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OK, I installed on a blank SSD, from scratch. Followed the handbook, only stable packages. Installed the Gentoo base install, xorg-drivers, xorg-server (twm and xterm to test X) and then kdebase-meta. Profile is "default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde" Make looks like this Code: # These settings were set by the catalyst ... | Removing those didn't change anything. I tried to open the "System settings" and managed to navigate through a very broken visual display. But the underlying entries seemed to work. I managed to get to "desktop effects" and after disabling all of them (which I do anyway) I got a bit better. So I went further in this en... |
I recently did a world upgrade (after a long while, so it was big) and everything was fine afterwards. - Only when I re-booted and logged into Gnome (3.12), problems started. In a regular Gnome session, I could log in, but the PC froze as soon as I tried to start an application (" A Problem has occurred and the system ... | Using not an up to date kernel? That's a regression on old i915 hardware. According to upstream it's actually a relocation bug in the kernel that is uncovered by the latest userspace release (or rather, umpteenth RC). https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87677 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87780 |
I have been attempting to follow this . But I can not seem to get the driver installed to use a DM. Here is my last Xorg.0.log https://bpaste.net/show/2d550ff58be4 | setting VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/portage/make.conf should do the job; in your case Code: VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau" if the driver is then not installed automatically (eg when updating the whole system), just install it manually (which should pull all the deps) Code: emerge -pv x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau GOOD LUCK! |
Hi all. After last night's update to KDE 4.14.3 my desktop doesn't come up properly anymore. I see the KDE startup graphic for less long than I'm used to. It comes up for a second or so with the mouse pointer showing. I can also move the mouse pointer at this stage. Then the screen goes black, and after a while the emp... | I had also big problems upgrading to KDE-4.14.3, mostly with akonadi/baloo/semantic-desktop/indexing-crap, but the last fix for me was with xorg. This is the way how I tried to fix (and fixed after all) my system. 1st I tried to log with new clean user, which was helping a bit and I could log in, but the system was rea... |
Gentlepeople, I have spent literally days trying to figure out what is wrong here. The following is what I think is relevant: Code: cat .xsession-errors /etc/lightdm/Xsession: line 75: /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session startxfce4: No such file or directory which dbus-launch /usr/bin/dbus-launch which startxfce /... | OK, I decided to re-emerge lightdm to see if this would help. I did this and it generated a new Xsession file. I diffed the new against the old before replacing; Code: diff /etc/lightdm/Xsession /etc/lightdm/Xsession.new 74c74 < exec "$command" --- > exec $command I was surprised they were different since I hadn't made... |
Ping BEFORE logging in KDE4: Code: PING gmail.com (216.58.208.101) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from sof01s11-in-f5.1e100.net (216.58.208.101): icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=3.73 ms 64 bytes from sof01s11-in-f5.1e100.net (216.58.208.101): icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=4.58 ms 64 bytes from sof01s11-in-f5.1e100.net (216.58.208.101)... | Sadly static configuration did not help, thank you Atmmac! |
I have the latest version of Firefox (36.0). On a number of web-sites, the font used for the text is not rendered great. A minor inconvenience but I becomes annoying when I try to print web pages (also ones that are rendered correctly) and when the text is rendered with such bad quality that the printout is useless. Ne... | So there is a notable difference in rendering between firefox and chromium for the exact same web page? Do you have system-cairo useflag enabled? |
Hello, After I upgraded to KDE 4.6 I’m not able to use my old desktop icon I made for suspend: a simple widget icon with this command on click : # qdbus org.kde.kded /modules/powerdevil suspend 2 This is the error message I get when I do it in a console: "Cannot find ‘.suspend’ in object /modules/powerdevil at org.kde.... | Hahaha, I've just found the command I need! #dbus-send --print-reply --dest='org.freedesktop.PowerManagement' /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.Suspend it works |
Sometime in the last few months, an update broke the icons in file dialogs in Thunderbird. The result is that folders and files are indistinguishable from one another: http://ibin.co/1tU4pFkXjpl0 Any ideas what might be causing this? | This looks like a gnome file dialog in KDE. What icon theme did you configure in KDE's systemsettings - Application Appearance - GTK? (kde-base/systemsettings must be merged with "gtk" use flag) |
Edit: see below - ld.gold caused this I've recently become unable to run any Qt4 program whatsoever. I tried depcleaning/reinstalling all of dev-qt/*:4 but that didn't fix it. Also wiped out my ~/.kde4 and any qt config around the system I had left over. I'm thinking the recent Xorg 1.16->1.17 update might have caused ... | Ant P. wrote: I've downgraded xorg-server now and it's still broken, so you're right. time to change he subject ? |
Update 1, black with _ https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7713790.html#7713790 Update 2, flash a moment https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7713874.html#7713874 Update 3, solution https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7714002.html#7714002 I want to install gnome with systemd . But, now, after I reboot, it just giv... | Fdhvdu, Welcome to Gentoo. Optimus Graphics systems give one and a half graphics cards, not two. The Intel graphics chip can draw images into the pixel buffer and refresh the screen from the pixel buffer. The nVidia graphics can only draw into the pixel buffer. It has no connection to the display at all. This means tha... |
Hi All: Trying to get a functional xfce4 menue editor and am trying menulibre. it emerged but I get this error when I run it: jserink@jserinki7 ~/qemu/vde $ menulibre Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/menulibre", line 46, in <module> import menulibre File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site... | Moved from Unsupported Software to Desktop Environments. x11-misc/menulibre is in Portage so it fits better here. Just a couple of shotgun ideas as I'm not really a Python person: Make sure your python environments are fully up-to-date and consistent with python-updater. Try a later version of Python. If this works, yo... |
