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Posts tagged arch
Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed when installing hplip
0If you found this error running hp-setup or diagnosed when running hp-check, just install python2-qt package. Run this on your terminal:
# pacman -S python2-qt
hp-check will give you all the diagnostic you’ll need to install your printer/scanner, in my case HP Officejet 4500, on your Arch installation.
VMWare Player modules update fails after kernel update linux-3.1.0-4-ARCH
0Again some issues with kernel updates when build wmware modules:
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Bye Gnome 3, hello Xfce
0After 2 months using Gnome 3 I’ve reached my patient limits (Linus did the same) with all the desktop limitations, buggy shell extensions, etc. It looks nice, isn’t slow as some talk about, but it’s not practical for users that like having full control over the desktop.
In my case the most annoying ‘un-features’ is the fact that we don’t have control over the notification area and also multi-monitor is so bad, you cannot get control over the notification area that goes always to the 2nd screen.
VMWare Player 3.1.14 fails to start/build on kernel 3.0
0Yesterday I’ve made the big change updating to kernel 3.0 on my arch installation. One side effect, the only so far, was the fact that my VMWare Player was not loading. On all kernel updates VMWare loader detects kernel version changes, updates/recompile all it’s binaries and than loads without any problems, but this time it didn’t and was returning the error ‘Unable to initialize kernel module configuration’.
Fortunately, as always, the Arch community found the cause and the solution very fast. The problem relies on VMWare module builder not handling correctly the new version layout. In Order to fix an easy solution is to patch two binaries:
# sed 's/\x83\xe8\x03\x83\xf8\x01\x0f\x96\xc0/\x83\xe8\x02\x83\xf8\x01\x0f\x96\xc0/' -i /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware-modconfig-console.so/libvmware-modconfig-console.so # sed 's/\x83\xe8\x03\x83\xf8\x01\x0f\x96\xc0/\x83\xe8\x02\x83\xf8\x01\x0f\x96\xc0/' -i /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware-modconfig.so/libvmware-modconfig.so
Here you can find the solution posted on Arch Wiki.
Cannot move dialog windows on Gnome 3
0There are those who hate, other who love and others that really don’t care why dialog windows have strange borders and don’t allow you to move them grabbing the title bar, oh wait 
, where is the title bar?
The solution is simple: gconf-editor to the rescue. Just open gconf-editor and untick /desktop/gnome/shell/windows/attach_modal_dialogs. Press Alt + F2, type r and press Enter (reloads gnome shell). Now you have the normal behavior back.
In case of using Arch, my home distro in this case, you need to install gconf-editor. Very easy with pacman:
$ sudo pacman -S gconf-editor
or
# pacman -S gconf-editor
