Re: [arch-general] Translation not fully working with gnome and gdm

2020-11-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Hi, you didn't provide the information how you tried to enable the translations. Could the following be the culprit? "If you are using a desktop environment, such as GNOME, its language settings may be overriding the settings in locale.conf." - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/locale#My_syste

Re: [arch-general] Dual Boot with Windows 10 20H2

2020-11-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Hi, I'm an artist who was forced to learn (analog) photography, but isn't interested in photography. However, since a few month I'm using a Sony α6400. I'm not aware off any professional Linux software for artwork, at best software with all professional features does exist, but gets way to often b

Re: [arch-general] Problem formatting/initialising new WD GameDrive USB disk

2020-10-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
PS: I experienced input/output errors under some special conditions, with the "good" fantec enclosures and healthy HDDs, too, e.g. when using hfs+ and not running fsck.hfsplus when connected to my Arch Linux PC, after using the hfs+ partition with iPadOS.

Re: [arch-general] Problem formatting/initialising new WD GameDrive USB disk

2020-10-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Hi Jeanette, external USB drives could be a PITA. I don't buy pre-build drives, but most enclosures I bought were a PITA, suffering from input/output errors. I had a lot of discussions with vendors and always got my money back. As a rule of thumb, if the USB controller (again, the USB controller,

Re: [arch-general] cd/dvd burning software

2020-10-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:21:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >I recommend to use a search engine and a search term such as > > linux software to print cd inlay I'm serious, it's not meant as an offence. The OP probably already did this ;). At least I never came across all in one s

Re: [arch-general] cd/dvd burning software

2020-10-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:54:40 +0200, Samuel Čavoj wrote: >On 21.10.2020 13:27, mick howe via arch-general wrote: >> print a simple, plain text file list prefer to fit the disc case > >I suggest xfburn Hi, I'm using xfburn a lot, but never noticed an option to print CD inlays. Let alone, that the

Re: [arch-general] Why bind-tools was merged into bind package?

2020-07-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:15:47 +0200, Óscar García Amor wrote: >The problem is. Where is the limit? The whole distribution in one >package? The argument is the same, if you don't need it simply don't >use it. No it is not the same! Not splitting software provided by a single upstream source into se

Re: [arch-general] What do you do with pacman.log? Periodically archive? Delete?

2020-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 02:12:28 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >On 6/18/20 2:09 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> This is more of what is the recommended practice ... for handling >> pacman.log? >> >> Strange question, yes, but pacman.log is one of those that never >> gets rotated, etc.. T

Re: [arch-general] Keyboard Problem in Mate Arch Linux for the Last Few Days

2020-06-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 16:12:25 +0530, das via arch-general wrote: >On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 3:39 PM Andreas Radke >wrote: >> >> It's a known bug: >> >> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/66898 >> > >Dear Friend Andreas Radke > >Thank you for the help. I went to the link: >https://gitlab.freedesktop.or

Re: [arch-general] Arch should be apolitical

2020-06-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:53:02 -0400, Olivier Langlois wrote: >https://thenationalpulse.com/ Isn't this a right-wing propaganda media? IIUC you are so far the only one making a political issue out of a sincere exchange of thoughts, regarding an off-topic thread. FWIW the logo has got only a single

Re: [arch-general] Arch should be apolitical

2020-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 01:31:24 +, Kyle via arch-general wrote: >I ask about the website because I'm visually impaired, using the Orca >screen reader, so am unable to see for myself what if anything was >done to the logo that appears on the Arch website. The logos on https://www.archlinux.org/ ht

Re: [arch-general] Arch should be apolitical

2020-06-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Mon, 01 Jun 2020 23:43:10 +, Ricardo Band wrote: >It's a rainbow, not a swastika. +1 In what colour should we paint the bike shed? I seriously doubt that "outside of western countries most countries are strictly against" rainbow coloured bike sheds or logos. Those "ominous" countries prob

