Transparency and window managers
I'm trying to figure out how a window manager handles transparency in it's clients, and if it's done through Xlib or something similar. If anyone here has some idea how this works, any little explanation or a pointer to a guide would be much appreciated.
Reason I'm asking is that I've got this little program that uses the Cairo library (more specifically the function set_source_rgba from that library) to set the alpha value of a window. This works fine in Openbox with xcompmgr, but I'm running Evilwm with xcompmgr and all I get is a gray background.
Now, the "grayness" of the background changes depending on the alpha value, so I think the function is actually doing it's job properly, but that Evilwm either does things a bit specially or doesn't support transparency. In either case I'd like to try and fix it, but am at a bit of a loss as where to start.
WMs should not touch transparency (you can add transparency to a 20-year old WM using stuff like xcompmgr).
xcompmgr has to interface with the WM though, so I think it expects it to follow certain standards or make certain properties available. That might be where your problem lies.
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i have tried to change window managers on x11 but everytime i try, it gives me an error saying that there is a manager already open. How do you quit the default window manager?
How do you quit the default window manager? You don't...that's not how window managers work:) You need to create a file called .xinitrc in your home directory, and have it start the window manager of your choice. If no such file exists, X11 uses the default one (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc), which starts quartzwm. Easiest approach is to copy that file and then edit yours to make whatever changes you want.
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Arch Linux 32x64 bits, Developers and Window Managers Support
Greetings!
After having some time issues due to college that prevented me from this, I wish to have again a rolling-release distro in my computer.
I was in the past a big fan of Gentoo, but now it seems too much work to compile everything from scratch. Also they seemed to have some issues with the developers - the original developer if I understood correctly has quit the project, others were forced to quit due to misbehavior, etc. - and maybe due to some other facts their popularity on distrowatch dropped drastically.
Then this year I've tried Debian Testing... My goodness, that was messy. Tons and tons of bugs on XFCE, like thunar hanging on load and displaying error messages, gedit not removing the ~lock files properly on close, so I had the myfile and ~myfile, and many others. Really, I gave up.
I wish to give Arch Linux I try then. Of course that would be quite stupid to ask if arch linux is the best choice in an arch linux forum, but there are some key points that if you could answer would help me a lot to give it a try:
1. 32x64
"Should I use 32-bit or 64-bit?" is NOT the intended question. Many still prefer 32-bit-pae on a 64-bit capable machine, others prefer 64-bit. I wish to use 64-bit. Made my mind. But I would like to know if the support of 64-bit on Arch Linux is as good as 32-bit and if it comes by default with cross-libs which makes me able to run 32-bit applications natively right out of the box,
2. Developers
About how many and what's their relation with the users? When I've googled for Arch Linux, I've had found a review video on youtube where some guy said in the comments that developer's mind changed a lot in the past 2 years and they introduced many buggy packages that required manual workaround. At the end of his comments, he said "Sympathy? Apologies for the ****? Nope. blame the user for trusting 'pacman -Syu'" Surely I don't know which are these options because I haven't read about pacman yet (just know it's the default package manager) but you get the idea.
Another key question: Is Arch Linux hiring new developers over the time? Replacing the ones that leaves for the many reasons?
3. Window Managers Support
With Gnome3's overall rejection (including mine), we have only two options: Switch to KDE or try other Window Managers. I still wish to have faith on gtk, so the first option is still not considered by me. I don't wish to know "which one is the best", because that's another large discussion just as the 32-bit x 64-bit. Just how good is Arch's support (updated constantly? bug-fixes?) on:
- XFCE
- MATE
- Cinnamon
(Of course there are others like LXDE, Enlightenment, etc. but I've decided to narrow down to XFCE even having quite bad experiences on Debian Testing.)
4. Package Manager
Last, being a rolling-release dist, can I add an option for a specific package to install a specific older version and/or not upgrade when you tell the dist. to upgrade everything? I remember that back on Gentoo I could edit a text file and just type the version of the package I wished to keep and the "update everything" option wouldn't touch the package (worked also to try new versions that were still not stable enough).
Any replies will be very appreciated. Sorry for the long post.
