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After the upgrade to KDE 4.7, shadows of menu and tooltip not longer working. This is a screenshot: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/109/shadow1i.png/ I have another system with gentoo/kde but that work correctly. The only difference is the graphic card: nvidia's system is working (binary driver), ati not (open dri... | I also began having issues when I upgraded from KDE 4.6.x to 4.7.x. Unfortunately the most annoying issue is still present in 4.8.x. However, I was able to fix at least one of the issues, and you may try what I did. Open a terminal and make sure you are in your home directory. cd ~/ Then copy move your ~/.kde4 profile ... |
Hello there I've been happily using an aluminium Apple keyboard for the last years with Gentoo, but I just updated the whole system and now my fn keys are configured as volume and brightness controls etc. I'd like to get back to their default behaviour. I know I could just xmodmad the whole keys array, but I'm sure the... | Don't know if that is generic for Apple, but this works on my MBP Code: echo X > /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/fnmode for X in: 0=completly disabled, 1=normal FX-keys, 2=Function-Keys |
Dear all, After a reboot on my laptop, I cannot anymore suspend or hibernate, which were working fine before. I use xfce4 and xfce4-power-manager. I hope you can give me some useful hint. This is the output of ck-list-sessions (which I think should be ok) Quote: Session3: unix-user = '1000' realname = '(null)' seat = '... | Looking at first post of this thread. You have 2 open ConsoleKit sessions for /dev/tty7. This is not right. There should only be one visible. Forgot to restore the 'nox11' param to /etc/pam.d/system-login after updating whatever Display Manager you are using to a new version with internal ConsoleKit support? This is co... |
hey all, trying to get nvidia drivers to work and I having trouble, module loads but goes to blank screen and sits there then monitor turns off. followed all gentoo docs. Have gone over all logs. This new box with a gigabyte 990fxa-ud3 board, amd fx4100, 16gigs of ram, nvidia geforce gt430. It seems only error I get is... | That can't be the entire Xorg.0.log, there's for sure more. Up to that point it looks fine. While I don't think it hurts in this case, remove everything but the Device section from xorg.conf and try again. If the log again stops at the same place, we're looking at a hard freeze here. Hmm, another idea - remove all IOMM... |
Is there a way to remove the hibernate and suspend from the K Menu's Leave area? I don't see anything in system settings, and the menu editor is apps only. | How about package.use entry of: kde-base/kdelibs -upower And: emerge -C upower And package.mask entry of: sys-power/upower And checking if anything else in world is pulling it in: emerge -avDNut world And dealing with them? As I would assume KDE to automatically hide these menu entries when upower is not available. At ... |
I added the following to : /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/95-xrandr Code: #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/xrandr --output DFP10 --brightness 0.6 in the hope this would adjust the brightness of the display on startup, so I would not have to set it manually. However this does not seem to work. I suspect that this script is called before ... | lostinspace2011 How do you start X ?.if you are starting x via xinitrc,just put : exec "your DE/WM " && "your xrandr line" there. regards hedmo |
Hi, I updated my laptop yesterday, and now X won't start. It is a amd dual core 2.4ghz with an Nvidia GO 7600 GPU. I have tried nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1, nvidia-drivers-290.10 and nvidia-drivers-290.10-r2. None work. I'm getting this error in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log: Code: X.Org X Server 1.11.2 Release Date: 2011-11-04 ... | Thanks gus, When I installed x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1 I had forgotten to unload the old module so it wouldn't load the newly compiled nvidia module. Stupid mistake. You are correct, the 295.20 driver does work. Thanks again. -G |
Problem is solved now. Solution is described in this reply. Hi guys. Month ago I updated my system and it broke automounting in nautilus. I spent tens of hours when i tried to fix it. I tried everything I found on forums and how-tos, but nothing helped. Also I emerged udisks, udisks-glue and polkit with --noconfmem. Ye... | First post of https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-start-0.html has lately been updated. If you followed it earlier, you might want to recheck. The output required would be 'ck-list-sessions' as a normal user, from X11 terminal (shell). |
I keep getting errors trying to emerge kde-base/kdepim-runtime-4.8.0 after emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --ask world All other packages installed successfully. I didn't try emerge --depclean or revdep-rebuild yet emerge --info =kde-base/kdepim-runtime-4.8.0 Code: Portage 2.1.10.49 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desk... | It makes no sense to paste the whole build.log here (it is truncated), either find the error or post a link to a pastebin. |
Hello, I got nvidia drivers installed on Gentoo. It's working fine as far as I can tell. But when I boot up my gentoo I can't see the "vesa" support. You know, the high resolution when everything scrolls up. If I install my nouveau driver I do have it but with Nvidia, nada, nothing. So I went in my kernel and enabled C... | Pass it as a boot parameter in /boot/grub/menu.lst Something like: Code: title Gentoo 3.2.7 root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.7 video=uvesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap,1024x768-32@85 savedefault |
Hello, I installed Bluefish. Emerged ok. No errors. But why I do'nt have it in Main Manu->Applications->Programming? System: Code: home # uname -r 3.2.1-gentoo-r2 and latest gnome 2 and compiz. | kieliszek wrote: I installed Bluefish. Emerged ok. No errors. But why I do'nt have it in Main Manu->Applications->Programming? I don't have an "Applications->Programming" menu item either. I also checked the Bluefish installed on my Debian Squeeze box. It doesn't have an "Applications->Programming" menu item either. Ma... |
