keyboard, left alt is keycode
64, "Alt_L" and right is keycode 108, "Alt_R".
xev is in the x11-apps/xev package.
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bbe9281b8362fa549991b7581b7758668
>
> I'll try that and see if my version of the problem appears again.
Thanks for finding that. I love patches that I can actually
understand. I've also applied the fix.
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On 2024/01/05 at 10:57am, Andreas Fink wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 08:04:49 +0100
> Arve Barsnes wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 at 02:49, Spackman, Chris wrote:
> > > Any thoughts on possible causes or fixes?
> >
> > I've also had this happen a f
thing new can start. Not sure if SDDM is a cause or a
symptom, but /tmp/ should usually have something like this:
> chris:~$ ll /tmp/ | grep sddm
> srwxrwxrwx 1 sddmsddm 0 Jan 4 06:56 dbus-blahblah
> srwx-- 1 sddmsddm 0 Jan 4 06:56 sddm-:0-blahblah
> sr
On 2023/04/07 at 11:40am, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 4/7/23 11:06, Spackman, Chris wrote:
> > On 2023/04/06 at 06:53pm, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> >> I'm starting X server via "slim" (XFCE4). When I enter a wrong
> >> password the slim
computer.
Have you tried restarting the 'display-manager' service instead? IIRC,
it replaced xdm.
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Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (Wajima, Ishikawa 1995-1998)
Linux user since 1998
Linux User #137532
Thanks!
On 2022-03-02 9:43 a.m., tastytea wrote:
> On 2022-03-02 09:27-0500 Chris Phillips wrote:
>
>> !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "dev-libs/gtkd" has unmet
>> requirements.
>> - dev-libs/gtkd-3.9.0::dlang USE="opengl -dmd-2_074 -dmd-2_075
>>
Any Dlang users/experts out there?
The following is hanging me up:
# emerge --ask --verbose --update --deep --newuse --changed-use
--verbose-conflicts --backtrack=3000 --keep-going=y --sync dlang
>>> Syncing repository 'dlang' into '/var/lib/layman/dlang'...
/usr/bin/git fetch origin
Already up
iles I get an error:
I honestly have no idea about hylafax and YajHFC. Unless there is more
here than just trying to view a .ps file (or you are working in a very
restricted environment), they are probably not the best tool.
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On 2021/12/21 at 07:17pm, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 21/12/2021 18:49, Spackman, Chris wrote:
> > 2b. press the "export video" button at the bottom of the window. Here,
> > for me, the defaults work fine.
>
> The problem is 2b. For me, it's an extremely si
On 2021/12/21 at 05:13pm, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 21/12/2021 16:07, Spackman, Chris wrote:
> > On 2021/12/20 at 11:17am, William Kenworthy wrote:
> >> Hi, what is a usable piece of software in portage to do a quick edit of
> >> a movie? (cut start/end and maybe splice
s that do video editing. I like veed.io
just because it can add and then translate subtitles (which I need for
my job), but I'm sure there are many others.
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On 2021/09/27 at 11:07pm, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2021-09-27, Spackman, Chris wrote:
>
> > If it is still working, that is great news for users of
> > Chromium-based browsers that aren't Google Chrome, but I don't think
> > it is safe to expect the behavior t
wit network, either This Week In Tech or
maybe Security Now talked about Google closing that "bug".
If it is still working, that is great news for users of Chromium-based
browsers that aren't Google Chrome, but I don't think it is safe to
expect the behavior to continue.
bug that is fixed / being fixed in the
next version (also from the above link).
I have NOT tried this fix on KDE.
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ESL In
king on the tab and
choosing "Move tab to new window" (if there is only one window) or "Move
tab to another window" => "New window" (if there is already more than
one window) works without problem.
I've no idea what is causing the problem. Fluxbox is my window m
ple (less careful types) would just
have switched to an easier password. Luckily / Oddly, the site did allow
pasting into the password field for regular log in.
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Hi,
On 16/09/20 11:50 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Changing the subject does not start a new thread, nor should it.
Sorry! Will be more careful in future.
Chris
PS 2nd try using correct list membership
(*Darn this old version of thunderbird).
PPS Removed old, intended to be funny sig.