Best regards.I'll start at the end with #4. Of course on the arch forums you will get people who are biased towards liking arch - but I think if you ask in other communities you will regularly hear that arch's package management system is its greatest strength. Pacman is the primary tool for this, but we also have makepkg for things in the Arch User Repository (AUR), and the Arch Build System (ABS) to recompile anything from the main repos with additional/alternate compilation options.
But for your direct question, there is an option to only upgrade to a particular version of a given package. There is an option in pacman's configuration file for just this purpose. However depending on what the package is, this could lead to problems. Users are discouraged from updating most of their system while keeping some older packages - This can lead to issues with shared dependencies. Of course if you build the package from source (AUR or ABS) yourself, such issues would be easy to resolve. Is there a certain package you know you'd want to keep at an older version? If you tell us what it is, we can give more specific information on how easy/hard it would be to accomplish.
#3: Arch is a DIY distro. You choose whatever window manager / DE you want. I can vouche for XFCE working wonderfully in arch. There are also numerous archers who use mate and cinnamon. I have heard of some problems, but (AFAIK) these have nothing to do with compatibility with arch, rather these are due to upstream issues. In other words, cinnamon, mate, xfce, or any other WM should work just as well on arch as on any other distro. I'd bet our wiki for installing and configuring those WMs are better than those of the distros that bundle the WM with the core install. (In addition to package management, you will find the arch wiki is second to none).
#2: I can't answer with any specifics - other than to say they continue to do an excellent job. I am not surprised by the youtube video - not because I'd agree with it, quite the opposite. But as arch is a DIY distro it puts some responsibility on the user to maintain their own system. If one is not prepared for nor willing to do this, they often become frustrated and end up blaming someone else. Often this is the developers, sometimes it is the forum moderators, other times it is the whole arch community. In every case these accusations are absurd. Your questions on replacement of developers is a good question though - there is a history page on the wiki which might give some insight on this, but I suspect others will have better input on this.
#1: I use i686 (32bit) on two of my computers and it works perfectly. It sounds, however, that a majority of the community uses 64bit (which I just updated to on one of my computers). My 64bit system works perfectly as well, but I don't have any 32bit-only apps. Occasionally there are forum threads about some issue or another with "multilib" applications which are 32bit programs run in a 64bit system. Generally these threads seem to be resolved without much hassle. You can search for some of them yourself: Skype seems to be a common topic of such issues.
All in all, I'd reiterate arch's strengths in it's package management and wiki/documentation. Potential weaknesses could be found by users who are unwilling or unable to take responsibility for their own system. I word this is a bit biased manner - there are many people who have no interest in being responsible for maintaining their own system, a majority of all computer users would fall into this category; most of them would be quite unhappy with arch linux. If you were happy with gentoo in the past and only want to avoid constant recompiling then you probably would be one who could be very happy with arch.
Or an even shorter summary: try it out. If you don't like it, switch. -
A Noobs Quest to Understanding dwm [and window managers in general]
Hello,
I've just switched to dwm. I would like to begin patching and contribute patches to it.
To do this i need to understand dwm, that is... read the source code.
I know a bit of C, will be learning more in the coming days. Looking at the dwm.c, i find it really overwhleming. I feel as though there are lots of fundamental concepts [to windowmanagers, to linux in general] that i don't know enough about, or don't know about at all that gets in the way of my understanding. I've only been with linux/arch for 4 months now.
So i'm looking for some tips!
What concepts do i need to understand in order to understand dwm.c?
Any advice on actually reading dwm.c (general advice also welcome)
Any helpfull resources that helped you?
Thank you for your time!TheCrownedFox wrote:I too have undertaken the same quest and run into the same roadblocks you have.
Isn't it nice to know your not alone
Don't try to solve non-existing problems. Start using plain dwm (only editing config.h), familiarize yourself with it → with time you'll get to know it and therefore digging into the code will be a lot easier.
If you just read the code without understanding the program at all, you'll only see a mess. You need to "feel" the program you want to hack — to know what it's doing, so that when you see some part of its code you'll be like "this code does <bla>".
Use it, and when you are comfortable with it, then start asking such question — they'll be a lot easier to answer, and a lot more to the point.
I know what you mean! Thanks for putting it into words!
I know my question is general and vague, I just don't know
what else to do when I feel this way. Are these types of questions
welcome on the arch forums?
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[Solved] Tiling window managers and on-screen keyboards
I've got a small, old tablet pc with a 10" touchscreen, and was hoping to use a tiling window manager so that I could have an on-screen keyboard (onboard, cellwriter etc) stuck to the bottom third of the screen, and other applications 'fullscreened' in the rest of it, preferably in tabs.
I've tried a few tabbed tiling wm's (i3, xmonad, wmii, ion3) and while I can get the layout I want, I'm unable to use the onscreen keyboard due to focus switching - clicking on the 'keys' of the keyboard (or in fact, moving the cursor into it's frame/window/whatever) moves the focus to the keyboard, so it sends the typed text to itself.
Since tiling wm's are usually targeted at keyboard users, I'm having trouble finding which wm's listen to the onscreen keyboard's 'nofocus' properties. Does anyone know of any tiling wm's that respect that property and work with onscreen keyboards? Or even if there are simple config changes I can do to stop the keyboard from getting focus?
Failing that, any other window managers I could try? fwiw, I really liked twindy (http://www.niallmoody.com/twindy/about.htm) but it suffered from the same problem (and wasted a fair amount of space with its sidebar).
Thanks!
Last edited by mjc506 (2010-12-10 00:41:01)Ah, thanks, that got me looking for and finding an xmonad patch that should make it not focus on onboard and cellwriter, amongst others: http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=177 Its a shame that the patch still isn't in the darcs repo, but I guess a working open office is more important that the few people using onscreen keyboards!
...time to compile from source... ugh - only got a single core running at 900kHz... -
Hello ! I just want to share something familiar with that black display or screen occurs for some people. When I watch youtube videos, I used to watch them in html5 720p videos (not flash videos, https://www.youtube.com/html5 ). I upgraded firefox to version 33. No black display when I used it. Randomly and after watching several html5 videos on youtube, aero transparency in my windows 7 turns opaque and firefox display goes all black. Firefox doesn't respond at any command. I need to kill his process in task manager in order to close it. When I open firefox again, normal display goes. To relaunch aero transparency in windows 7, I need to restart the service whose name is, I think, "Desktop Window Manager Session Manager". I use windows 7 in french and the service name is "Gestionnaire de sessions de Gestionnaire de fenetrage".
To solve this, I upgraded my graphic driver but this didn't work. I tried to put "layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled" to false in "about:config" menu. No random black display but some html elements turned black for some seconds or definitely when firefox rendered web pages. I tried to uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available" in options menu. No random black display but html5 720p videos didn't play smoothly.
Then, I chose to watch youtube 720p videos again with flash player and no random black display and html5 720p videos played normally.
Here are my graphic acceleration infos :
Date du pilote 7-2-2014
Description de la carte NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M
DirectWrite activé false (6.2.9200.16492)
Fenêtres avec accélération graphique 1/1 Direct3D 11 (OMTC)
GPU #2 active false
ID du périphérique 0x0cb1
ID du vendeur 0x10de
Pilotes de la carte nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
RAM de la carte 1024
Rendu WebGL Google Inc. -- ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M Direct3D9Ex vs_3_0 ps_3_0)
Version du pilote 9.18.13.4052
windowLayerManagerRemote true
AzureCanvasBackend skia
AzureContentBackend cairo
AzureFallbackCanvasBackend cairo
AzureSkiaAccelerated 0
I hope this will be useful to solve this problem in future versions or to someone.This is happening to me too, I don't know if this is an Adobe Flash Player 11.5's bug or it's just my computer. All my browsers, chrome, IE9, Fox, doesn't even load anime videos. I tried reinstalling 11.5 many times, it have no effect but I use IE9 64-bit to run the videos that couldn't run. I waited 25 min for a JW player to load an episode of anime and I'm sick of it.
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Tialing window managers (dwm) and gtk themes
Is it posable to use GTK themes with tialing window managers?, i.e. to make firefox less ugly.
Also would it be posable to combine a tialing window manager with a pannel aplication, i.e. gnome-pannel. to make a more productive desktop expiriance?
I like tialing aplications (Blender), but sofar the tialing window managers I have tryed(wmii and dwm) dont seem terably useable. I am looking for somwthing that works more like Blender, create tiles by hovering the mouse over a border, right click, split. this prosess would be folowed in reverce to get rid of a tile. currantly running aplications can be assighned to a tile from a drop down list in the corner. aplications started from eather a terminal, or a auto hiding pannel at the top of the screen, which also displays system infomation.