Hi, Sorry newbie here, So i'm running brand new install with Xfce4 for my DE but I only have 640x480 resolution, My PC is an old dell office computer with intel onboard gfx and a 15" LCD. I've googled and played around with xorg.conf but cannot figure out how to get it to work. Here's my make.conf and xorg.conf: Code: ... | I also have an old-ish Dell Optiplex 745 with i915 graphics. At first, I was also stuck with low resolution. My Dell could not probe my monitor's capabilities, and was defaulting to the lowest value. I was told by some that I would not have had my problem if I'd been using an LCD monitor instead of a CRT. I would do as... |
I've got a rather strange problem with my german keyboard layout in gdm - and no, this is not one of the many where you have to add a Section "InputClass" into your xorg.conf.d, because I've done all this and it was working fine for years. Since I had to replace my old keyboard my gdm layout for the new (german) keyboa... | can you paste kernel config, Xorg Log and all xorg.conf keyboard related stuff into pastebin please? i assume you want to keep the new USB keyboard, so the Xorg log should be while only the USB keyboard is connected. in GDM you mean the problem is only while in GDM or also after you login to gnome or what..? |
Hi, anyone recognizing this odd behavior? anyone who know what's causing this (and thereby how to fix it)? The odd thing that happens is that everytime I clear recent history in firefox (10.0.1), and when I do that I usually clear everything (all checkboxes and Everything as timespan), the LibreOffice (3.4.3.2-r1) star... | I don't know what is causing the behaviour, but I got it as well - at least a similar one. When starting up FF, LO will appear as well. |
After upgrading to 4.7 KDE needs extremely much memory. To be more specific the memory is cosumed by 1) kdeinit4: plasma-desktop --> 490MB 2) /usr/bin/korgac --icon korgac --> 540 MB 3) /usr/bin/kopete --session xyz123 --> 550 MB 4) kdeinit4: krunner --> 560 MB 5) kontact --> 700 MB The process' names are taken from "h... | Much lower figures on my (64 bit) kde-4.8 desktop system: 1) 77364 2) 17096 3) - 4) 25652 5) 95328 Those numbers of yours are way out of bounds. Try starting from a clean user profile. |
Hi guys, My monitor is 1024X1046 resolution, but now the graphic is not complete on the monitor. There are the black space around its. Quote: localhost ~ # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePo... | What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log tell when you try to startx now without any of the xorg.conf doing their things? |
I have a Gentoo setup as a VirtualBox client, which has been working fine until I did a world update (emerge -vDu world); Firefox crashes immediately when it starts. Here is where (I think) the problem is. Code: [ 3122.912] Backtrace: [ 3122.914] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x569418] [ 3122.914] 1: /usr/bin/X ... | Not sure what addressed the issue, but a complete rebuild ("emerge -ev world") fixed the problem. Or perhaps I should have tried "firefox -safe-mode" before doing a rebuild, but well, too late. I noticed a similar VirtualBox guest (i.e. same Gentoo with pretty much the same installed packages) worked without a problem,... |
I can't mount any CD's. Nautilus reports: Quote: Error mounting: mount: block device /dev/sr1 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so dmes... | There shouldn't be any fstab entry. But lets try something different: see what effect 'udisks --mount' has. |
I've just reinstalled Gentoo after a long absence, and things seem to have changed a bit since I left. I did the install in a hurry with the intention of going back and fixing things later. First I installed X and Fluxbox. After installing mplayer, I noticed that video performance was terrible. I realized it wasn't doi... | As always, use pastebin to post /var/log/Xorg.0.log |
Just a simple thing that was bugging me (KDE 4.2 and Firefox 3.0.6): After a download, the (right-click) option to open the destination directory or folder of the download wasn't working on my system. Hopefully this post will make it faster and easier for other newbies searching the forums. First, determine the path to... | Oops. Necroed thread |
Hello, I have the latest stable version of KDE and Firefox 10 installed. Whenever I right-click on a file in Firefox's downloads window and choose Open Containing Folder it insists on opening it in Filelight. I'd like to know how I can tell it to open the folders in Dolphin. There's another thread on the forum about th... | In KDE System Settings I went to File Associations and searched for directory. found in inode/directory filelight listed twice. since I rarely use filelight I removed both entries of filelight, applied the changes and now dolphin opens the folder when clicking the folder icon in the downloads list. George |
Hi, I have a problem with Konqueror default view. I can set filemanager profile to set the default view into column view, but when I add a link location on the desktop to a specific folder location, and then open that location, it STILL opens that location in icon mode which is frustrating because, of course, column vi... | Solved setting use seperate settings for each folder to global settings in configure konqueror. |
I have some problems during emerge gnome-light like this : Code: Please submit a full bug report. See <http://bugs.gentoo.org/> for instructions. make[4]: *** [nsHtml5NamedCharacters.o] Error 1 make[4]: *** Deleting file `nsHtml5NamedCharacters.o' make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.20... | You didn't post the actual error. However, the most probable cause is that you're running out of RAM - add more swap. |
installed KDE4 via the guide. everything was fine. i installed it via kdebase-meta, not the full thing. on top i just emerged konsole and wicd-kde today, i noticed that i couldn't open anything. i'd click menu>konsole... the menu closes, nothing happens. i can click any link on the menu, firefox, settings... anything. ... | KDE keeps a log in your /home/username/.xsession-errors. But be in for a disappointment: it's full of garbage! And every time you log out and in it's re-written. Two years ago I installed kde-3.5 on my wife's lappy. There .xsession-errors never grows larger than ~500 bytes . In mine it is always more than 50 KB! Good l... |
By default, when gnome is installed, the lock screen has a background with the Gentoo logo. While that's all well and good, I would like to change the background at the lock screen. Everything that I've found online says to overwrite the image at /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg This isn't th... | I'm not on Linux atm, but isn't this as simple as opening gconf-editor, navigating to /schemas/desktop/gnome/background, and changing 'picture_filename' to the path of the image you want? |
