2008-01-28, 01:14 PM
Day 18
was playing around with Gimp earlier and I've noticed that since adding the 1GB of ram that gimp is practically fast !, so once again if any of you are experiencing slow response from your linux distro then upgrade your RAM !
Well hung !
I started up Openoffice calc today to make some updates to a spreadsheet I'm working on, I made a few edits when suddenly everything just hung completely (except for the mouse, that worked), i had a few things running in the background (3 terminals, xchat, pidgin, firefox with 8 tabs). The capslock key did not show the capslock LED (always a good test) and ctrl_alt_backspace did not restart X, pressing the power button did not gracefully shut the computer down either so i held it and did a dirty shutdown.
After that, I powered on again and one lost inode was deleted during the reboot.
Quote:[root@localhost anyweb]# dmesg |grep inodeext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 260623
EXT3-fs: hda1: 1 orphan inode deleted
Once I logged in to KDE again, I started up openoffice calc again and tried to re-edit my file, openoffice in turn told me that the file was locked and I had the option of recovering the document, i chose to do this and it loaded up the document, however the changes i was making to the doc were all but gone, luckily it wasn't a weeks worth of work (more like 5 minutes).
Now that I was working again I tried the internet, but no wireless. No ip address, hmm, as root in cli i issued my iwconfig commands again followed by dhclient and a few seconds later i had internet. To hopefully resolve this on every boot i added those two lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (executes scripts in there on every boot).
Compiz is working now !
I changed DM back from KDE to Gnome, and then decided I wanted to try compiz again. I enabled Compiz (using the Configure your computer icon) and then through trial and error found a fix for my lack of window-decorators (as I now know they are called).
If you click on System, Administration and then select the Compiz Fusion Icon, it will load that icon into your system tray (blue box with a white arrow..). I then right-clicked on that box and chose Select Window Decorator, it was set to GTK and I set it to Emerald. Lo and behold, borders around my windows !!
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Great, I found out how to get the window-decorator's showing up on all my windows (which was essentially making Compiz unusable for me before I figured this out).
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Next up i wanted to add the avant dock, but a bit of googling didn't throw up any extra repository for it (like i had with Ubuntu), so instead i hopped over to here http://code.google.com/p/avant-window-navigator/ and that website told me to go here > https://launchpad.net/awn so I did and then I grabbed the tar ball.
once done, I uncompressed the file
Code:
tar xvf avant-window-navigator-0.2.1.tarthen change directory into the newly extracted folder
cd avant-window-navigator-0.2.1
followed by ./configure
which told me the following error
Quote:checking for headers required to compile python extensions... not foundconfigure: error: could not find Python headers
So back to synaptic, I searched for libpython2.4-dev and installed it, now I got a new error
Quote:checking for PYGTK... configure: error: Package requirements (pygtk-2.0 >= 2.8.0) were not met:
No package 'pygtk-2.0' found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
Alternatively, you may set the environment variables PYGTK_CFLAGS
and PYGTK_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
I googled a bit and found a reference to the same error above (more or less, it was on an Ubuntu system), and the suggested solution in that case was to install python-gtk2-dev so I searched synaptic for that and got no results. Using my head I simply searched for pygtk and could see that a package called pygtk2.0-devel was not installed, I selected it and chose to apply, that popped up an error in one of the 25 required packages, but as I had been using apt-get in another cli I decided to 'reload' my synaptic cache. Now it installed the pygtk2.0-devel and its 25 dependancies with no fuss and indeed ./configure got further !
and then stopped with another error
Quote:checking for AWN... configure: error: Package requirements ( glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 gtk+-2.0 gdk-2.0 libwnck-1.0 gnome-desktop-2.0 libgnome-2.0 gnome-vfs-2.0 gconf-2.0 x11 xproto dbus-glib-1 libglade-2.0 xdamage xcomposite xrender) were not met:
No package 'libwnck-1.0' found
No package 'gnome-desktop-2.0' found
No package 'libgnome-2.0' found
No package 'gnome-vfs-2.0' found
No package 'gconf-2.0' found
No package 'dbus-glib-1' found
No package 'libglade-2.0' found
Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.
Alternatively, you may set the environment variables AWN_CFLAGS
and AWN_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
ok then, that's quite a bunch of packages to install