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Hi, when I try to start octave I get following message: Code: /usr/bin/octave-cli-4.2.0: error while loading shared libraries: libblas.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I got the same message with version "3.6.4", therefore I upgraded to "4.2.0" and still the same message. I migrate the sc... | Do the emerge of Octave had install eselect-blas? Normally yes, did-you do Code: eselect blas list to see which Blas implementations are available? Did you enable one? The installation of Octave put in the eselect-lapack and the eselect-blas packages. You must eselect them in some ways I think. |
So far I'm starting my xfce session using startx keyboard and mouse are working fine as the root user, but not as a regular user the regular user is part of: localhost ~ # id adel uid=1000(adel) gid=1000(adel) groups=1000(adel),19(cdrom),27(video),80(cdrw),85(usb) thanks | Perhaps "users" group? Code: $ id tony uid=1002(tony) gid=1002(tony) groups=1002(tony),5(tty),7(lp),10(wheel),18(audio),19(cdrom),26(tape),27(video),80(cdrw),85(usb),100(users),250(portage),120(locate),999(plugdev),16(cron),1004(git) And here's a usr that can log on to the GUI, play music, watch videos, print homework,... |
Hi all. I have an older white box AMD powered machine with Radeon graphics card, on which I finally got around to upgrading to KDE 5. It hasn't gone well. I went through the procedure in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade, including updating USE flags, emerging world, cleaning with --depclean etc. I've u... | Well that's just not correct, of course kde, qt3support, qt4 and qt5 will be in emerge --info when you use the plasma profile. The upgrade guide is talking about removing any _definitions_ (be them positive or negative) from your own make.conf, to let that be handled by the plasma profile. |
For some reason, the Device Notifier in Plasma-5 (and KDE4 before the upgrade), thinks some of my non-removable drivers are in fact removable. My / and /home partitions are always shown in the Device Notifier, though naturally I get an error if I try to remove them as user (not that I would want to). Strangely enough, ... | I believe if you open dolphin on the left side at the bottom you will see your "removable drives" there. You can right click them there in dolphin and hide it. You can remove the .kde directory and it might be smart to cleanup for a fresh plasma5 experience but know that your kde settings and such will go with it and a... |
Hi! Error is issued when you try to install the program: Code: emerge kde-misc/kdiff3 Calculating dependencies \ !!! Problem resolving dependencies for kde-misc/kdiff3 ... done! !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "kde-misc/kdiff3" has unmet requirements. - kde-misc/kdiff3-0.9.98-r1::gentoo USE="handbook kde qt5 (-aqua)... | The output say you that if you have kde use flag you need activate qt4 e disable qt5. If you want qt5 use flag disable kde and qt4. Code: # echo "kde-misc/kdiff3 kde qt4 -qt5" >> /etc/portage/package.use or Code: # echo "kde-misc/kdiff3 -kde -qt4 qt5" >> /etc/portage/package.use |
For some reason the KDE Plasma theme's Breeze and Oxygen are failing to emerge at 5.8.3 release. I've waited a few days hoping that it was just a temporary issue but it appears not. I am using the KDE overlay and the package.accept_keywords from the documentation in it. Code: spectre-gentoo carbinefreak # emerge --info... | You can post build.log with wgetpaste ? |
Hello all, I keep bumping into that itchy issue, when I hit some editor, or other tools like nano : Code: # nano Error opening terminal: xterm-256color. I did read that post https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-915876-start-0.html , describing the very same issue, but re-emerging ncurses and xterm, (like advised int t... | Thanx russK for your suggestion ; here's the output : Code: # equery uses ncurses [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r99: U I + + abi_x86_32 : 32-bit (x86) libraries - - ada : Add bindings ... |
[Moderator edit: Copied OP's SOLVED marker from the bottom post to the initial post. -Hu] Can someone give me some pointers as to how to start analysing this problem? I have an Athlon Quad Core ITX multimedia PC that keeps experiencing desktop lockups - I am using Xorg, XFCE and Nouveau drivers with an NVIDIA GT-730 gr... | fredbear5150 wrote: Marked thread as solved. Not quite. You marked your most recent post as solved. The thread title is controlled by the opening post, not the most recent post. I updated the title of your opening post since your intent was clear. Going forward, you need to use Edit on the top post in the thread when y... |
Hi all, Is there any way to config users use different desktop environments? Say, I have two user accounts, and want one use OPENBOX, and one use LXDE. And, I use SLiM as login manager. Any solution? Thanks, Kenmux | kenmux wrote: I configed /etc/env.d/90xsession , using lxde or openbox , but cannot both. And with .xsession ? |
This problem seems to have appeared a few days ago. Now when I suspend my laptop and then resume, gnome crashes losing my existing session and then when I try to log in again, gnome crashes repeatedly (presumably gnome-shell) until I issue Code: systemctl restart gdm After that I am able to log in but of course I lose ... | Adding the following to /etc/portage/package.mask Code: =x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.99.917_p20161024 That fixed the issue. Opened bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598174 |
Emerging piece for piece as so far already X working. So now I want to get on with KDE4 as KDE5 is still labelled "in development". So I selected the profile "default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde" as I do not use systemd either. But now the Wiki doesn't has anymore info on KDE4 as they assume you use KDE5. I tried to e... | Because it is used at runtime. Spanik wrote: But now the Wiki doesn't has anymore info on KDE4 Not true, read the wiki properly to find out why kdebase-meta is the wrong choice for you now. |
Hi, when my Plasma 5 locks the session automatically after a short while it crashes and doesn't respond anymore. The screen stays the same (the desktop or open program is still visible) and the mouse can be moved, but no input at all is accepted. In the logs is a segfault, which might be related: Code: Oct 8 13:55:18 t... | Mask x11-proto/xproto-7.0.28 Does it continue? I had some segfaults with kactivitymanage when I used plasma 5 and this solved them. |