Re: [arch-general] Kaffeine failure

2020-05-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Fri, 15 May 2020 23:41:49 +0100, pete via arch-general wrote: >Good evening Ralf > >right i am using > >KDE [snip] > > hopefully over the next few days my head will realign itself been a > hard few weeks mentally and physically Hi Pete, unfortunately subscribing to https://mail.kde.org/mai

Re: [arch-general] Kaffeine failure

2020-05-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Hi, I've no clue regarding kaffeine and DVB-T. Regarding the double-click and icon issue it would be helpful to know what desktop environment or window manager, what theme and icon theme and possible file manager/desktop thingy you are using. If you should use Dolphin with or without KDE, then re

Re: [arch-general] r8169: transmit queue 0 timed out - dying hardware?

2020-05-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sat, 9 May 2020 20:08:52 +0200, Bjoern Franke via arch-general wrote: >The issue appears with 5.6.x and also 5.4.x LTS, now even the DHCP >request failed after rebooting with 5.6.11. > >As it appears with both kernel branches, I hardly believe it's a >kernel issue. But dying ethernet chipsets o

Re: [arch-general] Doubts with 'apulse'

2020-04-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
I stopped using firefox with apulse a long time ago, since firefox support for ALSA and Jack works, it's just a PITA to use firefox for audio and video. As for ALSA support, it often happens, that you need to close all tabs and sometimes even firefox completely, before you can open a single tab wi

Re: [arch-general] Multi-threaded mkinitpcio

2020-04-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 04:36:37 +0200, mpan wrote: >Half of the time mkinitcpio was waiting for disk I/O. Even while it's unlikely that only mkinitcpio suffers from a damaged HDD and even while smartctl not necessarily does show issues of a already damaged aged HDD, I would run smartctl and take a loo

Re: [arch-general] latest kernel update surprise

2020-03-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sun, 2020-03-22 at 13:34 -0400, Chris Billington wrote: > These repackage the Arch kernels so that multiple versions can be > installed simultaneously, so that after an upgrade the previous > version is still available. If an install should suffer from a kernel regression a Linux live media and

Re: [arch-general] latest kernel update surprise

2020-03-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 14:43:44 +0100, Bennett Piater wrote: >However, maybe you should consider using the LTS kernel, packages as >linux- lts? It doesn't harm to install more than just one kernel and one of those kernels IMO should be a LTS kernel.

Re: [arch-general] Chromium in a systemd-nspawn container?

2020-02-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sat, 2020-02-22 at 19:30 +0100, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > I'm using systemd-nspawn only for command line, but I'm using > google-chrome, not chromium, by another user account. Since I'm a little > bit lazy, I'm using the sledgehammer, a simple xhost+

Re: [arch-general] Chromium in a systemd-nspawn container?

2020-02-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Hi, I'm using systemd-nspawn only for command line, but I'm using google-chrome, not chromium, by another user account. Since I'm a little bit lazy, I'm using the sledgehammer, a simple xhost+. More or less the whole script: xhost + gksudo -u chuser "$*" xhost - exit Since a few days back this

[arch-general] [OT] post-install dependencies check

2020-02-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 16:12 -0500, Chris Billington wrote: > That looks like an unrelated bug in a hook installed by pacaudit. Thank you for reporting it. Since you reported the issue, it now is fixed. https://github.com/steffenfritz/pacaudit/commit/98f2449f3bd406043796e151ad0ed4e2886f8922

Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check

2020-02-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 17:19 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 2/21/20 4:22 PM, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > > I suspect that paccheck's recursive option is unneeded. > > I don't understand how you could possibly think so? The recursive option >

Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check

2020-02-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:27:48 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:22:14 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>I suspect that paccheck's recursive option is unneeded. > >Doing a few tests, the quite option seems to have no impact either. > >paccheck --opt-depen

Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check

2020-02-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 23:10:05 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> You should report it here: https://github.com/steffenfritz/pacaudit My bad I read "_pac_utils" instead of "_pac_audit". My apologies!

Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check

2020-02-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:17:55 +0100, ProgAndy wrote: >security.archlinux.org seems to be broken at the moment and returns >"Internal Server Error". That is interesting. Yes, it does. On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 16:12 -0500, Chris Billington wrote: > That looks like an unrelated bug in a hook installed b

Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check

2020-02-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:22:14 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >I suspect that paccheck's recursive option is unneeded. Doing a few tests, the quite option seems to have no impact either. paccheck --opt-depends or paccheck --opt-depends PACKAGE_NAME seems to provide the same output as

Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check

2020-02-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
I suspect that paccheck's recursive option is unneeded. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi alure | sed -n '/Deps/,$p' | sed '/^Required/q' | grep -v Required\ By | grep -v None | grep -v installed] dumb: for IT, XM, S3M and MOD support [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ paccheck --op

Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check

2020-02-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 14:29 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > paccheck --opt-depends --quiet --recursive Thank you for the pointer :), it does the job. Btw. when installing it there was an issue: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo pacman -S pacutils [snip] (1/1) pacaudit-pre.hook 2020/

Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check

2020-02-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 14:11 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Can pacman be used to find which packages are missing which optional > dependencies after an install? In the Internet I found "For example with xmms2: pacman -Qi xmms2 | sed -n '/^Optional/,$p' | sed '/^Required/q' | head -n -1 | cut -c19

Re: [arch-general] pacman error when installing

2020-01-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Wed, 2020-01-22 at 09:29 +0100, Maykel Franco via arch-general wrote: > error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) First consider to check which package/s contain the conflicting files? Maybe obsolete packages could be removed. pacman -Qo /path/file-name

Re: [arch-general] Mouse freezes

2020-01-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Hi, a wireless USB dongle mouse, as well as a wired USB mouse could suffer from USB energy saving. Once a power saving mechanism considers that USB is idle, a remote wakeup is required. Either an idle-delay time setting might have changed or some software without a power saving mechanism now has

Re: [arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical archlinux install

2020-01-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Mon, 06 Jan 2020 18:10:24 +, mar77i via arch-general wrote: >On Monday, January 6, 2020 6:55 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> [...] >> I read about a nopulse package on the arch bbs site in messages but >> couldn't find that on aur so decided to do some edits on the pulse >> configuration files.

Re: [arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical accessible environment on archlinux

2020-01-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Hi Brent, it's unlikely a ticking time bomb for me, while building "pro-"audio related packages from AUR as well as my own packages. However, I agree that empty dummy packages might inherit risks. Since Jude run into an "averaged desktop audio" pulseaudio related issues, it indeed might be the be

Re: [arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical accessible environment on archlinux

2020-01-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
PS: AFAIK nowadays it's possible to disable or enable pulseaudio on demand without issues. It was a PITA in the early days.

Re: [arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical accessible environment on archlinux

2020-01-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 02:45:53 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: >I install gnome which has orca in it. The pulseaudio package installs >along with all of its core gnome dependencies Hi, I don't know if this helps or might break Orca audio for GNOME. For completely other reasons I'm using an empty dummy

Re: [arch-general] Adding a "posix" metapackage

2020-01-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sun, 05 Jan 2020 14:12:44 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >Another time, I'll make clear it's a carry-over from a different list >to avoid confusion for those not reading both. Hi Ralph, no worries! It's interesting to read the thread. Thank you for forwarding it to Arch general. I can't comment

Re: [arch-general] Adding a "posix" metapackage

2020-01-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 18:33:19 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >Who said anything about System V init? Why would System V init be >needed for portability? Running startup scripts by using run levels isn't that uncommon outside of Linux.

