Re: [arch-general] Why chsh behaviour differs from specified in manpage?

2012-04-24 Thread Mantas M.
er' and singular 'their'; this depends entirely on the writer. (See, for example, <http://english.stackexchange.com/q/48/3635>) -- Mantas M.

Re: [arch-general] shebang for python scripts

2012-04-15 Thread Mantas M.
uot;. The former, "#!python2", is actually equivalent to "#!./python2"; i.e. the one in the current directory. The difference between "#!/usr/bin/python2" and "#!/usr/bin/env python2" becomes obvious when you have multiple `python2`s in your $PATH. -- Mantas M.

Re: [arch-general] USB mounted into "wrong" directory

2012-04-04 Thread Mantas M.
On 2012-04-04 15:20, Tom Gundersen wrote: > In that case they'll use whatever udisks2 uses, yes. AFAIU the current > dir might be a stop-gap solution, and the devs are considering using > $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/media/LABEL in the end. That would mean: > /run/USER/media/LABEL. No, AFAIK, $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

Re: [arch-general] command line utility questions

2012-03-03 Thread Mantas M.
On 03/03/12 11:46, Jude DaShiell wrote: > What does arch linux use for burning cd's and dvd's? It's not cdrecord or > wodim I checked for those two and found nothing, unless I need to add a > repository to my searching. cdrecord aka wodim is in the 'cdrkit' package. -- Mantas Mikulėnas

Re: [arch-general] Howto look outside chroot for local git tree?

2012-03-01 Thread Mantas M.
On 2012-03-01 10:07, Damien Churchill wrote: > On 1 March 2012 00:13, David C. Rankin wrote: >> Possible? Or would the solution be to set the local copy of the git tree up >> inside a apache (or whatever it takes) and pretend to run a local copy? Even >> then, there would be no way to check for i

Re: [arch-general] inotify and locate

2012-02-26 Thread Mantas M.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:49:55AM +, Andrea Crotti wrote: > It's a bit a shame that there isn't any default good indexing system > for Linux. > Now there is also a inotify implementation and tools to set up > watchers on the filesystem, > so why are we still mainly stuck with locate and the ex

Re: [arch-general] moving away from gnome

2012-02-25 Thread Mantas M.
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 07:24:25PM +, Andrea Crotti wrote: > On 02/25/2012 07:22 PM, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: > >lauantai, 25. helmikuuta 2012 20:19:31 Jan Steffens kirjoitti: > >>Probably gnome-settings-daemon > >The GNOME Settings Daemon is responsible for setting various parameters of a > >

Re: [arch-general] moving away from gnome

2012-02-25 Thread Mantas M.
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 09:22:53PM +0200, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: > lauantai, 25. helmikuuta 2012 20:19:31 Jan Steffens kirjoitti: > > Probably gnome-settings-daemon > The GNOME Settings Daemon is responsible for setting various parameters of a > GNOME Session and the applications that run under

Re: [arch-general] moving away from gnome

2012-02-25 Thread Mantas M.
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 07:07:21PM +, Andrea Crotti wrote: > The strange thing is that if I am in a gnome-session closing the lid or > calling suspend from the gnome menu everything works. > > But if I fire up awesome only then closing the lid doesn't work anymore. > > So the question is, wha

Re: [arch-general] Character encoding on new install

2012-02-25 Thread Mantas M.
Side note: After yet another locale-debugging session on #archlinux, I wrote this short script: https://github.com/grawity/code/blob/master/os/locale-check Maybe someone will find it useful. -- Mantas M.

Re: [arch-general] Character encoding on new install

2012-02-25 Thread Mantas M.
r "\0" "\n" < /proc/$PPID/environ ` in a new terminal (where $PPID should expand to the PID of xterm/sakura/whatever). -- Mantas M.

