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Google desktop for Linux
Google desktop is available for Linux : http://desktop.google.com/fr/linux/download.html I will give it a try, but I think that I won’t leave Beagle. The main reasons would be that it is not open source and that the data is saved remotely by Google. Even if I have nothing to hide, I don’t want to share such [...]
Battery power and Compiz
I decided to drop Compiz since I found out (thanks to the Powertop utility by Intel) that it was power monger. Result : Compiz : 3h30 Metacity : 5h00
Opera segmentation fault after upgrading
For those who have a segmentation fault after the last update on Feisty (libx11 upgraded)…
Screenlets : widgets for Compiz or Beryl
It is still under heavy development but already nice, usable and quite stable.
I have been using it for 2 weeks now, and did not get any freeze. It just does not have all the options I am sure it will get in the future.
Switched back from Beryl to Compiz
I have run Beryl for months and have seen many huge and nice improvements.
I switched to Beryl soon after the fork from Compiz. At the time, I was on Ubuntu Breezy. The reason of my switch was a major issue with Compiz, making it impossible for my laptop to hibernate. Beryl did it. I could have solved it by myself, maybe, but didn’t have time to dig out desktop things.
Today, it is again some bugs that pushed me to switch back from Beryl to Compiz.
OpenVPN and DNS on a linux client
I got a weired issue with Linux clients while it worked fine with Windows machines. For some reason, the /etc/resolv.conf did not get updated.
I found out a workaround thanks to this page.
Of course, your server configuration file must contain (if 192.168.1.1 is your DNS server):
push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.1.1"