Since two days I have this problem with plasma. Basically I am getting tired about not having a task bar so I need to fix it.. I have run revdep-rebuild and python-updater, but there's nothing in particular coming up when doing so. Synced as of today. I am on ~amd64, not sure if this says anything: Code: Application: P... | Have you recently updated PyQt4 and/or sip without rebuilding their dependencies? From PyQt4 elog Quote: WARN: postinst │ │When updating dev-python/PyQt4, you usually need to rebuild packages, which depend on │ │dev-python/PyQt4, such as dev-python/qscintilla-python. If you have app-portage/gentoolkit │ │installed, you... |
When i log into kdm to kde, i see: - cursor changes to my theme - startup animation completes just fine. - scren fade to black instead of my wallpaper and that's it. i end up with a black screen and the mouse cursor. my current workaround is: cltr+alt+f1 login as root /etc/init.d/xdm stop /etc/init.d/xdm start now i lo... | Have you had a recent update to PyQt4 or sip and not rebuilt the dependencies? If so, it could be the cause of your problems and worth trying. Code: equery d PyQt4 emerge -av1 [dependency1] [dependency2] [dep........... and the same for sip if necessary |
I'd appreciate any help on getting my laptop's hotkeys to work. If I can figure out how to get the sound hot keys to work, I'm sure I can figure out the rest. Laptop: HP ProBook 6550b. WM: Fluxbox Sound works, alsamixer works, gkrellm can control sound volume From xmodmap | grep Audio: Code: keycode 121 = XF86AudioMute... | Thanks! |
Hi, I am using Evolution 3.2.3 on an amd64 Gnome 3.2.x environment I just added my Google Calendar to Evolution in an attempt to use the same one on my Android device and my desktop. But I am getting this error: Code: (evolution:2482): libecal-WARNING **: e_cal_client_new: Cannot get calendar from factory: No backend f... | Hi, Yes, had that set. I was having a look at the settings again (right-click and select properties on the calendar). I set the Google calendar to default and also selected copy calendar contents locally for offline operation. That seemed to do it. The error has disappeared. Bit strange. Mons |
Hello, what terminal programs can display and copy-n-paste Unicode? I have fluxbox as "WM" but none of the terms I tried had it all. rwst | All that I have tried support copy and paste using ctr+sift+c and ctr+sift+v. That is gnome-terminal, konsole, and LXTerminal. You should be able to past highlighted text with the middle mouse button. |
In all desktops, I always set my panels to 'Auto-hide'. With the latest version of kde-4.8.0 the panels are almost completely transparent. Under System Settings ==> Desktop Effects ==> All Effects, I have access to "Translucency" which allows me to control the degree of transparency of different windows in different ci... | I think you are looking for System Settings ==> Workspace Appearance ==> Desktop Theme ==> Details |
Hello everyone, this is my first post in the forum. I just purchased an Asus Eee 1005PXD netbook and I'm currently installing Gentoo on it, focusing in minimalism, since it's a very low-end machine. I followed the Gentoo handbook for x86, configuring the kernel manually and installing a minimal system with no users but... | Greetings! first of all, SLIM is unmaintained. You might want to switch to lxdm or xdm. Its up to you of course. just FYI. So for testing X. from the command line, what does this do? Code: X -retro If you get a screen that is rather blank with a moving mouse, then good. We can move on. Try Code: startfluxbox I suspect ... |
Hello, when I try to run inkscape I am getting this error: Code: michal@localhost ~ $ inkscape inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libOpenCL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory libopencl seems to be present: Code: localhost michal # find / -name *libOpenCL* /usr/lib32/OpenCL/vend... | Solved added /usr/lib64/OpenCL/vendors/nvidia to /etc/ld.so.conf then ran ldconfig |
Hello, this FluxBox Unicode thing is getting on my nerves.. I still have not yet figure out how to get my Queensrÿche to print as Queensrÿche Instead of printing that, it's printing Queensr?che, I'm sure there's something I can set in .Xdefaults, I have to, to get my Mouse Cursor Theme to display. nano -w .Xdefaults : ... | Not sure if this will help but it is working here on openbox. Code: amd64testbox ~ # eselect locale list Available targets for the LANG variable: [1] C [2] en_US [3] en_US.iso88591 [4] en_US.utf8 [5] POSIX [6] en_US.UTF-8 * [ ] (free form) amd64testbox ~ # locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_U... |
I performed a few days ago the upgrade to xfce4 4.8 and I'm having a couple of minor issues. One is with mixer. I used to adjust sound volume by the use of mouse wheel, but now it doesn't work anymore, laying this error: Code: xfce_mixer_plugin_volume_changed: assertion 'GST_IS_MIXER' (mixer_plugin->card) failed alsaso... | My mistake, maybe. Looking better to the "issue" it happens when logged as root only, not as a user. And either xfce4 or xfce4-panel says they are not for use as root: Code: W: main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is specified). For this reason I'm marking this as solved. I don't dele... |
i'm still without KDE doing everything on the console. I noticed one extremely annoying behaviour: after some time, the console will blank out. but the screen remains on. the LCD backlight is still blasting full. so, is there a way to: A) stop the console from blanking B) properly turn off the monitor? for now i think ... | On this issue of blanking, I found this: http://alexis.m2osw.com/console.html There might be more to turning off the backlight, though. Hrm. I also have my suspicions that this might not work for every console driver. |
Dear Friends: after emerge autofs according to wiki. the gnome's display can't be changed even choose different language in gdm and can't input chinese in firefox. need your help urgently! thanks in advance. | Eh, autofs? Can't really imagine how it could mess up such stuff. Ok, you'll have to provide more information about your setup for others to think of a possible solution. You can start by these: which wiki did you follow? (a URL would be an answer) did you follow the whole wiki page or just a part ? I mean the UDEV rel... |
