[arch-general] Why both fonts.dir and fonts.scale?

2009-04-28 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, Picking through the font configuration, I have run across a curiosity, why do the font directories have both a fonts.dir file and a fonts.scale file. The page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_Font_Configuration suggests that you run mkfontscale and mkfontdir on each of

Re: [arch-general] Wohoo Compiz Install was a Breeze!

2009-04-28 Thread David C. Rankin
DrCR wrote: > Awesome, to see you're up an running. > > Didn't you have an Error11 when attempting to start X? Maybe that's my > imagination. If not, how did you fix it? I'm currently having this > problem myself. > > DrCR, I forgot one thing, Make sure you have *hal* installed and sta

[arch-general] Policykit, uid like a service, and gid like a user

2009-04-28 Thread Magnus Therning
I noticed after installing policykit that it created a new user and group (both called policykit). The thing that surprised me was the uid was 102 while the uid was 1001. Should a system service like that really have a uid below 1000 (like other service accounts) and a gid above 1000 (which i

Re: [arch-general] Wohoo Compiz Install was a Breeze!

2009-04-28 Thread David C. Rankin
David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> (3) So that you will have font support in X/KDE, as root, change >> directories >> to /usr/share/fonts and for each font subdirectory there run: >> >> mkfontscale >> mkfontdir -e /usr/share/fonts/encodings/ >> >> (Normal font direc

Re: [arch-general] Wohoo Compiz Install was a Breeze!

2009-04-28 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David C. Rankin wrote: (3) So that you will have font support in X/KDE, as root, change directories to /usr/share/fonts and for each font subdirectory there run: mkfontscale mkfontdir -e /usr/share/fonts/encodings/ (Normal font directories include: 100dpi 75dpi TTF

Re: [arch-general] Help with /etc/fonts.conf

2009-04-28 Thread David C. Rankin
David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> David C. Rankin wrote: >>> Listmates, >>> >>> I have several additional fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts that I >>> want >>> configured for the system. I found /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and >>> /etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf, but I'm unsure abou

Re: [arch-general] Wohoo Compiz Install was a Breeze!

2009-04-28 Thread David C. Rankin
DrCR wrote: > Awesome, to see you're up an running. > > Didn't you have an Error11 when attempting to start X? Maybe that's my > imagination. If not, how did you fix it? I'm currently having this > problem myself. > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:06 AM, David C. Rankin > wrote: >> David C. Rankin

Re: [arch-general] Wohoo Compiz Install was a Breeze!

2009-04-28 Thread DrCR
Awesome, to see you're up an running. Didn't you have an Error11 when attempting to start X? Maybe that's my imagination. If not, how did you fix it? I'm currently having this problem myself. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:06 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> Listmates, >> > >>

Re: [arch-general] Help with /etc/fonts.conf

2009-04-28 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David C. Rankin wrote: David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, I have several additional fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts that I want configured for the system. I found /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf, but I'm unsure about the placement of my location in the local.co

Re: [arch-general] thinkpad t61 and not able to adjust brightness

2009-04-28 Thread Michael Schaefer
I've similar problem here with my X60s. echo 'up' >! /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness works fine but using the hotkeys has no effect. I now realized that xev doesn't return a keycode for FN+HOME and FN+END at all. FN only gives a keycode as well as HOME and END on its own do. However, i'm using Vanilla

Re: [arch-general] Help with /etc/fonts.conf

2009-04-28 Thread David C. Rankin
David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > I have several additional fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts that I want > configured for the system. I found /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and > /etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf, but I'm unsure about the placement of my > location in the local.conf file. Current