Archive for the ‘hacking’ Category

TermLauncher Applet 0.0.3

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

This is a bug fix release which fixes an issue with the applet not shutting down cleanly when a user logs off. I've also cleaned up the source package to allow an Ubuntu package to be created - thanks to Mitsuya Shibata. Download: TermLauncherApplet-0.0.3.tar.gz

Extended root partition on an N800 with OS2008

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Like many, I wanted to increase the space available to me for my root partition on my n800. There are a lot of sites describing the process of putting the whole of root onto your memory card but I wanted to keep using the internal flash for most of the ...

Version 2 already?!

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

Why is it that whenever you release anything you immediately find something wrong with it? Anyway, click the link below to download version 0.0.2 of my TermLauncher Applet. Download: TermLauncherApplet-0.0.2.tar.gz Here's what's fixed in this version: src/termlauncher-applet.py: - Get current profiles from /apps/gnome-terminal/global/profile_list - Sort profiles alphabetically Basically I now grab the list of profiles ...

TermLauncher Applet Initial Release

Friday, December 14th, 2007

I like to have a GNOME-Terminal profile for each machine I connect to (and there's a few of them) which automatically connects me to that machine on launch. The standard application launcher on the Ubuntu (and many other distros) default panel only gives you the option of launching a ...