Posts Tagged ‘gnome’

Liferea vs tiny screen

Monday, December 14th, 2009

I use Liferea for RSS-feeds. I also have a craptop with a tiny screen (1024×576px).

Liferea - Normal view

Liferea - Normal view

I think there is room for optimizing this, more spatial perhaps?

Liferea - wide view

Liferea - wide view

This could use some miller-columnification.

Optimally, I would like to have this:

  • Single pane
  • Oldest unread post first
  • Headlines which expand when clicked

Damn you Ctrl+W

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Don’t know how many times I accidentally pressed Ctrl+W when I wanted to delete a word in some non-terminal app, instead closing it and losing all the text I’ve written. Now I found out you can do this:

gconftool --set /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme \
  --type string Emacs

Then Ctrl+W does what it should!

Trac + Evolution?

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Imagine having your assigned tasks from Trac in Evolutions ToDo-list and beeing able to . Like this but with Trac as backend.

Destrutting xfce4-panel

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

I didn’t like that when xfce4-panel is in a fixed position and not expanded to the full width of the screen, it sets _NET_WM_STRUT and _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL which reserves space at the screen border.

Waste of space on my tiny screen

Waste of space on my tiny screen

The unused space on my tiny screen above the maximized window annoys me, so i downloaded the source whith apt-get source xfce4-panel and added a setting to disable setting the _NET_WM_STRUT properties. Here’s a tarball of my patches.

Yay, less wasted space.

Yay, less wasted space.

The setting can be enabled by editing ~/.config/xfce/panel/panels.xml and add (or change if it already exists) <property name="disable_struts" value="1"/> in the <properties> element.

A better long term solution would probably to have the window manager ignore struts for maximized windows when a panel does not cover the entire border.

Påminn folk om att rösta

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Här är lite bash-magi för dem som har sin adressbok i Evolution.