hi, for those of you that run into the same problem: I made a world update yesterday where libreoffice, xorg-server, many x11-libs, mesa and other stuff got updated. after boot today and some minutes of working suddenly thunderbird started to show a strange GUI: missing menu and folder text that reappeared after mouse-... | edit: this is not completely solved. after half an hour working, thunderbird starts to misbehave again: grey fields that get not redrawn where there is no active field like a menu in it. BUT because the character problem has gone: marking solved. |
The new Libreoffice 4.4 is advertised as being all pretty pretty. http://www.libreoffice.org/discover/screenshots/ http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/01/29/libreoffice-4-4-the-most-beautiful-libreoffice-ever/ So I unmasked 4.4 and it looks identical to 4.3, quite ugly. How do I make it look all nice? use flags: Co... | What exactly looks ugly to you? - If you have an existing `~/.config/libreoffice/4` dir, those settings might prevent LibreOffice from picking the new 'pretty' default. - You can change the icon theme in LibreOffice preferences. - Your mileage may vary depending on your desktop environment of choice |
Gentlepeople, I upgraded my x86 system to xorg-server 1.16.4 yesterday. X no longer starts with the error: EE module abi major version (15) doesn't match the servers version (1 This happens when I try to load the savage module version 2.3.7. I noticed some of the driver modules being updated yesterday but didn't notice... | Have you tried: emerge -1 @x11-module-rebuild |
I've installed gentoo on my machine with two HD 7970 Radeon cards. I'm having trouble getting xorg to start. KMS is working OK (I had trouble with that and needed 'nomodeset' until I realised I needed the firmware installed) and the 'radeon' module is loaded I've set VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonsi" I'm running a genkerne... | It appears that you have vesafb enabled. Although radeon implements handover from vesafb, sometimes this does not work properly. Better disable all fb hardware drivers. Also if you use systemd, then you need >=xinit-1.3.4 if you want to use startx. EDIT: Some fdo bugs seem to suggest that you need to use BusID paramete... |
This problem is looked very like https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7640956.html , but it is now on webkit-gtk-2.4.8 and I'm using gcc-4.9.2 I have tried to build webkit-gtk-2.6.5 and 2.6.4, but no lucky. Tried to switch back to gcc-4.8.3 and also failed. Anyone have the ideas? Thanks! ------------------------------... | Based on "make[2]: fork: Cannot allocate memory" I'd say you ran out of memory. Add a 2G swap file. You can use the ebuild command to avoid the compile part of the ebuild since it failed on the install phase. In /etc/portage/make.conf MAKEOPTS="-j13 -l4" lower the value of the -j option. |
Hello guys I tried intsalling kde-frameworks and plasma by following the kde/overlay guide(linked keywords accepted configs during install,which modified my pakcage.use) but i get this during the install Code: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild N ] dev-qt/q... | Try keywording dev-qt/*-4.8.6 too. Lower versions are indirectly blocked by qt5. |
Hi I was just wondering, if I am the one with this problem. Sometimes (under heavy load its often) some proccesses like konqueror or amarok just disappear without any messagebox or anything (I am running a normal kde desktop with many apps running: kmail, korganizer, knode, xchat, licq, psi, amarok, linuxdc++, some kon... | guys, you really need to start by providing emerge --info, we can't check the basics excessive cflags problems for a start. btw, downgrading glibc is a big no-no, updgrading it is a one way street or you might get strange problems thereafter. |
Since upgrading to xorg server 1.17 yesterday it no longer writes to Xorg.0.log. Has anyone else experienced the same thing? Noticed while switching from sna to glamor rendering that the logfile isn't written. | Was to lazy to troubleshoot so made a Code: emerge -e xorg-server over the night and this morning all is well again |
Since an upgrade earlier today, I can't get my window manager, kdm, running. /etc/init.d/xdm restart only causes a quick flicker on the screen, but it does not start. An inspection of /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows the first line that indicates something might be going wrong is: Quote: [ 3462.952] (II) evdev: AT Translated ... | /var/log/Xorg.0.log from the same system when it was properly functioning: Quote: [ 14.039] X.Org X Server 1.15.0 Release Date: 2013-12-27 [ 14.039] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 14.039] Build Operating System: Linux 3.11.10-gentoo x86_64 Gentoo [ 14.039] Current Operating System: Linux verona 3.15.1-gentoo #1 SM... |
Hi, I'm seeing ugly fonts in Firefox, or more specifically, they are incorrectly rendered. It can be seen in this screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55732698/ugly_fonts.png (look at the words "overview" and "world") I'm using radeonSI drivers and Aurora 32.0.5. | I've also had instances of Firefox rendering text weirdly: http://i.imgur.com/ZXPQJBp.png It went away again after a while. Edit: Someone claims it was the update to from media-fonts/dejavu-2.33 to 2.34 |
I just installed KDevelop (4.5.2 on kde 4.14.3) on a mostly amd64 install with a few ~amd64 packages. All other applications behave fine. KDevelop comes up filling about 2/3 of one of my two monitors, but it seems to think it is maximized, as the maximize, move, and resize menu items are disabled, and there is no resto... | You could try `xprop` or `xwininfo` on the window, see if it's forcing those settings in some way. That'd give you a clue on how to override them too. Seems odd that it'd do that on first run though, have you installed it before? It might be picking up old settings if so. |
hi, i connected a usb dvd-writer to my desktop. When i insert an empty dvd i can burn a dvd and under devices in nautilus i can see the dvd-device. but when i insert a normal burned dvd, the device is not listed under nautilus. But i could mount the dvd manually in the shell. usb-stick mounting under nautilus is no pro... | One possibility: did you set UDISKS_DISABLE_POLLING in your udev config anywhere? Make sure this is unset. Though this should be default to be off (i.e. polling is enabled)... Also make sure the dvd writer device(/dev/sr0, /dev/scd0) does not exist in /etc/fstab, but this also probably isn't the problem... |
