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Google Summer of Code 2012 – Fedora JBoss Spin

grdryn — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:28:12 +0000

So yesterday I found out that I got accepted into the Google Summer of Code program. It’s really exciting news for me, being enthusiastic about free software and open source, and also because I’ll be getting money to contribute to a project that I’ve been hoping to get more involved with anyway. I’ll be working with the Fedora project, to help with the packaging of JBoss software, and eventually I’ll create a JBoss spin, which will include JBoss Application Server 7, JBoss Tools for Eclipse, and JBoss Forge. I’m currently doing exams in university, so my activity on this will be limited until they’re finished. Then the hard work begins! I look forward to learning from all of the talented people who are already involved in the Fedora community. For more info on what I’ll be doing, the proposal is available on the wiki. I’ll update here with any interesting progress!

Adjust screen brightness on fedora 16 – try this if it’s not working

grdryn — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:05:42 +0000

Just in case this can help anyone on the fedora planet or other, who doesn’t visit fedoraforum.org or ask.fedoraproject.org very often. Admittedly I don’t visit there very often myself. A quick search in bugzilla shows some possibly related bugs.

If you don’t seem to be able to alter the screen brightness in fedora, either with the Fn keys, or through the gnome-control-center, try reinstalling bash. I rarely have the screen brightness on full on my laptop, so when I couldn’t change it on f16, it was ever so slightly annoying! I honestly wouldn’t know what to file a bug report against, so I started searching. First stop was that shiny new ask.fedoraproject.org instance, which led me to forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=272500
So with the Fn keys not working, which had always worked previously; and the slider in the screen settings in gnome-control-center having no effect, doing a simple

sudo yum reinstall bash

was the answer.

Update:

It’s listed in the ‘Common F16 Bugs’ here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs#Bash_entry_in_.2Fetc.2Fshells_disappears_after_update

Add applications to autostart on login, in GNOME 3

grdryn — Sat, 14 May 2011 20:28:36 +0000

Since I started using GNOME 3 a while back, one feature that I’ve wanted to see is an option to have certain programs start up when I login. Unfortunately I haven’t had time to look into this until now, and a quick look in the release notes pointed me in the right direction. There are two ways of doing this; neither of which I find very obvious, and both do essentially the same thing. The easiest way is by using gnome-session-properties. Unfortunately, this is something that the shell in GNOME 3 doesn’t seem to know much about. Entering it in the search bar in the shell doesn’t provide anything useful, apart from a wikipedia or google search possibility. To open the dialog, we must either open a terminal and enter gnome-session-properties, or hit the trusty Alt+F2 and enter it there. At this point, I would like to point out that the Alt+F2 command launcher now has tab auto-completion (I’m not sure if that was a feature before or not, but I’ve only noticed it now)!

As you can see, this presents us with the familiar Startup Applications Preferences dialog, where we can add/remove applications to our hearts content! As you can see from the screenshot, the first application I added was RSIBreak. This is a handy little utility to help prevent Repetitive Strain Injury.

The alternative way to add something to startup on login is to manually create the.desktop files in ~/.config/autostart. Some examples can be found in /usr/share/applications.