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Hi! i am trying to setup a Qt5 development environment on my Asus TF700T (arm-based android tablet with keyboard dock which i have converted to a native Gentoo linux laptop), and i am having some troubles. First, with Qt4 it was working properly but i need to develop with Qt5, so i have changed my useflags: Code: USE="... | One of the below: 1) add -qt=5 as an argument to qmake, or 2) set QT_SELECT=qt5 in your environment, or 3) change the symlink /etc/xdg/qtchooser/default.conf to point to qt5.conf See also man qtchooser . |
I am very puzzled by this, how do I get to have qpdfview as the default application for application/pdf? Code: $ xdg-mime query default application/pdf /usr/share/applications/qpdfview.desktop $ xdg-open paper.pdf Opening "paper.pdf" with Okular (application/pdf) | charles17 wrote: Be sure the filetype / mimetype is the same: xdg-mime query filetype paper.pdf Yes as indicated in my post |
Here is what my terminal looks like: https://ibin.co/3YpGTC9qbgx5.png Code: $ cat ~/.Xresources urxvt.font: xft:xos4 Terminus:pixelsize=16 urxvt.boldFont: xft:xos4 Terminus:pixelsize=16 $ grep \*font ~/.fluxbox/styles/mystyle *font: verdana-10 window.label.*font: dotum-10 The window label's font is "dotum" from a diffe... | Try this: Code: ... <match target="font"> <test name="family"> <string>Verdana</string> </test> <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit> <edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit> <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit> <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><co... |
I've recently discovered that my system is missing some of the fonts I used previously. In particular, I'm interested in bringing back Century Schoolbook L from urw-fonts. I'm really lost due to the following observations. fc-cache goes through the fonts and is able read the files. I verified with the following command... | What does "ls /etc/fonts/conf.d" and "emerge --info fontconfig" look like? |
After having had issues with akonadi/mariadb blocker, I set mariadb to stable using keywords. Not sure the downgrade is the issue, but anyway, now akonadi does not start; Code: micke@h2 ~/Downloads/DashBox_BackupV1_1 $ akonadi.collectionattributetable OK akonadi.collectionmimetyperelation OK akonadi.collectionpimitemre... | Thanks! Sometimes the simple solutions works just fine, such as in this case. |
I can't get LXDE to start via startlxde , and the error message is Quote: cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/lxde/pcmanfm/pcmanfm.conf': No such file or directory despite that pcmanfm is installed. Does anyone know what the problem is? Many thanks. | See post 8107008 . |
I'm actually adding a SOLVED post here for others future reference. I had tried several times in the past to replace nvidia-drivers with nouveau on this machine, especially because it has a GeForce 6200 card which is limited to the 304.xx drivers. I'm beyond sick and tired of patching drivers and waiting for nvidia to ... | Also give x11-terms/st a try - it works fast enough for me (with transparency and freetype fonts). Code: ~ $ time find /proc 2> /dev/null [...] real 0m0.692s user 0m0.394s sys 0m0.318s ~ $ echo $(( $(find /proc 2> /dev/null | wc -l) / 692 * 1000 )) 270000 This is on an ancient AMD card, but I don't think nouveau will b... |
1. xfce4-power-manager, when started from settings menu, shows an endless "Xfce4 power manager not running. Do you want to start it now?" dialog. Click Yes or No, instantly pops back up, ad infinitum. Must be killed in terminal. 2. Log out: Every option except logout is greyed out. DM is lightdm. Starting consolekit re... | Uh, weird... You've had lightdm running without consolekit since xfce borks with consolekit running? Your setup sounds pretty broken... or is this after a recent update? Consolekit is necessary with upower to allow for the log out options hibernate/sleep/etc. to show up. I'd probably carefully look at your USE flags an... |
I'm having only marginal success trying to apply patches supplied by upstream to x11-terms/st. Specifically I'm trying to add both keyboard and mouse scrolling from these: http://st.suckless.org/patches/scrollback/ Note that the do in fact have a version 0.7 patch for the keyboard scrolling. I tried adding that to my /... | Ant P had the answer in the thread where this first came up here . Many of the patches change the default config.h and having the savedconfig USE flag on when adding a patch can break things. What I had to do was this: 1. Make a copy of my customized /etc/portage/savedconfig/x11-terms/st-9999. 2. Disable the savedconfi... |
Hi there, since the last system update sddm shows every user icon twice in sddm. I'm using the Breeze design. Any ideas? | Sync and upgrade sddm to latest version. |
Hi, I've experienced a strange issue since yesterday that is the most annoying thing that ever happened to me on linux. When I open a document in libreoffice-bin or openoffice-bin and type something, the GPU hangs after some time varying between a few seconds (especially openoffice-bin) and 30 minutes. The error messag... | bluesapphire wrote: Do you have any idea (something like putting a file in /etc/init.d/ that copies the state of /sys/class/drm/card0/error to some other file, but I'm not sure if that would be the right way to do it)? I would report this bug to bugs.freedesktop.org then. Put a .stop script in /etc/local.d/ to save the... |
I am trying to play with Plasma 5 on Wayland again (what I had working earlier stopped working with in a day lol, figured I'd wait a while and try again). I've done a little more experimentation and can't get any useful setups running at all. I can get Weston working with "weston-launch" from a TTY. I can get a partial... | Qt-5.8 is essentially a broken release. |
Hello Fresh install on a new machine. This time i wanted to try nouveau for my triple screen setup, and so far Everything works out of the box. However, my Three screens act as one, if that makes sence. The placement of them is correct though. I also noticed that the option "On head" in the fluxbox menu for the toolbar... | Sorry guys, found it. Didnt use the xinerama use-flag when merging fluxbox. Read somewere that xinerama was obsolete, so didnt Think of it. |
