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Hi, I am struggling with xfce + proper shutdown for days now but I still got no working solution. As described in different other posts before, the shutdown and reboot buttons remain grey in the logout popup. Regretfully non of the previous posts solved my problem. I already: - upgraded the xfdesktop version from 4.8.2... | The one thing I know of that causes this is not having PAM installed - consolekit and everything that uses it will just silently break if that's the case. |
Hi there, I've just setup a new system and trying to get this ******* X server to work. I'm trying for 2 days now to get anything on the screen, but it stays just black after I've issued startx . When I was installing my last machine with a GeForce, I remember I was using the nvidia driver some years ago, but this time... | did you emerge a desktop to run ? Look at NeddySeagoon advice (one in the code tag) : https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6825556.html#6825556 |
I have 2 GTK applications that freezes under KDE: gitg and nevimer. Firefox never showed that, neither did meld. This happened under KDE 4.6.5 and now under KDE 4.7.1. I used nevimer to attach to a running process. It seems it was waiting for poll(). CPU usage is low though. Any clue what could be wrong? Thanks. Code: ... | Have you tried the basic revdep-rebuild and rebuilding these two programs? |
Hi, is there any way to change keyboard layout (like us,cz...) in fluxbox by shortcut? I was searching in google but didnt find anything :S . Thanx for help | You merge setxkbmap and then be able to change keyboard layout with something like `setxkbmap cz' etc. Afaik, I don't know if there's an applet like pkg that you could merge and combine it with a panel? Is that you want? |
EDIT: Fixed: the problem was caused by a bad -march CFLAG. I can't get to a KDE desktop at all after a recent upgrade. The usual tricks aren't working. See below for what I have tried already and what the symptoms are: Unusual setup: This is an old machine with an Intel 82845G graphics cards. That card has been almost ... | Your initial problem, hang on the last icon in the KDE startup panel, has been affecting several people for some time, including me. Many things have been fingered as the cause (see this forum thread for some of them). Another, and it looks relevant to your listing, is that you appear to have a DBUS problem. (a) check ... |
Hello! I emerged KDE 4.6.5. on clean Gentoo and it looks not so good . Here's image: http://i51.tinypic.com/2mopi4n.jpg . However Fluxbox works fine. My graphic cars is Intel integrated graphics X4500, but it's possible to run KDE on this card because Gentoo 11.2 LiveDVD runs properly, without any problems. My question... | I've seen something similar once, but it must have been a graphics driver problem. Also Intel GMA4500MHD |
Today after a regular sync I upgraded Qt (several x11-libs/qt-* packages) from 4.5.1 to 4.5.3. After new login to KDE (4.3.1) I've noticed that Konsole is extremely slow when redrawing its text window. The observations are as follows: In Konsole, it takes 1-2 seconds (!) just to switch from one tab to another. Redraw i... | I'd suggest updating kde to 4.3.3. It should go stable in a few weeks time anyway. |
Hi all, I am new to libreoffice base, so I decided to ask you an advice. I want to create, in a query, a new column with cumulative sum such as: A SUM 1 1 2 3 3 7 Could you help me? Thanks | Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Desktop Environments. Not about Gentoo so it fits better here (I think ). - John |
Hello people of Gentoo; I'm kind of a Gentoo noob, I've been using Gentoo for just about 3 months now. I love it, the system is much, much faster than Ubuntu, and it only takes 8 seconds to get to the login screen on my Samsung NC10 netbook (Ubuntu 10.10 takes 30 seconds and Win7 26 seconds). I am now running an XFCE 4... | I have that issue after... having another more annoying one ( topic 896532 ). The compose option was the culprit with another one that I don't remember anymore for not having a functional/active keyboard/mouse when using slim/elsa (e17 login manager), but now after removing compose and that other option, keyboard/mouse... |
Hi, I copied my conky config from my other linux installation (linux mint) but when I try to run it : Code: Conky: /etc/conky/conky.conf: 2: no such configuration: 'font' Conky: /etc/conky/conky.conf: 3: no such configuration: 'xftfont' Conky: /etc/conky/conky.conf: 4: no such configuration: 'use_xft' Conky: /etc/conky... | Make sure "X" is enabled in your USE flags possible USE flags are: Code: IUSE="apcupsd audacious curl debug eve hddtemp imlib iostats lua lua-cairo lua-imlib math moc mpd nano-syntax ncurses nvidia +portmon rss thinkpad truetype vim-syntax weather-metar weather-xoap wifi X xmms2" Just paste the output of "emerge -pv co... |
HI all, since a few days, after some upgrades (among which kdebase-meta-4.4.3, poppler stuff and okular-4.4.3), I can't open pdf no more. I usually use Okular, but i also try with Evince and the result is the same. Here is the output launching okular from command line (root or normal user doesn't change at all): Code: ... | And that flag really doesn't make sense. |
Hi folks, I disabled the security check window that pops up before you can delete a file in dolphin. How do I get that setting back? I'm using KDE-4.7.2 In what configuration file is it hidden? Any clues? Thanks! Markus | In Settings -> Configure Dolphin -> General -> Ask For Confirmation When. |
EDIT: This issue is solved. I switched to the Open Source driver (xf86-video-ati). The latest prop fglrx driver seems not to work for AMD Fusion AGP. Hello, I just finished my Linux emerging (KDE etc) including ati-drivers, radeon-ucode (HD6130), custom kernel with radeon firmware, framebuffer support turned off, KMS m... | startx is a frontend to xinit which will run /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (the twm and some xterms) or the contents of ~/.xinitrc if exists. To start kde with startx put "exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startkde" in ~/.xinitrc. |
Last night I did an update which updated VTE. Now whenever I open gnome-terminal I get the following message Code: *** VTE ***: Failed to load terminal capabilities from '/etc/termcap' While I can still type in the terminal I can't use the enter key, which makes the terminal pretty useless. Anyone know whats wrong? Tha... | Yeah that fixed it for me. Wish I didn't have to do that though :\ |
