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[arch-general] Why is clock_gettime called when the mouse moves?
by Piscium 05 May '22

05 May '22

I don't know what is the best place to ask the following question, if here, in the Arch forums (which ?) or in the X.org mailing list. I will ask here first. I am open to suggestions. I have two Arch desktops. Desktop #1: MSI motherboard, Nvidia graphics with proprietary driver, Xfce on top of openbox. Desktop #2: Dell, Intel graphics, Xfce on top of openbox. If I run strace <GUI app> where <GUI app> could be for example Mousepad or Emacs, and move the mouse I get lots of stuff in the trace in both desktops. In desktop #1 however most of trace consists of calls to clock_gettime. This seems weird to me. In the excerpt below which shows both seconds and nano seconds, in the same second there are lots of messages. Why? As far as I know there is nothing wrong with the clock, and there is no special X configuration, so why does one desktop shows calls to clock_gettime and the other not? Any ideas? clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338313354}) = 0 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}], 3, 0) = 0 (Timeout) clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338370693}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338397792}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338425239}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338452337}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338479505}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338506324}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338532794}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338559683}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338586432}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338617162}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338651035}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338686654}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338721993}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338762990}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338799447}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338836812}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338872989}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338909307}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338942411}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338971326}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339001287}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339030900}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339061700}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339090335}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339122531}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339152283}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339181826}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339212696}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339243915}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339273527}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339305864}) = 0 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}], 3, 0) = 0 (Timeout) clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339372701}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339404270}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339436117}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339467196}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339498276}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339530402}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339562878}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339604015}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339639424}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339670364}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339701722}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339732871}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339764649}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339803620}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339835398}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339866337}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339897975}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339929683}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339959715}) = 0

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[arch-general] Package ld-lsb
by Ralf Mardorf 04 May '22

04 May '22

Hi, what is the purpose of the package ld-lsb or else the reason for "Faking a Linux Standard Base runtime"? "Required By (0)" - https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/ld-lsb/ $ pacman -Ql ld-lsb ld-lsb /usr/ ld-lsb /usr/lib/ ld-lsb /usr/lib/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.2 ld-lsb /usr/lib/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3 ld-lsb /usr/lib/ld-lsb.so.2 ld-lsb /usr/lib/ld-lsb.so.3 $ /bin/ls -l /usr/lib/ld-lsb* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 13 2021 /usr/lib/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.2 -> ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 13 2021 /usr/lib/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3 -> ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 13 2021 /usr/lib/ld-lsb.so.2 -> ld-linux.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 13 2021 /usr/lib/ld-lsb.so.3 -> ld-linux.so.2 "The standard stopped being updated in 2015 and current Linux distributions do not adhere to or offer it" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base Let alone that it always has been a standard in name only. Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] nvidia-utils=510.68.02
by 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE＠potatochowder.com 02 May '22

02 May '22

Greetings, I got an error message from pacman this morning: -> Could not find all required packages: nvidia-utils=510.68.02 (Wanted by: nvidia-lts) According to <https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=nvidia-utils>, that version of nvidia-utils is still in Testing. I can't tell whether nvidia-lts=510.68.02 or nvidia-utils=510.68.02 is in the wrong place, but they're a pair, right? Can someone look into this? Thanks, Dan -- I can eat glass, it does not hurt me. Dan Sommers, http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan

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[arch-general] not able to execute commands on tty
by Frank 26 Apr '22

26 Apr '22

Hi, I'm having an issue with tty. When loogin on I get the following error messages: -bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied -bash: PATH: Command not found ... This is my bashrc: # # ~/.bashrc # # If not running interactively, don't do anything [[ $- != *i* ]] && return #fix VTE issue for tilix if [ $TILIX_ID ] || [ $VTE_VERSION ]; then source /etc/profile.d/vte.sh fi alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias ll='ls -l' alias la='ls -a' alias diff='diff --color=auto' alias grep='grep --color=auto' alias mpv='mpv --vo=gpu' #command not found #source /usr/share/doc/find-the-command/ftc.bash powerline-daemon -q POWERLINE_BASH_CONTINUATION=1 POWERLINE_BASH_SELECT=1 . /usr/share/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh and here's my .profile: #set vim as default editor export EDITOR=vim #prevent logging identical commands and commands starting with a space export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth #append to history on exit shopt -s histappend #store multiline commands in one entry shopt -s cmdhist #line wrap on windowresize shopt -s checkwinsize ##tell apps to use Wayland #Firefox export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 #prevent accessibility tools export NO_AT_BRIDGE=1 #add Perl and Perl modules to file path export PATH="$(PATH):/usr/bin/core_perl/" export PATH="$(PATH):/usr/bin/vendor_perl/" export PATH="$(PATH):/usr/bin/site_perl/" [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc I'm not able to execute any commands, getting the command not found, and have no idea what wnet wrong here. All is fine when on wayland using a treminal emulator. THX Frank

