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Hi everyone I cannot say for sure what my problem is really about, here are the symptoms anyway: after the latest reboot, X does not manage my keyboard and mouse anymore there is no apparent error in the console when I immediatly kill X I cannot access tty's anymore once X acquires the focus, so debugging is quite diff... | Well, I figured out some details about my configuration would be more than welcome. I am using the Intel driver, xorg-server 1.13.3 : Code: [I] x11-base/xorg-server Available versions: (0/1.9.5) 1.9.5-r2 (0/1.10.6) 1.10.6-r2 (0/1.11.4) 1.11.4-r2 (0/1.12.4) 1.12.4-r1 (0/1.13.4) 1.13.4 (0/1.14.1) ~1.14.1 (0/1.14.2) ~1.14... |
I updated my system earlier tonight and have run into a rather serious problem that I could really use some help with. Basically the subject says it all, when I start X my keyboard and mouse all of the sudden become very slow to respond, to the point where the system is basically unusable. It seems that the delay is on... | After booting into Gentoo and playing around a bit more I realized I did not describe the issue quite as well as I could have. When I move the mouse around the screen, that works perfectly fine, if I click on any of the Gnome menus or widgets on a window, etc. that all seems to behave normally too. But, if I open up a ... |
When I update @ world, found some blocked such as Code: [blocks B ] sys-apps/systemd ("sys-apps/systemd" is blocking sys-fs/udev-206, sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.6, app-admin/openrc-settingsd-1.0.1) Total: 120 packages (113 upgrades, 5 new, 2 reinstalls, 4 uninstalls), Size of downloads: 247,702 kB Conflict: 7 blocks (1 un... | There is always the "leave gnome" option |
Hi all. Yesterday I've upgraded my system. I got kde-4.10.5 and xorg-server-1.13.4... Today, since KDE was acting funny, i tought it was because of the upgrade, i rebooted my computer, and ever since, i cant login... X doesn't start, KDM never gets loaded... I tried already login in with startx, but is the same... I ju... | Code: [ 29.176] Current Operating System: Linux nightraider 3.9.7-ck #6 SMP Tue Jul 30 11:46:40 WEST 2013 x86_64 [ 34.573] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): WAIT: (E, 0, 0x917d) The last entry in your log is an error related to the nvidia driver. Did you make any changes to the kernel since last successful boot? Can you see if the p... |
Could somebody explain me how to have ibus-anthy working I emerged ibus and ibus-anthy. I am using a gnome desktop and I can see the ibus icon in the notification zone but only after launching it from menu. With a right-click on this icon and choosing "preferences" I see I have Japanese-anthy as available input method.... | Do you set following values in your X environment: Code: export GTK_IM_MODULE="ibus" export QT_IM_MODULE="ibus" export XMODIFIERS="@im=ibus" ? Which program do you use as your session manager (usually ibus gets launched by a desktop file autostart) ? |
hello，my laptop has two video card，one intel 4600 ，the other is nvidia GTX 765M。 I try to install xorg-server , in /etc/.portage/make.conf I set VIDEO_CARDS="intel nvidia" xorg-server nvidia-drivers xf86-video-intel gnome-light xfce4-meta are all compiled with no error if use startx ,and as root, desktop will show ,and... | Two things come to mind: - is your xorg-server built with suid ? - is your libdrm built with intel ? |
I used xmodmap to remap one key to <dead_greek>, which is useful to write classic greek characters. The thing is that the remap works perfectly on rxvt , but it is completely ignored by all the GTK apps. My system is nothing fancy, just Openbox. The xmodmap command is placed on my .xinitrc and I start my session throug... | Good! This is solved! I had to explicitly set in .xinitrc the GTK_IM_MODULE environment variable to Code: export GTK_IM_MODULE="xim" Now I can write α, β, γ... with two keystrokes |
Any idea why i dont see temperature monitoring in ksysguard? after emerging lm_sensors i did recompile ksysguard but it did not help. Code: [ebuild R ] kde-base/ksysguard-4.8.3 USE="handbook lm_sensors (-aqua) -debug -test" 0 kB [ebuild R ] sys-apps/lm_sensors-3.3.1 USE="sensord -static-libs" 0 kB Code: # /etc/init.d/l... | sorry i did not know i have to configure a new tab by my self: in file new tab |
libreoffice 4.1 was released today, and it was in portage, so I decided to test the new sidebar, a feature that I already love in Calligra. I then emerged libreoffice 4.1.0.2, all went fine, but no sidebar at launch. There's not too many information on how to activate the feature, but actually someone it in the French ... | Is this true for the actual release? http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/4.1.0/ (libreoffice-4.1.0.4) |
I wrote an elementary script for a restarting Conky and put this to the KCron for executing every half an hour. Code: locus ~ # cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/frag # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/kde-frag/systemsettingsW23182.tmp installed on Mon Jul 29 14:07:00 2013) # (Cron version V5.0... | Instead of Code: conky & try Code: conky -d |
So, upgraded the system, rebuild kernel, got just about everything working, even got the radeon card working first time around, once I figured out that the reason the system seems to crash is that X does not map, recognise or find the keyboard, mouse and potentially the buttons on the front of my case. Have now been st... | Was udev built with USE="keymap"? |
I'm running gentoo unstable and the masked nvidia-drivers and recently, the brightness controls stopped working. It seem to me that it happened when I upgraded to gentoo-sources-3.10, but I've used my old kernel and it doesn't work now either. (so that could be wrong) The keyboard brightness controls work just fine in ... | Finally found some info on it: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/539462/linux/-nvidia-319-12-brightness-controls-not-working-on-laptop-ubuntu-13-03-/ Seems it's a break within the nvidia-drivers code at least at that point, suprisingly, I wasn't affected until just recently (325.0 ... Any Ideas are still helpful... |
Hi, Just updated to kde 4.10.4, and I noticed that my neither my device notifier, dolphin, or any other part of kde acknowledges USB drives or my cdrom. I removed my .kde4 directory to wipe all preferences to see if that would help, but of course it didn't. I couldn't find it in the system settings... so I'm not sure w... | Seems you've failed to run revdep-rebuild (or that other - in-portage - option). Though now, obviously, due to that link, revdep-rebuild will fail to discover this particular problem again (unless you run it with '-L libudev.so.0'). |
