September 07, 2009 Archives
Mon Sep 7 21:08:06 EEST 2009
How to properly Start Compiz in Gnome
Since I've upgraded to Debian Sid /
Squeeze e.g., Debian unstable I'm using compiz and the default
patched debian metacity to support it. Thus until today I've it
setupped to start up with
1. compiz --replace on each and every login session on my account. Today I had my doubts that this is correct since I've noticed that compiz terminates after some of the OpenGL games I have started. After some Googling I found a blog post which was discussing the issue. Here is the post how to properly start compiz in gnome . As you could read in the blog post it is wrong to start compiz with compiz --replace cause in that case metacity starts for a couple of seconds during gdm login screen as well as it has to replace metacity afterwards. It is explained that the proper way to start compiz is via the .gnomerc . BTW I was not aware that gnome had that handy .gnomerc file which pretty much like the good old .bashrc. So back to the proper way of running compiz.
1. compiz --replace on each and every login session on my account. Today I had my doubts that this is correct since I've noticed that compiz terminates after some of the OpenGL games I have started. After some Googling I found a blog post which was discussing the issue. Here is the post how to properly start compiz in gnome . As you could read in the blog post it is wrong to start compiz with compiz --replace cause in that case metacity starts for a couple of seconds during gdm login screen as well as it has to replace metacity afterwards. It is explained that the proper way to start compiz is via the .gnomerc . BTW I was not aware that gnome had that handy .gnomerc file which pretty much like the good old .bashrc. So back to the proper way of running compiz.
Edit ~/.gnomerc in and put export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/bin/compizCongrats now you should have compiz to run properly.
Mon Sep 7 20:57:02 EEST 2009
Some Old Pictures of me and some close friends
I was digging to my old files and I
digged up some old nice pictures taken with Niki (Shanar). Who has
recently left us for heaven 
Here are the
pictures themselves . I also found on my FreeBSD 7 old system
some pictures of me Toto, Nomen, Niki and some others who more or
less relate to my past. Here are the rest of the pictures 100SSCAN .
Here are the
pictures themselves . I also found on my FreeBSD 7 old system
some pictures of me Toto, Nomen, Niki and some others who more or
less relate to my past. Here are the rest of the pictures 100SSCAN .Mon Sep 7 15:04:59 EEST 2009
QuakeForge on Debian Unstable
I wanted to have running Quake on my
Debian GNU/Linux. Thus I looked as usual in google for the possible
solutions. There were a couple of options I could approach. One of
them was to use QuakeForge's (QF)'s Quake engine. I tried to
compile Quake Forge from it's latest version 0.5.5, however that
didn't worked out. Therefore I needed another solution. I wanted to
make installation of quakeforge as quick as possible. After some
googling I found
The Following Quake Debian Repository . Next I've downloaded
all the necessery deb files on the Apache and installed them. File
by file. I have to install the files with debian package manager
file options --force-all because I'm running a Debian amd64
release. I did the deb binaries installation using the
command:
. dpkg -i --force-all quakeforge*.deb. It might be a wise idea before executing the above binary to install either quakeforge-oss or quakeforge-alsa binary file otherwise while dpkg executes dpkg-reconfigure to quakeforge-common the package configuration will fail. There is one more thing to be done before you're having a runnign version of Quake on your Linux. Be sure to download Quake's original binary pak0.file and place it into the /usr/share/games/quake/id1 directory. Of course as you could expect in Linux things almost never work perfectly. I was unpleasently suprised when I started quakeforge and I realized I can not run the good old Quake with sound effects :(.
. dpkg -i --force-all quakeforge*.deb. It might be a wise idea before executing the above binary to install either quakeforge-oss or quakeforge-alsa binary file otherwise while dpkg executes dpkg-reconfigure to quakeforge-common the package configuration will fail. There is one more thing to be done before you're having a runnign version of Quake on your Linux. Be sure to download Quake's original binary pak0.file and place it into the /usr/share/games/quake/id1 directory. Of course as you could expect in Linux things almost never work perfectly. I was unpleasently suprised when I started quakeforge and I realized I can not run the good old Quake with sound effects :(.