Hey, I just installed libre office 5.2.7.2, but it won't start. The first time I tried, I saw the loading window, but then nothing happend and now even this doesn't come up anymore. I tried launching it from the command line, but I do not get any messages. I remove ~/.config/libreoffice, but this has no effect. Any ide... | After restart of the pc it worked. |
hello, Xfce4 suspend and hybernate do nothing s2ram works ? dmesg: https://paste.pound-python.org/show/SECEqEMNNTiorTw2C7H1/ Code: [ 0.856884] msi_wmi: This machine doesn't have neither MSI-hotkeys nor backlight through WMI [ 0.743875] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042F conflicts with Op... | Xfce buttons not working usually means you don't have the required upower/policykit/consolekit/systemd parts configured correctly. Check suspend works at that level of the stack. |
Hello there, since a reboot after my last series of package emerges i got a problem with kmail. while right clicking an entry, the option dialog is just black and empty (all options are clickable, though). kmail 4.14.11_pre20160611-r1 I did a: Code: qdepends -C kmail | cut -d " " -f 2- | xargs emerge -1 -v already. rev... | Sounds like a theming issue? Do you use a dark colour scheme, Plasma/breeze or some qt5ct config? |
Some time within the past few days, when trying to save a file from chromium, I get a popup "Unable to create io-slave. Cannot talk to klauncher: Not connected to D-Bus server." and the file save dialog does not show any folders, although the list of places on the left is OK, and it WILL save the file successfully in w... | This sounds rather like a session problem. And the first question one has to ask in that case is not answered by your list; do you use systemd or consolekit or elogind, and how do you start your session? |
I'm running gnome-3.22. When I double-click an item in nautilus it does not know how to open it, it tries to open everything in the editor. I end up with binary nonsense in the text editor whenever I double-click on an image file or other media files. Also .desktop files don't open right, they just go into the editor t... | What happen if you right click on the item? Can you choose the default program? Gnome select the last program used by default |
According to the KDE wiki "kde" should be put into the make.conf. There is also the profile "plasma". Does it make sense to work with both at the same time or should the kde use flag be removed from the make.conf? Thanks Lokesh | plasma profile already provide kde use flag Code: $ cat /usr/portage/profiles/targets/desktop/plasma/make.defaults # Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 USE="consolekit declarative dri kde kipi kwallet phonon plasma policykit qml qt5 semantic-desktop ... |
K3b hangs every time I try and create an audio cd. Steps to reproduce: Start k3b from the Multimedia menu Select New Audio CD Project Use the navigate menu to open a directory with Audio Files Drag a file into the lower Current Projects Windows. A dialog box appears with the title "Please be patient .." and sometimes y... | What version of k3b? |
Hi. How to set focus to a window without raising it? I'd rather not have focus-follow-mouse. It used to be (ancient) that scrolling set keyboard input focus without raising the window, but the current behaviour (scrolling without raising or focus) is actually better for me. However, I would still like to be able to set... | I know with KDE4 there were definitely separate settings for "activate and pass click" and "activate, pass click and raise window" for the first three mouse buttons near the window frame settings. Try looking there? |
Hi all, today I got an update for various KDE packages from 5.8.6 to 5.9.5 and, if it is relevant, yesterday I got an update from various QT packages from 5.6.2 to 5.7.1. After the update I logged off and back in from KDE and I immediately noticed that instead of the regular Breeze splash screen I got a black screen wi... | I don't think kfaenza is providing you with anything complete for modern Plasma. Switch back to breeze dark, problem still persists? Try with a new user. |
I have just upgraded two machine to KDE5. After sorting out all the blockages when I logged on from sddm the new desktop appeared and I was able to start working. On the second machine when I logon I get applications in the autostart list starting but there is no desktop, just a black screen. One of the apps has a cons... | Please check if it is the same issue with a different user. |
Emerged SDDM with consolekit pam -systemd, but it's still looking for systemd libraries on startup. Code: Jul 18 21:14:41 lepton sudo[9565]: creator : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/usr/portage ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/etc/init.d/xdm restart Jul 18 21:14:41 lepton sudo[9565]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (ui... | Is this it? https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1020970-start-0.html |
after installing Xorg i try to install Plasma-Desktop. Code: GentooX /mnt2/BACKUPs # emerge --ask kde-plasma/plasma-meta * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news read to view new items. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!!... | For set correct CPU_FLAGS_X86 in make.conf use app-portage/cpuid2cpuflags program |
On a fresh system install I added plasma by selecting the corresponding profile. I expected that this would automatically install the plasma-meta package but I need to do it on top of that. It looked like Code: emerge -av plasma-meta These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... don... | Can help this ? |
AltGr does no effect by pressing. I have problems with typing the pipe symbol. I guess i depends on xorg, I try to edit 30-keyboard.conf file but no success. Code: root@GentooX2 /home # <<<<<< bash: syntax error near unexpected token `<<<' root@GentooX2 /home # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-keyboard.conf Section "InputCl... | You just have too many configuration files. Modern Xorg prefers to work without configuration. Most likely you can use KDE Settings to configure desired options. So, the simplest solution is to remove all configuration for Xorg and then configure keyboard layout via KDE Settings. Only if "no-configuration" does not wor... |
