[gentoo-user] Window borders in gnome desktop when maximized hide behind panels

After some recent update (~x86), windows in gnome desktop when maximized hide their borders/bars behind the desktop panels, which is really annoying. In the case of terminals, the prompt gets almost hidden, in the case of other applications, the "file" menu gets hidden, scrollbars etc... Has a

[gentoo-user] ssh-agent & RSA

Hi all, I'm running ssh-agent so I only have to type my passphrase once. At least that was the plan. I'm trying to use an RSA key instead of DSA. This does not seem to please ssh-agent. It seems to just look for id_dsa and ignore the id_rsa. (a) If I create a DSA key then it finds that and ignore

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-terminal, "failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting."

On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:34:23 +0600 Mike Kazantsev wrote the words: > > Try this sequence: Darn if I didn't manage to do that without messing up. Thanks so very much. Problem fixed. Adrian -- On The Fly Photography -:- Creation From Chaos On The Fly Photography: http://204EastSouth.co

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

Matt Harrison wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:46 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: The only other thing I was thinking about is: If the appropriate drivers for this eee900 are indeed in the 2.6.28 series, can you provide pointers to the locations of necessary options? I have re

Re: [gentoo-user] how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

Alexey Luchko wrote: Hi! I have a gentoo installed, but I wasn't updating it since late 2007, I suppose. Today I've run emerge --sync. It worked! It's great ;) But then I've got the following collision. Obviously, a portage update is required. But it is confused by dependencies: colinux ~ #

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:46 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: The only other thing I was thinking about is: If the appropriate drivers for this eee900 are indeed in the 2.6.28 series, can you provide pointers to the locations of necessary options? I have read here and there that

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:46 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: The only other thing I was thinking about is: If the appropriate drivers for this eee900 are indeed in the 2.6.28 series, can you provide pointers to the locations of necessary options? I have read here and there that

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:57:28 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the current i686-2008 minimal cd. Unfortunately this doesn't work with the

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/...

On Sun, 10 May 2009 12:30:43 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > You can use pdftopnm (app-text/poppler) to generate bitmap images from > your pdfs. Then you can use pnmtopng (media-libs/netpbm) to create pngs > from them. I suppose there are also tools for creating jpegs and such > alike but I haven'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MythWeb on Gentoo?

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 10 May 2009 13:02:26 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Error at /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/modules/status/handler.php, >> line 29: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL >> file-access is disabled in the server conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MythWeb on Gentoo?

On Sun, 10 May 2009 13:02:26 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Error at /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/modules/status/handler.php, > line 29: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL > file-access is disabled in the server configuration You need "allow_url_fopen = On" in /etc/php/apache

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:57:28 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: > I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very > basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the > current i686-2008 minimal cd. Unfortunately this doesn't work with the > wired or wirele

[gentoo-user] Re: MythWeb on Gentoo?

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, >>   I'm wondering if there is a wiki for getting MythWeb running on >> Gentoo. I've emerge the package, started apache2, and if I browse the >> Myth backend server I see an 'It work

[gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

On Sunday 10 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Once you sort that out, there's a whole host of other stuff to fix as > well - expat, latest xorg and many more - all stuff that everyone > else fixed a while ago and since forgot. Yes, beware of mktemp/coreutils too. I don't remember of other dangers,

[gentoo-user] Re: MythWeb on Gentoo?

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >   I'm wondering if there is a wiki for getting MythWeb running on > Gentoo. I've emerge the package, started apache2, and if I browse the > Myth backend server I see an 'It works' message which is simply the > contents of the index.htnl

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

Florian Philipp wrote: How about a good old sneakernet? [1] Grab a memory stick and use it to transfer data between your eee and a decent machine. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneaker_net Hey thanks for the reply, Ok so assuming I can get the stage3 and portage snapshot plus some distf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name

On Sun, 10 May 2009 07:50:47 -0700 walt wrote: > Jorge Morais wrote: > > When starting evince from a terminal, I get a message like this: > > ** (evince:3597): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for > > org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: > > Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': n

[gentoo-user] MythWeb on Gentoo?

Hi, I'm wondering if there is a wiki for getting MythWeb running on Gentoo. I've emerge the package, started apache2, and if I browse the Myth backend server I see an 'It works' message which is simply the contents of the index.htnl file in /var/www/localhost/htdocs directory. When I try http://

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

Matt Harrison schrieb: > I know this has probably all been covered by I've looked around and > failed to find a succinct source of information. > > I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very > basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the > cu

[gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

I know this has probably all been covered by I've looked around and failed to find a succinct source of information. I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the current i686-2008 minimal cd. Unf

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/...

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Cédric Cabessa wrote: > Le dimanche 10 mai 2009 11:26:55, cramer a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> does anyone know a trick/package, which allows my to >> convert the pages of a pdf file to images via the commandline >> (useable from a script). >> > imagemagick ? > > $ conve

Re: [gentoo-user] how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

On Sunday 10 May 2009 02:58:41 Alexey Luchko wrote: > Hi! > > I have a gentoo installed, but I wasn't updating it since late 2007, I > suppose. > Today I've run emerge --sync. It worked! It's great ;) > > But then I've got the following collision. Obviously, a portage update > is required. But it i

Re: [gentoo-user] Ripping audio from a video DVD

On 10 May 2009, at 16:38, Stroller wrote: ... .flv, then it looks like you upload it - and a player - to your server along with a little HTML. This appears to be (based on?) the same player YouTube uses. PS: I found this via: http://www.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ripping audio from a video DVD

