The archives for `Guide'


Set 1

Gimp without sails…!

Still an other excellent job of the Institute MaJorana di Gela and the Prof. Antonio Cantaro who has realized a beautifulst guide to the use of “The Gimp”, the famous software of professional diagram. The post he is consultabile to this address and is equipped from very 22 video guides who render the process of learning of the fast and intuitivo software.

Cos'altro is necessary to you? Obviously only a spruzzatina of patience joined to a bit of attention…

Needle 18

Electronic timetable

The beginning of the school is approached and this software sure will be appreciated who will have to sobbarcarsi the burden to construct the timetables of the Institutes. Orario_elettronico is a constructed application in order to supply a comfortable and flexible instrument in order to compile the scholastic timetable. The author uses wise php, mysql and apache succeeding to create a program for linux that, to part the graphical aspect, nearly nothing envies to the applications he trades them for windows.

orarel1.png Have installed I it on eeebuntu, the distro of mine “piccolino”:

  • To install through synaptic or from finishes them apache2, php5, mysql;
  • in the rows php.ini (in /etc/php5/apache2) to carry out the following modifications:

    max_execution_time = 30 - > 172800
    max_input_time = 60 - > 6000
    memory_limit = 30M - > 300M
    mysql.connect_timeout = 60 - > -1
    mysql.connect_timeout = -1 that it indicates that not there are limits:
    magic_quotes_gpc = On - > Off

  • download of electronic timetable;
  • to decompress the archives and to move the orario_elettronico folder on the root of the serveur apache (for me /var/www);
  • to set up the rights of writing with chmod a x orario_elettronico;
  • to open firefox and to type http://localhost/orario_elettronico/1_INIZIO_E_BUTTAMI.php;
  • to indicate only the name and password of the endowed customer of the administrator rights being left unchanged the all rest;
  • to eliminate the page 1_INIZIO_E_BUTTAMI.php (emergency issues);
  • to dgitare http://localhost/orario_elettronico/index.php and to carry out the login like administrator;
  • the database does not remain that popular of the necessary information and is already beautiful ready to the construction of our scholastic timetable.

orarel2.png

Naturally the hours scripts of automatic allocation of and all exist of a series of functions that you will discover in itinere. We want trovargli a defect? The diagram is not to the level of some software for windows and the characters turn out little ones too much on mine piccolino, but also on the notebook with screen 15 ″, however on the whole me it seems a worthy job of famous. orarel3.png

Ulterior information on the page put on hand from the author to link http://orarelettr.sourceforge.net/index.html.

Needle 5

Who wants Lancelot?

After to have installed kde 4,1 with the guide mailed previously and to have enriched all with a beautiful one I sudo apt-get install kdeplasma-addons me has come a irresistibile wish to see close give the progresses of “our” Ivan Čukić in the construction of Lancelot. lancelotalpha2.png Here therefore that they are returned to my ancient love, the compilation:

Prerequisiti:
If the installed version of kde is that through packages precompiled (es. following my guide Kde 4,1, easy on Ubuntu Hardy in 5 steps) enough to add client svn, advanced Python 2,5 or and cmake, if instead you have compiled the version “trunk” you will already sure have installed all the development bookcases

Installation:
To modify the rows ~/.bashrc adding these lines:
export YACC='byacc - of
export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt4
export KDEDIR=/usr/lib/kde4
export KDEDIRS=$KDEDIR
export DBUSDIR=/usr
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$DBUSDIR/lib/pkgconfig: $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export PATH=$QTDIR/bin: $KDEDIR/bin: $PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib: $KDEDIR/lib: $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
eval `PATH=$DBUSDIR/bin $DBUSDIR/bin/dbus-launch - car-syntax `;
To unload sources: svn Co svn: /anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/work/lancelot/kde4.1-backport lancelot;
to enter in. .lancelot;
to create a folder dedicated to the compilation (is maintained intact lancelot in way not to have more to effetuare the download in error case), mkdir compiles;
to enter in ../lancelot/compila;
to type cmake - DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDEDIR - DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release. /;
now make and make install.
I have had also to perhaps copy manually the org.kde.lancelot.service rows from /usr/lib/kde4/share/dbus-1/services/ to /usr/share/dbus-1/services because of an error in the setup of DBus.
Memory that is only a alpha even if enough stable and, second me, not too much far from the definitive version, therefore who wants Lancelot, compiles.

