Tag Archives: fix

Kopete Chat Window History is annoying

November 27, 2009

I’ve been using Kopete on my quest to convert to KDE, and I’ve been extremely annoyed by previous conversions showing up in my chat windows. The option to disable it didn’t seem to be anywhere, but I found a forum post that pointed me to the Plugins section of the configuration. Just disable the plugin entirely or open it and mess with the configuration. Things like that shouldn’t be on by default, along with chat window tabs (when did this [...]

Super Key Fix in Ubuntu

March 28, 2007

So I found that my super key was not a modifier key in GNOME today, but rather a standalone key. THis was unacceptable. To change it, I did this: System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layout Options -> Alt/Win Key Behavior -> Super is mapped to Win-Keys Now, I can change my shortcuts to not be stupid.

Fixing Mephisto Post Pinger Plugin

March 2, 2007

I wanted some places to get pinged when I posted. I used the mephisto_post_ping plugin, I simply changed the directory structure and class definition around: Directory Structure ./lib/article_ping_observer.rb ./lib/mephisto_plugins/post_ping.rb ./lib/config.rb ./README ./init.rb File Changes init.rb # $Id$ require ‘mephisto_plugins/post_ping’ ActiveRecord::Base.observers << :article_ping_observer plugin.rb module Mephisto module Plugins class PostPinger < Mephisto::Plugin author ‘Mark Guzman’ version ‘$Rev: 82 $’.gsub( "Rev: ", "" ) notes "Send Weblogs Pings when articles are published" homepage "http://hasno.info/2006/11/11/mephisto-plugins" class Schema < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.install end def [...]

First Post, What to say

May 21, 2006

Well, I finally got this damn blog working thanks to bish0p. Turns out that you have to change the shebang line from #!/usr/bin/env ruby to #!/usr/local/bin/ruby Ahh typo is nice. Other crap I learned today: Problems with typo themes generating application errors can be solved by changing this line in layouts/default.rhtml <%= render_component(:controller => ‘sidebars/sidebar’, :action => ‘display_plugins’) %> To this: <%= render_sidebar %> Thanks to This dude. I generated a new GPG keypair today (Public Key). Get it like [...]