My C skills are alright and I don't mind giving a crack at tr... | I'm using libressl, but haven't yet installed anything GUI related. When I look for any open/libre ssl support in okular and krita, it doesn't show up. Are you sure there is an issue? Code: $ grep -i ssl /usr/portage/media-gfx/krita/krita-3.*.ebuild $ grep -i ssl /usr/portage/kde-apps/okular/okular-17.0*.ebuild $ You m... |
I have followed the Handbook to install the X server, but it seems it either crashes, hangs or it cannot find the mouse and keyboard. When testing with xterm and twm three twm windows are displayed, but no keyboard and mouse. Both of them do work in the console, with GPM https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GPM I haved tried m... | libinput is OK, it is the latest option for Xorg. I suspect there is something missing in kernel. |
Hi all. I have a problem that when install E17.when I emerge enlightenment:0.17 show me the BLOCK, Why is media-libs/elementary block dev-libs/EFL ? May I have some help with this? Code: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies .... .. ... done! [ebuild N ] dev-lang/luajit-2.0.4:2... | Quote: Total: 14 packages (11 new, 3 in new slots), Size of downloads: 7,599 KiB Do you already have package dev-libs/efl installed on your system? Is this a clean install or an upgrade...I've had some moderate issues with ebuilds for enlightenment based on the gentoo repositories, but this seems like something that sh... |
Updated recently (versions above), and when trying to retrieve email from my gmail account, the oauth dialog presents itself for a moment, then blanks out (page is still there, but there's no login info, just the address bar at the top). Google hasn't been very useful, and I don't see anything in bugs. A pointer to tro... | Thank you! That did it. |
I have jumped from stable to ~amd64, doing a massive rebuild and now my fonts in the Firefox—and Firefox alone—are all off. There are some dots and vertical bars that shouldn’t be there, kerning is all off etc., as you can see in the pictures linked below. Since it happens only in Firefox, I am at lost at what exactly ... | Same problem here |
I did a world update yesterday and since XFCE doesn|t work like it did before. One issue is that XFCE has problems saving sessions. It won|t shut down or reboot when I have the "save session for future logins" checked. Moreover, switching the keyboard layout doens|t work. Even if I choose a different one it stays the s... | which versions of xfce4 software are you running? Did you do a revdep-rebuild? library mismatches cause a lot of issues .. did you accidentally or on purpose merge the 4.10 pre1 versions? also try a rebuild of .. dbus-glib ( your paste bin shows a lot of dbus -errors might be due to abi change in a glib update) |
Screenshots: leafpad qtconfig I'd like to know if it's possible to address these problems with fonts. GTK+: Everything is great. Anti-aliasing for Latin and Japanese characters. My issue is that programs in JA locale have this strange font width problem that changes dynamically. In the leafpad screenshot, I show leafpa... | Finally return with a solution, and quite the easy one at that. Code: # emerge mplus-outline-fonts This font pack has fantasic clean JP fonts and everything is rendering nicely everywhere: GTK2, GTK3, QT4, QT5. The text shift/alignment issue in programs like Leafpad somehow is also addressed. This font pack or perhaps ... |
I would like to have a desktop with no icons in Xfce. However, when I go to Settings > Desktop Settings and uncheck "Allow Xfce to manage desktop" I no longer have a wallpaper. Is there anyway to have no icons on Desktop but still use a wallpaper instead of solid color background? Thanks in advance!Wallpaper when | To get the icons back, do the following: 1) echo "=media-libs/libpng-1.2.35" >> /etc/portage/package.mask...or add =media-libs/libpng-1.2.35 to /etc/portage/package.mask. 2) emerge -av libpng. Apparently, libpng is broken again. I'm going to check bugzilla and post a bug report if one doesn't exist. Please verify. I am... |
After having my plasma session open for some hours, and after quitting any open foreground applications, my cpu usage is still at about 10-15%, spiking like a sinewave every second or so, much like: This post with screen captures which I can't bother registering to ptrace hasn't helped me much, but disabling my system ... | It reappeared, this time it was my disk usage warning animation on the taskbar, apparently you can set ksysguard to refresh very quickly and it doesn't bother the CPU, but the taskbar widgets? no way, they all waste resources :/ (Diagnosed through paint refreshes on my window compositor effects) |
For now I just unmerged it as a work-around, but apparently in my last sync the ebuild for app-text/qpdfview-0.4.16 was changed to require qt5 where the same ebuild previously allowed either qt4 or qt5. Offhand I couldn't find any bugs related to that. Anyone know why that was done? Speaking of that, I've yet to find a... | Well...I see it was done here, though there's no explanation: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=be7f591c84d0b5b059a1bf5224fe0f20ac3421d8 Tom |
Hello everyone, this week I decided to install Code::Blocks to test, I really liked the IDE, but I found a annoying bug, whenever I open any file or a project, CPU usage goes to 100% (single core) and the use of RAM increases without stopping until I simply crash the whole computer because of SWAP, I've been investigat... | Same problem here. My fix is to start Codeblocks 16.01 from a Xfce-terminal. Create a desktop icon: Code: [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Name=Code::Blocks IDE Comment=Configurable and extensible IDE Exec=codeblocks %F Icon=codeblocks Path= Terminal=true StartupNotify=true |
I get Quote: plugin.c:32:45: fatal error: gdk-pixbuf-xlib/gdk-pixbuf-xlib.h: No such file or directory This header file is indeed not present even though gdk-pixbuf-2.36.9 is installed. Many thanks. | Make sure you have X USE -flag set for gdk-pixbuf. If it's already set, then please pastebin the whole build log. |
So, i3 isn't loading .Xresources when I Code: startx and when I Code: xtdb -merge .Xresources i3 just hangs and nothing can be done except killing it through htop. I tried changing .Xresources to .Xdefaults and it allows to to display colours only adding in any other options like removing scrollbar or fonts crashes i3 ... | Does https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_resources as mentioned in the X resources wiki article help? |
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