note to self....

One thing I know I must do, and do soon, is to find the source code for this "GNOME bloger" thing / Post Blog Entry widget so I can fix the whack HTML translation it does with what I type into this little 90% opaque window...

Is there a technical reason I like KDE4 better than the alternatives I have seen, almost to the point of using it rather than my old steady, FVWM? No, not really.

I do like the widget set. I find that somehow KDE has divined exactly which widgets I want on my desktop and has provided them.

Furthermore, as I look in he system tray, I find that all the little tell-tales, meters, and indicators I need to re-assure me that all is well in my little laptop world are there with their blinking or beeping or popping up little transparent slides - slices of glowing crystal with printing on them - telling me everything is okay. Everything is okay.

It's sort of more like a philosophical or metaphysical reason... you know?

by a discovery I made just this same day, today.

There are commands - plain old command line text from the keyboard, typed into a Bash prompt in an xterm commands that don't even really need the xterm commands, to suspend or hibernate this cute little laptop system. Imagine! So....

The commands are:

• pm-suspend - suspend to RAM
• pm-hibernate - suspend to disk

I believe the 'pm-' prefix stands for "Power Manager".

In any case, I submit to you the question that begs to be asked in light of this new evidence:

Why the HELL is it so difficult to get the goddam suspend/hibernate/shutdown widgets to work from within the many and various Window Manager/Desktop Environment environments?

Well? The world awaits your answer...

So. Well, I know one thing for goddam goddammit shure, at this point: My damned Xt-widget-based applet/button widget thingies that invoke shell scripts based on some stored property or resources - the ones that I use will hence forth work, and work just jim dandy fine, thank-you-for-freakin-nuthin-you-bloat-crazed-widget-making-fiends.

Well, it just gets weirder and weirder - GNOME (perhaps I should start calling it "The GNOME" or "the gnome", since its behaviour is becoming quite fae, and should probably be personified) for reasons yet to be understood, has left the desktop. Not only that, it appears to have taken with it.

My faithful FVWM has been the only available Window manager, but even sweet FVWM has lost her configuration files, so all I got was the default root window menu, where XTerm - the X-Windows Eye-Candy Messiah [Oh save us from our bloated gluttony of Widget-Bloat, oh beloved Spawn of the Xt Widget-set] - was the only room exit shown.

The "Exit FVWM" exit was a false door, since it looped back through a KDM that would only return to FVWM, completely ignoring any prayers and imprecations offered on the altar of the KDM Login Session Menu.

Where, or where, is that GDM I request all those weeks ago, and so painstakingly downloaded over the borrowed DSL connection? Gone, gone, gone away, it would seem. At least, it's not running, and I have yet to find the radio button that will entice it to leave it's dormant state and participate in the operation of the system.

So KDE4 is running now, having dropped to the console login, and started it form the command line.

Removed eXecute Permissions from blender.png Icon

$sudo chmod -x /usr/share/wbar/iconpack/wbar.osx/blender.png

and another

http://crash.gnome.org/report/index/e9cf9e02-ec66-11dd-bd6e-0007e9333148?date=2009-01-27-11

This time it was the settings manager, again.

Another GNOME Bug Report

http://crash.gnome.org/report/index/0152bd62-ec66-11dd-8276-0007e9333148?date=2009-01-27-11

This time it was gnome-terminal.

It seems like all of these crashes, as well as the 100% CPU Usage is around the Gnome Panel and/or some issue it or one of its applets have with pixmap drawing - specifically, there is a pixmap not getting found, a variable not getting initialized, and then a crash.

Gtk2 to blame?

GNOME blog posting widget

It works right out of the box - it does seem to have a tendency to try to keep the authentication data, however.

From: http://wordbiscuit.com/wb037.htm - it's by ray heinrich also of rec.arts.poems:

      < oh you always >
      
      begin talking
      telling me secrets when i can't hear you
      so i fill them in
      those secrets
      fill them with whatever i want
      say them
      where you can't hear me

getting my attention
taking it away again
left me incommunicado
waiting just to die

today is always the day
divine intervention
against all human

screw you
screw your god
screw your universe
gimme back what's mine