'Gentoo' Category

• Mar 19
  2013

  fonts

  i think i’ve sorted out some of my desktop font issues, and created a few more in the process. for a long time, i’ve had to deal with occasionally jagged, hard-to-read fonts when viewing webpages, because i ran my xfce … Continue reading →

  posted in Gentoo, Linux, Xfce by nightmorph

• Mar 02
  2011

  Scale 9x: Day 3

  Sunday The final day of SCALE 9x arrived far too early, since the Gentoo developers were still recovering from the merriment the previous evening/morning. We congregated in the hotel room Mike & I shared. You know you’re having some good … Continue reading →

  posted in Gentoo, hardware, Linux, Xfce by nightmorph

• Dec 07
  2010

  Testing Xfce 4.8pre2

  A few distributions are already starting to provide Xfce 4.8pre2 packages whether it be in the official repositories or in testing unofficial ones. I’m going to list them here, use this at your own risk.

  Archlinux
  Fedora: work in progress
  Frugalw…

  posted in contribute, English, Fedora, Gentoo, planet-xfce, Ubuntu by Jérôme Guelfucci

• Sep 21
  2010

  Experiments, adventures, and consequences

  I’ve been doing a fair amount of experimentation on my machines. Been playing with XBMC, Boxee, Ubuntu, and bleeding-edge Xfce and Freedesktop software stacks on Gentoo. HTPC First, I tinkered with the HTPC. It’s a Zotac MAG, dual-core Atom 330 … Continue reading →

  posted in Gentoo, hardware, Linux, Xfce by nightmorph

• Sep 02
  2010

  Searching the desktop with Pinot and Catfish

  I was looking around for desktop search frameworks today, specifically something with a gtk frontend and that required the fewest resources to run. I discovered Pinot, a dbus-based file index/monitor/search tool. It even comes with a minimal gtk+ interface. I … Continue reading →

  posted in Gentoo, Xfce by nightmorph

• Aug 11
  2010

  August Xfce desktop

  This month’s Xfce desktop: icons: awoken gtk+: axiomd xfwm4: axiomd background: The Crown of the Sun cursor: Obsidian xcursors The uncluttered version that shows off the wallpaper and conky configuration: I built my environment around the wallpaper, an image of … Continue reading →

  posted in Gentoo, Xfce by nightmorph

• Jul 23
  2010

  Documentation status report, part 2

  Been meaning to provide a follow-up to the last documentation report for a few days now, as well as a couple other news items. Gentoo in the press LWN ran an article on Linux distributions for PowerPC machines. Gentoo gets … Continue reading →

  posted in Gentoo, Xfce by nightmorph