Posts Tagged ‘ Gnome ’
..My seemingly endless distrohopping. If anyone’s got some tips how to stop hopping, please do share them! Anywhoo I’m back to Ubuntu. Gnome with Dust Sand theme. Still need to install vmware server 2 on the laptop, so I can study Windows servers + networking and AD and WSUS and Exchange and all the other buggy stuff. [ READ MORE ]
I was looking for something new in linux desktops. Ubuntu and it’s deriatives never really gave me what I wanted from a desktop and they always felt a bit slow on this system at least. I installed Archlinux and discovered the speed I was missing, but it’s too much tweaking neccesary really, ( Archers, please [ READ MORE ]
Stumbled upon this interesting blog here: http://alinuxblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/how-to-use-the-window-keys-in-linux-gnome/ [ READ MORE ]
Took a small detour to Fedora land, I found no option how to enable autologin in gnome, so here’s how to do it. Please remember to back up your files first! : cp /etc/gdm/gdm.schemas /etc/gdm/gdm.schemas.backup nano /etc/gdm/gdm.schemas and locate `<schema> <key>daemon/AutomaticLoginEnable</key> <signature>b</signature> <default>false</default> Change this to true. </schema>` And finally edit this: `<schema> <key>daemon/AutomaticLogin</key> <signature>s</signature> <default></default> Put the username here. </schema>` If you have look a bit further down, you’ll [ READ MORE ]
Updated make.conf and kernel.config, have to update BIOS = install xp Might as well change the filesystem back to ext3 at he same time, JFS sucks. kernel.config: # # Automatically generated make config: don’t edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 # Tue Oct 21 18:58:46 2008 # CONFIG_64BIT=y # CONFIG_X86_32 is not set CONFIG_X86_64=y CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_ARCH_DEFCONFIG=”arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig” # CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK is not set CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE=y CONFIG_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST=y CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y CONFIG_FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG=y CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT=y # CONFIG_GENERIC_GPIO is not set CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y CONFIG_DMI=y CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=y # CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM [ READ MORE ]
Theese might come in handy once I’ve compiled Gnome on my laptop http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/linux-68-useful-extensions-to-improve-nautilus-functionality/ [ READ MORE ]
Rescued from failure, make.conf from my laptop. 64bit version, just for future refernce. # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically # built this stage. # Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example. CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -msse3 -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" # WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly. # Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before changing. MAKEOPTS="-j3" USE="X -kde [ READ MORE ]
Just an updated version of my make.conf. Athlon XP 2400+ version. # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically # built this stage. # Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example. CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" # WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly. # Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before changing. CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" MAKEOPTS="-j2" USE="X -kde gnome acpi [ READ MORE ]
Äntligen har Gentoo fått sin grafiska installerare att fungera så man faktiskt kan använda den! Körde in Gentoo i morse på rekordtid: lite under en timme, och då hadde jag ett fullt fungerande desktop environment, xfce4 igång. Brukar normalt gå en par tre dagar att kompilera allt som behövs. Installationen är ändå inte att rekommendera [ READ MORE ]