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With Chromium 35 suddenly all my german Umlaute and ß keys map to english e.g. [;'- instead of üöäß, however other keys still map to german e.g. z,y etc. I didn't set LANG etc. in /etc/env.d/02locale, i never did and everything works until now If i set LANG to e.g. de_DE.UTF-8 everything is okay only Midnight Commander... | I have the same problem with google-chrome-35.0.1916.114_p1. I'm using finnish keyboard layout and all other keys work as they should except "finnish special letters" Ö and Ä |
Hi, I'm installing gentoo, on laptop with Ati graphic card. I've installed and configured all the system, but when i boot gentoo, when it start xorg (kdm) it gives me a black screen. I use fglrx driver (ati proprietary) Here my xorg log: http://pastebin.com/V1Zw3qQJ Here my xorg.conf (generated with X -configure and at... | The laptop appears to have dual AMD/Intel graphics. For the Intel driver to work, you need to enable CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS in your kernel. |
Code: emerge -pu --deep --newuse world WARNING: One or more repositories have missing repo_name entries: /var/lib/layman/thebuell/profiles/repo_name NOTE: Each repo_name entry should be a plain text file containing a unique name for the repository on the first line. These are the packages that would be merged, in order... | Quote: What does this mean? I have both systemd and consolekit in my USE flags! It means you can't. Consolkit has been 'absorbed' or, more accurately, abandoned and reimplemented in systemd. Remove one flag. |
Hi, today, upon updating, xdg-utils pulled in links, the browser. I do not understand why and would prefer it to not do that, but ok. However, I now notice that for opening linked webpages Thunderbird actually uses links now instead of Firefox, as before (and as is still the case for other programs, such as Okular). An... | Somebody reported it in bugzilla but this is just a build dependency for man pages iirc. Building man pages is generally not optional per policy. |
Hello community, I've installed KDE 4.10. Everything looks fine for the moment, except for this little issue. Every time I try to switch from one window to another (alt+tab) I get this odd grey filter that doesn't let me see what I'm trying to switch to. I've uploaded a screenshot to show you how it looks. Did you have... | It is meant to be like that, and exposes an issue with dark plasma themes. For a workaround deactivate "outline" (don't know if it is enough to deactivate the effect or if there is a setting in the task switcher config). For 4.11 this should be fixed, as the outline get's painted under the window, not on top of all of ... |
hi guys, i've done a fresh install in the virtual box, using slim + xfce4 . but, i find the slim seems cannot auto load when boot up, for the login screen does not appear at all! when i log in via tty as user, i can start x window by typing startx , and then comes the xfce4 desktop. so, i think the problem is with slim... | I recently installed SLiM because xdm did not seem to want to work properly with xfce4. However I did not see your issue - SLiM starts up OK. /etc/init.d/xdm start should be run as root, and during startup this is what *should* happen. However this script may not figure out that you want to run SLiM - make sure your /e... |
Hello, I'm running xfce4 and can't seem to get skype (4.2.0.13) to not start up when I log in (using lxdm). When I go into my "Session and Startup" configuration I don't see skype mentioned anywhere. Can't find it in /etc/lxdm either. Any ideas? | In your home directory try checking .config/autostart/ (note the leading full stop). If have noticed it being used by some stuff that is set to autostart when I log in. |
I get this problem when I try to launch X. Code: #startx xauth: file /root/.serverauth.2316 does not exist /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc: line 3: /usr/bin/X: No such file or directory xinit: giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused xinit: server error And am stuck in the terminal. I installed X via... | xdm is not necessary to launch X. How are you trying to launch X? Could you post the command line, please? - John |
for years now i have been using emel2fm, but i got tired of some minimal features not working or being removed (like the move/copy with progress bar). sadly the standard for twin-panel file managers is total commander, and only gnome-commander managed to somehow replicate the feel and functionality of that under linux.... | The error is about gsf_doc_meta_data_foreach, not gsf_msole_metadata_read. Which version of libgsf is installed ? |
I have been running my system without *kit, dbus, etc for a while and I've noticed that with the latest lxsession ebuild that they want to pull in these programs and give me no choice in masking them...well short of rewriting the ebuild, and I'm not sure what the assumptions are in the tarballs. I have two choices stop... | Thanks for those suggestions BoneKracker. I had forgotten about tiling wm's, I used to use fvwm2 many moons ago. Creaker, in looking around, it looks like I can get the lx pieces that I want by not using lxde-meta and just using openbox directly from my .xinitrc file instead of lxsession. A side benefit is that I can u... |
Yesterday I upgraded from a working Gnome 3.8 install to Gnome 3.10. Now neither gdm nor gnome will start. When gdm attempts to start, I get only a blank screen with a cursor in the upper left corner. I stopped gdm with systemctl, and installed lxdm. After starting lxdm with systemctl, and lxdm worked. I selected gnome... | Check `journalctl -rb` in a TTY (newest messages at top) after you get that screen and see if there are any particular errors of interest; feel free to redirect it to a file and provide it to us, such that we can help take a look if needed. |
Narf. This is unnverving. Had a fine Gnome 3.12 setup, logged in via GDM, until a few weeks ago. Then following an update GDM displayed the uninformative "Oh no!" message. Been coping without Gnome using a host that runs mobaxterm and forwards X, so have a working setup. Kernel 3.14, Acer notebook, Intel HD 3000 GPU. W... | I'm afraid I don't know exactly how I fixed this, but I did. With a little help from these threads: - https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-973454-start-0.html - https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7319152.html - http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel TL;DR: - trick mesa by building it with VIDEO_CARDS=i965, even though I... |
