Site Archives gnome

Permanent IM notifications


Gnome 3 and the shell look really great, but there are a few things that annoy me. My main complaint is that I keep missing IM messages because there is no visual clue that you got a message (unless you are staring at the bottom of your screen exactly when you receive something). This problem [...]

Some lovely people out there


Some lovely guy sent me this email: From: ****@gmx.de Subject: Freedom! Take your closed source crap out of this planet, nobody cares about it. — Freedom Lover — Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3.5 – sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser Note the irony of using an email service that adds to [...]

Back from GUADEC[1]


Doesn’t this look like the GUADEC t-shirt? GUADEC was great and talks turned out to be more interesting than what I was expecting after all the decadence discussions, this is also proved by the fact that I managed to stay awake during all the talks despite having a party every day . Being in an [...]

Gnome 3.0 != Topaz


What the release team just announced sounds like a good plan for Gnome 3.0 and also a good strategy for other future major releases. Kudos to them and to the GTK+ developers! I’m sure that they will give us more details soon both on the planet and on the relevant mailing lists. Hurray for Gnome [...]

I want my numpad back!


Dear LazyWeb,   Every time I log into GNOME I have to disable the “Allow to control the pointer using the keyboard” option in “Keyboard Preferences” if I want to be able to use the numpad on my external keyboard. Why disabling it once is not enough? How can I permanently disable this option?