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[arch-general] Printable wiki pages not working
by Jerome Leclanche 30 Mar '14

30 Mar '14

?printable=yes on the wiki doesn't seem to have any effect. Example: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Kernels&printable=yes Compare: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linux&printable=yes printable pages are nice for downloading and reading offline with lynx -dump. Could this be fixed? J. Leclanche

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Re: [arch-general] display manager dvorak recognition failure
by message 29 Mar '14

29 Mar '14

On 2014-03-17 22:59, arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org wrote: > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:39:58 +0000 > From: message <letter(a)openmailbox.org> > Subject: [arch-general] display manager dvorak recognition failure > > Readers, > > Initially lxdm, gdm have been installed, but neither recognise a dvorak > keyboard. How to configure the graphical display manager so that a user > can specify the keyboard layout before to enter sign-in credentials? > > -- > digest-mode subscriber; please cc to maintain message thread > How to add language options to the graphical display manager sign-in window, so that user A can sign in using qwerty and user B can select the option to use dvorak and another language?

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[arch-general] per error
by message 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Readers, 'get_iplayer' is a program to extract media from BBC F(/tr)ash streams. After installation of the program, obtained the following error: Can't locate HTML/Entities.pm in @INC (you may need to install the HTML::Entities module) (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/share/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl /usr/share/perl5/core_perl .) at ./getiplayer line 58. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./getiplayer line 58. line 58: use HTML::Entities; Tried re-installation of perl (518222 already installed) and failed. Any suggestions to solve please?

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[arch-general] Must use nomodeset to enable boot
by Anthony Campbell 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

I have a Thinkpad T42 which has been happily running Arch for many months. Its video is AMD/ATI. After a recent upgrade I started getting the dreaded blank page on boot. Googling showed a lot of discussion of this on various distros including Arch. The only solution seems to be to set nomodeset, which works, but it appears to be deprecated. It's supposed to prevent some opensource drivers from working, although so far mine does. Any comments or advice about this please? -- Anthony Campbell - ac(a)acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412

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[arch-general] GNOME Software: Status and integrable?
by Karol Babioch 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Hi, now that GNOME 3.12 has been released and probably will hit the repos in the next couple of days/weeks, I'm wondering what the current status of "Software" is [1]? This is an application similar to an app store in the mobile world. I couldn't find it in the repos, and I wouldn't expect it to even work without some patching, because obviously it would have to be integrated into the packet management system. The only reference I could find in regards to Arch Linux was a forum thread from last year [2], which basically ended up in a mess without any real answers. On the other hand I may have missed it, because GNOME is really good in using generic terms like "Software" and "Web" to name their applications, which are not great to search for :'(. I'm not interested in another flame war about GNOME, when it hits the repos and things like that. I just want to know whether this particular application is available/works and if not what the technical hurdles would be to make it work and whether it is feasible to get it working in the near term. Arguably users of Arch Linux are expected to know how to use use the command line (including pacman) and I'm fine with that, but I wouldn't mind to be able to browse an app store, just for the fun of it ;). Best regards, Karol Babioch [1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Software [2]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=170223

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Re: [arch-general] graphical display management
by message 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

On 2014-03-25 15:59, arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org wrote: > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:15:27 +0100 > From: Guus Snijders <gsnijders(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] graphical display management > > > Ok. Could you try resetting the password for user a? > You could do this (as root) with: > passwd a > > And then try again to login to a tty. > This was successful thanks, but the dvorak keyboard layout is not recognised at the graphical sign-in prompt. The layout is recognised when a command terminal is opened within the graphical user session. > Just to be sure: you do realise that the password shown in /etc/shadow > is the encrypted password and not the literal string to type in? > (no offence). > Using 'less' to access the file, the password is visible as literal text.

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Re: [arch-general] graphical display management
by message 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

On 2014-03-25 15:59, arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org wrote: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:49:06 +0100 > From: Jakub Klinkovsk? <j.l.k(a)gmx.com> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] graphical display management > >> >> Interestingly, 'su a' results in the cursor 'pwd' to be the root home >> directory and not '/home/a'. >> > > This is the expected behaviour. Just run the command 'cd', without > arguments it > will get you into the home directory, which should be '/home/a'. Or run > 'su -l a'. > I would have expected the home directory for 'root' _not_ to be accessible to other users.

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[arch-general] Configuring enabled services
by Gesh 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

Dear all, I've been rereading the old arguments on the rc.conf split. Disregarding everything discussed there, one interesting point came up during that discussion.[1] Is it possible to have some configuration file, e.g. /etc/systems/services.conf that would list all the units one wants to be enabled at boot? This would both simplify backups and reduce the magic of and dependence on systemctl. Is there any reason this can't or shouldn't be done? With best regards, Gesh [1] - http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/43459

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[arch-general] Gnome-shell Compositing for full screen applications
by Mark Lee 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Salutations, I was recently running a test of the i3 windows manager and tried dolphin-emu. To my surprise I was able to play Wii games at full speed at 1080p resolution on my i3-2105 (Intel HD 3000) rig. I'm assuming this is due no compositing in i3. With that in mind, I was wondering if there was a way to make gnome-shell disable compositing for full screen applications. Regards, Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlMziXkACgkQZ/Z80n6+J/am+AEAhbnWcpS5TVbhomZogRI3z/Hg cKUau/u6/hkYQjOBlWsA/RoVShK5GXWAMrtvsaG0a/zmUJ1W1rKuXRKkT6HO0SyU =lNLz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] browser and tty
by arnaud gaboury 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

Dear list, I decided to get rid of my mate DE and go i3. Before I am testing my settings on tty2 (Ctrl+Alt+F2) with a modify .xinitrc (exec i3). I have a weird behavior as regarding my web browser, could it be chromium or firefox. On my i3 config. I have this line: assign [instance="^chromium$"] → 1 Unfortunately, when I log in on tty2, there is no chromium being started. When I am back on tty1 (mate session), I find chromium being opened. Then, on tty2, if I start manually firefox, I can't as I am told "firefox is already running". Indeed it is but on tty1. It seems like web browsers are "attached" to my tty1. Is there any reason for this behavior? Shall I modify anything to start any web browser on tty2 ? Thank you for help.

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