Needle 3

Kde 4,1, easy on Ubuntu Hardy in 5 steps

To install kde 4,1 on Ubuntu Hardy never has not been thus easy; nothing more complicated (but, next to my opinion, thrilling) procedures of compilation, dependencies to satisfy, script to install…, thinks next to all apt-get in 5 steps:

  1. to add the line deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu hardy main to the /etc/apt/sources.list rows;
  2. I sudo apt-get update;
  3. I sudo apt-get install kubuntu-kde4-desktop;
  4. I sudo apt-get install gtk-qt-engine-kde4 in order to make to assume more to the applications of ubuntu an aspect in compliance with the look than kde 4;
  5. I sudo update-alternatives - config usplash-artwork.so and I sudo update-initramfs - u in order to restore Usplash di otherwise modified Ubuntu from kde4.

Now we are ready to approach new fiammante kde 4,1 through the shielded one of login cliccando on Options and Select Sessions. In order to use gtk-qt-engine-kde4 it is necessary to go on System Settings->Appearance->GTK Styles and Fonts and to select Use my KDE Style in GTK application, to cliccare Apply and to make the log out because the change has effect.
Naturally it is possible to carry out many other configurations to begin from the installation of new widgets for Plasma, I as an example I have qualified the effects of the compositing of Kwin through System Settings->Desktop->Desktop Effects, selecting Enable Desktop Effects and choosing between those puttinges on hand in the card All Effects.

kdefinal4.1.png

Truly magnificent, I would dare to say godurioso! The sapete, I am an enthusiastic one of Kde 4, it nearly have seen to be born, have followed step step the improvements, the fixing of the bug, it I have compiled tens of times and tired me absolutely not to praise the enormous job carried out from the sviluppatori, the passion and the ambition in the construction of a desktop manager from the evolven solutions and, still more, from the innovative conception. It is obvious, we are not still to the levels of efficiency of Gnome or version 3,5 of Kde, which Amarok 2, K3b (or K4b still lack the great applications), Lancelot or Raptor (who will gain the battle of menus)we will probably see, them with Kde 4,2 in escape to February 2009, but the base is sincerely of splendid invoice.

Lug 9

Definitive guide for the acceleration 3D on Virtualbox

As sapete I have already written two post on the argument, Acceleration 3D on VirtualBox and Habemus 3D, and to this point I have felt the need to organize this kind of notes in order to construct a complete guide and relatively easy I use. If you have read the post of which over and have a sure experience of virtualbox sapete that the architecture dl arranges of virtualizzazione previews a machine host, where resides “real” the operating system, and a machine guest with the virtual system. The trick is to try to put in communication the two arranges and to make so that “guest” it takes advantage of the host acceleration 3D. In order to make this we have need of vmgl in the first place, a software been born from the genius of a Canadian sviluppatore, of a script in order to create an interface host that allows the two blots some to communicate, of a series of small configurations on the two arranges a little and of patience.

vmgl2.png

Prerequisiti

In my case the machine host is equipped with Ubuntu Hardy Heron and the guest with OpenSUSE 11, therefore from now I will call to them respective hardy and suse.
On hardy installed all the necessary one for the compilation (make, build-essential…) the following packages: freeglut3-dev, libxmu-dev, libbz2-dev, zlib1g-dev, libssl-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libjasper-dev.
Continuations my guide on the Installation and configuration of Opensuse 11 on Virtualbox procastinando but the installarzione of the guest additions to after that of vmgl (the successive step). Also on suse it must install the necessary one for the compilation (make, GCC, gcc , kernel source…) the version suse of the packages of which over: freeglut-devel, xorg-x11-libxmu-devel, libbz2-devel, libopenssl-devel, libjpeg-devel, libjasper-devel.
Obviously there will be several dependencies to satisfy er which preparatevi to nstallare a beautiful one po' of roba.

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