After the Compiz installation, sometimes happen that it’s not possible to see movie on fullscreen!

Let’s start gmplayer and go in Option.
Choose the Video “tab” and set x11 driver.

Now close gmplayer, open a term and write
echo "zoom=yes" > $HOME/.mplayer/config

Start gmplayer and watch movie in fullscreen!

mplayer, gmplayer, compiz, linux

Probably ixquick it’s not famous yet: is a meta-websearchengine (it’s a service that do a websearch using all others websearchengine togheter) that don’t save information about users that done a websearch.

To know better, read this article published on no1984.org.

By the way, who use iceweasel (firefox on debian) maybe want to add ixquick in the searchengine list that it’s on Iceweasel’s toolbar.

If you go on ixquick’s website, in the right area you are not able to insert the plugin, so we have to do it by ourself.

Download here the package that contains th plugin and the icon.
Open a shell, go on folder where you have downloaded the package and extract it:

acido:~$ tar -xf ixquick_it.tar.gz

Now:

acido:~$ mv ixquick_it.* /usr/share/iceweasel/searchplugins/

(if you are not able like user, do it like root)

Now start iceweasel and you can find ixquick in the search engine list!

ixquick, iceweasel, linux, ixquick plugin

Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen. It has support for launchers, task lists, and third party applets.

To use it, it’s requested a composite manager (compiz or beryl).

The bad thing is that until now i wasn’t unable to find a repository od awn for Debian SID. So i’ve decided to make awn packages for Debian SID and put them in a repository.

Then, if you would install awn on your machine, you need to do (like superuser):

hp:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

add the following line at the end of the file

deb http://www.arearelax.org/awn/ ./

save, exit and digit

hp:~# apt-get update && apt-get install avant-window-navigator-trunk

now like user digit

acido:~$ avant-window-navigator &

and you can see the dock on your desktop. Try to configure it trought awn-manager. Good luck!

linux, debian, awn, eye candy, compiz, dock-bar

wifi-radar is a nice utility used to manage wireless connection. Is easy to use but sometimes, if you use a WPA key, something can goes wrong! You can see error messages like this:
TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting
wpa_args = WPA_SUPPLICANT_ARGS % ( INTERFACE, profile['wpa_driver'] )
NameError: global name 'WPA_SUPPLICANT_ARGS' is not defined

This how-to can try to help you.

First of all, you need to have the wpa_supplicant package

#dpkg -l | grep wpasupplicant

if you see an empty line

#apt-get install wpasupplicant

Now we need to setup it:
# wpa_passphrase essid pass_wpa

where essid is the name of the wireless network we need to connect and pass_wpa is its WPA key

we see something like this
network={
ssid="essid"
#psk="pass_wpa"
psk=7d20d1e0391b4d59dc22314476a838b0f33aa488da776206a7d59ec30592c2da
}
Make a file called wpa_supplicant.conf in the folder /etc:
# nano /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
fast_reauth=1
network={
scan_ssid=0
ssid="essid"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP WEP104 WEP40
#psk="pass_wpa"
psk=7d20d1e0391b4d59dc22314476a838b0f33aa488da776206a7d59ec30592c2da <-(valore dato dal precedente comando)
}

Now edit the file /usr/sbin/wifi-radar and make this changes:

line 76 (about), be sure that dhclient is the first value like this
POSSIBLE_DHCP_CLIENTS = "dhclient dhcpcd dhclient3 pump"

line 143(near WPA_SUPPLICANT “area”), make the same changes
WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONF="/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"
WPA_DRIVER="wext"
WPA_SUPPLICANT_ARGS = "-B -D"+WPA_DRIVER+" -i"+INTERFACE+" -c"+WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONF
where
wpa_supplicant.conf is the file we have made before
wext is the driver of your wireless card (wext is the common driver)

line 430
wpa_args = WPA_SUPPLICANT_ARGS % ( INTERFACE, profile['wpa_driver'] )
substitute it with
wpa_args = WPA_SUPPLICANT_ARGS

All changes are done. Save all, exit, restart wifi-radar and cross your fingers.

linux, wifi-radar, wireless, wpa, wpasupplicant

Sometimes you can’t burn your data on cd or dvd cause a boring error about “Directories too deep”.

Executing 'genisoimage -gui -V DVD_31 -A GnomeBaker -p acido -iso-level 3 -l -r -hide-rr-moved -graft-points --path-list /tmp/GnomeBaker-acido/gnomebaker-E8P02T | builtin_dd of=/dev/hda obs=32k seek=0'
I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
genisoimage: Directories too deep for '0205/wordpress-it_IT-2.1.3/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/autosave/langs' (7) max is 6.
:- ( write failed: Input/output error

I haven’t find yet a way to solve it on GUI but surfing on forums i’ve find a work-around.

From shell, like normal user, start gnomebaker with this command :

gnomebaker --trace-on

Now make your compilation and try to do Burn: you see the same error! This step is necessary because GnomeBaker make a temporary image of cd/dvd.

After the ErrorPopup come back at shell, and check the output: move up until find the command that gnomebaker use to try to burn

growisofs -Z /dev/hda -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -dvd-compat -gui -V DVD_31 -A GnomeBaker -p acido -iso-level 3 -l -r -hide-rr-moved -graft-points --path-list /tmp/GnomeBaker-acido/gnomebaker-E8P02T

Copy and Paste it on other term and add after growisofs the -D option like this:

growisofs -D -Z /dev/hda -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -dvd-compat -gui -V DVD_31 -A GnomeBaker -p acido -iso-level 3 -l -r -hide-rr-moved -graft-points --path-list /tmp/GnomeBaker-acido/gnomebaker-E8P02T

Press enter and the burn start! Don’t close gnomebaker until burning is finished!

linux, gnomebaker, gnome, burn, problems, troubleshooting

AIGLX

Partiamo con l’attivazione del modulo AIGLX.
Editate il file /etc/X11/xorg.conf (usate un qualunque editor di testo, io personalmente uso nano) e nella sezione ServerLayout aggiungete

Option "AIGLX" "true"

con questo AIGLX è sistemato

INTEL

Per i driver Intel (precisamente per la scheda video Intel 950) editate sempre il file /etc/X11/xorg.conf e nella sezione Device mettete come driver

Driver "i810"

Ora dovete attivare il Direct Rendering della scheda quindi da root lanciate

#apt-get install mesa-utils libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa

Ora riavviate X (CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE) e lanciando il comando

#glxinfo | grep direct

dovrete leggere come risposta

direct rendering: Yes

BERYL

Ora manca l’ultimo step.
Editate il file dei repository /etc/apt/sources.list e aggiungete questa riga

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb debian-unstable beryl-svn

Questo è un repository non ufficiale in cui troverete sempre le ultime versioni di beryl (un grazie a Treviño e imu).
Salvate e uscite.

#apt-get update && apt-get install beryl

Finito il processo di installazione rieditiamo per l’ultima volta il nostro xorg.conf
Nella sezione Module (se non c’è createla) aggiungete:
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"

Nella sezione Device

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "On"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"

E al fondo del file

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "enable"
EndSection

Riavviate X (CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE)
Da terminale lanciate

#beryl-manager

Se tutto è andato per il verso giusto avrete il vostro bel cubo funzionante.
Ora non vi rimane che inserire il comando beryl-manager all’ avvio della vostra interfaccia grafica.

aiglx, beryl, intel, debian, AIGLX, Beryl, 950, i810