An awesome app called Qingy (Part 1)

baldeante · Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:08 pm Post subject:

Hello,

I have qingy 0.6 installed running with only one problem i can't use the mouse on the login ... the mouse pointer is at the center of the screen, at least i thing that is the mouse pointer since i never managed to move it.

I'm only using qingy in one tty.

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baldeante · Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the reply ...

I had mouse-protocol=MM, i try to replaced it with MS3, MouseMan, MouseSystems, MM3, Microsoft, MMSeries, Logitech, BusMouse,SysMouse and WSMouse and no luck.

Between every try i did env-update, i also try them with /dev/ttyS1 and /dev/ttyS1 on xorg.conf i guess i will have to forget the mouse i can't remember nothing else :cry:

thanks any way.
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baldeante · Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:30 pm Post subject:

In last post i mean /dev/tts/1 and /dev/ttyS1 but now i know i don't have to touch xorg.conf ......

With mouseport=ttyS1 or mouseport=/dev/ttyS1 i get :

luser99 · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Posts: 27

hi,

I have this problem I don't have this file

baldeante · Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:05 am Post subject: Re: no /etc/directfb :(

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01mf02 · Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:25 pm Post subject:

Are you joking or are you mad?

baldeante · Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject:

I don't think you will have office after installing gentoo .... :roll:

I have read some forums that it is possible to run office on Linux but i never really try it woud break the ideia of free software in my case ..... :wink:

If you are on graphical interface (linux graphical like gnome kde fluxbox etc) you can use any editor you wish as long as you save the file on text format and with the name directfbrc no extension like doc xls or any other just directfbrc.
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koara · Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:22 pm Post subject:

After I installed the stable version and all dependencies I rebooted and received the following error:

baldeante · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:28 pm Post subject:

koara · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject:

baldeante · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject:

I think i have both packages installed but i'm not at my linux box, i can't say for sure, i will confirm tomorrow.
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baldeante · Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:49 am Post subject:

I have both packages installed.

I can't say it will solve your problem but devfsd is less than 50 kb try it i don't think it will break your machine in worst case you will have to remove it again.
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brazzmonkey · Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 12:22 am Post subject:

qingy seems to offer a nice login manager, but the themes that come with are, well, a matter of taste...
i also notice that qingy-themes in portage doesn't seem to be up-to-date, it doesn't include gentoo login screens which are part of the theme pack on qingy's website... nevermind. it's probably interesting for designing your own login screen, but i'm no artist...

a part from nice eye-candy, i haven't been convinced by qingy : too many things to reconfigure (mouse and key maps...) some logoff options no longer available in kde (probably because kdm is no more used) - i find qingy having more drawbacks than advantages...

it would be nice to get similar stuff integrated into usual DE, though.

el.phantasmo · n00b Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 1

Got Qingy installed and running, everything is great.. except that the mouse pointer disappears when I try to move it.

It's not that the mouse doesn't work; I can blindly move it around and will eventually stumble upon a button. I just can't see the cursor.

It's a somewhat old laptop (Acer TravelMate 210T). Mouse works in X and in framebuffer (links2 -g with gpm enabled). I've tried with gpm enabled and disabled, same thing both times. Kernel is Gentoo 2.6.16-r7, only real 'extras' that are compiled in are the framebuffer and bootsplash stuff (as in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_gensplash).

Anyone know what I can do to fix it?

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Zubzub · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject:

I'm experiencing some problems with qingy, whenever I try to start it I just get a black screen and nothing works (I can't switch to other tty's, I have to press the reset button). I followed the gentoo wikis, compiled my kernel correctly, made sure no extra options were enable, tried both vesa and vesa-tng. Emerged the packages with the right useflag. Same problem over and over again. My system boots fine in 1280x1024-24@75 just as I tell it to, but qingy just refuses to work (it does work in textmode).

Any ideas what I should try or look out for? I use the latest genkernel (2.6.16-r9)

some extra info:
my additional kernel line in grub

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Zubzub · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject:

Ok where do I find the log for the output it gives? I looked in /var/log but without succes. (I see the messages for like 0.5sec and get a black screen)

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