Older blog entries for frehberg (starting at number 13)

A lot happened since March, e.g. I became father end of August; her name is Yllari (say: Ijari) (inka: sunrise). And new friends of Yllari approached. This weekend we did our first trip after birth driving to baltic sea.

Just found these cool tutorials for GtkTreeView:
GTK+ 2.0 Tree View Tutorial
GtkTreeView: A short tutorial

This week switched to Fedora-Core-1, looks good and seeems faster, more uptodate Gnome-desktop than used from Redhat9.0. The red hat ist still used in panel for main-menu button ;) Still having the problem with Realplayer8, due to New-Posix-Thread-Lib merged down from kernel2.6 into redhat-kernel2.4. Hopefully real.com will offer new player for kernel2.6 soon. If there is any free realplayer, please tell me.

Currently I am working for GIOR tool, graphical viewer/editor for ORBit/GNOME object references; update should be released soon.

Think these acronyms should go to gnome-doc project:
i18n == "internationalization" ("i" + 18 letters + "n")
L10n == "localization" ("L" + 10 letters + "n"; upper case L is used to distinguish it from the numeral 1 (one))
a11y == "accessibility" ("a" + 11 letters + "y")

Just tried to run RealPlayer8 (realplay) on Redhat9 but it segfaults immediately. Solution: In shell set "export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.7" before calling "realplay", or execute this script:

--------- realplay.sh ---------------
#!/bin/sh
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.7
exec /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay
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Sitting in Munich, in Bar of Annahotel, connected to WLAN. Having spent lots of months in Munich now, working for customer. Beside normal work I try to find time for ORBit beginners docs at hhtp://www.gnome.org/projects/ORBit2, recent works might be checked in in near future. Both, Munich and Berlin, are cool cities.

It allways works if you know how :)
If working with Laptop you want your USB-Mouse work with Touch-Pad concurrently, hot-plugging USB-Mouse and so on. To achieve this, your /etc/X11/XF86Config must contain specific Mouse settings, I wonder it is no standard by now:
...
Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "AlwaysCore"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"

EndSection
...
Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"

EndSection

Compiling gnome24 with tool jhbuild module libart_lgpl failed:
cvs -z3 -q -d:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome update -dP -A .
*** Building libart_lgpl *** [1/1]

make
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -o gen_art_config gen_art_config.o
./libtool: line 1: s%^.*/%%: No such file or directory
./libtool: line 1: -e: command not found

To solve the problem set environment variable:
export SED=sed

Using jhbuild want to build gnome24 from CVS on Redhat-9.0; I ran into problems due to kerberos header files not found for module gnome-vfs.

In file included from /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:179,
from gnome-vfs-ssl.c:41:
/usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:72:18: krb5.h: No such file or directory

To solve the problem set additional flag in jhbuild resource file ~/.jhbuildrc pointing to kerberos headers on RH90 distribution:

-------------- ~/.jhbuildrc -----------------
import os
moduleset = 'gnome24'
modules = [ 'meta-gnome-desktop' ]
checkoutroot = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], 'cvs', 'gnome2')
prefix = '/opt'
autogenargs='--disable-gtk-doc --disable-docs'
# CFLAGS must point to kerberos headers on RH90
# cflags = '-g -O2'
cflags = '-g -O2 -I/usr/kerberos/include/'
installprog = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], 'bin', 'install-check')
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Back from GUADEC-4. It was well organized and we had a lot of fun. Two or more presentations at GUADEC were about goverments that intend or are about to switch to Open-Source software; very interesting news.