I want to have 3 monitors (2 monitors and 1 TV) using the integrated intel card and a pci-x nvidia G210 graphics card. I thought I did this long time ago, but I cannot make it work. I have 2 DVI on the integrated intel card and a TV connected to the HDMI of the nvidia card. The nvidia card is recognized, using the nouv... | When using the nouveau driver, look at the output of: Code: $ xrandr --listproviders It should show you both the intel and the nouveau graphics. You can then add the nouveau graphics as provider for intel, after which the monitor should appear in xrandr output. Do note that you need a compositing window manager for thi... |
I just got upgraded to a dual-monitor setup. The primary monitor should be positioned right of the secondary one: secondary | primary. While this worked well with a notebook before, having two identical monitors yields a different result: I don't seem to be able to get new windows to open on the primary monitor only an... | It seems that you are missing the xinerama USE flag for qtgui and possibly some oether packages. You need to enable it so the applications understand the xinerama protocol to query the screen layout from the X server. (Note: this has nothing to do with the multihead configuration method which is also called Xinerama) Y... |
Solved : azzerare ~ # USE="flash pdf" emerge chrome-binary-plugins and enable ~amd64 in make.conf Just noticed this repeat thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-991796-highlight-.html 11I just updated chromium to 35.0.1916.114-r1 and noticed flash did not work. youtube.com also will not play movies. Any ideas? ... | again... use www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins with "flash" USE. >=35 without npapi support. use search!!1 |
Hi guys, I can't get cuneiform to display in Firefox or in gnuchar. Does anyone know which font package contains it? I'm also interested in other languages. I managed to install the lohit font package for Indic fonts no problem. Thanks | The best way is probably to write an ebuild for the font if none already exist. For example, the Akkadian Font from http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ may be what you want. Look at the ebuild for media-fonts/symbola which should work with Akkadian with a small modification. |
rxvt-unicode can't display bold font, for example the default PS1 prompt is displayed as squares. xterm works well. I use rxvt-unicode version 9.18. Anyone knows how to make it work correctly? | Hi, DId you compile urxvt with the USEs xft and unicode activated? If not, try that. |
From other websites it appears that Chromium 35 no longer supports NPAPI plugins like Java. If this is not true, how does one install the Java plugin? If this is true, could someone point me to a detailed description of how to install old ebuilds not in portage, e.g. chromium-34.0.1847.92? Thanks for any pointers you c... | megabaks wrote: local overlay + ebuild from portage's history ---> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/www-client/chromium/?hideattic=0 no!? Many thanks. This worked. |
The Task Manager in KDE 4.10 has the annoying behavior that when you roll the mouse over one of the icons on the task manager, every window but the one being rolled over is hidden. If the icon is one that is already hidden, all windows are hidden, except for perhaps a shadow. I find this behavior disconcerting, especia... | You can try "icon-only task manager" |
Update: (May 26, 2014) Setting this as solved, since the majority opinion is that this is expected behavior, and xorg-server should be added to world set if the profile is only desktop profile. Edit: (May 25, 2014) This is not solved. This is just a workaround -- I added xorg-server to the world set, and then the rest ... | Quote: Edit: This is not solved. This is just a workaround -- I added xorg-server to the world set, and then the rest of the xorg stuff got upgraded and didn't show up in depclean. Code: emerge --noreplace xorg-server No this IS the solution. It is perfectly possible to have a desktop profile without a GUI. An example ... |
I cannot mount my windows partitions on the same hard drive in Nautilus, it says "Not authorized to perform operation". However, my external hard drive works fine. I really have no idea how to solve this problem. Can someone help me? | [Keruskerfuerst, Careful .. Code: /dev/your windows partition here /your mount point ntfs defaults 0 1 Will use the read only kernel ntfs driver. The OP may want rw access, is which cas. the fs is ntfs3g. Lastly, USB drives may be formatted as VFAT, in which case, the OP my not have any ntfs support available at all ye... |
I have a problem with the clock of gnome-shell. Since 2 days (after i booted kali {i have a dual boot gentoo+kali}) the shell clock show up a time which differs from the system one. My timezone (/etc/timezone) is set to Europe/Rome (and i have reconfigured timezone-data with emerge --config) and, while normally is UTC+... | you solved my problem thanks a lot! |
I've tried all combinations under Preferences -> Preferences -> Display -> Advanced to try to display German umlauts in incoming mail. My default is Unicode fonts and Unicode (UTF-8) for both Outgoing Mail and Incoming Mail . Changing fonts or Character Encodings makes no difference. Thunderbird 24.5.0 under Windows 7 ... | What's about View -> Character Encoding ? |
Hi there, im having trouble right now with Gentoo on Workstations. I have 2 100% identical machines, same Hardware. They both have nVidia Quattro K4000 GPUs and Intel Xeon CPU Now the problem. When i install Gentoo, just as normal with Xorg and KDE and some optimisation (-march=native) and try 3D Applications they run ... | Solved it. Archlinux uses a Timer HZ of 300, i used 1000 Runs much much much faster with 300, solved it. |
Hi all! I have a problem with the fonts of in my Gentoo system. It is really bad in chromium (www-client/chromium-34.0.1847.116) (see picture) but also when i plot from evince or mathematica. The rest of my Gnome system looks great! http://de.tinypic.com/r/3146n4o/8 http://de.tinypic.com/r/2ccml5k/8 emerge --info: Code... | It could be that your font configuration prefers bitmap over outline fonts. Check this thread for a possible solution. |
Hi, I have a computer with Gnome/Systemd and now added KDE - So now I have multi DEs with gdm login manager. However, I have a strange problem - I can not add local language keyboard layout to KDE. Gnome has it already. BTW - I tried to switch to kdm login manager but it has additional problems, like: I can not get Ter... | I found these error lines in kdm.log, maybe it can help find out why can not add local language: Code: kdmgreet(1678)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): No time zone information obtained from ktimezoned The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Error: Can't find file "US" for symbols include > Exiting > Abandoning symbols... |
