This problem started so long ago that I really have no insight into when or why it first started happening, but for a while now, whenever I started X with the `startx` command, I would get the following error message: There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, […]
Category Archives: Gentoo
Drivel
I just installed Drivel, which seems to be a pretty nice Linux application to post entries to your blog right from your desktop. It supports a few different blogging technologies, including WordPress, Drupal, blogger.com, and livejournal. I’m hoping having this around will reduce the amount of effort in making a blog post, and hence will […]
Trouble with installing packages in Gentoo due to XML::Parser errors
I’ve seen this once before and couldn’t remember the exact package I needed to update, so I figured I’d make a post about it so I could find it easily if I came across this again. Sometimes when emergeing new packages you will get an error like the following: checking for perl… /usr/bin/perl checking for […]