Iam not sure where to start, i have recently installed gentoo on a Yoga 910 laptop. This is only happening when "show icons on desktop" option is activated. if i move an icon, it duplicates , And as you can see on the attached image, the selection rectangle is showing the same effect. If you have any idea where i have ... | Here is a video showing the behavior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAWB0iO8tZE |
System: Alienware 17 R4 Problem: I can't get Optimus to work. When I run startx several things seem to go wrong and XServer shuts down. I have read through relevant chapters at /usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-384.47/README.bz2. I have read the gentoo wiki on optimus . I have read through the gentoo wiki on nvidia and the... | dustfinger, You have the teltale signs of Optimus, nVidia can't see a display, intel and nVidia GPUs but ... a few high end 'gaming laptops' actually have two complete independent graphics setups. That is, they look like Optimus but are not. Such laptops allow you to choose GPUs in the BIOS. Do you have that option? Th... |
Error: could not insert 'nvidia' :Exec format error is the error when i try startx this is post update with the new kernel 3.5.7 and with udev 1.9 I have tried emerge -e xorg-server and emerge -e nvidia-drivers still get the same error. Problem was it was compiled for a newer kernel and I was booting into the older ker... | it was compiled for a different kernel I'm assuming? |
Hello! I'm trying to run Gentoo as VirtualBox guest. For that I have emerged virtualbox-guest-additions-5.1.22 At first Xorg started, but additions didn't work because of vboxvideo kernel module Here's the interesting part of dmesg Code: [ 3.231898] vboxguest: misc device minor 57, IRQ 20, I/O port d020, MMIO at 000000... | poxu, Can we have a clean self consistent data set to work with please? All from your guest system. lspci the outputut of dmesg your kernel .config the content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log lspci will fit into a post, the other things need to be go to a pastebin. wgetpaste is your friend. The output of Code: uname -a and Code... |
Hi, I've a strange problem, as user, with desktops. I can't move windows between different workspaces. If I try to move, system freeze for 10 secs. and I see an error in the journal. Code: gnome-shell[4034]: The program 'gnome-shell' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The er... | Does this happen with any window? and does this happen on a just booted system or are you running other software? |
Hello, I changed every place I know from english to german keyboard layout but unfortunately only the login of GDM still persists in english. How can I change this to german too? Kind Regards Richard | No idea how gdm has evolve, if it's still using xorg and not some weird drivers, here's how to make an xorg in french (adapt with your legion code) keyboard content of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/97-evdev.conf Code: Section "InputClass" Identifier "keyboard-all" MatchIsKeyboard "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Driver ... |
I followed the guide to install Xorg and XFCE but when I type in "startx" it fails to load properly. Here is the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file: https://paste.pound-python.org/show/R3RKiiyGaTvK4snjeaKO/ I'm using an integrated intel graphics card and I configured it according to the link provided by the Xorg guide. | akim22, You are not using your correct kernel then. Did you forget to mount /boot for the kernel install? Look at Code: uname -a Linux NeddySeagoon_Static 4.12.0-gentoo #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 10 11:02:16 BST 2017 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux The date and time is the build time ef t... |
I love Gentoo but I must admit I've noticed that Wayland isn't so well-functioning under it, compared to how well it works under say Arch Linux (when we control for hardware, that is). To be precise whenever I try to start a Wayland session whether it be Sway or Plasma on Wayland using SDDM, it immediately crashes. On ... | Do you use systemd or openrc? |
Hi, I'm using a Thinkpad W530 running Gentoo + SLIM + Awesome. Every time after I log in into Awesome I need to unplug and plug again my USB mouse (tried different ones) When I logout and login again I don't have the problem, the mouse is working. Issue only occur after first sign in. Xorg.0.log: https://bpaste.net/sho... | samidarko, Set up so that your system starts at the console. Code: emerge gpm which is the console mouse driver and add gpm to the default runlevel so it starts at boot. Reboot. If the console mouse works, your kernel is good and the problem is Xorg or window manager related. If the console mouse doesn't work, test wit... |
EDIT: changed title to better reflect the identified issue Hello following a nightmarish update I am experiencing a strange problem: the GUI does not start automatically. The boot process ends up at the command line, and after logging in I can start plasma entering startx with no problems. But: it won't start by itself... | xdm is in default runlevel? lightdm configured in /etc/conf.d/xdm? |
I have just made a minimum install of Gentoo, which I have never used before. As my display manager I have installed SDDM and Xmonad as my window manager. I have not received any sort of error messages during the installation, but I just can`t configure xmonad. I have been following all this link https://beginners-guid... | saturnalia0 wrote: > openFile: permission denied That seems to be your problem... Who is the owner of the configuration file? Use `ls -l` to find out and `chown vinicius:vinicius /path/to/the/file` (as the owner of the file, probably root) to set it to your user. If you installed xmonad with Portage I think you have to... |
I'm using one of those extension (macro) in libreoffice which converts number to text: numbertext-0.9.5.oxt So for example in a spreadsheet I have formula =MONEYTEXT(E34,"CAD") and it gives me: Err.504 (Function parameter is not valid, for example, text instead of a number, or a domain reference instead of cell referen... | From man eshowkw : man eshowkw: OPTIONS -O | --overlays Search overlays (default: False) Try passing --overlays . Alternatively, just tell Portage to pretend-install the version you want. If it shows an error, you have more configuration changes to make. Otherwise, it's ready to try. |