Hi, My nVdia GPU card have been broken, and due to the fact that Gnome/Systemd does not work properly with my on-board Intel GPU (maybe there is a driver problem) – I decided to switch to KDE/openRC. At the moment my machine work with openRC – I double checked it with this command: Code: ps -p 1 -o comm= However I have... | pmam ... did you run 'emerge --depclean --ask' subsequent to unmerging gnome-base/gnome? Also, I assume you've swtiched profiles, if so you may want to check what useflags are (dis|en)abled and 'emerge --deep --newuse --ask @world' ... this will probably remove the systemd useflag (and possibly others), after this then... |
Hello, i have searched the web but didn't find any configuration option for setting the language in LXDM. There is no option in the lxdm.conf file nor did setting the locale of gentoo through eselect locale set help. The date and the "Quit" option are still in English. I have also put the ENV variable in .bashrc of roo... | What is your locale? It could be translations don't exist for your language yet. |
Hi, I have upgrade my system using the systemd wiki page. At the end of the process, before updating system with systemd use flag, the system stop. I have restart the system using a livecd and then update the system with systemd use flag. Since this time the system does not boot. When it start, the screen display Grub ... | I update partitions setup regarding the gentoo documentation. And then reinstalling grub2 on boot. It solves the problem. |
Dear all, Since last week, I do not have anymore gdm/gnome-shell working. It seems related to systemd/dbus. I pasted here my journalctl output: http://pastebin.com/bJBCaXxn And here is my system info: Code: [root:/home/jerome] 130 # emerge --info Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd, gcc-4.7... | Your post was cut off due to its length, you can consider to use a paste site and link to it. |
Completed a Gentoo ~x86 install as a guest OS on Virtualbox. Installed xorg-server and dwm window manager. I appear to be stuck in 640x480 screen resolution and want to increase it to 1024x768 or 1280x768 or 1366x768. There's no "conf.d" directory under /etc/X11. Looks like Xorg is using the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d ... | Quote: Code: [ 51.169] (II) LoadModule: "vboxvideo" [ 51.217] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vboxvideo Code: emerge x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox |
This must be a record. I am getting quite frustrated by getting messages like this when I try to update Gentoo Linux or parts of it. This should not happen. This does happen because packages are not being properly checked for dependences issues, blockage issues before getting released. I don't install kde with the ~amd... | Do emerge --sync again - you probably caught it in the middle of the stabilisation process. |
Hi, I want to add MATE in a machine with openRC init system - I already have KDE, so it going to be multi DE - When I try to emerge mate-base/mate I get a message that it is masked ~amd64 - Is this the right package? This is the first time I need to do it so please let me know where I should add this keyword? | Add the list from https://gist.github.com/TomWij/f858dd1a8e024034b99d to /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords; no need to put anything behind it, if you leave out the keywords it'll automatically pick your ~${ARCH}. |
Hi dear all, After a download in Firefox, kdesvn is triggered when I right clpck on an download file and request for "opening file containing directory" [translated]. I don't remember why I installed kdesvn in the first place, but I'd rather like to avoid uninstalling it. Desktop is LXDE, PCMANFM is my file manager, th... | Firefox likes to f*** up your mime associations... Open firefox preferences -> applications, then IMHO it should be something like "file" or "inode" that has kdesvn set as application. Just delete the association. I had similar issues quite some time back. firefox opened every file with dolphin, as it was set for file/... |
Hi folks, I am trying to install kde-meta. It quits and gives and error message when trying to install cdparanoia. This is a new install on an AMD 64-bit machine. I had the same problem when I tried to install brasero. Can someone give me a hint as to what is going wrong? Thanks, Don James | Teegrins, donjames ! Me, and many others could surely start guessing, but we might still be at it come 2015. I do imagine someone might hit the jackpot before that, however, but you might want to increase the chances of winning by giving us some hints first. ^^; Please include the full log of the failed build (emerge s... |
I recently upgraded to KDE4. Before that, when doing an emerge, Konsole's title window would change to something like "Emerge 2 of 4 - app-office/openoffice". Now, it's " username : python2.6" Since I've updated KDE and not Portage, I can only conclude that it's something with the new Konsole. Any knows how to get the ... | If you go to the konsole menu Settings->Edit Current Profile it will bring up a dialog. Click on the 'Tabs' tab and it will show the Tab title formats. I changed mine to '%d: %w'...the %w should show the emerge status in the title. Works on mine. |
I don't see anything posted recently on this topic. I am looking for a FLASH solution to Chromium browser. I am on amd64 I am looking for the best solution to have adobe flash on my new Chromium browser Chromium version: Version 33.0.1750.117 (252094) Thanks to all! | www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins |
Hello, I'm using KDE-4.13.0 and systemd-212-r2, and when I do restart/shutdown using KDE dialogs (buttons) instead of 'systemctl restart/poweroff' it kill KDE and X and stop. I need to ctrl+alt+del to get the system restarted. I don't know when this issue started due to usually I just reboot after a Kernel update/upgra... | Are you using KDM? If so, which command is it configured to call for shutdown? |
Hi guys, i tried Xfce4 Desktop this two days, and there's an unsolved issue related with mount . the result of running command lsblk : Code: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 298.1G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 2M 0 part ├─sda2 8:2 0 128M 0 part /boot ├─sda3 8:3 0 4G 0 part [SWAP] ├─sda4 8:4 0 80G 0 part / ├─sda... | kenmux wrote: where's the authorization from? how to get it for users? i wondering, searching, and thinking, but cannot find the answer... could any one have any good idea? Code: $ groups adm tty disk wheel uucp cron audio cdrom dialout video games cdrw usb users plugdev portage istr disk is used for mounts, and plugde... |
