[gentoo-user] Xfce4 shutdown issues

Oops apologies. Should send this on gentoo-user email address. Since a recent upgrade of polkit (I think) as a normal user I can no longer shutdown using log out, shutdown option not available. As root using shutdown only logs you out but does not ...

Message posted on the July 6th, 2011 - 11:50 AM ET

[gentoo-user] XFCE4 menu - combine pdf documents

How to write a small script the would combine several pdf documents? I'm using XFCE4 I combine a lot of documents and going every time to command line and using "pdfjoin" is time taking. Using mouse, I would like to highlight selected pdf ...

Message posted on the April 10th, 2013 - 9:00 PM ET

[gentoo-user] xfce4 tty7 session started twice

I'm using "slim" on both computers and it seems to me they both have the same configuration but on one of them "ck-list-sessions" is showing that tty7 is started twice. and it is using the sessiont with "active = FALSE" ...

Message posted on the March 12th, 2012 - 5:30 PM ET

[gentoo-user] xfce4 Filed to execute default File Manager

I'm running xfce4. When I try to click on Home folder I get: Filed to execute default File Manager gutenprint (Permission denied). Joseph

Message posted on the November 19th, 2012 - 7:30 PM ET

[gentoo-user] xfce4 4.10 xsane and Application --> Run Program not working

I just upgraded to xfce4 4.10 but two program are not working: 1.) USB scanner, when I run xsane nothing is detected "lsusb" is listed the scanner: ... Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04b8:011b Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 2400 Photo in ...

Message posted on the May 29th, 2012 - 9:30 PM ET

[gentoo-user] XFCE4 keyboard shortcuts not working

I have the following (default) keyboard shortcuts in xfce4: XF86Display <Super>p <Control>Escape <Control><Alt>Delete <Alt>F2 <Alt>F2 works, but <Control>Escape and <Control><Alt>Delete don't ...

Message posted on the January 7th, 2012 - 3:30 PM ET

[gentoo-user] iwl5000 firmware fails to load

Folks, I am having a fairly strange problem with my iwl5000 and the microcode. After a fresh install Gentoo install wireless works with no issues. Upon installing a set that includes xorg, Firefox, hal, VirtualBox, etc. the wireless ceases to ...

Message posted on the September 24th, 2010 - 9:50 PM ET

[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean -p long list of packages

Can someone explain me why am I getting long list of packages when I run: emerge --depclean . xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.10.2 pulled in by: xfce-base/xfce4-meta-4.10 requires >=xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.10 xfce-base/xfwm4-4.10.0-r1 pulled in by: ...

Message posted on the April 19th, 2013 - 4:30 PM ET

[gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

What are your favorite easy Gentoo tricks? Stuff that makes your system a lot better in some way with only a minimal amount of effort. I just discovered one for xfce4: emerge tumbler No other config. Really cool result. - Grant What are ...

Message posted on the November 25th, 2012 - 5:00 PM ET

[gentoo-user] profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base ... Cannot create directory

Hello! I noticed some strange messages in my ~/.xsession-errors log-file today. They look like this: profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base:Cannot create directory ...

Message posted on the July 8th, 2012 - 2:40 PM ET

[gentoo-user] WM that does not require policykit, consolekit, and gudev

Hello, I installed twm to test my xorg as per the gentoo install docs. Works great! Then I decided to install what I thought would be a lightweight WM: xfce4 with "emerge -vat xfce4-meta". Unfortunately emerge didn't want to continue ...

Message posted on the September 10th, 2012 - 5:30 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Unexpected Power Loss!

Hey Everyone, I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. It seems that whenever I am in Linux my computer will just turn off. Not shutdown like I did "shutdown -r now". Just completely off out of the blue at random times. I ...

Message posted on the November 13th, 2012 - 7:50 PM ET

[gentoo-user] emerge xfce-base/thunar: lobotomy needed

I installed xfce4-meta and was a little surprised to see it did not come with thunar. When I tried to install it, portage became upset. Question: is it normal that I would have to ~amd64 a bunch of packages and deal with slot conflicts and ...

Message posted on the September 10th, 2012 - 9:00 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

Hi all! I'm trying to update my gentoo after a long time. I tried the update (emerge -uD world) but I got some problem about conflicting and missing libraries, so I've uninstalled some software. After that, I ran an revdep-rebuild, but it do not ...

Message posted on the August 13th, 2010 - 8:50 AM ET

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