Saturday, January 20, 2007
Yakuake patch, a quake-style console...
I love the quake console because it simply looks cool when it slides into the screen.
Yakuake is a terminal emulation based on KDE in that style.
A short story,by the way:
The first time i read about it, was by the end of 2005 in a german magazin called "linux-user".
I directly fell in love with this small piece of software. So i added it into the startup programs of my login. The only thing i disliked, was that yakuake is displaying a notification popup on startup. It was only showing static info, which i don't need and want to see on every login.
No problem, it's open source, so i wrote a patch, where the user could set the wished behavior. After that, i liked to give this small patch back to the community. A problem occured, as i tried to reach the maintainer. He hadn't enough time in that period and was thinking of version 3.0. So he didn't extended the source with my patch.
The funny part of this story:
Last month there was again an articel about yakuake in the same magazine, but it was the same version as more than 1 year ago. the software, not the articel ;)
There was absolutly nothing going on in that project and that's the reason of writing this blog entry.
I wrote a patch for yakuake 2.7.5 for setting the startup notification popup policy. You can download it from here.
To use this, just grep the source from the project site, extract it, change into that directory and run
patch -p 1 <../yakuake_startup.patch
That's it. Thanks for the creators of yakuake as to all open source developers..
Yakuake is a terminal emulation based on KDE in that style.
A short story,by the way:
The first time i read about it, was by the end of 2005 in a german magazin called "linux-user".
I directly fell in love with this small piece of software. So i added it into the startup programs of my login. The only thing i disliked, was that yakuake is displaying a notification popup on startup. It was only showing static info, which i don't need and want to see on every login.
No problem, it's open source, so i wrote a patch, where the user could set the wished behavior. After that, i liked to give this small patch back to the community. A problem occured, as i tried to reach the maintainer. He hadn't enough time in that period and was thinking of version 3.0. So he didn't extended the source with my patch.
The funny part of this story:
Last month there was again an articel about yakuake in the same magazine, but it was the same version as more than 1 year ago. the software, not the articel ;)
There was absolutly nothing going on in that project and that's the reason of writing this blog entry.
I wrote a patch for yakuake 2.7.5 for setting the startup notification popup policy. You can download it from here.
To use this, just grep the source from the project site, extract it, change into that directory and run
patch -p 1 <../yakuake_startup.patch
That's it. Thanks for the creators of yakuake as to all open source developers..
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Wolfenstein 5k
While reading some nerd stuff
( it was 8 Ways to Create Graphics on the Fly ) i found a link to Wolfenstein 5K. It's an online game using xbm images. quite nice.
enjoy it ;)
( it was 8 Ways to Create Graphics on the Fly ) i found a link to Wolfenstein 5K. It's an online game using xbm images. quite nice.
enjoy it ;)
Friday, July 14, 2006
Was motiviert Open-Source-Entwickler?
Bei Heise News kam doch gerade ein Meldung
über eine Studie, was Open-Source-Entwickler motiviert. Da mein neuer Arbeitgeber doch etwas schriftliches von mir haben will, warum ich denn auch daran interesse habe, werd ich wohl das ein oder andere Argument daraus verwendet ;)
über eine Studie, was Open-Source-Entwickler motiviert. Da mein neuer Arbeitgeber doch etwas schriftliches von mir haben will, warum ich denn auch daran interesse habe, werd ich wohl das ein oder andere Argument daraus verwendet ;)
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
PHPUnit - kurz & gut
Sunday, April 09, 2006
LAC2006 - 4th International Linux Audio Conference
Friday, April 07, 2006
User and Privililedge Management
Check LiveUser and LiveUserAdmin from the pear repository.Here you find a real nice introduction to this package
Friday, March 31, 2006
Party am Freitag
und zwar hier
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