The Zash Blag » gnome

Liferea vs tiny screen

zash — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:26:22 +0000

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

Liferea - Normal view

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

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

zash — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:28:45 +0000

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?

zash — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:05:27 +0000

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

zash — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:03:00 +0000

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

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.

The setting can be enabled by editing ~/.config/xfce/panel/panels.xml and add (or change if it already exists) in the 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

zash — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:09:13 +0000

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