Hello there. After migrating to the KDE5 I cannot control brightness of my notebook backlight through standard means, it works manually through /sys/... but the battery widget reports that backlight control is unavailable. Is there some obscure dependency I am missing? Cheers. | Do you have powerdevil installed, and if so which version? Do you use systemd, and how do you launch your Plasma session? |
firefox-bin-45.8.0 form entry memorization worked OK; after upgrade to firefox-bin-52.2.0 it is not working. In: Preference --> Privacy "Remember search and form history" is enabled But Firefox is not memorizing entries. Is there other setting I missed? | Joseph_sys wrote: firefox-bin-45.8.0 form entry memorization worked OK; after upgrade to firefox-bin-52.2.0 it is not working. In: Preference --> Privacy "Remember search and form history" is enabled But Firefox is not memorizing entries. Is there other setting I missed? 52.x was a step back - with 54. I'm fine here. |
Hi, I have cups configured to use our office cups server. Using browsers (chromium, Firefox) and command line I'm able to see all office printers and use them. However when I open kate / Gwenview / etc I see only the PDF printer. What am I missing? Thanks in advance, Doron | USE=cups globally enabled? |
Trying to get X running on a new machine (Razer Blade Stealth). Seems most people on the internets are using Intel's i915 driver for this...(although I suspect i965 might also work), I've read an tried to match the Intel article: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel I suspect, I've messed something up in the kernel, as n... | Probably the correct vide card is i965 not i915 |
Since Gentoo moved to KDE Plasma 5, I've decided I really don't need to have all of it on my system any more, and uninstalled all KDE-related packages. There are, however, a few KDE applications I use regularly (particularly Okular, KTorrent and Digikam), so I reinstalled just those apps in order to get a minimal set o... | Install x11-misc/qt5ct. This sets an environment variable QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct in /etc/env.d. Then use qt5ct to choose icons/colors/fonts. |
I am trying to use lwm for the user. In my .xinitrc file: Code: exec lwm When I type startx: Code: X.Org X Server 1.19.3 Release Date: 2017-03-15 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 4.9.16-gentoo x86_64 Gentoo Current Operating System: Linux craptop 4.9.16-gentoo #2 SMP Fri Jun 16 22:18:48 C... | roboto, Notice that /tmp has the sticky bit set. Code: drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 160 Jun 17 23:07 tmp |
Hi all, Hoping someone can lend me a hand on getting my virtual gentoo machine back to normal. I am running into issues when trying to play back video with mpv. Error as follows: Code: (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264) (+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (opus) libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so libGL error: fa... | I don't know if this will help you, but I install virtualbox-guest-additions on my guests to make sure everything works well. |
Hi, I run qemu straight-up with KVM, no libvirt. I have always been able to run a Win7 system with Spice with no problems. However, once we upgraded to Windows 10, my mouse performance became abominable. It is absolutely unusable... it sticks in place, then jumps clear across the screen, or it will move a few inches, t... | Bump. |
Any help on this? No problem with Sway-0.12.2. Is it a bug? Thank you! Code: $ sway -dV 05/12/17 19:11:58 - [main.c:185] Linux gentoo 4.11.0-gentoo #7 SMP Wed May 10 18:31:37 EEST 2017 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4330 CPU @ 3.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux 05/12/17 19:11:58 - [main.c:157] Contents of /etc/lsb-release: 05... | Thanks a lot! |
Hello! After upgrade my qt-creator was up to 3.x, so it is build with Qt5. But fonts in it (menus and dialogs) is differ than in other apps (Qt4 and gtk for example). QtConfig program does not work with Qt5. How could I setup fonts for Qt5? | You could in theory install lxqt, configure fonts, theme and rest. Then export environment variable QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=lxqt in your xfce. ( then u might remove all lxqt packages except lxqt-qtplugin) EIDT: u sure its export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk and not export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gtk2 ?? |
Good evening, or afternoon for those who like me are busy figuring out how to recover some aspect of the system I lost yesterday. The subject matter of the post might be better put as help with Lxqt (Enlightenment), this has some system-wide aspects (icons, buttons, etc. missing as well). After running a --depclean fol... | How do I mark this issue as Solved, it turns out it was a profile issue and I would like to leave it here rather than remove or have to delete it from the site. |
hello, I'm going to compile KDE. It just came a message with which is searched for Windows versions. I'm afraid of an attack. Is it ok that this check happens? An image here: http://www.edv-bildung.de/ein-check-der-windowsversionen-ueber-linux/ | I don't know what you mean |
Hello. I've recently updated my system using `emerge -uDNav @world` and got TrueType fonts rendering totally ruined. I was using non-antialiased Verdana as my common font for whole DE and now it's utter pain to look at it. Picture of the disaster: http://oi67.tinypic.com/2zjmih3.jpg Profile: default/linux/amd64/13.0 My... | After a lot of struggle I've finally figured out how to solve the problem and bring my beloved non-antialiased Verdana back to life. There is a new (at least for me cause I didn't update my system for a long time) use flag in media-libs/freetype called "cleartype_hinting" and it's enabled by default. One shall disable ... |
Hi, since yesterdays big (~120 packages) update I have troubles with running Xorg (ends with segmentation fault). xorg-server was upgraded to 1.19.3. Log: Code: [ 3586.938] (--) Log file renamed from "/var/log/Xorg.pid-4127.log" to "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" [ 3586.938] X.Org X Server 1.19.2 Release Date: 2017-03-02 [ 3586.... | That was really weird. After about 2hours of trying different combinations of versions of xorg-server. libdrm, xorg drivers etc. I desperatelly tryed upgrade/re-emerge glibc. After that everything is working with current versions (xorg-server-1.19.3, libdrm-2.4.80). So, my problem is solved. |