Re: [arch-general] Adding a "posix" metapackage

2020-01-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 18:33:19 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >The thread started on arch-dev-public; replies on arch-general occurred >when members of the community wished to discuss the matter as well. >Hope that helps. :) Hi Eli, yes, it's helpful ;). Regards, Ralf PS: I prefer bas

Re: [arch-general] Zstandard for local user build packages - Was: [arch-announce] Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression

2020-01-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 23:46:26 +0100, Morten Linderud via arch-general wrote: >On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 11:43:03PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> Do we manually change the "EXTENSION DEFAULTS" and/or something else? ^need to >This is a devtools change, the `makepkg.conf

[arch-general] Zstandard for local user build packages - Was: [arch-announce] Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression

2020-01-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sat, 04 Jan 2020 20:35:55 -, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Robin Broda wrote: >our package compression scheme has changed from xz (.pkg.tar.xz) to >[zstd(.pkg.tar.zst)] Hi, what needs to be done to build local .pkg.tar.zst packages? If I build local packages, they are still .pkg.tar.

Re: [arch-general] Adding a "posix" metapackage

2020-01-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 15:50:24 +, Neven Sajko wrote: >http://www.etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html Thank you :)!

Re: [arch-general] Adding a "posix" metapackage

2020-01-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sat, 04 Jan 2020 12:41:26 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >Arch users may be producing code for non-Arch, non-Linux, systems. Happy New Year! Pff! Bash is the most used login shell for Linux for good reasons. Sometimes I like it faster, hence I like to use dash, sometimes I like portability to at

Re: [arch-general] Failed to compile dnsmasq latest git version with `-DHAVE_LUASCRIPT' on Manjaro.

2019-11-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
>On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 at 06:28, Hongyi Zhao wrote: >> $ yay -S lua52 Hi, even while the issue obviously is not caused by yay, you anyway shouldn't use an AUR helper, to install a package, neither from AUR, nor from Extra or any other repository, at least not when reporting bugs or asking for help.

Re: [arch-general] Issue with 'eject -T'

2019-10-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sat, 2019-10-19 at 11:54 +0200, Guus Snijders wrote: > Op za 19 okt. 2019 11:30 schreef Ralf Mardorf via arch-general > : > > Hi, > > > > 'eject -T' doesn't work anymore on my machine, resp. opening the DVD > > drive doesn't work anymore, w

[arch-general] Issue with 'eject -T'

2019-10-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Hi, 'eject -T' doesn't work anymore on my machine, resp. opening the DVD drive doesn't work anymore, when using the traytoggle option. Opening still works without an option and closing with the traytoggle option also still works. $ eject -V eject from util-linux 2.34 $ eject -T eject: CD-ROM ejec

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:33:51 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >Hi Ralf, > >> An editor is a fundamental tool > >Yes, but stepping back a bit... do you accept that neither a text >editor, or less(1), are required on a minimal install that's just being >used as a base for producing a specialised instal

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:26:19 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >Hi Eli, > >> Off the top of my head: >> >> vi >> vim >... > >I was curious. Others might be interested in the result. > >$ expac -S '%m %n' vi vim neovim vis ed emacs acme gedit pluma xed > \ >>geany leafpad kate nano vscode

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Hi, IMO it's a good idea that the Arch developers want to rework "base", but IMO the result is a bit overdone. Don't get me wrong, I can live with the current base package, if the developers like it, it's ok for me. However, I do understand that users are surprised that even vi/m is excluded. My

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 10:19:38 -0400, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: >On 10/9/19 10:11 AM, Tinu Weber wrote: >> >> https://web.archive.org/web/20190722121302/https://www.archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/base/ >> > >Perfect - thank you! IMO 'reiserfsprogs' is a good pointer for what reason to chan

[arch-general] Broken dependency in extra - java-openjfx

2019-10-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Hi, to update my install I needed to remove java-openjfx. Probably an unneeded package, however, it's still provided by extra. Should I open a bug report or is fixing it already in the pipeline? There's an outdated package in testing since 2019-08-20, too. $ sudo pacman -Syu [snip] looking for c

