[Linux] Journal.

After having configured the Lexmark printer in Linux we decided that it should also be accessible from the Linux laptop, when the server computer runs in Windows.

Whenever I start a kde app from shell I get hundreds of these icon warnings

kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ group 48×48/stock/navigation not valid.

which makes it impossible to find the important error messages. It’s an open bug in kde
but there is a way to turn it off as quoted in this thread:

$ kdebugdialog –fullmode
select: debug [...]

Gnome GTray is a nifty little notifier for new mails in your gmail account. However it’s written in ruby and requires a couple of non-standard packages. Apart from the prerequisite packages stated on the website which are:

$ apt-get install ruby libopenssl-ruby libgconf2-ruby libgtk2-ruby ruby-gnome2

I also needed to install

$ apt-get install ruby1.8-dev libgtk2.0-dev

Which was necessary to [...]

I installed Eclipse 3.0 yesterday and it constantly crash on me. The crash message was something like “an error occured in code outside VM”. Apparently the distribution of java I got was not compatible with eclipse. My original source for java is ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian I had to reinstall java from this new source deb http://jrfonseca.dyndns.org/debian ./ [...]

K3b is KDE’s CD burning suite. It’s the best CD burning suite in linux I’ve found so far. It has a very nice user interface and it does a good job of detecting all my devices and setting automatically.

When I log in to Gnome I get an annoying X cursor bang in the middle of the screen. It’s not my mouse cursor, it stays on top of everything and I can’t move it. The only thing that seems to get rid of it is running Notes. Arrrrrg.

[UPDATE]

Found a solution at last! Thanks to [...]