Are there any DE's like this, or should i start coding one
Last edited by Hessiess (2008-07-22 20:34:02)rson451 wrote:As for the rest, I've never used Blender so I have no clue what you are talking about.
In Blender to subdivide the main window you right click on the border between two windows and select "Split Area" from the context menu, then you move the mouse to the place you want to split and click. If you start from a horizontal border you make a vertical split, and if you start from a vertical border you make a horizontal split. To remove a division you select "Join Areas" from the same context menu, and then click the window you want to remove. Windows have a sort of menu/status bar, and it has a popup menu from which you can select any of the "programs" (3d view, text editor, preferences, &c) that are part of Blender. Window borders can be dragged for resizing, of course.
And no, I don't know of any WM that works like this. The closest is probably StumpWM or Ratpoison—you divide and join windows in the same way, but it's keyboard controlled: "^t s" makes a horizontal split, "^t S" is vertical, and there's keystrokes for entering resize mode and removing a division as well. The keystrokes are fine for creating and deleting windows (and even better if you rebind them to use the 0, 1, 2, 3 keys like Emacs), but resizing is a pain. -
Does Something Like This Exist Already (for Window Managers)
I know that one can use idesk to produce launchers for desktop programs in window managers like Openbox, but what about an actual small file manager, that always sits on the desktop, confined to its own little space. Kind of like conky, if this makes sense.
I don't have a great deal of programming knowledge, just basics, but I've toyed with the idea of making a script to constantly reedit the idesk config file to do this, and while it could work, it's messy at best, and doesn't provide the same desired effect that a small desktop folder sitting on the WM desktop would.
If this does exist, I give my apologies, but I did try to search Google for it, but got junk results. Also, would something like this be feasible? (I am looking for a way to improve my programming skills over the summer, and was thinking that this could possibly be a way to do it.) Even further, would it be acceptable to use Python for it?whoops wrote:
Hi!
I don't really get what you mean... the Desktop usually is a file manager, isn't it? I'm not sure if Thunar draws the desktop, but Nautilus can even be pretty bitchy if something else (like conky) wants to have a piece. I didn't care enough about rox and its "everything's a folder"-philosophy to take a really close look at it, but there was an option to have it provide a desktop, too, if I remember right. And rox sounded/looks a lot, as it would provide the most "normal filemanager" behaviour when providing the Desktop (didn't try though - maybe I will).
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/5576/shot0004bvb.jpg
Did my best to try to elaborate by using an example there on a screenshot of my desktop. (A sloppy edit done in the GIMP)
EDIT: What I would be looking for is something contained to that spot, so that way, if I were to right click inside of the rectangle, such as on a file, I would get options with what to open the file, or something else, even copy, cut, paste, or delete. However, if I were to right click outside of the rectangle, I would get my openbox menu. Hope this helps make more sense.
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How can I make a movable transparent main window (HTML, not FLEX)?
Hi all-
I'm new to AIR and coming up to speed quickly. I got a sample application up and running right away and was able to give it a transparent main window so that the corners are rounded and there is no window title bar.
However, I can't figure out how to make it so the user can drag the application around their desktop when they click on it.
I've seen a few FLEX examples of this but I have to work in HTML.
Does anyone know how to set this up in HTML?
Thanks,
Nicholas"Works pretty much as I'd expect, except clicking and dragging one of the child controls in my window (e.g. a button) moves the whole window as well."
Most user interface events (mouse up, down, etc.) "bubble" up from child elements to their parents. Since you are listening on the body element, your handler is called for every mouse down in the page since the body is the highest parent in the document.
You can either:
Attach the event listener directly to the element used to drag the window.
Check the event target property to check whether the target of the event (the element moused) is a drag control. -
Depending on my theme and style I was able to force Firefox to be transparent and work with Aero to show through to my desktop or other windows behind the browser. I really liked this ability, however, sometime after Firefox 16 this stopped working and I have been looking for a solution ever since. I am currently on the the release version of Firefox.
Does Firefox not allow this anymore or is there a way I can code this feature back using Styles or modifying one of the files in Firefox?Attached screen shot with Firefox version...Everything you see should be transparent.