Greetings, I am stuck with a severe lack of clear and updated information on getting the ATI closed-source driver working in a manner close as to what I would like to achieve. Here is the setup: ATI Radeon HD 6950 PCI card, with two outputs on the card. Dell 2005FPW (connected via DVI cable) Samsung TA550 SyncMaster (c... | I have Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal" in my "Device" section. But this was so long ago. I recall using aticonfig that modified my single monitor solution to work with both monitors. (One monitor is connected via DVI through HDMI port, other is connected to analog VGA through the DVI-I port...) |
After the update yesterday when i run revdep-rebuild i see okular not compiling . here is the error in /var/tmp/portage/kde-base/okular-4.7.4/temp/build.log [code][0m[34m[1mGenerating generator_plucker.moc [0m[ 95%] Built target okularGenerator_plucker_automoc [35m[1mScanning dependencies of target okularGenerator_pluc... | It says it can't find dtd/kdex.dtd, which should be part of kde-base/kdelibs: /usr/share/apps/ksgmltools2/customization/dtd/kdex.dtd Do you have it? An alternative solution is to try compiling with "handbook" flag unset. |
Hello, I'am not able to paste to vim from kde4 using the middle mouse button. The first time it gives me Quote: E29: No inserted text yet Press ENTER or type command to continue then i press ENTER and it shows the text i've just pasted. The next times it works but sometimes pastes garbage. i found this online http://gr... | Does it work if you quit klipper ? |
Hi, I have had this problem for some time, and I figured that it would eventually work itself out after a few emerge world's. It has been over a year, and the problem still persists. The problems seemed to appear after we left the 3.x versions of firefox. I'm now on 8.1. My pages render fine on the screen, the fonts lo... | Helvetica is a bitmap font. Printing a 96dpi bitmap font at 300+dpi is going to look terrible. Uninstall it if you don't like it. |
I bought a usb graphics card to run dual monitors on my lap top (2x22" external). I use the built-in vga port for my right monitor and the usb card for the left monitor. However, it seems like I can only run one graphics card at the time. I read somewhere that I could not mix usb cards with the built-in card, but I can... | You're going to have a bad time with things if you want that USB device to act as a hotplug monitor. If you want it always on, you're in luck. I've used DisplayLink based devices in the past, and they've worked for me with some setup required. General info here: http://libdlo.freedesktop.org/wiki/ A specific tri-head u... |
I install the X and gnome. But I use the Code: lsmod I could not find the module "nouveau". But by Code: dmesg I can find that the module have been inserted. In the make.conf I have choose VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau" Another problem Everytime I move window, it seem the system render slowly. I can see tuft of white zone when ... | Sounds like the missing module is for xorg, not a kernel module. Can you verify that VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau" is set, and that x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau is installed? If these things don't help, please post your complete /var/log/Xorg.0.log |
Hello all, I've got a lenovo u260. about 5 months ago I had full screen brightness control. I reinstalled win 7 on it to lend to my folks to use for a while. Now that I have it back I've installed linux, have everything working except for screen brightness control. I have two levels of brightness, and it always default... | Hi, first you have to provide more info what is your goal or preferred way of controlling the brightness? If through your DE, then which do you use? as you have a Intel integrated GFX card, what does the "notebook manual" say about the module? like Intel GMA 4**** do the brightness control keys work even in a TTY conso... |
on my x86 notebook with intel graphics (1.10.1.902 xorg-server / 2.15.0 intel driver) I installed googleearth 6.0.3.2197 When I try to start googleearth as a regular user, one of two things happen 1. A crash with "caught signal 11" error (crashlog below) 2. A window pops up asking if I want to try "directx mode"; wheth... | You didn't tell if your user is in video group? |
Hi, I've got gnome-3.2 running fine, and have gone through the gentoo gnome 3.2 upgrade guide, but I'm experiencing a strange issue: The black toolbar at the top displays: "Activities", <title of current window>, date/time, and then doesn't display anything until the username on the far right. The weird thing is that a... | Are you using ATI video drivers ? |
Dear Friends: /etc/conf.d/xdm has been edited for gdm. but when /etc/init.d/xdm start, system still enter into xdm. need help, thanks! | can you doublecheck? Code: risko-t3400 ~ # grep DISPLAYMANAGER /etc/conf.d/xdm DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" |
Hi there, I emerged the last release of Google Chrome (and the emerging lasted about 5 hours ). Now, I'm trying to add some extension, but when I click the "Add to chrome" button, after pressing "INSTALL" into the gtk "Confirm install" dialog, the extension actually don't get installed. Any ideas? T. | Ok I solved it. Even though I edited the default downloaded files folder from "Downloads" to "download", when Chrome tries to install an ext. it looks for "Downloads". The problem is solved by creating a folder and naming it "Downloads". UN-BE-LIE-VE-BLE |
I have a problem with Intel Sandy Bridge video and the qtcurve window decorations in KDE 4. At 100% opacity they are completely transparent, and at anything else they are still transparent but with a slight blur behind them. See here for what 100% opacity looks like: http://i.imgur.com/efTQr.jpg I've tried qtcurve-1.6.... | Does it work with the "blur" plugin disabled? |
Good day, I trying emerge xorg-server nvidia-drivers [/url]. There was error in half installation. http://pastebin.com/E4PDv2uu I don't know, how can I fix it. Please, help me. Thank you. | post your /etc/make.conf and exact cpu model you have. looks like the instructions compiler uses do not exist on your cpu. |
I am having trouble getting the Xorg-server to work on a new Gentoo install on an Acer Aspire One with integrated Intel graphics controllers. I had set the proper USE flags and VIDEO_CARDS settings in make.conf. I have also selected CONFIG_DRM_I915=m in my kernel, and previous attempts to set CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS=y has ... | It will not work without KMS. |
Good day, I have installed xorg and nvidia drivers. When i type X -config /root/xorg.conf.new , it doesn't start. Code: # grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 1055.562] (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0) [ 1055.563] (II) Loading extension M... | That's not the actual error, Nvidia doesn't need dri2. Post the full /var/log/Xorg.0.log but not directly here, use pastebin. But before that, replace your xorg.conf with just this, nothing else: Code: Section "Device" Identifier "Nvidia Card" Driver "nvidia" EndSection |