Hello guys, I'm just wondering if someone else has this problem too and I'd love to know how to fix it. Javascript is not 100% broken, but when there is a line in the code that is something like: Code: window.open Then the browsers transform that into: Quote: <!--ow.open('... --> And this totally breaks the WHOLE javas... | Maybe your ISP or something on your router does these transformations. What happens when you try it through tor? http://www.torproject.us/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en |
Hi, I have strange thing, I have slit configured and taskbar like: Code: $ grep slit .fluxbox/* init:session.screen0.slit.layer: Dock init:session.screen0.slit.alpha: 255 init:session.screen0.slit.placement: RightBottom init:session.screen0.slit.onhead: 0 init:session.screen0.slit.maxOver: false init:session.screen0.sl... | I forgot to mention I have x11-plugins/docker installed http://icculus.org/openbox/2/docker/ *EDIT I'm a bit lost... it looks like when I write slit I meant docker. Anyway I can't see any other on apps on docker anymore. Here: Code: ~/.fluxbox $ cat slitlist docker fbpager I'm a bit confused how to what I broke... and ... |
Hi. I'm a new Gentoo user. I've just completed the install system. Tried to install KDE desktop. commanded emerge kdebase-meta. And there is a collision. I couldnt find what to do. tried portageq command but got 'invalid atom' answer. How can I use portageq, which command? If necessary how can I bug report? After updat... | hcyildiran, kdebase-meta is a big set of packages and you will also want Xorg. Its perfectly possible to run KDE on one system and display the Windows on another system. Most users don't want that today but kde-meta does not install Xorg, so do that first. Install and test Xorg first. Do not skip the testing. Gottcha. ... |
I have a problem Code: ~ $ lxterminal No protocol specified (lxterminal:8641): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 This is what I get after using my desktop for sometime, I'm not sure what's causing this. When i startx, all is fine and dandy for a long time then boom this error appears when I try to open an appli... | Have you tried DISPLAY=":0" instead of DISPLAY=":0.0"? (For the other user, swap these) Also, did you try `xhost +` to enable all hosts (for debugging purposes)? Hostname could change due to /etc/init.d/hostname I think; or otherwise, some DHCP related script might be changing it. |
For some reason my XFCE panel (xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.10.1) isn't showing up anymore, even though the xfce4-panel process is running according to 'ps'. Other than the panel not showing, everything seems to work fine, I can interact with my desktop, the window manager runs normally. Anyone know what might cause this or... | Hi have you try to kill this process and start it again from terminal? What does it shows up? |
I'm trying to prevent opera from using ugly japanese fonts. The only font I want to use for japanese is arial unicode ms but opera likes to pick other fonts if they are available. Playing with the settings in opera doesn't work so I'm trying to work around the problem with fontconfig. First I tried to increase the prio... | About what fonts are you saying? Webpages fonts or fonts that using for opera's menus, panels, window and tabs titles? |
Hi I am trying to get 'supergrub2' to boot from a usb flash drive. The .iso file boots fine from a cd but I am not sure how I should format the flash drive to enable this. Any help would be appreciated. percy | "official" method http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/SGD_Howto_make#How_to_make_a_Super_Grub2_Disk_USB have no idea if it works or not |
I'm disappointed. On many libreoffice-stable-releases the Base report-generator just seems to be forgotten. Now reports never get any data from my databases (which are editable). Just one line with the example-text. Am I the only one? (always?) How to fix it? Thanks for your help. Using app-office/libreoffice-4.0.4.2 a... | Report a bug and if possible, attach a testcase which demonstrates the problem. |
I have read http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt But I don't know what a 1440x900.S should be. Please Help me. my file now is below,and it is invalid /* EDID */ #define VERSION 1 #define REVISION 3 /* Display */ #define CLOCK 65000 /* kHz */ #define XPIX 1440 ... | /* EDID */ #define VERSION 1 #define REVISION 3 /* Display */ #define CLOCK 106500 /* kHz */ #define XPIX 1440 #define YPIX 900 #define XY_RATIO XY_RATIO_16_10 #define XBLANK 464 #define YBLANK 34 #define XOFFSET 88 #define XPULSE 144 #define YOFFSET (63+3) #define YPULSE (63+6) #define DPI 96 #define VFREQ 60 /* Hz */... |
Hello everyone, I have installed Gentoo with a working GUI on this laptop before, but now I am having an issues with x-server. I have followed the guides, built the drivers, and I have been troubleshooting this for three days. So it is time for some fresh eyes. In make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" // Don't know if th... | This is still way too characteristic of not having KMS enabled. Doublecheck your KMS, make sure it's on by default on boot. You'll know it when the screen text changes sizes after the initial program loader completes... If you don't have it set on boot, you will have to either set it in the module loader or set (I beli... |
Hello everyone around here I'm new to gentoo and I'll start off with my question: I'm trying to use X with a german keyboard layout. I managed to set the kb-layout for a single user by putting Code: setxkbmap -layout de into the an .xinitrc file in $HOME. When using the "slim" login-manager however, this does not work ... | Oh sorry folks, another short-sighted thread opening I found some kind of explanation here http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-230254.html In short, the content of /etc/X11/Xkbmap is given as an argument to the "setxkbmap" command. So, putting Code: -layout de (and nothing else) into that file makes X as ... |
I have the fglrx drivers installed with my xorg-x11 and I'm getting black screens when switching to a tty terminal or when terminating my session to return to my non-interactive shell. | chessmaster wrote: I have the fglrx drivers installed with my xorg-x11 and I'm getting black screens when switching to a tty terminal or when terminating my session to return to my non-interactive shell. I have also disabled nomodeset at kernel line Code: [ 114.892] X.Org X Server 1.13.4 Release Date: 2013-04-17 [ 114.... |