My newest version of the Google chromium browser, 33.0.1750.117, has jagged fonts, similar to here . I'm using KDE and have tried all combinations of its Use anti-aliasing settings. I don't believe the previous version of chromium had this problem. Any hints to fixing this would be gratefully received. [SOLVED] lrbb, b... | I say yuck to both. See Getting Beautiful Fonts in Gentoo. - John |
I have tried to set export GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx export QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx export XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx" in .xprofile, .xsession, .xinitrc, and .bash_profile files, but when I type "env|grep MOD" I still get IMSETTINGS_MODULE=X compose table QT_IM_MODULE=xim XMODIFIERS=@im=imsettings GTK_IM_MODULE=xim So the question is,... | helio ... I don't see why setting the variable via .xinitrc doesn't pass this on to the session, perhaps xim starts prior, and/or your using a login manager (so nothing from your "login shell" is setup), anyhow, does this answer your questions? best ... khay |
I'm re-installing from scratch and now I'm going to install kde-base/kdebase-meta and it doesn't start because mariadb has "unmet requirements". I selected the profile /kde (no systemd) and the X server starts. When I try to emerge mariadb apart it gives this: Code: !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "mariadb" has unme... | Code: The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: xml? ( extraengine ) You have xml enabled, so you also need to enable the extraengine useflag. |
I used to have a working Radeon setup, but after I re-installed Gentoo I seem to get all kinds of problems. I'm trying to use this guide: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon Code: # lspci | grep -i VGA 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler [Radeon HD 6310] Hence I grabbed the... | pgu, A few things. First, you will get a better response, if you edit your original post rather than reply to yourself. Replying to yourself drops you ot of the unanswered posts seach, so some potential helpers may never see your post. Code: [ 90.497] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported. suggests that you... |
Hello, Everyone! Recently, I've installed Gentoo with KDE 4 and I had problem. In all distros I used, mountable partitions were always listed in file manager and could be mounted. But in my installation, no partitions are listed, I could only use "mount" to mount them manually (but it's still not acceptable, because th... | Well, I've been able to solve the problem by adding dbus to default runlevel Code: # rc-update add dbus default Now I can see all my drives (incl. removable) in Dolphin. |
Hi, I have a problem, it has been like this for a couple of weeks now. Lenovo G580 laptop, kernel 3.17.7, gnome-light, profile "default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd" The problem: when I try to update my system with Code: emerge -auvDN world one of the packages to be built is "rp-pppoe" Code: [ebuild N ] net-d... | You also need to clear the USE flag modemmanager. Edit gnome-base/gnome-control-center requires the USE flag modemmanager and it is not optional. Therefore modemmanager and ppp can not be cleared. |
Firefox looks pretty ugly, because it is using GTK, while I'm using KDE. I already installed the x11-themes/gtk-engines-qtcurve (with the mozilla USE flag enabled) Re-logged in, rebooted, and Firefox still looks bad. Apparently there is supposed to be a new option in "System Settings" in KDE, but I can't find it So how... | P1neapple wrote: I already installed the x11-themes/gtk-engines-qtcurve Did you also select the theme for gtk+2 in systemsettings - application appearance - GTK? |
Howdy, I would appreciate help on this one I feel like this one must have been asked before, but I've had a real hard time finding it.. hope it's simple. I have installed xorg-server and I'm running openbox, systemd-less and dbus-less (actually, I'm installing dbus as I write this.. might need skype asap). Laptop: opti... | Interestingly, HTML5 video plays fine in firefox on all screens. smplayer and vlc both crash on the external screens. The issue must be with a shared library between them? I finished emerge --ask --emptytree world just now, and the issue persists, so it doesn't appear to be a compiling error. I might try out a differen... |
Hi, I have found this article (updated 2 days ago): NVIDIA Driver with Optimus Laptops http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVIDIA_Driver_with_Optimus_Laptops At the moment I use nvidia optimus with bumblebee and primusrun & optirun. My question: [1] Did anyone had any problems during migration from Optimus support by bumblebee... | The problem in my first topic was with modesetting (Xorg.0.log) Code: [ 3741.658] (EE) Failed to load module "modesetting" (module does not exist, 0) and on Arch Wiki manual about Nvidia Optimus I found, the modesetting package MUST be instaled: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus Quote: First install t... |
Over the last month or so I haven't been able to emerge the ATI 14.12 drivers (r2 or r3), which fail with the following error: The error suggests that something is wrong inside the driver archive. But it does pass all of the file checks. ati-drivers 14.9 emerges fine, so what could be going on here? Code: >>> Emerging ... | what does Code: ls -l /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-14.12-r3/distdir/amd-catalyst-omega-14.12-linux-run-installers.zip produce for owner and group? (If the file still exists.) Code: ls -l /usr/portage/distfiles/amd-catalyst-omega-14.12-linux-run-installers.zip should produce Quote: -rw-r--r-- 1 portage porta... |
I have a windows xp virtual machine running under libvirt(kvm). Sometimes, the gtk viewer (virt-viewer) and full manager (virt-manager) crash. The vm is still alive, though. Recently, I installed http://www.battoexeconverter.com/, which crashes the viewer every time it opens (See video, which only contains virt-viewer,... | Here is the debug output of virt-viewer: Code: 134 thangorodrim 18:11 ~ $ virt-viewer --debug --connect qemu:///system winxp (virt-viewer:4172): virt-viewer-DEBUG: Insert window 0 0x8890f0 (virt-viewer:4172): virt-viewer-DEBUG: fullscreen display 0: 0 (virt-viewer:4172): virt-viewer-DEBUG: fullscreen display 0: 0 (virt... |
Hi all, i've tried to had the wireless_ variables to my .conkyrc but every of them appear to be unknown : .conkyrc : Code: ${color #12f208}Wireless Network ${addr wlp2s0} ${wireless_link_bar wlp2s0} ${wireless_link_qual wlp2s0} ${wireless_link_qual_max wlp2s0} ${wireless_link_qual_perc wlp2s0} ${wireless_essid net wlp2... | nilux17 ... probably the most obvious question to ask would be: is the 'wifi' useflag enabled on the package? best ... khay |