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[arch-general] any IEEE 802.11ax wifi 6 USB devices supported by gnu+linux (even external dkms)?
by Javier 15 Apr '22

15 Apr '22

I’m looking for upgrading to wifi 6 (802.11ax), but I’m not able to find gnu+linux supported usb devices. WPA3 seems a winner, and the fact devices don’t interfere with each others (at least not as much as wifi 5 and lesser), plus better signal spectrum, and perhaps getting where it was harder before, then I’m willing to upgrade, however, it seems only ms-windows and maybe some mac supported, usb devices can be found. Could it be it’ll take even further to get them into gnu+linux? Thanks ! -- Javier

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[arch-general] [grub] how to make grub use the integrated intel gpu, rather than the discrete nvidia one?
by Javier 12 Apr '22

12 Apr '22

Hello ! On a laptop with dual GPU, I'm able to disable nvdia, following instructions under [1], though I'm thinking that was not necessary, since I'm using early kms with intel [2]: > % grep i915 /etc/mkinitcpio.conf > MODULES=(i915) And I don't use the xf86-video-* Xorg drivers, since I prefer the glamor Xorg ones: > [ 94.997] (II) modeset(0): glamor X acceleration enabled on Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) Now, I noticed grub is actually using the nvdia gpu, because it doesn't support specifying GRUB_GFXMODE to "auto", neither "1920x1080x32", well, it doesn't complain, but the resolution I get for any is terrible, and when I disable the framebuffer [3]: > # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal > #GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console I do get the right resolution, though I totally lose my background image, which is sad. But it's not only aesthetics, it seems, at times, when loading the initrd image on boot, the system freezes, and there's no alternative than a hard boot, which might be related. If you're wondering, this is a HP zbook 15 g6. Thanks ! -- Javier [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/hybrid_graphics [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/kernel_mode_setting#Early_KMS_start [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Disable_framebuffer

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[arch-general] Fwd: [off-topic] Korganizer: get ics webcals periodically sync (can be read only)
by Javier 09 Apr '22

09 Apr '22

On 9/11/20 12:18, Javier wrote: > On 9/11/20 9:01 AM, Jens John wrote: >> If this is a limitation, it's a limitation of Akonadi that it doesn't monitor remote single files for changes. A workaround could be to use the local file source, let korganizer monitor it for changes, and sync the local file using wget/curl and a systemd --user timer. This should work flawlessly and be solid. >> >> Personally, I'd suggest to think differently and get the ICS subscription into your DAV calendaring system first. CalDAV software or hosting worth its money should support some kind of calendar subscription. This is exactly what I'm doing; I have CalDAV as the single source of truth, and subscriptions of external calendars flow into the DAV calendars. At the endpoint device, I just need to connect to CalDAV to get everything from one source. This is also the setup I'm using with KOrganizer. >> > > BTW, I do have the external ICS web calendars subscribed into my DAV provider, which has of course its own personal calendar and a birthday calendar extracted from the contacts information. > > On Thunderbird, when you include the caldav calendar, Thunderbird automatically includes the ICS calendars as separate read only calendars that are periodically sync, and one can change the syncing period, besides the personal and birthday caldav calendars. > > On Android, I do have both, davdroid and icsdroid (now renamed to davx5 and icsx5), and when including the caldav calendar to davdroid, besides including the personal and birthday caldav calendar to davdroid, it automatically populates icsdroid (the partner app) with the ICS calendars, which are sync periodically with a configurable period, but common for all ICS calendars. > > On Korganizer though (having installed Kontact, Kaddressbook, Kmail and all other SW), when including the caldav calendar, only the personal and birthday event are included, that I remember, and I honestly don't recall if separate as individual calendars as on the case of Thunderbird and davdroid+icsdroid, or as just one combined calendar. But as I never saw the ICS calendars events, I just had to include them manually, and as ICS files was the only way I found to include them... > > I don't know if it was a matter of time to see all calendars reflected in Korganizer (I waited like half an hour, and then connected again the next day, and saw nothing). > > Perhaps I need to try it again... I wanted to follow this suggestion, but I haven't been able to. I do have an /e/ account with caldav+cardav+mail service, and I have the external ics/ical web calendars subscribed in there, however, as mentioned, when korganizer does the sync with the caldav service, it doesn't bring any of the subscribed ics/ical calendars into the /e/ caldav service. Is there another way to do this? Perhaps I need a local service which doesn't expose through the network, and just serves caldav locally, and then somehow subscribe to it, the ics/ical remote calendars, and set the sync period per calendar (I need some ones every 15 minutes, other every hour, other every half a day), and then make the calcav client, in this case, korganizer sync with this local service? Does it exist? What to use? Hopefully something I can start when launching the desktop, since in the end kde-pim only makes sense on the desktop. I can deal with user cron jobs as well I'd guess... And if such tool exists, which exposes ics/ical remote calendars, periodically sync, as caldav ones, locally, can it just do all, like syncing caldav and cardav as well, and then the clients sync with such tool? Tha last is not required, but it would be interesting, it'd be like on aosp mobiles, where you get the davdroid+icsdroid doing all the sync of calendars and contacts, and then other clients, like k9 mail, etar calendar, and lineageos contacts, just read from them and write to them. That would be cool, though such ecosystem is not available on the desktop, and actually kontact (kde-pim) with kmail+korganizer+kcontact+kleopatra+... is what comes closer... I'm still looking for this. Suggestions and guidance are really appreciated. Thanks a lot ! -- Javier

