June 2020 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] pacman --assume-installed in a config file?
by Damjan Georgievski 18 Jun '20

18 Jun '20

I often find myself using the `assume-installed`[1] option of pacman when doing upgrades, since I want to avoid some (for me) nonsensical dependencies to be installed. Is it possible to configure this in some config file, so I don't have to remember to type it all the time? [1] sudo pacman -Syu --assume-installed noto-fonts noto-fonts is pulled as a dependency of plasma-integration, but I don't want it installed since it takes over the default fonts (ships an aggressive fontconfig configuration) for many websites, and looks quite bad *for me* (on a 14" FHD display). It's also a 90MB package I don't need. -- damjan

5 6

[arch-general] Keyboard Problem in Mate Arch Linux for the Last Few Days
by das 18 Jun '20

18 Jun '20

Hello Friends in Arch-General Mailing List I am using Arch Linux for the last six months or so. Before that I was using Redhat and Fedora for 15 years or so. I am a Mate user and I use my keyboard to write both English and Bangla. For the last few days when I am booting into Mate, a problem window is coming up -- I have attached the file kbd-text-s.png. The output of the commands in kbd-text.png is here: << dd@ru-al ~]$ xprop -root | grep XKB _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105", "us", "", "" _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105", "us", "", "grp:lctrl_rctrl_switch" [dd@ru-al ~]$ gsettings list-keys org.mate.peripherals-keyboard-xkb.kbd layouts options model >> And usually I change the layout from one to the other (English and Bangla) whenever I need them -- from System--Preferences--Hardware--Keyboard, as shown in kbd-layout-s.png attached with this mail. But now the keyboard is always English, I cannot change it to Bangla India Probhat. I have never filed a bug in Arch Linux and so I am first reporting here. Any help is welcome. Thanking you. -- দাশ das http://ddts.randomink.org/

5 11

[arch-general] Archlinux kde lag nvidia
by Maykel Franco 13 Jun '20

13 Jun '20

Hi, I have lag with kde + nvidia 2080ti. I searched google but the solutions exposed not work for me. Anybody with the same problem? No tearing issues, only lag with windows maximized, change workspace effect, all windows effects... With gnome or cinnamon no issues. The effects works very well and speed. I try change compositor options with no results.

1 0

[arch-general] pacman system update - Why am I prompted to import a specific key?
by David C. Rankin 13 Jun '20

13 Jun '20

All, On update today (yesterday's updates went fine), I am prompted to approve import of the following key a number of times: (108/108) checking keys in keyring [######################################] 100% downloading required keys... :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] Y :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] Is this normal? (email address intentionally truncated) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

4 5

[arch-general] pacman system update - Why am I prompted to import a specific key?
by David C. Rankin 12 Jun '20

12 Jun '20

All, On update today (yesterday's updates went fine), I am prompted to approve import of the following key a number of times: (108/108) checking keys in keyring [######################################] 100% downloading required keys... :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] Y :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] Is this normal? (email address intentionally truncated) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

1 0

[arch-general] Wesnoth probably has wrong dependency
by Peter Nabbefeld 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

Hello, as Python2 has been sunset since the beginning of this year (https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/) I'm looking forward to removing it. One of the packages still depending on python2 is wesnoth, though due to https://wiki.wesnoth.org/Maintenance_tools it should work with Python3 already. Of course, this should work, since Python3 is installed already besides Python2, but it seems to be an unnecessary dependency. Instead, the dependency should be updated to python. Kind regards Peter

3 3

[arch-general] Archiso doesn't show prompt
by Ricardo Band 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Ahoi, I have a Supermicro server and since last month archiso doesn't work anymore. The 2020.04 iso did boot fine but the 2020.05 and 2020.06 boots up but doesn't show the prompt. I just get a cursor that blinks and nothing more. When I switch to other ttys there is also just the blinking cursor. I don't know what I can do to further debug this. My hardware is a Supermicro X11SSH-LN4F with a Xeon E3-1275v6. - -- Greetings Ricardo Band https:// www.ricardo.band mailto:// email(a)ricardo.band xmpp://jabber@ricardo.band -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEhyzgFNiV8yZuI1T5Gp1lfQa1gg4FAl7gBT0ACgkQGp1lfQa1 gg7UixAAi75mXsmXOb9ZvDdwCTBJj3f4bIajcfp7jBt1KP+TTNOGA7w6oPA6ofqx dMxS/WWV0hoR8M1x7XQPvnDugohmTYBbQSeSqRyEDIGUd+DeIaVd1KcSaweqG4PZ WP01lqXursj0zCVNZ2iQXdGx1gd/9KDp3MQH4cO2Us5XDlI1FzOph2YRFmbfWenR NA1ZqrMg/YjJKx5VTrlZzO/YqdphAtl1gLGrjEbJ5+EMkSC6Hefb6jSEdTE6CEiB DBrpW6ckRXMO+CWIhF1/7kfFeCLNQvyTG9+brytsJe/pJDtqp48ACxU+xqcIKhhs EU98iyDO+xBpYtMUh5YY+4Hg2N598FLmLMsiFQQH4XnBKv+hkp38m+NZBt3SpwjB MyQT3mWNrfhbGXEqhMus1FSNO+AtNJZKG4vJTy8oOxQmEu9cQ6J7xykb1wntyq5M lL40kS9zPXyGD0Dsk2cArsJ9f1g/xntpxe/GRlOm3xDLsNQA0vU12VHZRxp7si+l E1XoaNsOu9xsLa2VcyzUXQhu5hYT4fFMO6vzQm5tixZvmozH0UYWI4rTxboGC8XY g508kO8wVxr1x1t//AZgnuUnMP46C28AFXNrMn3tOpnohWk5yX85eFAeCUc5AP+F 0ERy8AGsqRMZWejLGzyf/5xHLd1rw3XRqzodHWGAecwQ500gGHU= =uT9M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

2 2

Re: [arch-general] what's wrong with my alsa configuration?
by Jude DaShiell 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

Solved. Turns out either alsa oand/or vlc get very upset when pulseaudio isn't installed and running. I installed pulseaudio-alsa then ran pulseaudio --start in user account and errors disappeared. --

1 0

[arch-general] what's wrong with my alsa configuration?
by Jude DaShiell 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

I'm using vlc to play a stream and got the same error when trying to play an mp3 file earlier. The stream and the file play eventually. I searched for this one using duckduckgo and got one result in german which I do not speak and certainly do not do technical german which is why I'm asking here. ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1052:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to create IPC semaphore --

1 0

[arch-general] community/cascadia-code-ttf out of date
by Tom Alexander 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

We're behind by 4 releases for the cascadia code font: https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code/releases This particularly interests me because they've added a non-ligature build of the font which they named Cascadia Mono. I took a stab at updating the PKGBUILD in the subversion repository and ended up with the attached patch which installs both Cascadia Code and Cascadia Mono. It's worth noting that the patch is only for one of the PKGBUILDs in tff-cascadia-code so the change probably has to be applied to both (I'm not familiar with the build system for the community repo). -- Tom Alexander

1 0