
XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments
link fixed, thanks for the hint - Mar 15 2010

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments
1. Can you confirm, that it is the same problem with python-gksu2 as discussed with zetty above, namely that Quote:python -c "import gksu2;gksu2.run('whoami')" prints "root" on the terminal output, while Quote:python -c "import gksu2;ctx=gksu2.Context();ctx.set_command('whoami');gksu2.su_full(ctx)" does not?
2. Do you mean xsplash-background-settings upgrade or xsplash upgrade (or rather a general update which might have covered both)?
3. If you select "Use Desktop Background", click "OK" and change you desktop wallpaper afterwards, does the xsplash background change or not or become completely white?
4. A nice gui to configure GDM already exists: Quote:gksudo -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-propertiesNote this bug though: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/459747
5. https://answers.launchpad.net/xsplash-background-settings/+question/99844 - Feb 04 2010

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments
in the meantime there is always the workaround to manually permit permanent user write access to the xsplash image folder
Quote:sudo chmod -R a+rw /usr/share/images/xsplash or start the settings dialog from terminal with sudo
Quote:sudo xsplash-background-settings --settings - Feb 02 2010

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments
python -c "import gksu2;ctx = gksu2.Context();ctx.set_command('echo \$USER');gksu2.su_full(ctx)"
This should print "root" on the terminal output.
2. Actually the radiobuttons need confirmation with "OK", but the custom background selection dialog actively changes the XSplash background which really is a bit inconsistent. I will fix that.
3. Test button is on the list.
4. Thanks a lot for your translation, i will include that in the next release. - Feb 01 2010

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments
xsplash-background-settings --daemon
), change the wallpaper (or wait for your applet to change it) and see if you get any messages on the terminal output. - Jan 23 2010

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments
To achieve that behavior without starting the script manually, just follow the install instructions till end:
3. Add wallpaper_daemon.py to the startup programs (gnome-session-properties).
4. restart
- Dec 16 2009

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments
sudo apt-get install imagemagick - Dec 03 2009

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments
if there are users which consider it useful to have the first image in a xml list set as xsplash background whenever a xml file is selected as desktop background, i can easily integrate this in the script. just let me know or suggest other treatments of xml files, you would prefer. - Nov 18 2009

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments
sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/background/picture_options
from terminal.
To change it, run
sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type string /desktop/gnome/background/picture_options zoom
You may replace "zoom" with another valid value like "none", "wallpaper", "centered", "scaled" or "stretched". - Nov 16 2009

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments
If you want to revert to the default configuration, just unpack your backup file as described in the uninstall instructions above. - Nov 16 2009

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments
2. afaik the first bootsplash (with the ubuntu logo on black) is generated by usplash. in that case dynamically changing it would need write access to the /boot folder (or at least the initrd files) which i consider a serious security issue as this exposes the essential files for the boot process. though it might seem unlikely, that someone tries to destroy your boot process by using this security hole (e.g. malware) i think its still an inappropriate risk for a little bit of eye candy. - Nov 09 2009

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments
please let me know if you solved your problem. - Nov 09 2009

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments
I assume you downloaded the file in a folder called Downloads in your Home folder (thats default behavior of firefox in ubuntu karmic).
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
cd ~/Downloads
tar -xf 114984-wallpaper_daemon_1.2.tar.gz
mkdir ~/.scripts
mv wallpaper_daemon.py ~/.scripts
cd ~/.scripts
chmod +x wallpaper_daemon.py
./wallpaper_daemon.py --install
gnome-session-properties
The last command opens a dialog, click on "Add", fill in a name like "xsplash wallpaper daemon" and as Command:
~/.scripts/wallpaper_daemon.py
Confirm with "Add" and "Close" the "Startup Applications Preferences".
Finally change your desktop background as you normally do and restart ubuntu to see the effect.
good luck! - Nov 08 2009

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments
System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Accessibility
uncheck "Accessibility features can be toggled with keyboard shortcuts" - Nov 08 2009

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments
i have replaced the description above with a direct method where this bug does not appear. - Nov 08 2009

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments

XSplash Themes by meerkat 84 comments
does the backup and so on.
./wallpaper_daemon.py
(without --install) applies the desktop background to xsplash, whenever you change it.
Therefore you should run ./wallpaper_daemon.py --install once and add ./wallpaper_daemon.py to the startup programs.
If you want to test the behavior without restarting just start ./wallpaper_daemon.py from terminal and change your desktop background. You may also test xsplash without restarting by running sudo xsplash
Hope that helps. - Nov 06 2009

