Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mystery network traffic

2016-09-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On September 29, 2016 9:47:27 PM GMT+02:00, Grant wrote: >I was watching cbm on one of my machines and it showed a lot more >traffic going in and out over lo than over both of the two real >interfaces. Is that normal? One of those two real interfaces is >completely unused and shows zeros in cbm

[gentoo-user] trouble starting gnome-terminal

2016-09-29 Thread allan gottlieb
I run systemd if that is relevant. All commands below were run as ordinary user "gottlieb" (I know the sudo runs the stated command as root) On one machine (named E6430) running gnome-terminal is problematic. If I log via the gnome graphical login screen I cannot start a gnome terminal either by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-29 Thread Andy Mender
Dear Grant, I would sincerely second Openbox + tint2. That's my all times favourite. Bear in mind that the stable tint2wizard/conf doesn't handle the Launcher properly. For that you need to emerge tint2 with the testing "~amd64" flag :). There are some additional goodies in the more modern tint2 p

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-09-25, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I liked openbox though, so if LXDE refuses to handle multiple >> screens I may stick with openbox and try to find some other panel >> program that does work with multiple screens. I gave up on LXDE. I messed around with it a bit more and it seems to have a

[gentoo-user] {OT} Mystery network traffic

2016-09-29 Thread Grant
I was watching cbm on one of my machines and it showed a lot more traffic going in and out over lo than over both of the two real interfaces. Is that normal? One of those two real interfaces is completely unused and shows zeros in cbm all the time. - Grant