Hello, I've successful installed GNOME 3.2 using layman and gnome portage over lay, and could login into GNOME by GDM. But sometimes I prefer login into terminal first, and start GNOME using traditional startx command. So I followed the instruction of this article, add the following lines to my ~/.xinitrc and chmod it ... | OK, I found that I should simply link ~/.xinitrc from /etc/X11/Session/GNOME and everything will work. |
Hi all, I have an odd behaviour of my dual-screen setup. I'm using Gnome 2.31.1. I did not edit xorg.conf. Instead I'm just using gnome-display-properties.I have no special graphics card. I'm using the integrated one of my Intel core i5 2500k - CPU. That is Intel GMA with i915 kernel driver. One Monitor is connected ov... | I could solve this problem by upgrading to the testing version x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.16.0 |
Hi, I just had seemingly fixed my nvidia problem with xorg-server-1.11.1... however the latest emerge -avuDN world downgraded to xorg-server-10.4 and now I cannot run X (or KDE)... I'm not typing from my fallen computer, so please bear with me... After reinstalling synaptics, evdev, etc., I ran revdep-rebuild and resta... | reemerge x11-base/xorg-drivers and the output of qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ |
nepomuk / strigi takes 125% CPU on my machine and indexes about 1 txt-file(mail) per half hour. Any ideas where to start looking ? | After some research I decided to delete the virtuoso database and index files and let strigi recreate them. Now everything seems fine, although I think that deleting the data every 2nd or 3rd update can not be called a solution. Anyway I mark this thread as solved. |
I have moved my hard disk from GM45 platform to another PC which is QM67 platform. and the graphic is CPU integrited. When I try to start X by using GDM or Xstart, the hole system hangs. The kernel is rebuilded. I have rebuild xf86-video-intel and mesa, but it doesn't help. What need I do with the system if I updated t... | clouds222 wrote: What need I do with the system if I updated the chipset platform. It could be helpful if you could give us some information on the errors. Maybe the output of the command 'lspci | grep VGA' and what is the error in /var/log/Xorg.0.log Cheers! |
I have finished installing 343 files out of 360 only 17 files left. But then installation fails with error status. Even then I can start gnome successfully except that the APPLICATIONS BAR contains no items and doesnt pop-down and some other utilities in Administration, Preference are not working. However I can access ... | zacinfinite wrote: I realized that gentoo is trying to install : net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.20 #ebuild fails because this i masked for amd64 what is needed to be installed is : net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.17 #not masked for amd64 Please tell me how can i emerge net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.17 ? Try ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" rathe... |
Hi All; I am trying to install KDE in my gentoo box. I have already installed gnome. When I run emerge --pretend kde-meta I get the following response: [ebuild N ] sci-mathematics/gmm-3.1 [ebuild N ] dev-util/automoc-0.9.88 [ebuild N ] x11-libs/qt-test-4.7.2 USE="exceptions iconv (-aqua) -debug -pch" [ebuild N ] x11-li... | Code: #echo "x11-libs/qt-qt3support kde" >> /etc/portage/package.use or put it in make.conf Code: #euse -E kde |
I just upgraded to KDE 4.7.0 and decided to try KMail 2. It fails to start with the following error message: Code: KMail encountered a fatal error and will terminate now. The error was: Failed to fetch the resource collection. I went into SystemSettings and found what appeared to be akonadi resources under Personal Inf... | I started Akonadi Console as you described, and eventually found the Mail Dir folder setting that was not initialized and set it up. I restarted Akonadi and then KMail started. Seems like they have some improving to do in porting settings from KMail -1, though. |
I'm sorry for the vague description, I'm just not sure how else to briefly describe it. Lets take GIMP for example. When I open GIMP, it opens two windows, a blank main window that is used for image manipulation, and the toolbox. The problem is, the two windows are maximized to each half of the screen. I know this is a... | Try creating a new user account, then login as that user - check if this has the same problems. This should confirm if its your personal configs or something to do with the install. If the problem does go away in the new account, then its probably something under ~/.kde4 in your usual account. Possibly ~/.kde4/share/co... |
Very odd problem - I've been trying to pin it down but its defeating me. General symptom: When closing the last Terminal window in an xfce4 session, a Terminal task hangs around consuming 100% CPU. Also seen when logging out, in this case xfce-session hangs around using 100% cpu. It doesn't seem to be a xfce4 problem, ... | Big post - lots of data! frozenQueue wrote: Most likely your problem is a bug in xfce's Terminal program (I assume that is what you are referring to when you say "last Terminal window") or some related library or service. I suggest going to xfce bug archives and scouring their database for anything related: https://bug... |
Here's a tail of the emerge log:- Code: CCLD liblauncher.la make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.8.3/work/xfce4-panel-4.8.3/plugins/launcher' make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.8.3/work/xfce4-panel-4.8.3/plugins/launcher' Making all in pager make[3]: Ent... | Try running Code: lafilefixer --justfixit The problem seems to stem from an .la file. |
The full title I wanted was how do you stop conky disappearing from the gnome desktop after the first mouseclick? I've searched and tried the various "solutions" but they don't work for me. Current configuration is Code: alignment top_right background yes border_width 1 cpu_avg_samples 2 default_color black default_out... | Trog Dog wrote: The full title I wanted was how do you stop conky disappearing from the gnome desktop after the first mouseclick? I've searched and tried the various "solutions" but they don't work for me. I am using fvwm myself, so I do not know about the particulars of gnome. In any case: - What solutions have you tr... |