Hello everybody I recently just rebuilt my gentoo system from scratch. I installed gnome 3 using the instructions given in this link http://oleeekchoff.blogspot.com/2011/10/gnome-3-on-gentoo.html My problem is that I can boot up and log in fine but when I log in I get stuck with only the default background showing, not... | Hi cyberpirate, I installed Gnome-3.2 from yesterday to today. Its works! If a problem came up I used Code: lafilefixer --justfixit Code: python-updater Code: revdep-rebuild and I need in /etc/portage/package.keywords/ gnome3-more.keywords wrote: dev-lang/spidermonkey media-libs/gupnp-dlna net-wireless/wpa_supplicant x... |
I have installed Gentoo using System Rescue cd and now I would like to emerge LXDE. I keep getting this output: Total: 72 packages (72 new), Size of downloads: 126,753 kB The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: #required by x11-libs/pango-1.28.4, required by x11-libs/vte-0.28.2-r202, required by lxde-base/l... | To do what emerge is telling you, write the line Code: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask-write y" in /etc/make.conf. Accept when emerge want to change packages configuration. Before proceeding, you must update your configurations files with etc-update or dispatch-conf as emerge will tell you. You should have, I thing, ... |
Does anyone know how to get KDE to use Vuze for magnet urls? I have been looking around and everything seems to be gnome specific. | ~/.kde4/share/kde4/services/magnet.protocol Code: [Protocol] exec=vuze "%u" protocol=magnet input=none output=none helper=true listing=false reading=false writing=false makedir=false deleting=false |
Since I've installed KDE 4.7.4 had many problems, but most were resolved the same day. The one that remained is that I cannot change window decorations whatever theme I select in KDE settings. Effects seem to be disabled AND when I press logout or shutdown from menu the area of kicker menu becomes a black box . Does an... | Reads like you suffer from graphics issues. Did the last update pull in new versions of xorg-server/mesa/graphics-drivers? Which graphics card/driver do you use? |
I can no more login as root in systemsettings to save changes to the kde login screen after having upgraded to KDE 4.7.4. I am absolutemy certain I type the correct password. I even write in KATE and then did a copy-paste, without success. I get this message like the following (the first sentence is translated from fre... | So this topic has been seen 136 times but nobody has confirmed or informed this problem. Meanwhile, the upgrade from polkit 0.103 to 0.104-r1 has solved the problem. |
I installed X and gnome. Followed the instructions and everything is fine for now. When I start Gentoo, I see the login manager (the gui) and I can type my username and pass but when I log out, when I thought it would bring me back to my login manager, only to find out it brings me to the login as shell. I don't know h... | Not at home so I can`t tell you what I've done exactly but the problem is fixed. To my current knowledge i revised some steps in the gentoo xorg and gentoo gnome installation process after the packages were emerged and it seems to solve the problem. |
I see that KDE 4.8 is available. Doing the upgrade fails with kscreensaver: Quote: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- The following REQUIRED packages could NOT be located on your system. -- You must install these packages before continuing. ---------------------------------... | Solved. Looks like I compiled some of the KDE modules with opengl, some without. Setting the opengl USE flag in make.conf to compile everything with opengl solved the problem. |
Hi all. Can't seem to find the answer to this anywhere ... I use kde 4.7.4 but have firefox installed and - as many of you are aware - kmail is worthless at the moment, so I use thunderbird for email. Here's the problem: by default both thunderbird and firefox open file dialogues are set to show hidden files I want the... | You could try .config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini (if it exists) and toggle ShowHidden there, though I'm not sure if firefox follows it (it's sometimes hard to tell, what's gtk in firefox and what's not). |
Phonon keeps asking me if i would like to forget about the same 3 devices over and over again. I keep clicking yes and it keeps asking. Is there a way to remove devices from the list manually? | I've been having similar problems - it asks to lose my soundcards that I use. I've done both marked yes and also no several times - happens after a reboot it seems. Lately I've been having issues getting KDE4.6.1 to recognize my Delta 66 sound card at all. I have to reboot - then if the computer sleeps or something it ... |
I'm on gentoo x64 with a geforce 560 TI video cards, and every boot I must resetting the video-card (overscan compensation) from the nvidia control panel, because the desktop it's too large. This is my correct settings file Code: # # /home/cr4sh/.nvidia-settings-rc # # Configuration file for nvidia-settings - the NVIDI... | Looks like your EndSubSection is misplaced. Try the simpler: Code: Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Modes "1920x1080" Viewport 0 0 EndSubSection EndSection |
Hi, I'm installing Gentoo for the first time and have run into some trouble getting X to work. I used the most recent minimal install iso and did get a working (except for grub, to be solved later) base system. Now I followed the X server configuration howto in conjunction with the ATI faq and the wiki . With the latte... | God Of Atheism, Welcome to Gentoo Your Xorg.0.log file is truncated, it should end with the pointer, keyboard and other odds and ends being started and attached to the evdev driver. Going straight to fglrx is a little ambitions sometimes. Rename your xorg.conf to say aorg.conf_broken, so you can get it back later. Now ... |
Hi everyone! I use conky with the gmail.py script. I try to make the color of the number of my received mails change if this number is > 0. It means that if I have 0 mails in my inbox, the 0 should be white. If I have 1 or more mails in my inbox, this number have to be red. The color of the output is defined by conky. ... | It's exactly what I was looking for!!! Thank you mate!!! |