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] RFC: Forbid dummy packages from AUR
by Óscar García Amor 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

El jue, 24 mar 2022 a las 8:14, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public (<arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org>) escribió: > > On 24/3/22 11:07, Brett Cornwall via arch-dev-public wrote: > > Summary: Reject AUR packages that fulfill package dependencies without > > providing the files/binaries of the package in question. But why? I don't quite understand why this should be banned. IMHO I think it is something very interesting and also, as described in the RFC, has a clear and justified use. It would be different if there was a way to tell Pacman by configuration to assume that these dependencies are covered, but as far as I know it is not possible. And while it is true that you can pass the `--assume-installed` option to it, but that must always be done at run time and if you have a high number of dummy dependencies it can be messy. Greetings -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] Odd unicode glyph rendering issues
by Mark Raynsford 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Hello! I have two systems here that are running the same version of Arch. They are using different window managers; system A is running awesomewm, whilst system B is running fvwm. Both have the same fonts installed, and both have very similar outputs for "env": System A: DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/184135848/bus DISPLAY=:0 EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 HOME=/home/rm LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C LOGNAME=rm MAIL=/var/spool/mail/rm MOTD_SHOWN=pam PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/home/rm/bin:/opt/bin PWD=/home/rm SHELL=/bin/bash SHLVL=2 SSH_AGENT_PID=806 SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-XXXXXXNocNEG/agent.782 SYSTEMD_EXEC_PID=673 TASKRC=/home/rm/git/com.github/io7m/dotfiles.taskwarrior/taskrc TERM=xterm-256color USER=rm VTE_VERSION=6602 WINDOWID=12195960 WINDOWPATH=1 XAUTHORITY=/home/rm/.Xauthority XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/rm/var/cache XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/rm/etc XDG_DATA_HOME=/home/rm/local XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/184135848 XDG_SEAT=seat0 XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user XDG_SESSION_ID=1 XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty XDG_VTNR=1 _=/usr/bin/env System B: DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/128542918/bus EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 HOME=/home/rm-work LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C LOGNAME=rm-work MAIL=/var/spool/mail/rm-work MOTD_SHOWN=pam PATH=/home/rm-work/bin:/home/rm-work/.pyenv/shims:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin PWD=/home/rm-work PYENV_ROOT=/home/rm-work/.pyenv PYENV_VIRTUALENV_INIT=1 SHELL=/bin/bash SHLVL=0 TERM=xterm-256color USER=rm-work XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/rm-work/var/cache XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/rm-work/etc XDG_DATA_HOME=/home/rm-work/local XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/128542918 XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user XDG_SESSION_ID=16 XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty _=/usr/sbin/env With both systems, I can open a text file containing the following string: ひらがな ... in both a browser (Firefox, Chromium), in mousepad, and in vim in an xfce4-terminal instance. System A will consistently render the string using the correct glyphs. System B will consistently render the string as a set of missing glyphs. Given that all of my software, fonts, and locale settings are apparently the same... What other variables could cause font rendering to consistently fail on one system and not the other? -- Mark Raynsford | https://www.io7m.com

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[arch-general] No arch-security emails for 3 months
by kiasoc5＠tutanota.com 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

The arch-security mailing list has not sent anything since December 2021. How come? Have there been 0 security fixes in packages? Is the security team busy? Something else? Just curious, thanks.

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