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rndc retransfer failed: not found 15 Aug 2013 | 01:59 pm
I came accross the dummy error rndc: 'retranfer' failed: not found, with many unhelpful articles. If you run a rndc retranfer command, and get this error, make sure there is an entry for the zone on t...
archbang 15 Jul 2013 | 01:44 am
i pulled the slow magnetic hdd running gentoo from my thinkpad r61i; swapped it with a 2009-era 32GB ssd running archbang, a variant of arch linux. it’s been several years since i last tried arch, an...
Xfce translations moved 5 Jul 2013 | 01:15 am
For quite some time Xfce used a private installation of Transifex because this “old” version was capable of pushing to git directly and the tools provided by transifex.com were not extremely suitable ...
Reorder network devices set by udev 3 Jul 2013 | 12:40 am
In order to reorder network devices (e.g. swap eth1 with eth2), the persistent-net rules from udev can be edited. Usually there is a file at the following location: The file contains several rules, f...
Making use of custom actions with Xfce Appfinder 18 May 2013 | 11:20 pm
One addition in the latest versions of Appfinder was the custom actions. I never used it until after I started typing several times twitter which didn't work (a habit from the web browser url bar). T...
Stable releases! 8 May 2013 | 05:36 pm
Last week-end, our awesome Nick released new stable versions for almost all Xfce major components: libxfce4util, tumbler, xfce4-appfinder, xfce4-session, xfce4-panel, xfwm4, xfce4-settings, garcon, th...
Xfce4-notifyd 0.2.4 8 May 2013 | 05:26 pm
This quick follow-up release contains a single fix contributed by "Coacher": proper border drawing when compositing is disabled (bug #10021). It also contains a few updated translations: Bulgarian, Ch...
Xfce4-notifyd 0.2.3 21 Apr 2013 | 02:18 pm
I'm glad to announce this new release of xfce4-notifyd which ships mostly bug fixes and code cleanups. Theming has also been improved with additional style properties and drawing fixes. Xfce4-notifyd ...
fonts 19 Mar 2013 | 02:18 pm
i think i’ve sorted out some of my desktop font issues, and created a few more in the process. for a long time, i’ve had to deal with occasionally jagged, hard-to-read fonts when viewing webpages, be...
Moving from Unique to GtkApplication 14 Mar 2013 | 09:58 pm
A new class has been introduced in GTK+3 that is GtkApplication, and GApplication with GIO 2.28. A common use case is to have a single window present every time the same application or command line is...
