January 2008 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] blurry fonts at Qt4 apps
by Maik Beckmann 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Hello I did send the follwing to the kde and qt mailing list: <my message> I have an issue with the fonts off apps which are based on Qt4. This png http://img403.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gtkkde3kde4qt4za7.png shows the "File" menubar entry at (left to right): gtk+ - kde3 - kde4 - Qt4 apps. As you see the fonts of gtk and kde3 are same. The kde4 and qt4 fonts are the same too. Please focus on the "F"s in "File". The "F" of gtk/kde3 are plain lines, since no curves are involved. The "F" pf kde4/qt4 has something like shadows, which results in a blurry look. Currently I'm running arch-linux, but I saw the behavior on previous gentoo and debian installations when I played with qt4. The screenshots which are placed at the kde4 programming tutorials show that there must be a way do make the fonts in kde4 behave like those in kde3 http://techbase.kde.org/images/a/a3/Introtokdetutorial3.png Just zoom and pan to "File" and compare with the screenshot I provided. My $HOME/.fonts.conf is attached. The font I'm using is Bitstream Vera Sans </my message> The mentioned files are attached to this email too. James Richard Tyrer answered: <answer> > This is interesting. > > If you simply showed these to me without any context, I would say that > the first two (left to right) are hinted for screen display and the > second two are unhinted for WYSIWYG printing. > > KDE-3 and Qt-3 always did fonts as screen hinted which is why some > applications (e.g. KWord) had font printing issues. Since Qt-4 can do > it either way, KDE-4 needs to decide which way that the fonts should be > rendered. So, this would appear to be a bug -- the GUI should always be > screen hinted. </answer> So Qt4 apps maybe do silently the wrong type of font rendering. If you know about this and how to fix it on arch, please share your knowledge. Since there are configuration which are not hit by this (obviously James has one) I would like to ask you're to test if your installtion handles fonts on qt3 and qt4 apps the same way or not. To do so start the i.e kwrite(the kde3 version) and qtconfig (which is a Qt4 app). Pan the "File" entry of qtconfig's menubar to the right of the "File" entry of kwrite's menubar. Now take a screenshot (I used GIMP) and zoom into the "File" - "File" area. To make your results comparable to mine, please chose Bitstream Vera Sans as toolbar font. Thanks in advance, -- Maik

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[arch-general] Strange stuff in kernel26-2.6.24-2
by Karolina Lindqvist 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

There is some strange stuff going on in the newest kernel. i.e. it did not work, so I had to go back to the previous one. First it booted, but then console escape characters (colour) did not work, and sound with snd_via82xx did not either. Then when I rebooted, it crashes every time in the udev/usb code. I have AMD i686 with VIA chipset. I see that it is in testing, so maybe it should remain there.

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[arch-general] Searching reference server for mirror checking
by Gerhard Brauer 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hello, i'm working on a script to check the sync status of the mirrors. Actually i use ftp.archlinux.org as a reference but Pierre Schmitz point to me that this is also only a mirror which must not be in sync. So is there a server (ftp or http) from where i could get the mtime, size and the repository db file as a reference? Pierre told me that he could run this script on his server, but for testing and bugfixing ;-) i need a reliable source. At the moment it seems i got too many false positives... Gerhard -- Never use a running system...

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[arch-general] Appletouch/Synaptics on MacBook 3,1
by CiM-9 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

Hy there. I'm using since a few days Arch Linux on my MacBook 3.1. I'd like to use the advanced features of the Synaptics-XOrg-Driver, but I can't. Reason: appletouch identification changed from MacBook 3 to MacBook 3.1. The gentoo-wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/Macbook#Touchpad) provides a patch to fix this issue, but I just don't know how to apply this. I'd be realy glad about some help. Regards, Chris

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[arch-general] Who is confused, pacman or me?
by Neil Darlow 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

Hi, I did a pacman -Syu this morning and it warned me that: local etracer-0.35-6 is newer than etracer-0.4-1 I'm not sure how that came about. Is this a pacman or pkgbuild problem? My system is i686. Regards, Neil Darlow

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[arch-general] ghc x86_64 missing OpenGL?
by sam lee 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Hi. >From the web page of ghc package, http://archlinux.org/packages/search/?q=ghc, it does include OpenGL bindings. However, on x86_64, ghc has different maintainer and it seems to use different PKGBUILD. Is this intentional? Any plans for including all of extralibs (which includes OpenGL bindings) into ghc package for x86_64 ? Or, make ghc-extralibs as a separate package? Thank you. Sam Lee.

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[arch-general] Repo Filename Search?
by Kevin Monceaux 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Arch Enthusiasts, Does Arch Linux have a utility to search for packages that provide a particular file? I came across qfile via the wiki and tried it but can't seem to get it to work. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!!

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[arch-general] makepkg not stripping bin/libs
by Mark Constable 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

makegpkg 3.1.1 line ~752 has this... find {,usr/{,local/},opt/}{bin,lib,sbin} -type f and I can't see how that will ever work, and it doesn't for me, however this does work (for me)... find -regex ".+/bin/.+" -o -regex ".+/lib/.+" -o -regex ".+/sbin/.+" -type f I recently rebuilt kdemod4 and it ended up being 1.9Gb whereas it should have been around >400Mb. --markc

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[arch-general] Pacman-3.1.1-1 not reading 'provides' field
by Ravi Desai 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Hey, I'm using pacman-3.1.1-1 from testing, and have installed kdemod-4.0. I'm not able to install lyx since lyx requires qt and asks for qtmod to be removed. However, 'pacman -Qi qtmod' has the following --- Provides : qt 4.3.3 --- How do I solve this problem? Is it a bug? Should I file a bug report? I looked at bugs.archlinux.org, but couldn't find anything similar. Thanks, Ravster

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Updating 'man'
by Grigorios Bouzakis 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:19:19AM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > LESSCHARSET > > But that only affects less, and not man pages. It's a fine line, but I > know at least a few people that don't use less as their MANPAGER Those people should. If color is the reason for using most, see http://nion.modprobe.de/blog/archives/572-less-colors-for-man-pages.html I have added that to the Wiki too: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Post_Installation_Tips#Getting_a_colore… Less is much more powerful than most. Greg

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