Fedora

To track my time I used hamster-applet with the previous version of Fedora and I really liked it. It integrates perfectly with gtg.

This project hasn't be ported to Fedora 18, see bug 882788. I decided then to package the latest version of the project.

The git repo is available here.

You can see some screenshots here.

If you enjoy or discover this cool project, I'm happy to make it available for Fedora 18.

Getting Things GNOME! has been released on November 6th but I was able to test it only tonight ;-)

So far, I'm very pleased by this release and to be honest this seems to be the first time synchronization with Remember the Milk is working (I used it on my n900 and I plan to use it know on my android.... but I need to wait 22h before next sync)

I've also installed the integration with gnome-shell very quickly and it seems awesome !

The development team as done a very nice job...

If you plan to test it, I've packaged this release for Fedora 17.

If like me you are using Fedora on your mac book, after the week-end and in case of reboot, your wifi should not work any more :(

Good, news, it's easy to fix, just add the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl-blacklist.conf

blacklist bcma

Restart and enjoy wifi back ;-)

ps: of course you need to use:

kmod-wl-2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64-5.60.48.36-2.fc15.6.x86_64
kmod-wl-5.60.48.36-2.fc15.6.x86_64

During my test and discovery phase of Fedora 15, I noticed that Evolution doesn't support anymore google calendar... is it on purpose ? why ?

Or do I need to install some other package ?

I found this feature in Fedora 14 something very useful !

I hope this is something that will be fixed in the final release.

In Fedora 14 (evolution-2.32.2-1.fc14.x86_64) :

In Fedora 15 :

Yesterday night I installed Fedora 15 Alpha to see and test the gnome-shell (gnome 3) improvements.

I stopped to test for one reason: I was not able to setup my favorite behavior for window's focus.

What I like (this is mandatory, that's also the one major reason why I don't use Mac OSX daily) is that the focus follows the mouse but doesn't raises the window !

After having "googled" a bit, I tried to install gnome-tweak-tool... but it didn't help for this task... :(

The solution is to use gconf-editor and changing the default value (click) of /apps/metacity/general/focus_mode to sloppy.

Now I'm very happy and I can continue my tests of Gnome 3.

Since I use puppet to manage my machines (and the machines of customers), I noticed that I had more packages installed then before, I noticed also obviously the same behavior in packages to update and bandwidth consumption during updates.

I realize that on 64bits machines, most of the time, the 32bits version of the packages managed by puppet were also installed.

This is what I did in my recipes before:

    package { "corosync":
        ensure => "installed",
        require => Yumrepo["clusterlabs"];
    }

This kind of package declaration installed then the two version of the package, in this case corosync and the dependencies too.

To avoid this I added the fact hardwaremodel and used the alias to keep my recipes consistent:

    package { "corosync.$hardwaremodel":
        ensure => "installed",
        alias => "corosync",
        require => Yumrepo["clusterlabs"];
    }

Hope this could help people having noticed the same behavior... or not :-)

I've been fighting several weeks (and making a huge number of typo's due to that) with the touchpad of my macbook pro on Fedora/Gnome.

I've tested several solutions :

- disable it in Gpointing Device Settings --> fail (it always comes back after a short moment)
- use synclient TouchpadOff=1 --> fail
- creating udev rules : --> fail

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ENV{ID_CLASS}="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=1"
ACTION=="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ENV{ID_CLASS}="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=0

So the best solution I've found (one that works) is : rmmod bcm5974

Now I'll try to add it into the udev rules too.

I used preupgrade to updgrade Fedora from 12 to 13.

After the process, I had to resync the partition in refit to be able to boot Linux.

I rebuilded the needed packages for nvidia and the broadcom wireless card.

I needed also to do some modifications to be able to use the integrated iSight webcam:

1. download the apple firmware :

wget http://www.i-nz.net/files/projects/linux-kernel/isight/against-revision-...

then extract it (using the Fedora 12 package isight-firmware-tools) :

[root@delvaux ~]# su -c "ift-extract --apple-driver AppleUSBVideoSupport"

after this operation it should be working for most of the macbook pro, but not for this model, another change is needed.

first find the idProduct number:

[fred@delvaux Desktop]$ lsusb -v | grep  iSight -B 3 | grep idProduct
  idProduct          0x8507 

and mofify the file /etc/udev/rules.d/isight.rules with the returned value :

[root@delvaux rules.d]# cat isight.rules 
ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="05ac", SYSFS{idProduct}=="8507", RUN+="/usr/lib64/udev/ift-load --firmware /lib/firmware/isight.fw"

I have tested 3 Twitter clients to use on my gnome desktop:

- Gwibber (gwibber-1.2.0-3.349bzr.fc12.noarch)
- Pino (pino-0.2.6-1.fc12.x86_64)
- Turpial (turpial-1.0-b1.fc12.noarch)

I've found Gwibber very nice, doing what I need but it's very slow and sometimes freezes (becomes dark). It has also facebook support (nice to see the status updates of your friends).

Pino is my favorite one for the moment, it's fast, doesn't support facebook (yet?).
Something I don't like is that you have to switch between the accounts (twitter and identi.ca) which is annoying.

Turpial is not was I really wanted, it doesn't fit really in the desktop and it's only in Spanish.

I hope that Pino will keep improving and stay fast as now.

http://gwibber.com/
http://code.google.com/p/pino-twitter/
http://code.google.com/p/turpial/

Update !

I've just tested Gwibber 2 (gwibber-2.30.0.1-1.fc12.noarch) and it has very nice features: possibility to see all the messages or only by account, possibility also to see images (updated in facebook for example). I will for sure test it and discover it a bit longer, nice improvements !

banquise (yet another package manager) is now released ! :)

The website is online : www.banquise.be

This is a server/client application both written in python. The server is written with django.