Which package contains the 10x20 font? On a Linux Mint system, it's xfonts-base which contains /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/10x20.pcf.gz. | Thank you very much! I had installed xorg-server instead of xorg-x11. In the past, I've tried to be minimalist. However, I find that I end up hosing myself because I'm missing packages that I really want, but don't know which ones. From now on, I'm just going with the full package. Especially with DE's like Gnome and K... |
Hi guys. Seriously, no idea what may be the exact cause but I have upgraded to KDE-4.10.0 and had to learn that the new /media path for removable devices is now /run/media/user/whatever... So far, so good. There is only nothing under /run/media. If I create a directory with my username and chmod 777 it, newly inserted ... | If you want to avoid acl you have to get rid of all *kit stuff. This is a major part in their "vertical integration" concept (and one of many reasons why I would never recommend to use *kit if you want to have a secure system). |
Fresh install of Gentoo. X starts but keyboard and mouse do not function. Both function fine in the console. After searching and reading all the various threads on this subject it seems like this happens a lot when folks are upgrading xorg-server and/or udev. In my case though this is a fresh install. Relevant stuff fo... | First thing that come to mind is to check if the devices are getting tagged properly by udev. See what 'udevadm info' prints on input nodes (event* ones for your mouse/keyboard). |
I've got a fresh gentoo install on amd64, and am having a very strange problem. Several services (namely: xdm, xdm-steup, consolekit, alsasound) do not start on boot. It isn't that they fail to start, its that openrc doesn't even try to start them! All of these are configured and work fine when started manually (/etc/i... | It likely means that one of their dependencies in not starting, enable logging in /etc/rc.conf and after a reboot inspect the log for anything giving a warning or failing. |
Hi, I just emerge xmonad-0.11.1-r1 (USE=hscolour) with xmonad-contrib-0.11.1. I (USE= hscolour xft) use slim as login manager, but after starting xmonad login screen freeze (on slim) and nothing happend. I can switch alt+f1 to terminal and restart xdm/slim but I can't run xmonad so I change line: Code: xmonad to: Code:... | nictki wrote: Hy, do you have any errors when you run Code: xmonad --recompile Code: $ xmonad --recompile xmonad: /home/emc/.xmonad/xmonad.errors: openFile: does not exist (No such file or director |
my wireless card is finally working. Now for the automation problem. NetworkManager will emerge, but not show in Gnome. Am I supposed to add it to the default runlevel? Or do I need to add some sort of script so that gnome will show it in the tray? Also of note, if it is installed, wpa_supplicant will refuse to connect... | If you previosly installed wicd or gentoo style networking purge all traces Follow http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NetworkManager To your questions: Code: emerge -s nm-applet if not installed, install it Code: rc-update add NetworkManager default Running nm-applet should overwite wpa_supplicant.conf If you have wpa_supplic... |
Hi, Sorry if this is in the wrong section, as this might not be strictly a desktop environment issue (maybe Bluez and/or Kernel related?). I'm using KDE and bluedevil-1.3.1 (bluez-4.101-r5). My mouse is set to trusted via bluedevil (don't know how to do it from the command line since the documentation I could find is o... | Hi, I'm not using a bluetooth mouse, but other bluetooth devices. I had a reconnect problem after last upgrade to bluedevil-1.3.1. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7326412.html#7326412 Anyway, maybe you'll have more luck using simple-agent. It needs the "test-programs" USE flag enabled on bluez to show up. http://... |
this is the log file..i couldn't find the error message. so please help me find it out. http://bpaste.net/show/109224/ Code: automoc4: process for /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/phonon-4.6.0-r1/work/phonon-4.6.0_build/designer/moc_videowidgetplugin.cpp failed: Unknown error pid to wait for: 0 returning failed.. make[2]: *... | Code: /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/phonon-4.6.0-r1/work/phonon-4.6.0/designer/phononcollection.cpp:76: Error: Undefined interface Please file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org |
Hello, as the title implies, for some reason I cannot start KDE. I followed the guide, that can be found here: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE Code: startx Leads to a screen showing biefly the nvidia logo (I am using the nvidia drivers and not noveau), when back at console level I get the message: Code: /root/.xinitrc:... | Dippmopser wrote: The output of wgetpaste (as suggested by "The Doctor"), can be found here: http://bpaste.net/show/109935/ Looks like you don't have kde-base/kdebase-startkde installed. What command you used to emerge kde-base/kdebase-startkde ?[/code] Dippmopser wrote: Is there a function/command I can use, to search... |
How do I remove the word from the Gentoo splash of LibreOffice? | Marco Cipro, Turn off the branding USE flag next time you build it. |
that is, it can open them (if i simply rename them to .html) but for some reason it treats local .shtml files is if it can't open them, and asks where to save them instead. there doesn't seem to be any internal (to chrome) database of mime type / file association stuff, and setting google-chrome.desktop as the default ... | I'm not sure where chrome is getting its mime info from, but /etc/mime.types on my system already lists .shtml as text/html and it seems to work here. You might need to run `update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime`. |
Hi! After my weekly update yesterday I ended up with no bluetooth device detected! The update was mostly kde-4.10.3 and some few packages including bluedevil and its libs. Symptoms: Blue devil didn't get started when booting neither when switch off/on the wifi switch. Starting it manually it "says" that no devices can ... | Hey, I had the same thing, after I turned bluetooth off in the system tray (BlueDevil)... It worked again changing "mode off" to "mode on" in /var/lib/bluetooth/*/config, and /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart Some kind of bug? -- Cheers! |
I use fluxbox and okular, and I have a strange behaviour when calling pdf files from some applications (app-misc/recoll and app-misc/zim). Other softwares like firefox do fine. When I open a pdf through app-misc/recoll or app-misc/zim, the following happens: a first okular window opens with the file. a second okular wi... | Hi, Maybe you already found it, but it seems to me that it is executing this file: Code: /usr/share/applications/kde4/okular.desktop -- Cheers |