I'm having a terrible problem with Chromium now. The application runs, but it gives an "Aw Snap!" error no matter what page you try to show, including its own internal stuff like chrome://help. I've tried the latest stable and the latest ~amd64. I've googled for ideas (can't find anything in this forum - did I miss it?... | My guess would be the webkit is broken and needs to be rebuilt. However, if you really want to try a shotgun approach, emerge -e chromium will almost certainly solve the problem. Unfortunately, you won't know which program was broken. |
Hello all, i tired to install xmonad on my machine, but everytime it stops at the emerge of dev-lang/ghc-7.10.3. Here is the output of emerge --info [spoiler] Code: emerge --info '=dev-lang/ghc-7.10.3::gentoo' --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use: dev-lang/python-2.7.10-r1:2.7 Portage 2.3.0 (python 2.7.10-final... | I think problem is here Code: checking whether bootstrap compiler is affected by bug 9439... You are using a new version of LLVM that hasn't been tested yet! We will try though... /usr/bin/opt: /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/ghc-7.10.3/temp/ghc4801_0/ghc_2.ll:7:6: error: unexpected type in metadata definition !0 = metadata ... |
Hi all, I just got a new laptop after 7 years, so lately I am very active :) One of the problems I am encountering is that now I have an Intel graphic card instead of NVIDIA. I really liked the nvidia-settings tool, and I was wondering if there is something similar for intel or general. What I am interested in is the G... | Hi fhede, Thank you for the reply. What I liked about nvidia-settings is that I can change the resolution on my TV from it, I can choose whether having dual monitors or just one, ... It is pretty neat, and it would be nice to be able to do similar things on the fly with other cards. |
I don't like login managers and don't need them. Maybe a leftover from when I had regular X-driver problems and would get lots of black screens that were hard to debug. Startx at least drops you back to the command line with some error messages. After I followed the KDE 5 upgrade, I found that kdebase-startkde was unme... | Plasma-5 has no business with kdebase-startkde. I'm actually wondering how you are able to install it, because that installs kde-base/kwin, and that ultimately blocks with kde-plasma/kwin (actually, blockers galore with Plasma-5). So basically what you may have running now is Plasma-4. Code: $ equery b startkde * Searc... |
Hi all, I think I may be missing something as big as an an "elephant" here. I generated a the file "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-fonts Code: Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/consolefonts/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" ... FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/terminus/" ... EndSection but when I... | Did you run mkfontdir in all the necessary places? |
Hello I have problems with compiz0.8 because it crashes my system, so I'm tring to install compiz 0.9 from the desktop-effects overlay and it fails to build, and I dont know why please help me... Code: emerge --info Portage 2.3.0 (python 3.4.3-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.22-r4, 4.4.21-gentoo x... | It still works, I'm using ir in archlinux xD but I dont know a replacemet to make nice effects over mate. the official ebuild is masked as ~amd64 but is the 0.8 version, it's crashing my sistem and I don't know the reason I came back to gentoo because I dont know another distro that offer this level of personalization |
Hi, BG transparency not active in LxQT/OpenBox whereas Lxde/OpenBox performs it. Is there any clue to fix? Thks 4 ur attention. | You need compton |
Because ffcitx can't be use in kde app, I guess problem is either I set USE=-gtk when emerging kde plasma app or I did't set environment variable correctly for fcitx. I am gonna emerge all kde plasma apps with USE=-gtk and config fcitx again. But there is no .xprofile in home dir. How should I solve these two things: 1... | You have to create the file |
I emerged icedtea-web, thinking it would give me Java support in Opera, but it didn't. To my understanding, setting +nsplugin on icedtea-bin would give me a browser plugin for Firefox but not Opera. Does +nsplugin on icedtea-web do the same thing? Do I even need icedtea-web? Do I need +webstart? Code: $ equery u icedte... | Java's stigma is well-earned, and showed no realistic sign that Sun, and later Oracle, were interested in resolving the problems that led to the stigma. That left the browser vendors with a choice: remove Java support entirely, or leave users exposed to all the problems that Java caused. They ultimately chose to remove... |
Hi, I tried several times but I cannot manage to have sound on my laptop. Could you please help me? Code: # lspci -knn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller [8086:0a04] (rev 0b) Subsystem: Lenovo Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller [17aa:3978] Kernel driver in use: hsw_uncore 00:02.0 VGA com... | Post output of commands aplay -l and grep CODEC /usr/src/linux/.config |
I'm installing on a laptop. Did the kernel install a few weeks back but only now got back to it because I couldn't get ethernet running. This now works so I want to continue installing a desktop. I selected as profile "default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde" as I'll use standard KDE and no systemd. I started with an "eme... | OK, got through it. First "emerge Locale-gettext" then "perl-cleaner --all" again. At least @preserved-rebuild was happy and so was revdep-rebuild. Can do anything on Gentoo anymore without running into Perl or Python trouble these days. |
Following this weeks update, digikam's stopped working. It segfaults immediately after startup - you cant even get as far as "digikam -v" working. No back trace, zilch. I'm running stable AMD64, with the current hybrid KDE5-with-some-KDE4-apps (such as kdepim, digikam, etc.). Was working fine. I recompiled digikam for ... | Yes, that should be it. digikam-5.3.0 at the end of October will come with another slew of fixes, including some migration stuff, so it will be a good candidate for stabilisation. |
