A Linux blog to share any hints, tips, ebuilds, and insight I have picked up along the way. My interests mainly lie in security, photography, the web, and multimedia.
It seems that the latest revision of sK1 has a new configurator.py that breaks my old gnome patch. I've updated the patch to work with the latest revision. Hopefully this won't end up being an arms race type of affair where configurator.py is constantly changing. Just rename to gnome-sK1.patch and copy in place of the old patch and remember to edit the fonts and font sizes in the patch if you want to match your gnome theme better.
Midori is now using a new build system so if you attempt to emerge it like before it will not work. There is an updated ebuild available on bugzilla. Unfortunately I have yet to get it to work. It builds fine with the new ebuild but the program will not start. I am using it in conjunction with my webkit-gtk svn ebuild. If I find the solution to the problem I will post an update.
Four days ago I installed Flash 10 on my laptop. I was hoping it would solve some of the issues I was having with Flash. Unfortunately I haven't seen many differences at all. I'm not sure if my problems are related to Flash itself or nspluginwrapper but Flash still crashes or hangs my browser occasionally and some Flash videos still don't work, they just display a gray box where the video should be. The good news is that Flash hasn't crashed X yet which started happening on my laptop recently with Flash 9. Also I haven't had any regressions yet so that's good news. I would recommend checking it yourself. I would love to know how well it is working on 32-bit machines.
Linux offers many powersaving features but you have to know where to look to enable these features. There is a wealth of information over at LessWatts.org. I have greatly reduced my power consumption by implementing many of their tips. The first place you should start is by enabling cpufreq. This is probably the number one powersaving feature. I would also enable dynticks in the kernel. To get a better idea of how much power you are using make sure to enable the powertop interface in the kernel. Then there are many tunable powersaving features that you can manipulate from userland. Here are examples that I have used.
I've updated my sK1 svn ebuild to include a gnome USE flag. The normal build defaults to Crystal icons. The USE flag patches the configurator.py file to use Tango icons and also changes the fonts. You can edit the patch to use different fonts if you like.
I have been very interested in Webkit ever since the GTK port was announced. It seems like a good fit for integration with Gnome applications like Epiphany and Evolution. Right now I'm using it in Evolution-RSS and Midori, a Webkit-GTK browser. There are a couple of svn snapshot ebuilds in portage but I find myself constantly creating new snapshot ebuilds to test out the latest Webkit-GTK along with the svn ebuild of Midori. So in a similar fashion to my sK1 svn ebuild I decided to create a Webkit-GTK svn ebuild. Be forewarned that the checkout process takes a very long time. Based on my genlop output the checkout process alone took 40 minutes and compilation took another 20 minutes.
Labels: ebuild, epiphany, evolution, gentoo, gnome, gtk, linux, midori, svn, webkit
Flash has always been a problem for me on 64-bit linux. It works ok with Nspluginwrapper but is continually crashing or hanging the browser. It has even started to crash X lately which is just screwed up. So I decided to take Flash 10 beta for a test drive to see if anything is improved but I ran into some stumbling blocks along the way. Nspluginwrapper failed to install the latest flash because it was missing some necessary 32-bit libraries. Fortunately I found that the 32-bit binaries of OpenOffice and Adobe Reader provided the necessary libraries but they were not located in /usr/lib32. I didn't want to mess with the library path so I just symlinked the necessary libraries into /usr/lib32. I logged out and back in again and Flash 10 is working! I'll report back later so see how well this hack stands up and how well Flash 10 performs. If you want to try it out here are a couple of files you might want. Remember that this only works on 64 bit, you need nspluginwrapper, and you must have both the Adobe Reader binary and the OpenOffice binary installed.
