Re: [arch-general] Gedit startup issues

2016-04-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:05:10 -0500, Marshall Neill wrote: >Launch from the command line and see what shows up. > >Just a thought. That could help, after the issue appears when launching it by a file manager or a launcher, but not necessarily helps. The output in ~/.xsession-errors* could provide e

Re: [arch-general] Gnome-disk-utility (Gnome "Disks") problem

2016-04-21 Thread Francis Gerund
Okay, I solved the problem. Analysis: Gnome 3 sucks. On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Francis Gerund wrote: > Hello. > > I am running Arch up-to-date 64-bit, with Gnome desktop environment. > Until recently, the Gnome-disk-utility (Gnome "Disks" program) was working > fine. > The Gnome-disk-u

Re: [arch-general] Gedit startup issues

2016-04-21 Thread Marshall Neill
Launch from the command line and see what shows up. Just a thought. On 04/21/2016 05:08 PM, L. Rose wrote: Dear fellow Archers, I'm using XFCE4 on an up-to-date Arch Linux installation I've built from the official downloadable image and by following the instructions on the Arch

Re: [arch-general] Gedit startup issues

2016-04-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 00:08:36 +0200, L. Rose wrote: >I've never noticed such issues when launching gedit from the GUI. >Furthermore, I didn't see any error messages in dmesg or in >/var/log/Xorg.0.log. When the problem appears, it often persists until >the next reboot. Those are unrelated log files

[arch-general] version bumps on -dkms

2016-04-21 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
I don't believe a version bump is required for -dkms (e.g. nvidia-dkms in [testing] just got bumped to -4 due to new kernel in [testing])? I understand this is because the nvidia packages use a split PKGBUILD, but it still seems something could be done a bit better here. Perhaps a way for split PK

[arch-general] Gedit startup issues

2016-04-21 Thread L. Rose
Dear fellow Archers, I'm using XFCE4 on an up-to-date Arch Linux installation I've built from the official downloadable image and by following the instructions on the Arch wiki. The system works fine, but there are still some bugs I want to zap out. First thing is: Sometimes gedit won't start whe

Re: [arch-general] Xfce4 cut and paste problems

2016-04-21 Thread pete nikolic
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 23:55:09 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:35:07 +0100, pete nikolic wrote: > >I cant get a thing out of it no C&P at all [snip] > >It is the mouse i am more interested in than anything else for c&p . > > You try to copy and paste by right click menu or by

Re: [arch-general] Xfce4 cut and paste problems

2016-04-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:35:07 +0100, pete nikolic wrote: >I cant get a thing out of it no C&P at all [snip] >It is the mouse i am more interested in than anything else for c&p . You try to copy and paste by right click menu or by third mouse button or something else?

[arch-general] Gnome-disk-utility (Gnome "Disks") problem

2016-04-21 Thread Francis Gerund
Hello. I am running Arch up-to-date 64-bit, with Gnome desktop environment. Until recently, the Gnome-disk-utility (Gnome "Disks" program) was working fine. The Gnome-disk-utility is currently 3.20.1-1, apparently updated 2016-04-12. Today, when I start it using either the icon on the favorites

Re: [arch-general] Xfce4 cut and paste problems

2016-04-21 Thread pete nikolic
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 23:25:04 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:10:13 +0100, pete nikolic wrote: > >installed Xfce4 which is fine quick apart from the cut & paste issues > > Hi Pete, > > what sort of cut & paste issue? Text? Copying items when using Xfce's > file manager Thuna

Re: [arch-general] Xfce4 cut and paste problems

2016-04-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:10:13 +0100, pete nikolic wrote: >installed Xfce4 which is fine quick apart from the cut & paste issues Hi Pete, what sort of cut & paste issue? Text? Copying items when using Xfce's file manager Thunar? Doesn't it work, when using the mouse, when using short cuts or are y

[arch-general] Xfce4 cut and paste problems

2016-04-21 Thread pete nikolic
Evening all . Long time no post (long time no linux ) having had some health problems i am now getting back into sorting this machine out (it went bang some time ago and has been completely rebuilt Installed my favorite distro Arch Linux but found i could not get on with the new incarnati