Has anyone managed to emerge the current version of Gnome stable? Running a clean install from a current Stage3 and Portage snapshot gets me ~20 packages from unstable (~x86) and three or four slot conflicts, including several versions of udev. I'd hoped to drop back to an earlier Gnome, but there seems to be only one ... | Weird, it shouldn't be picking up from ~ unstable. Do you have something in /etc/make.conf or /etc/portage/package.keywords ? I found Gnome builds much better when /etc/make.profile is linked to a Gnome profile. /etc/make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/gnome The generic desktop profil... |
I got a problem when updating world. There is gnome 3 update coming and there are blockers, slot conflicts and one licence issue. I have not been updating and using the PC much lately so I'm not sure how to sort this out. Any advice? Here is some log from the emerge issues: Code: [ebuild U ] dev-libs/totem-pl-parser-2.... | Nevermind folks. I think I'm going to be able to handle this after all. I started with unmerging gucharmap gnome etc. Then I removed the xorg-server from the portage.unmask file. Finally I added the oracle licence in the /etc/make.conf. it's just has been long time since I have been fiddling with Gentoo things. |
As the title says, the package net-libs/gnome-online-accounts-3.2.1 can not be built on my system while I'm trying to install gnome-3.2 (gnome-light actually). Snippet from compilation output: Code: >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/net-libs/gnome-online-accounts-3.2.1/work/gnome-online-accounts-3.2.1 ... make -... | gnome-online-accounts-3.2.1 is ~x86 and if you are installing gnome-light-3.2.1 it can not be used by its self it is only going to install basically gnome-base/gnome without any apps, If you want gnome 3.2 you will have better success with the gnome profile. |
After a recent update my Logitech MX Revolution mouse (cordless) has become so slow (laggy or jerky) that it is useless. I am using a corded USB mouse in its place. Over the past few days I have spent hours investigating the problem to no avail. Does anyone else have this problem? Some particulars on the problem system... | My first suspects would be xorg-server, xorg-drivers, evdev, or xf86-input-mouse, depending on what you're using. Can you determine if any of these were updated? If you need to find out which xorg drivers you're using, just do Code: qlist -IC x11-drivers/ This is why I want Portage to have an official log and rollback ... |
Hi, I'm using dev-lang/R-2.14.1 and have a few problems with it finding fonts for drawing graphs. When I attempt to draw a graph I'm told.... Code: Error in title(main = main, sub = sub, xlab = xlab, ylab = ylab, ...) : X11 font -adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, face 1 at size 12 could not be loaded So I opt... | Solved this by enabling the USE="cairo" option for dev-lang/R |
Hi, I just installed the great Gentoo, X and fluxbox. At the tty prompt, my keyboard is non-US (which is what I need), but once I startx the keyboard becomes US, despite the fact I changed my xorg.conf : Code: # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 290.10 (buildm... | mark1977, Welcome to Gentoo. You are very close ... Code: Section "InputClass" Identifier "UK keyboard" Driver "evdev" MatchIsKeyboard "on" Option "xkbmodel" "evdev" Option "xkblayout" "gb" # Option "xkbvariant" "deadgraveacute" # Option "xkbrules" "base" EndSection is what I have. Xorg will use the evdev driver now un... |
Gnome 3.2.1 upgrade BLOCK (gdm blocks gnome-control-center) I am fairly new to gentoo. When trying to upgrade from gnome-light-2.32.1-r1 to gnome-light-3.2.1, I get the following: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~ # emerge -pv gnome-base/gnome-light These are the pack... | it looks to me like the lower versions of some applications are blocking the updates. You should try Code: emerge -auvND world first and see if that works. The world update is a better way since it should catch everything you did not include by only specifying gnome-light. |
pcmanfm can navigate to computers running sshd using sftp under LXDE (requires gvfs). If I change the WM from open-box to icewm or switch to plain icewm from the LXDE login screen, sftp stops working in pcmanfm. The cause of the problem is in this file: /etc/lxdm/Xsession They have custom xsession launchers for fedora,... | I figured out how to create a custom /etc/lxdm/xinitrc that works with lxdm. Code: su -c "echo 'export XSESSION=\$1 > exec -l \$SHELL -c \". /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc\" > ' > /etc/lxdm/xinitrc" Make it executable: Code: su -c "chmod +x /etc/lxdm/xinitrc" Pass the DE/WM chosen to /etc/lxdm/xinitrc. Replace <. /etc/lxdm/xin... |
kget do not start. the error is Code: KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with a valid main component instead of a fake component, this usually means you tried to call i18n related functions before your main component was created. You should not do that since it most likely will not work "/u... | keivan wrote: What should I do to fix this? Did you delete the config file already? |
I have "flpsed" installed to annotate some ps and pdf files. It worked better on my previous system (even though the fonts were choppy and ugly but they scale correctly) After switching to a new system when I open ps or pdf file, the default font to write is 8pts (too small) when I select larger font 14 or 24pts. the f... | Solved. flpsed needs "FL_HELVETICA" font. Xorg does not install one. If I'm not mistaken: media-fonts/liberation-fonts has HELVETICA |
Hi, My conky is starting automatically in my X session (from kdm), yet neither Code: grep -R conky /home/user/ or Code: grep -R conky /etc/ or Code: updatedb && locate conky return any reason as to why it's starting (and yes, updatedb suceeds, and yes the last one is kind of unnecessary lol). I'm running KDE and it is ... | Try saving the session without conky, does it still appear? |
FIXED! new error is down: Hi, I installed Xorg using the guide but when I run startx it says: Code: hostname: Unknown host xauth: file /root/.serverauth.10965 does not exist X.Org X Server 1.11.2 Release Date: 2011-11-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 3.0.6-gentoo i686 Gentoo Current Op... | tomtomp, This sort of error is typically caused on second and subsequent builds of a kernel. The sequence of events goes something like this. You get a new kernel version for some reason, configure build and boot into it. Then you discover you have a bit missing. You reconfigure your kernel, rebuild it but mess up the ... |
