gmane.linux.gentoo.desktop

Re: GNOME not starting as expected.

Duncan — 2012-05-11T00:29:52

Ian Harwood posted on Wed, 09 May 2012 18:47:13 +0200 as excerpted:


As the error indicates, those files are part of the xorg authorization 
system.  They're normally created automatically by the x/destkop startup 
scripts as X starts or you login (if running *dm graphical logins).

If you don't run it routinely, try running revdep-rebuild.  If that 
doesn't rebuild the xauth package, try rebuilding it by hand.

The issue can also be one of permissions.  Check that the files aren't 
owned by root or set readonly, etc.

GNOME not starting as expected.

Ian Harwood — 2012-05-09T16:47:13


HI,

 

I am not entrirely sure how this works but I am having an issue with starting GNOME this is the error I get instead of it starting up:

 

xauth: file /home/neewbeebian/.serverauth.3624 does not exist
xauth: file /home/neewbeebian/.Xauthority does not exist
xauth: file /home/neewbeebian/.Xauthority does not exist

 

Has anyone else come across this issue before?

 

Many Thanks,

 

Ian

May 2012 KDE team meeting

Andreas K. Huettel — 2012-05-08T16:32:46

Dear all, 

the KDE team meeting is usually on the 3rd thursday of the 
month - which means we'll have a KDE team meeting next week, 

Thursday 17 May 2012
19:00 UTC
on #gentoo-meetings

The agenda will be collected here:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/maintainers/meetings/meeting-2012-05;hb=HEAD

See you there! Cheers!

Andreas

[kde-sunset] kdelib-3.5.10-r10 failed due to missing .c include

Xray7224 — 2012-04-30T14:43:37

Hello,

On one of the machines I was installing kde 3.5.10 from the kde-sunset
overlay i noticed a fault during the compilation of the kdelib. After a
small amount of drilling down into this it seemed the cups-util.c file is
missing the standard library header (#include <stdio.h>). The forum post is
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6956844.html?sid=1ddd91034c9b7768b3fbc52ae92bff96I
believe this is a bug which needs changing upstream?

Thanks,
Jessica.

Reggia: Gnome 3 instant messaging

- - — 2012-03-23T08:40:50

skype-open-source.blogspot.com/
Il giorno 21/mar/2012 22:52, "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko< at >gmail.com> ha
scritto:

hamster shell extension

Stefan G. Weichinger — 2012-03-21T22:52:32

and while I am at it ... ;-)

Maybe some of you have read my posting on the gentoo-users ml ...


I simply quote it here, maybe one of you uses that extension already or
knows something related.

--->


Thanks, greets, Stefan

Re: Gnome 3 instant messaging

Canek Peláez Valdés — 2012-03-21T21:51:18

Ouch, that sucks. You still need Skype running; what I wanted was not
to install Qt, not having it "hidden".

Now that Skype is owned by Microsoft, I'm pretty sure will never see
an independent native 3rd-party client on Linux.

Regards.

Re: Gnome 3 instant messaging

Serghei Amelian — 2012-03-21T21:46:39

Hmm, not exactly. Check this plugin for libpurple (used by Pidgin): 
http://code.google.com/p/skype4pidgin/

Re: Gnome 3 instant messaging

Canek Peláez Valdés — 2012-03-21T21:28:11

I had heard about it; but I haven't heard anything about a different
Linux client for Skype that the one provided by Skype. Do you know
about any? I would love to have a GTK+ client for Skype (Skype it's
the only application that I [seldom] use that uses Qt).

Regards.

Re: Gnome 3 instant messaging

Stefan G. Weichinger — 2012-03-21T21:26:49

Am 21.03.2012 22:13, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:

ok, I see. Gotta test that.


I see. More of a concept understanding problem here, I see ;-)


I somewhere read something about it fitting into pidgin or empathy, but
I would have to dig that up again. It would be nice to have all that in
one interface.


No hurry, still no cam in my office ;-)

Thanks! Stefan

Re: Gnome 3 instant messaging

Serghei Amelian — 2012-03-21T21:21:13

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Actually... http://developer.skype.com/public/skypekit

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Re: Gnome 3 instant messaging

Canek Peláez Valdés — 2012-03-21T21:13:07

I'm not sure. I think even if you don't open Empathy, it will connect
you, and then you will receive messages through the notification
system.


Mmmh. Google Chat is not like IRChat. It's more like messenger; you
have your contacts, and you can chat with them and them with you.


No, and I don't think it will ever be possible. Skype uses a
proprietary protocol, and (AFAIK), there are not 3rd-party clients for
it.

However, Google Chat allows voice-talk, and it works really well. The
video conference support is more immature, but I hope it will work
eventually.


Regards.

Re: Gnome 3 instant messaging

Stefan G. Weichinger — 2012-03-21T21:03:55

Am 21.03.2012 21:48, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:

So I have to open empathy and it is not enough to be logged in?
That was one of my main questions.

I already added the account successfully already, I just have to check
out how to find rooms (if there are one there ?)

