René’s old blog
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Nautilus: where do you want to go today?
The new spatial nautilus is generally nice, but sometimes the mime type detection messes up. This time I had an sftp: location open, where I have a symlink to another folder on the remote server. First the symlink is shown as a file of an unknown type, but when I double click on it to […]
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OpenOffice.org won’t print with CUPS anymore
For some reason oowriter has decided it doesn’t want to print with CUPS anymore. I had set up CUPS_SERVER to point to my home server, so I wouldn’t need to maintain a print setup on our laptops, and every other application prints nicely, but OOo. In the print dialog the two CUPS printers are there, as expected, and when I print something, the progress dialog flashes briefly on the screen saying the job is being sent. On the print server nothing ever arrives. There isn’t the slightest trace of any incoming print job. The CUPS interface in Openoffice appears to be a Debian addition, so I have reported the bug there. Currently, my workaround involves adding the line unset CUPS_SERVER
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GNU Emacs and UTF-8 locale
I recently wanted to shift to a UTF-8 locale, because I wanted to play with stuff like writing in Arabic, and because it seems to be the road forward. So I switched and GNU Emacs starts to enter garbage in my buffers. I type “æøåÆØÅ éÀ“, but Emacs gives me “æøåÃÃà éÃÂ⬓. Ever so slightly […]
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Old stuff moving over here
I’m moving most of my old Linux related material over here, to have it all in a single location. Since the material is old, I backdate the pages so they won’t appear on the front page.
Currently, migrated are:
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Using the Mail led with remote mail
I recently switched all my mail reading over to using IMAP over SSL, and needed to get GNOME’s Inbox Monitor applet to handle it. It doesn’t do it natively, so I had to use a script to do the check. It is done easily with fetchmail.
I have found a way to use the extra leds on the Asus M2400N, which I have added to the script.
The script is this: