'Tips' Category
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Jul 30
2012Vim and Vala
I once wrote a quick note about Vala and Vim (or Vim and Vala) and the use of the Tag List plugin. Here is a clean post about these two beasts.Vim — probably the best editor out there, at least always after trying out different editors I end up with …
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Aug 21
2011Xfce 4.8 with Conky
I have been following a short discussion on the IRC channel #xfce regarding an issue with the use of Conky and transparency. I didn’t use Conky for a very long time, but since I knew it was possible to have Conky perfectly running, I gave it a shot aga…
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May 27
2011Changing PolicyKit settings per user
I have been hit twice by a required authentication on my workstation after the Wifi connection got lost and it is clearly irritating, especially when you are not around. The authentication requests are handled by PolicyKit (polkit for short) and can be…
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May 27
2011Changing PolicyKit settings per user
I have been hit twice by a required authentication on my workstation after the Wifi connection got lost and it is clearly irritating, especially when you are not around. The authentication requests are handled by PolicyKit (polkit for short) and can be…
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Oct 23
2010XTerm as root-tail
The idea behind this title is to use XTerm as a log viewer over the desktop, just like root-tail works. The tool root-tail paints text on the root window by default or any other XWindow when used with the -id parameter.Using XTerm comes with little adv…
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Sep 19
2010CLI tool to review PO files
If there is something annoying about reviewing PO files is that it is impossible. When there are two hundred messages in a PO file, how are you going to know which messages changed? Well, that’s the way it works currently for Transifex but there are ve…
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Jul 15
2010Don’t produce Gzipped tarballs
A quick note so I can delete it from my desktop. In order to produce only a Bzip2 tarball with the Autotools, specially when running make distcheck, set the automake init call with these parameters:AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([no-dist-gzip dist-bzip2])By the way …
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Mar 08
2010Include custom GTK+ RC style
I’ve been using a custom GTK+ RC style for the notes plugin since the version 1.4.0, right now it is at version 1.7.2. I have been playing with GTK+ theming again these last two hours, and I’ve get custom scrollbars, a gradient for the custom-made “t…
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Mar 01
2010Show/hide functionality from notification area
When using a status icon within the notification area it is common to use the left-click action to show/hide the main window. Obviously this is often done in different ways. So here is my tip on how to do it right :-)What I believe to me the most sense…
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Sep 02
2009Build a project with Vala
This post is about using Vala in a project but in the end provide the C code for the releases. I think that this is very essential and that releasing source code to be build from Vala is wrong. Vala will always rewrite the code to GObjects in C, but ha…