October 2011 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Recently orphaned [community] packages, TUs should take a look if they might be interested in adopting them.
by Thomas Dziedzic 02 Oct '11

02 Oct '11

Hi, I recently went over all my packages in community, and have decided to orphan the following due to lack of interest and because I haven't used them in a long time celt - Low-latency audio communication codec extrema - Extrema is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool. ghdl - A complete VHDL simulator, using GCC technology. gnofract4d - A fractal browser with PyGTK gui grass - Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization. gtkwave - A wave viewer which reads LXT, LXT2, VZT, GHW and VCD/EVCD files gts - GNU Triangulated Surface Library. luakit - luakit is a highly configurable, micro-browser framework based on the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit."Stable" release mpdscribble - An mpd client which submits track info to last.fm netbeans - Netbeans IDE development platform. protege - Free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework wordpress - Blog Tool and Publishing Platform All of them are working as far as I know, and they have no outstanding bugs except a couple which are in the list of pushing the .desktop file upstream https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23387 (already reported) and luakit has an extremely minor upstream bug https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25761 which is also reported. Cheers!

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[arch-general] remove grub from base group?
by Ray Kohler 02 Oct '11

02 Oct '11

Since aif now supports syslinux and grub equally, does it make sense that grub no longer needs to be in the base group? syslinux isn't in base. I'll open an FS for this if that's wanted.

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Re: [arch-general] xmodmap
by Jorge Almeida 01 Oct '11

01 Oct '11

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM, marshall <marshall(a)mcleave.orangehome.co.uk> wrote: > > Hopefully this time I'll make the list. > > My enviroment file. > > setxkbmap gb > xmodmap /home/marshall/.Xmodmap > > I used run xmodmap from ~/.config/openbox/autostart > but that ceased to work after the openbox 3.5 upgrade. I then tried to > run it from my .xinitrc file, this also fails to work as expected. > OK, I found it. The problem was "setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" _after_ xmodmap! As I use setxkbmap just to recover the traditional Ctrl-Alt-Backspace behavior that Xorg developers decided to drop, it didn't occur to me that it might interact with xmodmap. I changed the places of both commands and it works now. It works regardless of whether it is run before the openbox binary (via environment file, or equivalent) or after openbox (via --startup flag). It is also independent of the fact that I'm using a non-standard setup. Thanks Jorge

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[arch-general] xmodmap
by Jorge Almeida 01 Oct '11

01 Oct '11

I have a very annoying problem with xmodmap: Inside X, in an xterm: $ echo $DISPLAY :1 In console (agetty1): $ echo $DISPLAY $ xmodmap .Xmodmap xmodmap: unable to open display '' $ xmodmap -display :2 .Xmodmap xmodmap: unable to open display ':2' Until now, everything as expected. The problem is: $ xmodmap -display :1 .Xmodmap $ echo $? 0 So, everything seems fine, but switching to the vt where X is I find that xmodmap didn't load anything. Note that if running "xmodmap .Xmodmap" from X it works. In console, I tried also setting the env variable DISPLAY (the only one relevant to xmodmap, according to the manual), to no avail. You might wonder why is this a problem, since it works from X. I have a xmodmap command in the startup file of the window manager (openbox). Other X related commands work, only xmodmap fails. It seems that xmodmap requires being run from an emulator inside an X session, which it's not supposed to. Any help about this essentially undocumented piece of software would be appreciated. Alternatively, anyone knows whether there is some alternative to xmodmap? xkb doesn't seem to be able to replace it, judging by what poor documentation there is out there. TIA Jorge Almeida

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