Running KDE. Randomly (every few days - far too often), when returning to my computer, I see a black screen with the message: Quote: The screen lock is broken and unlocking is not possible any more. In order to unlock switch to a virtual terminal (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F2), log in and execute the command: loginctl unlock-sessi... | russK wrote: loginctl is a systemd thing. If you don't have it you're probably not using systemd. You are correct - systemd is OMDBware (meaning over my dead body will it ever be installed on any of my machines). Fitzcarraldo wrote: See can't unlock KDE session, loginctl req. but this is openrc (especially the post by ... |
I did a emerge update and accepted to upgrade to KDE5/Plasma profile. I am having issues. Here is a quick grab of top. I see this constantly. dbus-daemon runs at 40% CPU constantly. krunner has currently allocated 258Gb of virtual address space. Yes, 258Gb! Code: 3114 paul 20 0 20228 2832 1872 S 39.2 0.0 45:31.27 dbus-... | It's okay, figured it out. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1053150.html?sid=17a5d2fc6af9d29227248bdccbf6d0b0 and the syslog-ng bug causing the file to be detected as binary. Not so much worried about the logging bug. |
Hi, yesterday i installed Gentoo Amd64 on my new pc with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070, KDE 5.7.5 GUI. I installed correct Nvidia driver 367.44 and it work fine. But i have a problem with composer Kwin. If composer effects at boot is active (in setup menu) the dialog windows get locked to the desktop even if i exit from thes... | Please show emerge --info. |
Greetings, can anyone recommend a lightdm theme without users list? the current supplied ones have users list and trying to disable them in config doesn't work. Thanks. | I thought that " greeter-hide-users=true " under seat configuration -section(s) can do it? |
How can I determine if this is a problem about my system or a bug? Quote: emerge --info '=kde-frameworks/kdeclarative-5.26.0::gentoo https://paste.pound-python.org/show/cF41kgp4I555h6pzdjxZ/ Quote: emerge -pqv '=kde-frameworks/kdeclarative-5.26.0::gentoo' Code: [ebuild U ] kde-frameworks/kdeclarative-5.26.0 [5.23.0] US... | You have installed dev-qt/qtdeclarative? |
Hi. Can anyone help me with fluxbox.I have dual monitors and would be able to maximize programs to only 1 of them. And how about vlc fullscreen.Kinda sucks watching a movie on 2 monitors Thanx. | Found this: http://superuser.com/questions/652215/dual-head-with-fluxbox Is your fluxbox built with USE=xinerama ? |
Hi, I'm a newbie to Gentoo. By far, I've installed Gentoo on VMware Workstation 12 Player. After following the Handbook, I've tried to install xorg-server to prepare a desktop environment, but I've stuck while installing llvm-3.7.1-r3. Could someone helps me solve this problem? I've struggled with it for a while withou... | You need to post buld.log with wgetpaste because the forum cut long post |
Hi, today I've emerge system (about 30 upgrades), but now I can't start and login gnome. I run journalctl -rb and I see a lot of errors, but many of them don't block login. Here result. And here my emerge --info Before makes any change I need, if possible, some suggest. Thanks in advance | mrl4n, It may be a long shot, but with nvidia, it it gets out of sync with the running kernel it may not load. Maybe this would help: Code: # emerge -1 nvidia-drivers # modprobe -r nvidia # sytemctl restart gdm |
I recently did an an emerge world and was upgraded to xorg-server-1.18.4, which ended up breaking X for my setup. I've a laptop using an NVIDIA optimus chip, which had been working flawlessly before with the xorg.conf Code: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout" Screen 0 "nvidia" Inactive "intel" EndSection Section... | Gentoo Forums -> Desktop Environments -> What's up with xorg-server 1.18 and Optimus? . This? |
I just finished installing Gentoo with KDE 5 on a VMWare Workstation 12 VM. I noticed when I opened the "start" menu in KDE that there are no options for shutdown or restart on the "Leave" tab. Screenshot of menu: [url]https://1drv.ms/i/s!AvcuoHY9U1sdgq1uKY3kDldME9rn2A[/url] I have "Offer shutdown options" enabled in t... | sddm is compiled with consolekit use flag? If system use OpenRC see here |
Hello: I made a new installation of gentoo with kde5, but I cannot use the desktop: I cannot create or save files or shortcuts on it, nothing. That package or USE am I forgetting install? Or am I wrong some configuration? Thank you very much | Unlock widgets, right click on desktop and choose Configure Desktop an switch layout dorpdown from Desktop to Folder View (if you don't unlock widgets drop down is disabled). |
]Guys I'm having problems with plasma5, in practice, after starting, I'm going to start a software (firefox, terminator etc.) if all goes well it will execute it, otherwise it makes the animation of bouncing, but did not start (of course l ' animation stops), I was able to start terminator, then I tried them to enter, ... | up |
My HD was failing so I migrated over to an older one, then back to a new one, and ever since my QT-based menus have been messed up. https://i.imgsafe.org/70ceb07460.png https://i.imgsafe.org/70cc2d49f5.png https://i.imgsafe.org/70cc573f0e.png When I run these programs on the command line I see errors like this: Code: X... | I was curious how it works, and seems all qt4 programs fail to show menus, but qt5 are ok. Maybe check if qt5 works for u, then check what eselect qtgraphicssystem does exactly and repeat it for qt4. But I think there was no opengl engine for qt4. |
Hello together, after fresh hardware (GeForce GTX 1070) and fresh install of Gentoo, I'm struggling with getting X running. I choosed nouveau as video driver (does it support the new Pascal architecture?). Actually, I get the error message: Code: [ 4195.688] (EE) [drm] Failed to open DRM device for pci:0000:01:00.0: -1... | jommes, The nouveau git page says Code: 2 days Add Pascal Titan X 2 days Fix the name of the Maxwell Titan X card so the Xorg driver has only known about your card for 2 days. Try the git driver. There doesn't appear to be a xf86-video-nouveau-9999 in the tree, which would let you do that with emerge. However ... The x... |
