It seems gvim is not playing nicely with tiling manager. I encountered this bug.
It seems I am not alone with this problem. To maximize and restore the window each time doesn't seem to be a good workaround. The workaround I used are from the stackexchange, add the following line into my .vimrc:
set showtabline=2It always display the tab bar. Although it wastes some spaces, it gives me a proper displayed window.
One of my home PC died (HP Pavilion Media Center m8530f), and not seeing a great need for a new one, I found my wife's old PC laying in the garage. It is a brand-less PC with an Asus motherboard P5VDC-MX (an old revision with only 2 RAM slots) couple with Pentium 4 (64-bit enbaled), 1G of DDR RAM, CD-writer and floppy drive! Oh, it has SATA support also. That is good as I could reuse the SATA components from the HP PC. It has been collecting dust for years in the garage, and I was afraid whether it could still boot.
After cleanup the dust and power up, it run without much problem, its BIOS battery run out, replaced it with the one from the HP PC. I installed the DVD, multi-card reader and hard drive from the HP PC into this old board. It seems I could not use both IDE channel when SATA is in used (long time to boot and hard drive is not recognize correctly). I have to disconnect the second IDE channel and have both old IDE drives on the first channel. Then it boots up fine, even with my previous custom made kernel for the the HP PC. The on board VGA is too weak, and I solicited an old ATI radeon 9200 SE AGP card from my friend.
After installed everything, I recompiled the kernel to match what I had on the PC, and almost everything work except for the sound. I always got something like:
hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last cmd=0x12345678testing with aplay gave the speaker repeating tone. After searching the net and consult the documents in kernel source, it seems switching to polling mode is not a serious problem at first glance. But I don't think it is right. Setting probe_mask=1 for the snd_hda_intel module gave no help. Then I recompiled the module with debug turn on and I saw lines indicate it has MSI turned on, after setting "enable_msi=0" to off, sound is working.
The display has some minor problem, in console, the text is quite dim and it will become dimmer if running after a mc instance. One thing is strange that if I highlight a few lines in the console with mouse, the brightness of the text will increase depends on how much line I have highlighted. In X, I have the same problem if I have an xterm on full screen, it will become dimmer, if I have a relatively bright window opened next to it, it will be fine. Well it is an old PC and usable, so I don't complaint too much ^_^
P.S. when compiling kernel, I feel the age of this PC ^_^ it took almost an hour. Running Slackware64 14.0 on this old one.
P.P.S. it seems my problem of dim text in console has gone away, it maybe related to the old radeon card/mainboard hasn't been use for years, after a few days of usage, it seems back to normal.
I have heard about tiling window manager for some time, but lack the initiative to test one. Recently I finally got fed up with resizing two windows side by side and decided to give titling manager a test.
After some research from the web, I settled on i3 tiling window manager for its simplicity. With the help from SlackBuilds, I got the window manager installed and run without hassle (I did recompile the cairo with xcb support (from current) and use the latest i3 release version 4.5.1).
It took me a while to get familiar with the key bindings. Thanks for the good documentation, I got used to it quickly and customized the configuration to suite my own needs. No longer do I need to fight with the mouse to place the window to gain the last pixel. Wow, I wish I should try it earlier. It just simply awesome! Oh, and awesome is another good tiling window manager too ^_^.
I have used various window mangers and DE during the years of using Slackware. From the beginning, it was fvwm, fvwm2, IceWM, window maker, GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, blackbox, EDE, E16, E17, fluxbox. Now I am simply sold to the tiling manager and won't go back to the normal one.
I just tried to compile wireshark 1.10.0 under Slackware64 14.0, using the build script from SBo.
It compiled fine, but running with segmentation fault. It seems wireshark itself try to use libnl3 but libpcap in Slackwre is using libnl (version 1). After adding configuration "--with-libnl=1" to force wireshark to use version 1 of libnl, it does not crash anymore.
But it did not use gnutls, it seems the version (3.0.23) in Slackware is too old, it required at least 3.1.10. Currently, the latest stable version is 3.2.1, but it requires update nettle to 2.7 also. I ended up update the gnutls lib to 3.1.12 to compile wireshark with tls support.
It seems Slackware-current does not update gnutls library yet, hope next version of Slackware could update the gnutls version to a newer one.
PS. seems nettle 2.7.1/gnutls 3.2.1/wireshark 1.10.0 works fine after I recompiled the 3 packages.
I tried to sync my local git repository to the remote server and got some error messages saying certain objects are not valid object: "... does not point to a vlid object".
After searching the net, these two commands solve my problem:
git remote prune origin git gc --prune=now
After that, re-sync my repository without problem.
Google Glass seems grasp quite some attention. From the limited information gathered, I don't see it an attractive gadget at all.
I am not speaking from technical points of view, like processor power, battery life, user interface, etc. but its usage point of view.
Maybe for some specific venues or activities, it could a good use, but not in general usage. The display/notification from it disturb one's attention, it may danger your life, especially when you are driving or walking on the street, your attention got diverted and tragic accident would happen. I could imagine there would be laws to ban usage of Google glass when driving if it could ever reach that kind of massive market. Maybe Google should add a small radar into it to prevent collision ^_^
I am not sure how much would it affecting one's vision health when switching your eye focus back and forth from the display to background scene. Would it have any bad effect on how the brain process vision?
The GNU indent program includes in Slackware 14 has a regression bug.
After searching, it seems there is an unofficial release 2.2.11, which could be located from Debian source. The release fixed the problem.
