[arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!

2010-03-15 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
e nice Arch user point me at enough step by step instructions so that I can get enough of a gui up to use a browser like firefox so I can try to find solutions via the web while Arch is actually running??? Please! -- |^^^ ^^^ | Joe (theWordy) Philbrook |^ J(tWdy)P | ___ <> | ' `

Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!

2010-03-16 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
his part, looking at pacman -Ss > xfce output. And even then, it could have worked, would xfdesktop have taken > as > dependancies the whole desktop. Thanks for pointing that out. Still it looks like if I'd have read the whole beginners guide first, I wouldn't have been as li

Re: [arch-general] HAL depreciation

2010-03-17 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
the installation cd/dvd. And I gotta say that so far I'm VERY impressed with the arch wiki documents. They actually seem to be written to instruct the guy who doesn't already know the answers... So how will this up and coming demise of hal affect idiots like me who don't know how

Re: [arch-general] on rolling release / reinstallation

2010-03-17 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
got time to test all my stuff. AND B) I've got time to look for a workaround that I hope someone else already figured out...) My question is how often would you recommend doing a "pacman -Syu" to avoid having so many "workarounds" that you feel like it might have been easier to reinstall -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>

[arch-general] fdisk vs cfdisk... And is my drive borked or what?

2010-03-17 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
r and cylinder views of my part table below, Is this anything I should be worried about??? Is there a way to fix this without destroying everything in the extended partition??? (That's a LOT of backing up to dvd, and I don't have room anyplace else...) -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWord

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs cfdisk... And is my drive borked or what?

2010-03-18 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 17, Linas did say: > Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > fdisk /dev/sda > > > > Which complained about a dos compatibility flag and that I should > > change the display/entry units to sectors. This showed me a small bit of > > u

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs cfdisk... And is my drive borked or what?

2010-03-19 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
news is afterwards, I rebooted (successfully) And then tested cfdisk, which no longer complains. I figure if cfdisk is willing to work on it, my partition table must now be nearly perfect... -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P |~\___/~ <>

[arch-general] I'm having a brain far^Hilure... I can't find the XFCE control

2010-03-19 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
ns. could somebody give me a clue how to disable them? Thanks! -- | ~^~ ~^~ | Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] I'm having a brain far^Hilure... I can't find the XFCE control

2010-03-19 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 19, Heiko Baums did say: > Am Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:50:36 -0400 > schrieb "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" : > > > > could somebody give me a clue how to disable them? Thanks! > > Right click onto the desktop. Then desktop settings -> Icon

Re: [arch-general] I'm having a brain far^Hilure... I can't find the XFCE control

2010-03-21 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
o if, for example I can set a different (familiar) picture to each of my desktop areas (workspaces) Which I use to group certain tasks. I can use the background to quickly see if I'm in the workspace I think I am before I start opening applications related to that task-group. I know

Re: [arch-general] I'm having a brain far^Hilure... I can't find the XFCE control

2010-03-21 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 21, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say: > Thank you "bardo"! Trouble is I just tried that and I still get icons for > any files in ~/Desktop. Hunh? Now I'm confused. I verified that Icon type setting (which was already in place when I fired up

Re: [arch-general] I'm having a brain far^Hilure... I can't find the XFCE control

2010-03-21 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
s working now, then I really don't care... -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P | \___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] I'm having a brain far^Hilure... I can't find the XFCE control

2010-03-21 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 21, Heiko Baums did say: > Am Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:15:43 -0400 > schrieb "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" : > > > BTW I don't suppose you know of a way to get a different background > > image on each XFCE workspace??? > > That

[arch-general] /etc/rc.local: "chown user: /dev/sda10" /etc/fstab: "defaults, owner, noauto"

2010-03-29 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
d the mount permisions to just any user even though this multi-boot linux box is my personal computer that nobody else uses... Recommendations anyone? -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] /etc/rc.local: "chown user: /dev/sda10" /etc/fstab: "defaults, owner, noauto"

2010-03-29 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 29, Thomas Bächler did say: > Am 29.03.2010 15:01, schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook: > > I was pleased to note that Arch evidently does think a rc.local is an > > appropriate place for local initialization stuff to happen. However it's > >

Re: [arch-general] /etc/rc.local: "chown user: /dev/sda10" /etc/fstab: "defaults, owner, noauto"

2010-03-29 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 30, Thomas Bächler did say: > Am 29.03.2010 23:58, schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook: > > I do hope this is a valid adaption of the above template: > > > > SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_FS_LABEL}=="j10_lap-10", OWNER="jtwd

[arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-29 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
es??? One that understands keyboard commands for it's functions??? And hopefully one that doesn't force me to break out a microscope to read any displayed text or labels on some prettified gui representation of some livingroom sound system where I don't even know which knob or button it wants me to click on is supposed to do what??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-31 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
play > p pause > s stop > n next > b back > S toggle shuffle > Somehow much more intuitive, isn't it? Those, I might be able to remember... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to start a debate over which music program is better. I guess some people have strongly entrenched preferences. I wonder if that infamous long running vi/emacs holy war started as innocently as a request for suggestions for a good editor... Oh no, tell me I didn't just mention both editor names in the same thread... Whoopsie! Seriously though, I thank you, one and all, for the suggestions. -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P |~\___/~ <>

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-31 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 31, Guilherme M. Nogueira did say: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook > wrote: > > > [ ... ] > > 99% of the time what I want is to just play the whole list in random order > > with an easy hot key to skip any I dec

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Release Question

2010-04-08 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
upgrade" (2 out of 5 such upgrades really hosed my my 'buntu installs...)} then I'll be singing praises to the rolling release concept for a long time. (I really detest having to recreate my user environment every 6 months...) Nuff said. -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P |~\___/~ <>

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Release Question

2010-04-09 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Apr 8, Isaac Dupree did say: > On 04/08/10 07:21, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > My take on it is that while it's always a good idea to be using a > > current install medium, with Arch it only matters that your system is > > able to beco

[arch-general] successful pacman -Syu w/new kernal26: Now have microscopic console font :-(

2010-04-10 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
ocal. But now that it lops the majority of the boot messages off the top it's beyond my ability to kludgon it into submission. ;-( Suggestions anyone? -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <> I'm NOT clueless... But I just don't know.

Re: [arch-general] successful pacman -Syu w/new kernal26: Now have microscopic console font :-(

2010-04-10 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Apr 10, Jeroen Op 't Eynde did say: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:00:53 +0200, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook > wrote: > > >Sigh... > > > >Problem #1 > > > >How can I stop the reduction in the console font size??? > > &

[arch-general] KVM with larger console font set in rc.conf[was ...microscoic console font...]

2010-04-10 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Apr 10, I, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did utter: > It would appear that on Apr 10, Jeroen Op 't Eynde did say: > > > For #1: For the resolution, you probably have some high resolution screen > > and > > KMS is now enabled by def

Re: [arch-general] KVM with larger console font set in rc.conf[was ...microscoic console font...]

2010-04-11 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
he time... It's on my todo list. In the meantime Somebody replied off list and pointed me at a decent set of fonts that I was even able to get via pacman. So at least I'm not squinting at my console screens anymore. Thanks -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P |~\___/~ <>

[arch-general] did my 4/10/10:pacman -Syu: destabilized e17's run command dialog??

2010-04-16 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
ktop, so I've reassigned the keybinding I used to pull up e17's run prompt with, to "/usr/bin/xfrun4". Which is works just fine. How can I a regular "Joe user", figure out if this is an actual E17 bug or if it's an Arch specific thing??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] NDN Messages

2010-04-18 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
al address that "Joey Kingery" subscribed with and manually unsubscribe it, the only answer is something like a procmail recipe routing such bounce messages to /dev/null... {sigh} whata waste of bits... ;-( -- | --- --- | Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | J(tWdy)P ^ | <> /---\ "bla bla bla..." | \___/ "...and bla..." At least I know my mouth is running, I just can't find the off button!

Re: [arch-general] did my 4/10/10:pacman -Syu: destabilized e17's run command dialog??

2010-04-18 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Apr 17, David C. Rankin did say: > On 04/16/2010 04:12 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > > > > How can I a regular "Joe user", figure out if this is an actual E17 bug > > or if it's an Arch specific thing??? > > &

Re: [arch-general] did my 4/10/10:pacman -Syu: destabilized e17's run command dialog??

2010-04-18 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Apr 18, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say: > It would appear that on Apr 17, David C. Rankin did say: > > > On 04/16/2010 04:12 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > > > > > > > How can I a regular "Joe user", figure out if

[arch-general] packman -S eterm [done] But: bash: eterm: command not found ????

2010-04-19 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
-19 21:34] installed libast (0.7-2) [2010-04-19 21:34] installed eterm (0.9.5-3) I note roxterm works, eterm doesn't... I don't see any errors listed in the pacman.log... -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] packman -S eterm [done] But: bash: eterm: command not found ????