Hi, I can't start firefox (Aurora), I get "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible" I've tried uninstalling firefox, removing .mozilla but I can't get anything to work. It occurred after the system powered down, so I think something's gotten corrupted, but I can't think what. I've searc... | I've tried all the things listed. firefox -P just returns the same error. There seem no profiles to fix or delete. |
Hello, I have installed KDE in gentoo, my problem is that even if I set acceleration to 0,1 the mouse speed is to high, how can I set mouse sensitivity? Thanks | You could try to control the acceleration by configuring X Windows directly instead of via KDE's System Settings. See e.g. the Arch Wiki article Mouse acceleration for contents of a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-mouse-acceleration.conf you could try (including the version at the end of the article, which turns off accel... |
Hi, I have a problem: grub2 does not detect the Windows 7 boot partition, but only the Gentoo one, here are some information: Code: fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes, 1465149168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/opt... | tant0c1b0, it looks like you need to install ' os-prober '. Emerge it and re-run grub2-mkconfig, like creaker said above. |
Just installed Xfce on a Lenovo X240 and I notice that Suspend, Hibernate, Shutdown, and Restart are not available in the Action Buttons widget as my normal user, but I am able to do a shutdown with a "shutdown -P now" command from a root console. What should I check to make the options available? | Set the policykit and consolekit use flags and do an emerge -uDN world. You'll also want to start your session with ck-launch-session. A good check as to whether you're configured correctly is the command 'ck-list-sessions' should report :active = TRUE" for your uid. |
After a world update yesterday, I am no longer able to login. After entering name and password, I return to the login screen. I tried to change over to xdm (rather than kdm), but I have the same behaviour there. I'm not sure what this is related to. kdm.log looks like this Code: gbm: failed to open any driver (search p... | Is the login screen X? If it is, I guess X is working. Not sure where to look for the problem I cannot find anything extraordinary in the logs. /var/log/messages just gives me pam_unix session opened for user micke, followed by a pam_cd_connector nox 11 mode, followed by a pam_unix session closed for user micke. So I'm... |
I would like to resize the font dynamically in urxvt, so I found this python configuration: https://github.com/simmel/urxvt-resize-font/blob/master/resize-font However, that doesn't work. Even adding this inside .Xresources doesn't change the size (but the actual font used changes): Code: Urxvt.font: xft:Inconsolata:pi... | zje ... this 'resize-font' is in ~/.urxvt/perl? ... and is 'URxvt.perl-lib: /home/user/.urxvt/perl' defined in .Xresources? HTH & best ... khay |
Dear all, I cannot compile gnome-shell anymore due to this error which is certainly a dependency issue: Code: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.3/../../../../lib64/libmutter.so: undefined reference to `clutter_stage_set_paint_callback' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Makefile:1420: recipe for target 'run-... | Which version of mutter are you building? I'm picking up x11-wm/mutter-3.12.2 and it seems to have that symbol defined in it... |
I am running KDE with Dolphin. I downloaded an audio book from librivox.org and unzipped it in my Downloads directory. Now I have 64 separate mp3 files in my Downloads folder and I want to move them into into a new folder. I created a new directory in Downloads, selected all 64 files with my mouse, right clicked to cut... | amaltheia wrote: I am also wondering how I could do this on my terminal. The file name is davidcopperfield_01_dickens_64kb.mp3 and it goes from 00 to 64. How would I type the commands to move it into the new folder that I want? amaltheia ... I'll ignore the first part of your question to concentrate on the latter part ... |
Hello, when I try to run 'xfontsel' or 'lefty', I get an error: Code: Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Error: Aborting: no font found How do I install fonts properly? I'm using KDE 3.5 from layman. Thanks. | What do you those fonts for ? Rarely anything still uses that kind of fonts. |
I recently removed a number of different packages notably media-video/vlc. The emerge --depclean process apparently did not remove all of the file associations. I use kde and it's file associats editor in settings seems to expect one at a time editing. I'm not really thrilled to do this. What I'd like to do is remove V... | Have a look in .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list |
Sorry guys,This is a photo http://postimg.org/image/s23vnyl0j/ and the right side of the window display blank after startx How to slove this problem The Desktop is enlightenment 0.17.6 ,Aww I get Optiums working so I think the problem is with xorg.conf. xorg.conf Code: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configure... | Some more information please. Is your problem about a certain WM (Gnome KDE, ...)? So please mention it in the topic. |
Happy New Year everyone. Well once again I ran a world update and am having some very bad results. I'll list as much info as I can although I am not sure if it is all related. In a nutshell I can't use any of my desktop environments. KDE or XFCE. But the behavior they exhibit is a little different. After my update I no... | Budoka wrote: why emerge --depclean wants to yank all sorts of XFCE and X11 stuff if I remove kde meta. You should put xfce-base/xfce4-meta in your world file too. That should protect the xfce and X11 stuff. About any possible dependencies between KDE and XFCE - I don't know, that sounds weird to me too. |
SOLVED: Always check if there are outdated headers in /usr/local/include. I know these packages are masked and keyworded. I sincerely thank whoever takes the time to look at this. Emerge is failing on compiling glxdricommon.c with the following: Code: /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/xorg-server-1.16.3-r1/work/xorg-server-1.1... | It might also be useful to know what version of mesa you're using. To start debugging go to the xorg-server build directory in PORTAGE_TMPDIR and see if you can reproduce the error by running 'make' in it. If so try reducing glxdricommon.c further and further. For example start by removing everything after the includes... |
hi there, does someone know how to setup a second desktop with gnome3 ? thanks in advance | just found it ingenious !! just move the mouse to upper left corner, then on the right side of the screen a small task bar appears where you can switch to second desktop. as soon as you run a window on the second screen, the third one appears and so on. i like that ! |
