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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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[arch-general] Voice support for gajim and pidgin
by Storm Dragon 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

Howdy, I have tried both pidgin and gajim for making audio calls using my xmpp server. Both of them say they are missing packages. Here's a sample from gajim: Requires: gir1.2-farstream-0.2, gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0, gstreamer1.0-plugins-base, gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly, gstreamer1.0-libav, and gstreamer1.0-gtk3 I even tried upgrading to jagim-git, and got the same thing. Here is how the dependency list looks after installation completes: (1/1) installing gajim-git [############################################################] 100%Optional dependencies for gajim-git python-dbus: for gajim-remote and zeroconf support [installed] farstream: for video/voice support [installed] gst-plugins-good: for video/voice support [installed] gst-plugins-bad: for video/voice support [installed] gst-plugins-ugly: for video/voice support [installed] gst-libav: for video/voice support [installed] gst-python: for video/voice support [installed] gst-plugin-gtk: for video support gsound: for notification sounds [installed] gspell: for spell checking support [installed] libxss: for idle time checking on X11 [installed] libappindicator-gtk3: to get a tray icon on some desktop environments notification-daemon: for desktop notifications [installed] gnome-keyring: store passwords encrypted in GNOME Keyring kded: store passwords encrypted in KSecretService python-crypto: support for E2E encryption python-docutils: for RST generator support gupnp-igd: for UPnP-IGD support [installed] geoclue2: for sharing your location :: Running post-transaction hooks... the output from pidgin looks very similar. So I'm curious, am I missing something here or is audio support just broken in both of these? I have audio support using conversations in Android, but why use that when there's a perfectly good computer running Arch right at my fingertips lol. Also, I was wondering if there's a CLI based xmpp client that supports audio? I have searched and there seem to be quite a few, but none that I have found that specifically mentions audio with the jingle protocol, or audio at all for that matter. Thanks, Storm

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[arch-general] Vim errors: Can't allocate color Orange, Can't allocate color SlateBlue, etc...
by David C. Rankin 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

All, A recent change to how vim is being packages has resulted in errors when opening files with C syntax highlight on my system. The error I receive is, e.g.: Error detected while processing /etc/vimrc[38]../usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/syntax.vim[19]../usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/synload.vim[21]../usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/syncolor.vim: line 53: E254: Cannot allocate color SlateBlue E254: Cannot allocate color SlateBlue I get the same error with different colors depending on what different highlight elements are present in any file. Was the vim package changed to put this stuff in another package? Odd error -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Status of gnupg - time to update
by Genes Lists 28 Mar '22

28 Mar '22

Current Arch version is LTS 2.2.32 [1]. As per the announcement [2] 2.3.4 is considered the current stable version: "Version 2.3 is the current stable version with a lot of new features compared to 2.2." I have hazy recollections from some time back that there was a reason for delaying updating to current version - don't recall what exactly. It's been a while now, and there are some nice features in 2.3.4 [3] Also, our libgcrypt is up to date ( ignoring today's release of 1.10.1) Any remaining reason not to update gnupg to current version? thanks gene [1] Aside - LTS 2.3.34 was released recently in early Feb of this year. [2] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2022q1/000470.html [3] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q2/000458.html

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[arch-general] Pacman Search on Package Names Only?
by 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE＠potatochowder.com 25 Mar '22

25 Mar '22

Greetings, Is there a way to limit Pacman to search package names only, rather than package names and descriptions? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Querying_package_databases says that you can do that by tweaking the search term, but that doesn't really work. As a [horrible] workaround, I could write my own script atop pacman -Qq, but, well, yuck. :-) Thanks, Dan

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[arch-general] Output of make -s kernelrelease has a "" suffix
by u34＠net9.ga 23 Mar '22

23 Mar '22

With 5.17.arch1, the output of make -s kernelrelease ends with "". That is, having a double \" character at the end of the string. It was not like that in prevoius versions. Is that expected? -- u34

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