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RobNyc
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Hello fellow gnome users. I'm a gnome fan..
You guys are still using 2.12.2 ? or trying out 2.13 ? hope this is not wrong place to ask ..
where would be the gentoo-gnome channel on irc ?
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taran
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:40 am Post subject: Re: No Automount - Fixed (for me!) |
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| rush_ad wrote: | | taran wrote: | I know I have been a bit dim, but I have a fix for an annoying problem with automount on 2.12.
I lost all the icons in Computer except Floppy Drive and Filesystem. Nothing else would show and no icons would appear after automount (although I could get nautilus to open a window for a newly automounted CD). I tried everything in the HOW TOs, but to no avail.
After doing tons of stuff and recompiling everything I could it turned out to be the /etc/fstab file.
I had entries in it for every removeable drive and mount-point.
I simply commented these out and then everything worked like a dream!  |
this could have worked for removable drives but how about my windows partitions? |
I *do* still have entries in my /etc/fstab file for those and they work OK too. I have the credentials stored in a .smbpassword file in my home directory which loos like this:
username = myusers
password = mypassword
(not very secure I know)  and a couple of lines in the fstab that look like this:
//myserver/myshare$ /mnt/home smbfs credentials=/home/userid/.smbpassword,noauto,users,rw 0 0
I also have a link created by Places>Connect to Server... This works OK and appears in the Computer window too, you do have to authenticate each connection, but that is far more secure than using plain text hidden files with your ID and password in them!  |
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Lokheed
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:00 am Post subject: |
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| RobNyc wrote: | Hello fellow gnome users. I'm a gnome fan..
You guys are still using 2.12.2 ? or trying out 2.13 ? hope this is not wrong place to ask ..
where would be the gentoo-gnome channel on irc ? |
There isnt anything wonderful about 2.12.3. Some parts have a lot of crash fixes and other are just translation changes. Its a service release so nothing great is going into it (aka new features), just bug fixes and a small amount at that.
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Modular X?
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RobNyc
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:24 am Post subject: |
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Yes I need help, i just started using gentoo on january 26, 2005.
Is there anyway to catch you on irc?
thanks
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I'm on #gentoo-amd64 sometimes, but tonight I've got plans  Anyone on there can be helpful. Here are some quick tips if you wanna try it yourself. Also see here
1. copy the contents of /usr/portage/gnome-base/control-center/ into /usr/local/portage/gnome-base/control-center/ -- the directory won't exist. You'll have to make it. The /usr/local/* version is the overlay directory where you can mess with stuff.
2. Modify the control-center-2.12.3.ebuild in the /usr/local/portage/gnome-base/control-center version so that in the "src_unpack()" section, you add:
| Code: | # Fix for evdev problem
epatch ${FILESDIR}/${PN}-evdev-fix.patch |
3. In the "files" subdirectory of your overlay, add the control-center-evdev-fix.patch file as listed below:
| Code: | === modified file 'gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-mouse.c'
--- gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-mouse.c
+++ gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-mouse.c
@@ -33,24 +33,57 @@
gint n_buttons,
gboolean left_handed)
{
- const gint left_button = 0;
+ const gint left_button = 1;
gint right_button;
+ gint i;
/* if the button is higher than 2 (3rd button) then it's
* probably one direction of a scroll wheel or something else
* uninteresting
*/
- right_button = MIN (n_buttons - 1, 2);
-
- if (left_handed)
- {
- buttons[left_button] = right_button + 1;
- buttons[right_button] = left_button + 1;
- }
- else
- {
- buttons[left_button] = left_button + 1;
- buttons[right_button] = right_button + 1;
+ right_button = MIN (n_buttons, 3);
+
+ /* If we change things we need to make sure we only swap buttons.
+ * If we end up with multiple physical buttons assigned to the same
+ * logical button the server will complain. This code assumes physical
+ * button 0 is the physical left mouse button, and that the physical
+ * button other than 0 currently assigned left_button or right_button
+ * is the physical right mouse button.
+ */
+
+ /* check if the current mapping satisfies the above assumptions */
+ if (buttons[left_button] != left_button &&
+ buttons[left_button] != right_button)
+ /* The current mapping is weird. Swapping buttons is probably not a
+ * good idea.
+ */
+ return;
+
+ /* check if we are left_handed and currently not swapped */
+ if (left_handed && buttons[left_button - 1] == left_button)
+ {
+ /* find the right button */
+ for (i = 0; i < n_buttons; i++)
+ {
+ if (buttons[i] == right_button)
+ break;
+ }
+ /* swap the buttons */
+ buttons[left_button - 1] = right_button;
+ buttons[i] = left_button;
+ }
+ /* check if we are not left_handed but are swapped */
+ else if (!left_handed && buttons[left_button - 1] == right_button)
+ {
+ /* find the right button */
+ for (i = 0; i < n_buttons; i++)
+ {
+ if (buttons[i] == left_button)
+ break;
+ }
+ /* swap the buttons */
+ buttons[i] = right_button;
+ buttons[left_button - 1] = left_button;
}
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Notice that I got this patch from the bug linked previously.
4. now do this:
| Code: | | ebuild control-center-2.12.3.ebuild digest |
5. Make the overlay active by editing /etc/make.conf and adding the following:
| Code: | | PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" |
I can't remember if there are other steps to activating the overlay. If so, it's in the wiki or you can ask in IRC.
6. Now try to emerge control-center and see if it works.
Normally I'd test all those peices and stuff, but I'm in a bit of a rush, so hopfully it will get you started. Go to IRC for help, and be sure to check the wiki (which seems to be down at the moment...)
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Yes I need help, i just started using gentoo on january 26, 2005.
Is there anyway to catch you on irc?
thanks |
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thecarver
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I made it so that i can login to my system with the graphical gnome interface, but when I submit my password and username, it asks me for the type of session I want
the only option available is default, so click on that, but then it just shows me a blank screen, and I can't get out of it
So i booted on the livecd and changed the default window manager, and now I can only login to gnome if I first login to the command line thing, and use the startx command
Is there a way to fix the login manager thing? |
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xuoroux
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| Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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I'm trying to update to Gnome 2.12.0, but when i run python-updater i get errors about it can't compile some stuff, mainly because the ebuilds aren't there anymore, how can i fix this? should python-updater look for newer ebuilds? or i got to put the ebuilds it needs there? if thats so, where can i get old ebuilds?, thanks
| Code: | * Failed merging dev-python/gnome-python-extras-2.10.2 (1/3)!
* Starting to merge (2/3) gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.12.0 ..
Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.12.0".
* Failed merging gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.12.0 (2/3)!
* Starting to merge (3/3) dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.19 ..
Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.19".
* Failed merging dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.19 (3/3)!
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in /usr/portage/gnome-base/gnome-menus/: gnome-menus-2.10.1 gnome-menus-2-10.2.r1 gnome-menus-2-12.0-r1
and in /usr/portage/dev-libs/libxml2 i have: libxml2-20-2 libxml2-22 libxml2-23-r1 and libxml2-23
whan can i do?? |
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red-wolf76
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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| thecarver wrote: | I made it so that i can login to my system with the graphical gnome interface, but when I submit my password and username, it asks me for the type of session I want
the only option available is default, so click on that, but then it just shows me a blank screen, and I can't get out of it
So i booted on the livecd and changed the default window manager, and now I can only login to gnome if I first login to the command line thing, and use the startx command
Is there a way to fix the login manager thing? |
Yes, there is, luckily.
Did you set "Gnome" as your XSESSION in rc.conf?
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