Hello to everyone. I'm a newbie user of gentoo and my knowledge is limited but i would like to learn. I could configure and start kde 4.7, except kmail, akonadi and mysql.... I was emerging and unemerging that three programs, modifying their settings, trying to fix the problems, when i deleted manually the completly co... | Is there anything interesting in /var/log/kdm.log? Try this: Code: startx Code: kwin That should at least give you a GUI. |
Hello. I tried to install kmail on my gentoo. Was installed without problems, but when i tried to execute it, I found the next problems that don't allow its use. 1- MySQL server log contains errors 2- MySQL server custom configuration not available 3- Akonadi control process not registered at D-Bus 4- Akonadi server pr... | akonadi-server and qt-sql must be installed with USE="mysql" enabled. Test 1 tells me: Code: Database driver not found. Details: The QtSQL driver 'QMYSQL' is required by your current Akonadi server configuration. The following drivers are installed: QSQLITE, QSQLITE3. Make sure the required driver is installed. you do ... |
Hi I can't get my Nvidia GT 440 (developed by ASUS) to run on my computer, however, the 2012 livedvd have no issues. I've followed three different guides and compiled the kernel multiple times with these different settings and none seem to work. The error I get, when starting Xorg is: Code: X.Org X Server 1.11.2 Releas... | Replace your xorg.conf with just these lines: Code: Section "Device" Identifier "Nvidia Card" Driver "nvidia" EndSection Also run "eselect opengl set nvidia" and check with "eselect opengl list" that it is actually set to nvidia. |
Hello to everyone. Code: Linux gent 3.1.6-gentoo #1 Fri Dec 30 16:32:44 MSK 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 540 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux I upgraded to KDE 4.7.4 and now DE is very unstable and quite unusable. First of all, application list is empty in Kicker menu: Faves, Computer and other tabs are popul... | As a normal user, run Code: kbuildsycoca4 If it still does not show any applications, run Code: kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental to recreate the cache from scratch. Did you logout after upgrading kde? Tried to restart kdm? Code: /etc/init.d/xdm restart Did you remove all panels from your desktop? If the menu opens on top,... |
Hello, First, here is some general background. Skip below to SYMPTOMS for my exact issue: I’m in the process of setting up my first Gentoo install. So far I am really enjoying the system, mainly because of how BSD-like it is. I have some general un*x and Linux background, but I have been out of the FOSS scene for sever... | meursalt wrote: Hello, First, here is some general background. Skip below to SYMPTOMS for my exact issue: I’m in the process of setting up my first Gentoo install. So far I am really enjoying the system, mainly because of how BSD-like it is. I have some general un*x and Linux background, but I have been out of the FOSS... |
Hi! Everytime I try to list my KDE PIM contacts using kabcclient (kabcclient -L), I get an error similar to this: Code: kabcclient(7035)/kio (KDirWatch) KDirWatchPrivate::removeEntry: doesn't know "/home/david/.kde4/share/apps/kabc" Any hints will be appreciated. | I found the problem: I hadn't set up an Akonadi resource for contacts in System Settings->Personal Information Manager . After doing it, kabcclient works as expected. |
Hi Folks Tonight's install of thunderbird failed... Code: * ERROR: mail-client/thunderbird-9.0 failed (install phase): * failed to cp thunderbird-gentoo-default-prefs.js * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 75: Called src_install * environment, line 6336: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * cp "${FILESDIR}"/thund... | I have already addressed this in the tree, sorry for the inconvenience. |
Hello All, I've decided to switch from XFCE to LXDE and un-emerged XFCE but every time when I trying to do: Code: emerge -avuD world my system tries to install: Code: [ebuild N ] xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.8.2 USE="-debug" 0 kB [ebuild N ] xfce-base/xfconf-4.8.0 USE="-debug -perl" 0 kB [ebuild N ] xfce-base/garcon-0.1.9 ... | Try this to see what pulls that xfce related packages: Code: emerge -avuDt world Also after removing xfce did you run "emerge -vp" --depclean" to remove obsolete packages? Be careful before running this command and be sure it does not remove important packages like gcc, python or something like that: Code: emerge -vp -... |
First of all, Happy New Year to everyone. I use a mostly stable and up-to-date amd64 box (just a few ~amd64 scientific packages). I'm trying to get digikam-2.x{3,4,5} to scan my photo collection for faces, but even with a small folder it crashes all of the time: Code: $ digikam QSqlDatabasePrivate::removeDatabase: conn... | I solved the issue. To make a long story short, I usually have two terminal sessions open: one for my laptop, another one for my lab box (through ssh). It seems I made a mistake and activated the sse3 and ssse3 USE flags on the wrong terminal, which in turn compiled into my laptop's opencv package. After removing sse3 ... |
Chromium 16.0.912.63 won't take any extensions. Nothing happens. No extensions are installed. I'm using the Chrome Web Store to get these extensions. I'm coming from Chrome on Windows where this sort of thing just worked. Can it be as easy with Chromium? emerge --info | Most likely upstream is broken: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=108812 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=108747 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=108559 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=108440 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=10799... |
After an "emerge update world" I dont have a keyboard or mouse under X11. Screen looks nice, so graphics is OK. Xorg.0.log gives: Code: [ 2314.518] X.Org X Server 1.11.2 Release Date: 2011-11-04 [ 2314.521] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 2314.523] Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 x86_64 Gentoo [ 2314... | Quote: Did you also re-emerge x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev? AFAIK, xorg-drivers is just a meta-package and re-emerging only it isn't enough in this case. AFAIK I didn't. I ran an "--update system", then "--update --deep system" then the same for world and thought that would solve such things. But if I "emerge --search ... |
