Tag Archives: OpenSUSE

Auto start a program on Gnome 3

Posted by on December 21, 2011 No comments

This is probably my shortest post, but I hope it’s as helpful to others as it will be for me as I need to remember how to auto start a program in Gnome 3.

  1. press: alt + F2
  2. Type: gnome-session-properties
  3. Click on “+ Add”
  4. Name: Application Name
  5. Command: Application command e.g: skype
  6. Click “+ Add” and you are done.

 

Gnome session properties

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Echofon shamefully drops Firefox for Linux

Posted by on September 6, 2010 4 comments

Echofon has officially announced it is dropping support for Custom build Firefox, so it will no longer work with “minor” platforms. How dare you Echofon!?  This is such short sightedness.

Apparently the previous version (1.9.6.4) of the Echofon plugin to Firefox still works, but I would appreciate suggestions for a different Firefox plugin. I would be happy to ditch Echophon alltogether, it was a good product untill the developers killed it for me.

If you get the error -  Echofon does not support this platform or custom build Firefox. (Can’t get OAuth signer.) / Cc['@naan.net/twitterfox-sign;1'] is undefined (Fx version 3.6.8 / ABI x86-gcc3) – according to the Echofon developers you are using a minor platform, and that includes 64bit build on Mac and Windows..

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OpenSUSE Build Service will be added to the Linux Developer Network

Posted by on April 8, 2009 No comments

The openSUSE Project and the Linux Foundation today jointly announced that the openSUSE Build Service will be added to the Linux Developer Network (LDN).

The openSUSE® Build Service is the only development platform that enables developers to package software for all major Linux* distributions, and is used to provide transparent infrastructure for the creation of the entire openSUSE distribution. Additionally, the openSUSE Project, a Novell sponsored and community-supported open source project, announced a new release of the openSUSE Build Service with support for compiling for the ARM platform.

OpenSuse in currently on version 11.1, this release includes a ton of new features and improvements, an improved desktop experience with GNOME 2.24 and KDE 4.1.3, OpenOffice.org 3.0, YaST improvements, updated Linux kernel, and much more.

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OpenSuse – run IFCONFIG as user

Posted by on January 17, 2009 No comments

OPenSUSE 11.1 surprised me when I was denied to run IFCONFIG as a normal user and also as SUDO. There is an easy way around it, just create an alias link to the /sbin/ifconfig file.

$alias ifconfig=’/sbin/ifconfig’

Now you can run IFCONFIG with your user account.

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PHP-GTK installation Errors on OpenSUSE

Posted by on December 24, 2008 No comments

PHP-GTK is an extension for the PHP programming language that implements language bindings for GTK+. It provides an object-oriented interface to GTK+ classes and functions and greatly simplifies writing client-side cross-platform GUI applications.

While installing PHP-GTK under Linux, you need to have some libraries, extensions installed or it may cause the following errors.

Error: command make: not found

  • OpenSUSE fix       $ sudo zypper in make
  • Ubuntu fix             $ sudo apt-get make

Error: phpize  not found

  • OpenSUSE fix      $ sudo zypper in php5-devel
  • Ubuntu fix            $ sudo apt-get php5-devel

Error: buildconf not Found

  • OpenSUSE fix      $ sudo zypper in buildconf
  • Ubuntu fix            $ sudo apt-get buildconf

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