I'm having issues with TeamSpeak 2, recently I've been using TEam Speak 2 using the aoss switch, I can hear my friends, but they can't hear me, and nobody seems to have an answer anyway, I seem one similar, where this person can hear his friends, but he can't hear them, and there was no solution, my onboard sound card ... | you can hear them they cannot hear you -> and your microphone is open (the material) and the mic line is open (the mixer mic) and you're recording line is set to microphone ? https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6524040.html#6524040 (enjoy my ascii arts skills) |
Hello All ! I have emerged vmware-player try to run and receive next error Code: *** glibc detected *** /opt/vmware/bin/vmplayer: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x08181440 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6(+0x67e71)[0xb76ffe71] /lib/libc.so.6(+0x6ab05)[0xb7702b05] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_calloc+0xab)[0xb7703d... | Problem was solved by reemerging dependence libraries and removing old ones. |
Hi, I've a Dell Latitude E6520 notebook with Nvidia 4200M card, since a couple of days ago I was using it in dual monitor conf with an external Dell U2711 monitor. The external monitor support up to 2560 x 1440 resolution, but since I was using a VGA cable I could reach only 2048 x 1152. Everything was working fine on ... | If could be useful to someone, I solved upgrading nvidia-drivers to 285.03 version. Seems that stable version at the moment (275.09.07) doesn't support display port for my card. |
Hi all, I just installed google-chrome, being tired compiling chromium over and over again ... and lo and behold: Code: $ google-chrome /usr/bin/google-chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory i tried both, the stable and the beta channel .. ... | Try this for solution: Code: emerge -1 libpng:1.2 And no, I don't know how you managed to delete libpng12.so.0 |
I have emerged gnome-mplayer 1.0.4 and have found changes to Preferences do not persist between sessions of the program. I have extensively googled this problem and have come to no solution. I would be appreciative if someone could give me help troubleshooting... Sorry I could not give more information but I do not kno... | Start gnome-mplayer from a terminal, and copy the output mplayer produces in the terminal. Do this both before and after changing your prefs. |
/etc/X11/xorg.conf when I note AutoAddDevices false with #, x will recognise the touchpad, the vertical scroll will work, but keyboard will not work. In the Xorg.0.log , I found the message,"hotplugin is on , devices with driver kbd ,mouse will be disabled", so what driver should my keyborad have? Then I delete the # b... | ...or simply rename your own to come after the one installed by the driver. Also, barring special needs, disabling hotplug is rarely the correct solution. |
I've only recently set up my gentoo installation and now I'm trying to get kde to install. We have worked in a previous thread to get X working and since we are at a loss for how to get it to work with fglrx I've decided to just get it working with vesa. When I do emerge -av kde-meta I get the error: Code: * IMPORTANT:... | this helped me when installing gentoo adding this line to make.conf Code: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" i found a whole system with that was better than adding it to individual packages. i have the kde overlay installed and Code: emerge -pv qt-gui [ebuild R ] x11-libs/qt-gui-4.7.4 USE="accessibility dbus exceptions glib mng q... |
Whenver running xpdf, I get this error message, and do not get an xpdf window: Code: aaron@h4x0r ~ $ xpdf PayStat_1265381308566.pdf Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Cannot convert string "-efont-biwidth-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, -gnu-unifont-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-p-*-*-*, ... | Even if the fonts are installed, the thing is that Xpdf is an old style Xt app, so it needs the fonts loaded by the xserver. Check that you have media-fonts/font-misc-misc installed, it can be handy for those Xt apps. You should definitely have media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi In xorg.conf , S... |
Hello, I have the following problem. I'm running X with openbox and some custom apps (nothing too fancy). On openbox start a command: Code: setxkbmap -layout "us,cz" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle" And I can toggle keyboard from us to cz just fine, but when I leave the computer for some time (for example 2-12 hours) and... | I know I lose similar settings for my usb keyboard when I unplug it and plug it again, may be your keyboard is put into sleep or something while you're away? May be disable your screensaver/locker just to see? |
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf", line 25: not well-formed (invalid token) I don't know where the error is. Can somebody give me your 65-nonlatin.conf. Code: 001 <?xml version="1.0"?> 002 <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> 003 <fontconfig> 004 <alias> 005 <family>serif</family> 006 <prefer> ... | Just try xmllint on it - with xml you need to be very careful, though it's probably something as simple as putting an opening tag instead of a closing one or vice-versa. |
Hello I am running 64bit and gust finished a band new instalation. I had ssh working before but now I keep getting this dumb ass error code when I try to ssh into my old box to restore my backups. I checked my passwd fil And made sure root was inthere I have reinstalled openssh and I just rebuilt the hole system over u... | It means there is something wrong with UID that is supposed to correspond to your username. |
I have set Option "TapButton1 " "1" in the 50-synaptics.conf But it doesn't work.So I have to run #synclient TapButton1=1 each time after reboot. And how to solve the warning and errors in the Xorg.0.log? I need your help,thank you! Code: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf Section "InputClass" Identifier "tou... | First, remove those InputDevice sections and InputDevice lines from xorg.conf, as they're redundant. Then check the touchpad with xinput if you are setting the correct property. |
