21.16: Installing unrar.
21.17: Having CapsLock as Esc is quite annoying. Will fix it later.
21.20: Installing "GStreamer ffmpeg video plugin" (via totem). Need it for an .avi.
21.26: (After reboot). Installing "GStreamer extra plugins." My god, after the reboot, CapsLock is now acting like Esc and Esc is now acting like CapsLock. The confusion ensues. Will deal with that later/tomorrow.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Disable CAPS LOCK
19.46: Added "xmodmap -e "remove lock = Caps_Lock"" to .bashrc, since I always accidently hit Caps Lock when typing fast.
20.01: Worked and then something happened. Put this code snippet in .bashrc instead:
20.06: What the fuck. It appears that CapsLock is functioning as Esc now (but Esc is thankfully not CapsLock). Whatever. If it bugs me to much, I'll have to find another solution. I also have to check what happens after a reboot.
20.01: Worked and then something happened. Put this code snippet in .bashrc instead:
Fingers crossed. Will se what happens after I log out. I remember 7.10 had a much easier solution to this, but I can't remember what I did.if [ "$PS1" ]; then
# Disables the bloody CapsLock button
xmodmap -e "remove lock = Caps_Lock"
fi
20.06: What the fuck. It appears that CapsLock is functioning as Esc now (but Esc is thankfully not CapsLock). Whatever. If it bugs me to much, I'll have to find another solution. I also have to check what happens after a reboot.
Kolourpaint, pdf viewers, games and internet stuff
9.38: Installing kolourpaint, my favorite lightweight (well, a least compared to the gimp) graphics editor. I'll also install the gimp after this.
9.40: I'm missing openoffice-writer. Weird. I do have Presentation and Spreadsheet. I think it was automatically removed when I removed the sun-java6-jre. Still, it doesn't make sense. Installing openoffice.org-writer now.
9.44: Wait, the gimp is already installed as default. They should provide a more lightweight graphics editor like kolourpaint. My DE is Gnome, but still. Definitely better than the "gnome paint" (can't remember name).
9:.46: Installing xpdf and kpdf. I have a thing for pdf viewers. Generally I think the default one on gnome (evince) is the best, but I've encountered a lot of pdfs that looked awful in one viewer and just fine in another.
9.50: Removing gnome-games. Just to be safe.
9.51: Installing lynx. My favorite terminal based web browser and just perfect when X11 is being random and I need to do stuff without the graphical interface.
9.53: Installing gftp. I actually quite like the one in Nautilus, but it's always good to have a back-up, just in case. gftp has a clumsy interface and I normally use the terminal based ssh anyway, but you know... I like to have multiple choices.
9.56: Installing alpine. Yeah. Don't really need it, but...
9.57: I guess that's it for now. I've probably forgot something, so I'll return to this blog everytime I do stuff on my lappie.
9.40: I'm missing openoffice-writer. Weird. I do have Presentation and Spreadsheet. I think it was automatically removed when I removed the sun-java6-jre. Still, it doesn't make sense. Installing openoffice.org-writer now.
9.44: Wait, the gimp is already installed as default. They should provide a more lightweight graphics editor like kolourpaint. My DE is Gnome, but still. Definitely better than the "gnome paint" (can't remember name).
9:.46: Installing xpdf and kpdf. I have a thing for pdf viewers. Generally I think the default one on gnome (evince) is the best, but I've encountered a lot of pdfs that looked awful in one viewer and just fine in another.
9.50: Removing gnome-games. Just to be safe.
9.51: Installing lynx. My favorite terminal based web browser and just perfect when X11 is being random and I need to do stuff without the graphical interface.
9.53: Installing gftp. I actually quite like the one in Nautilus, but it's always good to have a back-up, just in case. gftp has a clumsy interface and I normally use the terminal based ssh anyway, but you know... I like to have multiple choices.
9.56: Installing alpine. Yeah. Don't really need it, but...
9.57: I guess that's it for now. I've probably forgot something, so I'll return to this blog everytime I do stuff on my lappie.
ChemSketch and Marvin Beans
9.27: Aha! After some googling, I've found out that ChemSketch is generally not working under wine anymore. I have to install an older version of wine. Tried to disable the .dll as described in http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=5846&iTestingId=13851, that didn't work. No surprise really, given that the comment is from 2006. I managed to get Marvin Beans (particularly MarvinSketch) to work, just needed to reboot the computer in order to get the PATH working. After that, I downloaded and unzipped the platform independent version (could not get the one for linux to work), moved it to /opt/ and added another line in PATH (PATH=$PATH:/opt/marvinbeans/bin/: in .bashrc). It's working now and the newer version looks swankaaay. Or something.
Well, it kinda sucks I can't get ChemSketch to work, but I do have the program installed on another computer (running XP) and I guess I don't need it that much anyway.
9.34: So that's about it for now. I still have a couple of things to do, but they're not urgent. I had a couple of other programs installed (gnumeric, gchempaint...), but I wasn't using them anyway. Really liked gnumeric though.
- Oh, I actually have to install something.
Well, it kinda sucks I can't get ChemSketch to work, but I do have the program installed on another computer (running XP) and I guess I don't need it that much anyway.
9.34: So that's about it for now. I still have a couple of things to do, but they're not urgent. I had a couple of other programs installed (gnumeric, gchempaint...), but I wasn't using them anyway. Really liked gnumeric though.
- Oh, I actually have to install something.
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