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.
whew –>
Filed under Life
Well I haven’t been posting much lately as life has got a firm grip on places I would rather not mention. I have been having troubles with my stomach recently and had to go get a camera put down my throat to inspect what is going on down there. Needless to say the results were not all that great. They even found some polyps in there and took some samples to biopsy. So now I wait for the test results.
Work has been a bear to say the least working lots of overtime, I have been trying to get to some new CentOS projects but unfortunately between my health, family and work it is slow going. I am hoping to get to some soon so stay tuned.
Seamonkey 2.0
Filed under Life
Well its been a project a long time in the coming but it is out, brings back alot of memories because I used to use Netscape Navigator when I first started using linux. I really like the email and browser and used to be calendar all in one. Which is a really nice feature. To check the new Seamonkey out click here
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
Filed under centos
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.
more backgrounds
Filed under centos
Made some more backgrounds for the blackberry and palm pre today, here ya go!
These are for Blackberry
These are for the Palm Pre
Enjoy!
Nodoka for CentOS
I wanted to have the Nodoka gkt-engine and theme for my CentOS gnome so I sat down and built the rpms for them you can get them here. You will need all four of these, then to install you will have to rpm -Uvh each of these in this order
#1 – rpm -Uvh nodoka-filesytem
#2 – rpm -uvh gtk-nodoka-engine
#3 – rpm -Uvh gtk-nodoka-engine-extras
#4 – rpm -Uvh nodoka-metacity-theme
After this is complete you can go to your gnome menu System–>Preferences–>Theme and use Nodoka. These rpm’s install several nodoka theme’s which include
Nodoka-Aqua
Nodoka-Gilouche
Nodoka-Looks
Nodoka-Midnight
Nodoka-Rounded
Nodoka-Silver
Nodoka-Squared
and of course also the Metacity theme as well. Hopefully all went well and you can now use the Nodoka style with your CentOS system, if you have any problems or questions please let me know, enjoy.