Re: [arch-general] High lag in graphical applications

2019-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
FWIW when running a stress test boot options might affect performance. For my current session i915 has got low priority. It might be of worth to care about this or similar pitfalls. $ grep Threadirqs /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg -A5 | head -5 LABEL Threadirqs MENU LABEL Arch Linux ^threadirqs

Re: [arch-general] High lag in graphical applications

2019-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 19:32:37 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 19:09:32 +0200, hw wrote: >>On Thursday, September 19, 2019 6:23:29 PM CEST L. Rose wrote: >>> What kind of stress test comes to your mind? >> >>It had been noticeable when running

Re: [arch-general] High lag in graphical applications

2019-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 19:09:32 +0200, hw wrote: >On Thursday, September 19, 2019 6:23:29 PM CEST L. Rose wrote: >> What kind of stress test comes to your mind? > >It had been noticeable when running an OpenGL program in that the >program would freeze up for a second or two and then kept going as if

Re: [arch-general] Linux 5.3 - Virtualbox 5.2.32 modules fail to build - upstream bug opened

2019-09-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
virtualbox-bin from AUR is already patched with a fix. https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=virtualbox-bin&id=83f1870f15d86179a665dc0c6b36815a385f6fbe You could try to adapt it to your virtualbox-bin-5 tarball from AUR without much editing... $ wget -q https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit

Re: [arch-general] Linux 5.3 - Virtualbox 5.2.32 modules fail to build - upstream bug opened

2019-09-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 20:12:53 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: >All, > > Note to anyone is still using Virtualbox 5.2.32 (that can't move to > Ver. 6 >due to headless behavior with Windows guests), on update to Linux 5.3, >virtualbox models fail to build using dkms. > >Upstream bug filed: https://www.

Re: [arch-general] Time and date in 24 hour time can this be fixed?

2019-09-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 14:30:52 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: >For us command line users the date command has lots of parameters, and >bash can do aliases to save a date and/or time format you like when you >get it just right. The info date command get anyone interested >started. Hi, LC_TIME is impor

Re: [arch-general] Time and date in 24 hour time can this be fixed?

2019-09-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:56:46 -0400, Matthew Dyer via arch-general wrote: >I am getting a sintax error when runn locale(1).  Locale is set to >en_US.UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gebn.  At least it is uncommeted. Should I >rerun the locale.-gen and see if that helps. Hi Matthew, if I were you I would rep

Re: [arch-general] rkhunter found possible rootkit

2019-08-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:15:58 +0200, ProgAndy wrote: >Am 20.08.19 um 10:00 schrieb Filipe Laíns via arch-general: >> On Tue, 2019-08-20 at 08:33 +0200, Oliver Jaksch wrote: >> No, those libraries are used for key manipulation, that's why >> rkhunter thinks that they might be sniffer. >> >In thi

Re: [arch-general] rkhunter found possible rootkit

2019-08-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Tue, 2019-08-20 at 08:33 +0200, Oliver Jaksch via arch-general wrote: > Should I/we be worried? Hi Oliver, if something conceivably harmful is found you should take care. If you wouldn't, then why are you using it at all? If proprietary software would detect something you suspect to be a false

Re: [arch-general] How to connect to iOS DCIM/APPLE* folders for copying items to the Linux PC

2019-08-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Another update: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63477

Re: [arch-general] How to connect to iOS DCIM/APPLE* folders for copying items to the Linux PC

2019-08-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Update: Actually it works for an iPad 2, after running $ mkdir ipad $ ifuse -u $(idevice_id -l) ipad/ access to ipad/DCIM/*APPLE/ folders is provided. It fails for the iPad I'm using nowadays, see https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/828 . I run into an issue when try

Re: [arch-general] Whatsapp group

2019-08-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Wed, 2019-08-14 at 12:21 +0530, Ram Kumar via arch-general wrote: > > That's what the IRC channels are for: > > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_IRC_channels > > Is it possible to use android devices to access irc? If so, can u plz > guide me? https://lmgtfy.com/?q=android+irc

Re: [arch-general] Does Evolution or Claws work for other Arch Linux users?