I tried to switch from gdm to lightdm, but when I start a fluxbox session with lightdm, network manager and gnome do stop working. Basically anything using dbus is broken. This is what I get from gnome do: Code: [Error 23:51:22.816] [SystemService] Could not initialize dbus: Unable to open the session message bus. [Err... | That was a GDM and LightDM not playing nicely together - https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397391 . Removing GDM solves the issue. |
Just finished my first complete Gentoo install with Kde! Much smoother than the first install (base only). My computer boots much faster than ms windows or any other Linux dist, and I have tried them all. My problem now is that my root password does not work with su in Konsole. I was using the same password all through... | Figured it out. I had to add myself to wheel Thanks |
I had to install xterm to be able to compile in codeblocks. With the installation followed the packages font-alias and font-misc-misc . My desktop used to look like this: http://mushroom-kingdom.no-ip.org/images/battlestation_desktop_screenshot.png Now my conky looks like this: http://mushroom-kingdom.no-ip.org/images/... | Solved. It was a conky config issue apparently. The config was affected be the new font packages in some way. By changing the "xftfont" in the config to just "font" restored conky to the previous look. |
Hi there! I can't run Xorg with Nouveau. I use gentoo-sources without proprietary BLOBs (gentoo-libre). http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Free_your_Gentoo /var/log/Xorg.0.log: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/525752/ /usr/src/linux/.config: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/525746/ lspci: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/525747/ emerge -... | n2k, Welcome to Gentoo. Code: [ 628.006] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 [ 628.044] drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0 [ 628.044] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 [ 628.049] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1 Tells that your kernel is missing Direct Rendering Support. Under C... |
So I just finished emerging Xorg, and I get these errors when I startx: Code: Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X Server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. If you continue to encounter problems, Please try reinstalling the NVIDIA... | Quote: Code: (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0) AFAIK it will not go away and is nothing to worry about. thats just how it is with nvidia card. i have the same in my xorg log. edit: X does work, right? you just have error in log file?... |
I'm trying to set the Plasma theme to the traditional dark one, but I can't remember how to go about this. I've emerged kdebase-startkde. | SOLUTION: It's buried in the settings somewhere, can't remember off the top of my head because I went back to Xfce4. |
So I'm using KDE 4.7.95 and Qt 4.8. All was running well until I don't know what happened. I was getting a crash from ark so I was just recompiling the necessary packages (including qt-core) with the -ggdb cflag so that a meaningful backtrace could be produced . But after that some of the KDE applications like ksysguar... | This missing constructor is ifdefd out Code: #ifdef QT3_SUPPORT /*! \fn QDataStream::QDataStream(QByteArray *array, int mode) \compat Constructs a data stream that operates on the given \a array. The \a mode specifies how the byte array is to be used, and is usually either QIODevice::ReadOnly or QIODevice::WriteOnly. *... |
Hello. I just updated to kernel 3.0.6 from 2.6.39, and the strangest thing is happening. The first time I booted, I got that error when you are passing something illegal to the kernel regarding your frame buffer -- you know the one -- says "Hit space to continue or return to see modes" or something like that. If you hi... | If you can (that is if you use xf86-video-ati), drop uvesafb in favor of kms. |
I have been trying to install Gnome-3.2.1 on a test machine all day. I have managed to solve most if not all the problems. Now I am at a point (19 packages left to install or upgrade) where I can go no further and can't complete the upgrade because pulseaudio fails to build constantly. Code: Emerging (1 of 19) media-so... | The problem is this: Code: groupadd: cannot lock /etc/gshadow; try again later. Something else has a lock on it (or much more likely,. something HAD a lock and left a stale lockfile) . You should see a /etc/gshadow.lock file, it may contain a PID. Verify the file is stale, and if so, delete the lockfile manually |
Hi, I use urxvt and have set urxvt*font and urxvt*boldFont to the same string. Also, urxvt*foreground is set to yellow3. Unfortunately, normal text and bold text are not distinguishable, because they are displayed in the same color. This behavior is different in e.g. xterm or pterm. I'd like to set the color of bold fo... | hmm, i already found the answer myself. Code: urxvt*colorBD |
I have a fujitsu lifebook p1610 running gentoo that I recently updated after leaving it for a long time. Many things about X seem to have changed since I originally set up this computer (evdev, etc.) and I switched to the new way of doing things; everything is working except the touchscreen. But reverting to my old con... | 1. Get inputattach utility installed, you may have to google for it and compile it manually (it's just one .c file). This is the program that tells linux to start using input from a serial device. Inputattach stays loaded the entire time your device is in use, but doesn't actually do anything after it's started (it's j... |
I need Chinese input support so I have ibus, ibus-table, ibus-pinyin installed and working well in XFCE4. This gives me pinyin chinese input. However, i also need the cangjie tables to allow the "Quick" input method - can't live without it! Any ideas anyone? However, when i try to install ibus-table-cangjie i get the f... | Trivial to solve! app-i18n/ibus-table-cangjie-1.2.0.20100305 requires app-i18n/ibus-table-1.2.0.20100111 (no higher!) If you need cangjie make sure you mask >=app-i18n/ibus-table-1.3.0.20100621 Code: echo ">=app-i18n/ibus-table-1.3.0.20100621" >> /etc/portage/package.mask |
I managed to make some progress on this issue, please see the following post in this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6911136.html#6911136 | Yes, that works for me too (partially tough). I don't know how your system-auth file looks like (did you modify it?), but some modules are not working: - pam_ssh won't unlock my ssh-keys - pam_gnome_keyring won't unlock my gnome-keyring - pam_tallylog2 or pam_lastlog won't work, because the 'w' command won't show my na... |
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