You might be seeing I have an old version as I have a few privacy apps running.
I just attempted another reset and copied my old profile data back in.
I've attempted in the past, disabling and removing extensions and apps one by one.
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I'm using AI CS3 on PC. I've been given an EPS file that was apparently created in AI 11 on Mac. It has no preview (at least not that will show up on PC).
I opened the file in AI to save it with a preview. When I do a Save As, AI says:
"When spot colors are used with transparency, changing them to process colors outside of Illustrator can generate unexpected results."
Does this mean I need to change all of the spot colors in the file to CMYK? The file has been used as-is in the past apparently with no repercussions.
Then AI says:
"The document contains artwork that requires flattening."
What should I do? I find the whole business of transparency and flattening confusing.
I COULD just use the original EPS file as-is, but I really hate not having a preview.
FWIW, the EPS will be used in an existing Quark file.
TIA,
MarleneThe first message is just a warning. If you intend to keep the spot color(s) on press, there should be no conversion to process involved. If there is going to be a conversion down the line, you're better off dealing with it within Illustrator. That's what the warning is trying to tell you.
My guess with the second message is that it has to do with the improved transparency flattening options in newer versions of Illustrator. The document uses transparency, and that means flattening is required (because PostScript does not support transparency).
I would just let Illustrator do its thing and save out your new EPS with the Windows-compatible preview. If the file was used in the past without problems, you probably don't have to do anything within Illustrator. However, if you see a lot of transparency features in use, you might want to flatten more aggressively, even if that means further tipping the balance away from vector toward raster and ending up with a larger file.
The preview really won't tell you much (other than position) once in Quark, so make sure you output a proof -- at least to Adobe PDF. Check to make sure each spot color in your Illustrator file goes to its own 'plate' out of Quark.
Recommended reading: http://www.layersmagazine.com/illustrator-render-photoshop.html -
Cisco 3850 Switch and Windows 7 IP Conflicts
Team,
Last evening (Christmas eve) we setup a pair of Cisco 3850 with IP Base version 3.3.35SE (recommended) and 3.7.0E (very latest).
We got these to replace a very old switch that had died. Attached to this network are windows 7 PC's with all the standard patches, service packs, etc.
with standard port configs - no PC would work - and in fact on each screen we got the windows 7 IP Conflict pop up box.
This seemed very odd to us, as we know these IP's are all static (no dhcp on this segment at all)
we went with a very vanilla config on each port
interface g1/0/1
switchport host
that is it - nothing special at all.
well, after hours of research we found the 3850 has a problem where its "ip device tracking" (even though disabled, by way of NOT being enabled on any interface) will effect the windows 7 PC's ip address in use detection port start up phase!
This is a very big problem. I am frankly SHOCKED Cisco would release a major switch that is going to not work when connected to the average network with windows 7 PC's.
we tried 3+ hours of prescribed work-arounds found when researching this issue -
ip device tracking probe delay 10 (global config)
ip device tracking max 0 (disabed, on interface)
finally,
nmsp attach suppress (interface, however this appears to be a default command in all IOS-XE versions we tried, as the command did NOT show in the show run) . this effected many different nic card vendors (laptops, desktops) and nic card drivers levels from old to very recent.
Finally,
we compared a 3850 in another location to this one - and we never got HIT by this problem before because that 3850 only as TRUNK ports and no windows 7 hosts directly attached.
Doing more research, I found out this also can effect vmware guests running windows SERVER.
this is now a huge issue as we have a scheduled deployment of 3850's throughout our network which is going to be put on hold.
the work-around I came up with which is not great is -
Make ALL the "access" ports connected to PC TRUNK ports and leave the NATIVE vlan (untagged) as the vlan you want the PC's to be in
interface g1/0/1
switchport mode trunk
switchport trunk native vlan 1
this is NOT an acceptable workaround as this presents security issues even with
switchport trunk allowed vlan 1, etc. as the only allowed vlan.
Note: this issue manifested itself and windows 7 PC's were UNABLE to use the network. if you do "ipconfig /all | more" you would see
192.168.0.140(duplicate) and the interface would actually use 169.254.0.239(duplicate) so the duplicate message appeared twice in the output.