I'm running Gentoo with a recent version of the X.org server, 1.14.3. The keyboard stops working when I start a KDE session, and the mouse doesn't work either. I found a similar post on the Gentoo forums ( https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-832207-start-0.html ), but it's four years old and refers to running the hal... | You have mouse and keyboard in the terminal? You have a desktop or graphical login screen when you start kde? ps2 or usb mouse and keyboard? touchpad or optical mouse? udev replaced hal Code: rc-update show do you have udev and udev-mount in the sysinit run level? if not add them and reboot. do you have INPUT_DEVICES="... |
I have a feeling this has come up before, but I can't find the solution, so here is my problem. I run revdep-rebuild and now everytime it gets to 100% and then spews out this: Code: [ 100% ] * broken /usr/lib/firefox/libxpcom.so (no version information available) * broken /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container (no version i... | run Code: revdep-rebuild -ip this will ignore files from previous revdep-rebuild runs which were left behind and pretend the build. see if it reproduces. if so, try rebuilding libxpcom. |
I was playing around with dolphin in a minimal Gentoo set up and I dont get the file: Code: /usr/share/kde4/servicetypes/thumbcreator.desktop So I created that file still no thumbnails. or any thumbnails in dolphin and am curious if a package other than kdelibs is needed for thumbnails in dolphin? Cheers EDIT was a bug... | Teegrins, turtles ! While I don't use any sort of thumbnailing for Dolphin, I do have that file, and it seems like it's a part of Code: kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves which I presume I have only because of ktorrent . I hope this helps! |
Hi, I am trying to use terminus as my font on urxvt but I am having trouble setting up custom font paths. My xorg.conf.d file Code: pedro@gentoo ~ $ cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-fonts # Let X.Org know about the custom font directories Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/... | moisespedro wrote: Code: FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TERMINUS" Why isn't it working? To use the font I have to run "xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/terminus" manually and that sucks. Try Code: FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/terminus" This is how they show up on my system Code: l /usr/share/fonts 100dpi 75dpi corefonts cyrillic de... |
I am trying to emerge the latest version of KDE - 4.11.4. I am having trouble with libkdcraw. It won't link; specifically raw2png won't link. It has a bunch of missing external references. So far I have done an "emerge --newuse --deep --udpate --with-bdeps=y world" and a python-updater with no change in behavior. I nee... | That fixed it! Thanks for your help. |
Hi, i'm using the "onboard" gpu of a Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4771 CPU (family: 6, model: 60) and having a "small" problem while using firefox. if i'm scrolling trough a page there a some artifacts (looks like a failure caused by broken cuda-code). if i move the window the artifact are disappearing. To fix the problem i've... | I think that's a mesa problem with i915 and your chip gen right now. At least I haven't heard it for the first time... PS: Image link doesn't seem to work (403) |
Hi, I had to did downgrade of my kde. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7537376.html#7537376 I did it manually and everything works fine now apart of kdewallet. After opening eg. kmail there is pop-in window for password for kdewallet (us usually), but after writing password I have this small window again with info... | I did the fix for akonadi from this topic: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-988874-highlight-.html and after an update everything works fine. [SOLVED] |
Hi, I'm facing a pretty strange bug. When I create new users, they can not login to any graphical environment ! Code: root # useradd pma root # usermod -a -G users pma root # passwd pma root # cp /etc/skel /home/pma root # chown -R pma:users /home/pma root # su pma All those commands work perfectly. Then when I try to ... | Code: $ grep -v '^#' /etc/security/access.conf $ No such line here; so, yes, that might be it. |
Every time I launch gedit, its preferences are always reset to the defaults. I have to go into Preferences and configure gedit to display line numbers and to enable certain plugins every time I launch the application! gedit used to save these settings. This is getting really, really old. What can I do to make my change... | Do you have dconf installed; Code: ~ # eix dconf [I] gnome-base/dconf Available versions: 0.12.1 0.16.1 0.18.0 {+X doc test} Installed versions: 0.18.0(08:13:16 AM 03/13/2014)(X -test) Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/dconf Description: Simple low-level configuration system |
Hi, During last update of kde (4.12.3-r1 -> 4.12.4) and update of akonadi-server (1.11.0 -> 1.12.1) I could not start akonadi, so I did downgrade it into 1.11.0 and it worked with kde 4.12.4. Today after an update of kde from 4.12.4 -> 4.13.0 emerge needed akonadi-server 1.12.1, but again I could not start it, but when... | Hi Xywa, no need to downgrade the whole kde. Now I know what's your intension for your other request. You can do different things to fix that: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331867 or this, take a look for coment 5 here, that's the easiest way, but with some disadvantages like re-indexing, redirect your mail acco... |
I can get a remote GUI login from Windows XP to all my Gentoo boxes with Xming. I can get a remote GUI login from all the Gentoo boxes to Windows with rdesktop but I can't get a remote GUI login from Gentoo to Gentoo. I tried the Mate/Gnome built-in, vingre, but it just flashes and dies. I installed xrdp on all the Gen... | Got it working with vino as the vnc server on the remote host. I had to ssh in and launch vino. One problem is that when I inadvertently closed that terminal that I launched vino from, the whole connection collapsed (of course). It would be better if the server ran as a daemon. I'll check out x11vnc. |
I'm trying to use lxmed, but it gives me this: Code: /usr/share/java-config-2/launcher/launcher.bash: line 90: exec: java: not found But Code: Tchaikovsky ~ # java-config-2 --list-available-vms The following VMs are available for generation-2: 1) IcedTea JDK 6.1.12.7 [icedtea-bin-6] *) Oracle JRE 1.7.0.51 [oracle-jre-b... | Is eselect-java installed? |
Hi all! The other day i did my regular gentoo updates and it installed gnome 3.10. The problem ins now that when i start gnome, it doesn’t make a difference if i use gdm or startx I get a black screen and only can see the mouse pointer. I did some research on this but i found no solution yet. here is some information a... | As your user anything at the end of Code: ~ $ journalctl |
Quote: Gtk-WARNING **: Default font does not have a positive size gtk-theme-switch seems to have no effect on these errors although other desktop elements can be changed. I'm hesitating to downgrade from x11-libs/gtk+-3.10.7 , if I mask it portage selects 2.24.22 which I can't see working out very well either. Indeed, ... | After some further gnashing of teeth, experimenting with different login and session managers I'm still back to square one with negative or zero-sized fonts and other oddities like some menus not working regardless of theme. I'm going to see what kind of trouble I can get myself into now by rolling back to gtk+-3.6.3-r... |
Hey all, I got myself a new laptop, an ASUS Q501LA which came with Windows 8. Before I even booted it up, I built a stage4 of Gentoo to install I've had few issues with it, however one really annoying thing that I can not get configured the way I want it is the touchpad. I am running it with no xorg.conf file and every... | Teegrins, BlueFusion ! I'm not entirely sure if this can be of any help, as I haven't played with these particular configurations much, but on a laptop where I have static-dev , I have the following in the xorg.conf to have it use the synaptics driver (instead of the generic mouse driver, which I believe it used otherw... |
When I upgraded my KDE system to 4.12.4, I got a message about kdnssd and zeroconf-ioslave blocking each other. I deleted zeroconf-ioslave on he assumption that this would resolve itself. A couple of weeks have gone by and the problem still is there. I wonder if anybody has thoughts on how to fix it. Here is the blocka... | When there is a blocker, it has been set by the developer because the packages (or the specific versions thereof) are not known to work together; in this case removal of one of both is necessary, sometimes an upgrade or downgrade to a version that doesn't have this blocker is possible. For the latter, you can look into... |
Firefox has been locking up lately. I ran it from the terminal and I found this Code: (process:3822): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed Error: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files Error: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .... | Introduced with https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/72357a8f0d89 where you'll note this uses DBus; from there on, you'll note that this is a typical DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown error which happens periodically as it might try to read out the power status. To be able to determine if this is indeed causing it to loc... |
Hi guys, I upgraded xorg-server to version 1.15.0 yesterday and suspend stopped working on my laptop. Behaviour: I suspend normally and let it rest. Once I open the lid, or push gently the switch that turns on the laptop (these are the ways my laptop wakes up) here is what happens: some leds blink, the cd drive make an... | My case might be slightly different from yours. My blind (no video) wake up was constant and strictly related to the version mentioned: xorg-server-1.15.0 Thus it is reproducible, IMO, installing that version of xorg-server If your problem is not related to xorg-server (or to any specific version of it), but you are on... |
EDIT START Sat Apr 19 16:30:36 BST 2014 This thread will be better understood if I were to say upfront that I added this line only before installing X EDIT END No line: INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" in /etc/portage/make.conf Code: mybox ~ # emerge -p x11-base/xorg-drivers These are the packages that would be merged, in order: ... | emerge --info Code: Portage 2.2.10 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.19, 3.13.9-hardened-140418-17 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.13.9-hardened-140418-17-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X4_965_Processor-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 16343020 total, 10203716 f... |
I have scoured google on this one. I have radeon driver for an ATI card, and I am trying to set up desktop effects like cube. Every time I try to switch from raster to OpenGL, it switches back to raster. I have confirmed radeon is loaded, and tried all kinds of things with CONFIG files, but it still doesn't work. Any i... | Quote: Renderer Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.3, 256 bits) This means that you do not have 3D acceleration. Make sure that you have the appropriate firmware and kernel options . Also you need to have CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y or add your user to the "video" group in order to use 3D acceleration as non-root. |
Hello everyone, I am running several linux distros on my laptop and now I decided to give Gentoo a go. Unfortunately, I am having some trouble with X. I get the following error messages: KMS not enabled & no screens found. I wanted to go with nouveau, because I had no trouble with X and nouveau under Arch Linux. Here's... | Welcome to Gentoo, Jean G. Did you consider the information here? (although it is not part of the handbook) http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Nouveau https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Configuration Furthermore much success for your installation. Regards, Andy. |
Hi guys, i try to install MATE following this wiki: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MATE after install xorg-server , i just add USE flag: X , extras , then use emerge mate-base/mate directly... but get a problem with mate-extra/mate-character-map-1.6.0 ... can anyone please give a hand? thanks! the emerge --info is as fol... | What are the contents of /var/tmp/portage/mate-extra/mate-character-map-1.6.0/temp/automake-1.out? |
When I set Firefox to default the little icon that's suppose to be next to the Dolphin "drawer" icon is missing even after logout/login any ideas on how to get it working properly? Thanks. | I'm not overly familiar with KDE, not used it since the 3.x days and I forget what it's called but, what i'm referring to is the icon is missing from the "Quickstart" area of the task bar in the lower left side of the screen. |
Hello, I'm just getting started with GNOME and wondered if it's possible to perform the following customisations to the desktop shell: have the bar show multiple clocks of various time zones, not just one for local. have the bar disappear and only appear when the mouse is moved to the top of the screen. Thanks. I did t... | Thanks. I managed to get the hide-top-bar thing working but the panel world clock beats me. On the page, there's an on/off slider but no other indication of how to download or install the extension. I do have the gnome shell integration plugin for the browser (Firefox). I would have expected something like a download l... |
