lonnie hacks

Essentially, two things. First, when configure, add --x-libraries /usr/X11R6/lib --x-includes /usr/X11R6/include. Second, add -framework CoreFoundation into each Makefile.in you need to build. Probably there should be a better way to add this flag with less effort, there is an “all-recursive” dependency item in “ns” makefile, which is quite a bit amount of labor work to modify all those “recursively”.

The “./install” is really somehow ugly written. For example, when “nam”‘s compilation failed, it will not stop. I really suggest you build each separately by hand, which maybe even easier.

It seems that by default nam is not built automatically, at least for me, using Ubuntu 64-bit 9.10. Here is how to make it work.

1. Install some libs:

   sudo apt-get install xlibs-dev

2. Run these under folder nam-1.14:

   ./configure
   make

1. Download source code here.
2. Install dependencies:

   sudo apt-get install tk8.4-dev

   (Otherwise otcl will complain for X headers. I really wonder if this is the right package. Anyway, it works.)

3. Run installation:

   ./install

4. (optional) Run validation:

   cd ns-2.34
   ./validate

http://userstyles.org/styles/10822

A really cool fix with stylish. Better than mine.

When default ubuntu language support for Simplified Chinese is installed, wqy fonts will be set as default, and even your own .fonts.conf will be blinded. To fix this, you need to edit /etc/fonts/conf.d/44-wqy-zenhei.conf and comment down this arrogant configuration part:

<!--
 <alias>
 <family>serif</family>
 <prefer>
 <family>Bitstream Vera Serif</family>
 <family>DejaVu Serif</family>
 <family>WenQuanYi Zen Hei</family>
 </prefer>
 </alias>
 <alias>
 <family>sans-serif</family>
 <prefer>
 <family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family>
 <family>DejaVu Sans</family>
 <family>WenQuanYi Zen Hei</family>
 </prefer>
 </alias>
 <alias>
 <family>monospace</family>
 <prefer>
 <family>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</family>
 <family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
 <family>WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono</family>
 </prefer>
 </alias>
-->

And then your own ~/.fonts.conf will work again.

This is technically not a tech post but an experience sharing. I put a 3-inch CD into my Macbook, and was expecting my laptop could do something with it. Obviously, nothing happened, except that I could not take the disc out.

Then my girlfriend sent me a link from zhidao.baidu. And I followed its instruction:

1. Close your macbook
2. Grab your macbook firmly, with your CD slot towards downside
3. Throw down fast, and then stop throwing suddenly, for several times

And finally I get it out. Stupid Macbook…

ref: http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/39736306.html

I have personally upgraded to Firefox 3.5.1 myself, by downloading the binary from Mozilla and manually change the firefox symbolic link under /usr/bin to my new downloaded version. It seems to be a litter bit faster. But one thing is that the link color of the auto-completion menu is defined to dark-blue(#0000FF I think) as default. The auto-completion is the menu that pops out when you type something in the url input box. The background color of that auto-completion bar is set to menu background color, and mine is black. Dark-blue text can be hardly seen under black. So I make some personal modifications on the theme files.

My theme files which I am using are stored in a folder like this:

/home/lonnie/.mozilla/firefox/rsh6zrom.default/extensions/{1ebc69c0-92ff-11dc-8314-0800200c9a66}

I do not know what it stands for, I find this by blind guess+test. The theme style files are written in a css like form and I think the structure this css describing is well defined by Mozilla or something. I didn’t find out a line of correct written code to modify the url text color in auto-completion, but I have found a way to modify the background and other title text colors. They are defined in a file called ./chrome/gnome/global/autocomplete.css in that theme folder and I make the following modification:

141c141,142
<   background-color: transparent;
---
>   /* background-color: transparent; */
>   background-color: -moz-Field;
151c152
<   color: MenuText;
---
>   /* color: MenuText; */

For reference, here is also a part of the origin file, generated by grep . -n

137:/* ::::: richlistbox autocomplete ::::: */
139:.autocomplete-richlistbox {
140:  margin: 1px;
141:  background-color: transparent;
142:}
144:.autocomplete-richlistitem[selected="true"] {
145:  background-color: Highlight;
146:  color: HighlightText;
147:}
149:.autocomplete-richlistitem {
150:  padding: 1px 2px;
151:  color: MenuText;
152:}
154:.autocomplete-richlistitem:not(:first-child) {
155:  border-top: 1px solid ThreeDLightShadow;
156:}

And now the color of the auto-completion menu is much easy for me to read.

However, there are still some potential problems for Firefox 3.5. First, the firefox3.5 from ubuntu source simply can not be started properly. Second, my downloaded firefox3.5 binaries refuse to response from time to time, especially while dealing with some flash or sound or other multimedia things. I think there is something incompatible with the add-ons. And crashed firefox cannot be killed by killall command, and refuse to restart a new session (I think something is deadlocked or similar) and I have to restart my computer (or at least logout X I guess) to make it work properly again. This is somehow irritating…