GNOME 2.28, released on early september 24, has recently hit the Arch Linux repositories and, as an old time GNOME user, I was eager to try it out. First, I’d like to congratulate JGC for all his excellent work. He did a wonderful job testing and packaging GNOME 2.28 in such a short notice, considering [...]
After months of false announcements on my behalf, I finally finished up writing my XMonad configuration tutorial. Since not everyone uses XMonad, let alone has ever heard of it, Here’s a brief introduction: XMonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager, written and configured in Haskell. Tiling window managers arrange windows in nonoverlapping tiled patterns [...]
Today I’ve added vdpauinfo to the Arch User Repository (AUR), which makes it my fourth uploaded application to AUR. Vdpauinfo is a useful tool to determine the vdpau capabilities of your graphics card.It is an updated version of Wladimir J. Van der Laan’s vdpinfo tool. Here’s the output of my Nvidia Geforce 8400M GS: display: [...]
After various requests and personal interest in the matter, I finally tryed to get skype working on my Sony Vaio SZ6 with Arch Linux 64bit and pulseaudio installed. Skype and linux never mingled all that well. Supporting linux was never high on their todo list and they surely acted upon it. Skype has never gotten [...]