Dual Screen under Linux

Submitted by clemens on Tue, 2008/09/02 - 8:49pm
Dual Screen Graph

EDIT: When using a nvidea card run
sudo nvidia-xconfig --twinview

And just Option "TwinViewOrientation" ""

Problem still remains for multiple configurations like with or without a beamer.
-- EDIT END

Problem: difficulty to attach a beamer or secondary screen to X.

Gnome
Ubuntu
X
xorg.conf

My development environment so far

Submitted by clemens on Fri, 2008/08/22 - 1:40pm

Intro

These are my notes when doing my first (drupal) presentation @ FrOSCon 2008 Drupal Room This method uses the concepts
  1. All drupal sites in directory www
  2. All site-config in a separate directory
  3. All site-data in a separate directory
This way an upgrade to another drupal version runs smoothly. Hmmm this was about developer environment.

Add new local domain

Why do I need this? To make sites like http://nf.test http://nf.dev or http://froscon.demo sudo su - echo 127.0.0.254 froscon.demo >> /etc/hosts
free form: 
drush_mm
drush
development
planet drupal
simpletest

sending a file commandline with evolution

Submitted by clemens on Wed, 2008/04/23 - 10:06am

While trying to send an png of size 4.5MB the following command is not performing.

/usr/bin/evolution mailto:example@example.com?attach=file:///home/clemens/image.png[/highli...


cpu usage went up to 100% and stays there for at least 3 minutes.


The command is useful though.
free form: 
evolution
file

Installing swfmill and finding your friends

Submitted by clemens on Thu, 2008/04/10 - 12:58pm

While reading the README for http://www.swfmill.org/ to compile non of the dev versions of libxml, libxsl, libfreetype and libpng where mentioned.

As it turned google this point me to http://www.burobjorn.nl/blog/?p=324 with the exact specs documented. Installing a lot dev versions.

I rather install packages then running ./configure && make && sudo make instll but following instruction is cool when they are working.

haxe
swfmill
swftools

Site management

Submitted by clemens on Tue, 2008/03/25 - 9:16am

On the dev list Angela Byron is mentioning a lot of multi site modules. This is an extract from the discussion followed.

patterns
Module/system configurations that can be run at any time
hostmaster
Bryght's multisite hosting managed site deployment framework, which includes http://drupal.org/project/hosting and http://drupal.org/project/provision. See
http://groups.drupal.org/hm2 for more info

Drupal

Submitted by clemens on Tue, 2008/03/25 - 9:10am

It's quite handy to have a Drupal book.

enabling ipw3945 without ipw3945 kernel driver.

Submitted by clemens on Sun, 2008/03/23 - 3:50pm

As Intel states on http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ this driver is deprecated and mine is not functional for WPA-2.

So I have to replace the driver IPW driver with the IWL driver from http://intellinuxwireless.org.

It turned out that my not functional IPW driver was due to how the passphrase for my wireless was stored with gnome-keyring-manager. It was stored into the 'default' keyring and not into the 'login' keyring. So this story title is not covering the end result. But still. The commands are useful to me and hopefully to you too.

Commands used are lsmod | grep ipw

Looking for typographic modules

Submitted by clemens on Fri, 2008/03/21 - 9:24pm

Looking for some typographic modules I ran into these two

http://drupal.org/project/sifr
http://drupal.org/project/typogrify

But as far as I remember there are two modules for making graphical node Titles.

I ran into these to interested enough to read some day.
- http://drupal.org/project/guitar

free form: 
guitar
sifr
trace
typogrify
used_modules
versioncontrol_svn

colors

Submitted by clemens on Thu, 2008/03/20 - 2:53pm

I know not much about colors. Yes there is RGB and YMCK but why are some pages ok in firefox and not ok in safari.

It has to do with color profiles.

Read more on http://www.gballard.net/psd/go_live_page_profile/embeddedJPEGprofiles.html

gscan2pdf

Submitted by clemens on Thu, 2008/03/20 - 11:37am
This program is working for me. No need for scanimage anymore. My CanoScan LiDE 30 seems to work again under Ubuntu. Just take care of the parameters in de dialog when scanning from within gscan2pdf. Scan Document
free form: 
gscan2pdf
ppm