Re: [arch-general] Openbox - great lightweight desktop, similar to icewm, but better in several regards

2009-06-11 Thread Dave Heistand
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 03:52:11AM +0800, Samuel Baldwin wrote: > dwm[0] is a great place to start as well, especially if you're > familiar with C and can patch it to your liking. The defaults are > perfectly fine (besides colours), though, and once you get your head > around tag-based window manag

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

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Heistand
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 07:25:56PM +1000, James Rayner wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:22 PM, David C. Rankin > wrote: > > Listmates, > > > >        My second Arch box is now complete (well almost:-) This time a > > desktop box > > with a zytel wireless lan adapter using the TI acx chipset and

Re: [arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

2008-06-11 Thread Dave Heistand
> $ pacman -Slq core > core-old.txt > # pacman -Sy > $ pacman -Slq core > core-new.txt > $ diff core-new.txt core-old.txt Sweet! Between that and the rss feeds I'm good to go! Thanks all!

Re: [arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

2008-06-11 Thread Dave Heistand
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:40:11PM +0200, Dennis Herbrich wrote: > > What I'm looking for is a way to see a diff of my package cache prior to > > and just after syncing, i.e. what packages are out of date (which pacman > > does show), what packages have been removed from the repositories since my >

Re: [arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

2008-06-11 Thread Dave Heistand
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:16:07PM +0200, Xavier wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Dave Heistand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > To me Arch package building is refreshing when compared to my experiences > > with > > ebuilds and rpm spec files. I can

[arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

2008-06-11 Thread Dave Heistand
Hi, For various personal reasons including the rolling release model (which is critical to me), easy package building and availability of binary packages and build scripts I'm considering changing to arch. I do have a few questions that I can't seem to find the answers to, sorry if they are cover