I know this might appear trivial, however.... I have just upgraded my old Nvidia Graphics Card because of old driver conflicts with world updates. I have a nice spanking new AMD RX480 which I got going with a 4.7.5 kernel from kernel.org, and the amdgpu Gentoo wiki. I like to have the 'emergence' theme for the terminal... | Ah ha! After I posted I thought I might try the 4.7.4-gentoo kernel which had failed for me previously, and I now get the splash, so the 4.7.5 from kernel.org would need to be patched with the gentoo patches to work. Still all OK now. Very pretty! |
Hi! In Konsole When you try to run the command: su - Password: <entered password> issued a message su: access denided If you go to another session like Ctrl + Alt + F1, and then enter the root password, then everything is OK. Tested repeatedly. /etc/portage/make.conf Code: # These settings were set by the catalyst buil... | Probably I messed up groups. Added user to the wheel group, and everything again worked. |
I try to deliver weston, and I receive this https://bpaste.net/show/fbe20db91dee emerge --info https://bpaste.net/show/5c9111122af7 | I think you need active abi_x86_32 use flag |
Hello, I could not re-emerge kdeplasma-addons after an upgrade of world (I was supposed to do so by emerge @preserved-rebuild), so I tried to first unmerge it, and retried. Still the same: Error message indicates: /var/tmp/portage/kde-plasma/kdeplasma-addons-5.6.5/work/kdeplasma-addons-5.6.5/applets/activitypager/plugi... | Paste all log with wgetpaste, not always the error is in the last part of log |
Code: ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.3.0 (python 3.5.2-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-5.4.0, glibc-2.23-r2, 4.7.2-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.7.2-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-4770K_CPU_@_3.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.3 KiB Mem: 160841... | Probably related thread I'm noticing the CPU/VGA are nearly the same here... is that one of the models that shipped with broken instruction sets? |
I emerged a new emacs version and then ran app-admin/emacs-updater-1.15 . It fails with this error: Code: * Assigning 2 files to packages ... * Error running qfile pipeline Any debugging hints will be gratefully received. [SOLVED] With emacs-25 , emacs-updater seems to work. I'm not sure what changed. However, I agree ... | I'm stuck on this too. If I select emacs-25 and run emacs-updater it seems to update things just fine, but emacs doe not display things properly. If I run emacs-updater again I get Code: * Assigning 17 files to packages ... * Error running qfile pipeline If I select emacs-24 the updater works, and if run the updater ag... |
Problems: Nvidia_drm: Unknown symbol errors, Failed to load module "glcore", Falling back to old probe method for modesetting. Unable to modset properly. Unable to use nviia drm # emerge --info Code: Portage 2.2.28 (python 3.4.3-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.22-r4, 4.4.6-gentoo x86_64) =... | Try selecting CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER and CONFIG_DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER. Also maybe CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION |
I have horrible screen tearing in KDE 5 Plasma. tweaking the KDE compositor in almost every possible way did not solve the tearing. i am using NVIDIA GTX 970 proprietary drivers, and for a solution i thought about using Wayland. Question: is Wayland use able already, if so, how does one properly set up Wayland (google ... | farmer.ro wrote: i am using NVIDIA GTX 970 proprietary drivers, and for a solution i thought about using Wayland. Question: is Wayland use able already, if so, how does one properly set up Wayland (google did not help much) Nvidia proprietary = forget about Wayland |
Hello! Maybe someone has already created a similar theme, but something I have not found. Installed gentoo and plasma. I want to make that desktop themes were the same as in the livecd. To the Start button has been gentoo icon and set the wallpaper was the same as in the livecd. Maybe something else. Install the packag... | gangstervano, If you really mean the CD, you should /join #gentoo-releng. For the DVD, /join #gentoo-ten both on freenode. x11-themes/gentoo-artwork x11-themes/gentoo-artwork-livecd both install things that you can choose to use. To actually use them, you need to configure things. |
Hi On a new installation: Code: Linux pteropus 4.4.6-gentoo #1 SMP Tue Aug 23 15:32:04 CEST 2016 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux i added lightdm and xfce. dbus, consolekit and xdm are in rc-update: Code: consolekit | boot dbus | default xdm | default (in xdm i have DISPLAYMANAGER... | Can help this ? |
Gentoo ~amd64 when trying to Code: emerge --ask x11-misc/lightdm Code: x11-misc/lightdm-gtk-greeter-2.0.1-r1 is being pulled in as dependency, but seems to fail: (snapshot of emerge) Code: lightdm-gtk-greeter.c: In function 'start_authentication': lightdm-gtk-greeter.c:1935:9: error: too few arguments to function 'ligh... | franzf wrote: Either apply the patch Just for information here guide for apply user patch |
I've recently assembled a new machine and migrated my Gentoo installation to it. For most part it went fine and I've got pretty much everything what used to work with old machine to work with a new one. However, I've decided to switch from NVidia graphics to AMD (was that a mistake?) and still haven't figured out how t... | NilPointer, What does Code: ls -l /dev/dri/* show. When it looks all OK but it doesn't work, Xorg may have fallen back to software rendering because of a permissions problem. Code: $ ls -l /dev/dri/* crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 0 Feb 16 2014 /dev/dri/card0 crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 64 Feb 16 2014 /dev/dri/controlD6... |
i have been using XFCE as my standard desktop for many years due to its minimalist point of view. today i thought to myself, hey! lets go crazy! and install KDE plasma 5, i am still on openrc, and am using the ~amd64 testing branch. i noticed that with "htop" KDE plasma without widgets, only compositor is enabled for s... | KDE 5 plasma, have been at 500 MB ram for the past 12 hours so its fine |
