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MacMenu Bar hack for Gnome 2.20 – GTK+ 2.12

Posted by ayoli on Wed 31 October 2007
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mac menu in action Par chance, des solutions sont apparues dans le sujet d’ubuntuforums.org mentionné dans le précédent article.

Voici le patch et l’applet que j’ai récupérés du post d’avb en page 99 de ce sujet. Le patch no_label_underline a été réalisé à partir d’une idée en bas page 52.


NOTE : J’ai édité cet article pour y ajouter le patch no_label_underline et, les instructions pour l’intégrer.
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keep a list of installed packages

Posted by ayoli on Tue 9 October 2007
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As gusty is comming soon, I need to keep a list of my currently installed packages in order to reinstall (most) of them if I make a fresh install (actually update-manager allow to upgrade the distribution when a new one comes, but there is sometimes weird behaviors with this method). So here’s my little command to perform that:
the geek way :

dpkg -l | grep ’^ii’ | awk ’{print $2 $3}’ > mypackageslist.txt

the debian way (but packages names are incomplete) :
dpkg --get-selections

voila :)

Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy gibbon Beta

Posted by ayoli on Tue 9 October 2007
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I’ve tried the gutsy beta last week on an old toshiba s3000 laptop. The live cd worked like a charm, so I decided to install gutsy on my disk.

After the install and reboot, it was still working perfectly : very short boot time, gnome with compiz running very smooth. Then I noticed there were some updates (139 packages, not surprising for a beta version), and I did them.
Unfortunately, after reboot, I had a black screen instead of the GDM screen. Actually, GDM starts (I can hear the sound) but the screen is black, as if it was asleep. I even manage to login (in ‘blind mode’) !
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gnome icon browser

Posted by ayoli on Wed 3 October 2007
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Here’s a common problem :

When you use gnome icon browser and don’t find the icon you want in the default pixmaps that the browser shows, you try to use the “browse” button and then you browse directories searching the icon you want.

But even if you are sure there is icons in the directory that you have selected, you can’t see them and hihlight the one you want. Normal. The “browse” button is just here to select a directory where the icons are, then you can see them in the icon browser and pick the one you want.

Two people in two days ask me the same question, and I’ve seen many people with this problem before (even me few years ago). So should we consider this as a bug and post it to gnome devs ?