This week I’m supposed to be on holiday but I decided to spend some time on my appindicator for Hamster. To be honest, though, a merge request on github from Izidor Matušov, together with our discussion in the merge review thread, was what made me want to focus on hamster again. He provided a light […]
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 […]