I have an impression that a dbus service can be auto activated when accessed, and also can be auto deactivated when no one needs it. Now I'm writing myself a simple daemon to publish a dbus service, so I want to know the detail. I think activation means daemon process starts, and deactivation means daemon process exits... | I've never heard of d-bus auto-deactivation. However its possible to write a service, and the have the service launcher file launch your program with an argument list to let the program knows its been auto-lunched. The program can then exit (possibly after waiting a while, using g_timeout_add_seconds) when it has no in... |
(I cross-posted this from Games and Gamers, since SDL stuff seems to wind up here..) [Edit] this is a dbus-launch issue, see 3rd post below [/Edit] This is on x86: Code: XDM authorization key matches an existing client! heroes: No joystick found (run with `-J' to suppress this message). XDM authorization key matches an... | This seems to shed some light on the issue (I'm using e16 ): http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/problem-with-starting-openbox-in-slackware-14-0-a-4175436019/ and http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/14-0-beta1-xdm-authorization-key-matches-an-existing-client-xfce4-session-4175418231/ s... |
Hi, I have a problem with my kde desktop since today, whenever I login, kde hangs on the login background. After like 2 minutes, the login splash appears and my desktop opens. I did some research and found this: Code: klauncher(2106) kdemain: No DBUS session-bus found. Check if you have started the DBUS server. kdeinit... | I'm still not sure what caused this. This problem appeared after the kde-base/kdeplasma-addons-4.10.3-r1 update, but not sure if that was the cause. After all, apart from the mentioned errors, there's nothing wrong I was able to fix my desktop by temporarily removing all config files related to my desktop. Then, after ... |
I just update X , mesa and fglrx drivers and my X server hangs when starting. I find problem... it's when I set Xinerama to off. But when I set: Code: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0 Screen 1 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice... | emerge x11-libs/libX11 Solved problem. |
Hey there, I have searched over all the posts about this topic and still cant solve it... Iḿ getting gnome-3.8 in my machinne and i have the famous conflict of libsoup-gnome with libsoup. Here i will post all the codes so maybe you can help me... Code: Artemisa # emerge -C net-libs/libsoup-gnome * This action can remov... | That emerge output isn't really readable. Check with '-t'. Try putting libsoup-gnome into mask - maybe that way you'll see what's pulling it (besides old libsoup, that is). Chances are you're simply missing a package or two in keyword file. |
this morning I installed kde and I could enter the desktop use kdm. but after I installed the NVidia-drivers using https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVidia/nvidia-drivers . and I failed, when I reboot my computer I the kdm is stop working. I type Code: /etc/init.d/xdm start or Code: kdm what I see is a black screen. I don't... | try pressing CTRL+ALT+F1 for shell, if you can, post the content of /var/log/kdm and /var/log/Xorg.0.log for easy posting you can emerge wgetpaste and us it to post online and you'll one have to write down the links. while your at it, add the content of /usr/src/linux/.config if you cannot drop to shell, press SHIFT+I ... |
Hi, all Since nautilus 3.6, when opening a soft link by mime type, nautilus will pass this link's target to application. Say I double click a file /path1/a-link.mkv, with a subtitle a-link.srt in same dir. /path1/a-link.mkv linked to a file named /path2/a-movie.mkv . Nautilus will pass the link target /path2/a-movie.mk... | OK, solution found, and tested. Or you could replace nautilus by nemo file manager. Code: --- src/nautilus-mime-actions.c.orig 2013-05-27 11:51:32.186241851 +0800 +++ src/nautilus-mime-actions.c 2013-05-27 11:52:08.609244156 +0800 @@ -2061,10 +2061,11 @@ /* We want the file for the activation URI since we care * about ... |
I don't suppose anyone can tell me why this happens (see linked screen capture). It's been happening on a couple of machines. It happens both on remote windows and local windows on the system in question. I've tried to search but anything I can think of to describe it turns up nothing. I'm on kernel 3.8.13, amd64, and ... | That's a test theme that comes with GTK2. Change to a more appropriate one. |
EDIT: Ok after some testing with twm and xterm I verified that xorg-server is working, but slim was not loading the xsessions properly from /etc/X11/Sessions. When I use ~/.xinitrc and startx I can get xfce to load, so I know it's working, but not from slim. EDIT: I've tried everything I can think of now, including edi... | Use ~/.xsession, not ~/.xinitrc |
Hello, I have a script that run virtualbox as a specific user. think is that when I try to run it I get the following: Code: starting virtualbox... No protocol specified Failed to open the X11 display! shutting down virtualbox... here is my relevant /etc/sudoers: Code: # sudoers file. # # This file MUST be edited with ... | blakdeath wrote: take a look at this link I think it might be useful http://blog.fox.geek.nz/2012/10/granting-root-access-to-all-xorg-x11.html Solved! thanks for the tip, here is what I've done: added the following lines to exec_vm.sh: Code: X_AUTH_FILE="$(find /var/run/xauth/ -name "A${DISPLAY}-*" -group root)" X_COOK... |
Can anyone help me please? KDE 4.8 broke power management for me on my ASUS notebook. Checking the forums, all I could find was similar problems that went away either with reinstalling stuff or the next release. But my problems remain on KDE 4.9.5 etc. Shutting the lid causes some disk activity, but doesn't hibernate t... | In the hope someone reads this thread, I've done some more digging. Backtraces show (as above) that the the polkit daemon repeatedly dies due to a segfault in the spidermonkey javascript engine used by policykit. At the point of failure, spidermonkey is being used to run a rule asynchronously with a timeout. That shoul... |
Hi. I have configured my laptop to support Japanese input and rendering etc using various sources on the Gentoo Forums/Wiki's. But I must say it is just really cr*p on KDE4. I am sure it is something I did or did not do so I have a couple of general questions. 1) The fonts are just god awful. Sometimes almost illegible... | I have some pretencions of eventually learning Japanese {yes, I have started kanji learning drills ..}. To that end, I've prepared my systems with the following: snippet from my /etc/portage/make.conf Code: # CJK - for proper display/input of Chinese Japanese Koran text USE="${USE} scim immqt-bc cjk unicode nls anthy m... |
