menu editor for gnome 3

Menu editor "alacarte" was broken since Gnome 3.2 (or even earlier).

But now it was fixed! You can create your own menu items using this awesome tool!
Just instal alacarte and run it:
sudo yum install alacarte

screenshot:

Fedora 15 and audigy 4 - temporary solution for "no sound" problem

If you have no sound with "Fedora 15" linux and audigy 4 soundcard, read this post.

This time I will provide you a temporary solution. Just to try. Next time I will provide you complete workaround.

This is a known bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543693
But workaround exists!

You need to turn off "S/PDIF Optical Raw". It is enabled by default.

For example,
1. run any audio file (to hear changes later)
2. run gnome-terminal or any other terminal window.
3. run "alsamixer" programm


4. press F6 and select your audigy 4 soundcard


5. scroll to "S/PDIF" control and press "M" key on keyboard


You should hear sound. If you did not hear - run "Sound Settings" (for Gnome) then switch to "output" tab and select your Audigy soundcard as default device



P.S. Sorry for my ugly english. I just want to help.

how to increase mouse cursor speed under linux

Hello!

You want to increase mouse pointer speed in linux? Just run command: xset m 6 1
First parameter "6" - speed. I use these settings: xset m 7 1

THIS is a very useful site.

good text editor under linux (fedora)

I feel that there is a lack of good text editor in linux. I like notepad++, but it works on windows only. So I found a good text editor under linux:http://e-texteditor.com
Linux version is free (as in beer).

Full text how to build it under fedora linux:
http://fixnum.org/blog/2009/e_on_fedora/

Here are some main points from the article above (just in case of official blog down):

1. yum install wxGTK-devel glib2-devel atk-devel libcurl-devel libtomcrypt-devel libtommath-devel flex
2. yum install libxml2-devel libxslt-devel libsqlite3x-devel libicu-devel libjpeg-devel gperf
3. git clone git://github.com/etexteditor/e.git
4. cd externals; ./get_externals_linux.sh
5. ./build_externals_linux.sh debug
6. cd ../src; make DEBUG=1
7. strip e.debug -o e.stripped
8. strip e.debug -o e.stripped
9. wget http://fixnum.org/public/e/e-bundles-themes.tgz
10. tar xzf e-bundles-themes.tgz -C ~/.e/

I know that this is not very easy to execute. For windows like users >:->

шаманство с установокой java на linux

Сегодня столкнулся с такой прикольной проблемой:

Скопировал установщик java в /usr, запускаю, пишет:

"You will need atleast 72188 kBytes of Disk Free Please free up the required Disk Space and try again"

Смотрю: df -h
в "/" - нет свободного места
в "/usr" - свободного места несколько гигабайт

смотрю в исходники установочного скрипта:

"DiskSpace=`df k. | Tail -1 | awk '{if ($ 4-/%/) (print $ 3)) else (print $ 4)' `"
If [then] $diskSpace -lt $diskSpaceRequired
Printf "You will need atleast %s kbytes of Disk Free\n" $diskSpaceRequired
Printf "Please free up the required Disk Space and try again\n"

Оказалось, что откуда ты запустишь команду на запуск установщика, там и будет проверяться кол-во свободного места!

Проверка: cd /usr; ./jre-6u14-linux-i586.bin
Успешно!!