I've installed xorg-server, udev, and ati-drivers. I can startx and get a blank screen and no mouse. I've looked at xorg.conf ( http://paste.pocoo.org/show/479630 ) and it does not have anything for input device. I've tried to run Xorg -configure but it reports: Code: List of video drivers fglrx No devices to configure... | Zapping requires 'terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp' in XkbOptions - just add that to a separate conf snippet and there'll be no need for '-retro'. |
[bug=][/bug]A mistake occurred in my xorg.conf , now in the gnome my keyboard can't work, I can't log in and do anything. But I don't have a LiveCD.How to boot the system into the command line, for example pressing some keys at boot time, so I can fix the xorg.cong. | dunno if appending "init=/bin/sh" to the command line would work but yeah, have you tried ALT+SysRq+K in order to kill X? What about CTRL+ALT+F1? Other than that, if you happen to have: Code: RC_INTERACTIVE="yes" in /etc/conf.d/rc, then you should be given the option to press "I" during the init process and interactive... |
I was wondering, I typed in emerge kdebase-meta and kde-meta, without the and obviously, but I am not sure it got both, would it have, or does emerge only support kdebase-meta only, and then later I can emerge kde-meta? Just out of curiousity here, I know it got kdebase-meta, but as I was watching output, I didn't noti... | kde-meta is a superset of kdebase-meta. You can install the first, then later the second, decide it's too much and remove the second and an "emerge --depclean" will bring your install back down to size. This is possible because the meta- packages install nothing themselves: they just list dependencies. - John |
I'm getting an eror when running rc-update add xdm default, saying service "xdm" does not exist, I"m trying to get kdm to load, so I can make sure my KDE is working properly, now since that doesn't work properly, not even sure if KDE is working properly, anybody know anything about this? | If it does not exist installing it may help. |
Hi there, we´r back in town and... on Gentoo...... Some problems while emerging gnome, using hardened, see log, any help or ideas? greetz to ya all Code: # emerge --info =dev-games/ggz-client-libs-0.0.14.1 Portage 2.1.10.19 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ====================... | mark_alec wrote: I can't seem to see the log hehehehe, well yes.. silly me, copy and paste and wrong, sigh ^^ second try with - USE=" -debug" lets see and wait what it will end to ... ^^ |
After doing an emerge --sync and emerge -u world i get this error on compiz-plugins-extra.0.9.2 Code: # emerge -u world Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Starting parallel fetch >>> Emerging (1 of 6) x11-plugins/compiz-plugins-extra-0.9.2 from desktop-effects * compiz-plugins-extra-0.... | Found that compiz & emerald were compiling from a layman, so deleted the layman "desktop-effects" (layman -d desktop-effects), and emerged world (emerge -uDavN world) |
Hi, I have some problems with the rendering of hangul and other asian fonts in different applications. Mostly the font anti-aliasing starts only working, if the font size is very big. Some examples: chromium on this page, http://www.bodnara.co.kr/bbs/article.html?imode=view&D=7&cate=18&d_category=10&num=85437 font aa o... | You have to turn it on for those sizes. I believe it's turned off because the AA will start smudging away the more complex characters (in Hanzi/Kanji/etc.). Anyway, I have this in my /etc/fonts/local.conf Code: <fontconfig> <match target="font"> <edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign"> <bool>false</bool> </edit> <edi... |
I have a DELL D630 Laptop at my left and HP LA1905 External monitor Monitor at my right. When i set NVIDIA X Server Setting to Twin View and Make HP LA1905 External monitor as Primary doesn't work only Laptop Monitor is Primary. The strange thing is that when i have HP External Monitor at my left and Laptop Monitor at ... | enable Xinerama ... |
I recently emerged several applications, after which I was informed certain config files needed updating. After looking through the emerge manpage (as directed) I ran etc-update. I then decided to run to let it automerge all files (-3 option) thinking it would be safe . This is a mistake I will not make twice! First I ... | Go ahead and post emerge --info Also what version of openrc; emerge -pv openrc |
hello , i recently did a reinstall of the root directory. before this i had two monitors set up as one X session when i maximied a window it would open on ONLY the one screen. after the install it now streches my windows across two screens can some one help me restore it back to the way it was. here is my Xconf i know ... | check you have xinerama in your use flag |
I followed the handbook instructions and now I have a gentoo installation which seems to work perfectly. Now I want to install KDE (my eselect profile list is set to KDE) and I'm following the Xorg guide but I can't find hald file in my /etc/init.d path. Does this mean that I have compiled kernel incorrectly and I have... | That i915 error looks like the i915 module and/or i915 mode setting by default is missing from the kernel. Check you kernel and recompile if necessary. My two cents, Its worth it to go right to 4.6 so you don't need to get rid of hal later. |
gnome 2.32.1 problem if i minimize a window it does not show in lower panel. my lower panel only shows the four workspaces. how can i make the panel show minimized windows ? | Does re-emerging gnome-panel fix the problem? |
For some reason, nautilus won't open ftp connections. It just sits as if it's attempting to connect and nothing happens. I've checked with gftp and even from the console, so I know it's nautilus that's the problem. I even had vsftpd installed locally on my machine as well so that I could check if it would connect local... | Hi, Thanks for the reply. Yes my system was up-to-date, no problems with depclean or revdep-rebuild. Noticed in the bug report about emerging dconf, which is what I've just done, and logged out and back in again, and now it seems to be fine. It asked me for login info, which it wasn't doing before. So I think we can sa... |