I have did some updates, including update gentoo-sources,emerge world -avtuDN emerge --declean, then reboot, startx, but I got a dead machine with black screen, when xorg error first happened, I thought the xorg-server had caused it. So I degraded the xorg-server, but it not works. next, I found some fault information ... | I use fglrx, I already set the eselect opengl to ati. gentoo-source, xorg-server, mesa, eselect-opengl, glproto, these packages all be reinstalled several times with different version. I will get dead machine and black screen every time when I startx, thus only I can push the power button. But I just get some errors on... |
I don't understand, but suddenly, I don't have power management anymore in kde. I already re-emerge dbus dbus-glib polkit consolekit polkit and upower are started : Code: # ps axfu | grep polkit polkitd 1714 0.0 0.4 519508 13360 ? Sl 01:28 0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug kevin 2656 0.0 0.7 288808 24328 ? Sl 0... | .xsession-errors if it can help Code: startkde: Starting up... Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) kbuildsycoca4 running... QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::deviceFound(Device*) to BlueDevilDaemon::deviceFound(Device*) QObject::connect: Cannot c... |
Hi, I spent a lot of hours not finding why I haven't energy management in kde on my laptop just updated. I found that upowerd is not running, and I found polkitd not running too. And finally, I found in /var/log/messages that console-kit-daemon can't start it : Code: Jan 1 17:04:31 fuji console-kit-daemon[1967]: WARNIN... | OMG ! Code: chmod +x /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper solved it ! But why haven't I to do that on my others PC ? Code: # ls -l /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper -rws--x--- 1 root messagebus 294272 29 déc. 14:34 /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper Is there another solution I found before ? |
evince used to remember the previous document position so that when I reopen the same file, I can continue reading it from previous time. However, after I got many packages updated yesterday, evince (3.14.1) no longer does it - every time I open a file, it just always starts from the first page. downgrading the last kn... | Finally got it solved, not actually related to things mentioned above: I switched to use my ~/.xinitrc as startup script, in the last line of it: Code: exec ~/.xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux Adding dbus-launch and ck-launch-session right after "exec" will get dbus and consolekit to work, and solve the problem. Code: exec d... |
**Fixed by getting rid of crappy crufty old xorg.conf, see my own reply nvidia-drivers 343.36, xrandr 1.4.1, libxrandr 1.4.2, xmonad 0.11-r1 For a few years I've been using the nvidia binary driver and a very fussy xorg.conf with Xinerama to get multiple screens on my multimonitor setup (different resolutions on each s... | Solved by deleting crufty crappy xorg.conf and generating a new one from nvidia-xconfig. The new shiny file is: Code: # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 343.36 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-09) Mon Dec 1 16:47:14 PST 2014 Section "ServerLayout" Identifie... |
I'm currently using Gnome 3 unstable. Since the last update, a few days ago, booting up only gives a black screen. I have no idea what is causing this problem. Below is the log output from gdm. Can anyone help? Code: dec 29 18:37:53 zenbook gdm-Xorg-:0[5401]: This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org... | Strange_Attractor, That looks like a heathy Xorg startup and shut down. How did you run Xorg and what were you expecting it to do? Unless you tell it what to do, it won't do anything ... just display a black screen. |
This ones been driving me nuts forever and has come up in several applications...first some time back in pidgin, and again now in thunderbird: I have a default browser setting for "opera" hidden somewhere that I simply cannot find. First of all, I've been using nothing but fluxbox for many years now. Prior to that I wa... | tld, You browsers know where the setting is. They all have an option to "Check for the default browser on startup" and they usually offer to set it too. So its in your browser(s) somewhere I had to read the instructions to fix this on my wifes system that defaulted to links instead of firefox. |
Hello, i installled NetworkManager on the MATE desktop, there is no nm-applet on the panel, i followed a google search and downloaded the applet from emerge, when trying to run it it came with this error: Code: ~ $ nm-applet (nm-applet:28584): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:2:16: Theming engine 'a... | after doing more research i discovered that i needed to add my username to a group as follows: Code: gpasswd -a keith plugdev then when I restarted and logged back in there was the internet icon i had been looking for!! ahhh.. the great mysteries of the linux OS, so much to learn, and to grow for me... |
Hi@, Since Gnome 3.14 gdm starts on my machine several times. The process takes a long time and is annoying. journalctl -b | grep "Starting GNOME Display Manager..." wrote: Jan 04 12:31:10 tux systemd[1]: Starting GNOME Display Manager... Jan 04 12:31:38 tux systemd[1]: Starting GNOME Display Manager... Jan 04 12:32:03... | Thx for reply. Yes. The system is up to date and well maintained. gnome-base/gdm Latest version available: 3.14.1-r1 Latest version installed: 3.14.1-r1 Size of files: 1.497 KiB Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GDM Description: GNOME Display Manager for managing graphical display servers and user logins Licens... |
Since upgrading to KDE 4.14.3, konqueror and dolphin are extremely slow to start up. When starting dolphin from the comandline I get this message: Code: Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceAdded(QDBusObjectPath) Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceRemoved(QDBusObj... | It may be answered now but I'm curious: KDE used to have an env.d variable for prelink support that was supposed to benefit startup time, does that still do anything? |
I would like to install the required servers on mt system so that I can "remote desktop" into them. I guess RDP is not a requirement, but I want it to work like remote desktop does. Basically I have a few windows sytems that I remote desktop into from Linux (the client works fine), OSX, and other windows systems. It lo... | Faraclas, Do you really mean remote desktop as in view the GUI on the screen at the remote Linux system. VNC works, sort of, but you would need to set it up in 'screen scraper' mode. Normally, any user can start a VNC server on a Linux host and none of them will get what is on the screen. If you want to use it over the... |
