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Less than 20 days to help fund the Gooseberry project from the Blender Foundation

Update: having more than 3000 supporters, the team has decided to extend the campaign until May 8th. It is not too late to join in!

Less than 20 days to help fund the Gooseberry project from the Blender Foundation. Blender is a free (as in freedom and free beer) 3D modelling software. After several small films showing all its capabilities, the foundation has launched a crowd-funding campaign to help realise its first full-length film.

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Lubuntu (LXDE): restore a logout/shutdown icon in the taskbar

From time to time, an inexperienced user for whom I have set up a Lubuntu 12.04 LTS system, inadvertently mess the layout of her taskbar (a lock feature as in KDE's plasmoids would be nice ;-).

While restoring all of her stuff, I couldn't find how to display a shutdown shortcut. This option/item was just not in the widgets list. After a little duckducking, I found I had to edit the following file:

$ sudo leafpad /usr/share/applications/lubuntu-logout.desktop

And comment out¹ the line starting with "NoDisplay":

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Shutdown
Name[zh_TW]=關機
Type=Application
Comment=Shutdown or Reboot
Icon=system-shutdown-panel
Exec=lubuntu-logout
#NoDisplay=true
Categories=Settings;DesktopSettings

After that, I was able to re-add a shutdown icon:

Right Click on LXPanel > Add/Remove Panel Items > Add > Application Launch Bar > Double Click on Application Launch Bar > Preferences > Select Shutdown from the list and Click "Add" > Close > Close

¹ or maybe change its value to false, or delete it, be CRAZY!

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GOG.com is going to support Linux

After Desura and Steam, GOG.com is going to support Linux with their good old games!

Linux: xrandr dual monitor setup failing at boot

I set up my dual screen configuration in my local ~/.xinitrc file:

HDMI_MAIN=$(xrandr | grep -o HDMI-[0-2])
xrandr --output $HDMI_MAIN --mode 1920x1080 --primary --output DVI-0 --mode 1680x1050 --right-of $HDMI_MAIN &

I use the $HDMI_MAIN variable because the number assigned to the HDMI screen may be 0 or 2. The xrandr command sets up the resolution of both screens and puts the DVI screen as secondary screen at the right of the HDMI one.

This morning, for a reason still unknown, the DVI screen stayed black. To activate it manually, I first had to disable it and then re-execute the second part of the usual command:

$ xrandr --output DVI-0 --off
$ xrandr --output DVI-0 --mode 1680x1050 --right-of HDMI-2

Note that the black screen problem only happened after the start of X. Everything was fine during boot and grub. Also the --verbose option of xrandr did not give me any clue.

Popcorn Time: a free and open tool for streaming using BitTorrent

Popcorn Time: a free and open tool for streaming using BitTorrent.

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