Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread Attila
On Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 01:49 Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 17:46, Nicolas Bigaouette > wrote: >> You still need to log-out/log-in for gpasswd group add, right? >> > Correct Why is this correct? After using at example "gpasswd -a USER kvm" i have excellent performance in my vm

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread Attila
On Freitag, 15. Mai 2009 04:46 Frédéric Perrin wrote: > You don't have to log out / log back in for a new group to take effect. > There is the adequately named newgrp(1) that spawns a new shell with a > different real and effective GID. Thanks for this background informations but i speak from add

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 18:57:51 Damjan Georgievski composed: > >        What is the concern with editing /etc/group by hand? The group man > > page doesn't even reference usermod as a way to manipulate group > > associations. > > The simple one that you could make a mist

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 21:46:02 Frédéric Perrin composed: > Le Jeudi 14 à 23:03, Attila a écrit : > > I prefer to use gpasswd because for me the big advantage is that you > > don't have to log out than. But i don't know too what speak against > > editing /etc/group by ha

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 13:13:53 Daenyth Blank composed: > > You can use vigr for this, and similarly vipw Thanks Daenyth! Old dog -- new trick. See, it can be done ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas

Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox Window Transparent?? [solved - sort of]

2009-05-14 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 23:45:49 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. composed: > Listmates, > > Here is one for the experts. I installed virtual box on my Arch laptop, > and upon starting my XP guest machine, I discover that the VB window is > almost completely transparent??

[arch-general] Virtualbox Window Transparent??

2009-05-14 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Listmates, Here is one for the experts. I installed virtual box on my Arch laptop, and upon starting my XP guest machine, I discover that the VB window is almost completely transparent?? This is really strange and I can't explain what is happening, so a picture (screenshot) is worth a

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le Jeudi 14 à 23:03, Attila a écrit : > I prefer to use gpasswd because for me the big advantage is that you > don't have to log out than. But i don't know too what speak against > editing /etc/group by hand if you can live with it that you have to > log out. You don't have to log out / log back i

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread Damjan Georgievski
>        What is the concern with editing /etc/group by hand? The group man page > doesn't even reference usermod as a way to manipulate group associations. The simple one that you could make a mistake while editing, maybe much more easily than when using usermod :) -- damjan

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Damjan Georgievski
>> The bug report shouldn't have been closed in the first place, since >> the problem was not even solved. > > It's worth noting that the people who handle re-open requests are not > necessarily the one assigned to the bug. I did notice that .. and also I didn't want to attack anybody personally,

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> And another note: when reopening a report, the text of the reopen > request is added as a comment. It may be a small text area, but it > does allow for more text than it seems I didn't know this happens automatically - that's one good thing to know. -- damjan

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 17:46, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: > You still need to log-out/log-in for gpasswd group add, right? > Correct

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
You still need to log-out/log-in for gpasswd group add, right? 2009/5/14 Attila > On Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2009 18:51 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > > > What is the concern with editing /etc/group by hand? The group man page > > doesn't even reference usermod as a way to manipulate group asso

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread Attila
On Donnerstag, 14. Mai 2009 18:51 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > What is the concern with editing /etc/group by hand? The group man page > doesn't even reference usermod as a way to manipulate group associations. I prefer to use gpasswd because for me the big advantage is that you don't have

Re: [arch-general] Themes for Gnome

2009-05-14 Thread Baho Utot
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 15:15 +0300, Samed Beyribey wrote: > Thu, 14 May 2009 07:32:16 + tarihinde > S Andrews şunu yazmıştınız: > > > Where can I find themes for gnome, I am looking for Graphite theme > > > http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Graphite?content=104061 is > that one you a

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

2009-05-14 Thread Aren Olson
> > Huh, this is excellent information, thanks. Probably still slow and > regular Wine bugginess, but maybe worth trying. I have a friend at > work who's a serious Eve addict. He might find this very interesting > also. > > Cheers :) > It's actually pretty close to native speed so far as I can tel

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Angel Velásquez
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:01:30PM -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: >> On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 10:50:28 Thomas Bächler >> composed: >> > Jan de Groot schrieb: >> > > The only valid reason I see for closi

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Grigorios Bouzakis
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:01:30PM -0500, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 10:50:28 Thomas Bächler > composed: > > Jan de Groot schrieb: > > > The only valid reason I see for closing a bug as upstream, is when > > > upstream made a decision in t

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Andrei Thorp
>        Now all of the above is just my opinion on the issue and will look > like a > bunch of idle rambling to most, but if you sift through it, there just may be > a perl of wisdom to pick out. (remember, even a blind squirrel finds a nut > every once in a while ;-) Lol, a "perl" of wisdom. Co

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:51, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: > On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 07:23:37 Damjan Georgievski > composed: >> > (2)  Add yourself to the wheel group in /etc/group. Example, in >> > /etc/group: >> > >> >    wheel::10:root,david >> >> it's best not t

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

2009-05-14 Thread ludovic coues
no luck installing the wineD3D apps. No right to write into the directX file on the win7 system, and I can't set this with corrupted graphics. I've yet some problem with the VM. I'll give a shoot at wine then cedega right now, then try back the VM if this doesn't work. I'll keep you informed.