Amarok 2.x Scripts by meerkat 39 comments
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?action=knowledgebase&content=103307&kbid=73
note that the above is only true for kde versions before the new kde 4.3, that just was released a week ago. for kde 4.3 you wont need any additional packages, as knotify now implements the dbus api my script uses. unfortunately there are some serious issues with that (see apoldors posts below), so if you are on kde 4.3 please wait till they are fixed or i released a temporary workaround which i will implement as soon as i find time for that. - Aug 10 2009

Amarok 2.x Scripts by meerkat 39 comments

Amarok 2.x Scripts by meerkat 39 comments

Amarok 2.x Scripts by meerkat 39 comments
there still seems to be some bugs though but im confident theyll be fixed till karmic final in october. the only thing i can do in the meantime is prevent the blinking by deactivating the update if knotify is used and maybe fix the image problem. ill try that sometime next week.
thanks for your detailed report on the problems with kde 4.3. - Aug 02 2009

Amarok 2.x Scripts by meerkat 39 comments
http://mantis.blogsport.de/images/NotifyAmarok1.1.amarokscript.tar.gz - Jul 21 2009

Amarok 2.x Scripts by meerkat 39 comments
qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player GetMetadata
are you sure it's caused by the accent characters or are there other special characters (e.g. $ or ") in your tags in question? are the notes ♫ and the play symbol ▶ shown in your notifications? does the problem appear in head as well as body of the notification and title as well as artist tag? - Jul 21 2009

Conky by helmuthdu 930 comments
There is a screenshot of the Script in action integrated in an conky-colors design.
Anyway, keep up the good work helmuth and everybody contributing to this project here. im always astonished about the rapid progress when im checking this page. - Jul 01 2009

Amarok 2.x Scripts by meerkat 39 comments

Amarok 2.x Scripts by meerkat 39 comments

Amarok 2.x Scripts by meerkat 39 comments

Amarok 2.x Scripts by meerkat 39 comments

Amarok 2.x Scripts by meerkat 39 comments
2. at the moment the cover is taken from the amarok cover folder (if there is one with the right hashcode), or the folder where the music file is stored (if there is any image-file at all). if there is no cover show in notification but in amarok there is, that can be caused for example by changed tags since the cover storage or manual assignment of a file in a different folder.
as i have found out in the meantime how to simply use exactly the same image file amarok uses i will fix that in the next release, but that will take some time as im really busy at the moment. - May 27 2009

Conky by helmuthdu 930 comments
http://rapidshare.com/files/234420336/hd.py.html
i chose a reduced view with just the free disk space displayed (screenshot: http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/9744/conky.png), but you can easily change this back to your variant. i dont know if its common to mount everything in /media but at least in ubuntu thats default behavior. if you use this, make sure to use execpi in .conkyrc - May 18 2009

Wallpaper Other by chino77 11 comments

Amarok 2.x Scripts by meerkat 39 comments
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Amarok+libnotify?content=75979
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/amarok+libnotify?content=49372 - May 01 2009

Amarok 2.x Scripts by meerkat 39 comments
about 1) you are absolutely right, ill look into it next week.
about 2) as i just use the command line tool notify-send thats in the hand of the notification daemon. the standard gnome notification daemon just behaves as you wish. notify-osd in contrast just shows one amarok notification at a time. as notify-osd limits the number of notifications been displayed at the same time (i think it just allows 2), the stacking on screen behavior isn't possible at all for skipping through several tracks, nevertheless it might be possible to gain another solution for skipping through problem. notify-send doesn't povide any helpful options for this case, but ill have a look at the libnotify-api. - Apr 26 2009

Amarok 2.x Scripts by browner 14 comments

Amarok 2.x Scripts by thesalus 31 comments

Wallpaper Other by kiriapurv 7 comments
for your questions you might want to do the obvious: read some basic information about the phenomena you described (i.e. Wikipedia) and you might find out, that afaik the so called "Medieval Warm Period" was most certainly a local and no global climate phenomenon, and about the mars i can only guess, that because of the lack of an atmosphere its temperature is nearly directly generated by the variation of sun radiation. Anyway, your lack of information about other climate events is no argument against the scientifically well documented anthropogenic climate change taking place in the present. - Apr 14 2009

Amarok Themes by twigsby 5 comments