Yesterday I updated the system, and then eventually realized that I cannot su anymore, not from a console within kde, lxde or xfce. And it does not work from Ctrl+Alt+F1 console either. Fortunatelly I still can login with root account directly from Ctrl+Alt+F1. The error indicates error on authentification. I also trie... | Reinstalling sys-apps/shadow would make sure su has correct permissions. You have USE=pam though, so all bets are off. |
I can't copy files to USB2 or USB3 root or user. I install a usb3 card recently. Both USB2 and USB3 work. I can dd to USB2 and USB3 and USB3 is very fast. I followed the https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/USB/Guide Please throw me a bone. Code: /usr/sbin/lspci -v | grep USB 00:12.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc... | cwc, Code: -t vfat vfat does not support *NIX permissions. Somehow, you need to fake the permissions at mount time. See man mount, the uid= and gid= options. Its seems like the autoblackmagic in Gnome isn't doing that. |
After a fresh reinstall of Gentoo, I am having some major problems with startx. lspci | grep NVIDIA Code: VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96 [GeForce GT 120] (rev a1) The following driver packages are installed along with xorg-server and xorg-x11: Code: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers sys-firmware/nvidia-firm... | Did you look at the log yourself? Code: [ 366.872] (WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 GPU installed in this system is [ 366.872] (WW) NVIDIA(0): supported through the NVIDIA 340.xx Legacy drivers. Please [ 366.872] (WW) NVIDIA(0): visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more [ 366.872] (WW) NVIDIA(0): i... |
Good afternoon, I'm in trouble in MATE, the same is freezing the screen, the menus work, the programs too, but I could not solve why it is freezing the screen, below the screenshot and my USE of my make.conf Screenshot of the screen: http://imgur.com/a/Zx8XV ############## # MAKE.CONF # ############# Code: # These sett... | Only some notes on your make.conf. Quote: GENTOO_BAD = "- kdeprefix -arts -qt3 -qt4 -bluetooth -consolekit" You have a space from '-' and kdeprefix, remove it. Code: USE = "GENTOO_BAD} $ {GENTOO_APP_SHELL} {GENTOO_MEDIA} {GENTOO_CODECS} {GENTOO_SYSTEM} {GENTOO_FILESYS} {GENTOO_PRINT} {GENTOO_XSYS} {GENTOO_DESKTOP} {GEN... |
Hi all, I just finalized my basic Gentoo install and am about to add the graphical stuff. But yet I'm stuck while attempting to install xorg-server (following the "Xorg", "Xorg/Guide," and "radeon" wikis, i.e. kernel compilation and stuff). Since the Tux icon appears during boot, the gfx card works, I guess. My profile... | cambrian wrote: ](I mean, what does at least all the TeX stuff has to do with X anyway?) Post full emerge output, probably some use flag (use also -t option with emerge)? (2) comment use flag that you added in make.conf and then post your emerge --info |
I installed ibus for Chinese input. Here is my .xinitrc Code: phoenixstareclipse@PhoenixStarEclipse ~ $ cat .xinitrc #! /bin/bash export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus export XMODIFIERS="@im=ibus" export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus ibus-daemon -drx ./shadowsocks.sh & exec startxfce4 There is something wrong with my ibus. Everytime I type st... | It seems that if I launch ibus-daemon after xfce finished startup it will work correctly,so set ibus-daemon -drx autostart in Applications --> settings --> Session and startup and the problem will be solved. The solution to all WMs are simular. |
Hi! Today I have rebooted my computer and figured out that slim doesn't show login screen. This week I have upgraded few packages, but non of them for my opinion are needed for slim. Code: dev-libs/vala-common dev-libs/libunistring virtual/perl-File-Path dev-perl/XML-SAX-Base dev-perl/Archive-Zip media-libs/freetype ne... | You mentioned lightdm, have you looked at the setting for the default display manager? It is possible that one of your installations may have written over that configuration file. Are you using which init system, and then might be able tonsirwvt you to the right setting. If you are using openrc then it is the configura... |
Hello together, unfortunately I can't configure my HDMI connected monitor to be right of my DVI connected Monitor. The HDMI monitor is always left of the other monitor. /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Code: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Emulate3... | Code: Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf" "DFP-0" It should move hdmi monitor to the right of the other one Actually put that in Section "Screen" |
Hi, After an update into Plasma 5 I cannot mount eg. sd-card in my card reader Quote: Could not mount the following device... before that I had a question for a root password and I could use it. 5 years ago I had similair problem and the sollution was to manually set the file: Code: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.free... | Please check your consolekit setup. Please check if you are part of the users group. |
hi all, yesterday I realized that I'm not able anymore to browse my network or to insert a specific location (ie: smb://server/dir ). I always have the "smb invalid protocol" message from dolphin. Is there something new I've missed? At the beginning of this week it worked ... This is my USE variable in make.conf : Code... | That's very strange because I had to recompile kdebase-kioslaves with USE=samba and then I can see samba shares in dolphin I guess you can triple check that kioslaves was built with samba useflag on. |
Hi, Since I have moved into Plasma 5 (beginning of February 2016) I cannot run Plasma 5 with Nvidia Optimus (as I can only use Intel). With Nvidia I have infamous black screen. I have tested many xorg-servers, nvidia & intel drivers (older & newer) - nothing works I posted a bug Xorg buglist a month ago - no answer: ht... | It looks like a problem with your configuration... |