For years I have been using Liferea for RSS feeds and Evolution for email. After years of searching for information in mailing lists using Evolution then switching to Liferea for RSS I got tired of it and started looking for a RSS plugin for Evolution when I found Evolution-RSS. That was a few months ago when the stable version was 0.0.8. Since then a newer version has been released but not updated in the sunrise overlay. I took the 0.0.8 ebuild and Auke Booij's advice on Gentoo Bugzilla and created this ebuild:
Labels: atom, ebuild, evolution, gentoo, liferea, linux, rss
I have beeen using the now defunct gTangish icons for a couple of months now and found a weird problem where icons in 32-bit binaries (I am using 64-bit) like Acrobat Reader, Raw Therapee, and Realplayer displaying larger than life to say the least. No other icon set had this problem. After some investigating I found that it was most likely a index.theme issue. Not wanting to look for the fatal flaw all day I decided I would base a new theme.index off of the gTango icon set which has now taken the place of gTangish. (I don't really like the gTango set as much as gTangish that's why I am still using it). Anyway here is what the problem looked liked:
Labels: acrobat reader, gnome, linux, raw therapee, realplayer
For ten years now UNIX has had a fantastic vector editor called Skencil (formerly Sketch). The bad news is that it hasn't been updated in over 2 years. That's where sK1 comes in. It has a new updated interface along with a cairo backend and CMYK support for use in pre-press. I've been checking out svn versions and the project looks very promising although quite incomplete at the moment. Anyway, I got tired of fetching things manually and adapted an sK1 ebuild I found on the net to fetch the latest svn version. Here it is:
If you haven't heard of it yet Miro is an opensource internet TV application available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. It uses RSS feeds to grab torrents and then downloads them for viewing. There are is also a guide to watch free television but what if you want to watch a show that isn't in the guide? There is an easy workaround that should be familiar to you if you use bittorrent already, it's called Mininova.
Labels: banshee, bittorrent, ebuild, internet, linux, mac, miro, rss, windows
I created this blog for a few reasons. One of those reasons is to document tips, tricks, and workarounds for computer related problems that I have come across. I have been creating notes on my computer to reference these problems but this blog will allow me to not only store my findings on the web but also allow other people to access them should they provide useful. So without futher ado here is my first fix.
Labels: ebuild, gentoo, grsecurity, hardened, linux
A Linux blog to share any hints, tips, ebuilds, and insight I have picked up along the way. My interests mainly lie in security, photography, the web, and multimedia.
It seems that the latest revision of sK1 has a new configurator.py that breaks my old gnome patch. I've updated the patch to work with the latest revision. Hopefully this won't end up being an arms race type of affair where configurator.py is constantly changing. Just rename to gnome-sK1.patch and copy in place of the old patch and remember to edit the fonts and font sizes in the patch if you want to match your gnome theme better.
Midori is now using a new build system so if you attempt to emerge it like before it will not work. There is an updated ebuild available on bugzilla. Unfortunately I have yet to get it to work. It builds fine with the new ebuild but the program will not start. I am using it in conjunction with my webkit-gtk svn ebuild. If I find the solution to the problem I will post an update.
Four days ago I installed Flash 10 on my laptop. I was hoping it would solve some of the issues I was having with Flash. Unfortunately I haven't seen many differences at all. I'm not sure if my problems are related to Flash itself or nspluginwrapper but Flash still crashes or hangs my browser occasionally and some Flash videos still don't work, they just display a gray box where the video should be. The good news is that Flash hasn't crashed X yet which started happening on my laptop recently with Flash 9. Also I haven't had any regressions yet so that's good news. I would recommend checking it yourself. I would love to know how well it is working on 32-bit machines.
Linux offers many powersaving features but you have to know where to look to enable these features. There is a wealth of information over at LessWatts.org. I have greatly reduced my power consumption by implementing many of their tips. The first place you should start is by enabling cpufreq. This is probably the number one powersaving feature. I would also enable dynticks in the kernel. To get a better idea of how much power you are using make sure to enable the powertop interface in the kernel. Then there are many tunable powersaving features that you can manipulate from userland. Here are examples that I have used.
I've updated my sK1 svn ebuild to include a gnome USE flag. The normal build defaults to Crystal icons. The USE flag patches the configurator.py file to use Tango icons and also changes the fonts. You can edit the patch to use different fonts if you like.
