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[arch-general] Gnome/Gtk-2.0 BLING! (list of surprisingly cool themes)
by David C. Rankin 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Listmates, I stumbled across some absolutely killer gtk-2.0 & metacity themes that caught my eye. If you use gnome, Xfce, etc.., give them a try and I guarantee you, you will be blown away. They are available at gnome-look or Xfce-look.org sites or by googling the theme name. Most also come with an emerald theme as well as part of the package. Here is the short list: ** Abstract-DarkGlow Aero-ion3.1 Black Plastic V.2 ** Blue-Joy Correcamins DarkVision DiMurrineGTK Dust (Dust Burnt, and the rest of the Dust ... themes) Elegant Aurora (and the other Elegant....) Glow Fire (Lava, Flower, Cinder ...) Harvest Industrial-Glacier (GONYX, Lighthouse, Charcoal, Zeta, ...) Moomex Nova-Blue (Gold, etc...) Overglossed Oxygen-Molecule River Shifte_Black ShinyBlack Silence ** SlicknesS-black SphereCrystal Tenebrific-BlueMods Vision Xfce-cadmium (many of the Xfce themes also have matching gtk themes) Zniavre ** (top 3 for me - the rest are a close 4th) And the screenshot giving an example of Blue-Joy and SlicknesS-black: (86k) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/ss/gnome/gnome-bling.jpg -- 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] intel video & suspend
by Sergey Manucharian 18 Jun '10

18 Jun '10

Hi folks, Regularly I put my ThinkPad R61 into suspend twice a day, and everything worked perfectly until 2.6.32 and 2.6.33 kernels. Now from time to time (≈ once a week) when I wake it up, the screen remains black in both X and text console. Nothing can bring it back, but everything else works just fine. No errors in logs either. The suspend is done with: # echo -n mem >/sys/power/state (just the stock /etc/acpi/handler.sh of acpid package) I have Intel GM965 card and run xorg-server-1.7.6-3. Driver: xf86-video-intel-2.10.0-1 I found that there are a couple of patches [1,2] for i915 and intel bios were made in Nov-Dec 2009 to fix such problems, and they were supposed to be in 2.6.33, but my problem persists. Does anybody have ideas/info? Thanks, Sergey [1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87828 [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/62734/

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[arch-general] rebuild of vbox driver fails - fatal error: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
by David C. Rankin 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Guys, Trying to rebuild the vbox driver from virtualbox_bin 3.1.0-1 fails with the following message: make KBUILD_VERBOSE= -C /lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/build SUBDIRS=/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv SRCROOT=/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv modules make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33-ARCH' CC [M] /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o In file included from /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv/include/VBox/types.h:34:0, from /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv/linux/../SUPDrvInternal.h:39, from /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:37: /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxdrv/include/iprt/types.h:100:30: fatal error: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. ...hmm, looks like I'm missing a package, but what? I have looked at the forum and evidently there is a solution: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=94283 The problem is, I don't understand the solution. Evidently the solution is: <quote> Check out this line for i in acpi asm-{generic,x86} config linux math-emu media net pcmcia scsi sound trace video; do </quote> nothing is mentioned after the do and I haven't a clue what to look for in the line referred to? Can anybody explain this in english ( and very slowly...) -- 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] is pkg-config in 'testing' safe for use? pkgconfig 0.23 has problems
by David C. Rankin 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

Guys, DRM won't build with pkgconfig 0.23 due to issues escaping "=" and ":" . Before trying the change to 'pkg-config 0.25' in testing, I thought I would as if the devs consider pkg-config 0.25 to be in good enough shape to do this, or should I wait? -- 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] getting fed up with gnome's fast-user-switching experience
by Matthew Monaco 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Maybe some of you have had similar problems, maybe some have fixed them, seen them vanish with updates, or are still dealing with them. On pretty much every computer I interact with that uses Gnome (Arch, et al.) there is always one problem or another trying to log out, switch users, or resume from suspend. The symptom is usually a blank screen (with or without the backlight), or a blank screen with just the mouse. I'm not sure which combination of programs is to blame. But I've suspected (in no particular order): gdm gnome-session pm-utils gnome-screensaver kernel/xorg drivers for nvidia/ati/intel When encountered with a blank screen, sometimes the solution is as simple as ctrl+alt+f# to find the right tty. Sometimes ctrl+alt+backspace will work if DontZap is disabled. Sometimes I can ssh from another computer and do an (tel)init 3; (tel)init 5. And many unfortunate times I either can't log in remotely or the init trick doesn't work - I'm forced to do a hard reboot. The worst part is, it is really beginning to feel completely random. Or difficult to pinpoint, like special combinations of users that are logged and the user that is initiating the logout/suspend/etc (corrupted gconf?) *sigh* Do any of you have a multi-user gnome system with no problems at all here?

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[arch-general] Google-Chrome
by Madhurya Kakati 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Hi. I want the latest version of Google-chrome. Saw it on AUR but some on #archlinux told that i need gcc 4.4 to compile it successfully for 64 bit arch. Just wanted to know if anyone ran into any problems while compiling it. Thanks

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[arch-general] Anybody attending LinuxTag 2010?
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 31 May '10

31 May '10

I was wondering whether anybody else was going to attend LinuxTag 2010? It seems that this event hasn't even been discussed in arch-events and Arch Linux sadly doesn't hold a booth there this year. If anybody wants to do greet and meet, I'll be at the Linux-Gaming booth. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[arch-general] Compiling Firefox
by Nilesh Govindarajan 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hi, In order to improve firefox's reponse time, I'm thinking of compiling firefox with gcc's -O3 and -march settings from the ABS. Any tips on that matter, about updates, etc. ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] PulseAudio Equalizer not persistent
by Nilesh Govindarajan 31 May '10

31 May '10

Guys I have a problem with the pulseaudio equalizer. I have checked EQ Enabled & Keep Settings. But I have to click apply settings everytime mplayer (cli) changes track. How do I solve this ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

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[arch-general] Equalizer
by Nilesh Govindarajan 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hi, I am looking for a global sound equalizer. It seems there is one for pulseaudio, but does it work fine if anybody is using it on this list ? Also, any other alternatives because I am using ALSA. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com

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