Linux and Desktop

Been fun , linux on desktop never ceases to amaze me.

Y2038 !

Why should one move to x86_64 over 32bit ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem aint a nice thing to hit. Do your part, ensure your app works on x86_64 and move to x86_64 .


ಠ_ಠ flash and skype

flash i686 on fedora linux x86_64 with chrome x86_64

Download the yum package from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ , and install adobe-release package.

Once done, install flash plugin from the repository

$ yum install flash-plugin
$ yum install alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 nspluginwrapper.i686 nspluginwrapper.x86_64

$ cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
$ ln -s ../plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_32_64.libflashplayer.so .


and you are done !

Dell ST2220T on linux

and it works on Fedora linux with evdev on Xorg.

From Gnome

Thanks to Gopal for tracing this one out. Information posted at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/703118 .

Pushing for xchat-gnome 0.26.3

xchat-gnome 0.26.2 has been tagged, and not yet been pushed into ftp.gnome.org . I am instead trying to push xchat-0.26.3, ( hopefully) the last release for gtk2.x series, followed by xchat-gnome 0.3.0 for gnome3.

gnome legacy and gnome 3

For all the folks, who like to stick with "gnome legacy", instead of gnome 3 with bling and gnome-shell, setup the default gnome session accordingly

$ cd /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions
$ mv gnome.session gnome-new.session
$ mv gnome-fallback.session gnome.session

Evolution evovled

New features expected with Evolution 3.0

* Migrate the local store from mbox to maildir format
* Remove duplicates
* Memory fixes