Hello Gentoo Forums, today I finally got around to installing a near fully functional install. The only thing that won't work for me is downloading E17. One of the wiki's say to run emerge --ask enlightenment:0.17 and that shows that I need to add lots of programs to the use area, however I don't know what to put in th... | @ OP you can show us using emerge -pv enlightenment:0.17 | wgetpaste since the pretend flag does not expect any user input, this should do fine. Second, why specifying a slot? Unless you have a specific reason, it may be better to drop it. A comment about using variables to sort your use flags. You should never do this... |
I recently upgraded my mobo/CPU and since it includes onboard video I decided to hook up my TV (HDMI) to the onboard intel and let the nvidia GPU run my two DVI monitors (previously I had all 3 connected to nvidia but I have to toggle one of my monitors off when I wanted to use the television). I am having quite a bit ... | I have tried similar things here yesterday. I thing you have to add : in the ServerLayout Section Code: Screen 1 "Screen2" RightOf "Screen0" in the Device0 Section Code: BusID "1:0:0" int the Card1 Section Code: BusID "0:2:0" But with all that, it seems for me, that gnome-shell segfault but not kde. And I'm not sure ho... |
I installed gimp 2.8 emerge =media-gfx/gimp-2.8.4 on my amd machine. azzerare ~ # uname -a Linux azzerare 3.7.10-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP Wed Apr 17 13:06:21 PDT 2013 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux Gimp 2.8 ran for a while now no luck. There is no error message it just will not open. From gnome... | If it still runs as root what do you get from Code: ls -la /usr/bin/gimp ? |
I'm setting up a new machine, which needs to include Japanese input. I know how to set this stuff up - have done it many times. Lately I'm using ibus/Anthy. On this new machine, Firefox and Thunderbird are not taking input from ibus. That is, although ibus seems to be set up and running correctly, it does not recognize... | I figured out the workaround to this problem. It is to set Code: LC_CTYPE="ja_JP.UTF-8" If you don't change any other locale-related environment variables, this seems to do the trick, without screwing up the rest of your world. It's still frustrating to me, though, that on other machines, the apps in question will take... |
Hey folks. I've been having an issue recently with anti-aliased fonts showing some characters extremely blurry. The biggest culprit is the 'm' character in DejaVu Sans Mono. I'd really prefer to use this font if possible, as it is easiest on my eyes and supports a bold face (Although, if someone knows how to get termin... | Maybe I've gotten used to anti-aliasing but it looks OK to me, the three downstrokes are distinct to my eyes...or monitor... or something rather... Does it have the problem when anti-aliasing is turned off or anti-aliasing options changed? Granted it should not be anti-aliasing screenshots... I've not really come acros... |
Hi all, after some upgrade (or i dont know) flash player stopped working. In Opera-next(whats my default browser) flash player starts, shows first picture and all control buttons but it is not possible to press it. With right mouse it shows settings, you can open it but than you can`t do anything even close this settin... | Flash has issues and always has. You should mask the version you mentioned and either upgrade or downgrade (I would downgrade, since it was working previously). |
Hello dear Gentoo-experts! I'm using my gentoo systems now for quite a long time, in dualboot with Windows 7 (or Visa on another). Sometimes I need to just read some files from my ntfs partition. That always worked well using kernel-driver and this fstab-line Code: /dev/sda3 /mnt/w7 ntfs ro,noauto,user,gid=users,umask=... | Vrenn, Comment out Code: /dev/sda3 /mnt/w7 ntfs ro,noauto,user,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 for udisks to work. The ro should not be required, ntfs is the kernel ntfs driver, which is badly broken in the write department. If you enable kernel write support for ntfs, it can change the contents of existing files pro... |
I'd like to use scrot for screenshooting but it complains Code: 17:21 rudi@dphpc0030:~ > scrot foo.png giblib error: Saving to file foo.png failed both for a user and for root. This error has been reported a number of times in the forums of other distributions such as Ubuntu or Suse, and the cure seems to be to emerge ... | I got the same error and after same searching a found the solution. Just remerge media-libs/imlib2 with png support! |
I need to put Code: xset -dpms xset s noblank xset s off somewhere in my LXDE setup. I've tried using .xinitrc with no luck. Is there some other way to make this happen when LXDM starts or when the user logs in? | Good memory, just one slight error. The path should not include the ".sh" at the end. The file should exist and have comments already. |
Apart from eating it of course. | And the answer is ? From the kde forums : use kdesu -t |
In X I managed to get the dead keys working. I'm using XFCE4. What I can't manage is to get the euro symbol working. And I would like to get é ë etc with altgr insead of the "nodeadkeys" option. I followed the guide on: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml Does anyone know what the right config is? This ... | I run xmodmap from .xinitrc for fine tuning in otherwise US UTF-8 boxes. I'm using left Windows key to switch. Code: $ cat .xmodmaprc keycode 133 = Mode_switch keycode 13 = 4 dollar 4 cent keycode 24 = q Q otilde Otilde keycode 26 = e E EuroSign cent keycode 30 = u U udiaeresis Udiaeresis keycode 32 = o O odiaeresis Od... |
Hi, I recently moved over to Gnome 3. Does anyone know how to get the Gnome 2 Nautilus scripts working in Gnome 3? In Gnome 2 one can make custom scripts and they show-up in the context menu but I'm not sure how to bring these over into Gnome 3. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. dq | Yay! That did it. Thanks very much! dq |
EDIT: Fixed by emerge -e @system. Not sure what was the problem. -- Original description of the problem follows below -- Quite suddenly I have seen that acroread fails to start. It fails with a segmentation fault. The USE flags: Code: ~> eix -e acroread [I] app-text/acroread Available versions: 9.4.2!m!s {cups ldap lin... | I know this is not the answer to your question, but have you tried mupdf and/or zathura? When I discovered these alternatives I have quickly forgotten about this heavy binary closed sh*t from Adobe. Of course I understand you might be one of those few who HAVE to use acroread, but just want to make sure... |