On 10 May 2009, at 14:42, Peter Humphrey wrote: ... Well, using undvd stripped out an 86MB .avi file, which I've uploaded to the Web site. FWIW I don't believe undvd's AVI files to be very specification compliant. The author implemented .mp4 support after I pointed this out to him, and

[gentoo-user] Re: WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name

Jorge Morais wrote: When starting evince from a terminal, I get a message like this: ** (evince:3597): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: > Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name... You don't appear to be running an actual gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] Ripping audio from a video DVD

On Saturday 09 May 2009 21:04:31 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 09 May 2009 18:48:32 Florian Philipp wrote: > > The way I do it usually: > > > > mplayer dvd://1 -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound.ac3 > > [wait] > > a52dec -o wav < sound.ac3 > sound.wav > > oggenc sound.wav > > > > e voila: sound.ogg i

[gentoo-user] Exim's log files

By default Exim puts its main log to /var/log/exim/exim_main.log, but many software like logwatch, munin expect log in /var/log/exim/main.log. Also in many distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedore Core, FreeBSD /var/log/exim/main.log path is used. Developer of Exim does not recommend change main

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-terminal, "failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting."

On Sun, 10 May 2009 06:23:03 -0600 Adrian wrote: > There is a bug report on this: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268846 > > and that report points to some other links: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-April/msg00451.html > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bu

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Nokia PC Suite on VMware

Sunday, May 10, 2009, 1:35:41 PM, Stefan wrote: > Paul Hartman schrieb: >>> Does anybody have Nokia PC Suite working on VMware or I need setup Win >>> on my laptop? - I'd want avoid this if possible... >> >> I think vmware server cannot by default access USB devices plugged >> into the host, but

Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)

On 9 May 2009, at 16:23, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 09 May 2009 15:13:35 Stroller wrote: On 9 May 2009, at 13:41, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 12:20:46 schrieb Stroller: This is Gentoo, so you as the user define the rules. And for _me_, it definitely _is_ a rule. Cou

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Nokia PC Suite on VMware

Sunday, May 10, 2009, 4:30:20 AM, Paul wrote: > 2009/5/9 Sergey A. Kobzar : >> Hello. >> >> I have laptop running Gentoo and VMware Server on it. I need Nokia PC >> Suite to manage my Nokia mobile phone. >> >> Does anybody have Nokia PC Suite working on VMware or I need setup Win >> on my laptop?

[gentoo-user] gnome-terminal, "failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting."

Hi all - There is a bug report on this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268846 and that report points to some other links: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-April/msg00451.html http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570588 one of which contains a patch to fix

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Nokia PC Suite on VMware

Saturday, May 9, 2009, 10:12:37 PM, Robert wrote: > Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: >> I have laptop running Gentoo and VMware Server on it. I need Nokia PC >> Suite to manage my Nokia mobile phone. >> >> Does anybody have Nokia PC Suite working on VMware or I need setup Win >> on my laptop? - I'd want a

Re: [gentoo-user] how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

On 10 May 2009, at 01:58, Alexey Luchko wrote: ... But then I've got the following collision. Obviously, a portage update is required. But it is confused by dependencies: colinux ~ # emerge portage --pretend --tree These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating d

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/...

Le dimanche 10 mai 2009 11:26:55, cramer a écrit : > Hi, > > does anyone know a trick/package, which allows my to > convert the pages of a pdf file to images via the commandline > (useable from a script). > imagemagick ? $ convert myfile.pdf prefix.jpg will create prefix-1.jpg, prefix-2.jpg, ...

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/...

Florian Philipp [09-05-10 12:35]: > meino.cra...@gmx.de schrieb: > > Hi, > > > > does anyone know a trick/package, which allows my to > > convert the pages of a pdf file to images via the commandline > > (useable from a script). > > > > I have a/LOT/ of datasheets of electronics and want to mak

Re: [gentoo-user] Nokia PC Suite on VMware

Paul Hartman schrieb: >> Does anybody have Nokia PC Suite working on VMware or I need setup Win >> on my laptop? - I'd want avoid this if possible... > > I think vmware server cannot by default access USB devices plugged > into the host, but you can possibly edit the vmx file to enable it. I > thi

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/...

meino.cra...@gmx.de schrieb: > Hi, > > does anyone know a trick/package, which allows my to > convert the pages of a pdf file to images via the commandline > (useable from a script). > > I have a/LOT/ of datasheets of electronics and want to make > something like a "pdf gallery" to find pdfs fas

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/...

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone know a trick/package, which allows my to > convert the pages of a pdf file to images via the commandline > (useable from a script). > > I have a/LOT/ of datasheets of electronics and want to make > something like a "pdf gallery" to find pdfs faster.

[gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/...

Hi, does anyone know a trick/package, which allows my to convert the pages of a pdf file to images via the commandline (useable from a script). I have a/LOT/ of datasheets of electronics and want to make something like a "pdf gallery" to find pdfs faster... Thanks a lot for any help in advance!

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES

Mike Kazantsev [09-05-10 08:30]: > On Sun, 10 May 2009 05:35:32 +0200 > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > loop-aes and aespipe are part of the gentoo-portage. > > Is "ciphers", which is also offered via loop-aes.sourceforge.net > > also part of portage? I dont find it... > > Or any other way to ch

Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)

Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Saturday 09 May 2009, Dale wrote: > >> I was talking about with just a plain file system. I read in a >> install guide somewhere when I was installing ages ago that having >> /boot on a separate partition, and not always mounted, was a good >> security practice.