SOLVED! SEE 2nd POST FOR CINNAMON2 IN GENTOO Hi all! I'm trying Cinnamon under Gentoo, but right now I'm facing an issue which I'm not able to solve in any way. On a vm, with gnome 3.8 and cinnamon 1.8.8.1 installed, using cinnamon as DE, I'm not able to change wallpaper using cinnamon-settings. Instead, using the gnom... | I'm answering myself, but I must thank the guys at #linuxmint-dev for helping me, even if the solution is quite simple. By masking the whole Sabayon overlay, except for cinnamon (you can see what my package.unmask looked like using the link above), I emerge cinnamon2 with nemo 1.8.5 (the version from the portage tree).... |
Has anyone else noticed glitches in font rendering recently? I've been noticing in Mozilla Firefox and in LibreOffice that characters would occasionally be misrendered, making the character appear to have been scrambled. Triggering the character to be re-rendered (e.g., by selecting the text and unselecting it) seems t... | jchau wrote: Mozilla Firefox Ver 24 had a bit of disappearing text for me, but the ver 25 betas are OK. Lots of packages involved: icu pixman freetype fontconfig cairo pango |
This laptop I'm using has a rather large touchpad, and whenever I type something, my palm brushes the touchpad and the mouse pointer moves all over the places. Is there a ways to disable the touchpad while I'm typing? I'm using Fluxbox. __ sol | [ignore this post as it is no longer relevant] |
Got problems with recently installed KDE ( kde-base/kde-meta-4.12.3:4 ) on a new laptop. Every so often GUI, including mouse, hangs, sound still working though. I can restart session with Alt+SysRq+K. after this KDE boots normally and works for some time. Sometimes it takes several hours before system hands, sometimes ... | Barbieken wrote: When I start using clickpad (the new one, one big button with multitouch) after a while it hangs. Can you inspect the output of `dmesg` as well as the end of the log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see if they mention something about this hang? (It's probably not a literal hang, as in freeze; but it rather... |
Hello, I did an update yesterday and when I did a reboot, everything went fine, up until reaching a black screen with a mouse cursor loading, it hangs there for 3 minutes and then finally KDM appears. Did anyone else encounter this problem? Here's the genlop log for the past two days http://pastebin.com/Gm7Gn5pZ Here's... | Solved! and since I'm fabulous, I'm gonna show you how to do it: Just rebuild the font cache by running (as root): Code: #fc-cache -fv |
When I try to emerge cairo (1.10.2-r1 and r2), it fails to compile tossing errors about not being able to use threads and then all the mutex objects fail to build. The original error said to define CAIRO_NO_MUTEX to 1, so I set up CAIRO_NO_MUTEX="1" in make.conf, and that did nothing. I tried setting it from the comman... | Probably not related, but I doubt you want to compile cairo with opengl support. Last time I tried --enable-gl , gtk+-2 wouldn't compile, and I believe it doesn't work well with nvidia's video driver. |
Hi guys I recently bought a Samsung UE55F6170 TV (200Hz) and I connected my Zotac ZBox ID41 PLUS (nVidia graphics) over a HDMI cable to it. During start up, everything seems fine, i.e. Grub is displayed correctly and I can see the whole boot process (I didn't change anything on the resolution here and I don't use a FB ... | Hi SylaSebas, mhh log looks good. Quote: [ 291.427] (--) NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on ION at PCI:3:0:0 [ 291.427] (--) NVIDIA(0): SAMSUNG (DFP-1) (boot, connected) [ 291.446] (II) NVIDIA(0): "DFP-1:nvidia-auto-select" [ 291.446] (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1920 x 1080 Don't worry about... |
This was sort-of solved by switching back to a stable kernel. Perhaps there was a reason that 3.12.7 was masked... Be aware that gentoo-sources 3.12.7 may have mouse issues after standby. A restart of xdm/kdm did not bring mouse events back and my hardware is quite standard and current. === Original Post === I have a n... | gentoo-sources:3.11.10 supports both the full resolution of the screen (2560x1440) and does not have the mouse-frozen-after-standby bug. It seems to run fine. |
mate-1.8 from the overlay requires yelp which rquires webkit-gtk which requires ruby. I have mate-1.7 installed on two machines but it has some problems. I have 1.6 installed on my main machine with no problems. The mate homepage says 1.7 is development while 1.8 is stable. I'd like to upgrade to 1.8 but I don't need a... | Tony0945 wrote: mate-1.8 from the overlay requires yelp which rquires webkit-gtk which requires ruby. Will look into that when I get to do the version bump in the main tree; given that I don't use webkit-gtk myself, I'll patch that out to be optional. Tony0945 wrote: I'd like to upgrade to 1.8 but I don't need all that... |
Hi, ALL, Today I needed to reboot my laptop from Windows to Linux. I did that couple of weeks ago without any problems, but apparently not today. After long boot up and successful login (it was stuck on fixing the /tmp directory) I issued "startx" and got following (copying from console): Quote: The XKEYBOARD keymap co... | try "chmod 1777 /tmp" |
Hi, Gnome 3.8 worked fine on this machine (x86_64, kernel 3.10.25, nouveau video driver) but After updating from Gnome3.8 to 3.10 and restarting, the kernel loads, then systemd messages scroll down the page with OK in the leftmost column as the status for each one. After displaying "OK - starting gdm", the screen blank... | Can you report such backtraces upstream at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/? |
A few days ago this widget stopped reporting the weather for kilauea and princeville Hi, stations that it normally reported on the northern part of the island of Kauai. The only location on Kauai that it currently appears to support is Lihue. The trouble is that the weather in lihue is often quite different than that i... | Quote: Does anyone know if these stations are gone for good, or if their absence is temporary? Temporary. They are back now. |
I am using slim and fluxbox with the console, and it works. I am using ssl/ssh vnc viewer on a non-gentoo client configured with ssh with a gentoo server running xinetd and tightvnc, and I get a password prompt, accepted password, followed by a new window with a generic "X" screen with the X as the mouse pointer, and n... | I decided to use the init.d method to start vnc directly, rather than xinetd.d which I used in other distros. Once I did this, I could log in with either ssh or directly using ssl/ssh vnc viewer. This method eliminates the graphical login and Slim, and goes right to fluxbox, which is specified in the home directory of ... |