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-3.0.2.0:3.0::gentoo USE="cairo
libnotify opengl -examples" \
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 0 KiB
I can successfully cut those out and apply the rest of the ebuilds,
can't determine what is pulling in wxpython.
Any ideas on what I need to do to keep these from occurring?
T
g/wiki/Signed_kernel_module_support
but haven't had time to try it yet. Does anyone have experience with
digitally signing kernel modules on Gentoo?
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lucky not to have a huge number of problems with drives, so I
can't say how much either has helped.
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ESL Instructor
Hi,
On 25/04/20 11:27 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 4/25/20 11:20 AM, "Chris Phillips"@T O wrote:
How do I override the ./configure options for emerge [-r] ?
If it's a one-time thing, you can set the EXTRA_ECONF environment
variable to contain the extra arguments to .
I override the ./configure options for emerge [-r] ?
Chris
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nd
no one liked it. Probably an uncanny vallley thing. So, they dropped
it. (IIRC, I heard that on TWIT a while back.)
Maybe two cameras could do it better, though?
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ing 7, of which I allow 3. The Guardian has like
28, of which I allow 19. It would not be fun to try to go through all of
those to figure out which ones are absolutely necessary. You'd be
examining, allowing, and reloading 20 times per site, at first.
Maybe the Tor Browser
umount, for about 8 months for roughly weekly backups and
some misc storage. So far, I've not seen any problems with it. The drive
immediately shuts down, and there haven't been any data or performance
issues.
But because no one else has mentioned it, I wonder
dering one from System 76 instead - hopefully a computer build for
Linux will not come with any of these issues out of the box.
Thanks for your help.
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ESL Coordinator The Graham
tabilizator ?
Thank you, I had not seen that.
> Is it a first gen processor, or a 2XXX one?
Not sure.
Thanks for the advice. I actually ended up returning the computer. It
started crashing in addition to this problem, so it was no longer worth
my time to try to f
minutes. This seems to work, but it is obviously not a long term
solution.
I checked for a bios update, but there was not one available.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there maybe a /sys/ or /proc/ file
I can tweak to avoid bios powering things off?
Thanks.
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On 2019/04/26 at 10:14am, Spackman, Chris wrote:
> But, xscreensaver cannot recognize my password. It just says incorrect
> (or permission denied?) and will not unlock. I had to switch to vt1,
> log in, and kill xscreensaver.
>
> Similar with "crontab -e" (as a regula
password. It just says incorrect
(or permission denied?) and will not unlock. I had to switch to vt1,
log in, and kill xscreensaver.
Similar with "crontab -e" (as a regular user). It tells me I do not have
permission:
"You (chris) are not allowed to access to (crontab) because of pa
ev/bus/usb/003/008
to change the permissions
I'm not sure when this started, but I first noticed it a few weeks
ago. Not a huge issue, so I've not put much effort into trying to find
the cause, I'm afraid.
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skipfirst
to continue. I am actually almost 75% done with the system rebuild and
have had to do this so far with cdrdao and spideroak-bin (which
probably doesn't matter as it is a -bin package).
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ust yesterday, but not with glibc
- I was unable to emerge almost anything. In my case, I think texinfo
was a symptom, not the problem. Perhaps it is similar in your case?
I ran "perl-cleaner --all" once or twice, did an "emerge --deep -av
--newuse @world" which found one package to update, and then maybe
perl-cleaner again, and finally, "emerge --deep -avu @world" was able
to upgrade / reinstall texinfo. After that, I was able to emerge
new packages just fine.
So, point is - maybe try running something like perl-cleaner,
revdep-rebuild, or the such?
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forms I have tried with it. Only issue I have noticed is that
check marks (which show up fine on the screen) end up printed as
another character. Still better than dealing with acroread, in my
opinion.
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GNU Terry Pratchett
s with
conflicting file versions with Syncthing than I had with Dropbox.
FWIW, I tried ownCloud a couple of times and could never get it up and
running properly.
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GNU Terry Pratchett
When I do upgrade (probably next week), I will
check for the behavior you found.
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On 2015/04/18 at 08:11pm, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> On Saturday, April 18, 2015 6:46:37 PM Chris Spackman wrote:
> > I have an issue with sound during music and sometimes video
> > playback.
