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[arch-general] moving away from gnome
by Andrea Crotti 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

I would like to move away from Gnome, which I don't need at all since I only need to launch: - emacs - conkeror - thunderbird - gnome-terminal and I don't even use the menu but Alt-f2 for that. The main problem though is that on this laptop (a dell latitude E6420) if I'm not using gnome I can't make it suspend properly. The strange thing is that if I am in a gnome-session closing the lid or calling suspend from the gnome menu everything works. But if I fire up awesome only then closing the lid doesn't work anymore. So the question is, what is gnome magically firing up that other window managers don't? I would also like to try xmonad finally, but I've never been able to configure it yet. I have an ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs file (the default one copied) that compiles perfectly, but if I try a startx the screen just stays blank, without logging any error in the Xorg.0.log. Any idea of what it could be?

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[arch-general] tab completion is mucking up prompt spacing - started a week or so ago - any ideas?
by David C. Rankin 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

All, I have always used the following prompt because it provides and immediate cut-n-paste for ssh or rsync directory information: User: PS1="\[\e[0;37m\]\A\[\e[1;34m\] \h:\w> \[\e[0m\]" Root: PS1="\[\e[1;34m\][\[\e[1;31m\]\A \[\e[1;34m\]\h\[\e[0;31m\]:\w\[\e[1;34m\]] # \[\e[0m\]" Lately on some tab completions using ~/, I've noticed that the tab-completion automatically fills in /home/david for ~/ and on other operations it does not. It seems in some cases that tab completion tries to automatically account for the extra spacing needed by inserting /$HOME in place of ~/ but it doesn't do it correctly resulting in my cursor being moved a line ABOVE the current line? What package is most likely responsible for this? bash-completion? Also, is anyone else seeing this? Here is an example: 17:20 providence:~/tde/bld/trinity-tqtinterface> trinity.profile.sh d.tar.gz 17:21 providence:~/tde/bld/trinity-tqtinterface> lrinity-tqtinterface-3513_git-5-i686-build.log l.tar.gz total 1416idence:~/tde/bld/trinity-tqtinterface> trinity-tqtinterface-3513_git-5-i686-package.log o.tar.gz drwxrwxr-x 2 david david 4096 Feb 22 17:21 .rinity-tqtinterface.install -.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x 11 david david 4096 Feb 22 14:26 .. dependencies-tqtinterface.tar.gz dependencies-tqtinterface.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root 1361984 Feb 21 16:21 dependencies-tqtinterface-old.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 2510 Feb 19 02:55 PKGBUILD -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root 680 Feb 21 16:21 tqtpc-location.patch -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root 512 Feb 21 16:21 trinity.profile.csh -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody root 423 Feb 21 16:21 trinity.profile.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 26789 Feb 21 16:24 trinity-tqtinterface-3513_git-5-i686-build.log -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 25408 Feb 21 16:24 trinity-tqtinterface-3513_git-5-i686-package.log -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 116 Feb 15 21:49 trinity-tqtinterface.install I had used mv trini<tab> trini<tab> to set up a way to back up and add -old to the trinity-tqtinterface.tar.gz (just before the .tar.gz). When I used <tab> for the second instance of the filename and touched the left-arrow key, the cursor jumped up one line each time I would type a character in 'old'. Look at the actual text above (it looked like this on the right-side of the screen): d.tar.gz l.tar.gz o.tar.gz Then after the successful 'mv' of the file, the cursor went back to normal, but it was on a line that already had text on it. Notice the: 'lrinity-tqtinterfac... line' That was the next line after the move where I had type 'l' (alias='ls -al') This is obviously prompt/completion related, but any guesses which file is responsible for the weirdness? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] ruby 1.9.3_p125-1 in [extra]
by Thomas Dziedzic 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

I have released ruby 1.9.3_p125 into [extra]. This is a version bump (p0 -> p125) and all tests passed for me. Along with the update, I will be introducing the following new conventions as part of my ruby cleanup project. /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby is now the correct location where non-gem ruby libraries installed with pacman should go. If your package installs anything to /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby, you have to update to the new location. Site_ruby is only there for files installed specifically by the user without a package manager. A new file will be created at "/etc/gemrc" where I add --user-install as the default option for gem. This will install all gems by default to "$HOME/.gem/ruby". You will have to add the new bindir to your PATH if you decide to install gems that provide binaries. export PATH="$PATH:$(ruby -rubygems -e 'puts Gem.user_dir')/bin" As a result of the above change, all ruby gem packages will have to add a --no-user-install flag when running gem in the PKGBUILD. If you run sudo gem install foo, it will install to /root/.gem/ruby To install to the system-wide gems location (not recommended), you will have to either remove --user-install from /etc/gemrc or you will have to pass the --no-user-install flag when using gem as root. Cheers!

