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[arch-general] Arch artwork & compiz screenshot
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 13 May '09

13 May '09

Listmates: Needing to spruce up the cube caps on cube rotation in compiz (the old opensuse artwork just wouldn't do), I started messing around with some of the archlinux-artwork. I found one that I like and then added some finishing touches in gimp. A screenshot of the resulting cubecaps and desktop is here: [69k] http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/archglass-cyl.jpg The actual cubecap file is found here: [450k due to transparency] http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/compiz/archglass-compizcaps.p… Use it at will. If you have no interest, just hit [del]. -- 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] kdm3 crash on logout - no apparrent errors
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 13 May '09

13 May '09

Listmates, After the kernel update, my kdm3 is crashing with each user logout. Basically, on logout you are dumped back to tty1 and must then login and issue kdm3 restart to restore the display manager. I am using the radeonhd driver. Before the latest update this didn't occur. What can I check to get information to help solve this puzzle? I've checked /var/log/messages.log and Xorg.0.log, but nothing is out of the ordinary. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- 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] Opera Segfaults on x86_64 after kernel update
by David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. 13 May '09

13 May '09

Listmates, After the kernel update to kernel26 2.6.29.3-1, opera is segfaulting for some reason. Opera doesn't event splash anything on the screen, it just dies. Here is what I get from the cli: 23:28 alchemy:~> opera -debugxerror opera: X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0 I have no idea what a BadAtom is or if that is the problem. I haven't run across anything else in the past hour since the update. What should I check? -- 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] new Ruby on Rails page on the wiki
by Sébastien Duquette 13 May '09

13 May '09

Hi, Just wanted to let you know that I created a Ruby on Rails page on the wiki. It's not really long but the basis is there to quickly set up a rails application. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RubyOnRails As always, please feel free to comment and edit the wiki. Sébastien Duquette

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Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention
by Aaron Schaefer 12 May '09

12 May '09

Since I can't reply to the dev mailing list thread: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Tobias Kieslich <tobias(a)justdreams.de> wrote: >> On Tue, 12 May 2009, Magnus Therning wrote: >> That means all plugins need to be rebuild and some users that set fixed >> pathes in .vimrc will have to adjust. > > Looks like we have a new rebuild list then: > > $ pacman -Sqs vim- ... This will mean that all plugin packages will have to be rebuilt for each minor Vim release? Is that how other distro's handle it? Seems a bit odd... -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

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[arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention
by Tobias Kieslich 12 May '09

12 May '09

Hi, Finally, the new vi* packages are up. There will be a little migration pain. For optimal results, I recommend to "sudo rm /usr/bin/{view/rview}" before you run "sudo pacman -Syu" -T

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] grub2 image support
by Damjan Georgievski 12 May '09

12 May '09

Maybe the "General Discussion about Arch Linux" mail list is better place about this? (ps. I just now notice http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-general - the description has a typo "Discusson") On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 00:23, Ronald van Haren <pressh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > For those of you who are using grub2 and are interested in making your > boot selection menu a bit nicer, the newly uploaded grub2 supports > backgrounds and stuff. > > Config syntax in your grub.cfg is similar to: > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then > set gfxmode="1024x768x32" > insmod gfxterm > insmod vbe > terminal_output gfxterm > if terminal_output gfxterm; then true ; else > terminal gfxterm > fi > fi > insmod tga > background_image /boot/grub/archlinux.tga > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > though obviously a background image is not included. Other image types > should work as well if you load the correct modules (see the .mod > files in /boot/grub) > > Ronald > > ps. I had to add a bdf-unifont package to the repo in order to make it > work a bit easier. It is now a makedepend of grub2. > -- damjan

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] LZMA - in or out? ([signoff] libarchive 2.6.0)
by Grigorios Bouzakis 12 May '09

12 May '09

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:03:43AM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 02:06:31 schrieb Dan McGee: > > Yes, of course. I think we can take some time to let it bake, as there > > is not an immediate need, and when 5.0 comes out we can move it to > > core and then rebuild libarchive with support for both. > > Sure, no need to hurry. Slackware has achieved a decrease of size from 1,9GB > to 1,4GB of their main repo. Our ratio should be lower as we don't have source > packages in our repos. But it should be easy to test once the tools are ready. > (du -h;gunzip *.gz;xz *.tar;du -h) Just for the record, Slackware didnt move the sources to xz. Just the compiled packages. The descrease in size you are reffering to is more or less correct. My local rsynced tree is 1.6Gb with .xz while it was around 2.0Gb with .tgz. The gain should be 20-25% from what i can estimate. -- Greg

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[arch-general] Dovecot
by Baho Utot 12 May '09

12 May '09

Anyone got a simple configuration file ( dovecot.conf ) that has simple auth login? like clear text? thanks

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[arch-general] Gnome - Nautilus and Evolution, Fresh Install
by Baho Utot 11 May '09

11 May '09

I have just completed a new install using the latest Install/Live CD 2009.02 I followed the Beginners Guide (exactly :) including the update. I continued until I finished with install Xorg and Gnome. After setting up .xinitrc to run Gnome I issued a startx to start Xorg and Gnome. 1. When clicking the "Users home dir icon" to launch Nautilus and browsing to test it, I then clicked the "X" to stop the app from running ( upper right on the window ) Nautilus crashed and Gnome restarted, cleared the desktop (refreshed) and generated a bug report to be set to gnome.org (via bug buddy). 2. After installing Evolution ans running the app I made some errors when I initially set it up for my imap server. Clicking/running from the Edit->Preferences menu caused evolution to crash and generating a bug report. I can not use the Edit->Preferences menu at all, making the evolution installation worthless as I can not change any settings. How stable is Gnome on Arch Linux? I need to move from KDE3 to Gnome until KDE4 is finished and debugged. Comments/Fixes Anyone? Thanks

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