1) With and without an SVI interface on each 3850 for the vlan where the windows 7 machines had a duplicate
2) when we had an SVI and the command ip device tracking probe use-svi (or whatever the hidden command is I forget now, but it took it)
3) when we had aaa new-model configured - and not configured - thinking this was some artifact of having aaa turn on something like 802.1x port state
4) when could confirm NO DHCP SNOOPING
5) when we DID not use static IP's - and had the switch assign DHCP addresses - the Windows 7 PC's STILL had duplicates and didnt work for their "Just leased" ip's.
6) when we could confirm ios-xe ip device tracking = disabled with show ip device tracking status, etc.
This is a major problem for this 3850 and unless we get a definitive answer on why this is happening and how we can rectify we are going to have to return our 3850's and get HP Procurve's something I would rather avoid doing. There is NO REASON I can imagine other than older switches who's ports default to ROUTED ports (i.e.. no ip switchport) where a switch should not at least function as a bare switch with essentially a default configuration out of the box.
Any ideas? I'm working well now with the ports ALL in trunking mode with vlan 1 native, but this is not a scalable workaround we can live with as we have security risks of a port not blocking certain vlans from going out ports to pc's, etc. that attackers could send tags on at that point, etc.
thanks,
Joe Brunner
#19366thanks for replying - i'm not onsite (its a standalone network) - but here is what it is -
Answers in line -
This all stems from a switch replacement correct?
yes a 10 year old Allied Telesyn switch was replaced that had no config - like a hub, just used for connectivity.
Are these 3850's in a stack?
>yes, tested all aspects of the stack many times.
Does it have a managment ip address -If so, is it using the old switch ip address
>old switch had no ip - i made a "management interface" on vlan 1 - BUT no ip on the built-in management interface on the switch.
What are they connecting to? (a router/L3 switch/anohter switch- cisco-HP etc..)
>various other devices - only 1 link back to a single 3750x stack. that switch is "hardened" so to speak to reveal or propagate very little by design.
How are they connected( L3 interface/L2 trunk/access port)
>all ports are left in trunk mode with vlan 1 as the active and untagged port. this was the workaround done to ever get the switch going. in "out of the box" or default mode as we initially wanted (no config) links to windows 7 PC's didnt work. links to linux or other devices non-windows did work!
Are thse switches performing inter-vlan routing or just acting as host switches?
>dumb flat network, no routing.
Is ip routing enabled?
>not unless enabled on 3850 by default. I didnt type "ip routing"
Do you have multiple vlans in your network and if so ar ethe being propergated to these new switches?
Your 7 pcs = are they just client pcs not servers?
client PC's - no servers OS per say.
can you confirm something like ICS isnt enabled (Internet connection sharing) on any of them?
>yes not enabled.
Are the just using one NIC each?
> one machine is dual homed - but we know where its "second nic" goes - to another cisco network which is NOT connected back to this one. we traced all our ports a few times thinking even perhaps some small hub was "reflecting" traffic back to us - like a blackbox. Strangest thing -
default config out of the box - with ALL ports SHUTDOWN EXCEPT the single windows 7 facing port - the windows 7 machine STILL registered an IP CONFLICT when connected to the 3850 - even when it had NO SVI's!!! (i know mind numbing). if you disconnected the pc and connected it to an old cisco switch - it worked fine!!! wow.
sh switch
2 identical 3850's in working stack. power and network stacked. both at same version, etc - upgraded each time with "software install file flash:<long ios name>.bin
tested all power and general 3850 stacking. saw no issues.
sh int trunk
>all ports are now trunks (hence the workaround used to get it up).
has 20 trunks to PC's and some single connected switches (far away on fiber) - all allow only vlan 1 - no other vlans were created - very very simple network. vlan 1 is native
sh vlan brief
>just vlan 1 - no vlans created, checked this many times - had vlan 100 at one point - made sure it was gone over a period of hours.
sh vtp status
not setup - left complete default; no vtp domain set - connected to all switches in transparent model if a switch connection exists.
sh cdp neighbours
cant post (for god and country LOL) but there is one link back to our "core" so to speak - that switch is hardened not to allow any settings to slip over to new switches so hence no vtp, cdp is one to help troubleshooting.
sh ip route
just the L and C routes for the vlan 1 ip address 192.168.17.1/24
no static routes
no vlan interfaces other than int vlan 1
no ip address on g0/0/0 -> the default 3850 management interface hard assigned to the 3850 VRF you cant remove.
int g0/0/0
ip vrf forwarding Switch_Mgmt
i can get over there if you think of anything else key to show the group.
thanks,
Joe -
My macbook air (version 10.9.4) display flickers, has random tabs and windows opening, and there are random ads almost everywhere. All this happens when I am using safari. What can I do?
