UPDATE : this is a non-issue now if you install Opensolaris then read this site (which also mentions the ‘asdf hack’). One thing I really need in any OS is support for the Dvorak keyboard layout. I had pretty bad RSI a few years back and it flares up after any length of time on [...]
Archives for x11
just enough X11 to be dangerous
/j2ee/bin/asupgrade kept insisting DISPLAY wasn’t set. I hanen’t installed X on this box so that’s hardly suprising. To get X11 forwarding working, I had to add a few packages: vera # pkginfo -d . SUNWxwfsw SUNWxwice SUNWxwrtl SUNWxwplr SUNWxwplt system SUNWxwfsw X Window System platform required font software system SUNWxwice X Window System Inter-Client Exchange [...]
poison dwarf
I am sick of GNOMEs bullshit. Setantae recommended wmii – I glanced at it a while back but mistook it for a ratpoison clone. Ratpoision didn’t play nice with GIMP and the ‘1 app per desktop’ model meant you were forever switching views. wmii is a lot nicer: sane default layouts, easy adjustments, and it [...]