> The Arch wiki has a lot of tips for configure pulseaudio:
> https://wiki.ar
peex
-timidity -tremor -wavpack)
(I removed Quodlibet recently for unrelated reasons.)
Thanks for any and all help and advice.
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On 03/30/2015 02:52 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> I was also wondering if there might a way for emerge to show you which
> packages have USE flags enabled that aren't required by any dependent
> package: it would be sort of like "emerge --depclean" but for USE
> flags instead of packages themselves
On 02/10/15 13:13, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2015, 18:15:44 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de:
>> How can I list all offending ones?
> Check in /var/lib/portage/world if there are any lines starting with
> "perl-core"
>
> If yes, remove these lines and try again.
>
I found th
n't think it'll set
> up an icon automatically.
Yes I agree. I am still curious what is the mechanism that causes
icons to "appear" on the "desktop" of popular GUIs. I suspect the
answer involves the magic of
policykit/consolekit/dbus/hal/gvfs/gnome-vfs/fuse/hotplug/udisks/etc.
Thank you,
Chris
included them to encourage answers that explain how things
work.
Chris
alled "kde"
9. Bonus: if a GUI is runing, an icon appears on the desktop. This
icon can be used to umount or to quickly navigate to the mounted
directory.
10. Bonus: if you use words like dbus/policykit/consolekit/COM/DDE/OLE
that allow me to get a technical understanding of the mechanisms in
play.
Thank you,
Chris
, I thought the ssh
folks were BSD-friendly and GPG was GPL-friendly.
Thanks,
Chris
he string "/usr/bin/pinentry" or "GPG_AGENT_INFO".
Chris
ss to
manage complex/unique passwords. Perhaps in the future (2015)
everybody will support something like the Yubikey HW OTP... in which
case it won't matter if everyone sees my password!
Chris
pinentry
dev-vcs/git -gpg
mail-client/thunderbird -crypt
tail /etc/portage/package.mask
# 2014-07-05 Avoid password entry program that disallows paste
app-crypt/pinentry
Chris
variable, ssh stopped trying to use pinentry to
acquire my passphrase. However, I still do not understand how that
variable got set or how/why ssh behaves differently when it is set.
Chris
"pinentry sucks".
pinentry is on my system because it is a dependency of gpg. gpg is on
my system because I use thunderbird with +crypt (which is the
default).
Question:
By what mechanism does ssh know to use the program "pinentry" to
acquire my passphrase?
Thank you,
Chris
have swap mounted?
Q3: Is there anything I can do to prevent kswapd0 from using CPU on my
system? e.g. disable SWAP in the kernel config
I suspect the answer to Q1 is:
a) kernel is not configured properly for my hardware
or
b) there is some bad side effect to my readonly root fs
Thank you,
Chris
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Éric DUNAND wrote:
> Btw, if you intend to try the intel sdk for opencl, it actually
> computes on the cpu, not the integrated graphics.
Eric,
Thank you. I will try to use beignet as I am using Intel hardware.
Chris
figed to not start at all. However, I find myself in a
situation where I need to switch my internet access from net.eno1 to
wicd.
Thank you,
Chris
-devel/gcc-4.6
)
Does this say "if you want to use opencl then you have to say that you
are using a radeon graphics card, even if you are not using a radeon
graphics card":
Thank you,
Chris
On 4/14/2014 3:05 PM, Chris Walters wrote:
On 4/14/2014 12:17 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
.snip.
Feel free to put the entire mail including headers on a pastebin / gist.
Pastebin / gist? How would I do that?
It is not really that important to me to post something that, by definition, is
off
On 4/14/2014 12:17 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:00:43 -0400
Chris Walters wrote:
.snip.
Is it this message?
http://gentoo.2317880.n4.nabble.com/Heartbleed-bug-td278708.html#a278743
Or is it another one?
http://search.gmane.org/?query=&author=Chris+Walters&a
On 4/14/2014 12:17 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:00:43 -0400
Chris Walters wrote:
On 4/14/2014 11:58 AM, Chris Walters wrote:
I tried to post a message on that certain bug to this list
.snip.