After downloaded the source from the above URL and also the Debian tar ball (indent_2.2.11.orig.tar.gz was gunziped, renamed to indent-2.2.11.tar then xzed). Slackware's official build script was downloaded also. It was modified to compile the newer version and include patches from Debian:
#!/bin/sh
# Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010 Patrick J. Volkerding, Sebeka, MN, USA
# All rights reserved.
#
# Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
# permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
#
# 1. Redistributions of this script must retain the above copyright
# notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
#
# THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
# WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
# MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO
# EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
# SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
# PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS;
# OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
# WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
# OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
# ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
VERSION=${VERSION:-2.2.11}
BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
# Automatically determine the architecture we're building on:
if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
case "$( uname -m )" in
i?86) export ARCH=i486 ;;
arm*) export ARCH=arm ;;
# Unless $ARCH is already set, use uname -m for all other archs:
*) export ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
esac
fi
if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
elif [ "$ARCH" = "s390" ]; then
SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
else
SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
fi
NUMJOBS=${NUMJOBS:-" -j7 "}
CWD=$(pwd)
TMP=${TMP:-/tmp}
PKG=$TMP/package-indent
rm -rf $PKG
mkdir -p $TMP $PKG
cd $TMP
rm -rf indent-$VERSION
tar xvf $CWD/indent-$VERSION.tar.xz || exit 1
cd indent-$VERSION
chown -R root:root .
find . \
\( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \
-exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
\( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
-exec chmod 644 {} \;
# GCC4 fix
#sed -i -e 's#extern FILE \*output#static FILE *output#' src/indent.h || exit 1
#apply patches from Debian
for file in $CWD/patches/* ; do
patch -p1 < $file
done
CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var \
--mandir=/usr/man \
--infodir=/usr/info \
--build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
make $NUMJOBS || make || exit 1
make install DESTDIR=$PKG
# I'm not sure why this man page fails, but...
if find $PKG -type f -size 0c -name indent.1 ; then
( cd man
./texinfo2man ./indent.1.in ./../doc/indent.texinfo > indent.1
cat indent.1 > $PKG/usr/man/man1/indent.1
)
fi
# Strip binaries and libraries:
find $PKG | xargs file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" \
| grep ELF | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null
# Compress man pages:
( cd $PKG/usr/man
find . -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
for i in $( find . -type l ) ; do
ln -s $( readlink $i ).gz $i.gz ; rm $i
done
)
# Compress info pages and remove the package's dir file:
rm -f $PKG/usr/info/dir
gzip -9 $PKG/usr/info/*.info*
# Copy program documentation into the package:
mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/indent-$VERSION
cp -a \
AUTHORS COPYING* NEWS README \
$PKG/usr/doc/indent-$VERSION
chmod 644 $PKG/usr/doc/indent-$VERSION/*
mkdir -p $PKG/install
cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
# Build the package:
cd $PKG
/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $TMP/indent-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD.txz
As I have installed texlive 2012 in stead of tetex from the stock Slackware, the newer version of texi2html program does not support the -number option anymore, it has changed to two separate options --number-footnotes and --number-sections.
A patched is developed for it to compile with the new texi2html:
--- indent-2.2.11/doc/Makefile.in 2010-01-31 08:25:21.000000000 -0800
+++ indent-2.2.11.new/doc/Makefile.in 2012-12-05 11:40:30.130229271 -0800
@@ -663,14 +663,14 @@
html-split: @PACKAGE@_toc.html
@PACKAGE@.html: version.texi $(@PACKAGE@_TEXINFOS)
- $(TEXI2HTML) -expandinfo -number -monolithic `if test -f @PACKAGE@.texinfo; then echo @PACKAGE@.texinfo; else echo $(srcdir)/@PACKAGE@.texinfo; fi`
+ $(TEXI2HTML) -expandinfo --number-sections --number-footnotes -monolithic `if test -f @PACKAGE@.texinfo; then echo @PACKAGE@.texinfo; else echo $(srcdir)/@PACKAGE@.texinfo; fi`
@PACKAGE@_toc.html: version.texi $(@PACKAGE@_TEXINFOS)
case "$(TEXI2HTML)" in \
*"/missing texi2html") \
- $(TEXI2HTML) -expand info -number -nomenu -split section `if test -f @PACKAGE@.texinfo; then echo @PACKAGE@.texinfo; else echo $(srcdir)/@PACKAGE@.texinfo; fi` || exit 0 ;; \
+ $(TEXI2HTML) -expand info --number-sections --number-footnotes -nomenu -split section `if test -f @PACKAGE@.texinfo; then echo @PACKAGE@.texinfo; else echo $(srcdir)/@PACKAGE@.texinfo; fi` || exit 0 ;; \
*) $(RM) @PACKAGE@_*.html ; \
- $(TEXI2HTML) -expand info -number -nomenu -split section `if test -f @PACKAGE@.texinfo; then echo @PACKAGE@.texinfo; else echo $(srcdir)/@PACKAGE@.texinfo; fi` ;; \
+ $(TEXI2HTML) -expand info --number-sections --number-footnotes -nomenu -split section `if test -f @PACKAGE@.texinfo; then echo @PACKAGE@.texinfo; else echo $(srcdir)/@PACKAGE@.texinfo; fi` ;; \
esac
install-html-monolithic: @PACKAGE@.html
The compilation went smoothly after applying all the patches and the regression is fixed.