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[arch-general] Keyboard repeat in KDE 4
by Leonid Grinberg 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hello, I am experiencing an odd problem with keyboard repeating in KDE. I am running Vanilla KDE 4.1.3 Every once in a while, the keyboard simply stops repeating (by repeating, I mean when I hold a key down, it only sends the keystroke once, so if I hold down "f" it only shows "f" rather than "fffffffffffff"). I have auto-repeat enabled in xorg.conf and the repeat works fine in the virtual terminals. Coupled with this problem is that in systemsettings, the entire configuration for the keyboard is missing. However, in ~/.kde4/share/config/kcminputrc, KeyboardRepeating is set to true. I've also discovered that if I run kcminit, the problem temporarily gets fixed, only to happen again a little while later. Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing this? -- Thanks, Leonid Grinberg lgrinberg(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] xscreensaver broken?
by Guus Snijders 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hey all, mabye i'm doing something wrong, but xscreensaver-demo segfaults on my system: $ xscreensaver-demo (xscreensaver-demo:3073): libglade-WARNING **: Could not load support for `gnome': libgthread: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory xscreensaver-demo: 20:45:46: Gtk-warning: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated xscreensaver-demo: 20:45:46: Gtk-warning: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated xscreensaver-demo: 20:45:46: Gtk-warning: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated Segmentation fault $ pacman -Q xscreensaver xscreensaver 5.08-1 $ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libgthread.so /usr/lib/libgthread.so is owned by glib 1.2.10-7 Any ideas? mvg, Guus

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[arch-general] new kernel 2.6.27 or 2.6.28
by Anton Achatz 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hello, i have a problem after updating to kernel 2.6.27 or 2.6.28. After updating the kernel i am not able to boot the system. The system doesn' t recognize the boot harddisk sda6. the recommendation to set bootdelay = 8 doesnt help. Does someone know what to do. greetings Toni

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[arch-general] Arch Linux Review on DistroWatch
by Hugo Doria 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090119#feature "Conclusion The "keep it simple" philosophy of Arch Linux really shines through in all aspects of this distribution. It lets the user control the system and doesn't do anything unless told to. It has the speed and convenience of binary with the power of source and is very flexible when it comes to optional dependencies. Being a rolling release, the packages are also reasonably up-to-date. Other than the problem with the Intel video driver, I have not had any issues with the quality of the packages. Still, I have to wonder how well a smaller distribution like this can provide overall stability. Perhaps time will tell. It also remains to be seen how well Pacman will perform after installing and removing thousands of packages. Certainly, Arch Linux isn't for everybody, no distribution is, but it sure is plenty of fun and you learn a lot. If you're the kind of person who likes to fiddle and tweak your system, then definitely give it a shot. Once you have your system up and running the way you want, it's very easy to maintain and it feels great. If you've been tempted to try it out, there is a Wiki page listing how it compares to others. As for my dream distribution, Arch Linux comes pretty darn close." Read the page for full review. -- Hugo

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Re: [arch-general] 2.6.28 to core?
by wain 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hello, Virtualbox modules can't be compiled anymore with 2.6.28. wain ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerhard Brauer" <gerhard.brauer(a)web.de> Sent: Wed, January 14, 2009 10:52 Subject:[arch-general] 2.6.28 to core? Hello, seems that all stopper for 2.6.28 are solved. Are there any issues that causes 2.6.28 (and klibc, mkinitcpio) don't went to [core]? Without these the new ISO's couldn't be build... Regards Gerhard ----- End of original message -----

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[arch-general] About ttf-ms-fonts package in extra/
by goodmenzy＠gmail.com 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Hi, Anyone knows anything about ttf-ms-fonts ? `pacman -Ql ttf-ms-fonts ` gives funny result! And the license is another affairs. Being a Linux user, and Archlinux lover, I do not want be sent a lawyer's letter from Micro$oft. Emm, It is strange of that package, the packager name is Archlinux.

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[arch-general] Error with makepkg installing dependency
by Baho Utot 17 Jan '09

17 Jan '09

When compiling packages using makeworld or my custom script I am getting a number of failures like this: /usr/info/dir exists in both 'glib' and 'gtk' What causes this? Is there a way to fix this without forcing this packages? or better still is there a fix? Thanks

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[arch-general] 2.6.28 to core?
by Gerhard Brauer 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Hello, seems that all stopper for 2.6.28 are solved. Are there any issues that causes 2.6.28 (and klibc, mkinitcpio) don't went to [core]? Without these the new ISO's couldn't be build... Regards Gerhard

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[arch-general] Intro + package maintenance
by aashiks 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Hi all, Apologies for the long mail but do read on. My name is Aashik and i have been using Arch for the last two days. I was planning to simply try it, but decided to stick with it because i like its simplicity. Only one annoying thing happened to me. I am from India and my mother tongue is Malayalam. I tried to use scim and m17n version of malayalam input methods. There were a few glitches. I noticed that it is out of date and is currently flagged as 'orphan' when you do a package search. To be precise, the following packages. m17n-db,m17n-lib,scim-m17n There have been some commits made in the last few months from a project called SMC ( http://smc.org.in ) which enables phonetic text input in Malayalam via m17n also. I did not file a bug report because it asks everyone not to report outdated packages as bugs.Is anyone actively maintaining i686 these packages ? If not I can do it. I have spare time ( i took some time off from work ) . I don't know a thing about creating packages and things like that. If someone can answer my questions and doubts as they pop up , I can take up this task. Regards Aashik -------------------------------------------------------

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[arch-general] How to change default terminal from xterm
by David Rosenstrauch 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

On my desktop machine, it seems like any time a GUI app needs to launch a console app, the default is to launch it in an xterm window. But as I'm a hardcore KDE user, I'd like to change that default to konsole. Wasn't able to figure out where this setting is to override it, however. "set | grep xterm" didn't turn up much of relevance, and I couldn't see any KDE setting to override it either. Anyone know how to tweak this? Tnx, DR

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