I have been very interested in Webkit ever since the GTK port was announced. It seems like a good fit for integration with Gnome applications like Epiphany and Evolution. Right now I'm using it in Evolution-RSS and Midori, a Webkit-GTK browser. There are a couple of svn snapshot ebuilds in portage but I find myself constantly creating new snapshot ebuilds to test out the latest Webkit-GTK along with the svn ebuild of Midori. So in a similar fashion to my sK1 svn ebuild I decided to create a Webkit-GTK svn ebuild. Be forewarned that the checkout process takes a very long time. Based on my genlop output the checkout process alone took 40 minutes and compilation took another 20 minutes.
Labels: ebuild, epiphany, evolution, gentoo, gnome, gtk, linux, midori, svn, webkit
Flash has always been a problem for me on 64-bit linux. It works ok with Nspluginwrapper but is continually crashing or hanging the browser. It has even started to crash X lately which is just screwed up. So I decided to take Flash 10 beta for a test drive to see if anything is improved but I ran into some stumbling blocks along the way. Nspluginwrapper failed to install the latest flash because it was missing some necessary 32-bit libraries. Fortunately I found that the 32-bit binaries of OpenOffice and Adobe Reader provided the necessary libraries but they were not located in /usr/lib32. I didn't want to mess with the library path so I just symlinked the necessary libraries into /usr/lib32. I logged out and back in again and Flash 10 is working! I'll report back later so see how well this hack stands up and how well Flash 10 performs. If you want to try it out here are a couple of files you might want. Remember that this only works on 64 bit, you need nspluginwrapper, and you must have both the Adobe Reader binary and the OpenOffice binary installed.
For years I have been using Liferea for RSS feeds and Evolution for email. After years of searching for information in mailing lists using Evolution then switching to Liferea for RSS I got tired of it and started looking for a RSS plugin for Evolution when I found Evolution-RSS. That was a few months ago when the stable version was 0.0.8. Since then a newer version has been released but not updated in the sunrise overlay. I took the 0.0.8 ebuild and Auke Booij's advice on Gentoo Bugzilla and created this ebuild:
Labels: atom, ebuild, evolution, gentoo, liferea, linux, rss
I have beeen using the now defunct gTangish icons for a couple of months now and found a weird problem where icons in 32-bit binaries (I am using 64-bit) like Acrobat Reader, Raw Therapee, and Realplayer displaying larger than life to say the least. No other icon set had this problem. After some investigating I found that it was most likely a index.theme issue. Not wanting to look for the fatal flaw all day I decided I would base a new theme.index off of the gTango icon set which has now taken the place of gTangish. (I don't really like the gTango set as much as gTangish that's why I am still using it). Anyway here is what the problem looked liked:
Labels: acrobat reader, gnome, linux, raw therapee, realplayer
For ten years now UNIX has had a fantastic vector editor called Skencil (formerly Sketch). The bad news is that it hasn't been updated in over 2 years. That's where sK1 comes in. It has a new updated interface along with a cairo backend and CMYK support for use in pre-press. I've been checking out svn versions and the project looks very promising although quite incomplete at the moment. Anyway, I got tired of fetching things manually and adapted an sK1 ebuild I found on the net to fetch the latest svn version. Here it is:
If you haven't heard of it yet Miro is an opensource internet TV application available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. It uses RSS feeds to grab torrents and then downloads them for viewing. There are is also a guide to watch free television but what if you want to watch a show that isn't in the guide? There is an easy workaround that should be familiar to you if you use bittorrent already, it's called Mininova.
Labels: banshee, bittorrent, ebuild, internet, linux, mac, miro, rss, windows
I created this blog for a few reasons. One of those reasons is to document tips, tricks, and workarounds for computer related problems that I have come across. I have been creating notes on my computer to reference these problems but this blog will allow me to not only store my findings on the web but also allow other people to access them should they provide useful. So without futher ado here is my first fix.
Labels: ebuild, gentoo, grsecurity, hardened, linux
A Linux blog to share any hints, tips, ebuilds, and insight I have picked up along the way. My interests mainly lie in security, photography, the web, and multimedia.
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