2019-08-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
packages are installed is missing, but that isn't an issue at all. See https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62317#comment180732 : "Comment by Ralf Mardorf (Ralf) - Monday, 05 August 2019, 10:45 GMT The issue is solved. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2019-August/msg00066.htm

[arch-general] Does Evolution or Claws work for other Arch Linux users?

2019-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Hi, both MUAs Evolution and Claws are broken on my machine. I tried to at least work around the Evolution issue, but this was a naive miscalculation. I ensured that icu 64 is available for other apps and that ico 63 is available to build and run evolution and that the sonames are linked against i

Re: [arch-general] talkingarch

2019-07-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
https://nashcentral.duckdns.org/projects/Jenux-2019.07.21-x86_64.iso https://nashcentral.duckdns.org/projects/Jenux-2019.07.29-x86_64.iso Those are not the same links :D, .07.21 vs .07.29

Re: [arch-general] talkingarch

2019-07-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Tue, 2019-07-30 at 09:34 -0300, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote: > Hey Jude Lennon and McCartney. > I receive the following error when I clicked the link Yes, I get it, too, but there is a link nashcentral.duckdns.org if you follow the link it leads to https://nashcentral.duckdns.org/proj

Re: [arch-general] Can't change tty's since last update

2019-07-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:09:55 +0200 (CEST), Jeanette C. wrote: >pacman -Ss udev $ pacman -Ql systemd | grep etc/udev systemd /etc/udev/ systemd /etc/udev/hwdb.d/ systemd /etc/udev/rules.d/ systemd /etc/udev/udev.conf On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:05:36 +0200 (CEST), Jeanette C. wrote: >I have taken audit

Re: [arch-general] Can't change tty's since last update

2019-07-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:46:16 +0200 (CEST), Jeanette C. wrote: >May it further be an indication that my jackd settings have lead to >major xruns on input, using jackd1? PS: I don't know, but real-time audio related migrating to another kernel always could make a difference. Btw. if you should use

Re: [arch-general] Can't change tty's since last update

2019-07-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:46:16 +0200 (CEST), Jeanette C. wrote: >since my last update, today, I sometimes can't change ttys. Using >showkey I have checked that both the alt key and the f-keys are coming >through. > >Might this be a kernel issues. I believe I came from 5.0.x and am now >on 5.2.3. Hi,

Re: [arch-general] talking arch

2019-07-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:59:24 +, NTS wrote: >There are Arch Linux user groups in many cities around the world. Is there a list available? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/International_communities does only mention two user groups: German Homepage: https://www.archlinux.de/ Forum: https:/

Re: [arch-general] Hardware video acceleration

2019-07-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sun, 2019-07-21 at 21:22 +0200, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: > On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 4:01 PM Ralf Mardorf via arch-general > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > when playing youtube videos hardware video acceleration seems to gain > > absolutely nothing on my machin

Re: [arch-general] Hardware video acceleration

2019-07-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sun, 2019-07-21 at 18:16 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > have you tried ‘mpv foo.mp4’ so you can see what it outputs about its > video out, ‘VO’, choice before it starts playing? Hi, thank you Ralph. $ ffmpeg -i IMG_2907.MOV -vcodec libx264 mp4_2907.mp4 [snip] $ mpv mp4_2907.mp4 Playing:

[arch-general] PS: Hardware video acceleration

2019-07-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sun, 2019-07-21 at 16:00 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The percent values playing a youtube video with and without enhanced- > h264ify are raw estimated values ^^ average values ;) based up

