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

[arch-general] Help understanding which interface OpenOffice is using?
by David C. Rankin 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Listmates, I have installed openoffice-core on my x86 box and I am trying to understand what user interface it is using and how to change it if I can. I suspect the very block like interface and large menu and menubar fonts are the result of the GTK interface oo on arch uses by default. (I could have this backwards). The default UI looks really awkward to me. It brings back bad memories of the days when the UI was limited to what you see on xpdf. The wiki(http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openoffice) suggests an environment variable setting of OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde soffice, but warns that "KDE look will be removed in Openoffice3". What's the status of that? When will the QT interface go away? What is the best way to get a better looking interface on KDE3. I have tried using 'OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde soffice', but so far I get an error when attempting this over XDMCP. Is there something that will work in this situation as well? Thanks for any help or suggestions you can give. -- 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

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[arch-general] Funny locale settings, Gnome versus command line
by Magnus Therning 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

I just noticed something rather irritating, in my Gnome clock applet the week starts on Tuesday. It would be much better if it started on Monday. While trying (and failing) to find out why this was I ran `cal` on the command line, in `cal` the week starts on Sunday. Again I'd like it to start on Monday. I also noticed that Gnome's tool to set time and date (System -> Administration -> Time and Date) correctly shows the week as starting on Monday. In my rc.conf I set the locale to en_GB.UTF-8, and my terminal seems to agree with me: % locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL= How do I get the Gnome clock to start the week on Monday? How do I get `cal` to start the week on Monday? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] My D-Bus/Hal/PolicyKit Fix - Useful for Admin Users
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Listmates, Since I continually fight d-bus and hal on hotplugging issues, I thought I would pass along the fix that worked for me. Since this is a full access fix, I decided it shouldn't be posted to the wiki. Let me know if you think differently or feel free to post it yourself. Here is what worked for me for hotplugging usb drives, etc... Granting Full Access to a Single User: To grant access to a single user (say yourself maybe), modify the following 2 files as follows. For example purposes, I am granting myself username "david" complete access to all d-bus/hal devices: /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf: <policy user="david"> <allow own="org.freedesktop.Hal"/> </policy> /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf: <config version="0.1"> <match user="david"> <return result="yes"/> </match> </config> Works fine here. Let me know if you see any real gotchas about this approach. Thanks. -- 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

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[arch-general] speakers don't turn off when headphones inserted
by Scott Weisman 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hello, I just obtained a Fujitsu P7120 notebook (a very nice model, by the way). Overall, I am getting this working with Arch just fine (although I would definitely appreciate pointers from anyone else who has installed Arch, especially as I have been using a desktop until now and haven't had the need to configure notebook-type features). One problem I am having that I don't know how to fix is that when I plug in headphones, the speakers don't turn off. Alsamixer shows that the headphones and speakers have separate controls, something I have never seen in a notebook before. While cool, I would really love to have this automatically toggle as expected. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks, Scott

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Re: [arch-general] aiksaurus - build error - clean chroot
by Baho Utot 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 08:41 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > aiksaurus has 3 errors when building with gcc-4.4.0 > > > > I have attached a patch to fix. > > > > I am building packages in extra how should I report these problems. > > > > With a bug report or here? > > > > Better to use a bug report as attachements do not make it to this list... > > Allan > > > > Ok bug report filed

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[arch-general] aiksaurus - build error - clean chroot
by Baho Utot 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

aiksaurus has 3 errors when building with gcc-4.4.0 I have attached a patch to fix. I am building packages in extra how should I report these problems. With a bug report or here?

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[arch-general] Building in clean chroot
by Baho Utot 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

I keep getting these errors when building packages from extra Is there a way to "turn off" this or do I have to manually do this every time it rears its ugly head? Proceed with installation? [Y/n] checking package integrity... checking for file conflicts... error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) error: could not prepare transaction /usr/share/info/dir exists in both 'libksba' and 'libassuan' libksba: /usr/share/info/dir exists in filesystem libassuan: /usr/share/info/dir exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Thanks

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vim plugins updated
by Henning Garus 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I just went though all the vim-* packages and updated them to the > latest versions, as well as changed their install location to match > the new vim layout. Please let me know if there are any problems with > the new packages. > > These should move to [extra] whenever vim leaves [testing]. > There are some other packages which use the old vim layout. In extra: cmake (/usr/share/vim/{syntax/cmake-syntax.vim,indent/cmake-indent.vim) mercurial (usr/share/vim/syntax/HGAnnotate.vim) clisp puts some files into /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after/ which is still in my runtimepath with vim from testing. There are more packages in community, which will have to be changed when vim goes to extra: clewn icomplete pacman-contrib txt2tags vim-*

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Re: [arch-general] SRCDEST="/path/to/folder"
by Baho Utot 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 23:37 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Allan McRae wrote: > > Baho Utot wrote: > >> I am Building in a clean chroot according to the wiki > >> > >> The Chroot sub-directory is /home/Chroot/root > >> > >> I have set SRCDEST="/sources" in the makepkg in /home/Chroot/root/etc > >> and then > >> mkdir /home/Chroot/root/sources chmod 777 /home/Chroot/root/sources > >> > >> Is this correct to get makepkg to store the sources in that > >> sub-directory? > >> > >> It presently doesn't work for me or I did something wrong. > >> > >> Can anyone help? > >> > > > > As far as makepkg goes, it should store the sources in /sources. But > > my guess is makechrootpkg is moving the source files from there to the > > directory you launched it from. Have not actually looked at this though. > > Or an even better explanation (which also could be wrong), it puts them > in the rw portion of the union filesystem and that gets cleared. > > I think the message to take from this is that this setup will probably > not work... > > Allan > > Ok I'll have to fix my build script to do it

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