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.

Technorati Tags: applications, auto start, configuring linux, Gnome, Linux, OpenSUSE, startup

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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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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.

Technorati Tags: Linux, Linux Developer Network (LDN), Linux Foundation, Novell, OpenSUSE

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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 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

Technorati Tags: Linux, OpenSUSE, PHP-GTK Errors, Ubuntu

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Zypper is a command line package manager, like the famous apt-get for Debian / Ubuntu. I got introduced to zypper by a top OpenSUSE guy, while we tested the 11.1 build 5 a few weeks before it was due. I didn’t get very much from him as his fingers move too quickly and by the time I read zypper on his command line interface, he was already typing his 3rd or 4rth consecutive command. Well feeling rather humbled by the whole experience I decided to give zypper a go once I got OpenSUSE 11.1 installed on my laptop.  It’s a great and intuitive package manager. Here is a short list of the commands you will use the most. (you have to run it as superuser so I will use sudo just before the command)

• $ sudo zypper se (or search) mysql (to search for the mysql package)
• $ sudo zypper in (or install) Apache2 (to install the Apache 2 package)
• $ sudo rm (or remove) mplayer (to remove the mplayer package)
• $ sudo zypper help  search (look for help on a specific command, in this case the command is Search)
• $ sudo zypper in yast* (the * inidicates that any package that are related to that package starting with the same name. a good example is installing the libraries for apache2_mod_* )

For a more in-depth tutorial visit the OpenSUSE reference for zypper.

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