I was sitting at night browsing some friend’s blogs and adding RSS feeds to Akregator, after my new found fondness for KDE 4(more on that in a later post). Then Gaurish Sharma asked how to get webcam and fingerprint scanner to work on linux. I didn’t really have much clue but asked him to dig [...]
What is qingy? Here’s the quote from qingy developers Quote: qingy is a replacement for getty. Written in C, it uses DirectFB to provide a fast, nice GUI without the overhead of the X Windows System. It allows the user to log in and start the session of his choice (text console, gnome, kde, wmaker, [...]
I had faced this instance where there ocurred problem with mysql configuration in debian. Something went wrong with the configuration and could not be traced out. We needed to fix it soon and reinstall was the easy option as there was no useful data. But, the package couldn’t be removed because mysql is stopped before [...]
Finch is an IM and IRC client for command line. It supports all the protocols supported by pidgin. Like pidgin, it makes use of libpurple. So, all your account configured for pidgin can be used on finch too . It has nifty shortcuts based on alt keys to navigate around. Making it quite simple to [...]
Searching around the net I came across 2 articles which helped in writing the init script presented below. There are 3 versions of the script – one for gentoo based distros one for debian based distros and one for Fedora, which is quite similar to debian one. Requirements for running the scripts rtorrent screen adequate [...]
Being a fluxbox user I have been looking for some lightweight imageviewer. xloadimage can always be invoked from CLI whenever needed. While helping a friend build up a XFCE based gentoo system we discovered mirage. Mirage needs only pyGTK installed, which should be available on most linux distributions these days. Some of the useful features [...]