Premise I use Hamster for time tracking at work and the lack of an applet which works with Unity’s panel is my main obstacle to the adoption of Unity (which I love BTW). For this reason I hacked on the applet’s code in my (very limited) spare time at weekends and I managed to get […]
As I’ve already written in the ubuntu-devel mailing list, a new fglrx driver (2:8.840-0ubuntu1) is now available in Natty and it finally works with the new xserver. There are still a few issues whose fixes should land after Beta 1 is released: 1) compiz needs to be updated so that fglrx can work with Unity. […]
I’m a satisfied owner of a Nexus One (loving Android Froyo 2.2) and today I decided to try a (volume based) 3G plan by CoopVoce. There are 2 options available: either buy a 3G usb key or simply use 3G directly from your phone. In the former case (which I wasn’t interested in) the usb […]
Quoting my email to different Ubuntu mailing lists: According to Nvidia, drivers 195.36.08 (i.e. the current driver in the archive) and 195.36.03 might be affected by the same GPU fan speed issues which affect the Windows driver: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/announcement.php?a=39 I have been using these drivers for while now without experiencing that problem but, if you want […]
This is just a brief announcement, I hope to have the time to say more when I’m back to Italy (currently I’m in the US). EnvyNG and Envy are no more. I had no time to maintain them and I really prefer to work on Jockey (I had already contributed code to it in the […]
As you might have noticed already if you use Ubuntu Karmic, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (i.e. the shortcut which was used to restart the X server) has to be enabled in a different way with respect to previous releases of Ubuntu. This is due to the fact that “DontZap” is no longer an option in the X server […]
What is X-Bus? It’s a personal project I’ve been working on (among other things) since I joined Canonical. It’s a daemon which handles input devices through the XInput protocol. In the future I hope to add support for outputs too. What’s the purpose of X-Bus? Its main purpose is to provide developers with a common […]
It’s been almost a month now since I started working for Canonical. I was hired as a “Sustaining Engineer (System)” in the Foundations team which, in turn, is part of the OEM Services team, whose offices are located in Lexington, Massachussets, USA (I work from home though). I mainly do work on X.org related stuff […]
If you don’t want to use a user interface to change the effect of Ctrl+Alt+Backspace in any flavour of Ubuntu you can follow these steps: 1) Install the “dontzap” package sudo apt-get install dontzap 2) Open Terminal or Konsole and type: sudo dontzap –enable or sudo dontzap –disable Where “disable” means that Ctrl+Alt+Backspace restarts the […]
As you might have noticed already, X.org no longer ships with the DontZap option set to False by default i.e. pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace won’t restart the xserver any longer. At the UDS we discussed on how to deal with this change and we came to the conclusion that Ubuntu and Kubuntu would deal with this change […]