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Archlinux and gnome 2.24 != love

After struggling a bit with gnome it seems there are a few bugs (or unfinished features rather) with this latest version of gnome. First, session-support doesn’t work! That is really strange, since I consider it such an elementary feature. Second, systemtray-icons only work randomly. 2 really glaring bugs. Bodes well..


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Reinstall, ArchLinux, gnome..

So I’ve had a 1TB drive lying around for a few months, and since exams are comming up fast ofcourse now is the time to set it up. I’m moving everything from my old disk to the new, and at the same time I decided to just reinstall everything.
I’m leaving room for a 64bit distro, [...]


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PHP sessionfiles in the hundred-thousands?

If you are using Debian, session.gc_probability is set to 0. Apparently a cronjob should take care of things, but in my case I ended up with 300k+ files in one folder. Since the process is running as the same user, setting session.gc_probability to 1 shouldn’t be a problem, and it wasn’t. A few seconds later [...]


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