1. This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve the problem. But with the aid of the test results, the solution may take a few minutes, instead of hours or days.
Don't be put off merely by the seeming complexity of these instructions. The process is much less complicated than the description. You do harder tasks with the computer all the time.
2. If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything in the test procedure. Backup is always a must, and when you're having any kind of trouble with the computer, you may be at higher than usual risk of losing data, whether you follow these instructions or not.
There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
3. Below are instructions to run a UNIX shell script, a type of program. As I wrote above, it changes nothing. It doesn't send or receive any data on the network. All it does is to generate a human-readable report on the state of the computer. That report goes nowhere unless you choose to share it. If you prefer, you can read it yourself without disclosing the contents to me or anyone else.
You should be wondering whether you can believe me, and whether it's safe to run a program at the behest of a stranger. In general, no, it's not safe and I don't encourage it.
In this case, however, there are a couple of ways for you to decide whether the program is safe without having to trust me. First, you can read it. Unlike an application that you download and click to run, it's transparent, so anyone with the necessary skill can verify what it does.
You may not be able to understand the script yourself. But variations of the script have been posted on this website thousands of times over a period of years. The site is hosted by Apple, which does not allow it to be used to distribute harmful software. Any one of the millions of registered users could have read the script and raised the alarm if it was harmful. Then I would not be here now and you would not be reading this message.
Nevertheless, if you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them. Ask for other options.
4. Here's a summary of what you need to do, if you choose to proceed:
☞ Copy a line of text in this window to the Clipboard.
☞ Paste into the window of another application.
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☞ Paste the results, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page.
The sequence is: copy, paste, wait, paste again. You don't need to copy a second time. Details follow.
5. You may have started the computer in "safe" mode. Preferably, these steps should be taken in “normal” mode, under the conditions in which the problem is reproduced. If the system is now in safe mode and works well enough in normal mode to run the test, restart as usual. If you can only test in safe mode, do that.
6. If you have more than one user, and the one affected by the problem is not an administrator, then please run the test twice: once while logged in as the affected user, and once as an administrator. The results may be different. The user that is created automatically on a new computer when you start it for the first time is an administrator. If you can't log in as an administrator, test as the affected user. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this section doesn’t apply. Don't log in as root.
7. The script is a single long line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, though you may not see all of it in the browser window, and you can then copy it. If you try to select the line by dragging across the part you can see, you won't get all of it.
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:
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'Global login items' 'User login items' Spotlight Memory Listeners Widgets Parental\ Controls Prefetching SATA Descriptors );N3=${#l[@]};for i in 0 1 2;do l[N3+i]=${p[5+i]};done;N4=${#l[@]};for j in 0 1;do l[N4+j]="Current ${p[29+j]}stream data";done;A0() { id -G|grep -qw 80;v[1]=$?;((v[1]==0))&&sudo true;v[2]=$?;v[3]=`date +%s`;clear >&-;date '+Start time: %T %D%n';};for i in 0 1;do eval ' A'$((1+i))'() { v=` eval "${c1[$1]} ${c2[$2]}"|'${c1[30+i]}' "${s[$3]}" `;[[ "$v" ]];};A'$((3+i))'() { v=` while read i;do [[ "$i" ]]&&eval "${c1[$1]} ${c2[$2]}" \"$i\"|'${c1[30+i]}' "${s[$3]}";done<<<"${v[$4]}" `;[[ "$v" ]];};A'$((5+i))'() { v=` while read i;do '${c1[30+i]}' "${s[$1]}" "$i";done<<<"${v[$2]}" `;[[ "$v" ]];};';done;A7(){ v=$((`date +%s`-v[3]));};B2(){ v[$1]="$v";};for i in 0 1;do eval ' B'$i'() { v=;((v['$((i+1))']==0))||{ v=No;false;};};B'$((3+i))'() { v[$2]=`'${c1[30+i]}' "${s[$3]}"<<<"${v[$1]}"`;} ';done;B5(){ v[$1]="${v[$1]}"$'\n'"${v[$2]}";};B6() { v=` paste -d: <(printf 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Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
8. Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste by pressing command-V. The text you pasted should vanish immediately. If it doesn't, press the return key.