[arch-general] Hardware video acceleration

2019-07-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Hi, when playing youtube videos hardware video acceleration seems to gain absolutely nothing on my machine or I've done something wrong ;). Am I missing something? The percent values playing a youtube video with and without enhanced- h264ify are raw estimated values, based upon my impression, so

Re: [arch-general] Proper use of signify in PKGBUILDs

2019-07-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 02:42:39 -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >The latter problem is why I'm incredibly frustrated by projects that >use PGP, too -- when the only thing they sign is a file containing >checksums, and not the actual source file. But it doesn't matter, since when the chec

Re: [arch-general] PC build for hardware video acceleration

2019-07-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:37:42 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 15:54:23 +0200, Bruno Pagani wrote: >>And currently AMD ones seems to be quite above Intel solutions. ;) > >My experiences with AMD for real-time audio are that bad, that I'm in >favour of suff

Re: [arch-general] PC build for hardware video acceleration

2019-07-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 15:54:23 +0200, Bruno Pagani via arch-general wrote: >And currently AMD ones seems to be quite above Intel solutions. ;) My experiences with AMD for real-time audio are that bad, that I'm in favour of suffering from Meltdown and Spectre, than ever using an AMD based machine aga

Re: [arch-general] External monitors are no longer detected (Intel graphics)

2019-07-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Wed, 03 Jul 2019 09:58:48 +0200, Bennett Piater wrote: >On 2019-07-03 09:51, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: >> On Wed, 03 Jul 2019 09:25:46 +0200, Bennett Piater wrote: >>> I opened an Arch bug so we can track it: >>> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63079 &

Re: [arch-general] External monitors are no longer detected (Intel graphics)

2019-07-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Wed, 03 Jul 2019 09:25:46 +0200, Bennett Piater wrote: >I opened an Arch bug so we can track it: >https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63079 > >The maintainers can report it further upstream, they know where - >that's what they are for :) Hi, since I didn't follow this thread close enough, I don't

Re: [arch-general] Different outputs for 'groups' and 'groups user'

2019-06-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:00:53 -0300, riveravaldez via arch-general wrote: >[user@arch ~]$ whoami >user >[user@arch ~]$ groups >sys lp wheel ftp uucp log rfkill http games audio users user >[user@arch ~]$ groups user >sys lp wheel ftp uucp log rfkill http games audio users realtime user Log out and

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 20:07:00 -0700, Justin Capella wrote: >I did a quick search and noticed by default pbkdf2 is not used... IIRC (I don't want to re-read the thread and might be mistaken) the intention is to use something like this for a master passphrase, to unlock a password manager.

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:41:03 +1000, asymptosis via arch-general wrote: >In practice, I believe any decent password cracker would start with a >dictionary of the most common word There are some common human patterns. In music for example it's unusual to play a b c d, its more common to play patter

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Wed, 2019-06-26 at 10:41 +1000, asymptosis via arch-general wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_passwords That's interesting. The most common passwords even don't contain simple patterns as reversed words, such as "drowssap". It's funny that "aleatoric" is a very impo

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 23:16:04 +0200, mpan wrote: >> Randomly open a dictionary and then randomly pointing on a word, >> repeating this a few times, is one way for an artist to get an >> inspiration. >> >> I wonder how safe it is to use such a method to generate a >> passphrase. > An old Chinese

Re: [arch-general] HDMI Output died over night

2019-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:07:56 -0400, Florian Wehner wrote: >I wasn’t able to get my HDMI output running on my Lenovo X1 Carbon 6th >gen today. I run gnome on Wayland. It has been working fine for the >last few days but completely dead today. Did an update affect anything? I'm using Driver "intel"

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Tue, 2019-06-25 at 12:41 +0200, Bennett Piater wrote: > > On 2019-06-25 12:11, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > > Six words are just six words out of an assessable vocabulary. > > > > "This level of unpredictability assumes that a potential attacker knows &g

