Posts tagged Linux

We all know Unity has a special way to manage menus. I installed Eclipse (motodev studio) on my Ubuntu 11.04 today to find out that my menu was not showing. This happens to Eclipse and all SWT based apps (read more).

The workaround is to export UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 before starting the app so I added that to my motodevstudio.sh.

I'M a big fan of last.fm and have always wished to be able to listen to my favorite streams on the devices that don't offer the possibility to install the proprietary client (e.g. my Asus O!Play). I've been using lastfmproxy in the past and decided to put all the info together. Fortunately there are some guys keeping lastfm proxy up-to-date. (hang-on, more to come)

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I have had a hard time with erratic mouse behaviour in eclipse Galileo (Build M20090917-0800). Most of the time in dialogs moving the mouse over buttons would focus and press them them but due to that left click did not do anything.

I found an easy solution here: run eclipse from a shell-script:

  #!/bin/sh
  export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
  /home/[your eclipse directory]/eclipse

export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 did the trick for me!

Update 2009-11-17 when Eclipse restarts itself the setting gets lots so I close/start eclipse instead of using the restart function

I was looking for a visual diff/merge too for linux today as I don't always use Eclipse. I stumbled upon Meld today and have been using it for some major merges for the last hour. Well I must say it's exactly what I was looking for so I'm happy to share.

Installation is easy on ubuntu:

  apt-get install meld

There it how it looks like:

Wolfgang Wagner has written this really good how-to about debugging Nagios plugins. It can be a pain to find out when you add or write a new check. The solution is to let a script (capture.pl) that takes care of redirecting STDOUT and STDERR to a logfile make the call.

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