Is it possible to get skype into this as well?

Thanks, Stefan

Re: Gnome 3 instant messaging

Canek Peláez Valdés — 2012-03-21T20:48:10

Go to the "Online Accounts" dialog; the menu with your name at the top
right of the screen, select "Online Accounts". Alternatively, go to
System Settings (Windows key, type "settings", it should appear), and
select "Online Accounts". Click on the "+" button to add an account,
select Google (right now the only available, I believe), click "Add",
and a kinda-browser form will appear, where you should enter your
Google mail, and your password. You cick "sign", and Google will
notify you that GNOME is trying to access your accounts. You click
"grant access", and then select which Google services you want to
handle with GNOME (mail, calendar, chat, etc.) Then in the menu with
your name at the top right of the screen, select "Available".

Afterwards you open Empathy (Windows key, type "empathy; it should
appear), and it should connect you to your Google chat account.

Regards.

Re: Gnome 3 instant messaging

Brian Beardall — 2012-03-21T20:43:38

Use empathy and setup the accounts to auto-login. Also you need to be
"available" to be online. If you are "unavailable" the telepathy backend
won't login to the accounts setup in Empathy.


On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 21:36 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

Gnome 3 instant messaging

Stefan G. Weichinger — 2012-03-21T20:36:27

I never used Instant Messaging so far, but now with gnome3 I see the
screenshots of notifications within gnome shell and the somehow
integrated chatting.

But I have no idea how to get there on my desktop.

I have the full gnome ebuild installed, got some gmail and icq account
within pidgin or empathy but somehow I don't get it.

Feels stupid ;-)

Could someone get me started on this?
I googled quite a while already but didn't get very far ...

Maybe I am missing something somewhere, I had gnome-light before and
upgraded to full gnome 3 a few weeks before.

Thanks for any pointers, Stefan

Re: Re: Packaging Trinity--looking for help

E. Liddell — 2012-03-20T14:59:37

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:43:53 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan< at >cox.net> wrote:


I suspected the --as-needed flag of being the culprit at first myself,
but it turned out not to be that simple—the switches that would add
the libs just refuse to appear in the ld command, even if --no-as-needed
is passed.  Adding the libs manually to the end of the line makes the
command go through, but that doesn't help with the ebuild.

Thanks for trying, though.

E. Liddell

Re: Re: Gentoo KDE meeting, 22 March 2012

Theo Chatzimichos — 2012-03-20T11:29:19

No, the Qt meeting's date was a mistake because at the same time I was
writing some 2011 reports at work, and the KDE meeting's mail was a
copy-paste of the Qt one, where I didn't correct all the dates

Re: Gentoo KDE meeting, 22 March 2012

Duncan — 2012-03-20T05:06:02

Theo Chatzimichos posted on Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:30:07 +0100 as excerpted:


LOL!  So I'm not the only one that finds himself doing fine the first 
couple months (well, after about the third day anyway) while the new year 
is still new enough to be thinking about, but then come March and April 
when he's no longer thinking about it, finds himself writing the OLD year 
again!

Not to worry /too/ much.  In another several weeks you'll finally get 
your fingers trained to write 2012, and then you'll be OK... until next 
year when it happens all over again!  Here, I'm usually about finished 
with the adjustment by mid April, tho there's been a few years where the 
problem has triggered a time or two in June, even.  But I don't recall 
having the problem after June, ever.

=:^\

Unfortunately, I had a similar Y2K triggered problem... with a cycle time 
in years.  For some reason, about 2008 or so, I suddenly found myself 
writing 199... again!  The only explanation for THAT I can think of is 
that it actually TOOK

Re: Packaging Trinity--looking for help

Duncan — 2012-03-20T04:43:53

E. Liddell posted on Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:26:52 -0400 as excerpted:



I've no idea if this will help or not, or whether you've tried it or not, 
but...

It occurs to me that kde3 was probably "sunsetted" before gentoo's switch 
to --as-needed linker flags by default.  Now I switched to --as-needed 
here, long before gentoo switched its default, and /think/ I was running 
that here for some time before I upgraded to kde4.  If I'm correct, then 
kde3 as it was back then, at least, could run with --as-needed, but I'm 
not sure if it stayed that way or what patches gentoo might have already 
been using at the time in ordered to make it work, that might well need 
updating to /keep/ it working.

So, umm... yeah, try disabling the --as-needed linking, thus triggering 
overlinking in many cases, but possibly helping here, and see if it helps.

But I'm not the autotools guru you're looking for.  Sorry.  This kinda 
sorta sounds like it might help, but maybe not, too.  Maybe it's a 
combination of this so it doesn't

Re: [kde-sunset] git live ebuilds

Serghei Amelian — 2012-03-19T16:14:19

Yes, actually i'm still member of Trinity development team. But I do not like 
anymore the current dirrection of Trinity (qt4 support, renaming, rebranding, 
etc). So I decided to maintain my own fork, based on vanilla KDE3.

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