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 11:53:11 +0200, mpan wrote: >You are trying to argue, that it is OK to use pin tumbler locks in >wooden doors, while everyone can — at nearly the same price — acquire >10-inch steel gates with scifi eye scanners and a private army to >defend the gate.⁽ᵗⁱⁿʸ ᵉˣᵃᵍᵍᵉʳᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿ⁾ ;) :D

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Tue, 2019-06-25 at 11:29 +0200, Bennett Piater wrote: > On 2019-06-25 11:09, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:35:53 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > > Are you familiar with https://xkcd.com/936/ ? > > > > Too funny, that is the meth

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 10:57:55 +0200, mpan wrote: > In 2015 four men have stolen equivalent of 200M GBP from Hatton > Garden Safe Deposit. Does that mean you are not locking your door, > because “thieves can get in anyway”? You ignore the context of my email. I've also written: "IMO an averaged "s

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:35:53 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >Are you familiar with https://xkcd.com/936/ ? Too funny, that is the method I described and while I was writing my email, you posted that cartoon. However, even this suffers from the pitfall, that it is not that easy to use this mnemonic a

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Tue, 2019-06-25 at 03:00 +0200, Emil Lundberg wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2019, 01:14 Ralf Mardorf via arch-general, > wrote: > > You want to make the packages available for general use. Does general > > use require behavioral biometric verification and spring guns? > >

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
You want to make the packages available for general use. Does general use require behavioral biometric verification and spring guns? Black hats are able to hack Google and Facebook, what ever you will do, you never ever will be able to reach the level of security those and the other most successfu

[arch-general] How to connect to iOS DCIM/APPLE* folders for copying items to the Linux PC

2019-05-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Hi, is there a way to get access to the DCIM/APPLE* folders on an iOS device, without the need to install GVFS? Would it be possible with an app that depends on GVFS? If I follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IOS#Manual_mounting it works for user apps [1], but it fails for system apps [2].

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sat, 25 May 2019 05:54:23 +, Neven Sajko via arch-general wrote: >Regarding using bash as sh: > >> Bash runs POSIX scripts just fine. > >Bash does not run some POSIX scripts fine. See >https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-08/msg00087.html , >for example. In that case an executa

Re: [arch-general] Arch on NVMe ssd

2019-05-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Thu, 23 May 2019 09:01:49 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >The SSD drive also reports its own personal view of lifetime remaining >and other interesting statistics using >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T%2E. > >173 Ave_Block-Erase_Count -O--CK 095 095 000-77 >202 Perc

Re: [arch-general] Linux tool to convert sf2 to sfz

2019-05-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Thu, 16 May 2019 17:40:31 +0200, Oliver Jaksch wrote: >Ralf, have a look at the program "polyphone". It's in the community >repo and seems to be able to convert sf2 to sfz and vice versa (main >menu/export soundfonts) Thank you Oliver, loading and exporting soundfonts is easy to do. I still ne

Re: [arch-general] Installing base unattended without specific packages

2019-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Thu, 16 May 2019 10:40:26 +0200, Tinu Weber wrote: >If nothing depends on linux or linux-firmware, what is the point of >installing dummy packages? I agree, after installing all packages simply removing the unwanted packages makes more sense. I just was uncertain, if the OP for what reason ever

[arch-general] Linux tool to convert sf2 to sfz

2019-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Hi, does somebody know a Linux tool to convert soundfonts from sf2 to sfz? I tried to send this request to https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-proaudio first, but I got "Your message has been rejected, probably because you are not subscribed to the mailing list". I seemingly was arbitrary r

Re: [arch-general] Installing base unattended without specific packages

2019-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Tue, 14 May 2019 23:08:35 +0200, Sefa Eyeoglu via arch-general wrote: >The packages linux and linux-firmware still get installed. I would >prefer if there would be a way to install base, but without all of the >irrelevant stuff for containers. Hi, first run pactree -r linux-firmware pactree -

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