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[arch-general] keyboard problem
by Andrea Crotti 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

I'm trying to remove Gnome from another machine, but here starting Xorg with startx gives the following error: (EE) Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000: failed to initialize for relative axes. While GDM works perfectly fine. How can it make a difference? And where should be the driver for that keyboard that I can't find anywhere in aur? This is the configuration (very simple) of the keyboard from Xorg: Section "InputClass" Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall" MatchIsKeyboard "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Driver "evdev" Option "XkbLayout" "it" EndSection Thanks, Andrea

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Re: [arch-general] ruby 1.9.3_p125-1 in [extra]
by Paul Gideon Dann 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 14:04:03 Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > If you run sudo gem install foo, it will install to /root/.gem/ruby Are you sure? Won't it install to your normal user's home, but with root privileges? Paul

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[arch-general] Building taskjuggler 2.4.3 form AUR fails
by Thorsten 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Hi List, on a freshly updated arch with a freshly pulled AUR I can't install taskjuggler (2.4). Taskjuggler3 can be installed, but I want to use Emacs orgmode's taskjuggler export, thats geared towards taskjuggler 2.4. Anybody with the same problem? --------------------- make[2]: Entering directory `/home/tj/abs/taskjuggler/src/taskjuggler-2.4.3/TestSuite' Testing in CSV-Reports ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Testing in HTML-Reports ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ... ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Testing in Misc ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ... ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Testing in Scheduler Testing in Syntax Testing in TJX-Reports ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Syntax error in XML file 'tjxreport-1-Export.tjx'. cmp: EOF on tjxreport-1-Export2.tjx gzip: tjxreport-1-Export2.tjx: unexpected end of file 1,1022d0 < <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> < <!DOCTYPE taskjuggler PUBLIC "-//The TaskJuggler Project//DTD TaskJuggler 2.0//EN" "http://www.taskjuggler.org/dtds/TaskJuggler-2.0.dtd"> < <taskjuggler> < <project timezone="GMT" timingResolution="3600" shortTimeFormat="%H:%M" weekStartMonday="1" timeFormat="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z" yearlyWorkingDays="260.714" dailyWorkingHours="8" version="1.0" id="prj" name="tjxreport test" > < <start humanReadable="2003-01-01 00:00:00 GMT" >1041379200</start> < <end humanReadable="2003-04-01 00:00:00 GMT" >1049155200</end> < <now humanReadable="2003-02-01 00:00:00 GMT" >1044057600</now> < <currencyFormat fracDigits="0" fractionSep="." signPrefix="(" thousandSep="," signSuffix=")" /> < <workingHours> 2 errors detected! make[2]: *** [all-local] Fehler 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tj/abs/taskjuggler/src/taskjuggler-2.4.3/TestSuite' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tj/abs/taskjuggler/src/taskjuggler-2.4.3' make: *** [all] Fehler 2 ==> FEHLER: Ein Fehler geschah in build(). Breche ab ... ~/abs/taskjuggler $ ls PKGBUILD pkg src taskjuggler-2.4.3.tar.bz2 ~/abs/taskjuggler $ sudo pacman -U taskjuggler-2.4.3.tar.bz2 loading packages... error: missing package metadata in taskjuggler-2.4.3.tar.bz2 error: 'taskjuggler-2.4.3.tar.bz2': invalid or corrupted package ~/abs/taskjuggler $ -- cheers, Thorsten

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[arch-general] FreePascal doesn't see the module 'graph'
by Abdourazak Osmanov 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

When I compile this code: program radar; > > uses > crt, graph; > > var > DriverVar, ModeVar : integer; > > begin > DriverVar := Detect; > ModeVar := 2; > InitGraph(DriverVar, ModeVar,''); > SetColor(4); > LineTo(100,100); > end. > I get an error message: mao@mao-note-arch Pascal $ fpc radar.pas > Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.0 [2012/01/02] for x86_64 > Copyright (c) 1993-2011 by Florian Klaempfl and others > Target OS: Linux for x86-64 > Compiling radar.pas > Fatal: Can't find unit graph used by radar > Fatal: Compilation aborted > Error: /usr/bin/ppcx64 returned an error exitcode (normal if you did not > specify a source file to be compiled) > Why is this happening?

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[arch-general] pacman -Qdt
by Andrea Crotti 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

I've been using this very nice command after removing a lot of stuff, and it's great to find orphans. But I think there are some issues.. For example I just installed python2-tinkerer from aur, which needs python2-sphinx. I had installed python-sphinx and they interfere with each other. So I removed python-sphinx and reinstalled again. All the dependencies are satisfied and tinkerer is installed correctly. But now look at what I get: # pacman -Qdt python-jinja 2.6-2 python2-sphinx 1.1.2-2 which seems wrong to me. Is it maybe that packages from aur don't have the same weight when checking for reverse dependencies?

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[arch-general] How to set grub2 resolution to 1366x768
by Bill Sun 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

Hi, I want to have a 1366x768 resolution for grub2. Unfortunately, `vbeinfo` shows that my computer doesn't support that resolution (up to 960x640/1024x768). So, can I load some additional modules for grub2 so that it can support 1366x786 resolution in my computer? I tried to do the following steps in grub2 command line: 1) insmod 915resolution 2) 915resolution 5c 1366 786 After step2, grub2 command line became completely black and unresponsive. I had to press the power button to force halt my machine. System information: Archlinux x86_64 grub2-common 1.99 grub2-bios 1.99 Thinkpad X220 (with Intel Sandy Bridge CPU graphic card) Regards

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[arch-general] inotify and locate
by Andrea Crotti 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

It's a bit a shame that there isn't any default good indexing system for Linux. Now there is also a inotify implementation and tools to set up watchers on the filesystem, so why are we still mainly stuck with locate and the expensive updatedb? Are there other problems with the inotify approach maybe or just lack of developer interest?

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