Posts tagged with: gnome

I work with a couple of guys who are quite stuck in their ways and are quite reliant on old tools, one of which is xclipboard(1). Unfortunately, Gnome comes with it's own clipboard manager, so when you try to run xclipboard, you get the following: $ xclipboard Error: another clipboard is already running $ Of course, ps(1M) will show no clipboard related processes running. This is because the functionality is performed by Gnome itself, I believe, as part of the functionality of gnome-settings-daemon. One of my colleagues gave me the challenge of getting xclipboard working on Gnome on OpenSolaris/Nevada, ie Gnome 2.6, and I found it quite easy to do in the end. The trick is to tell Gnome not to perform this functionality anymore as follows: Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 2 Dec 2008 - 8 Dec 2008: Sun shows Microsoft how it's done - Now I would never had predicted this: someone saying that Sun has done something on the desktop environment better than Microsoft. I must admit the Time Slider is pretty damn awesome and I think it may put Apples Time Machine to shame too. Contributing OpenSolaris Packages at OpenSolaris.org - More information on the new OpenSolaris repositories, how pkgs are being automatically added and how you can contribute to the repository. Webcast of What's New in OpenSolaris 2008.11 - Some cool new features... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 14 Oct 2008 - 1 Nov 2008: Multicore Bollocks - Hmmm, for someone who's head of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, he certainly talks a load of old cobblers about multicore CPUs. Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 - Sounds like there will be more need for ZFS then, that's why Sun are working on some awesome storage products coming to market very soon. Watch this space. Anatomy of an attack: The New York Times on Solaris - Blowing that NYT and Computerworld article to pieces in an analytical manner. Good read, regardless of which side... Continue reading ►

I've been using Devilspie for quite some time, and detailed steps on compiling rev 0.10 to run on Solaris 10. Well, I'm now using a OpenSolaris/Nevada Sunray server on x86, so I can no longer use my old binary. Devilspie has had a complete overhaul since I last built it, so my old instructions don't quite apply anymore. What's more, Nevada has a little bug that will trip up compiling devilspie without a little bit of work. This post will detail how to compile Devilspie 0.22 on OpenSolaris/Nevada. Continue reading ►