Plugging in the USB stick., it automounts fine. Then when I go to "Computer", open it, click on the USB stick, then select "Safely Remove", it seems to do it. The Icon disappears, but I get an error window with this message: Quote: Error detaching: helper exited with exit code 1: Detaching device /dev/sdd USB device: /... | Tony0945 wrote: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/474403/ Because this is wrong: # CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME is not set Also CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND is missing, causing the warning. This is actually a notification when you emerge sys-fs/udisks, and it tells you to enable it. You propably just missed the notification. |
Hi. I'm having proplems with rxvt-unicode: while typing, or through command completion, or by repeating an older command through cursor keys, the actual content is not or only partially redrawn, it is either black or simply filled white boxes (from my boxed cursor). I found this https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=... | gw wrote: I'm having proplems with rxvt-unicode: while typing, or through command completion, or by repeating an older command through cursor keys, the actual content is not or only partially redrawn, it is either black or simply filled white boxes (from my boxed cursor). I know this is not really a fix, but I don't se... |
Hello. How can I set hotkey for run Konsole? | What do you like to achieve? being able to use some kotkey combo to launch konsole? if yes, then I'd do the following (using KDE): right-klick the KDE menu select Menu Editor navigate to System -> Konsole switch to Advanced tab set the shotcut don't forget to save V. |
hello folks i try to configure xorg server,but i take "configuration failed" pls tell me if you want to give you more info,... #Xorg -configure Code: X.Org X Server 1.10.4 Release Date: 2011-08-19 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 i686 Gentoo Current Operating System: Linu... | Do you still have those odd module insertion problems ? You probably should turn CONFIG_FB_VESA off. Other than that, check dmesg for anything of interest. |
I've searched around and spent many hours trying to resolve this issue with no avail. Here's the problem: Recently, after updating some software (GTK was the only software updated that MIGHT pertain to the problem), I noticed that the GNOME panel spanned both monitors. Previously, this was not the case - it would sit q... | I've been running TwinView for years. You don't want to enable Xinerama in your xorg.conf because TwinView will handle that for you. But you DO want to add the xinerama USE flag to your make.conf (note the lower-case "x") and do an emerge -uDN world (or whatever). But it sounds like you've done this. Quote: Xinerama (n... |
For the past 5 or 6 days, i have been having a problem with my Touchpad on my Asus 1215N EeePC. For some reason, my cursor will work perfectly fine, then for no reason it will freeze up when the track pad will not work correctly. The courser will jump around the screen and move in strange directions. When i am on a web... | Hello Dear, Check all settings of Touch Pad may be something are disabled......... (I hope solve your problem) |
I am running GNOME on an amd64 system on a Thinkpad T61p. I can adjust the LCD brightness by writing "up," "down," or "level X" to /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness (as root), and I can adjust it with the slider in the System->Preferences->Power Management (as a regular user). However, when I press <Fn>+<Home> to increase the ... | acpid is just the daemon that captures ACPI events (as for example emitted by some keys). What do you do with those events are up to configuration files and, perhaps, your programming. Even without acpid some other software may be capturing acpi events. depending on platform, brightness keys (which would generate acpi ... |
Relevant lines from Xorg.log: Quote: [ 246.559] (II) LoadModule: "evdev" [ 246.560] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so [ 246.563] (II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [ 246.563] compiled for 1.9.5, module version = 2.6.0 [ 246.563] Module class: X.Org XInput Driver [ 246.563] ABI class: X.O... | Xorg does an internal check that the OS doesn't (dynamic linker). They probably did this because they tend to do minute API changes that aren't ELF linkable (like saying passing a 2 means delete this window, and 1 means to create; and then the next version they swapped the meaning of the two arguments). This can't be d... |
Using kmail 1.13.7 under kde 4.6.5 Since yesterday whenever I try to open kmail, I get a message telling : - Personal Information Management Service is starting. After some time, it get replaced by the following message : - The Akonadi personal Information Management service is not operational. And I cannot get access ... | tomtom69 wrote: typing "akonadictl start" gave some error messages because of mysql driver, but AFAIK the standard database driver in KDE4.6.5 is SQLITE. So I changed within the ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc driver settings: Driver=QSQLITE (The driver was set to QMYSQL before). I don't know why the setting was chan... |
Until boost 1.46.1-r1 went stable, I was using boost 1.42.0-r2. Since I upgraded to boost 1.46.1-r1, and emerged --depclean which deleted the 1.42.0-r2 package, akonadi refuses to start : Code: acoswt@PrimaPratica ~ $ akonadictl start akonadictl: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_program_options-mt-1_42.so... | revdep-rebuild ? Perhaps it's an indirect dep, so rebuilding akonadi didn't make a difference. |
Hello! My KDE does not recognize CDs and DVDs. How can I solve the problem? | hackum wrote: Hello! My KDE does not recognize CDs and DVDs. How can I solve the problem? My crystal ball is still out of order - mind posting any real info about your hardware/software setup ? |
Greetings, only two days ago I posted a problem about X not starting, and it seems that now my graphics card is working just fine (Intel). When I emerge xterm and twm and run startx I get a couple terminal windows and no errors. So I emerge --unmerge xterm twm; and I emerge -av kdebase-meta kdegames-meta and it goes bl... | brent7890, How did you intend to start KDE ? From the log, Xorg starts but finds nothing to do. Put twm and xterm back and see if that starts instead of KDE. It will be useful to know for sure that Xorg still works |
