So far this is the best way I’ve found to have persistent touchpad settings when not using gnome. It feels quite hacky though, so I’m hoping there’s a better way I haven’t thought of yet The problem seems to be that gpointing-device-settings relies on gnome-setting-daemon for persistent settings. Running gnome-settings-daemon plants an ugly power gauge [...]

This is how I setup lxde (on Fedora 14) to take screenshots. Install the gnome-utils package. This contains the gnome-screenshot program. It’s possible to avoid this by using imagemagick or scrot, but I couldn’t find a way to make them take shots of the active window (the usual alt+printscreen behaviour) Insert the lines below into [...]

Or, how to make vim behave a lot more like nano My vimrc: ” backspace anything set backspace=indent,eol,start ” indent plz set autoindent ” I never liked vi set nocompatible ” can haz shiny syntax on filetype plugin indent on ” +++ Make it obvious which mode we are in set laststatus=2 ” always show [...]

New server arrived last week. Installed lucid (Ubuntu 10.04) and planned to run some VMs there with werdz‘s awesome rbvm. Spent my first few hours at the machine tripping up over this nasty bug, but I’ll save that for a separate rant, this is a rant just about upstart. Upstart is the kind of thing [...]

This is the second of two entries on our journey home from Nerja. Read the earlier one here The last few hours of the journey home were significantly less eventful then the earlier ones. We left the Internet cafe about 3.30 pm, picked up some doughnuts, wandered abbout Camden for a while and then headed [...]

Last Thursday we were supposed to fly home from Nerja. Due to the ash clould we had to move this to the following day. When that flight was cancelled ryanair would not offer us another flight until at least Wednesday. We began to research other options to get home, but, decided they were too expensive [...]

So, I’ve been using it for a few days, and it’s working nicely now. Power Management The battery applet on LXPanel seemed to eh, not work for me. I decided to try loading in gnome-power-manager for this. Not only does this put an accurate power gauge on the panel (in the tray area), but controls [...]

So, last night I won a Dell Mini 10, and decided to try out LXDE rather than XFCE for a change (using the LXCD spin), so it’s been a little more fun to get working than it otherwise would have been LXDE This seems pretty light and cool. The default applications are very light, but [...]

Just noticed this on a clean Fedora 12 install (that I’ll talk about later). [andrew@Callandra ~]$ echo $PATH /usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/andrew/bin Compare that to the default Ubuntu paths: home@racetrack:~$ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games Ubuntu are right here, and Fedora is very wrong (much as it hurts me to have to say that). The point of the path is [...]

Jeff writes: What I would like to explain is why the impedance mismatch between Linux and Solaris packaging is not so much a technological divide as it is a philosophical one. Philosophical differences are fine. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations, etc., however, regardless of the philosophy the goal of the package manager should be to [...]