Is there a way to output the current color scheme of your terminal? I know you can override this in your .Xdefaults by adding the color1 - color15 definitions, but I am having problems finding the defaults. My situation: I have been using aterm for about a decade and really like the default color scheme. I'm planning t... | If xrdb -query doesn't get what you want, you'll have to look at the sourcecode for aterm because especially if you're not using a DE, the "defaults" will be hardcoded. |
Couple of days ago I took the plunge and upgraded kde4 to plasma. Generally works ok. However I got a taskbar (panel) that has the clock on the left and the "K" launcher on the right. I tried to move these to the normal places but ended up with garbage. Managed to get it back again but still reversed. What program cont... | @spikyatlinux Yes. |
Hi all, I am running KDE 5.6.5 with KDE Frameworks 5.23.0. Since few days ago I noticed that the KDE Kickoff menu is not longer adding any menu item for any new application I am installing. I cannot track the exact moment that the above system broken up since I am not installing new apps very often. I remember that for... | Hi marco.difresco don't know if this will help, but you can try to run " kbuildsycoca5 " as user, in order to rebuild the menu cache |
When I try to update, I get a "Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed at the same time on the same system." Machine is x86 on kde4 profile (desktop/kde). I intend to explore kde5/plasma soon but for the time being would prefer to stick with kde4, or whatever it's become. What's going ... | You followed this guide? Edit: Sorry my mistake I stop to read on "I intend to explore kde5". genstorm post is correct |
After updating to Plasma 5, my extended dual monitor configuration that I have used for years worked through several reboots and now suddenly doesn't. The desktop is being mirrored to both monitors. Other user accounts are working fine. Only one monitor shows up in System Settings, and I see no way to adjust this. I ha... | Yes, welcome to the world of plasma 5 multi-monitor support. That kscreen fix works fine for a while, until it doesn't. The panel also likes to dance around among the monitors on my system; I can usually fix that (for a few logins) by editing .config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc and in the org.kde.panel 'con... |
Hello, I have a i3 desktop with the opensource radeon and Direct rendering enabled but I can't get any composite effect to work. When I launch compton or xcompmgr the screen blink promptly but no effects are visible. I can confirm that direct rendering works since I can play 3D games on steam. Code: $ xdpyinfo -display... | Any success if you run this? It should flicker and give you the default shadows on windows right away, but won't print anything in the terminal. Code: compton --shadow --config /dev/null |
Hi there, I recently upgraded my computer, 16GB RAM, 6700K CPU and the nVidia GTX 1070. I'm running a 4k monitor. However I'm seeing *terrible* performance my desktop environment (I'm usiing KDE plasma, but others aren't great either). I know the GPU is working as I can play a 3d game easily enough, and I can use the C... | Yes, 30Hz is _terrible_. |
My monitor is 30 inch with 2560x1600 resolution, it a big screen for eyes. Gnome like to open app window at upper left corner, I have to drag window back to center area of the screen for easy use. Is there anyway I could customize default position for new app window? Say, limit to 60% of the screen width, and 60% of of... | I don't know if you can customise the position but you can center them In dconf editor go to org/gnome/mutter and check center-new-windows |
All of a sudden when I try to mount a USB disk drive to back up my system, I get a message "Failed to mount "portable". Not authorized to perform operation. There might have been a time when I knew how to make this work, but I don't remember it now, and am puzzled why somebody would change the rules. Please help. | https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1038986-highlight-authorized+device.html Create the file /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/55-storage.pkla (the directory tree should already exist), and put this into it: Code: [Storage Permissions] Identity=unix-group:plugdev Action=org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount ... |
Hi, I've been running KDE 5 for a few months (currently on testing: KF5 5.24, plasma 5.7.3, KDE Applications 16.04.3). Ever since I moved to KDE5, my SCIM setup has stopped working. scim-panel is running on the system tray and shows different keyboard layouts that I have and selecting them show the appropriate keyboard... | Just to double-check, kde-plasma/plasma-desktop is built with USE="scim"? |
Hello all! I am having an issue trying to install Xorg based on this tutorial: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide I have installed the base system with systemd , and everything works fine as far as that goes. I have made the changes to make.conf to list input devices and video cards. The first attempt at running e... | Generally, if post length permits, you should edit extra information into your first post instead of replying to it. Some users run a canned search for threads with zero replies as a way of finding posts to answer. When you replied to yourself, you removed your thread from that list, even though you were not replying t... |
I recently upgraded from KDE4 to KDE5 as per news "KDE Plasma 5 Upgrade". There is a strange thing after the upgrade, when doing su in terminal in KDE5 it takes 20 seconds, although before the upgrade or in the console it is immediate. Anyone has an idea, what could be wrong? strace su somehow does not show anything us... | It doesn't sound like anything related to Plasma or konsole... can you try with a different terminal emulator from within your Plasma session or with konsole in a different window manager, a new user? |
Hi. I updated to kde 5 plasma desktop probably about 6 weeks ago... perhaps a little while longer (when it became stable in gentoo). I've been having trouble with stability, and I was wondering if anyone else was having these problems. I have it installed now on 3 different systems, and they all exhibit the same behavi... | gerard82 , I sometimes call it 'KDEFP5' or 'KDEPF5', more or less as a joke, but in case you haven't bumped to it before, here's something that should clear up at least some things about the official naming they went with: There’s no such thing as KDE 5, and its status on Gentoo grooveman , Did you try disabling 'uvesa... |