Is it this message?
http://gentoo.2317880.n4.nabble.com/Heartbleed-bug-td278708
On 4/14/2014 11:58 AM, Chris Walters wrote:
I tried to post a message on that certain bug to this list yesterday, and it
has never shown up. I had two sources that suggested that said bug is far more
severe than most people think. So this message is a test.
So, is there a keyword block on
I tried to post a message on that certain bug to this list yesterday, and it
has never shown up. I had two sources that suggested that said bug is far more
severe than most people think. So this message is a test.
ed web page has some
information on it that is a good beginning for researching this bug, the the
lists I mentioned above are probably the best source of information, after you
understand the basics from the web page.
Chris Walters
VIDEO_CARDS setting should I use?
3. Which packages should be emerged?
Thank you,
Chris
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Chris Stankevitz
wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why portage is insisting on upgrading me from
> opencv-2.4.5 to opencv-2.4.8?
This is solved:
1. opencv has USE=cuda. I have opencv-2.4.5 installed.
2. I had these mask rules:
# 2013-12-24 Hold off on CUDA
e ~ # grep -r opencv /etc/portage/
/etc/portage/package.use:media-libs/opencv cuda opencl
/etc/portage/package.mask:# 2014-03-13: Hold off on opencv upgrade
/etc/portage/package.mask:>media-libs/opencv-2.4.5
> equery depends opencv
Also uninteresting:
jane ~ # equery depends opencv
* These packages depend on opencv:
jane ~ #
Chris
opencv greater than 2.4.5 (i.e. 2.4.6, 2.4.7,
2.4.8). I wonder if my greater than symbol was interpreted as a
"reply quote":
*** jane ~ # grep opencv /etc/portage/package.mask
*** # 2014-03-13: Hold off on opencv upgrade
*** >media-libs/opencv-2.4.5
Chris
Hello,
Can anyone tell me why portage is insisting on upgrading me from
opencv-2.4.5 to opencv-2.4.8?
I would not expect portage to want to do this because:
1. opencv-2.4.8 is unstable (and I run a stable system)
2. >opencv-2.4.5 is masked
Thank you,
Chris
=
jane ~ # grep opencv /
?
I'm using wicd now but I want to ditch wicd and replace it with the
"generally accepted correct gentoo way".
Thank you,
Chris
- Original Message -
From: Stephen Reynolds
Sent: 02/03/14 11:15 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Net work cards
if I run ifconfig -a this currently what I get. I have completed the
installtion, but Kernel Modules I am not sure about.
You can get the info o
- Original Message -
From: Joseph
Sent: 01/25/14 10:15 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py
I'm using a python script "cdnpayroll.py" but for some reason or another is
giving me an error: File "./cdnpayroll.py", line 160 ''' ^ SyntaxError: invalid
synt
- Original Message -
From: James
Sent: 01/24/14 05:27 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: grub2 multiple kernels
I had a problem with the doc useflag, so I've been reading across the net. So
now all of those "docs" are installing.
I re-emerged with the do
- Original Message -
From: James
Sent: 01/24/14 01:14 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: grub2 multiple kernels
Lee gmail.com> writes: > I am using grub2 also, but on another
distro, with multiple > kernels/partitions. I don't have a lot of firsthand
knowledg
- Original Message -
From: Lee
Sent: 01/24/14 12:46 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 multiple kernels
However, IIRC there is a grub2 command called update-grub that scans all your
boot sectors on all your devices. At least that's the way its _sposed_ to
> FreeBSD use it > and say is stable. FreeBSD maybe not the reference on earth
> but the > BSD's make a good job. When i saw all versions of Clang is masked.
> > Isn't FBSD more similar than, say, Linux, to what OSX is, sort of? I could
> be way off. But I think of OSX as being FBSD built for pe
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>
> > But why don't you install lilo on /dev/sdb? You change change the boot
> order in BIOS after that.
>
Michael,
Thank you, that worked perfectly.
Chris
parameters do I used to avoid a
clobber?
Thank you,
Chris
on, it seems most sources
stick to these too-general or too-specific talking points:
a) NFS is fast replacement for SMB
b) edit your fstab and modify your exports to get it working
Chris
to that account.
Got'cha. If I go with NFS, I think I would be interested in is more
of a "global squash". No matter which UID is making the connection,
squash it over to the generic local UID which was granted rw
access to the share.
