Archive for July 2008

Terminal line wrap bug

2008-07-28 by Bluewind

The line wrap (in every terminal) doesn't work correctly once you have color codes in your PS1.

Most site give you codes like \e[0;31m, but sadly these codes ruin the line wrap so after some letters your cursor jumps to the beginning of the very line it is on and overwrites your PS1. Once this line is full it jumps to the next line as it is supposed to.

Thanks to the Archlinux Forums I finally found a way to fix it. The fixed version of the code mentioned earlier is \[\e[0;31m\].

But if you have a function in the .bashrc you should not use those codes as they will cause some backslashes in the output.

Screenshot 26.7

2008-07-26 by Bluewind

Openbox theme: http://bl1nks.deviantart.com/art/Vorta-for-Openbox-92849348
Needed gtk theme: http://fratrip.deviantart.com/art/Vorta-Suite-87991631

Screenshot 19.7.08

2008-07-19 by Bluewind

My new Archlinux. Think I love it and won't switch back to Windows.
If you have any questions please ask them here.

OS: ArchLinux (Core Dump)
Kernel: 2.6.25-ARCH
DE: Gnome
WM: Openbox
WM Theme: Onyx
GTK Theme: Mist
Icons: gTangish-2.0a1
Font: Sans 10
Background: Link. If you like it please vote von gnome-look.org.

Random freezes

2008-07-19 by Bluewind

Update 2:

I finally found the reason for the freezes. More info: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10979

Thanks to dolby for asking me to update to testing. Now I can really use my Arch.

Update:

The problems still occures, but now I've set up a process logger because before the freez conky showed me 100% CPU. Then it went to ?2.147.483.648% CPU and froze. We'll see which process it is. (hopefully)

Old Post:

I'm using Archlinux for some days now and lately experienced something really odd. While watching videos, surfing or chatting my computer freezed randomly.Sometimes after 30 minutes, sometimes after some hours.

At first I had no idea what caused this, but after some hours of googling I found out that newer Nvidia drivers don't work very well with Compiz. I also found an article describing a way to fix this, but it didn't work for me. Sadly.

Since I knew it is caused by Compiz I tried disabling it, but that caused an instant freez. When I rebooted and logged in with my user it froze just 5 seconds after entering the password. I rebooted again and it froze just after entering the pass.

The only way to get rid of Compiz was to hit Alt+Crtl+F1 and remove it without logging in on the X-Server. Yet I haven't had any freezes.