Hi, i tried to update my system as explained here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade So i changed the profile, checked the use flags and --deselected everything blocking. However, when applying the the new profile i got several blocker: Code: localhost ~ # emerge --ask --changed-use --newrepo --deep --p... | You've not deselected enough. Why not run the removal command without --pretend as described in the guide? |
Hi there, this is my first post in this forum. I've just intalled gentoo and I'm trying to configure it. Before use gentoo I was using arch linux with kde-plasma 5 and, when I installed it con gentoo I realize that I can't acced to touchpad-configuration on Settings-Imputdevices (when I could on arch). I've finding and... | In your make.conf you have Code: INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics" use flag touchpad in plasma-desktop is no longer available Code: [ebuild R ~] kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.7.3:5::gentoo USE="fontconfig gtk2 gtk3 handbook legacy-systray pulseaudio qt4 -debug -ibus (-packagekit) -scim {-test}" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev -synaptics" 0... |
Hi, I'm trying to get Plasma effects/compositor to work in Plasma 5.6 over proprietary nvidia drivers 361.28...is this working for anyone? Any USE flags or Xorg settings needed? Seemingly, composite is enabled Quote: root@ ~ $grep -i compos /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 65.028] (**) Extension "Composite" is enabled but when I ... | Hej, is the nvidia module loaded properly? What does glxinfo show? Any errors in your xorg log? Did you check the settings in the KDE "System settings -> Desktop Behavior -> Desktop Effects" and "System settings -> Display and Monitor -> Compositor" Cheers, Bjoern |
In newly installed Gentoo + Plasma 5, no netwrok icon shows in system tray so I can not use NM gui I have plasma-nm installed though. And Network Manager has started but is inactive like this: Code: msh@localhost ~ $ sudo rc-service NetworkManager restart Password: * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Unmounting... | minsoehan wrote: but Network Manager still start but is inactive Code: * WARNING: NetworkManager has started, but is inactive minsoehan ... that is normal, though it should probably say "NOTICE" rather than "WARNING" (and so avoid users thinking that something is effectively *wrong*). openrc-run.c: if (rc_service_state... |
would really like to try and get kmail merged , unfortunately running into some slot conflicts and --backtrack isn't helping here. On ~amd64 , this is my primary laptop for work so I'm a bit hesitant to move onto an overlay. Whole reason for this , the good idea fairy decided to move the company exchange to (insert ran... | You can, it's just that khelpcenter will need a rebuild with the older xapian version. |
Hi, i'd like to try qemu, and it install it according the wiki page: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU I have created a disk image with qemu-img command. Now i'm trying to install the iso into the disk image, i search an howto on the web, and it tell to run "qemu" command, but i don't have "qemu" in the system. I have o... | ok, thank you! |
Currently i try some new desktop environments, my Desktop Manager is sddm, it works fine. Also the Cinnamon Desktop. But when i try to start kde (plasma-meta, nothing else, the once overlay i have i need for veracrypt) the screen went black. Here is my /home/gladdle/.xsession-errors : Code: Failed to get D-Bus connecti... | If you have any mention of gles* in your USE flags, get rid if them. |
My main desktop is XFCE, but I installed some KDE 5 apps (konsole, kate, dolphin, etc.) Two weeks ago, all icons in the KDE 5 apps disappeared. The KDE apps still ran fine, but no icons were shown. After a while, I found out that I had to do 2 things to get the icons back: 1) I had to install kde-frameworks/frameworkin... | Yesterday I upgraded to kde-frameworks 5.23. After that, all icons in my KDE apps were gone again! After a while, I found out that icons come back if I set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP to "XFCE" before starting a KDE app. For KDE Frameworks 5.23 (and probably later), my first post must be changed to: 1) kde-frameworks/framework... |
I have an interesting configuration... I have a laptop with a built-in 4k screen when I'm mobile... and when I'm docked, I have four 1080p screens (plus the built-in 4k screen). This presents an interesting set of problems, including different graphics card (the docking station includes a desktop graphics card at a dif... | Found the culprit - I had forgotten that I had also updated /etc/sddm.conf to a DPI of 144. This had the effect of ignoring my ~/.xinitrc xrandr statement regarding DPI and overriding it with 144 every time, no matter which configuration I was in. I have since updated my system unit file to symlink in an appropriate /e... |
Ever since I upgraded to Plasma 5 I've been unable to compile akonadi or libadkonadi before that without a custom patch. I've gone through: libakonadi-15.12.1 libakonadi-15.12.2 libakonadi-15.12.3 akonadi-16.03.90 akonadi-16.04.0 akonadi-16.04.1 akonadi-16.04.2 akonadi-16.04.3 The patch is: Code: --- akonadi-16.03.90/s... | If your boost is 1.61.0, how do you have a /usr/include/boost -1_51 directory providing outdated include files? Do you have a stale boost installed in addition to the current one? Did you ever try to install a package outside of Portage? |
Only debugging I seem to be getting is: Code: rich@graendalwired ~ $ systemsettings5 QDBusArgument: read from a write-only object Aborted This is with kde-plasma/sddm-kcm-5.6.5 and kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.6.5. Steps to crash: go into Workspace->Startup and Shutdown->SDDM ... crash EDIT: Bug posted EDIT2: Apparently th... | At this point it should be clear you have a problem well below random Plasma modules. Code: $ emerge --info $ emerge -uvDNp world $ equery l -i dev-qt/* # rc-update show |
Yet another computer with the plasma 5 upgrade does not have a suspend to ram option. This is a stable keyword system that has gone thought he kde5 upgrade wiki. Suspend works from the CLI using pm-suspend and cat /sys/power/state gives "freeze mem", yet kde cannot figure out how to sleep. I know that KDE 4 is not long... | For some reason the upgrade process has removed my primary user from most of its groups, like user. IDK how the hell that happens, but it did. |
I installed xfce-extra/xfce4-powermanager in order to get a brightness indicator in the panel. Now, when I try to add the power manager plugin to the panel, it crashes with the following message: Code: Plugin "Power Manager Plugin" unexpectedly left the panel, do you want to restart it? The plugin restarted more than o... | Derp, I read this part of the wiki but didn't register it: Quote: When experiencing authorization or permissions issues within xfce4 in a OpenRC profile (symptoms include being unable to open power manager and unable to suspend/hibernate) be sure the sys-auth/consolekit package has been merged with the pm-utils flag se... |
Recently I had upgraded to KDE/Plasma and it worked ok, However after last system updating (last week), I am facing these issues: There is no Menu at all and mouse is stuck. I tried to follow this wiki and changed to 'true' but still same issues: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade#Missing application men... | Now I see that this issue has to do with switching to ATI/Radeon graphics card - I pulled out Radeon card and with Intel on board graphics there is no problem with KDE/Plasma. Please advise how to work it out with Radeon? |
Did the upgrade overnight. Can't seem to get kmix to give me a volume control on the panel. Anyone had this? | mrbassie wrote: Already have. First thing I tried. Did you try to run it? 'kmix&' I recall in the past having to do that once. Also there is a widget you might try. Add a new widget and search for 'audio'. |
I notice after migration from KDE 4 that file ~/.xsession-erros become huge during the session, with the "log_kioremote: RemoteDirNotify::FilesChanged" line the most relevant info. Is this normal? If i remove this file results in any harm to the system? What is under the hood? | I had a huge ~/.xssession-errors one. I simply deleted it, no harm done. |
Every time I open Chromium settings, it starts KWallet and demands to enter password. I don't use any password storage system. How do I permanently disable this annoying window? kde-apps/kwalletd-15.12.3 kde-frameworks/kwallet-5.21.0 www-client/chromium-51.0.2704.103 AMD64, if it matters. | Add CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--password-store=basic" to /etc/chromium/default. |
Hi, I am using Gentoo 64 bit, with systemd. Which profile should I choose? These are the profiles on my system. Maybe I should use the 7th one? But I want as less as possible for KDE packages. Quote: Available profile symlink targets: [1] default/linux/amd64/13.0 [2] default/linux/amd64/13.0/selinux [3] default/linux/a... | Since not exists a desktop/systemd profile , imo the best way is setting systemd profile (for the proper settings of systemd) and than add desktop use flag manually in make.conf. You can see default desktop profile use flag in /usr/portage/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults . |
Hello, I was trying to install kipi-plugins:5 (unstable, ~amd64) which has just landed on the portage tree, but it fails with the following compile error: Code: ...... ...... .0/work/digikam-5.0.0/extra/kipi-plugins/common/libkipiplugins/dialogs/kpimagedialog.cpp /var/tmp/portage/media-plugins/kipi-plugins-5.0.0/work/d... | Marked SOLVED : kipi-plugins-5.0.0 build only against the most recent libkipi (i.e. libkipi-16.04.2 ) which is keyworded at the moment; I have a stable KDE installation which uses only libkipi-15.12.3 . I'm going to stay stable and wait... |
After moving profiles from KDE to Plasma I am attempting to install kde-apps-meta Code: [ebuild N ] kde-apps/kde-apps-meta-15.12.3-r3:5::gentoo USE="accessibility nls -minimal -pim -sdk" 0 KiB [blocks B ] <kde-apps/kde-wallpapers-15.08.3-r1[-minimal(-)] ("<kde-apps/kde-wallpapers-15.08.3-r1[-minimal(-)]" is blocking kd... | As portage is telling you in above message, you have the choice of adding "kde-apps/kde-wallpapers minimal" to package.use or adding "=kde-apps/kde-wallpapers-15.08.3-r2" to package.keywords, both will yield the same result and be equally 'stable' (it's wallpapers!). Except the latter not using kdelibs4 for configure b... |
Hi, i just experienced after the update to gnome 3.20 (disabled wayland in gdm custom.conf), that my screen got black and sound stops. At first i thought that my Gnome-Session crashed. And i don't push the shortcut by myself. Seems to be Time sensitive after some minutes.. or maybe its an issue with some shortcuts or k... | Try updating gnome-base/gnome-shell to gnome-base/gnome-shell-3.20.2-r1. |
After the upgrade the only way to kde work is executing /etc/init.d/xdm restart. If i execute xdm start, results in black screen. Any ideas? | Please check that /etc/sddm.conf exists. |
Hi All, I'm banging my head against a brick wall with this. nvidia-drivers emerge is failing. I have the build.log here: http://pastebin.com/0f3rnyyG And the environment log here: http://pastebin.com/fmwF9JBQ I'm just using genkernel for now and will revert to own build later. I have reviewed a number of posts which re... | https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1045052-highlight-.html |
I recently did a clean reinstall of my Gentoo system. I'm currently running the following stack: Code: * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Latest version available: 4.6.3 Latest version installed: 4.6.3 * x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers Latest version available: 367.27 Latest version installed: 367.27 * dev-qt/qtwidgets Latest vers... | Remove any mention of gles* from your USE flags. |
At the moment KDE 5 is not something I'm ready to use. I did test it by using it for a month, it didn't work out for me. So I'm going to wait longer until KDE 5 gets better in the new format (even if that means waiting for KDE 6). Currently portage is pulling in KDE 5 even if I have it masked. I want this to stop. emer... | There is no KDE5, but the following package is pulling in Frameworks and Qt5: Code: [ebuild NS ] media-video/kaffeine-2.0.3:5::gentoo [1.2.2-r1:4::gentoo] USE="-debug" 1.730 KiB |
