Re: [arch-general] Why doesn't plasma-panel show open apps in 2 rows in arch?

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 01:03:00 am ludovic coues wrote: > But why the hell there is a "move" and a "resize" option when I right-click > in the task manager, but no "task manager setting" unlike with every > plasmoid which provide desktop setting ? > Does kinda make you wonder, don't it.

Re: [arch-general] introducing kernel26-lts

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 05:15:54 pm Andreas Radke wrote: > Am Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:34:32 +0200 > > schrieb Andreas Radke : > > I will upload packages for both architectures to testing over the next > > days. Please discuss when you want see changes to the config file > > (x86_64 is done, i686 is

Re: [arch-general] Why doesn't plasma-panel show open apps in 2 rows in arch?

2009-08-25 Thread ludovic coues
>Like I said, I finally got to the taskbar properties, but if you > have 5-6 > apps open, to get to the settings you have to right-click exactly on the ( > 1 > pixel ) wide vertical line between two open application icons on the > taskbar > to have the menu option available. You are just

[arch-general] [SOLVED] Re: How to choose which grub entry boots next from the cli via ssh in Arch?

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 11:54:21 pm David C. Rankin wrote: > On Tuesday 25 August 2009 09:51:50 pm Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > > There are multiple ways: > > You can put "default 2" at the very top of your menu.lst which will > > always select the 2nd entry (0-based) by default. > > Another and

Re: [arch-general] How to choose which grub entry boots next from the cli via ssh in Arch?

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 09:51:50 pm Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > > There are multiple ways: > You can put "default 2" at the very top of your menu.lst which will > always select the 2nd entry (0-based) by default. > Another and maybe more modern way to do it is to add "default saved" > at th

[arch-general] [SOLVED] Re: Bug in latest vim - have to enter :q an additional time after split

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 11:29:09 pm David C. Rankin wrote: > On Tuesday 25 August 2009 10:06:10 pm Aaron Griffin wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:17 PM, David C. > > > > Rankin wrote: > > > Listmates, > > > > > >There is a bug in the latest vim. Something prevents split > > > windows

Re: [arch-general] Bug in latest vim - have to enter :q an additional time after split

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 10:06:10 pm Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:17 PM, David C. > > Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, > > > >There is a bug in the latest vim. Something prevents split windows > > from completely closing requiring an additional :q to exit. Take for > > exa

Re: [arch-general] http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/testing/ - almost usuable "google-analytics"

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 10:09:04 pm Dan McGee wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:38 PM, David C. > > > > Rankin wrote: > >> On Tuesday 25 August 2009 07:25:27 pm Pierre Schmitz wrote: > >>> Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 01:49:52 schrieb Dav

Re: [arch-general] Stuff in /etc/cron.d/ won't work?

2009-08-25 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 26.08.2009 05:10, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > >> On 25.08.2009 22:21, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: >> >>> Would your script needs a shebang? >>> >>> 2009/8/25 Sven-Hendrik Haase >>> >>> >>> On 25.08.2009 12:51, solsTiCe d'

Re: [arch-general] Stuff in /etc/cron.d/ won't work?

2009-08-25 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 25.08.2009 22:21, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: >> Would your script needs a shebang? >> >> 2009/8/25 Sven-Hendrik Haase >> >> >>> On 25.08.2009 12:51, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: >>> > the crond log tells me that cron actually runs this

Re: [arch-general] http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/testing/ - almost usuable "google-analytics"

2009-08-25 Thread Dan McGee
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:38 PM, David C. > Rankin wrote: >> On Tuesday 25 August 2009 07:25:27 pm Pierre Schmitz wrote: >>> Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 01:49:52 schrieb David C. Rankin: >>> >         I'm glad to finally know what the problem

Re: [arch-general] http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/testing/ - almost usuable "google-analytics"

2009-08-25 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:38 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On Tuesday 25 August 2009 07:25:27 pm Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 01:49:52 schrieb David C. Rankin: >> >         I'm glad to finally know what the problem is, but it may not be >> > helpful to Arch to have the repos k

Re: [arch-general] Bug in latest vim - have to enter :q an additional time after split

2009-08-25 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:17 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > >        There is a bug in the latest vim. Something prevents split windows from > completely closing requiring an additional :q to exit. Take for example any > two text files. I'll use /boot/grub/menu.lst and menu.lst.sav. To c

Re: [arch-general] How to choose which grub entry boots next from the cli via ssh in Arch?