2010-04-21 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Apr 20, Nathan Wayde did say: > On 20/04/10 03:56, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > > > Am I missing something obvious here??? > > > Yeah, `pacman -Ql eterm | grep bin/`. The binary is Eterm (upper-case e) "dou!" I think I knew t

[arch-general] dual ISP: 1)cable broadband (DHCP) 2){shudder} dial-up (ppp?) Please help!

2010-04-27 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
Hi. It's been so long since I've bothered with dial-up that I'm not sure where to begin. But so that I can bring my laptop with me to check my mail etc... when I'm visiting my sister I need to get it working. Without messing up my 'working' broadband set-up. It looks like my best bet is to use w

Re: [arch-general] dual ISP: 1)cable broadband (DHCP) 2){shudder} dial-up (ppp?) Please help!

2010-04-28 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Apr 28, Rogutės Sparnuotos did say: > Joe(theWordy)Philbrook (2010-04-28 02:21): > <...> > > When/if connected via dialup, I'll be paying by the connected hour, so I > > don't want anyone I don't trust with the root password to

Re: [arch-general] dual ISP: 1)cable broadband (DHCP) 2){shudder} dial-up (ppp?) Please help!

2010-04-29 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
{expletive deleted} 'personalities' at gateway build a "winmodem" into the high def sound card... Thanks again -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P | \___/ <>

[arch-general] starting network:fail[eth0 wasn't connected] How to enable without reboot?

2010-05-18 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
Ethernet cable, it doesn't automatically connect. I tried: # ifconfig eth0 up but ping still doesn't find my ISP What am I missing -- | ~^~ ~^~ | Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] starting network:fail[eth0 wasn't connected] How to enable without reboot?

2010-05-18 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
R suggestion, and that of Dan McGee, seem to explain what I was missing with my ifconfig idea... Which is what I actualy asked... I'd like to thank all of you very much for the kind suggestions. This thread will definitely be copied to my "LinuxClues" folder for future reference. -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P | \___/ <>

[arch-general] dialup woes wvdial, external v92 modem connected via usb/serial adapter

2010-06-03 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
I'm having a problem getting dialup to work... Due to financial limitations, I'm going to have to give up my expensive broadband connection in favor of {sigh} dial-up which will save me about $50/month. I still have my external v92 zoom serial modem from before I went broadband. But now that my on

Re: [arch-general] dialup woes wvdial, external v92 modem connected via usb/serial adapter

2010-06-03 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jun 4, Ross did say: > Perhaps you need pulse instead of tone dialing? If that is the case try > setting Dial Command = ATDP Thanks for the suggestion Ross. Though I don't see how that could be it... All of my telephones use tone not pulse (I just double checked the one o

Re: [arch-general] dialup woes wvdial, external v92 modem connected via usb/serial adapter

2010-06-04 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
nput/output error => UnderTree =-> vim /etc/wvdial.conf => UnderTree =-> wvdial => --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.61 => --> Cannot get information for serial port. => --> Initializing modem. => --> Sending: ATZ => ATZ => OK => --> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C0 &D2 H1 +FCLASS=0 => ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C0 &D2 H1 +FCLASS=0 => OK => --> Modem initialized. => --> Sending: ATDT7340102 => --> Waiting for carrier. => ATDT7340102 => ERROR => --> Invalid dial command. => --> Disconnecting at Sat Jun 5 00:38:10 2010 => UnderTree =-> Wvdial only finds the modem when I specify 'Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0' in my wvdial.conf file... -- |^^^ ^^^ | Joe (theWordy) Philbrook |^ J(tWdy)P | ___ <>

Re: [arch-general] dialup woes wvdial, external v92 modem connected via usb/serial adapter

2010-06-05 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jun 5, Ross did say: > On 05/06/10 17:36, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > > > Wvdial only finds the modem when I specify 'Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0' in > > my wvdial.conf file... > > > > > > Are you able to access the modem w

Re: [arch-general] File Associations for firefox & thunderbird :)^

2010-06-17 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
/okularApplication_*.desktop Than to: /usr/share/applications/evince.desktop would you be so kind as to give me a pointer or two? I mean I don't suppose I could getaway with simply renaming "evince.desktop" as "okular.desktop" to get that effect without buggering up my ab

[arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-03 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
one time blindly logged in as root to the console and blindly typed: shutdown -h now Which resulted in a powerdown. But I still don't have any idea what's killing my monitor output. I can use my PCLinuxOS installation's root account to examine/edit *ANY* file. But I don'

Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-04 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
e so uncomfortable that I forget why I was booting the durned computer in the first place. Heck I even insist on a text based grub menu for similar reasons. When I'm ready to put up with a GUI, I use startx, and not until... Still Like I told "Osku", I'll

Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-04 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 4, f...@kokkinizita.net did say: > I'm using XDM which is relatively painless compared to > GDM, KDM and friends. With a modified 'Arch' setup it > can be made to look nice. What looks nice to me is the console login prompt... Also aside from that, there's another re

Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-05 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 5, Ross did say: > On 05/07/10 07:08, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > I've yet to find a DE that will remember enough details of a konsole window > > in it's saved sessions method to prestart the correct application(s) in the > &

Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot [etc...] {mostly} [SOLVED] I think...

2010-07-05 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 5, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say: > I'm still hoping that the issues I'm having with mc etc... are related to > nomodeset rather than deeper issues. I ran a few empirical tests BTW and > fount that if I start mc before I access more than 2 or 3 tty

Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-06 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
anager in the first place Every time I install a new distro, one of the first things I gotta do is find out how to avoid their preferred DM and use startx when (and if) I decide I'm ready for X to start. Thanks for the suggestions Myra, If I'd have had your response before I'd installed n

Re: [arch-general] screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!???

2010-07-07 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
But I can't complain too much, Once I manage to get it configured to taste, E17 has always been a pleasure to use... At this point I've got Arch sufficiently squared away for me to consider making my next project installing Xubuntu an another partition... But not tonight! Th

Re: [arch-general] Blanks screen after boot

2010-07-08 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
arted on Jul 4th 2010 with the subject line of: screen goes blank on reboot after 1st pacman Su of new install!!!??? Hmmnnn I just noticed that I said "pacman Su" on that subject line rather than "pacman -Su"... Just goes to show that my brain is less than perfect. Hope this is of some help anyway. -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P |~\___/~ <>

Re: [arch-general] end of the war! Mate has come to archlinux...

2011-12-10 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
reason I can't use E I fall back on xfce. But from KDE{4} or gnome{any} I'll only use what I need to run a few selected applications. I'll admit I didn't try it with Fedora, But I gave up on them some time ago... Just an FYI... -- |^^^ ^^^ | Joe (theWordy) Philbrook |^ J(tWdy)P | ___ <>

Re: [arch-general] Top Posting Revisited

2011-12-22 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
ith his back against the wall and fight, like it was as important to never give up as if it was part of the great Emacs/Vi holy war or something... -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P | \___/ <> But if I actually knew everything, then I'd know I was an idiot...

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

2012-01-13 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
ith it's own editor/composer but can easily be configured to use your choice of alternate editors (I use vim with it)... Just a thought... -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P |~\___/~ <>

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

2012-01-14 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jan 13, gt did say: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 05:14:13PM +0200, Mantas M. wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 08:33:36AM -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > > Pardon me for jumping in here, but if mutt isn't smart enough to > > > autom

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

2012-01-15 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
ll be dropped by major distros. I'm happy to agree. -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P | \___/ <>

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

2012-04-05 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
n't want, don't use, don't understand, and mostly don't remember how to disable... Do you know if I'm going to have to go there again??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>

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

2012-04-06 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
ver did with am inserted sub stick... But that, likewise, hasn't happened in a long time. Guess I was just being nervous about nothing... -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P | \___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-05 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
an "Arch key" to UEFI, posting a wiki tutorial for that? Speaking for myself, I know I wouldn't have a clue how to do either without a good tutorial. And it's starting to sound like I'm going to have to know how to do one or the other by the time I'm ready for new hardware... My current desktop is from 2005, and it hasn't shown any signs of failing {yet}... {{Please God let me find such a tutorial when it does fail...}} -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P | \___/ <>

[arch-general] How up to date does pacman keep Enlightenment(e17)???

2010-07-18 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
on the same machine using the e17 provided with apt-get (both an up to date PCLOS2010 and an up to date Xubuntu Karmic installation) let me make these changes. Note: in all three cases the installer/package-manager provided Nvidia driver was installed. -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] How up to date does pacman keep Enlightenment(e17)???

2010-07-19 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 19, David C. Rankin did say: > On 07/19/2010 12:10 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > I can't change it's appearance (except to the extent of accepting a theme's > > default changes) > > > > I can't add or remove ga

Re: [arch-general] Getting firefox to use the PDF I want?