I have an Intel DQ35JO motherboard with an integrated video chipset. I set the VIDEO_CARDS variable to "intel" and it seems to work, but I wonder if it's better to set "i915" or "i965" in addition or in place of it. I read the related wiki article , but I still have doubts. And what about the "xorg" USE flag for mesa? ... | I don't think i915/i965 adds anything special... I'm currently just using VIDEO_CARDS=intel and able to run WoW through wine just fine on my Sandybridge... My Q45 board is kind of slow for WoW but I have it set the same way, but it also works. |
Currently Links seems to be set as my default browser when clicking on a hyperlink in Thunderbird or clicking on Help in any other application (other than Firefox or Thunderbird obviously) Is there anyway to set this - specifically to firefox? I found an old Gentoo Wiki article which said set the $BROWSER variable - I ... | I think the "standard" approach is xdg-utils, but not sure how many programs actually follow the standard. |
strangely after an upgrade of various packages I can't see the mouse-cursor. since I'm using gnome underneath I enabled the option for locating the mouse-position. now when I press ctrl a blue wave is forming around the cursor for a short time. I installed xsetroot but experimenting with various cursor-files didn't see... | seems my problem was caused by an incompatibility between cinnamon-1.8 and gnome-3.10. the mouse-cursor is visible in gnome, and in cinnamon when I click on "themes" in the settings, the settings will crash. so most likely cinnamon just didn't find the theme or something. now I upgraded to sabayon's version of cinnamon... |
After upgrading kde, automounts of usb drives (I haven't checked what else) fail with: Quote: the system responded: An unspecified error has occurred.: Not Authorized Needless to say, this is pretty frustrating, since the error message says nothing about what's wrong and there's nothing relevant in /var/log/messages. M... | To summarize, polkit is the new shiny toy, and it breaks a lot. And a lot of the semi-knowledgeable people in gentoo are assholes about it. Fortunately this particular problem is solvable if you don't panic, but leads to another problem (can't change policies in the system settings), which I will post separately about.... |
Updated to Gnome 3.10 two days ago (along w/ evolution 3.10.4) and now I'm prompted for imapx/pop/smtp passwords every time evolution wants to connect to a remote mail server. The checkbox to "Add this password to the keyring" is set, of course. The gnome-online-accounts useflag is on, and I do not see the evolution-da... | Following up on my own post for the sake of interested parties: I discovered the line: Code: -session optional pam_systemd.so at the bottom of /etc/pam.d/system-auth and removed the "-" from the front to form: Code: session optional pam_systemd.so That seems to have improved things (I'm no longer prompted all the time)... |
Hi All, On a fresh install, I'm not able to login in XDM: it allows me to type user and passwd, then after a moment, it prompts again. There is no error of typing the wrong pair user/passwd (unless I intentionally do a mistake). I found a similar situation here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-931254-start-0.html... | Updates: I kept toying around and discovered the followings: - ctrl+alt+backspace is not shutting down xdm, as I expected - ctrl+alt+F1, F2 etc work - after switching to terminal 1, I tried Code: startx -- :3 and got a twm. From inside twm I tried then Code: startkde and it launched a (rather empty) plasma desktop. All... |
Quote: I updated to 3.10 yesterday and now the system menu opens off the side of the screen, making it unusable. It was fine under 3.8. Anybody else have this issue or any ideas on a resolution? I worked around the problem by creating a new account and moving my files over to it, manually changing my GNOME preferences ... | With problem like this you should create a test user and see if the problem exists. If not, the issue lies somewhere in your home directory configuration files. |
I have 2 displays DVI-D-0 which is my mine workspace and 2nd HDMI-0 which i'm using mostly to watch movies, pictures etc I'm trying to set them by kscrean and xrandr , but system treats them as one big workspace, maximized window stretch on both screens, I would like them to be treated as 2 separate virtual desktop, DV... | Try with the xinerama USE flag |
Hello everybody, I'm trying to come back to gentoo after some others distrib' testing... but I'm completely stuck on the installation of kde. Kdm starts and stop immediatlty with "klauncher(2252) kdemain: No DBUS session-bus found" and I don't find why ! X seems to be correctly configured because startx works well (and... | Hi, Yes, I have the same feeling... now I've a Fedora and Gentoo, but I used Fedora more often than Gentoo because of that.... I solved my problem : I finally just reinstall dbus systemd polkit and add the systemd-units use flag Quote: emerge -1av --noconfmem dbus systemd polkit Here is the complete thread in the Frenc... |
Removing Activity Manager was the first thing I did on first boot into KDE. But today I recognized that "Remove this Activity Manager" context menu option missing. I wasted a couple of hours trying to remove this launcher. Even unmerge kactivities doesn't helped. HELP ME!!! How do I remove this crap ? | kite14, thank you! It does the trick. Apparently, all the KDE problems are solved and bugs are fixed, and the developers have nothing else to do but such "improvements". |
After I installed software updates I am now unable to mount any USB device that I connect to my computer. The error is that KDE refuses to mount an USB device. Using the mount command however works normally. But I can't move files from my phones or usb sticks using that way (due to root being owner). I don't remember w... | jonfr Did you also update sys-auth/polkit at the same time as the KDE items? If you did you might look at this file. Code: # nano -w /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy I had a problem after updating and edited this file by changing most of the parts that say auth_admin to " yes ". This lets me m... |