*NOTE use Ctrl + F and search "(1)" "(2)" or "(3)" to scroll through easier.* (1) Xorg.0.log: [ 45.811] X.Org X Server 1.10.2 Release Date: 2011-05-28 [ 45.819] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 45.820] Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.38-gentoo-r6 x86_64 Gentoo [ 45.820] Current Operating System: Linux moon-unit 2.... | What exact hardware do you have? Might be too new for the driver you're using. May need to use ~x86 and pick up the 2.16 version of the driver. Add "x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel ~x86" to /etc/portage/package.keywords to pick up the newest driver in portage. |
Hi I have installed gnome following the gentoo "X Server Configuratio HOWTO" and the "GNOME Configuration HOWTO". With the properly created .xinitrc, i can do 'startx' and get into gnome desktop. I then emerged xdm, added it to the default runlevel, and set DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" in /etc/conf.d/xdm When i reboot, a sort ... | You somehow got KDE on your system. Check to see if KDM is installed and double check for a typo of "kdm" instead of "gdm" in xdm. What I think happened is you've started kdm and without a full KDE installation, kdm is attempting to start its default KDE. |
I have a problem in that I've installed Xorg and everything how it should be with both intel and vesa drivers. The problem is that the screen is shifted to the right a couple of inches. Which means what should be appearing on the right hand side is wrapping around and appearing on the left. I've diagnosed now that the ... | Never mind, seems I've fixed it. I needed to add the following to the end of the kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf: Code: i915.modeset=1 and now the display is correct. |
Hi all I managed to make urxvt work almost as xterm, but this problem is stubborn! I am trying to get my Emacs Ctrl+Shift+Left arrow, Ctrl+Shift+Right arrow (and others Ctrl+Shift keys) back to life. I am using -iso14755, but it does not seem to help. Maybe someone knows the solution? My ~/.Xdefaults is below. Code: cu... | Yes, I mean I am trying to use emacs -nw inside urxvt. For now describe-key shows that Ctrl+Shift+Right arrow combo looks to emacs the same as Shift+Right arrow. |
Hello. Can you help me with X? This is the first time when I installed gentoo. Some of the problems I decided to myself, but this does not work. So: Video - Radeon HD 5870 Kernel just as the handbook: Code: (Setup the kernel to use the radeon-ucode firmware) Device Drivers ---> Generic Driver Options ---> [*] Include i... | The error tells you that the ati driver was compiled for an older version of the xorg-server. Run `emerge --oneshot xf86-video-ati` and it should be fine. If you come across similar errors for the input devices (e.g. evdev), also re-emerge the appropriate packages. |
Im trying to install app-accessibility/orca-2.32.1 (its part of the gnome package) but everytime i try i get this error Quote: checking for python module pyatspi... no configure: error: Could not find python module: pyatspi Quote: * dev-python/pyatspi Latest version available: 2.0.2 Latest version installed: 2.0.2 Size... | ...and what's the real error ? I don't know what the actual package name is, but likely something like "python -c 'import atspi'' should give you a hint. Just check that name. |
I'm trying to install kde 4.7.1 on my amd64 system and I am having trouble. The problem of the moment is system-config-printer-kde-4.7.1. I reported a problem with version 4.7.0 which was that module sys,DLFCN does not exist. This was diagnosed previously as being missing in the version 3.x kernels. I am now running ke... | Code: File "/usr/share/apps/cmake/modules/FindPyKDE4.py", line 8, in <module> import PyKDE4.pykdeconfig File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyKDE4/__init__.py", line 1, in <module> import sys,DLFCN ImportError: No module named DLFCN It's obviously your problem. The fix to DLFCN missing is to update your python to ... |
I upgraded from KDE 4.7.0 to 4.7.1 yesterday, and now my desktop-switching (pager) plasma applet is broken. I see the icon in the "widgets" list, when I try to "Add Widgets"; however, adding does nothing. The desktop icon info seems to be stored here: Code: /usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-pager-default.desktop However,... | Try to set count of virtual desktops to >0 |
When I start XFE (xfe-1.32.1) it places its window at the top-left of the screen without a title bar visible. Presumably the title bar is off the top of the screen. If I start XFE maximized (xfe -m) the title bar does appear at the top of the screen. However clicking the un-maximize button reverts to placing the window... | OK, it's fixed by upgrading to the unstable xfe-1.32.3 package. |
hi there, whenever i start xfce4, the session manager restores up to ten "File Manager" sessions/windows .... i am saving the session on exit, but even when i`ve closed all FILE MANAGER sessions, on next restart they appear again ... any suggestions ??? thanks a lot | logout, rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions, and login. |
Hello, I'm using OpenBox as window manager and I'm trying to set a background image using PCManFM. Code: pcmanfm --desktop --set-wallpaper=Dalek.jpg --wallpaper-mode=center Desktop preference popup reflect my setting. Unfortunately, the backgound is still empty and no message is displayed. Before posting, I googleled a... | Hi CaptainBlood, I've tried all solutions : from the command line, from the desktop menu mixed of both and none of them worked for me. I'm using Openbox and I got a black background which I think is the defaut X screen (I didn't verified and I can't right now, but I don't think it's something set by OB). CaptainBlood w... |
Hello, After a recent update of my system, I'm having trouble updating gnome packages because they seem to want static libraries that aren't on the system. As an example, revdep-rebuild wants to emerge gobject-introspection. This in turn dies when it doesn't find /usr/lib64/libpixman-1.la on the system (there is an 'so... | Such messages are just a notice, that you're long overdue for a revdep-rebuild. In just about 99% of the cases, an error message about an la file does not mean it's really required. If revdep-rebuild gets the order wrong, just look at the rebuild list and make a good guess which package should be rebuilt earlier (or ju... |
