It are mb’s on the left axes.

I need a new battery
Qball

p.s. I actually had to turn the laptop off because the train arrived at the station..

At first it didn’t work, segfaults kind of fun. After searching the web a little I found out that todays update broke beryl for fglrx. So one downgrade later I had everything running.  There is only one thing I can say  WOW! It really is improved since the last time I tried it..

It doesn’t crash every 3 minutes anymore, if it does crash it nicely starts metacity for you.

The beryl setting manager is allot better.

From what I’ve seen, this can compete with vista’s “WOW” easily.  Seeing your window go up in fire is just fancy.  Or when rotating the “cube” looking against the back of playing dvd is show-off on the highest level. But ……

Yes, there is a but, there always is. I can’t see how people can get work done with all these animations and effects, they take so much time, and distract.  I’ve spend some time trimming the settings done to something workable.

This left me with just a few things enabled:

1. Alt-tab behavior. Seeing small preview windows is useful, it provides extra visual clues that helps you pick the right one fast..

2. Expose (scale it’s called I think). Same as for 1.

3. The cube.  Switching workspace is often done when switching from one task to another. Then the extra time it costs  isn’t a big problem.

One other plugin I found useful is the Opasify plugin. If you hoover your mouse above a partially exposed window, it will make the other windows transparent, allowing you to view the content of that window.  It’s triggered from time to time when you don’t want it, but overall usefull.

I saw in the beryl setting manager that dualscreen is supported. So I might install my desktop pc (when I have time) with a 32bit linux to give it a try.

Norah Jones – Not Too Late

As I  blogged last time, I’ve bought this cd. Now that I listened to it some more, I find it harder and harder to give a real opinion about it.  I am starting to love a few songs, but others I constantly skip because I dislike them. I didn’t had that before with a N. Jones album. I wish she sang more Jazzy stuff.

Q.

p.s. I found out today on the ubuntu forums that my harddisk crashed a month ago, and that caused the gmpc development to slow down. It’s nice that I am finally aware of this, now to find that harddisk.

The Problem:

The volume up/down button on the keybord controls the Master mixer, but on his system this didn’t work, so he wanted to control the PCM mixer.

The obvious solution:

Change the mixer gnome adjust, but I (and a few others) didn’t know how todo this.

The hack-around:

1.

From the Keyboard Shortcut editor of gnome write down the keycode for volume up/down. Then remove them. (we want the keys unbind for now).

In my case this was something like:

Volume up: 0xb0
Volume Down: 0xae

2.

Now start gconf-editor

goto: /apps/metacity/global_keybindings

edit the run_command_1 and set the value to 0xb0
edit the run_command_2 and set the value to 0xae

Now goto /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands

edit the command_1 and set the value to ‘amiser sset PCM 10%+ on’
edit the command_2 and set the value to ‘amiser sset PCM 10%+ on’

(you can find amixer in alsa-utils package)

Now you should be able to control the correct mixer from your Volume keys on the keyboard. (in steps of 10%, but this can easily be changed).

I have nothing against gconf, but it is slowly becoming a huge dump of unknown (yet often useful) program options. If I run a clean system, I spend several minutes in gconf-editor tweaking some small stuff to fits my needs. Normal/new users won’t need todo this but maybe some UI guru’s could give gconf-editor a bit easier to access interface.