The problem with commenting out the drive entries in /etc/fstab is that by default nautilus/hal seems to want to mount the drive as /media/[VOL LABEL]. This is obnoxious for applications like crossover and other things that like to refer to the CD devices by a static directory for their mount points ...

vinagre went stable with gnome 2.22 yesterday and it does not scale like krdc does.

coolsnowmen wrote:Before being a condescending ass

Apparently you read WAY too much into what I typed. I had no intention of being a condescending ass and any interpretation of it that way was not intended on my part.

Sorry for not being completely obvious. I assumed that when I posted that I moved up to mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0 that the fact that I actually WANTED to use mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0 (i.e. /usr/bin/firefox-bin and not /usr/bin/firefox) was obvious. Apparently I can't make that assumption.

Next time I ...

Sorry, but those aren't the right solutions or even solutions to the specific problem. By switching thunderbird to /usr/bin/firefox it's no longer using the mozilla-firefox-bin package, it's using the source built firefox which is
a) not what I want
b) still a problem because firefox 3 doesn't like ...

thanks.. i came across vinagre during one my searches but didn't look at the screenshots and noted that it didn't document scaling in feature list. I'll give it a try.

The KDE vnc client has a great feature where it can scale the remote display down to fit the size of the VNC window on the vnc client system.

Is there a gnome, or otherwise generic VNC client that does the same thing?

I moved up to mozilla-firefox-bin-3.0 and noticed that when thunderbird attempts to launch the browser nothing happens. The processes appear to be spawned properly:

15085 ? S 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher
15095 ? Sl 0:01 \_ /usr/lib64/mozilla-thunderbird/thunderbird-bin
15107 ? S 0 ...

Hi,
I am a kde user.
I read about banshee in this thead:
emerge -pv banshee -> 63 new files!!
Including Gnome desktop.
Why?
Gerard.

because banshee is built heavily on top of gtk stuff and gstreamer. Depending on what your useflags are, there's alot to pull in. It's actually built on mono and gtk ...

I mostly use a media player for nothing more than searching and playing stuff from my mp3 library, so rhythmbox actually works fine for me. I use my mac's itunes to get podcasts onto my ipod and to sync to my ipod.

I have banshee emerged but never got around to trying it as rhythmbox does all I ...

wp_tray is what I use :
http://planetearthworm.com/projects/wp_tray/

I rolled my own ebuild to manage it. It let's you do randomizing wallpaper. I used a shell script that uses the imagemagick command montage to combine two 1920x1440 (that's the resolution of each of my monitors) images into a ...

- Don't like the file manager --> use PCMan
- Archiver Programs are all not really good
- Audacious is an eyecandy winamp substitute
- xchat, skype, etc. are okay anyway

So imho all in all pretty usable. I think it's sometimes more the problem that linux is lacking an app which is really good in ...

I've been running amd64 gentoo forever now. It was back when I bought my athlon 64 3200+ when they first came out. Not sure what year that was sometime in 2004 or 2005. I only had 1GB RAM to begin with so there really wasn't any benefit to 64-bit, but it was a fun thing to do. Early on it was a ...

I gave deluge a try, and I really really like it. It works alot like ktorrent, and is nearly as configurable. It basically has all the features I'm looking for, so I'm quite happy with it.

I'm still hunting for a better gnome media player. I know I can use mplayer, gmplayer, or xine directly in ...

I'm just running stable gnome ebuilds on amd64 so 2.20.3. Maybe I will give 2.22 a try when it goes stable. The last time I tried gnome was 2.16 or 2.14 I can't remember, so to go from over a dozen complaints to 3 is really good progress IMO.

I'll try deluge, see if it works better. I tried gnome ...

Just to start with, I'm not trying to start a KDE/Gnome flame war. I just wanted to post my general thoughts on it based purely on my experiences with specific issues. I don't intend to attack the philosophies of either gnome/gtk or kde/qt. I just want to base this post on my experience of what ...

The problem I'm having isn't really solved with a new 32-bit freetype built without bindist USE flag.

I don't like the way fonts look with Full hinting. I prefer medium hinting. However, if I use medium hinting, the fonts on 32-bit firefox-bin's menu bar are larger than under 64-bit firefox.

If I ...

I've been running gentoo amd64 at least since 2004. I ran it on an athlon64 system, then upgraded the system to a core 2 duo E6600 system. My home server is an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ running gentoo amd64, and my work machine is a Nocona Xeon running gentoo amd64. My packages.keywords file contains many ...

hmm. intersting. I guess I can file this under a "works for me" type of thing. Be interesting to get an strace output of your runup.

For a workaround
create /etc/env.d/99motif32 with the following one line content:
LDPATH=/usr/lib32/openmotif-2.2

run env-update

all done, no need to downgrade the package.

okay. so on thursday evening (i was out from work on PTO friday) we had a power outage. I disabled cron from starting up automatically, so until monday morning (this morning) my machine was running, and I wasn't logged in.

Sep 21 04:30:57 awang [37616.821358] notify[1596]: segfault at ...

So all i need to do is install the following packages and make sure my kernel has 32-bit support:
* emul-linux-x86-baselibs
* emul-linux-x86-compat
* emul-linux-x86-gtklibs
* emul-linux-x86-java
* emul-linux-x86-medialibs
* emul-linux-x86-qtlibs
* emul-linux-x86-sdl
* emul-linux-x86 ...

i should mention, your kernel needs to be configured with 32-bit support also.

i've been running gentoo on amd64 for years now and have no problem with the following 32-bit applications installed from ebuilds:
java
vmware-workstation
firefox-bin
seamonkey-bin
flash plugin
java plugin
openoffice-bin
cedega
mplayer-bin

I'm sure there's more than I'm forgetting. I have also ...

thanks
sometimes you don't think about something that simple :)

stopped cron completely.

Sep 20 04:30:51 awang [60462.894138] notify[12253]: segfault at 00000000203a656f rip 00000000f7d6c013 rsp 00000000ffa1dd34 error 4

So something else is causing this at 4:30am. That rules out my primary ...