Re: Audacity and Gentoo

On 2006-01-12, Chris Croughton <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It isn't just Audacity, I just emerged gvim and that does the same
> (no text at all). Firefox OTOH is fine, as is xfontsel.

gvim on my machine is a gtk1 app, and text not rendering is a known
problem with gtk1 which the others aren't, in my case as I said
earlier it was down to using a locale that had UTF-8 in there, but I
don't think that's the only cause for gtk missing out the text. I'd
suggest you start hunting around for posts on google, google groups
and any app forums where gtk is used for problems to see if you can
find out which cause applies to you.

> Since everything I want is in the home directory (with the exception
> of local stuff, that's what /usr/local is for), it needs to be
> mounted everywhere anyway.

Yes, makes it hardly worth going through the hassle of killing all the
apps!

I avoid this by having most of my home dirs on the discs of the
machines they're on but that's fine for me as I only have two desktop
machines and only one user, me, despite having 12 machines. Only two
have X on them, the rest I log into remotely as they just run services
like mail, DNS, mythtv etc. Sounds like you have a bit more
dependency on the fileserver.

> I've never wanted a filename with : in it (scp can't handle those
> either, nor can a load of other things). Bad enough that some have
> spaces.

Neither did I until I ended up with about 160 of them spread
throughout a complicated file heirarchy! I can't remember what
programme it was now but they were generated by an app that I was
using for some security testing, when I backed it up to the backup
machine at work via samba it barfed, I had to use samba as Windows
bods also used to backup to the linux box.

> The 2GB limit (I thought it was 4GB for Samba?) is why I mentioned
> cifs, which doesn't have that limit. But the bad handling of
> attributes and ownership makes it less useful than NFS.

I'v never tried CIFS, I've been meaning to try Coda sometime,
potentially useful for laptops as it handles local file cacheing. I
think there are better alternatives now though, haven't looked at it
for at least a year.

--
Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!
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