beslog

Today I had a look at tomboy, a note taking application for the desktop.
Fortunately there was an ebuild in portage already, but it was a little outdated (version 0.2.2-something vs. the current 0.3.1). So I copied the ebuild file over to my portage overlay, renamed it to read …0.3.1.ebuild and emerged it.
Installation went w/o any problem, but all the software did when I called it from the command line, was writing “All done. Ciao!”. Wtf?
But after using Google I was able to find an answer: tomboy is supposed to run as applet. So I added an applet, and – what can you say? – there really was a tomboy applet.
Yay. works for me.

Now I “only” have to get beagle working :-/ …

Created an ebuild and sent it to the developer of Timer Applet.
Additionally I wrote a feature request.

Switched on my laptop yesterday evening and wanted to log into Gnome.
No workie. Grrrr. What did I emerge this time, that breaks stuff? …
Trying to log into Fluxbox… aha! That works.
Ok… lets see if we can find something about it in the excellent Gentoo Forums. Context menu, Firefox…
Duh. No workie.
Starting it from aterm to see the error… oy.
It says:

error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0: invalid ELF header

Ugh. Time to reemerge that package… but what is it?

qpkg -f /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0

reveals that it belongs to dev-libs/glib (hm, i could have guessed it, duh!)

emerge glib

takes a little while, and after that Firefox works again… Gnome too! yay!

Finally I found the time and installed Xaraya on this webspace. At first I will use it as a weblog, adding my findings on various computer related things.

Later on I will reimport some blog entries from my previous Wordpress installation.
As you can see, I already did a few things other tha n plainly installing a Xaraya distribution tarball

• use latest bitkeeper repository
• create an own theme (most visible change, wasnt too difficult)
• create some categories
• delete default publication types and add a blog pubtype

more to come, stay tuned…

When I prepare my favourite green tea steep it, and go back to the computer, I regularly get sidetracked and forget about the tea.

But no more.
Here is a great new Gnome applet called Timer Applet provided by Jimmy Do.
It is really The Applet I was looking for. And he even provides an Ebuild for easy installation on Gentoo Linux!

[Note] At the time of writing, this ebuild file was in dos format and thus didnt install. The developer was informed. In the meantime just emerge dos2unix and use it :)