Hello I keep having the same problem every time I install kde.There is no shutdown or restart option in users menu and I cannot mount sub drives as user.I heard somewhere to rebuild dubs-glib but that is not working. I have all the correct permissions so I know it is not that. Kde version is 14.3. this happens on my la... | KDE needs consolekit service running and must be compiled with consolekit support for these functions to work. Also, is the user member of the groups "usb" and "plugdev"? |
hallo! I try to install Xorg-server follow https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Configuration , and finished emerge Twm and Xterm ,I got a black screen when I try startx to start up X server ，Only forced shutdown. What causes this problem？ Please Xorg.log： Code: [ 299.893] X.Org X Server 1.15.0 Release Date: 2013-12-27 [ ... | 2B2doG, Code: [ 299.918] (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:0116:17aa:397d rev 9, Mem @ 0xf1000000/4194304, 0xe0000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x00004000/64 [ 299.918] (--) PCI: (0:1:0:0) 10de:1054:17aa:397d rev 161, Mem @ 0xf0000000/16777216, 0xc0000000/268435456, 0xd0000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x00003000/128 I guess you have an Optimus g... |
The topic says it all. I am missing suspend and hibernate from my power management options. I have upower installed as well as cpupower. Is there something special I need to do to get suspend and hibernate? | I figured it out. Apparently you cannot use upower and upower-pm-utils. I removed upower and installed upower-pm-utils and everything is good now. |
I can't get X11 at a ThinkPad T440s to start if docked. I just get : Code: [ 166.734] (--) using VT number 7 [ 166.739] (II) intel(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section "Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32 [ 166.739] (==) intel(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 [ 166.739] (==) intel(0)... | USE=uxa for x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.21.15 was it |
I have just returned from a lengthly absence and find kde-4.14 is stable. Would someone be kind enough to tell me where I can find the sets for kde-4.14 ? | If you can't find them in regular portage, they are probably only available in kde overlay. |
Hi, i'm start using i3, but i have problems with keyboard layout (i want an Italian layout). I need to set in in the xorg configuration file. If i don't start X, the keyboard layout is correct (italian). I tryed to configure xorg, but it doesn't works. Probably i make some error... I post here my xorg.conf Quote: cat /... | http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml simple and generic /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/97-evdev.conf wrote: Section "InputClass" Identifier "mouse-all" MatchIsPointer "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Driver "evdev" Option "AutoServerLayout" "on" EndSection Section "InputClass" Ide... |
Hi I have freshly installed my computer with kernel 3.16.5, lightDM and xfce (4.10.1). Code: Linux aim-triops.uzh.ch 3.16.5-gentoo #1 SMP Tue Dec 9 15:23:52 CET 2014 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 980 @ 3.33GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux On the "Log Out"-dialog i have "Log Out", "Restart", "Shut Down" and "Suspend", but... | Hi i changed my .xinitrc to Code: exec ck-launch-session startxfce4 but i have no file '/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.consolekit.pkla' Actually i don't even have the subdirectory 'localauthority': Code: ~ $ ls /etc/polkit-1 rules.d The changed .xinitrc didn't change things: there is still no "... |
Hi, I can't get evolution to start, I've tried re-emerging it and evolution-data-server but no joy, here is the output: [EDIT] If you are experiencing this crash, try selecting the default Gnome icon-set [/EDIT] Code: evolution Quote: java version "1.7.0_55" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.4.7) (Gentoo build 1.7... | If the cause of the failure is related to the flood of warnings, emerge gnome-icon-theme. As for gconf/dconf, for all the dumb things Gnome upstream has done, it still should be dconf now. |
I have my system installed and up to date, but I cannot seem to get KDE working. In Debian and Slack, I had KDE with compositing and all, no issues. I believe I built everything here, but when logging in, I get KWin crashing, no effects, and the taskbar and what-not are in the upper-left. This is with a fresh user acco... | Hi, If your chip is a i915, you can set VIDEO_CARDS="i915 intel" in /etc/portage/make.conf. I think it doesn't support VAAPI, but XvMC. So the xvmc USE flag can be added. After that: emerge -avuDN @world Xorg needs this file to be created to get XVMC working: /etc/X11/XvMCConfig with this line inside: Code: /usr/lib64/... |
I have a new KDE install and I am not able to use su on the terminal. I followed the instructions to create a new user which said that it would give me root access. However, when I use su and give my root password, it says that permission is denied. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? I have kdesu installed, can I use tha... | https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-11126.html We do not read stickies, do we? |
For some reason I cannot get either firefox or Thunderbird to start this is the error message I am getting Code: #firefox XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so: libEGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM. #thunderbird XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/... | Hi! libEGL.so.1 belongs to mesa package. Re-install it. |
Hi after a recent re-installation of NVIDIA driver, the KDE desktop became missing after I login via KDM. I looked at the /var/log/kdm.log file and found the following errors: ...... Loading extension GLX Loading extension NV-GLX Loading extension NV-CONTROL Loading extension XINERAMA klauncher(29684) kdemain: No DBUS ... | Hello, is there a dbus group to which you can add the user who open an X session? |
just started using gnome and cant figure out how to share the connection, used to be able to create a new ethernet connection and under ipv4 settings I would select "shared to other computers" but that option is not there anymore. also I have the connection-sharing use flag enabled | So I finally got it working, instead of going through the network setting from the top panel in gnome, search for network connections thats where all the magic happens |
Hi, it seems like I need ConsoleKit because if I remove that service in my init my DE just doesn't even start after DM, but I've read that it isn't actually needed. How can I remove that service and keep my DE working? | Perhaps. What DE? What DM? |
