Thoughts on KDE 4.4
KDE 4.4 released! It makes a few good improvements, but still has a bit of way to go.
Keeping /tmp contents between boots on Arch
Although dependancy on /tmp is a bad idea, I still want to be able to recover things like OpenOffice and Okular files between boots. You could probably set up where these programs do temporary storage, but this is quicker; open up /etc/rc.inittab anddelete the line “/bin/rm -rf /tmp/* …”.
This works, however old stuff is now [...]
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..
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, [...]