Re: [arch-general] Trouble Building Xorg-Server (Modified PKGBUILD)

2009-04-30 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:59 PM, kludge wrote: > Eric Bélanger wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:39 PM, kludge wrote: >>> greets, all! >>> >>> ever since the release of xorg-server 1.5.3, i've been using a modified >>> PKGBUILD to build xorg-server sans hal and dbus.  (not gonna try >>> justify

Re: [arch-general] Help understanding which interface OpenOffice is using?

2009-04-30 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
> > The KDE3 color scheme file for it is available here, btw, if anyone wants > it: http://www.darose.net/Dark-Blue-Grey-Dave4.kcsrc > > DR Very appreciated =] I do a lot of late-night coding also =D -- Malformed message exception

Re: [arch-general] Trouble Building Xorg-Server (Modified PKGBUILD)

2009-04-30 Thread kludge
Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:39 PM, kludge wrote: >> greets, all! >> >> ever since the release of xorg-server 1.5.3, i've been using a modified >> PKGBUILD to build xorg-server sans hal and dbus. (not gonna try >> justifying it again; that'd just lead to yet another flame war.

Re: [arch-general] Xorg/kdm login screen addition

2009-04-30 Thread Magnus Therning
David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, I though I would run this idea by the list and see if there was any aversion to the idea of adding hostname information to the xorg/kdm login display. I wouldn't change a thing about the login look, it's awesome. What I would propose is adding

Re: [arch-general] Trouble Building Xorg-Server (Modified PKGBUILD)

2009-04-30 Thread Eric Bélanger
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:39 PM, kludge wrote: > greets, all! > > ever since the release of xorg-server 1.5.3, i've been using a modified > PKGBUILD to build xorg-server sans hal and dbus.  (not gonna try > justifying it again; that'd just lead to yet another flame war.) > > i've never had a probl

[arch-general] Trouble Building Xorg-Server (Modified PKGBUILD)

2009-04-30 Thread kludge
greets, all! ever since the release of xorg-server 1.5.3, i've been using a modified PKGBUILD to build xorg-server sans hal and dbus. (not gonna try justifying it again; that'd just lead to yet another flame war.) i've never had a problem until the 1.6.1-1 PKGBUILD, which adds the lines: libt

Re: [arch-general] Xorg/kdm login screen addition

2009-04-30 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Even easier - you can configure this in the kde control center. System Administration -> Login Manager. Mine has the greeting set to "%r (%h)". According to the help text, the following are the available macros: GreetString The headline in the greeter. An empty greeting means none at all.

Re: [arch-general] Xorg/kdm login screen addition

2009-04-30 Thread Dan Vratil
On Thursday 30 April 2009 18:37:41 David C. Rankin wrote: Hi, you can modify the KDM theme configuration to display the hostname. The themes are in /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes so just find the one you use and edit kdm.xml. You can now add some code to display the hostname, like: %h Of c

[arch-general] Xorg/kdm login screen addition

2009-04-30 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, I though I would run this idea by the list and see if there was any aversion to the idea of adding hostname information to the xorg/kdm login display. I wouldn't change a thing about the login look, it's awesome. What I would propose is adding to the existing login gr

Re: [arch-general] WPA2 - How to set with ACX card??

2009-04-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Andrei Thorp schrieb: Anyway, netcfg: I was a bit skeptical about this whole idea of non-automatic wireless via command line and specifically configuration files, but I must say, it's pretty nice overall. There are occasionally a couple glitches here and there (like just now, it didn't notice tha

Re: [arch-general] WPA2 - How to set with ACX card??

2009-04-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
David Rosenstrauch schrieb: That's actually good Linux hardware advice more generally as well: try to buy hardware from open-source friendly vendors. Intel in particular seems to be very compatible with open source, so that's always a good bet when it comes to network cards. Atheros has eve

Re: [arch-general] WPA2 - How to set with ACX card??

2009-04-30 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Andrei Thorp wrote: Yeah, sorry to hear. I guess you should think about getting a different cheap wireless card and check if it is supported first. I find that a lot are these days. That's actually good Linux hardware advice more generally as well: try to buy hardware from open-source friendl

Re: [arch-general] Help understanding which interface OpenOffice is using?

2009-04-30 Thread David Rosenstrauch
David C. Rankin wrote: David Rosenstrauch wrote: David Rosenstrauch wrote: If you look at my desktop snapshot Umm ... I meant *this* desktop snapshot: http://darose.net/DaroseDesktop.png DR The holy grail -- a workable dark theme! Cool look. Thanks. Yeah, I like it. I spend a LOT of ti

[arch-general] libraw1394 and libdc1394 update

2009-04-30 Thread Rick W. Chen
Hello, I am requesting package updates to libraw1394 and libdc1394 in extra. The new versions v2.0.2 and v2.1.0 respectively have support for the new experimental FireWire stack (not built by default in kernel26), Juju[1]. The old stable stack is still supported by the new packages, so they should

Re: [arch-general] WPA2 - How to set with ACX card??

2009-04-30 Thread Andrei Thorp
Yeah, sorry to hear. I guess you should think about getting a different cheap wireless card and check if it is supported first. I find that a lot are these days. Anyway, netcfg: I was a bit skeptical about this whole idea of non-automatic wireless via command line and specifically configuration fi

Re: [arch-general] Issue with system time

2009-04-30 Thread Dan Vratil
Hi, it seems to work. The time is now synced correctly. Thank you On Tuesday 28 April 2009 23:34:17 Dan Vratil wrote: > Hi, > in last few weeks I noticed a serious (for me) problem with my system. It > simply does not update the date/time after boot up. In BIOS the time is > correct, but when I b