Posts Tagged Linux

ipconfig on Linux?

Yesterday, I happened to notice something really weird on my Ombilin machine. Each time I logged in, there’s this “ipconfig” process that consumes one of CPU cores usage up to 99%.

IIRC, ipconfig is a Windows program. So what’s it doing on a Linux box?

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Cairo-dock is THE dock!

It doesn’t need Compiz, got minimal resource usage, no-OpenGL mode, and has several nifty widgets. It’s essentially giving you flashy stuff without sacrificing performance.

What else you could ask? :)

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Testing gnome-blog

Lekhonee from repo can’t be installed on Lucid, and I’m feeling lazy to build it from source. So I’m trying gnome-blog. The interface even more simple than Lekhonee (and I thought Lekhonee is dull)

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A witty advice

My netbook webcam doesn’t work properly on BlankOn Nanggar. It can capture images, but it will be displayed upside down. After several hours googling, I finally get some sure workaround to solve this problem.

*Try holding your computer upside-down*. Dead simple, no? :)


Even though I already used the libv4l library, the webcam still displaying images upside-down. Maybe the webcam still haven’t been included on libv4l table on Nanggar release.

Well, it’s not like I badly need to use the webcam. But I do hope it’ll be fixed on the next BlankOn release. Maybe it’s already fixed on Ubuntu 10.04.

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E17 a.k.a Enlightenment, a lightweight window manager

Recently I’m trying Enlightenment, a light window manager. I’ve known this app for a long time, but only recently try to install it (I blame Dedi for tempting me :P ). I usually use GNOME. It’s virtually the only desktop environment I ever use. KDE isn’t up to my taste, and I rarely use XFCE anymore since my Xubuntu box has been monitor-less for a while.

The installation steps are the same as posted on Dedi’s blog, with some minor changes. I use old repo key because new repo key will give a GPG error. And since I’m using BlankOn Nanggar, I use packages for Jaunty.

  1. Edit my sources list
  2. $ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

  3. Add following line
  4. deb http://packages.enlightenment.org/ubuntu jaunty main extras

  5. Add repo key
  6. wget http://packages.enlightenment.org/repo.key.old -O - | sudo apt-key add -

  7. Update packages and install Enlightenment
  8. $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get install e17

  9. Log out and choose Enlightenment session

Enlightenment with Clearlook theme


You can get additional theme, app and stuff for Enlightenment from http://e17-stuff.org/ and http://exchange.enlightenment.org/ (Thanks Dedi, for the link :) )

So, do you want enlightenment? (Hahaha, bad pun, I know :) )

Note: Ubuntu repository also got Enlightenment packages, but it’s still an e16 version.

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