Re: [arch-general] shadow - ABS build - public key verification failed

2012-02-21 Thread Mantas M.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:04:12AM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > ==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg... > shadow-4.1.5.tar.bz2 ... FAILED (unknown public key 5A0A399AEA7CF5AD) If you would read the complete error message: you're just missing the shadow developers' public key; try

Re: [arch-general] Xorg 1.12 moves soon to testing for stabilization phase

2012-02-12 Thread Mantas M.
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 07:10:45PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Synaptics 1.5.99-1 is completely fucked for me. > > 1) Circular scrolling direction is reversed. This can't be a feature, > really. > 2) Speed/acceleration behaviour changed, my touchpad is now much faster > than it should be (I cou

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading password hashes

2012-01-21 Thread Mantas M.
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 08:06:04AM -0800, Don Juan wrote: > On 01/21/2012 07:34 AM, Mantas M. wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:04:12PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > >>Maybe I missed giving a piece of info. The default password is DES which > >>is really crap a

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading password hashes

2012-01-21 Thread Mantas M.
are salted MD5, as crypt(3) can confirm. -- Mantas M.

Re: [arch-general] Email via mutt+offlineimap+msmtp

2012-01-13 Thread Mantas M.
On 2012-01-13 17:56, gt wrote: > Firstly, Alpine isn't maintained anymore. There is a fork "re-alpine", though. -- Mantas M.

Re: [arch-general] Email via mutt+offlineimap+msmtp

2012-01-13 Thread Mantas M.
automatically use In-Reply-To: and/or References: headers on replies? Or > likes to add extra Re: (IE: Re: Re: Re:) to the subject header line? > {All of which is news to me BTW...} Then I gotta ask, "why use it?" It *does* add In-Reply-To and References by default. It does *not* add extra "Re:"s if one is already present. (It *does*, however, add "Re:" if it has not been added yet; *all* mail programs do that.) -- Mantas M.

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD question

2012-01-07 Thread Mantas M.
mented. The > cleanest way I could come up with is: > > $(sed 's/-/_/' <<<${pkgver^^}) > > Not very nice, huh? :) Double brace expansion works like this: _pkgdir=${pkgver^^} _pkgdir=${_pkgdir//-/_} cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$_pkgdir" -- Mantas M.

Re: [arch-general] Question regarding the default file manager in XFCE

2011-12-19 Thread Mantas M.
node/directory" pointing to Nautilus: ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list [Default Applications] inode/directory=nautilus.desktop -- Mantas M.

Re: [arch-general] Wireless LED stays on during suspend

2011-12-04 Thread Mantas M.
On 2011-12-04 14:11, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > Am 04.12.2011 01:40, schrieb Matthew Monaco: >> I think new in 3.1 (might have been 3.0) was wireless wake-on-lan. You >> might be able to use ethtool to see if you have WOL enabled for your >> wireless card which would prevent it from being powe

Re: [arch-general] Where has my /etc/networks gone?

2011-11-14 Thread Mantas M.
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:28:57PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > I'm playing around with schroot and when creating a chroot with > "type=directory" I at first failed to start it. The reason seems to be > the lack of the file "/etc/networks". I created an empty one, and > that was accepted by sch

Re: [arch-general] Problem automatically importing key for signed package.

2011-11-06 Thread Mantas M.
page [2] shows some keyservers missing 10, 30, even ~200 keys. There are at least two standard ways of publishing PGP keys as DNS records [3], but I'm not sure if any software besides GnuPG supports them. [1]: http://www.rossde.com/PGP/pgp_keyserv.html [2]: http://sks-keyservers.net/status/ [3]: http://www.gushi.org/make-dns-cert/HOWTO.html -- Mantas M.

Re: [arch-general] no desktop: howto change default browser?

2011-09-11 Thread Mantas M.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:50:06AM +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Is this config file also managed through gconf or something? I mean I > really appreciate that it's a text file but it's the first time I heard > of it and it seems this kind of stuff changes faster than I can say wtf > (text fil

Re: [arch-general] no desktop: howto change default browser?

2011-09-11 Thread Mantas M.
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop text/html=firefox.desktop The "x-scheme-handler/*" entries are for "http:" and "https:" URLs respectively, and "text/html" is for opening local HTML files. -- Mantas M.

Re: [arch-general] wvdial and ppp configuration

2011-09-10 Thread Mantas M.
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 04:27:20PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > 2. The fact that I have _two_ new network interfaces. >The existence of the 'usb0' one seems to suggest I >don't need pppd at all, but how then to bring it up ? `dhcpcd usb0` might just be enough. -- Mantas M.