I just tried to do this: Go into the KDE Launcher Menu -> Settings -> System Settings -> Login Screen -> Convenience tab Then change something like autologin or passwordless login, click "Apply", then exit. I received this error message: "Unable to authenticate/execute the action: (code 3)" None of the changes stick. T... | Yes, you can still configure kdm, just not using the provided tools. I prefer vim, but emacs or nano should do just fine. The config file is located at /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and should have sufficient comments to answer any questions. |
Is there an alternative to the default battery plasmoid that sits in the system tray? Or possibly a way to make it work without upower installed? I have removed polkit/consolekit/udisks/upower from my system and the battery widget no longer works. I know I can "cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/<usefulfiles>" to get very det... | I think the KDE battery plasmoid is a lost cause. There are doubtless 3rd party applications that will replace it. x11-plugins/wmbattery might do it, but I can's say as I have never used it. Conky can definitely do it, if you want to go that way. By the way, powerdevil is going to bite you soon. You can either maintain... |
I have trouble with the media-sound/google-musicmanager inside Awesome WM. It starts, I can authenticate, I did even start to download my music repository into my HD but right clicking in systray icon and selecting "options" does not work. It seens that it's a trouble with others tiling WM as: http://superuser.com/ques... | Weird! After deleting .config/google-musicmanager directory and starting the whole process of authenticating and configuring music upload everything seems to be working. Now I can see the options window. |
I'd like to add some fonts for inkscape and gimp but I don't want to screw up my system. Sooo. I'm asking the experts. What is the best way to add fonts to a gentoo system for uyse with inkscape and gimp? | gerard82 wrote: Optional:Make a new folder in /usr/share/fonts. Copy your new fonts to this folder. That's all. (Restart Gimp or Inkscape) Gerard. worked like a charm . thank you! |
Hi, i am having problems to upgrade QT related packges with following end code: Code: * qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.4.tar.gz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... * ERROR: dev-qt/qtcore-4.8.4-r2 failed (unpack phase): * qt_mkspecs_dir(): Unknown compiler 'c++' * * Call stack: * ebuild... | Typo in CFLAGS: Code: CFLAGS="-marcih=native" Should be "-march", not "-marcih". Also, since this doesn't match what you reported earlier as your make.conf, could you check to see if you have two make.conf files, one in /etc, and another in /etc/portage? You should only have one. - John |
Certain times when i press the Super key i got this ugly background (image here --> http://s9.postimg.org/srqvnhqen/bug.png ) which i can solve only if i reboot my Gentoo boxen. What can it be? PS: I'm on Gentoo ~amd64, Gnome 3.6.X | Looks like graphics card driver corruption. Which video card and driver are you using? |
Hello, I have a 64 bit Windows 7 guest running on a gentoo host with two physical screens, which is working great except for full screen mode. Full screen guest takes over one of my screens (which I expect) but resets the guest's resolution to double screen width, which is slightly annoying. I've tried variations on Co... | I have 2 monitor and use virtualbox on kubuntu with E17 for a windows guest. I set myself the resolution with the followings commands: Code: xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1920x1080 xrandr --output HDMI2 --mode 1920x1080 xrandr --output HDMI2 --right-of VGA1 In virtual box I have installed the vbox GuestAdditions and I ha... |
Does anybody know a way to split a pdf file with over 400 unsorted scans in its separate pages, so I can sort it. Hika | Yes. Take a look at app-text/pdftk. - John |
Sry for opening another suspension related topic, but after searching I didn't find any relevant information Basically suspension broke after having worked flawlessly for a couple of years I'm on a Sony Vaio VPCEA1S1E, with a radeon RV710 card I'm using KDE as DE I'm using the radeon xorg driver and don't want to switc... | The alert system of the forum had a glitch and told me there was a (imaginary) reply to this topic Since I found it out I take the chance to mark it solved The solution was simple: I added a flag to the kernel boot parameters acpi_sleep=nonvs The flag wasn't present before (when suspension was working) and I'm not able... |
Hello, All ! After upgrade after emerge --sync and emerge sys-fs/udev and revdep-rebuild I have received an error in my KDE applications such as Amarok, Konqueror, Quote: Could not start process Unable to create io-slave klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_file' both konqueror and kdelibs were updated. Which way I have ... | YuriyRusinov, I didn't understandyour post. Have you just upgrade udev? Which udev version you upgrade from? If you do. Have you followed the instruction "Upgrading udev to version >=200"? |
Well.. I got KDE working. However it looks unsharp. Don't have any screenshot software installed but - Firstoff, the bottom bar looks too white - Second, everything looks streched in a way.. Like, stretched up/down, making it look pretty unsharp. Maybe it's my screen resolution.. How do I change this? Trying to emerge ... | BUMP |
Hi! I recently switched to the hardened gentoo kernel 3.7.5 and profile and successfully rebuilt the system ebuild class. I have configured Code: PAX_MARKINGS="XT " in /etc/make.conf, and have an XATTR supporting FS and kernel. In this configuration, I am unable to start opera at all. Starting yields Quote: ~ $ opera o... | ok, I realized: PAX-Flags are not written to the disk at all. Code: eminenz # paxctl-ng -rm /usr/bin/opera eminenz # paxctl-ng -v /usr/bin/opera /usr/bin/opera: XATTR_PAX: not found Any help, why xattr maybe could not be stored to disk? The kernel supports ext-filesystems with xattr. setfattr is accessible |
I have been trying to get it to work for a while now. I can input locations and everything seems to work on that front. However, it never fetches weather data. I'm not sure if this helps, but here is my rc file: Code: loc_name=Danville, Vermilion County lat=40.135488 lon=-87.629119 msl=0 timezone= cache_file_max_age=17... | mine works though its 8.2 and marked as obsolete. wheres the .rc file located? |