I'm trying to automatically start an xfce session without a display manager I'm using this guide http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Automatic_login_to_virtual_console and have editted my inittab accordingly: http://pastebin.com/zVyW3DYj I've also tried the systemd service method nothing, I keep getting prompted for my usernam... | Are you using systemd? (In this case I do not know, although I did set up a Debian box using systemd some time ago for autologin with Google help. It worked, I see no reason why it shouldn't work in Gentoo.) If you are using OpenRC make sure you have agetty installed. |
So my tv monitor display (Sony KDL-26L4000) turns out to force overscan through hdmi. There's no dvi port and no setting for turning it off or using a full pixel mode. I'm using radeon (radeonsi) and have also included the appropriate blobs for my card in the kernel. More on that later. I've searched everywhere, downlo... | I've had problems like this with my off-brand TV's HDMI, here's a few things you could try: * Boot with "radeon.audio=0" and see if that changes things. For some reason having that enabled forces overscan on for me. * Have you tried cvt with the -r flag? * Is your screen actually 1920x1080, or is it a 1360x768 panel wi... |
I've been having this problem, every time I login into Gnome -through gdm- the settings stored in nvidia-settings-rc are not applied. I've followed all the steps in the help, like adding the command nvidia-settings --load-config-only in .xinitrc at my home directory but with no results. A weird thing happens after logi... | Adding nvidia-settings --load-config-only trough gnome-session-properties did the trick. |
Hi, I have a laptop with optimus videocard configured with randr. Here is my .xinitrc Code: #!/bin/sh xrandr --setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0 xrandr --auto startxfce4 It worked until I wanted to connect an external screen. With external screen I can see terminal. If the screen is connected before I execut... | solved changing XFCE settings: Applications > Settings > Settings Manager > Display. Check on and check off "Mirror display" checkbox. |
Go to http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/Installation and konqueror brings up a dialog starting Open 'http://omnios.omniti.com//mtrack.css'? . ¿Qué? Why doesn't it just apply the style sheet, like for example firefox does? | The css is not used as style sheet. Its loaded into an iframe in a hidden div. Konqueror thinks you want to download it. Firefox just displays it in pre tags. (The css http://omnios.omniti.com/css.php?2 styles the site and is applied for both browsers.) |
Hello, I've recently installed gentoo and verything went more or less without any issues. Only one problem left. I downloaded the tab and pertag patches for dwm from suckless website. And following the gentoo wiki talking about dwm, I recompiled dwm with savedconfig USE flag, and placed both patches in /etc/portage/pat... | The problem was the order in which I tried to apply patches. After I had renamed the patches so they where in the right (alphabetical) order I was able to successfully build dwm. |
I have been using razorqt happily for two years. Today I find that razorqt is hard masked, so I have to move to something else. Lxqt seems to be the natural replacement, but it depends on razorqt-base/libqtxdg-0.5.3, which is of course hard masked. And lxde also requires razorqt packages to build. So what to do? I don'... | RazorQt has merged with LXDE to form LXQt. The upgrade path is indeed to install LXQt after removing RazorQt. The old versions of RazorQt in Gentoo are starting to show problems, so it has been decided to hard-mask it now and remove it next month. The Gentoo LXQt team made a mistake though by not providing the new vers... |
I hit weird problem with XFCE and VolumeUp button on my keyboard. Using keyboard settings editor I've created shortcuts to change audio volume using special keys on my keyboard. The shortcuts execute 'amixer'. Somehow, the VolumeDown and Mute keys work, but VolumeUp key is simply ignored. The strangest thing is, that w... | Looks like I've found work around. After removing xfce4-volumed things started to work again. Well, I don't get indicator of volume change, but other than that everything is fine. I guess xfce4-volumed has some bug. |
Hi. I've got a strange issue that occurred only casually until today, twice. My login manager is lxdm and my desktop environment is Xfce. I also have a secondary user account for which I use XBMC. Today I wanted to close my Xfce session as usual, with the "Logout" button but closing hung before closing the last running... | The problem indeed lies wtihin LXDM. I changed my login manager for LightDM and not only has the problem gone but login and logout are also faster. Don't ask... |
/etc/conf.d/consolefont I set consolefont=<"my font"> but after restart console font remains unchanged. Please advise. | The configuration file you're trying to use is used by a service started with openrc. If you are running rc then try adding consolefont to the boot runlevel Code: rc-update add consolefont boot If you have systemd and no /etc/init.d/consolefont then you have to create a service I suppose. |
I have the problem that gdm shows black screen on bootup and when I switch to a text console and do a top, i can see that gnome-shell and gnome-settings-daemon are eating up 100% cpu load each. I have tried to check the logs of /var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.0.log and both shows no relevant information to the issu... | Finally found out what went wrong by running strace gnome-shell I could see that several files was not found and for some reason it kept on looping on it instead of giving up and handling out an error message. It was solved by reinstalling gnome-themes again |
xfce4-settings-manager is empty, shows no configuration icons. I've also noticed this behaviour on Whisker menu, which is missing all the category icons; I am able to find the applications if I go to the "All" sub menu. | Ok, I was able to resolve it. I build my system with the variable UMASK set to 077, which caused the permissions of the directory /usr/local/share/ to be 700. Strance revealed that xfce4-settings-manager was trying to read that folder but was getting a "Permission denied" error; I switched back the permissions on that ... |
My problem is probably easily fixed. I can't figure out how to keep my xcursor from switching from the theme I have set (gentoo-silver) in my ~/.Xresources to the default when I hover over different applications. It seems to be the default for gtk and my desktop, but take on the theme I want to apply in Firefox, skype,... | This is the kind of thing that makes X a pain sometimes, since each app/toolkit seems to think its way is the right way. Most legacy X apps do use .Xdefaults, the problem is that for some reason not all of them seem to parse that file directly. To tell the truth, I never looked on how the thing works so take all I say ... |