2009-08-25 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 26.08.2009 04:44, David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > How do I choose which grub entry will boot the next time the machine is > rebooted from the command line? In suse there is a package called 'grubonce' > which you issue from the command line giving the grub entry you want to boot

[arch-general] How to choose which grub entry boots next from the cli via ssh in Arch?

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, How do I choose which grub entry will boot the next time the machine is rebooted from the command line? In suse there is a package called 'grubonce' which you issue from the command line giving the grub entry you want to boot next. Example, if your menu.lst looks like: # (0)

Re: [arch-general] http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/testing/ - almost usuable "google-analytics"

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 07:25:27 pm Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 01:49:52 schrieb David C. Rankin: > > I'm glad to finally know what the problem is, but it may not be > > helpful to Arch to have the repos killed by some configured (or > > misconfigured) web traffic a

Re: [arch-general] Stuff in /etc/cron.d/ won't work?

2009-08-25 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 25.08.2009 22:21, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: > Would your script needs a shebang? > > 2009/8/25 Sven-Hendrik Haase > > >> On 25.08.2009 12:51, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: >> the crond log tells me that cron actually runs this command every >>> minute without a problem

Re: [arch-general] http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/testing/ - almost usuable "google-analytics"

2009-08-25 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 01:49:52 schrieb David C. Rankin: > I'm glad to finally know what the problem is, but it may not be > helpful to Arch to have the repos killed by some configured (or > misconfigured) web traffic analyzer package... pacman does not load any html web pages anyway;

Re: [arch-general] Script for finding and "moving" older duplicate packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg

2009-08-25 Thread Patrick Brisbin
On 08/26/09 at 12:02am, Frédéric Perrin wrote: > Le mardi 25 à 17:03, Patrick Brisbin a écrit : > > tar -xf on a 3 GB cache -> 1m 42s > > > > bsdtar -qxf on the same cache -> 0m 9s > > If you ran both of them on the same set of files, BSD tar was certainly > quicker because it took advantage of th

Re: [arch-general] What changed: udev PolicyKit - No mount of usb or CD for non-root?

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 06:02:10 pm Jan de Groot wrote: > On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 17:42 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, > > > > After updates this past week or so (not sure exactly when), Arch no > > longer mounts usb or CD/DVDs when inserted. What is the most likely > > culprit? >

[arch-general] Bug in latest vim - have to enter :q an additional time after split

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, There is a bug in the latest vim. Something prevents split windows from completely closing requiring an additional :q to exit. Take for example any two text files. I'll use /boot/grub/menu.lst and menu.lst.sav. To confirm the bug, do the following: cd /boot/grub vim menu.lst

Re: [arch-general] http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/testing/ - almost usuable "google-analytics"

2009-08-25 Thread Mike Sampson
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:49 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > >        I have had my updates hand horribly over the past several days. So > bad, I > thought there was a bug in pacman. I have even canceled some with ctrl+c out > of frustration. > >        I think I just found out why. I wa

[arch-general] http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/testing/ - almost usuable "google-analytics"

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, I have had my updates hand horribly over the past several days. So bad, I thought there was a bug in pacman. I have even canceled some with ctrl+c out of frustration. I think I just found out why. I was looking to download the i686 lts kernel so I was browsing the

Re: [arch-general] What changed: udev PolicyKit - No mount of usb or CD for non-root?

2009-08-25 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 17:42 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > After updates this past week or so (not sure exactly when), Arch no > longer > mounts usb or CD/DVDs when inserted. What is the most likely culprit? Let me guess... You updated udev, but didn't update hal. The sto

[arch-general] What changed: udev PolicyKit - No mount of usb or CD for non-root?

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, After updates this past week or so (not sure exactly when), Arch no longer mounts usb or CD/DVDs when inserted. What is the most likely culprit? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsim

Re: [arch-general] Howto adjust font scaling in Arch? All fonts look a bit big and fat?

2009-08-25 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 18:34, David C. Rankin wrote: >        Is there anyway to get around this limitation other than opening some > type of > remote desktop? Some way to query the remote display? Set the DISPLAY environment variable (Your main display is usually on :0.0)

Re: [arch-general] Howto adjust font scaling in Arch? All fonts look a bit big and fat?

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 24 August 2009 03:46:19 pm Xavier wrote: > > afaik, gnome/kde (and maybe xfce and other desktop) provide a gui to > configure DPI and set the DPI themselves. > > for example on gnome : > xrdb -q | grep dpi > Xft.dpi:98 > > but I can edit that in gnome font gui. I am fairly sure

Re: [arch-general] introducing kernel26-lts

2009-08-25 Thread Andreas Radke
Am Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:34:32 +0200 schrieb Andreas Radke : > I will upload packages for both architectures to testing over the next > days. Please discuss when you want see changes to the config file > (x86_64 is done, i686 is not ready so far). > > -Andy > i686 is now also done and ready for

Re: [arch-general] Why doesn't plasma-panel show open apps in 2 rows in arch?

