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[arch-general] Wohoo Compiz Install was a Breeze!
by David C. Rankin 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Listmates, I'm really impressed with Arch! After a little teething to get kde up and running, it was time to install compiz-fusion. Before the install, I copied my compiz config from my opensuse install and my emerald themes by copying ~/.config and ~/.emerald to my home directory in the Arch install. Then I proceeded with: pacman -Sy compiz-fusion-kde With a little trepidation, I then selected fusion-icon from the system menu and... Compiz-fusion started with all my setting and my emerald theme without a hicup. Fantastic!! Kudos and Great Job to whoever is building and maintaining the compiz fusion packages. Now I really have a cool archlinux desktop! A quick: ksnapshot # desktop saved as archlinux1.png # pms imagemagick imagemagick-doc # convert archlinux1.png -resize 800 archlinux1-800.png # convert archlinux1-800.png archlinux1-800.jpg # rsync archlinux1-800.jpg nirvana:/srv/www/download/screenshots/archlinux and you have your screenshot: http://nirvana.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/archlinux1-80… Thank you to all who have help me stumble through getting to this point. All in all, setup has been a breeze on Arch (the fumbling around getting kde going aside). Looks like a great distro, and so far everything I use has been available. I haven't gotten to the compilers yet, but I bet they are all there. I still have a bit of cleanup and loading of packages to do, but I bet in a few days when you look at www.3111skyline.com, it will be running on archlinux;-) -- 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

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[arch-general] Help with /etc/fonts.conf
by David C. Rankin 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Listmates, I have several additional fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts that I want configured for the system. I found /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf, but I'm unsure about the placement of my <dir></dir> location in the local.conf file. Currently I have chosen: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig>  <include ignore_missing="yes">local.conf</include> <dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir> </fontconfig> My question is "does it matter whether the <dir> statement comes before or after the <include> and what do I need to do after I add the <dir> statement in 51-local.conf to make the system create a new font config? -- 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] The 284 files in /etc/ssl/certs? There must be a purpose...
by David C. Rankin 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Listmates, One thing I noticed when generating dovecot certs was the significant number of files in /etc/ssl/certs. What is the reason for/background of Arch's gathering of so many cert files, and is there some specific way we should make use of them? Are they just there for convenience? Are they current? -- 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] Question about the license of opera
by Attila 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Hi, i recognized that there is new package in aur for opera with this informations: "This package is the official one from the [extra] repository. We have to move it because of a unclear license issue. After we have clarify this issue the package will be back in the repos or not. It should not be moved to community, because of the license." I'm a little bit surprised that a custom license is such a problem because this shows me 343 entries: find /var/abs -name PKGBUILD | \ xargs grep license | \ grep custom | grep extra | wc -l Will now all packages with custom licenses disappear from extra? See you, Attila

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[arch-general] seq-dummy missing in kernel
by Nils Gey 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Hi archpeople, I just wanted to note that the alsa module snd_seq_dummy is missing in our kernel and it would be nice to integrate this. Musicians who work with MIDI need this very often and we, from the linux-pro-audio-scene, even considered a long-time bug we searched for. greetings, Nils

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[arch-general] Starting gpg-agent on X login (gdm)
by Magnus Therning 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

After looking through my new shine Arch system I found that ssh-agent is run from /etc/gdm/Xsession, so I suppose that's where I need to make changes in order to get gpg-agent to run, right? Is there some documentation on the preferred way of doing this? Should I look into using seahorse instead of {ssh,gpg}-agent? /M

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[arch-general] How to set UXA as AccelMethod in xorg 1.6?
by Vitor Garcia 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Hello, I'm trying to set AccelMethod as UXA in xorg.conf by using: Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Option "AccelMethod" "UXA" Driver "intel" EndSection (I have intel legacy driver installed, by the way.) But EXA continues to be used: (II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.6.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0 (**) intel(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) intel(0): RGB weight 888 (==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor (**) intel(0): Option "AccelMethod" "UXA" (II) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 965G (--) intel(0): Chipset: "965G" (--) intel(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xC0000000 (--) intel(0): IO registers at addr 0xDFE00000 (II) intel(0): 2 display pipes available. ***************************************** (==) intel(0): Using EXA for acceleration ***************************************** Does anyone know what I may have made wrong? Thanks for the help, -- Vitor Garcia

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[arch-general] howto set [backspace] for previous page for man pages and less?
by David C. Rankin 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Listmates, I am trying to find the [backspace] key definition so I can change it to make the backspace key function as the key for [previous page] in both less and for man pages. Does any body know where Arch sets this? Thanks. -- 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] howto: turn of button font underline on focus in kde3?
by David C. Rankin 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Listmates, I must be blind in one eye and can't see out of the other because I have picked through every kde control center setting, every domino setting, every polyester setting and every konqueror setting and I still can't find out how to turn off the button text underline in kde3 on arch. The button text underline appears everywhere from the kdm greeter throughout your entire session anytime there is a button that has the focus -- the font underlines itself. I want it gone... The needle is buried somewhere in the haystack, but for the life of me I can't find it. Can anybody throw and old man a bone and help him out? -- 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] gcc-4.4.0 toolchain rebuild with query about gcc-gcj and related packages
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Allan McRae wrote: > Hi all, > > The gcc-4.4.0 toolchain rebuild is now in [testing]. Here is a rough > ChangeLog: Awesome, Thanks I will build some things in a chroot, to see how it behaves. > > glibc: > One note here, (low priority): in the ".install" post_upgrade() there is a line "init u". If glibc is installed in a chroot and don't have sysvinit package, because isn't needed, when glibc is upgrading will show a warning about can't execute init, so you can replace this line with a "[ -x /sbin/init ] && /sbin/init u" ? And a question: why still support older kernels from 2.6.16?, considering that minimal kernel that udev support is 2.6.22, maybe can change the line --enable-kernel=2.6.16 with a superior version >= 2.6.22 >From glibc manual: "This option is currently only useful on GNU/Linux systems. The version parameter should have the form X.Y.Z and describes the smallest version of the Linux kernel the generated library is expected to support. The higher the version number is, the less compatibility code is added, and the faster the code gets." > binutils: > - add upstream patch to improve -Wl,--as-needed usage > Excelent! > Allan > Thanks in advance. -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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