My desktop manager is enlightenment 16 (enlightenment-1.0.17) and I have current (not unstable, ~amd64) qt libraries: (qdtcore-4.8.6-r2 and 5.6.2-r1). How do I set the QT application style that should be used if there is not a settings option? Ex: K3b has setting -> themes that works well. However, fontmatrix, which I ... | For Qt 4 there's qtconfig-qt4 . For Qt 5 there's qt5ct . |
So the other day I was reading up on wayland, and decided to give it a shot. I added the waylamd USE flag, and ran emerge -uDN @world. However after reboot the screen stayed black, trying to startx resulted in just a black screen and the following errors: Code: libGL error : unable to load driver r600_dri.so libGL erro... | Sadly, that didn't work. I also checked /var/log/messages for any additional output, but it didn't show anything out of the ordinary. Also, here is my make.conf: https://bpaste.net/show/5918da83f273 EDIT: It seems that x does start when eselect mesa 64/32 bit software renderer is set to classic instead of gallium, it i... |
Failed to emerge kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.8.6, the log file below /var/tmp/portage/kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.8.6/temp/build.log indicates following error: /usr/lib64/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined reference to `FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [kcms/kfontinst/dbus/... | You can post full build.log with wgetpaste ? Also post output of this command Code: $ emerge -pvq freetype harfbuzz |
So once again Apple is messing with people with IOS 10 and broke USB cable mounting. Google led me to think the problem was that app-pda/libimobiledevice needed to be updated, but the upstream author hasn't made a new release for ages. I made my own live ebuild for app-pda/libimobiledevice that uses the latest from git... | Hello. Would it be possible to share your ebuild ? I'm facing the same issue : no longer possible to mount my iPhone... And I'm far from beeing an expert in ebuild hacking ! Thanks ! |
Yesterday, I got the update from qt-4.8.6 tot qt-4.8.7 (on a mosly stable kde5 box). A first cosmetic effect is that the kde4 applications do not use the same theme anymore as the kde5 apps. A second effect is that kmail (kde4 application) cannot access my mail anymore; this may be an akonadi issue. Is anyone seeing is... | See here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1063730-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html This probably has something to do with Qt4 plugins, which have to be rebuilt against the new version of dev-qt/qtcore. |
For the past week my ancient Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT graphics card using nvidia-drivers-340.98 has frozen once per boot. This last freeze was the most serious and didn't recover: I had to hard reboot. Here are the NVRM messages in /var/log/messages : Code: Oct 19 18:30:15 localhost kernel: NVRM: GPU at PCI:0000:01:00: G... | As I read the eix output, that is an odd choice of version for x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers . It is marked as testing on both x86 and amd64, but there are newer stable and testing versions available. I suggest upgrading to the latest stable or testing version (as appropriate for your system) to see if the problem has bee... |
Hello has anyone else noticed a problem where upon boot sddm will display briefly then the screen will be black and flicker a bit and get stuck? Switching a virtual terminal works eventually, otherwise you can't do anything. I also tried disabling sddm and using startx but KDE errors out. Starting fluxbox manually with... | sddm is not a KDE product, if this issue is happening before you even log in to Plasma session this is completely unrelated. You can start Plasma-5 via startx as well. |
Dear all, on my htpc (primarily running mythtv) I also have several game emulators installed. One of them is sdlmame, which worked well for quite a while. However, it has been a few months since I last used it. In the meanwhile I upgraded the hardware from an Ivy Bridge processor to a new Skylake processor. (Always usi... | Just also upgraded x11-wm/evilwm from version 1.0.1 to the latest available version 1.1.1 in testing branch and that solved the problem. I'm pretty sure I already tried this in the beginning but revert back before upgrading xorg-server, mesa, libdrm and libsdl2. |
Hi all, I'm really new to gentoo, I have used it today a lot and it works fine, I was installing a bunch of things and all. I rebooted the system and now it won't boot into my de, I remember when I rebooted I used init 6 which was probably a really stupid move but it worked always fine when I wasn't in my desktop envir... | Try to rebuild spidermonkey and cjs Code: # emerge -1 spidermonkey:24 cjs |
Hi all, I've been having a problem getting mate-terminal to run. Even thought I have the latest version available for ~amd64 (mate-terminal-1.16.1-r2), mate-terminal seems to be looking for what should be ancient libraries, and when it can't find them, refuses to start. For instance: Code: djhyland@araucaria ~ $ mate-t... | Normally this is what Code: # revdep-rebuild # in app-portage/gentoolkit is meant to try to fix. However recent versions of portage should not have let this break... which is quite odd. So you haven't tried to re-emerge x11-terms/mate-terminal? Also make sure you're running the system installed copy and not in /usr/loc... |
I followed this wiki: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd/Installing_Gnome3_from_scratch However I get this error after trying to start gdm: "Failed to connect to bus no such file or directory..." In addition to what has in that wiki I also installed: x11-base/xorg-server startx also not starting and give an error. My... | emerge wgetpaste for easy file posting from the commandline, post the url's it returns here. and/or use system rescue cd/usb booted to xfce4 GUI and a chroot to have a browser in the sysresc system plus terminal access in the chroot |
Hello Gentoo-experts. Yesterday I updated some qt-ebuilds: Code: 1495119845: >>> emerge (1 of 17) dev-qt/qtcore-4.8.7-r2 to / 1495120151: ::: completed emerge (1 of 17) dev-qt/qtcore-4.8.7-r2 to / 1495120151: >>> emerge (2 of 17) dev-qt/qttranslations-4.8.7 to / 1495120165: ::: completed emerge (2 of 17) dev-qt/qttrans... | Package kde-plasma/breeze have active qt4 use flag? |