2010-07-22 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
e if I wanted to... And if I select "always ask" the pop-up doesn't offer okular except by clicking my way to the search box where I need to point or type the full path. IE: /usr/bin/okular rather than just okular So I decided to just set it and forget it. Hope this helps. -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P |~\___/~ <>

[arch-general] A question about using tar... ( -p & --numeric-owner)

2010-07-23 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
ot;-czf" operation makes any difference or not. Would someone be so kind as to set me straight on this??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] Getting firefox to use the PDF I want?

2010-07-23 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 23, Nathan Wayde did say: > On 22/07/10 23:31, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > I used the search box inside "Firefox->Edit->Preferences->Applications" to > > pull up what to do with "pdf" and was then able to set it

[arch-general] yaourt: aur-tovid-svn/./PKGBUILD: line 34: ./bootstrap: No such file or directory

2010-07-28 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
ch should have been a dependency???) And the command svn wasn't found... One odd thing. The last time I used yaourt once prior to this, once the package was compiled, it wanted my root password to finish the install. This time yaourt never asked for it??? What am I doing wrong??? -- | ~^~ ~^~

Re: [arch-general] rc.conf man page

2010-08-24 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
t a developer, so I don't know that my concerns count for much. -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P | \___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] rc.conf man page

2010-08-26 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 26, Dave Reisner did say: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 01:35:33PM -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > As a mere arch user who happens to think that the concept of well > > commented configuration files such as Arch's rc.conf are WONDERFUL. >

[arch-general] community/e-svn 51937-1 BROKEN? themes fail screen resolution fail etc...

2010-09-15 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
irectory and letting e17 start with a fresh user profile. But it still wouldn't let me save my changes if they included screen resolution changes. -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] community/e-svn 51937-1 BROKEN? themes fail screen resolution fail etc...

2010-09-15 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Sep 15, Christoph Rissner did say: > On 09/15/2010 10:19 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > community/e-svn 51937-1 (e17-svn) [installed] > > I'm also running that version (but on i686), without any problems. > I'm using the default

[arch-general] Update: [semi-solved] community/e-svn 51937-1 BROKEN? themes fail screen resolution fail etc...

2010-09-15 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
rks well enough so that I'll manage until the next upgrade anyway... Thanks again for all the helpful suggestions -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P |~\___/~ <>

Re: [arch-general] Update: [semi-solved] community/e-svn 51937-1 BROKEN? themes fail screen resolution fail etc...

2010-09-16 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
areas... A glance at the background tells me if I'm in the right workspace... But more themes to pick over are always welcome. So thanks -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P | \___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] community/e-svn 51937-1 BROKEN? themes fail screen resolution fail etc...

2010-09-17 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Sep 16, Nicky726 did say: > Dne Čt 16. září 2010 06:27:23 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook napsal(a): ---<>--- > > > > I'll followup to this thread if one of AUR's themes works for me. > > -or- > > if e17 respects &quo

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading while using a package (WAS: Re: pacman -Syu -- then tons of kio and kbuildsycoca warnings. Bug or coincidence?)

2010-10-19 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
eboot, a kernel update will have no > effect anyway. As a general rule I always reboot after any "pacman -Su" operation. If I wasn't prepared to reboot, I wouldn't upgrade my system. -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P |~\___/~ <>

Re: [arch-general] Lyx 1.6 vs. 2.0

2011-06-05 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
lchecker on my PCLinuxOS copy of LyX 2.0.0 no longer recognizes that, even after I tried adding it again... You can find the discussion I started on the LyX user list at: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/70198 -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P |~\___/~ <>

Re: [arch-general] Reboot - Versioned Kernel Installs

2011-06-09 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
the kind of thing that caused me to become a ‘multi-Linux distribution’, ‘multi-boot’ kind of guy in the first place. When an upgrade «or my own dumb mistakes» break my system I like being able to simply reboot something else and finish anything I'm working on before I spend hours, or days, or even weeks just trying to figure out what broke... It's not likely that anything other than a hardware failure will shut down Arch AND Ubuntu AND PCLinuxOS AND OpenSuSE all at the same time... And for that I still have a laptop... But it would sure be nice to be able to keep using my favorite distro with a fallback kernel instead of having to boot one of the others. But I do have to agree that more than one fully functional old kernel is a bad idea. Though I don't have much trouble manually deleting the really old ones from Ubuntu's /boot dir... -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P | \___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] Reboot - Versioned Kernel Installs