I have of a sudden a weird thing happening. Some windows (WPA Supplicant, VirtualBox, but not the machines) startup black or with a garbled background in it. Other windows are OK. The garbling includes also menus from those applications, but not the windowborder.. It started when I was experimenting with Tux on Ice, wh... | Well, I am not sure what your problem could be, but I'd start checking a few things. First, /var/log/Xorg.0.log. There might be some warning or error in there that can give you some hint. Secondly, check the output of xdpyinfo and glxinfo. Check also dmesg to make sure your graphics driver is not segfaulting or doing o... |
Hello, every few boots, xdm doesn't boots, X segfaults. here is are Xorg.log and kdm.log: http://bpaste.net/show/96588/ here is emerge --info output: Code: Portage 2.1.11.63 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.7.2, glibc-2.17, 3.9.0-gentoo x86_64) ===============================================================... | Frequent kernel panic can be a sign of failing or overheating hardware. See what happens if you limit CPU frequency via /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq |
Hello. How can i fix the xterm title (set by -T) and switch off changing it from esc sequences? | At a guess you want to set the allowTitleOps option in the xterm resources. Something like: Code: XTerm*allowTitleOps: false in your .Xresources or equivalent file. You can test it: Code: echo "XTerm*allowTitleOps: false" | xrdb -merge |
Hi all I upgrade my gnome to 3.6 and then I face new problems so I emerge systemd now one weird problem is still remain !I run revdep-rebuild it fail to emerge gnome-base/gnome-panel! revdep-rebuild http://www.bpaste.net/show/98695/ /var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-panel-3.6.2-r1/temp/build.log http://www.bpaste.net/s... | This is gnome-panel-3.6.2-r1 ebuild : http://www.bpaste.net/show/98771/ unfortunately I somehow don't know Bash! This summer I will learn it so I don't know what this means but It says this should fix this problem but for me it doesn't !!!!In building gweather-include.patch is applied patch successfully ! Quote: # Fix ... |
I moved to awesome from xfce4. but when I watch something long in Youtube (>20m), the screen is shut off automatically in 10min. I checked my configuration in laptop_mode, the delay time to shut off the screen is 1200s=20min. I removed xcreensaver too. However, when I watch some video in smplayer which disables screens... | This is just one possible solution, you could create a minimal xorg.conf wit DPMS setting in it, or you could disable it in your DE startup files. |
This is very possibly because I'm totally new to the world of Gentoo, but I managed to trudge my way through a basic install and set up users. Now, I'm having difficulty setting up X-org. I have tried: emerge -pv xorg-drivers and afterward, I'm informed that "the following USE changes are necessary to proceed: #require... | SquidGuy, Welcome to Gentoo. You get a good default set of USE flags bu setting the right profile. Play with Code: eselect profile You should choose a profile ending in /dektop, or desktop/kde or /desktop/gnome if you want to use KDE or Gnome. This may not solve all of your issues. The message means that to build the p... |
Hi, Few minutes ago I just reemerged a new kde 4.10.0. Unfortunatley, when I am trying to run kmail or kontact when program starts, few seconds after this I have a meassage: Quote: The akonadi personal information management service is not operational Report details are bellow. What to do? Help, I can't live without em... | loisl wrote: Did You emerge app-office/akonadi-server with sqlite USE flag? No. I added sqlite to my USE flags reemerged system. It did not help, but it is some imrovement, see bellow. Iin ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc I switched to QMYSQL driver as you said and .... kmail works, but I lost all my 40 000 emails and... |
Hi, all, When I run "emerge gnome", I got below error message. To my surprise, x11-libs/gtk+-3.4.4::gentoo has "-X" USE flag, but gtk+ really need X modules. How to solve this problem? Thank you in advance. FYI, my profile is: [7] default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib * Code: # cat 'USE="-qt4 -kde X dbus gtk gnome"' >> ... | Use Code: /etc/portage/make.conf not Code: /etc/make.conf |
Hello, I have a nasty bug with KDE in my new laptop. As the title says, it completely freezes after a couple of minutes from login. It's a hard freeze, the keyboard stops working (even the caps lock light), SysRq doesn't work, etc. I have to turn it off pressing the power button for 5 seconds. The thing is that some da... | It turns out it was backlight related. My laptop is a dell one, and I was missing "dell_laptop.backlight=0" in grub for the kernel.Which,BTW, it isn't documented anywhere, I found that in an obscure forum for some guy with a similar problem. |
Hi, I've updated to the latest gnome-light-3.6.2 from portage (no overlays) and I have the following problem with the new "input sources" feature. I set up a couple of layouts (en, ru, uk) through the gnome-control-center UI utility. But no matter which one is set I always type in English (in any application). I've ins... | I've moved to X input, but still want to resolve this. The last thing I did was running Code: ibus-daemon -rxv Which printed a couple out warnings, I managed to resolve most of them, but it's hard to say what two of these are about Code: (ibus-daemon:29839): IBUS-WARNING **: 20:45:44.519183: Parse buffer failed: Error ... |
I have just started using Gentoo in association with Open Box and wanted to take some pictures to show my friends. Does anyone have a preferred screen-shooter to use with Open Box? Best, treeman1111 | Ant P. wrote: scrot +1, scrot is nice you can do things like "scrot -s" and it allows you to draw part of the screen using mouse to take shot from or "scrot -d 60" to get 60 secs time to prepare the desktop, like opening some menu, to include it in the shot so many ways to accomplish screenshots out there, but never fo... |
I was initially using the kernel OSS drivers for my ati-radeon, I then removed those drivers and emerged the ati-drivers, I then followed the steps in 'http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fglrx' to setup my xorg with my video card, then I rebooted I got the error: Cannot display this video mode optimum resolution 1280*1024 60H... | blakdeath, Make friends with wgetpaste and post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and your xorg.conf. There is a line near the top of the log that tells where the xorg.conf file in use is located. Code: [ 64.507] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Apr 25 17:56:44 2013 [ 64.508] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X1... |
