Tech notes

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Where KAdressbook stores its data and settings (kabc)

Of course in ~/.kde/share/apps, but if you have one hundred kde apllications and the programmers didn't manage to come up with a descriptive name for the configuration directory, you are in trouble.

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Wheel Mouse trouble with Suse Linux 9.2 (SaX2, xorg.conf, explorerps/2, ZAxisMapping)

I wanted to activate the wheen of my USB mouse, but everytime I went to Yast2 Hardware Mouse the X server crashed and threw me into a text console.

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Webalizer on our server

The log files of virtual hosts are located in /var/log/httpd/vhost_name/ and named vhost_name-access_log etc.

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Vmware and ’error while loading shared libraries’: Suse’s new gdk-pixbuf rpm is broken

Still yesterday I have been running VMware on Suse Linux 9.1 and today (after I performed an online update of my system) I get: error while loading shared libraries: /opt/gnome/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: Suse has broken this package…

April 4, 2007 • 3 min read • Technology

Updating Suse Linux 9.0 to 9.1

The .0 to .1 update suggests, that it's not a big deal.

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

Tunneling of remote X11 output to a local machine behind a firewall (ssh, X11, ForwardX11)

If X11 forwarding is globally disallowed in your local machine, you need to override this by editing ~/.ssh/config: Host hostname.domain.org ForwardX11 yes Then you just ssh into the remote machine hostname.domain.org: ssh -X username@hostname.domain.org And execute some program that outputs to X11, e.g.: xclock &

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

The invisible screensaver (kslideshow, import, screenshot)

I was trying to configure my screensaver such, that it would display as only picture the desktop at the moment when the screensaver became active.

April 4, 2007 • 1 min read • Technology

The Debian Package manager (apt-cache, apt-get, install, search)

Search for packages containing the word emacs in their name or description:apt-cache search emacsInstall package emacs21:apt-get install emacs21Remove package wine including all configuration files:apt-get remove purge wineReinstall a package:apt-get reinstall install wineSometimes, you need to use dpkg to reconfigure a package, e.g.
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