new to gentoo. got everything installed OK (xserver, fluxbox etc) on eeepc 1000. My problem came up when I installed a login manager (slim). It doesn't recognize my keyboard correctly. my username michael types out 03chae2. So I can't login. I thought to change back to xdm via Rescue but /etc/conf.d/xdm mounts 'read on... | I'm not sure why you can't mount your partition rw from the gentoo cd... but if you want to boot and skip xdm, press I to enter interactive mode when it says to do so. From there you can choose to start or not start each service. Don't start xdm, and you should be able to log in on the console. (Also pressing Ctrl+Alt+... |
I've been trying to get shutdown to work from the XFCE menu without it merely going back to slim. sudoers: Code: root ALL=(ALL) ALL %users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/lib64/xfce4/session/xfsm-shutdown-helper I tried creating /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/power.pkla containing: Code: [Local restart] Identity=unix... | Upgrading to 4.8.2 did the trick. Thanks! |
Hi guys', I have been following the instructions below to try and install xorg. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml I have an nvidia graphics card on my lenovo G560. I chose to use the nouveau driver instead of the proprietary ones. I have configured and re-built my kernel as per the instructions and placed th... | I may be wrong, but do you not ALSO have to make sure this is taken care of in your kernel config? Also..... It might be worthwhile going with proprietary drivers and see if it works then? Then at least you can narrow the process of elimination. Hey, it is Gentoo after all. lol. |
Flash does not currently work in Opera 11.50, on my amd64 system. With adobe-flash-10.3.183.5+nspluginwrapper, opera does not recognize the plugin as being there at all - a "missing plugin" message appears. With the latest adobe-flash-11.0.1.60_beta201108082, all flash content is just a blank, black square. Is anyone e... | The funny thing is though, flash 11 works just fine with opera on my Debian Squeeze system. I even downloaded and extracted the tarball from opera's website on the Gentoo machine, ran it, and it still didn't work...something funky must be going on with one of its dependencies. I suppose though that a better test would ... |
New install, consolekit & udev are running, no hal. I have an Intel raid1 set up, with dodmraid in the kernel options. all that seems to be working. Code: $ udisks --enumerate /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdb /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sr0 /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/dm_2d0 /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/d... | Now all the raided partitions are mounted, through their /dev/mapper/ entries. Possibly Thunar is mixing up "Removable" with "Hot-Swappable"? |
After a world update today I started having the problem described in many posts when searching online for "firefox thunderbird an error occurred while loading or saving configuration information". I get that dialog warning when starting Firefox or Thunderbird, although everything seems to work anyway. Anyone see this y... | Someone's had to have seen this. The warning that pops up is Code: An error occurred while loading or saving configuration for firefox-bin. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly. There's a button for details and an OK button. The details button reveals: Code: Failed to contact configuration server; ... |
When I execute kwrite from the terminal, an 'Error - KWrite' window pops up with the message: Code: A KDE text-editor component could not be found. Please check your KDE installation. The KDE Crash Handler provides some 'Developer Information': Code: Application: KWrite (kwrite), signal: Segmentation fault [KCrash Hand... | If it's kde-4.7, did you emerge kde-base/katepart? |
It appears I'm the only one having problems with kdelibs, butt I'll ask nonetheless. Since kde-base/kdelibs-4.6.3-r2 I've had no success updating kdelibs. I actually blocked and later unmasked kde-base/kdelibs-4.6.3-r3, when I could not emerge kde-base/kdelibs-4.6.5-r1. The frequency with which I've had problems with K... | One other small nit. emerge --info wrote: CXXFLAGS="" Normally you should have a line in your make.conf setting CXXFLAGS to the same value as CFLAGS (perhaps with some additions). At least Code: CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" if nothing else. - John |
Hello, I'm installing Gentoo a DELL SX260 running an Intel (i915 driver). Unfortunately, i915 driver is totally instable, so based on "Kernel Seed" advices, I switched to VESA VGA mode. Providing Code: video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap vga=0x305 options to my kernel, I got a nice 1024x768 console but when I launch startx (with... | May it be your user is not in video group? |
Hello, Alacarte, the Gnome menu editor somehow stopped working. I tried to search something about pyexpat, it seems that it is a python issue, I've tried also to reemerge Python with allmost all USE flags except examples. Still does not work. Any ideas? Thank you. Output from the terminal: Quote: Traceback (most recent... | emerge -av dev-python/pyxml |
Conky: statfs '/mnt/raid': No such file or directory but i'm not calling for anything with regard to that directory in my .conkyrc i USED to, but i've moved that mountpoint. it's making conky REALLY slow my .conkyrc: Code: # fork to background? background yes use_xft yes xftfont aqua:size=10 #xftalpha 0.2 double_buffer... | no idea how/why. restarted X and this problem went away. |
I've tried to fix this in every way imaginable but I settled on the xorg.conf created by nvidia-settings for this inquiry. The KDM login screen comes up in 1280x1024 @ 85 just as I want. As soon as I hit enter on login, the CRT screen switches to 60Hz and gets narrower, taller, and blinkier. After the desktop finishes ... | IIRC (but it's been quite awhile since I've had an nvidia card) there's a switch you could pass to nvidia-settings that makes it just silently load the settings. |
Hey guys (an girls )! Yesterday i've changed my login-manager from gdm to slim. After deinstalling gdm and installing slim, i couldn't login into X/Gnome. Every time slim said "Failed to execute login command". After parallel surfing with another PC, i've found out that i've to set the correct XSESSION-Variable. I've d... | This thread helped me the same problem with slim&xfce4 combo. I would recommend! |