it gets to about 44% then errors have looked on bug tracker but cant seem to find anything related to this Code: Linking CXX executable ../../bin/nepomuk-rcgen cd /var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdelibs-4.10.2/work/kdelibs-4.10.2_build/nepomuk/rcgen && /usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/nepomuk-rcgen.dir/link.txt... | that seemed to work, i did sort before posting, guess my search skills are rusty :p |
Hi guys : Today I somehow collapsed my gentoo ! I was working with my gentoo and when I restart it my gnome has been crashed ! and I faced with error "oh no!something has gone wrong" I wanted to fix it with rebuilding gnome-base/gdm and gnome-shell ! and I did a stupid action and I remove both of them in order to emerg... | wgetpaste /path/filename to paste a file command | wgetpaste to paste the output of a command |
Recently I updated my KDE to version 4.10.1. Now almost after every login I see crash handler dialog sayin Quote: We are sorry, KDE Daemon closed unexpectedly. You can help us improve KDE Software by reporting this error. ... Details: "Executable: kdeinit4 PID: 3323 Signal: Aborted (6)" kdm.log gives the following: Cod... | Here's additional info from the crash handler, don't know if it spreads any light on the issue. Code: Application: KDE Daemon (kdeinit4), signal: Aborted Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". [Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f1db41b4760 (LWP 3323))] Thread 5 (Thread 0x7f1d985bb700 (LWP 3329)): #0 0... |
I just updated with emerge -uNDav @world, compiled a new kernel, and after the reboot, my network-manager wireless icon in my system tray (nm-applet) changes from the stack of signal bars to a no entry icon. Everything else is still functioning. Any idea how I can change the icon back? I use XFCE (but i've checked in E... | I've uploaded the fixed signal icons for nm-applet-0.9.6.4 and nm-applet-0.9.8.0. And because the fix is also in upstream git, it'll be in next release too. |
Anyone using this sort of combination that I use: 1. a Radeon HD 7770 2GB card Code: lspci | grep VGA 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cape Verde XT [Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition] 2. 3 monitors Code: [ 59.860] (II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer: SAM Model: 4d5 Serial#: 1263088180 [ 59.860... | How hard is the system crash? Does the computer still respond to ssh, ping, magic SysRQ? Is kernel 3.9 affected? As you have a few moments beforel the system freezes, you may be able to see if something is printed to dmesg or Xorg.0.log. If necessary, increase dmesg verbosity by booting with drm.debug=14 kernel paramet... |
Hey there. I googled around a lot and also looked at the topics in this forum but nothing seems to help me there. I am using mate-base/mate-1.6.0 (from the mate-overlay) for my desktop environment and it won't show usb-sticks. I can mount them in the terminal as root well enough, so all kernel settings should be all ri... | Tickeldi wrote: Hey there. Thanks for your reply. I am not entirely sure what you mean with Code: what group does your usb device show up in? . It depends on where it should show up. If I connect any usb mass memory device the kernel registers it normally: dmesg: ... I'll do that like this: Quote: mount -o umask=0022,g... |
I have recently been out of touch due to health issues, but that is now in the past. A few months ago, my hard drive died. It is not recoverable. My new HD is a WD 250 gb and I did manage to install Gentoo with kernel 3.7.10. But I don't understand why I am unable to find things in the same place as they were on my old... | mark2 wrote: But I don't understand why I am unable to find things in the same place as they were on my older system. For example: /etc/make.conf does not exist. There is a make.conf in /etc/portage, however. Gentoo evolves. The decision's been made to keep all Portage-related files in /etc/portage, whereas historicall... |
solved Dep: gnome-base/libgnomeprint couldnt be emerged because of missing dev-perl/XML-Parser Hi all, filezilla failed to build: Code: System uname: Linux-3.7.10-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Atom-TM-_CPU_D510_@_1.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 KiB Mem: 3337000 total, 2116648 free KiB Swap: 4095996 total, 4095996 free Timestamp of... | Hi Brad, i will give it a try and report than. regards |
Solved Apparently it's a feature not a bug. Use sudo -S to read from stdin. I have a strange problem with sudo. Sudo works fine in tty, but not in Konsole (/dev/pts*). When I use sudo in Konsole, it appears to just hang for a minute or so until it times out. Actually what's happening is it's prompting for my password i... | Hey all this same issue has been plaguing me forever!! Here is the fix See here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=7298374 |
is that not possible anymore? In KDE 4.9.5 there was an option in the upper-left menu of every window (or, equivalently, clicking with the right button on the corresponding application in the task bar), but I cannot find that option anymore... I never install kde-meta, so I'm not sure if there is a relevant package mis... | Just in case someone comes across the same problem...it seems powerdevil is a requirement for the activities thing to work properlyl (not very intuitive). Adding solved... |
GTK applications can create new text files, but can't save them and can't open existing text files. My "desktop" is Icewm, started with "startx", but the same problem persists when using fvwm. This is a new installation and I don't have many actual apps installed yet. The only Qt app installed is "Tea", which is a text... | I found the answer in the Gentoo forums: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7087324.html When starting a GTK application from a terminal, the first line of the terminal output was "Glib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_vfs_get_file_for_path: assertion 'G_IS_VFS (vfs)' failed" The solution was to rebuild glib without using the CFL... |
Dear all, how can I stay with KDE-4.9.5 when performing an "emerge -avuND world"? I want to update my whole system except KDE related packages. Is there a "one-liner" for the package.mask file or do I have to mask each KDE package? koschi | mask them in package.mask. I think you can do it like this: >=kde-*/*-4.9.6 You want to mask the higher version rather than simply say greater than 4.9.5 because you don't want to mask the -r* bug fixes. |
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