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| Vortigern wrote: | Here I am my friends!
I need more help about other things:
- I would like the Block Number to be enabled at the boot, so I won't have to select it any time; |
when posting questions, please be more precise. describe your problem, exactly what you wish to achieve (and what youve done so far to solve it.)
do you mean you want to change the the os that loads by default?
| Vortigern wrote: | | - Shift+Canc don't work, so I have to put the files in the trash then clean it, |
mentioning what wm youre using might be of help...
| Vortigern wrote: | - I would like to know how to set the goup of a folder or a file in CLI mode.
Thanks! |
again, be more precise. you want to know how to change the group that a folder of file belongs to?
| Code: | | chgrp <group> folder_name or file_name. |
also, please refer to google for basic questions.
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Vortigern
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| Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, I will try to explain better:
| Quote: | | - I would like the Block Number to be enabled at the boot, so I won't have to select it any time; |
When I come in Gentoo the Block Number (the key that allovs the numpad to use number instead of arrows) is always deselected. I would like that it is setted on when I enter in Gentoo.
| Quote: | | - Shift+Canc don't work, so I have to put the files in the trash then clean it, |
I mean that I cannot use Shift+Canc, gnome doesn't allow me to do that. So I have to delete the files, but they go in the trash, so to get rid of it I have to clean the trash. I want to get rid of the file (I am speack about the GUI mode!) directly.
Your answer about setting of the group for a file or a folder suite my needing well; thanks! |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:45 am Post subject: |
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Vortigern,
Is a FAQ for another distro but it should be easy to adapt to Gentoo. See number 8.
To delete files in Gnome, right click on them and select Delete from the context menu.
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Vortigern
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, that's great.
I found how to add the 'delete file' to the menù and now I can call this option with shift+canc.
Thanks also for the FAQ about numlock!
But now I got another question:
- How may I handle the X startup programs? |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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So I suppose there is no suggestion on how to handle the X startup, but don't worry, I have other questions!
- How to compile thunderbird in italian (LINGUAS="it" didn't work);
- Openoffice is slow to open but when one of its program for example Calc OpenOffice.org is opened the others start very fast. ( It seems like that it opens all the applications simultaneously);
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| Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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Vortigern,
What do you mean by | Quote: | | How may I handle the X startup programs? |
You want to start some programs as xorg starts or as Gnome starts?
For the fomer, like imwheel, add a line before exec gnome-session in your ~/.xintrc e.g. The & makes it run in the background - you do want that or Gnome will not run until imwheel exits.
Within Gnome, use Desltop -> Preferences -> Sessions Choose the StartupPrograms tab to set programs to start when Gnome starts.
OpenOffice has a lot of common code. Its already loaded when you open the second and subsequent OOo application.
If LINGUAS="it" didn't work for thunderbird, it may not have an Italian translation.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:37 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for your answers NeddySeagoon,
well, about the starting program I'm interested in both xorg and gnome, but I don't have any file or folder called xintrc!
About thunderbird, I can assure that it does exist in italian, you can download it from the official site, but I would like to use the emerge to download and compile it in italian. If you find some ways, just tell me! (I didn't find anything about language in the ebuild)
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:49 am Post subject: |
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Vortigern,
The file is called ~/.xinitrc (notice the dot) and you will not have it until you create it.
When Xorg starts, it looks for a number of information files. xorg.conf tells it about the hardware, and ~/.xinitrc about individual user startup programs. There is a global file called xinitrc (no dot) that applies to all users in case users don't set their own ~/.xinitrc.
This mechanism allows the system admin to set defualts for all users and individual users to set their own preferences by creating a file in an area they normally have write access to. This saves them annyoying both other users and the sysadmin.
~/.xinitrc is only used if you enter startx at the console to run Xorg. If you use a display manger, your own settings are ignored, or need to be set somewhere else.
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Vortigern
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for your answer!
now I have new problems:
- emerge KDE stops because there are some package that blocks others;
How may I solve this problem?
And about thunderbird, is there any way to compile it in italian? Maybe using other variables in make.conf?
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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Vortigern,
One package blocks another when they both do simillar things and ofthe use some of the same file names.
Such packages cannot both be installed together. Gentoo creates a block to stop it happening.
The way forward is to remove the package(s) that are the cause of the block. However ...
Some packages are essential to normal system opertaion and the old package must be removed and the new one installed without a reboot. pam-login is a recent example. You will not be able to log in for the period when neither package is installed.
I make do with the defualt American English in most packages. You are more likely to get an answer in the Italian forum for you Thunderbird language issue.
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Well,
I had a problem with k3b. The problem was about privileges.
I solved the problem by looking at this topic: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-510765-highlight-k3bsetup.html
Problem: | Quote: | cdrecord will be run without root privileges
It is highly recommended to configure cdrecord to run with root privileges. Only then cdrecord runs with high priority which increases the overall stability of the burning process. Apart from that it allows changing the size of the used burning buffer. A lot of user problems could be solved this way. This is also true when using SuSE's resmgr.
Solution: Use K3bSetup to solve this problem.
cdrdao will be run without root privileges
It is highly recommended to configure cdrdao to run with root privileges to increase the overall stability of the burning process.
Solution: Use K3bSetup to solve this problem. |
Solution: | Code: | # chown root:cdrom /usr/bin/cdr*
# chmod 4754 /usr/bin/cdr* |
To add ale to cdrom group, just edited /etc/group. |
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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I recently had a problem with nvidia-drivers, but I found the solution without asking!
I had this error message:
| Code: | $ glxinfo |grep direct
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (Permission denied).
NVIDIA: Direct rendering failed; attempting indirect rendering.
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I solved the problem this way:
| Code: | | # chmod o+rw /dev/nv* |
Now the permission on /dev/nvidia0 and /dev/nvidiactl are:
| Code: | # ls -l /dev/nv*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 195, 0 1 ago 22:18 /dev/nvidia0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root video 195, 255 1 ago 22:18 /dev/nvidiactl
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