2011-06-10 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
st in case the new kernel is effectively borked... (possibly due to a hardware incompatibility...) And if I remember right, you said something about this not working if the new kernel can't boot... -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P | \___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] Reboot - Versioned Kernel Installs

2011-06-10 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
wouldn't work... «I blame CRS {see below}» I've tried to learn stuff like that but the knowledge didn't stick. Is there a step by step how-to or wiki I could bookmark??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] Reboot - Versioned Kernel Installs

2011-06-10 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
hose cases in which an updated kernel is unbootable are very, very rare." I think I'd rather learn how to use the "pacman -U" method... -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P | \___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] Reboot - Versioned Kernel Installs

2011-06-11 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jun 11, Heiko Baums did say: > Am Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:21:17 -0400 > schrieb "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" : > > > Mind specifying for an idiot like me just which package-file-names > > I'd need to use with pacman -U to restore the pre

Re: [arch-general] Reboot - Versioned Kernel Installs

2011-06-11 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jun 11, Heiko Baums did say: > Am Sat, 11 Jun 2011 12:40:36 -0400 > schrieb "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" : > > > OK so lets see if I understand... I already maintain a manually > > configured grub legacy partition where each of my installed Li

[arch-general] boot loaders and the /boot partition. [was: Reboot - Versioned Kernel Installs]

2011-06-12 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jun 12, Heiko Baums did say: > Am Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:07:00 -0400 > schrieb "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" : > > > Actually It's been a long time since I had actual boot failures with > > Arch... And if memory serves it wasn't the upda

[arch-general] Nvidia?? (About to do pacman -Syu but:)

2011-07-10 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
ould I worry about it? That is should I find out how to prevent pacman from messing with the video driver, or does the "270.41.19-1" mean the above will have no effect on my nvidia driver? Thanks -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia?? (About to do pacman -Syu but:)

2011-07-10 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 10, Vic Demuzere did say: > Maybe I should have explained that more. > > As you can see on the arch wiki [1], you either use "nvidia" OR > "nvidia-173xx and nvidia-96xx". That means that if you're currently > using "nvidia", you won't have any problems with updating.

[arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???

2011-07-11 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
me reason I should boot up when the internet isn't accessible, there would be no ntp server to correct Arch's misconception that the hardwareclock was already in UTC which would result in bogus timestamps on any files I modified during that time (not to mention bogus clock displays...) -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???

2011-07-11 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
time with the bios set-up screen prior to loading an OS and I have no intention of having to mentally convert to/from UTC to see if it's correct. It would appear that on Jul 11, Thomas Bächler did say: > > Am 11.07.2011 17:20, schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook: > > Since I multi-

Re: [arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???

2011-07-12 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 11, Tom Gundersen did say: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook > wrote: > > NOT dual-boot, Multi-boot, And I don't think in UTC > > The more OS'es you have, the better reason to keep RTC in UTC. You > shouldn&

Re: [arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???

2011-07-16 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 13, C Anthony Risinger did say: > On Jul 12, 2011 8:19 AM, "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" wrote: > > > > Dude ... just set UTC and forget about it ... forever :-) > > The wisdom of others frees time to build more wisdom of self. Duu

Re: [arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???

2011-07-16 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 12, Tom Gundersen did say: > On Jul 12, 2011, at 15:18, "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" wrote: > > Whereas If I put "ntpd -qg &" > > in rc.local there is sometimes enough time to type my username before the > > NTP based ti

Re: [arch-general] cups not starting on boot after last 2 kernel updates? -- where to put it in the DAEMONS line?

2011-08-09 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
hen that didn't work I edited it to just say "cups". I didn't think much about it at the time. All I cared was that my printer worked again. But why would one Arch Linux installation need "cups" in the daemons line while another needs "cupsd"??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] gnome 3.2 in testing

2011-10-02 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
r is extremely incompatible with nouveau, I'd like to understand what and where this "Ignorepkg" is? -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] gnome 3.2 in testing

2011-10-03 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Oct 2, Myra Nelson did say: > On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 18:40, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > Since the version of xorg in question is "from testing" I suspect I've > > nothing to worry about and that it wouldn't wind up in the main rep

[arch-general] root $PATH via "su - -c mc" ??

2012-08-10 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
ave to give up on conditionally adding ~/bin in .bash_profile as every subshell would overwrite it with the .bashrc assignment... Suggestions anyone??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ |Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^J(tWdy)P |\___/ <>