May 05 2010

Cycling odometer

Considering I have already started the cycling season, this post is a bit late. However, I thought it would be neat to track my progress on my blog. Therefore, I have placed a little HTML nugget in the right-side bar with my totals. I would like to travel 2000 km this season on my bike, and with the help of my handy little cycling computer, I can keep track of my total distance. As of right now, I have only gone 152 km, but I think that I can easily achieve my goal before the end of the summer months.

|:| Zach |:|

Feb 20 2010

Quick note to users installing ~arch KDE4

Hello all,

As some of you may know, I prefer Openbox to the larger desktop environments. However, I went to install KDE4 today on someone else’s computer, and ran into a problem with circular dependencies involving CUPS, GTK+, poppler, and cmake. The simple solution to the problem is to:

USE=”-cups” emerge -av kdebase-meta

and then go back later and do:

emerge -avuDN world

in order to add in CUPS support.

This issue was actually discussed recently in this thread on the fora. I can’t say whether or not this circular dependency problem will affect stable branch users or not, as I haven’t tried to emerge KDE in such an environment. Also, if you don’t have the cups in your USE flag declarations, you won’t be affected by this problem.

Hope that helps someone.

|:| Zach |:|

Feb 14 2010

Quick Openbox HOWTO update

Just a quick update to let everyone know that I made some changes to the Openbox HOWTO in the documentation repository, and that Josh was blazing fast at getting it committed; thank you Josh! I addressed submenu delay that came with >x11-wm/openbox-3.4.7.2, and how to fix it in the rc.xml configuration file, updated the external links to reflect the change in the Openbox wiki, and provided an example of a menu item that links to an application with startup options.

|:| Zach |:|