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3 mobile broadband on Linux
I had to get a mobile broadband gizmo this week. It’s something I’ve been avoiding (not having internet access while sitting at a cafe by the beach is a feature, not a bug), but I need it for a current...
View ArticleGet your icons back
We recently upgraded a number of systems, and after a few days the (previously happy GNOME users) started to notice the dialog buttons were all lacking their icons. How did that break? At first I...
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Lovely Inconsolata
Federico writes that he’s recently discovered Raph Levien’s Inconsolata font and really liking it. I likewise discovered Inconsolata not too long ago (it was packaged in Gentoo and I was really pleased...
View ArticleForce Pidgin online
The Network Mananger 0.9 series has made some changes which break current Pidgin. After I installed network-manager 0.8.999 Pidgin won’t connect, stalling with “waiting for network connection”. Turns...
View ArticleFix your icons package
Updating today, suddenly a whole bunch of icons are broken; GNOME shell was presenting everything with a generic application diamond as its icon. Bah. I noticed gnome-icon-theme was one of the packages...
View ArticleA good GNOME 3 Experience
I’ve been using GNOME 3 full time for over 9 months, and I find it quite usable. I’ve had to learn some new usage patterns, but I don’t see that as a negative. It’s a new piece of software, so I’m...
View ArticleMy sound hardware didn’t vanish, honest
I’ve been having intermittent problems with sound not working. Usually restarting (ie, killing) PulseAudio has done the trick but today it was even worse; the sound hardware mysteriously vanished from...
View ArticleTaming gVim on a GNOME Desktop
I love using GEdit to write text documents like blog posts marked up in Markdown. I’ve been using it extensively to write technical documentation for a while now. It’s a lovely text file editor....
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Complaining about GNOME is a new national sport
Bloody hell. GNOME hackers, can someone sit Linus down and get him sorted so he stops whinging? I mean, we all know GNOME 3 and its Shell have some rough edges. Given that computers users since the...
View ArticleIntegrating Vim and GPG
Quite frequently, I need to take a quick textual note but when the content is sensitive, even just transiently, well, some things shouldn’t be left around on disk in plain text. Now before you pipe up...
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