After the command equery list "kde-*" i notice several kdes packages like kde-base, kde-apps, kde-frameworks and kde-plasma. Is this a mess or the regular kde way? My box is working with the KDE Plasma 5 with some minor issues. | parramata, This is by design. It breaks KDE up into manageable parts. |
Hello, I am having trouble getting X working on Gentoo for a week now. I have tried everything I could find on the net and I think I need someones help now. I must have misconfigured something. It works from the liveusb and I also tried LinuxMint, it works there as well. When I run startx I just get a blank screen (wit... | funeagle, Code: [ 2196.358] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes: [ 2196.358] (II) NVIDIA(0): "NULL" [ 2196.358] (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 640 x 480 You have an optimus graphics system but you are trying to use the nVidia chip set alone. Unfortunately, the nVidia graphics is only half a graphi... |
When I run such programs as Skype, HexChat, qbittorrent, Thunderbird, Psi, their icons are not displayed in the system tray. How do I enable them? They worked fine in KDE4, but don't in KDE5. kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.5.5 net-im/skype-4.3.0.37-r5 net-irc/hexchat-2.10.2 net-p2p/qbittorrent-3.1.12 mail-client/thunderbird-... | gargoylle_ltk wrote: Make sure you have the 'legacy-systray' USE flag set for plasma-desktop: https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/legacy-systray I rebuilt kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.5.5-r1, but it didn't help. |
Question, I installed xorg-server and edited my .xinitrc to open my wm (i3). I can do startx and get into the first config screen but it doesn't recognize my keys, or doesn't do anything when I press them. I can't move my mouse, either. Thanks in advance for the help. | I do have Code: INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" within my /etc/portage/make.conf - what are your settings ? |
Hello, I use a triple monitor config, plasma 5 resets the screen config to default when restarted (clones first screen on the other 2). Screen config was fine in 5.5 but 5.6 has a bug. Everything else functions properly. I use the plasme 5.6 package keywords from here: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git/tree/Docume... | Could you please try the patch in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346961#c64 and apply it to kscreen as a user patch? |
Hi, How to start pure X system (without KDE or Gnome)? I use Gentoo for 10 years and I remember it used to be such pure old fashion looking X-system. I am basing on this guide: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide For Today, I can start KDE, but when I mask in .xinitrc Code: #exec startkde after typing 'startx' from... | Why would you want to do that? If you really insist then the command is X or Xorg but you won't like it. You will get a wonderful black screen with black mouse cursor and no way to do anything. If you want the test, that is Xorg -retro which gives you the test screen and no way to exit. Best to run Xorg -retro & sleep ... |
yup, i need help.. again cant change theme through the appearance menu (window manager themes are doing fine) i am changing it, but it seems like _almost_ no effect = it appears in the file xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xsettings.xml and i tried to open appearance via terminal - no output so whatever. i've installed x11-t... | well.. that's embarrassing. this problem and many others was caused by my dbus service - somehow it was just off. so Code: /etc/init.d/dbus start solved that completely. may be it will save some time to another newbie like me. |
I don't know why I can't figure this out, but when I had KDE4 (kdm) and now that I have Plasma 5 (sddm), I don't get any text in the greeter. I've cross checked with two of my other computers that do show the text and I can't find any setting regarding text that is obviously different. Sad that my main PC is the one wi... | I guess I should also post my fontconfig: Quote: Available fontconfig .conf files (* is enabled): [1] 10-autohint.conf [2] 10-no-sub-pixel.conf [3] 10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf * [4] 10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf [5] 10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf * [6] 10-sub-pixel-vbgr.conf [7] 10-sub-pixel-vrgb.conf [8] 10-unhinted.conf [9] 11-lcdfilt... |
I'm trying to upgrade from calligra-2.9.11 to krita-3. One of the things I consistently see KDE 5 hyped for is that it's "more modular" and doesn't require anywhere near the mountain of unused crap I currently need to have installed for Calligra. Getting rid of yet-another-webkit-I-don't-need would certainly be nice. B... | Code: eix -vle solid shows that this indeed has a hard dependency on udisks:2. If you cannot avoid the dependency on solid, you are lost. The udisks (and thus polkit) dependency is one of the reasons why I dumped kde5 already quite a while ago. (The other reason is the semantic desktop nonsense which is even more worry... |
I am having issues getting my multiple monitors working with Radeon HD 7450. Finally was able to get Plasma 5 up and running. Now I'm having an issue getting the Multiple monitors working that I had with KDE 4... Here is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf config: http://pastebin.com/x5MMz03u Plasma 5 is AWESOME... BUT I need my mul... | It appears that something had no fully registered after upgrade. I just did the following: Code: # eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] ati * [2] xorg-x11 # eselect opengl set 2 rebooted and then: Code: # eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] ati [2] xorg-x11 * # eselect opengl ... |
Trying to get Plasma 5 working on my new Thinkpad P50 laptop which has Nvidia Quadro M2000M graphics card. I set in bios discrete graphics only, so it doesn't run on optimus. I've been trying to get this working for the last two days.. I had various issue which I fixed in the meanwhile, but got stuck on this one With D... | MarcusXP wrote: With DISPLAYMANAGER="sddm" in conf.d/xdm the screen goes black when trying to load the graphical interface. Try it with the "sddm" user in the "video" group. See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade#SDDM_display_issues After Code: gpasswd --add sddm video it should work :) |
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