Hello, I recently observed that switching to console from kde plasma does not work. Is this a known thing? How can I re-enable this? Thanks in advance for your thughts. Code: emerge --info Portage 2.3.3 (python 2.7.12-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma, gcc-4.9.4, glibc-2.23-r3, 4.10.8-gentoo x86_64) ====... | Do you use systemd or OpenRC? Have you checked that your /etc/inittab is ok? Or, in case of systemd, have you enabled required services and cofigures logind.conf? Also does anything happen when you try to switch? |
Hi, I emerged x11-base/xorg-server, but apparently I did something wrong because it didn't install. When I run startx I get: Code: xauth: file /home/username/ .servaerauth.27889 does not exist /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc: line 3: /usr/bin/X: No such file or directory xinit: giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server: ... | EugeneTheJeep wrote: no swap because I couldn't find any consensus on what the swap should be set to (a lot of people post not having any swap) How much more ram do I need to add? The machine only has 4GB total. Other posters addressed your immediate questions. Most people who talk about not having swap have plenty of ... |
Hi, I experience nasty screen flicker since the emerge of gnome 3.22 a few weeks ago. To date, I did not find out whats wrong. It seems that the shell, gnome terminal and firefox are more hurt than for instance chromium Code: # emerge --info !!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY (not a dir): '/var/lib/layman/palemoon' Portage 2.... | Xorg.0.log yields nothing: Code: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 19.833] (--) Log file renamed from "/var/log/Xorg.pid-1320.log" to "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" [ 19.833] X.Org X Server 1.19.2 Release Date: 2017-03-02 [ 19.834] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 19.834] Build Operating System: Linux 4.9.6-gentoo-r1 x86_64 Gentoo [... |
Hi. I run a 3 monitor setup from an intel nuc NUC6i7KYK. KDE plasma ca v5.8 detects and handles all monitors nicely. How to make kde stop/pause detecting changes in the monitor setup? E.g. if I temporarily turn off one or more of the monitors I don't want it to rearrange my desktop. I don't mind that all windows on the... | My opinion: You should set up a xorg.conf with a static setup of the screens. with these contents: left of main, resolution @ VFREQ main screen, resolution @ VFREQ right of main, resolution @ VFREQ -- Not sure how KDE influences the behaviour of X. |
Hi! I have already spent a long time on trying to solve this issue, my problem is the following: Code: /etc/init.d/xdm start gives a black screen which is flickering occasionally (some white/red horizontal stripes) Code: startx also shows a black screen. After 10 flickers, the XSession starts to load and I sometimes ge... | hi, Are the monitor settings correct? vsync, hsync? Is the vesa driver with 60 hz vsync working? Try this. If this does then something with vsync or your binary driver is wrong! |
Hello, I have a recent installation of Gentoo which is configure with the "default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma/systemd" profil. I wished use 'sddm' as display manager but I have a problem with it... When my computer start, sddm start also and the login panel is well displayed on my monitor. But all the graphic comp... | kortex, your sddm.conf repeats itself; there are many sections which are duplicated, like X11, Theme, General and Users. Not saying that's the problem, as the settings look the same; it's just going to make it needlessly hard to configure. It looks like you did a: cat example.conf >> sddm.conf twice. |
Hi, Oddly there's no speaker volume icon in my KDE Plasma 5 system tray and I can't seem to find it in the options for the system tray. Here ( http://i.imgur.com/NVKojWK.png ) is a screenshot showing both my system tray and the system tray settings window. I saw this forum post about the same problem but with an older ... | Have you started kmix yet? |
Seems like it doesn't link... Have no emerge info because of reboot after building against /var/tmpfs. Code: var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/blender-2.78a/work/blender-2.78a/intern/cycles/subd/subd_patch.cpp: In member function ‘virtual ccl::BoundBox ccl::LinearQuadPatch::bound()’: /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/blender-2.78a/wo... | I think, if the problem is the switch from gcc-4.x to gcc-5, the better way is command revdep-rebuild --library 'libstdc\+\+\.so\.6' -- --exclude gcc ( reference ). |
Hello After I managed to finish my first gentoo installation. I decided to try other variations: different cflags systemd and wayland. Everything went fine but when I try to access weston.ini or sway.ini with "nano ~/.config/weston.ini" It says /root/.config directory does not exist. Things I did different from the fir... | It's a hidden directory (starts with a dot). To "see" it you need to pass -a switch to ls for example. sh: ls -lhaF /home/$USER/ |
I'm not entirely sure what's happened here. I started my computer today and my touchpad wouldn't work. Not at all - no pointer movement, no clicking. Didn't even seem to recognize that it existed. But it worked yesterday. I reviewed yesterday's updates, but it was mainly the plasma 5.9.4 update. Nothing X related. Even... | Try downgrading libinput to 1.4.2 if you updated it recently - new versions seem to be extremely buggy. |
recently my firefox icon at the kde status bar become a broken paper with a "!" in middle. Not the orange colored global. anybody know it is why? | Hi DixieLand, I have solved the problem. I found there is old firefox residue file Firefox.desktop in my ~/.local/share/applications. I unmerge my current firefox first then delete Firefox.desktop, then reinstall firefox again. This problem gone. |
I am experiencing a very strange issue with kde plasma. I use startx and I am not running systemd. Here is the content of my .xinitrc exec ck-launch-session /usr/bin/startkde When I run startx I briefly see the kde logo and the little circle animation; very shortly thereafter the screen goes blank and the system enters... | When it fails, can you use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a text console (which, if successful, should wake the monitor)? Can you change the state of numlock/capslock (either in the sleeping X session or on the console)? Is the machine still alive (but producing no video signal) or is it completely hung? Check that by access... |
