Ok, let’s go for another big issue on the road to build a complex distro .. Maintainers tend to include one feature after one .. and now Debian is getting closer to bloat ..
Anyway, sometime ago the HAL was introduced in Xorg. This allow you to hotplug mouse / keyboard … But if for a [...]
admin July 4th, 2009
I’m using Gkrellm for a long time now (perhaps 5 or more years). The main issue with Gkrellm is that theme aren’t really fresh anymore. So I tweaked some to feet with my needs.
As you can see on the screen-shot this theme is a transparent one, with a blue and violet krells
You can download it [...]
admin April 26th, 2008
Today, it’s the time to switch to the next Ubuntu version. One interesting stuff in the latest distro, is the KDE4, but by default you still get a 3.5.9 revision..
Here a little tips to switch easily:
First uninstall the previous version
sudo apt-get remove –purge kdebase-bin-kde3
sudo apt-get autoremove –purge
Install KDE4
sudo apt-get install kde4
As you can see, this [...]
admin April 19th, 2008
3D drivers (openGL) have awlays been a source of problem on Linux.
A lot of people just don’t care, since they don’t use there computer
to play games. But yesterday, something change this fact: Google released
a native version of Google Earth for Linux[1]. As I already played with
Google Earth before, I really want to test this new [...]
admin June 13th, 2006
I was looking for a way to hack my window manager in Python. I want to use special piece of code to handle the window placement, or display stuffs in the background..
It looks like pyxfce meet my needs, so I decided to give it a try. The first thing to do is to build the [...]
admin June 27th, 2005
In a past life, I spent a lot of time with gtk-1 and glade (for a commercial app). After this experience, I tested several approach:
PyQT (using QTDesigner)
wxPython (w/ wxGlade)
Glade 2 + libglade
Here is my personnal feeling:
PyQT, is really great. But I really don’t like the licence. And since I work in a school, using this [...]
admin January 13th, 2005
I use this little script on another computer for a while. Meanly to remote drive my xmms throught the xmms python module. Anyway I just write this little intro here, perhaps other people may be interested..
This litte script use Xlib python module to grab keys. If the key is special key on my laptop, i [...]
admin December 16th, 2004
Ion is a powerfull window manager, but the main issue of this WM is the configuration. We have already chat a little w/ Ian about this. While browsing the web, I discover this post on IBM Network.
So now, Ion is really fine, and IBM provide a nice doc :)
admin October 4th, 2004
I’m using xfce window manager since a while now. I’m only using the taskbar and the wm in fact. But i was looking for a feature for a long time. Xfce wm doesn’t support matched window placement (ala sawfish).
For example, there is no way to place gkrellm on every workspace, or tell Kmail for stick [...]
admin September 14th, 2004
I have been waiting for this since a long. After writing a lot of applet for gnome desktop, now we can also write some for KDE !
Take a look at this article for additionnal infos. I’m pretty sure that a lot of fun applet will rise soon. I get some idea right now.
I really think [...]
admin November 8th, 2003