Thanks for the screenshots, great tip.

I wrote this little hack because I was tired of managing screen sessions and doing 'screen -r' and having to figure out which screen was the one I wanted.

Essentially what it does is ensure that you only have one screen session at any given time. Any new programs are run as new windows inside your ...

Could you post some screenshots?

OK I finally found a solution to this. It turns out that versions >xine-lib-1.1.8 are affected by the bug, 1.1.8 is not. Downgrading fixed it, but I'm not sure how much longer that will remain in the tree.

I really need help with this!

This is getting so bad that I am really considering switching away from Gentoo to Debian, though I still love Gentoo despite these sorts of issues. I MUST have a functional amarok and for some reason I cannot switch my amarok engine to gstreamer. The option isn't even ...

Another gentoo user is having the exact same issue as I am, and they filed an upstream bug here: http://bugs.xine-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130

It looks like the xine bugzilla is kinda dead though so I'm not expecting anything. I believe that something has broken in the tree, but I'm not sure ...

When you mount it manually you need to mount it as your user so that you have permissions to read and write to it. The easiest way to do this is to:

mount -o uid=1000 /dev/sdf1 /mnt/removable

Of course replace 1000 with your user's UID (run echo $UID as your user).

I am having an extremely annoying crash with Xine when I try to play certain mp3s, making amarok crash or hang every few minutes. I have confirmed that it is for sure a xine issue.

I made a backtrace of the xine gui crashing on an mp3: http://pastebin.com/me99a724
This particular crash was just ...

#!/usr/bin/tclsh

set param1 [ lindex $argv 0 ]
set param2 [ lindex $argv 1 ]

puts "$param1|$param2"


If you like you could also add a check to make sure you have exactly 2 args, and if not you could exit with a nonzero return code or something like that.

Thanks that did the trick. I ended up removing everything like you described, then reinstalled everything with CPAN. That gave me more up to date versions and this time they built properly.

Now how to I tell portage that these apps are installed and it shouldn't manage them?

Perl has been acting up for me recently, especially when I try to install new modules from CPAN - most modules will die during testing and fail to install.

How can I completely remove perl and all its modules and reinstall them?
I think this will solve the problems I am seeing.

Thanks!

I have the exact same problem. Seeing how this hasn't been touched for years, how should I proceed?

Installing Compress::Zlib from cpan fails badly: Bareword "Compress::Zlib::zlib_version" and such errors.

eix -c Compress
dev-perl/Compress-Zlib (2.005@10/19/2007): A Zlib perl module
dev-perl/IO ...

@Anarcho: When I redo my partitions I am going to do it that way. You are right, it makes things much easier.

@Depontius: Very interesting, I didn't think about that. Would something like: `tail .xsession-errors > .xsession-errors` work or does that make a new inode as well?

I have a 14G root partition with /usr and other large dirs split out to other partitions. I was having big problems with the root device filling up. Finally I started searching around to find where all the space is going and I find this in my home directory.
$ ll -trSa | tail
-rw------- 1 ben users ...

Yeah I was having major problems with OpenRC until I read Roy's reply to add root,swap, etc.. to runlevel boot. Shouldn't that be an enotice when you install it?

Anyway, now things are working great.

Very interesting, I'd be interested in any info you had on that. I'm not sure if VNC over NX would still keep the NX advantages, since NX is compression for the X protocol itself (as I understand at least).

I have freeNX running on a remote desktop that I also use locally. I'm wondering if there is a way to have certain windows 'shared' between X displays. What I mean by shared is the application appears on both displays and accepts input from both.

Alternatively if freenx somehow was able to open my ...

Thanks ltboy for this reset proceedure. I had an issue with hal that it fixed right up.

This works, thanks!

OK I fixed this. There was a conflict between the panel programs. The one you want to use is the GTK one, even if you are a KDE user. Thanks for the help guys.

OK I fixed that by adding it to env.d/99.local

One more problem now: How do I input to OpenOffice? Apps like KEdit work great, but OO won't accept any Japanese input.

Ok I found the problem but I don't know how to fix it. When I execute startx, the .xinitrc file is run. KDM does not run this though so the XMODIFIERS never gets set. How do I make KDM set these variables?

I had a script from these forums at one point that would count the number of source files, object files and print them to the screen so the user could get a rough idea of how far along an emerge is. Especially useful for those emerges that are incredibly long (OO.org). Unfortunately I lost the ...

Also, if you are interested at all in Experts Exchange I also posted this question there so you can get points for answering it. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Office_Productivity/Office_Suites/Star_OpenOffice/Star_Open_Office_Write/Q_22958247.html

This is a japanese - english dictionary ...

I setup SCIM to input japanese as in this guide: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Input_Methods

It worked great and recently I have started using KDM. However, when I switched over, SCIM stopped working. When I attempt to select an input method none are listed and no hotkeys to change input method work ...