I am heading to fudcon this year, and hopefully will present a talk to elp people starting to working with open source, specifically GNOME.
Do vote for me, here - http://fudcon.in/sessions/contributing-opensource
2011-11-01
FudCon 2011 : here I come
I am heading to fudcon this year, and hopefully will present a talk to elp people starting to working with open source, specifically GNOME.
Do vote for me, here - http://fudcon.in/sessions/contributing-opensource
2011-09-07
changing brightness from gnome shell
gnome-power-manager has been rewritten for GNOME 3.2, and is now merged into gnome-settings-daemon as a plugin and this manages policy. The power management is done by UPower for most parts, except backlight.This is managed at Session level by g-s-d via power plugin using XRandR or plain old sysfs depending upon driver support.
To manages screen brightness settings, one would do so via dbus, such as shown below
Now the question being, why bother at all with this aspect. On a tablet, this settings needs to be digged out and non-trivial to access. With gnome-shell-extension brightness ( http://people.redhat.com/rkhadgar/personal/gnome3-tablet/brightness.tar.xz ), you can manage the brightness from your desktop. This requires g-s-d to be patched to support "Changed" signal ( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658493 ).
On a side note, devs at gnome-shell are very helpful and felt good talking to them, along with rhughsie.
ToDO
To manages screen brightness settings, one would do so via dbus, such as shown below
$ gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.SettingsDaemon --object-path /org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/Power --method org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power.Screen.GetPercentage
Now the question being, why bother at all with this aspect. On a tablet, this settings needs to be digged out and non-trivial to access. With gnome-shell-extension brightness ( http://people.redhat.com/rkhadgar/personal/gnome3-tablet/brightness.tar.xz ), you can manage the brightness from your desktop. This requires g-s-d to be patched to support "Changed" signal ( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658493 ).
On a side note, devs at gnome-shell are very helpful and felt good talking to them, along with rhughsie.
ToDO
- display brightness symbolic icon needs different levels, and one for auto setting.
- Ambient Light Sensor support on linux seems spotty, and needs to be fixed.
2011-08-07
2011-06-14
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
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 !
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.
Thanks to Gopal for tracing this one out. Information posted at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/703118 .
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Thanks to Gopal for tracing this one out. Information posted at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/703118 .
2011-04-15
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.
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