Can't get the dwm statusbar to display any font other than the default. If I modify savedconfig to set the font to terminus, dmenu uses the specified font but dwm statusbar does not... I only have one locale configured, en_US.UTF8. I've tried all sorts of USE flags for the whole environment, here's what I have currentl... | Create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/15-fonts.conf. Put inside: Code: Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/terminus" EndSection Go to /usr/share/fonts/terminus and run Code: mkfontdir mkfontscale In dwm config use this format to set font (you can use xfontsel to adjust settings): Quote: static const char font[] = "-*-term... |
I can't change the luminosity settings (actually brightness, gamma settings work). Code: lspci -v | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Code: ls /sys/class/backlight/*/*brightness* /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video... | Hello, On which computer ? I have a Lenovo Thinkpad, and once I enabled thinkpad stuff, I got the brighness and volume automatically. Some other computers need to define key bindings. |
I have some strange problems getting sound working in KDE. KMix shows several sound devices from which two produce sound on pushing the 'test' button. Which are: HDA Intel PCH, ALC671 Analog (default Audio Device) HDA Intel PCH, ALC671 Analog 'default' and all other shown devices, which to my understanding are related ... | "default" is an ALSA PCM, defined in /usr/share/alsa/pcm/default.conf - it's the most common output, and is stereo. Try it with: Code: speaker-test -c 2 -D default |
A few days I did a system upgrade, everything went well. The day after, I rebooted and no X. Since the same incident happened to me less than 2 months ago, i retraced my steps and looked to see what i did the last time around. KMS was the issue the last time this happened, so that is where i looked first and everything... | Is your radeon card's firmware installed/in-kernel correctly? |
I installed xfce, my sound works. If i go to pandora i get output I have no volume control or any audio control things though. I saw one post about gnome volume control, but im not sure i figured i would ask you guys first. im used to a little speaker icon in the panel, that would be nice. how should i go about this? T... | Hello, You need to install xfce-extra/xfce4-mixer |
Hello, Since upgrading to Gnome3 + systemd I experience heavy cpu load on all 4 cores. On idle desktop after login I experience ~25% load, working with firefox raises up to 100% load. htop shows 4 gnome-shell processes which are heating up. I checked xfce as well as old init-system: systemd + gnome3 => NOT OK systemd +... | Hello, After playing around woth VirtualBox for a while I noticed, that the high cpu load is only present when logged in as non-root user. Root himself had normal system behaviour. From there it were only minutes to playing around with access rights and groups. Membership if group video was missing. After adding I got ... |
So we look to the [WW] lines. First, I had to symlink a directory to another: Code: cd /usr mkdir X11R6 cd X11R6 mkdir lib64 cd lib64 mkdir modules ln -s /usr/lib/xorg/modules/ /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/ And this finished my [EE] line issue. Didn't solve the issue entirely. And theeeeen, apparently simply emerging ati-d... | Zazzman wrote: And because I was using LXDE, and got used to having my xinitrc have a bit more than just the usual 'exec startlxde', lemme show you what I had for a few years that worked beautifully: Code: ###Note that this xinitrc no longer works! exec nm-applet & --sh-syntax --ck-launch-session --dbus-launch --exit-w... |
Hi there. Aurora works, but Konqueror does not in Fluxbox. At first when starting Konqueror from terminal I had seen error message concerned about ktimezoned. Emerged ktimezoned. Now Konqueror starts without error, but when I want to display some URL I can see error in terminal Quote: localhost ~ $ konqueror konqueror(... | You should probably emerge kdebase-runtime-meta. |
First off, I apologise if this has been discussed/solved before - I did search the forum before posting. Next, some background info. I recently bought a new Acer Aspire V5-573G (in case this is relevant). I did a fresh Gentoo installation, initially with OpenRC, but then I switched to systemd just to try it out. I have... | I'd look into custom init scripts that may be futzing with the clock. Your RTC looks right though? It appears to match UTC which is what you intended, but for some reason on boot, it's reading it and assuming it's localtime... IIRC on my systemd install it looks like it's correct, I better check, maybe I have the same ... |
i have just installed xfce and there are no shutdown or restart buttons, i have to logout to my shell and do the shutdown cmd how can i make the buttons work? thank u | Usually, the problem is with polkit/consolekit. And usually one forgets to add option --with-ck-launch to the startxfce4. But YMMV. |
Hello Gentoo forum, I am running KDE 4.11.5:4 but when I right click on a vacant part of the desktop and click on "leave" from the drop down menu, nothing happens, no dialogue box appears to offer shutdown options. A dialogue box DOES appear if I attempt to logout or restart from the Start menu. However, if I logout th... | With help from a KDE forum, I solved my problem. The clue was an error message in .xsession-errors that said Code: _IceTransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local host localhost I also noticed if I disabled wicd, the problem went away. So the solution was to re-name my hostname from localhost to, say, mybox. Th... |
I have a weird problem in which I've been trying to read old backup CDs and dolphin shows zero files. I can read the CDs in a virtualbox Windows machine, same computer. If I reboot, I can read one or two CDs before it again stops seeing files on them. The notification window does pop up when putting in a disk, and I ca... | I think I've figured it out suddenly. The coffee just kicked in and I googled the dmesg VFS line. I haven't been unmounting the previous CD properly and if I do - tested it once here - it seems to work on the next then. Sorry about wasting anyone's time. /jd |
Hi, frome some days, I'm discovering the virtues of Xfce over the great but heavy kde. The only problem that I had on the migration was the imposibility of add new openvpn conections from nm-applet, somthing that did work on kde without problems. The applet say that could be matter of plugins, however I belive that all... | From the packages you installed it looks like it should work. I can also confirm that VPN does work - at least it does on my laptop that has only XFCE. Well, at least it works for the VPN of my university. Haven't tried others. Perhaps you should just emerge those packages (including networkmanager) anew with the gtk u... |
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