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 03:00:13 am Fabian Schölzel wrote: > 2009/8/25 David C. Rankin : > >Is there a hidden setting for this, or is it just in the next > > 4.3.00-xyz package to be released? > > I'm at work, but if i remember correctly, theres is a setting for > allowing it to make row

Re: [arch-general] which package provides ifup & ifdown command ?

2009-08-25 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le mardi 25 à 10:05, Jeff Horelick a écrit : > As Sven-Hendrik said, you need to use ifconfig $interface up and ifconfig > $interface down. If you really need ifup and ifdown, put this in your > .bashrc: > > alias 'ifup eth0'='ifconfig eth0 up' > alias 'ifdown eth0'='ifconfig eth0 down" You *do* r

Re: [arch-general] Script for finding and "moving" older duplicate packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg

2009-08-25 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le mardi 25 à 17:03, Patrick Brisbin a écrit : > tar -xf on a 3 GB cache -> 1m 42s > > bsdtar -qxf on the same cache -> 0m 9s If you ran both of them on the same set of files, BSD tar was certainly quicker because it took advantage of the files being cached thanks to the first run of GNU tar. Now,

Re: [arch-general] Script for finding and "moving" older duplicate packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 10:03:13 am Patrick Brisbin wrote: > > WOW! > > tar -xf on a 3 GB cache -> 1m 42s > > bsdtar -qxf on the same cache -> 0m 9s > > awesome. > Now that's cool. I can't wait to see what kind of fun we can have with that ;-) Thanks Patrick, Thomas, Xavier. --

Re: [arch-general] Stuff in /etc/cron.d/ won't work?

2009-08-25 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Would your script needs a shebang? 2009/8/25 Sven-Hendrik Haase > On 25.08.2009 12:51, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: > >> the crond log tells me that cron actually runs this command every > >> > > minute without a problem > > i think you mis-read your log. and it should tell you that cron is > > looki

Re: [arch-general] introducing kernel26-lts

2009-08-25 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 08/25/2009 09:34 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: On Monday 24 August 2009 06:34:32 pm Andreas Radke wrote: Today I've added a 2nd kernel to our svn called "kernel26-lts". It should help to make you less caring about kernel updates. The intention is to 1) have a 2nd choice for the kernel pkg that

Re: [arch-general] Stuff in /etc/cron.d/ won't work?

2009-08-25 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 25.08.2009 12:51, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: >> the crond log tells me that cron actually runs this command every >> > minute without a problem > i think you mis-read your log. and it should tell you that cron is > looking for changes in /etc/cron.d every minute. > may be, if you change you f

Re: [arch-general] Script for finding and "moving" older duplicate packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg

2009-08-25 Thread Xavier
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Patrick Brisbin wrote: > On 08/25/09 at 04:45pm, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> Patrick Brisbin schrieb: >>> A while back i wrote a similar script which extracts the .PKGINFO file >>> from each package in one's cache. slow, but I think this is a more >>> accurate way to c

Re: [arch-general] Script for finding and "moving" older duplicate packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg

2009-08-25 Thread Patrick Brisbin
On 08/25/09 at 04:45pm, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Patrick Brisbin schrieb: >> A while back i wrote a similar script which extracts the .PKGINFO file >> from each package in one's cache. slow, but I think this is a more >> accurate way to compare versions. > > We had that discussion on arch-dev-public

Re: [arch-general] Script for finding and "moving" older duplicate packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg

2009-08-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Patrick Brisbin schrieb: A while back i wrote a similar script which extracts the .PKGINFO file from each package in one's cache. slow, but I think this is a more accurate way to compare versions. We had that discussion on arch-dev-public a while ago. makepkg always puts .PKGINFO to the beginn

Re: [arch-general] Script for finding and "moving" older duplicate packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg

2009-08-25 Thread Patrick Brisbin
A while back i wrote a similar script which extracts the .PKGINFO file from each package in one's cache. slow, but I think this is a more accurate way to compare versions. as-is, it will cp $N versions back from installed packages (inclusive) to $WD/saveme, where N and WD are defined in the script

