[gentoo-user] What X fonts do I really need?

2015-11-20 Thread Walter Dnes
After I got xterm working properly on the new install, I looked at my list of installed fonts and did some hacking... and slashing... and got down to this... [i3][waltdnes][~] grep media-fonts /var/lib/portage/world media-fonts/dejavu media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi media-fonts/font-

[gentoo-user] Re: This is what I get for trying...

2015-11-20 Thread walt
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:17:03 -0500 Alan Grimes wrote: > Naturally, the instructions on the gentoo wiki FAIL More people will read what you write if you give us a hint in the subject line about why you are writing to us.

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] How to set up monospaced xterm fonts?

2015-11-20 Thread Walter Dnes
See the last post "Fri Jan 23, 2015 1:56 pm" in the thread https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-813945-start-0.html Apparently, some time ago, USE="nls" became necessary for basic xterm functionality in ISO8859-1. If there was a news item, I missed it. I tried... USE="nls" emerge font-misc-m

Re: [gentoo-user] combining pdf files, different size

2015-11-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 08:04:19PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote > I use pdf2ps, cat ps1 ps2 ps3 > final.ps, ps2pdf I think these come in > some postscript package (at least they did in debian). [d531][waltdnes][~] equery b pdf2ps * Searching for pdf2ps ... app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.15-r1 (/usr/b

Re: [gentoo-user] combining pdf files, different size

2015-11-20 Thread allan gottlieb
On Fri, Nov 20 2015, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > I use pdf2ps, cat ps1 ps2 ps3 > final.ps, ps2pdf > I think these come in some postscript package (at least they did in debian). Gentoo has it as well E6430-wireless ~ # equery b /usr/bin/pdf2ps * Searching for /usr/bin/pdf2ps ... app-text/ghostscrip

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up monospaced xterm fonts?

2015-11-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:45:15AM +0100, Emanuele Rusconi wrote > If it helps, I have these two lines in my ~/.Xresources: > > XTerm*faceName: Terminus > XTerm*faceSize: 13 It didn't work. xterm died on me again. Going with the font I specified before, and cycling through the choices, here i

Re: [gentoo-user] combining pdf files, different size

2015-11-20 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I use pdf2ps, cat ps1 ps2 ps3 > final.ps, ps2pdf I think these come in some postscript package (at least they did in debian).

Re: [gentoo-user] Chrony-2.2 failing

2015-11-20 Thread brettrsears
B Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Alan McKinnon Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 19:07:47 To: Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Chrony-2.2 failing On 20/11/2015 19:02, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 20 November 2015 11:03:55 Mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Chrony-2.2 failing

2015-11-20 Thread Mick
On Friday 20 Nov 2015 17:07:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 20/11/2015 19:02, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday 20 November 2015 11:03:55 Mick wrote: > >> On Friday 20 Nov 2015 10:22:00 Peter Humphrey wrote: > >>> As I said, chronyd works on this four-core i5 box, just not on the > >>> two-core Ato

Re: [gentoo-user] Chrony-2.2 failing

2015-11-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/11/2015 19:02, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 20 November 2015 11:03:55 Mick wrote: >> On Friday 20 Nov 2015 10:22:00 Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> As I said, chronyd works on this four-core i5 box, just not on the >>> two-core Atom. >> >> Have a look in the kernel of the Atom box and compare

Re: [gentoo-user] Chrony-2.2 failing

2015-11-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 20 November 2015 11:02:13 Dale wrote: > Let me know if you need a known working file. I'll send you a copy of > both if you want them. Thanks Dale, but I already have the files that used to work. They still do on one box but not the other - even when they're identical. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Chrony-2.2 failing

2015-11-20 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > <<< SNIP >>> > > What's more, earlier versions had a decent man page and heavily commented > chronyd.conf, but now the chrony.conf man page has been cut to a bare > minimum and instead refers to a file chrony.txt "included in the > distribution". I canno

Re: [gentoo-user] Chrony-2.2 failing

2015-11-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 20 November 2015 11:03:55 Mick wrote: > On Friday 20 Nov 2015 10:22:00 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > As I said, chronyd works on this four-core i5 box, just not on the > > two-core Atom. > > Have a look in the kernel of the Atom box and compare the RTC settings > between the two boxen. Wel

Re: [gentoo-user] combining pdf files, different size

2015-11-20 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 07:49:50 -0700 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 11/19/2015 09:29 PM, Bryan Gardiner wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 19:17:47 -0700 > > the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > >> On 11/19/2015 06:39 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >>> I'm trying to use "pdfjoin" to combine two

Re: [gentoo-user] combining pdf files, different size

2015-11-20 Thread thelma
On 11/19/2015 09:29 PM, Bryan Gardiner wrote: > On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 19:17:47 -0700 > the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> On 11/19/2015 06:39 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> I'm trying to use "pdfjoin" to combine two different page size pdf files >>> but it will not let me. Is it possible. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping

2015-11-20 Thread Mick
On Thursday 19 Nov 2015 14:53:26 lee wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone know what happened to the 'Ingress Qdisc' kernel option > mentioned on [1], and what the replacement would be? > > I'm trying to follow [2] to set up some simple traffic shaping with the > intention to improve VOIP quality. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Chrony-2.2 failing

2015-11-20 Thread Mick
On Friday 20 Nov 2015 10:22:00 Peter Humphrey wrote: > As I said, chronyd works on this four-core i5 box, just not on the > two-core Atom. Have a look in the kernel of the Atom box and compare the RTC settings between the two boxen. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digita

Re: [gentoo-user] Chrony-2.2 failing

2015-11-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 19 Nov 2015 19:17:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Does it fail consistently? IOW, now that everything else has settled > down, does "/etc/init.d/chrony start" still fail? Yes, it's a hard fault: # /etc/init.d/chronyd start * Caching service dependencies ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Chrony-2.2 failing

2015-11-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 19 Nov 2015 22:15:33 Marc Joliet wrote: > On Thursday 19 November 2015 10:49:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: > >Hello list, > > [...] > > >What's more, earlier versions had a decent man page and heavily commented > >chronyd.conf, but now the chrony.conf man page has been cut to a bare > >min

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up monospaced xterm fonts?

2015-11-20 Thread Emanuele Rusconi
If it helps, I have these two lines in my ~/.Xresources: XTerm*faceName: Terminus XTerm*faceSize: 13 -- Emanuele Rusconi