Archive for September 9th, 2009

Group Windows on a Taskbar in Gnome (on Debian GNU/Linux) in Vista like fashion

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

I wanted to have my gnome windows be handled in a Vista / XP like fashion in other words I wanted my Gnometo Group Windows (that means if many Windows originating from the same source program then let them be grouped in one Window so any time you press that Window a menu pops up letting you choose between the desired Window). This window management aproach has one main advantage it saves space on your desktop and least but not last makes it much more ordered.
Here are the steps you need to follow to achieve Gnome Group Windowing.

1. Right click on the dotted section (that’s just to the left of your windows list section) you should find that between “Show Desktop” button and the rest of the windows buttons.2. Select “Preferences” there and then choose according to your preferences either: “Group windows when space is limited” or “Always group windows”.

The same is also explained on on Lifehacker therefore credits go to the above article.
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FreeBSD 7.2 java jdk16 bsd-jdk16-patches-4.tar.bz2 install problems fix

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

I needed to install jdk16 (e.g. java on my FreeBSD) system, I had some struggles doing that. It’s a real pain in the ass everytime I have to install Java on FreeBSD. I have to download a bunch of files, both from Sun’s website and eyesbeyond’s website . Afterwards still the built failed due to failed MD5 and SHA265 checksum of bsd-jdk16-patches-4.tar.bz2. It took me some time to notice the problem and the solution to the problem was proposed by a guy in ##freebsd irc.freenode.net. The solution comes to:
1. md5 /usr/ports/distfiles/bsd-jdk16-patches-4.tar.bz2; edit /usr/ports/java/jdk16/distinfo and replace the file MD5 checksum.
2. sha256 /usr/ports/distfiles/bsd-jdk16-patches-4.tar.bz2 and again edit /usr/ports/java/jdk16/distinfo replacing with the right SHA256 checksum.
Now Thank the Lord! And hopefully enjoy your build :)END—–

Quake3 Arena on Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze / Sid Unstable

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

quake 3 arena logo
I wanted to have running Quake3 on my Debian GNU/Linux just like I have it running on my FreeBSD system thus.
1. I’ve downloaded linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run .
2. I executed :# chmod +x linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run; linux32 ./linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run
Note: make sure you have installed linux32 and ia32-libs packages!I tested directly executing # linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run, but that was a failure, since the self extracting binary could not recognize the amd64 system architecture
After installing it via linux32, all went smoothly. Next I needed to copy all my game pak files into
/usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3. Remember that here it’s absolutely vital to have q3config.cfg file to your baseq3 directory.To make your life easier I’ve tarred the Quake Arena pak files, so you can freely fetch them via this baseq3 link
Now untar the newly fetched baseq3.tar.gz to /usr/local/games/quake3/Last step in the installation is to link the game binary to your /usr/games, I did this via
ln -sf /usr/local/games/quake3/quake3-smp /usr/games/
In your case it might be not necessary to link quake3-smp if you’re not running 2 Core CPU.
Hopefully, Now with God’s grace you should be having a fully functional Quake 3 Arena installation on your Debian Unstable GNU/Linux.
Enjoy!END—–