donnatella, filters, MRUs, scripts, and GTK+ 3.14!
Yes, GTK+ 3.14 has been out for some time now, and it's even been available in Arch's official repos for a little while as well. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find enough time to work on donna...
View Articledonnatella 0.3.0 released
A new version of donnatella, your GTK3 file manager, is available. A bunch of fixes and improvments/optimizations since 0.2.0, some new things as well, the most "important" ones being the addition of...
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How to simply create a "media pool" on Linux?
Ever since I switched to (Arch) Linux, I've always loved the command line. It can often be quite amazing, I find. Back in the Windows world, you're pretty much expected to forget that such a thing even...
View Articledonnatella 0.3.1 released
A new version of donnatella, your GTK3 file manager, is available. A few fixes since 0.3.0, as well as the addition of option cancel_childless for terminals. Enabled by default, it will cancel the...
View ArticleUse tool of your choice to perform IO operations in donnatella
A few changes have just been pushed to branch next of donnatella, introducing some changes when it comes to IO operations (i.e. copy/move/delete files). Starting at the top: donnatella doesn't perform...
View Articlekalu 3.0.0 released
A new version of pacman (4.2) has been released, introducing some API changes to ALPM. To go along with it, version 3.0.0 of kalu has been released, with the usual few fixes as well as some new...
View ArticleHas Arch lost its Way?
A few years back, as I wanted to switch OS and enter the world of Linux, I needed to pick a distribution (or first, figure out what makes a distribution, what sets one apart from another). Did some...
View ArticleMaking an anopa-powered bootable ISO
There is something I've been meaning to do for some time now, I really should have, yet haven't found some time to: writing some sort of proper/actual introduction to anopa. So let's try to do this...
View Articleanopa 0.4.0 released
A new version of anopa - init system/service manager built around s6 supervision suite - has been released. Main changes since 0.3.0 are : Change how the logging works: instead of logging into...
View ArticleIntroducing pam_rundir
As a user of a Linux system, you should have a runtime directory available for applications. Such a thing is even defined in the XDG Base Directory Specifications, as $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR -- and it is...
View Articleslicd: a new Linux cron daemon
There are already many cron daemons out there, and I honestly don't remember how I came about looking into such tools, but as I did I realized I wasn't too happy with the way most worked. For instance,...
View ArticleHow to use kalu, PkgClip & pacdep with pacman 5
As you may know, pacman 5.0 was just released (and is available in testing) so you might want to give it a try (and play with hooks) ! To do so, here's what you need to know wrt my tools: kalu : if you...
View Articlekalu 4.0.0, PkgClip 1.3.0 released
As I don't doubt you're aware, pacman 5.0 is out. I managed to take some time and here we go with new releases for kalu & PkgClip -- though, really, only the former has a link to the new pacman,...
View Articlekalu 4.0.1 released
2016 will be different, and there's already a new release of kalu! Nothing to be pleased about though, as I let slip a bad bug with the templates reworking, and kalu would segfault when running and no...
View Articlekalu 4.0.2 released
"Release often" they say, right? Yet another release of kalu, since a stupid mistake on my part led to notifications being empty in 4.0.1, making them much less useful indeed. This is now fixed; Thanks...
View ArticleWhat does it mean when 'alsactl restore' talks invalid sysfs?
alsactl: sysfs_init:48: sysfs path '/sys' is invalid Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Analog Devices AD1989B" "HDA:11d4989b,10438311,00100300" "0x1043" "0x8311" Hardware is initialized using a generic...
View Articlekalu 4.1.0 is out, speaks Norwegian
Time for a new release of kalu. Mostly a bugfix release, though thanks to AdmiringWorm kalu now speaks Norwegian Bokmål! Note that there was a bug in the updater, where /etc/pacmand.d/hooks was not set...
View ArticleVersion 0.1.5 of kalu released
A new version of kalu - upgrade notifier for Arch Linux - has just been released. Changes since last version are : Now using automake & autoconf. (Hopefully) this shouldn't really change much for...
View ArticleAutomatic restart of services on upgrade
Sometimes after an upgrade of the system, there might be a few tasks that needs to be done. For example, aplications or services migh need to be restarted for the new version to be used/in use. While...
View ArticlePkgClip 1.0.0 & kalu 1.0.0 released
New versions of PkgClip - Cached Packages Trimmer Utility - and kalu - upgrade notifier for Arch Linux - have just been released. Both have been bumped to 1.0.0, not because they've undergone major...
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