Now that X works, it's time to try to set up some DE, but which? I recall hearing that KDE is "default". If so, then which version? I'd like a DE that is common - to avoid problems of "exotic choices" - and I'm planning to use embedded programming tools - if some DE is better supported than others. | [Fetching popcorn...] I will watch this flamewar with my fvwm-crystal desktop. |
I’m using stable KDE 4.11.2 with stable akonadi-server-1.12.1-r1. Recently, it doesn’t start anymore. (I don’t exclude me breaking it, but I wouldn’t know how or when.) I’ve done a revdep-rebuild and rebuilt qtsql, but that didn’t help. Any suggestions appreciated. The ‘Akonadi Server Self-Test Report’ is at the end of... | albright wrote: have you tried wiping out (or moving ) ~/.config/akonadi and ~/.kde4/...akonadi files and restarting? Now I have. No change, sadly enough. |
I tried to install Xorg (and planned to install KDE too), but startx fails. This is from Xorg.0.log: Code: Release Date: 2013-12-27 [ 194.205] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 194.205] Build Operating System: Linux 3.12.21-gentoo-r1 x86_64 Gentoo [ 194.206] Current Operating System: Linux JAA-GENTOO 3.12.21-gentoo-r... | turboscrew wrote: Where the heck could that nouveau get loaded? You answer yourself already... turboscrew wrote: I also checked that the graphics drives should have been compiled to modules. (Both nouveau and nv. are) Module could be load by your device manager (udev...). So if you have the module, and the hardware tha... |
I just returned from a short vacation and wound up upgrading KDE, gcc and several other big packages. This caused some pain that I am trying to sort out. My main problem is that KDE-4.14.2 won't start. KDM runs and I can use it to start up xfce, which runs fine. When I tried to do a startkde from a successful startx, I... | That fixed it and I could start up.! xorg.conf was also screwed up (my dual monitors were oriented wrong) but I was able to fix that. Thank you for your help. |
Hi, ALL, I have a Dell laptop which has a Broadcom wireless network card. I successfully installed Gentoo on it and I put wpa_supplicant with the GUI enabled on top of the X/KDE. The problem is that even though it connects to my network and everything works, wpa_supplicant GUI does not work. Trying to pull the "Adapter... | First, you must be sure that your card is supported by the Linux kernel, the good module and firmware files loaded. See http://wireless.kernel.org/ . Otherwise, you can use the broadcom-sta module. Your wireless card must work properly before try to connect. Where did it say that wpa_supplicant do not support Broadcom ... |
Not that I'm complaining, but even though I reluctantly had to enable USE="semantic-desktop" globally in make.conf long ago in order to make kde work (and still have it enabled), I'm very surprised and confused. When I did my usual emerge -upD @world which installed kde-4.11.0 today, I noticed that kdelibs, kactivities... | OK- found this on the dilfridge blog: Quote: Last week we had our monthly Gentoo KDE team meeting; here are few details that are probably worth sharing. So far we've provided the useflag "semantic-desktop" which in particular controls the nepomuk functionality. Some components of KDE require this functionality uncondit... |
Portage just updated sys-apps dbus from 1.8.4 to 1.8.6, and now xfce fails to start. It fails to open socket /tmp/dbus-blahblah: permission denied. The socket file does not exist. I masked it for now, and everything works as before. Anyone else hitting this? EDIT: Figured it out; I added the X USE flag to sys-apps/dbus... | I can't say I'm having any issues with dbus & xfce. I've had dbus running for a long time, currently using 1.8.8; and have yet to have any issues with it. Do you having dbus started (for Openrc, having dbus started in the default run level). What use flags do you have set for dbus? Are you trying to start something thr... |
This is my first time installing Gnome 3 and Gentoo on a laptop. Gnome starts fine, but I cannot logout: clicking User -> Logout produces nothing. (No window pop up, the way it normally does this). That panel normally has two sliders - for sound level and screen brightness - but in my case, it has THREE, though none wo... | While you may get most things working with OpenRC, we do not test it. Running GNOME-3.12 with OpenRC is not fully functioning. E.g, because we do not have a logind interface outside systemd yet, stuff like suspend from gnome-shell menu in all likelyhood won't work. Logout might not either, but not sure. I guess it can ... |
From time to time, Gnome 3.8 will deadlock, and on examination of the logs, I see this: Dec 08 17:47:54 silicon gnome-session[19237]: (gnome-settings-daemon:19289): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. Lots and lots of those. When that ha... | Whats the output of; Code: # systemctl status dbus |
Hello, again, Gentoo forum members. I have been unable to upgrade from KDE 4.12.5 to 4.14.1 (meta). I have searched through the forums and the wiki about upgrading, but I still can not get it to work. The main reason I am trying to upgrade, is because the drawing program Krita, version 2.7.5, is unstable, constantly cr... | ...:sigh:... For the moment, let's go back to your first post in this thread. I hope that you've already dealt with the bogus downgrades and ran etc-update. Now, while I don't use KDE, the package description is quite clear - baloo is the successor of nepomuk. So the question is "what was still pulling nepomuk during t... |
I have everything after gdm-2.20 masked and have been happy but now it's being masked in portage. If i emerge -C gdm and then just put back /usr/sbin/gdm, /usr/bin/gdmXnest and /usr/bin/gdm will it continue to work for me? | Very risky. Ultimately you're trying to fool portage. Take a look at /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gdm-2.20/CONTENTS to make sure you're not missing anything if you're really trying to avoid upgrading gdm. You can also try putting that package in /etc/portage/package.unmask to workaround the problem. |
Hello, I recently upgraded my whole gentoo system, but I seem to have a lot of different issues related to Gnome. I use the gnome fallback session. 1) When it starts it takes almost a minute before it runs the autostart programs. At that point it generates a grey screen with the message the system has crashed and I nee... | What did you upgrade from? A lot of the problems I had upgrading to 3.12 is actually USE flags... but it looks like you got through all of them as it actually installed. Usually kernel panics are due to drivers, have you updated nvidia-drivers recently (is this what you're using?) |
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