I'm in the process of converting KDE3 to KDE4. I've expunged all traces of KDE3 I hope (and, hence, am working only on the command line) but cannot get the plasma-runtime-4.6.5 package to emerge. I used Code: # USE=-semantic-desktop emerge plasma-runtime since with prior emerges I was having problem with Nepomuk librar... | Thanks for your post. I had trouble too emerging kde-base/plasma-runtime-4.6.5. After reading your post, I added its entry in package.keyword. I am glad the problem is solved, but I still don't understand why. |
Hello, I'm trying to set my monitor in xorg.conf, because everytime when I get into my acc desktop it starts with 60HZ, I have a Nvidia graphic card (GeForce 6200) so also NVIDIA X server settings application. I can't chose the right frequency in usual settings - it recognizes my monitor as unknown even if I set it man... | It seems that it does not react on all settings in xorg.conf, I suppose that there is also other file, where are saved settings from the usual monitor settings, display configuration in gnome. 1. Do you have any ideas, where is it saved? 2. How to let display configuration know about my particular Lite-On C1770NSL/NST ... |
Recently I switched from some old NVidia card to intel (GMA 3150 I think) and I use the intel driver for X. But now X reports: Code: (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (exceeds panel dimensions) I know my LCD panel is capable of 1280x1024, I have seen it many times (including on this same operating syste... | Somehow my configuration mandates using an xorg.conf. So I just wrote up a simple one fixed. |
Rebooted for the first time in awhile. Suddenly all graphical python programs, e.g. gramps, porthole, exaile, are all failing to load with the same error message: Sample from gramps: 1591: ERROR: grampsgui.py: line 357: Gramps failed to start. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/... | What does 'emerge -1pv gdk-pixbuf' print ? Also, does python run those gdk.pixbuf commands without a failure (i.e. 'gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file (<a png file>)') ? |
I'm experiencing strange problem on amd64 systems in xfce4 desktop. When I click on: Log out --> Shut Down it logs me out only, system does not shutdown. If I login as root and run: poweroff it shuts down OK Where should I start looking? | Does your user have access to execute /sbin/poweroff, /sbin/reboot in your sudoers file? Or whatever the commands in LXDE are I think it's command is located within ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml |
Dear all, I installed Wine to execute some legacy binary. A side-effect was that Wine installed all its program associations in KDE. Dolphin now gives me the option of opening my files using Notepad or the Wine core exe. Since Notepad is per se a reason to switch to linux, I consider a Notepad file association and othe... | Hello, The wine file associations are not in KDE configuration, but in ~/.local, in order to pollute ALL desktop environment (I am bored too, under XFCE and LXDE). |
Hello, I'm new here and I'm also a new gentoo user. I've installed gentoo on my laptop, using guide book ( http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml ). I read about Portage, how to use emerge, but as I said, it's new to me, so I have a few problems. I would like to install gnome, but going through the inst... | Switching to the gnome desktop profile should add most of the use flags you need Code: eselect profile list eselect profile set <whatever_number_gnome_is> And then run Code: emerge -avuND world |
As the title states, one of the most popular fonts is completely unreadable... but only in Opera. It's hideous in Firefox, but at least I can see. No idea where to start with this one - I don't even see it listed in any of the prefs, and why only this one program? Argh. Anyway, happy to provide any info needed to try a... | Ah Pook wrote: Anyway, happy to provide any info needed to try and track this down. Well then at first the ouput of Code: #eselect fontconfig list You can also retry viewing the results after a Code: fc-cache -r BTW I assume you are sure that this font is installed on your system. |
Hello, I just installed Gentoo and I am using Openbox. However, I use Dolphin and Kate for browsing and editing files on FTP servers. After emerging dolphin, kate, kdelibs and their dependencies FTP doesn't work on Dolphin. I type an address ftp://<hostname> in the address bar, the status bar says "Sending login inform... | Try ftp://username@hostname - or if you want to connect over ssh, use fish:// |
Im trying to setup the graphical login in my PC with slim and xfce, but even when I have followed all guides, I cant make slim to start Xfce with consolekit support. When I try to mount a flash I got an error saying that Im not authorized. So, I have to go back and start via startx and .xinitrc can somebody give me an ... | I have the following line in /etc/slim.conf : Code: login_cmd exec /usr/bin/ck-launch-session /bin/bash -login /usr/share/slim/Xsession %session Then the usual procedure of specifying slim as the display manager in /etc/conf.d/xdm : Code: DISPLAYMANAGER="slim" And XFCE as the default X session in /etc/env.d/90xsession ... |
Hello Gentoo users! I just installed gentoo, x86_64-2.6.39-gentoo-r3. I followed the guides http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml and after that http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA. I have a intel integrated graphics card. In this order I did emerge xorg-server (..then I followed the intel wiki, and re-emer... | X -configure does not work with KMS. It will always fail. You can verify that KMS is enabled by checking that /proc/fb shows inteldrmfb. |
A few months ago, my desktop switched cursors to ones like this: http://ompldr.org/vOXhmcQ I tried to figure out why, because I liked the change and didn't want it to get replaced with the old default. After quite a few emerge sync/update cycles later, it changed back yesterday. Does anyone recognize this cursor theme?... | That's it, thanks! Looks like it's related to this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-822627-start-0.html |
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