Thanks again,
Chris
t; You probably want to tweak your squash settings.
I never have heard that term before, but I'm hoping to find something
like this: "Normally NFS requires you go compile a list of UIDs of
people around the world who will ever connect to your server. The
"squash settings" help you avoid that.
Thanks again,
Chris
ome/cstankevitz/Desktop/
drwxr-xr-x 2 rootroot 2 Jan 19 20:37 sdn_collections
Please note how the ownership changes from cstankevitz to root after I
mount. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you,
Chris
27;d be ok with an approach that will allow a
regular user to mount any network share with the mount command.
Thank you,
Chris
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 05/01/2014 01:31, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Alan McKinnon
>> wrote:
>> It
>> sounds like trying to manage a shared disk/stick with ext* would be a
>> PITA.
>
>
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Stick with FAT, where thereis no ownership so Linux pretend all files
> are owned by whoever mounted the drive.
Neil,
Thank you.
Chris
nd everything has permissions 777, regardless of who plugged it in.
> Considering the nature of a USB stick, this is almost always what you want.
Alan,
Thank you very much this is exactly what I needed to understand. It
sounds like trying to manage a shared disk/stick with ext* would be a
PITA.
Chris
continue to be writable by anyone?
3. How can I ensure that all files will appear to have the same owner;
or, if this is not important, can you explain why it should not be a
problem.
And of course if you can refer me to a document that explains this I'm
happy to read it.
Thank you,
Chris
y. CUDA is a PITA because due to the
closed-source short-and-curly dependence on NVIDIA corporation.
Chris
h to radeon and let us
know how it goes!
PS: Installing the CUDA runtime and SDK is easier on Gentoo than on
any other linux distro.
Chris
age/package.mask
This downgraded me to:
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-325.15 USE="X acpi (multilib) tools -pax_kernel"
Chris
tatic nodes?
Thank you,
Chris
no avail...
Follow these steps:
0. undo whatever you did
1. emerge --sync
2. echo =sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 ~amd64 >>
/etc/portage/package.keywords
3. update your system
Chris
m by adding RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" to make.conf'
Thank you,
Chris
required by dev-lang/ruby-1.9.3_p448[rdoc]
# required by dev-ruby/rubygems-2.0.3[ruby_targets_ruby19]
# required by virtual/rubygems-4
# required by dev-ruby/rake-0.9.6[-test,ruby_targets_ruby19]
# required by dev-ruby/json-1.8.0[-test,-doc,ruby_targets_ruby18]
# required by dev-lang/ruby-2.0.0_p247-r1
# required by sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8
Chris
s to add a bunch of ruby_targets_ruby20 use flags in
/etc/portage/package.use
Thank you,
Chris
===
The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
(see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
# required by dev-lang/ruby-2.0.0_p247-r1[rdoc]
# required by
is that the display freezes. My
CPU graph which is always updating at 10Hz stops updating. However,
the mouse cursor moves.
Can someone suggest a "teach a man to fish" approach I can use to
figure out what is causing this?
Thank you,
Chris
Hello,
when emerging dhcpcd it attempts to retrieve the source from
/distfiles/...
looking at the mirror the file is actually at
/gentoo/distfiles/...
Is this the correct place to bring this to your attention?
regards
Chris
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ut an icon on the desktop. The reason lowly users can mount
and write to these devices is E.
PS: These topics are a blur in my mind: udev hotplug coldplug session
pam. I suspect these words are used to fill in some of the variables
in my pseudo-description above.
Thank you,
Chris
e science team knows about the breakage! :-)
Works great, thank you. I filed a bug also.
Chris
el since I use nvidia.
Chris :(
fit. Our tools should be a joy to use, and should help the user to
appreciate the richness of the Linux and free software community, and
the flexibility of free software.
Kind of funny... Gentoo's mandate is sort of at odds with itself. A
joy to use while simultaneously giving full flexibility.
Chris
n a stable system but I've been afraid to sync for fear I'll get
sucked into having to mask/unmask packages and keep up with the
unfolding drama.
Thank you,
Chris
to run a 32 bit xubuntu
that is used only to view webpages that demand flash. I start it up
~once/week.
Chris
s not a or b. I'm sure it's not c either since I
just made it up.
Thank you,
Chris
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