October 2009 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] kde4 themes and trick your kids (and maybe you) will enjoy
by David C. Rankin 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Guys, Just a note. Most of you are probably a bit younger than I am, but for those with kids who have reached computing age (3+), there are a few kde4 themes and tricks they may really enjoy. The kde4 themes are: Ghost Carbon Neon Glow by FRUiT A thin theme for the adults is "seamless" (just grab the clock from 'Stripeshine' and it really looks cool - see links below) The Desktop Effects that my kids enjoy are: Explosion (or Fall Apart) Magic Lamp explosion and fall apart make the windows shatter into pieces when they are closed and magic lamp makes the windows look like they are being sucked into a magic lamp when they are minimized. A few links that I found helpful for tweaking themes: http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/Theme http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Theme That's my informational post for the day :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

2 1

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] gpm-1.20.6-2
by Celti 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 14:06, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Eric Bélanger schrieb: >>> >>> Bump. Anyone? >> >> Two weeks in testing, no bug reported. I've moved it to core. > > I'm wondering, does anyone actively use GPM? I haven't in a long time, > although I always found it awesome to have a mouse on the terminal. I use it. Not often, I'll admit, but having it comes in handy at least once a month. ~celti

2 1

[arch-general] Thunderbird
by Ondřej Kučera 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Hello, I've been meaning to ask. What's going on with the thunderbird package? Version 2.0.0.23 was released more than month ago, it isn't usual with Arch for such a package to be left outdated for so long (especially since it is a security update). I know I can use ABS and rebuild it myself and I have, but still. Is there a particular reason for the delay? Shouldn't a bug report be created (when package remains out of date for this long)? Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera

2 2

[arch-general] Pacman problem. "error writing to file" "bad address"
by Nigel Henry 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

I had problems with ocaml yesterday. After the machine locked up during the updates, I did a hard reset, and ran pacman -Su again. It continued downloading ocaml, but when all the updates were downloaded, it failed to install them, claiming that ocaml was corrupted. I removed the corrupted ocaml as requested, and as I'm on dialup and didn't want to download 38MB of ocaml again last night, I temporarily added an IgnorePkg line for it. Ran pacman -Su again, and all the updates apart from ocaml, and also gnupg2, which couldn't be found, were installed. Today I went to install the ocaml update, having removed it from the IgnorePkg line. It starts to download, but then throws an error as below. error: error writing to file '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/ocaml....' :Bad address Harddrive partition is redlining, and the partly downloaded ocaml file shows as 2GB size. Any ideas on a fix for this problem? As an aside, pacman was updated, but not before the other updates, in case that is what has caused the problem. Nigel.

3 7