9. If you see an error message in the Terminal window such as "Syntax error" or "Event not found," enter
exec bash
and press return. Then paste the script again.
10. If you're logged in as an administrator, you'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. You will not see the usual dots in place of typed characters. Make sure caps lock is off. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you make three failed attempts to enter the password, the test will run anyway, but it will produce less information. In most cases, the difference is not important. If you don't know the password, or if you prefer not to enter it, press the key combination control-C or just press return three times at the password prompt. Again, the script will still run.
If you're not logged in as an administrator, you won't be prompted for a password. The test will still run. It just won't do anything that requires administrator privileges.
11. The test may take a few minutes to run, depending on how many files you have and the speed of the computer. A computer that's abnormally slow may take longer to run the test. While it's running, there will be nothing in the Terminal window and no indication of progress. Wait for the line
[Process completed]
to appear. If you don't see it within half an hour or so, the test probably won't complete in a reasonable time. In that case, close the Terminal window and report the results. No harm will be done.
12. When the test is complete, quit Terminal. The results will have been copied to the Clipboard automatically. They are not shown in the Terminal window. Please don't copy anything from there. All you have to do is start a reply to this comment and then paste by pressing command-V again.
At the top of the results, there will be a line that begins with the words "Start Time." If you don't see that, but instead see a mass of gibberish, you didn't wait for the "Process completed" message to appear in the Terminal window. Please wait for it and try again.
If any private information, such as your name or email address, appears in the results, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
13. When you post the results, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "You are not authorized to post." That's a bug in the forum software. Please post the test results on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.
14. This is a public forum, and others may give you advice based on the results of the test. They speak only for themselves, and I don't necessarily agree with them.
Copyright © 2014 by Linc Davis. As the sole author of this work, I reserve all rights to it except as provided in the Use Agreement for the Apple Support Communities website ("ASC"). Readers of ASC may copy it for their own personal use. Neither the whole nor any part may be redistributed. -
How can I disable taskbar transparency in windows 8 RTM?
how can I disable taskbar transparency in windows 8 RTM?
Seems to me there's very little merit in the colors of the High Contrast themes! :-)
Try it this way instead:
Right-click on the desktop and choose Personalize.
Select an Aero theme first.
Save a new named theme with a name something like "Aero Lite"
Navigate to the following folder and edit the .theme file just created:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Themes
Scroll down to the [VisualStyles] section near the bottom.
Change the Path= filename from Aero.msstyles to AeroLite.msstyles
In Personalize, go select another theme then this theme again.
That gives you this:
Only downside I've seen so far with this is that when dragging and dropping things in File Explorer the icons that appear with the cursor are no longer partially transparent, so you end up have to guess just a little where you're dropping them.
-Noel
Detailed how-to in my eBooks:
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Tiling Window Managers; where to start?
I'm looking for a wm for my laptop. It is relatively fast, 4gb of ram, dual core processor, etc. I don't like dealing with some of the bloat that is gnome/kde. On my desktop I've used openbox for quite some time, but what I really miss on my laptop is the expose function to quickly view all open windows, since a laptop monitor can get a bit cramped. I tried to work with skippy and the xautolock but it wasn't nearly the same. It seems like the only solutions are either going back to gnome/xfce + compiz, or compiz standalone (how is this?), or to try out a tiling window manager. What would you recommend? Where does one start? Will this solve my problem?
When it comes to a wm, people can get rabid about them; almost as bad as when it comes to distro of choice!
Anyway, I have used a few tiling window managers myself, and liked every one that I have used, which includes awesome and xmonad.
I'm not plugging any of them, just wanting to let you know that there is a wiki page comparing the different tiling window managers, that should give you a good start on which one(s) you want to try.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … w_Managers
If there are certain things that you find useful in a window manager, the table can be helpful.
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