Since about 2 weeks ago apparently .xsession-errors has stopped collecting info. I've deleted it and touched a new file into place, still nothing. It looks like the info is in journald (and may have been before anyway) but I really don't want to have it there and I changed nothing that would of put it there only and th... | Solved. ~/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log And it's the only file there. in /etc/sddm.conf Code: # Path to the user session log file SessionLogFile=.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log So the file that annoys some people and gets huge for others is in a new place. Or you change the setting and put it back in the old pl... |
Hello, I have installed Gentoo on a laptop with no problems. I have KDE and Xorg installed on the laptop. I was doing the ~/.xinitrc method to start KDE. In my ~/.xinitrc file: exec startkde (I'm doing this through Links now, so I'm not going to waste my time to do the fancy code format.) When I typed startx, this appe... | roboto, Code: emerge wgetpaste , so you can help us to help you. Use wgetpaste to pastebin your dmesg and /var/log/Xorg.0.log We may want your lspci output and kernel .config file later. wgetpaste can do all of that. If you install and start gpm, you can have copy and paste in the console too. |
For the past couple of months I've been exclusively using wayland/xwayland via sway. Every now and then, I would switch back to Xorg. But every time, after a couple of minutes of using xorg, the gpu hangs and only the cursor can move. Anyone having these issues or know whats going on? I'm on vanilla-sources-4.10.8 Code... | Uninstall xf86-video-intel (it's abandonware) and use the xf86-video-modesetting driver. |
I notived that the folders of the root directroy are appearing on my desktop. Has anyone ran into this and knows how to get rif of it? | What DE you run? |
Hi, I have just installed KDE Plasma 5 on Gentoo Linux with systemd as my init system for the first time. Everything is working far better than I expected, except my KDE system (Network, CPU Load, Memory Status) monitor widgets (i.e., they're on the KDE Plasma panel across the bottom of the screen) which while they sho... | How did you install KDE Plasma and what USE flags did you manually enable or disable? |
I have held off moving to KDE / plasma5 for a long time, but some time ago made the move on my laptop in the form of Kubuntu 16.10. I've been quite happy with that so decided it was time to take the plunge on my Desktop (Gentoo system), unfortunately things are not so good. Everything starts and runs fine, but I am see... | You've omitted the most important information in such cases, which is the GPU driver in use. If you use Intel, you may be one of the unfortunate souls where xf86-video-intel is broken. Switch to the modesetting driver. |
Hey everyone, I'm running i3 as window manager using urxvt extensively. After some updates and a reboot yesterday, the font rendering is distorted. I didn't changed my configs at all, and I know the tricks gambling around with letterspace, aliasing and hinting in .Xdefaults but it doesn't affect/correct the rendering i... | A bit late but urxvt does have a use flag for this - alt-font-width. I gave up on that because it seems to not work unless the planets align. |
My default boot level looks like this: Code: rc default logging started at Sat Mar 25 20:41:06 2017 * Starting dbus ... [ ok ] * /etc/init.d/sysklogd uses runscript, please convert to openrc-run. * sysklogd -> start: syslogd ... [ ok ] * sysklogd -> start: klogd ... [ ok ] * Starting consolekit ... [ ok ] * Starting cr... | Check /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.23.2/guide.md.bz2 or it's equivalent on your system. Look for the part headed "The Depend Function" Edit to add: I don't run xdm, but the LAST thing I get, after all the services have started, is a login screen, and the way I see it, display manager is akin to a login prompt. If you want a... |
Hi, everyone There is an error on my system, the first char of directory is missing when run "ls" command, but it's OK in the root user, .e.g Code: iceamber@localhost:~ $ ls kernel/ db-7.11 gdb-7.11.tar.gz inux-0.12 inux-2.6.0 inux-3.18.44 linux-3.18.44.tar inux-4.7 Code: iceamber@localhost:~ $ sudo ls kernel/ gdb-7.11... | Also, try ls-command | xxd to get a hexadecimal dump of the ls output. If that dump confirms specific original bytes are missing, this is an ls problem. If pieces of the hexdump are missing, this is a terminal problem. |
This system is running ~amd64 globally with KDE Plasma. Recently I've noticed that some QT applications don't correctly display the menus. By "menu" I mean the standard File, Edit, View, etc. along the top bar of most GUI programs. Specifically this happens in Clementine, Amarok, and even in the QT Configuration Tool. ... | eselect qtgraphicssystem is set to opengl ? ( revert it to native or raster and never set it back to opengl) |
Hi all, So it's been this time again where I installed Gentoo on my virtual machine. This time on my private laptop. All went well until I came to the point of emerge --ask gnome I get a warning about a dependency for a build for gedit-3.20.0 and a long line for a required use flag as well as pythin single targets etc.... | Please post the full output of the error message and the output of emerge --info . Pass option --verbose to emerge when you run the command that fails. Do not paraphrase or summarize the output. If your virtual machine software makes it unreasonably difficult to copy this output, you could emerge app-text/wgetpaste , u... |
I have been playing around Xfce and I replaced xfwm4 with kwin. I have mostly sorted things out but I have one issue that I would like to get resolved.... The mouse cursor changes from a pointer to a black "X". This change happens repeatably when selecting: Applications menu Panel (right clicking) Desktop menu The mous... | This issue was resolved using the following info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cursor_themes#Change_X_shaped_default_cursor I created an autostart item that consisted of Code: xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr |
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