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 10:50:28 Thomas Bächler composed: > Jan de Groot schrieb: > > The only valid reason I see for closing a bug as upstream, is when > > upstream made a decision in the software which is reported as bug by the > > user. An example of this is excluding

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On or about Thursday 14 May 2009 at approximately 07:23:37 Damjan Georgievski composed: > > (2)  Add yourself to the wheel group in /etc/group. Example, in > > /etc/group: > > > >    wheel::10:root,david > > it's best not to edit the file by hand. > You can use the "usermod -G wheel -a david" comm

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Jan de Groot schrieb: The only valid reason I see for closing a bug as upstream, is when upstream made a decision in the software which is reported as bug by the user. An example of this is excluding evince from the menus by using NoDisplay=True in the .desktop file. This bug is opened now and t

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: >> Sorry to bring this again,  but something has to change in the way >> bugs are handled in Arch. >> >> I've open this bug report http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13905 about >> the

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > Sorry to bring this again,  but something has to change in the way > bugs are handled in Arch. > > I've open this bug report http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13905 about > the awesome package in community. > > The package maintainer just c

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 16:42 +0200, ludovic coues wrote: > for me, a bug tracker is for tracking bug. For an upstream issue, the > bug is spotted, reported to the bug tracker, and flagged upstream. > Why it'll be closed at this point ? > > While there no patch to correct the bug, the bug is still h

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread ludovic coues
for me, a bug tracker is for tracking bug. For an upstream issue, the bug is spotted, reported to the bug tracker, and flagged upstream. Why it'll be closed at this point ? While there no patch to correct the bug, the bug is still here, and need to be tracked. So closing a bug report before resolv

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread James Rayner
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > Sorry to bring this again,  but something has to change in the way > bugs are handled in Arch. > > I've open this bug report http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13905 about > the awesome package in community. > > The package maintainer just c

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

2009-05-14 Thread Andrei Thorp
Yeah, it'd be sweet if I can figure out a way for my buddy to run Eve. He said he'd switch to Arch if he could find a way to play this game on it :D -AT On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Fredrik Eriksson wrote: >>> You can, with some hacking.  However I have yet to successfully make >>> this work

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> (2)  Add yourself to the wheel group in /etc/group. Example, in /etc/group: > >    wheel::10:root,david it's best not to edit the file by hand. You can use the "usermod -G wheel -a david" command for that. -- damjan

Re: [arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Andrei Thorp
That's a very unfortunate set of misunderstandings. Sorry to hear. Anyway, so hold out there and things'll get fixed probably. Especially after this post. -AT On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > Sorry to bring this again,  but something has to change in the way > bugs a

Re: [arch-general] Themes for Gnome

2009-05-14 Thread Samed Beyribey
Thu, 14 May 2009 07:32:16 + tarihinde S Andrews şunu yazmıştınız: > Where can I find themes for gnome, I am looking for Graphite theme > http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Graphite?content=104061 is that one you are looking for? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Why does my sound work sometimes & not others?

2009-05-14 Thread Damjan Georgievski
> Working Setup: > > [13:46 alchemy:/home/david] # lsof /dev/snd/* > COMMAND  PID  USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME > kmix    3263 david   10u   CHR 116,10      0t0 4088 /dev/snd/controlC0 > > [13:48 alchemy:/home/david] # lsof /dev/dsp* ... >        Now since this mostly Greek concerning

[arch-general] Bugs again

2009-05-14 Thread Damjan Georgievski
Sorry to bring this again, but something has to change in the way bugs are handled in Arch. I've open this bug report http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13905 about the awesome package in community. The package maintainer just closes the bug, not solving it, claiming it's upstream, and not even inve

[arch-general] Themes for Gnome

2009-05-14 Thread S Andrews
Where can I find themes for gnome, I am looking for Graphite theme

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

2009-05-14 Thread Fredrik Eriksson
>> You can, with some hacking.  However I have yet to successfully make >> this work with a win 7 VM. For XP in virtualbox, the following should >> work: >> >> 1) Set up the VM, ensuing the 3d accel checkbox is checked >> 2) Install XP >> 3) Install the virtualbox guest additions >> 4) Install win

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

2009-05-14 Thread Andrei Thorp
Also, something that I was reminded of recently: maybe it's worth trying go-oo, the OOo fork. http://go-oo.org. Anyway, nice that you fixed it. Cheers, -AT

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

2009-05-14 Thread Andrei Thorp
> You can, with some hacking.  However I have yet to successfully make > this work with a win 7 VM. For XP in virtualbox, the following should > work: > > 1) Set up the VM, ensuing the 3d accel checkbox is checked > 2) Install XP > 3) Install the virtualbox guest additions > 4) Install wined3d into

Re: [arch-general] problem while bridging network

2009-05-14 Thread ludovic coues
thank for this hint. Catalyst driver doesn't seem to work, I'll give this a try.If doesn't work better, I'll try to intall my *sigh* vista. I love this game (eve-online). A bit too much I think.