Whew its been a wild couple of weeks, I forgot just how busy things get when there is a new baby in the house. I haven’t gotten to sit here much or keep up with much news either. Projects are seriously behind as well, but all is good been working alot and spending time with skye and the rest of the family. She is getting big thats for sure its amazing how fast they grow. Well on to some news and notes a site that was recently brought to my attention all you CentOS junkies may want to check out is
How2Centos
They have posted some nice how to’s and they also have a twitter as well, although I did send them a message to see if they would get a statusnet/identi one going as well. Hopefully they will get one going there as well. Things seem to be on the quiet side all over, must be that summer is here and all the pasty geeks are out coating themselves in spf 100+ and trying to figure out what that blazing orange ball in the sky is. Hope all of you are enjoying the summer, I better wrap this up before skye wakes up take care all!
Category Archives: centos
Whirlwind few weeks
CentOS gnome-applets-sensors 2.2.1
Well as most of you know by now I use CentOS, and some things just need to be tweaked. I for one have always liked the panel applet for sensors the version I was using was a little old and I wanted to see if I could update it and sure enough I could and I did. Obligatory screenshot
So as always the rpms are located in the rpm4centos section and you will need two of these which are
libXNVCtrl – which gives lm_sensors the ability to see nvidia cards
gnome-applet-sensors – the panel applet for gnome
You need to have lm_sensors installed for this to work which you can just do a yum install lm_sensors for.
Then if you have not run /usr/sbin/sensors-detect as root do that before installing these packages. Then
as root install the libXNVCtrl first then the sensors rpm with the normal rpm -Uvh command, log out of gnome and back in and click on your panel and select add applet. Then look for Hardware Sensors Monitor and add it to your panel. There are some settings you can adjust in the applet preferences so be sure to check that out as well after you have it on your panel.
If all goes well you should now have the sensors displaying their temps in your panel.
New Xchat and Easytag RPM’s
New in the rpms4centos category I have built the latest version of Xchat for CentOS along with Easytag v2.1 as well today they are available in the rpms4centos section. On a side note for Xchat to install you will need libsexy which you can get from Dag’s repo which is here, Enjoy!
new e16-1.0.2
e16 1.0.2 was released yesterday so it was time to update my rpms4centos as well. New e16 rpms can be found in the designated area. Some of the fixes in this release are as follows this is from the mailing list
e16-1.0.2:
- Fix bogus image cache directory files being written in home directory.
- Enable pango by default.
- Enable showing mini icon in border part.
- Fix stacking order when showing desktop state is set off.
- Merge autoraise settings into focus settings dialog.
- Remove old e-icons, add some new ones.
- Fix manual placement when switching desktop.
- Fix potential crash when window is destroyed while being
moved/raised/lowered.
- Merge miscellaneous documentation into e16.xml/html.
- Add simple e16 man page.
- Fix old translucent move mode when shm pixmaps are not available.
- Many minor bug fixes and enhancements, see ChangeLog for details.
As usual enjoy!
More Blackberry and Palm Pre backgrounds
Woke up early today and wanted to make a new background for my blackberry so I whipped up these based on a tutorial in my Linux Format magazine, enjoy!
kvirc 3.4.2 for CentOS
Well here we go again kids building packages just in time for christmas. So I built up the latest stable release of kvirc for CentOS 5. For those of you not familiar with kvirc, it is a irc client much like xchat or konversation except that it has a million options and theme support and a treasure trove of other features. You can learn more about kvirc here.As usual I have placed the rpm in the link above rpms4centos, src rpms are also available as well as debug info. Enjoy and happy holidays.
kvirc 3.4.2 Shiny
Kopete fix for CentOS 5
Kopete for CentOS 5 has not been able to log into Yahoo for a pretty lengthy amount of time so I wanted to sit down today and figure out why and see if I could fix it. Well upon my search I discovered that the folks over at RHEL where not going to fix it you can read the bug report if you like but it basically says they are not gonna fix it. This fired up my beans so I had to try, I mean cmon who can resist a challenge. So I sat down and got to work.
What I did to fix this was grab the src.rpm from the repo for kdenetwork. I then upgraded Kopete inside the rpm to 12.7 then patched the yahoo protocol. Now Yahoo works perfectly with Kopete. You can read my bug report for CentOS HERE. All in all a success.
To update your version of Kopete from the link above rpms4centos grab the kdenetwork rpm. Now you will first need to “yum remove kdenetwork” then as root “rpm -Uvh kdenetwork” that will get the new Kopete installed for you. The devel and debug rpms are in there as well if you need them along with the src.rpms which are in the srcrpms directory.
On a side not while working all this out today, if you are gonna use google talk with kopete grab the qca-tls rpm as well and install via “rpm -Uvh qca-tls” this is needed for the SSL protocol that google talk uses.
All in all a productive experiment and I hope it can help others out as well.
e16 & Eterm for CentOS 5.4
So I have been wanting to get away from gnome and kde all together and I have fond memories of using E so I thought I would sit down and see if i could get it all working with cent, and low and behold I have and its just as fast and slick as ever. Long before compiz and all that jazz was E16. When you wanted eye candy and speed this was the window manager of choice.
e16 on CentOS 5.4
So as my little project was going getting E16 installed was a breeze but getting Eterm was not as easy as I would have liked. I had to do some tweaking and roll some new rpms, but it worked out just fine. So if you are interested in using E16 & Eterm on your CentOS box hit the link above that says rpms4centos and grab the e16 Eterm and libast rpms. Install in this order libast e16 then Eterm. There are some dependencies but you can easily grab them from the standard repo. E16 will now be available via your login manger be it gdm or kdm. The nice thing is also in your gdm or kdm you may notice other entries like e16-gnome or e16kde – yep thats right you can use E as your window manager inside of gnome or kde, how sweet is that! As always here is a note of warning these are not officially supported rpms built by the CentOS team these are built by me for my use and I like to share them. So if you are gonna use these and run into problems do not ask on the mailing lists or in IRC as they only support what they ship, so please contact me if you have any questions or comments, thanks and enjoy.
Oh btw I am going to be putting together some rpm’s for themes as well soon but for now check out this site e16 themes for all kinds of extra themes for e16.
My theme and Icons
I had a couple of emails wanting to know about the theme I use in my screenshots so here they are. The first one is my gtk theme which you can get here The icon theme is a hodge podge of icons I have collected mostly gtango, tango and others and you can grab that here as well. I will be adding these to the download page as well. Enjoy.
CentOS Floaters
Well with more time on my hands I came up with something else new today. I usually use the floating feet screensaver in gnome, but got to thinking I would rather have it be the CentOS logo. So I sat down to figure this out and here are my results. First your gonna need this package , this will give you the two files you need to get this installed and working. In this package you will find the centos-floaters.desktop file and the centos.svg file. After you have extracted the files you need to open a terminal and su to root. Now we need to copy these files to the necessary locations so as root here are the commands
cp centos-floaters.desktop /usr/share/applications/screensavers/
this will copy the desktop file to the apprpriate directory, then we need to
cp centos.svg /usr/share/pixmaps
this puts our image where it needs to be, now when you go to System->Preferences->Screensaver you should see this
Now you can select the CentOS Floaters as your screensaver and your all done, your very own CentOS screensaver in 10 minutes.
