In my pursuit for a fast and functional workstation environment, I am slowly migrating away from GNOME based applications towards less complex and lightweight applications that work well together with XMonad. An obvious candidate for replacement is GDM, the GNOME Display Manager. It’s basically a graphical login program that launches the correct desktop environment and/or [...]
Just finished my last exam, a new academic year lies ahead. Yup, it’s time to change my desktop again. It probably is my last series of desktop screenshot in gnome for a very long time. I’m thinking of moving to either xmonad or dwm permanently, perhaps occasionally making an exception when a new gnome will [...]
After upgrading to the recently released gnome power manager 2.6.26.4, suspending and hibernating my Sony Vaio SZ 61 after a period of inactivity finally works. Note that suspension and hibernation already worked as is. Linux has always lacked decent power management in comparison with Windows, but now this option finally works, it can save a [...]
As a follow up on my article about PulseAudio in Gnome 2.26, I’ll briefly explain how you can install PulseAudio integrated with Gnome in Arch Linux. As mentioned before, the Gnome maintainer in Arch Linux has patched Gnome to the way it was before version 2.26, at least the audio part. It is however very [...]
PulseAudio is together with the new sound applet itself, the most remarkable new feature in the recent GNOME 2.26 release. PulseAudio is a (cross-platform) networked sound server and includes many features such as software mixing of multiple audio streams. A sound server is basically a proxy for your sound applications. It allows you to do [...]