Re: [arch-general] introducing kernel26-lts

2009-08-25 Thread David C. Rankin
On Monday 24 August 2009 06:34:32 pm Andreas Radke wrote: > Today I've added a 2nd kernel to our svn called "kernel26-lts". It > should help to make you less caring about kernel updates. The intention > is to > > 1) have a 2nd choice for the kernel pkg that suits better in > certain situations an

Re: [arch-general] introducing kernel26-lts

2009-08-25 Thread RedShift
Andreas Radke wrote: Today I've added a 2nd kernel to our svn called "kernel26-lts". It should help to make you less caring about kernel updates. The intention is to 1) have a 2nd choice for the kernel pkg that suits better in certain situations and 2) it can be a fallback when a reboot aft

Re: [arch-general] Stuff in /etc/cron.d/ won't work?

2009-08-25 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
> the crond log tells me that cron actually runs this command every minute without a problem i think you mis-read your log. and it should tell you that cron is looking for changes in /etc/cron.d every minute. may be, if you change you first * * * in your lol then may be it will work. assuming you'

Re: [arch-general] Why doesn't plasma-panel show open apps in 2 rows in arch?

2009-08-25 Thread ludovic coues
there is a setting for this, but the task manager is some pain to open his settings dialog. If you set "force rows settings", you get several rows.

[arch-general] [SOLVED] Re: which package provides ifup & ifdown command ?

2009-08-25 Thread Partha Chowdhury
thank you everyone for the prompt replies ! upon further enquiry, i loaded both ubuntu and rhel 5 in virtualbox and found 1>in ubuntu ifup and ifdown are part of ifupdown package 2> in rhel they are part of initscripts package. so i am wondering does every distributions modify some core packag

Re: [arch-general] which package provides ifup & ifdown command ?

2009-08-25 Thread Thomas Bächler
Partha Chowdhury schrieb: i cannot find ifup and ifdown in any of the paths- not as a normal user nor as root user. only command i can use is ifconfig. so i was wondering which package provides these two binaries ? alias ifup='/etc/rc.d/network ifup' alias ifdown='/etc/rc.d/network ifdown' Th

Re: [arch-general] which package provides ifup & ifdown command ?

2009-08-25 Thread Jeff Horelick
As Sven-Hendrik said, you need to use ifconfig $interface up and ifconfig $interface down. If you really need ifup and ifdown, put this in your .bashrc: alias 'ifup eth0'='ifconfig eth0 up' alias 'ifdown eth0'='ifconfig eth0 down" It's likely that you could replace hardcoding eth0 with using some

Re: [arch-general] Why doesn't plasma-panel show open apps in 2 rows in arch?

2009-08-25 Thread Fabian Schölzel
2009/8/25 David C. Rankin : >        Is there a hidden setting for this, or is it just in the next > 4.3.00-xyz package to be released? I'm at work, but if i remember correctly, theres is a setting for allowing it to make rows, and theres a checkbox to force this. *searching* Yep, here you go. [1

Re: [arch-general] which package provides ifup & ifdown command ?

2009-08-25 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 25.08.2009 09:37, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 13:02 +0530, Partha Chowdhury wrote: > >> i cannot find ifup and ifdown in any of the paths- not as a normal user >> nor as root user. only command i can use is ifconfig. so i was wondering >> which package provides these two binar

Re: [arch-general] which package provides ifup & ifdown command ?

2009-08-25 Thread Nathan K. Bathory
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:02:47 +0530 Partha Chowdhury wrote: > i cannot find ifup and ifdown in any of the paths- not as a normal > user nor as root user. only command i can use is ifconfig. so i was > wondering which package provides these two binaries ? As has been said, there are no binaries fo

Re: [arch-general] which package provides ifup & ifdown command ?

2009-08-25 Thread b4283
Partha Chowdhury 提到: i cannot find ifup and ifdown in any of the paths- not as a normal user nor as root user. only command i can use is ifconfig. so i was wondering which package provides these two binaries ? according to pkgfile tools, there's no such file provided by any package.

Re: [arch-general] which package provides ifup & ifdown command ?

2009-08-25 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 13:02 +0530, Partha Chowdhury wrote: > i cannot find ifup and ifdown in any of the paths- not as a normal user > nor as root user. only command i can use is ifconfig. so i was wondering > which package provides these two binaries ? ifup and ifdown are debian specific commands

[arch-general] which package provides ifup & ifdown command ?

2009-08-25 Thread Partha Chowdhury
i cannot find ifup and ifdown in any of the paths- not as a normal user nor as root user. only command i can use is ifconfig. so i was wondering which package provides these two binaries ?