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Gnome 3 freezes when use or create some thumbnailview story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – When I open several folders with large JPEG Images (about 10-13 mb) nautilus freezes. When I put name of such image in search box of gnome 3 dashboard, dashboard freezes too. When I deleted ~/.thumbnails/ and restart GDM, dashboard was totally ok. (HowTos)

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Saving PKGBUILDs with makepkg or AUR helpersview story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – That's because the source files are only cached, not saved...I use this simple wrapper for cower:#!/bin/sh # install AUR packages with cower cd $HOME/Build && cower -d "$1" builddir="$_" cd "$builddir" && $EDITOR PKGBUILD makepkg -si && cd - &>/dev/null read -p "Remove Build directory? [Y/n]? (HowTos)

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xorg - can't set keyboard layoutview story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – Hi,I'm trying to set polish layout for keyboard on my new Arch installation.Last time, it worked like this:# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-keyboard-locale.conf Section "InputClass" Identifier "Keyboard Defaults" MatchIsKeyboard "yes" Option "XkbLayout" "pl" EndSectionBut now it seems to be broken.After start (HowTos)

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Deluge-web error, can't run daemon, seems python issue?view story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – Just recently I noticed my deluge-web wasn't running, so I just tried starting the daemon and get this:> sudo /etc/rc.d/deluge-web start Password: :: Starting Deluge WebUI [DONE] &gt (HowTos)

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Heat Problems with Laptopview story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – Before I post, I'd just like to say that there should be a General Hardware section for Non-Arch related stuff.Right, this problem has been going on for ages. About a year ago I installed a program that monitors heat for my laptop. I always knew it got really hot when in use but I never expected the meter to read 96 celcius! When I booted up Linux some days after that, it read 108 celcius! (HowTos)

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screenFetch - The Bash Screenshot Information Toolview story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – WOW. Haven't been getting notifications for this thread. WELP, here goes...anonymous_user wrote:With the recent depreciation of net-tools, some people may have uninstalled it and are left sans hostname. (HowTos)

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Software for a TV capture card and DV camera?view story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – Hi,I have an old Hauppauge WinTV USB (audio/video capture device) that I'm trying to use to capture some footage (composite connection, not tuner). I've tried various CLI and GUI software and I've had most luck with VLC; I can capture video but not sound. (HowTos)

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wic, a wireless frontend for netcfgview story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – I took the idea from wifi-select, but wic comes with 4 major improvements1. wpa: wpa and open become main stream while wep is going to phrase out of the market. I dropped wep support and added wpa-eap. As you can see, my dorm only has open and wpa wifi.2. essid collision: because my dorm has lots of wireless which have the same essid, the profile often needs to be updated in order to use. (HowTos)

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FTP download stuck at EOF (wget, python, lftp)view story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – I'm having an odd problem with a largish FTP download. Using wget, python ftplib and lftp, when I download this particular file (~241 MB of text/CSV information), the entire file will download but then it stops and has to be manually killed. This same file downloads perfectly from another Arch machine in a different location. (HowTos)

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CD/DVD problem after update on 24/octview story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – Hi Ron,rps63ifid wrote:Attempting to open either /dev/sr0 or /media/<disc label> with vlc or gnome-mplayer is a disaster: the app locks up, and although I can log out, I can't shut down the system, and twice have had to resort to a hard reset with the power switch to get the system to shutdown so I can eject the disc from the drive.As far as I know (though I haven't tried for some (HowTos)