Comments on: I am old fashioned

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:43:15 +0000

For grouping you need KWin from KDE 4.4.x I think and window decoration which supports it. I used Plastic for quite long time but recently switched to Oxygen one due to window grouping support.

Make a switch, enable grouping and play a bit with it. Open two Konsole windows and if they will not group automatically then RMB on window title and there should be options for it.

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:37:36 +0000

First I would have to remember those UUID/labels. I rather remember “Prevenar13 leather”, “GUADEC 2007″ names of my pendrives. But I also have two same ones which I brought from ST-Ericsson workshop. And yes — /dev/sdX is often in use.

Speaking about Chromium… extensions are weak, Adblock is imitation more then same level as Firefox one. GreaseMonkey scripts require manual edition to set preferences etc. But it feels fast.

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:34:07 +0000

I used Kaffeine years ago to play DVDs with navigation. Never checked how MPlayer works with it now.

By: av500

av500 — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:04:25 +0000

Hi Marcin, I guess I am old fashioned too, my X11 desktop usage is 90% like what you describe. WRT media players, I never saw Kaffeine (Suse installs that everywhere somehow) do anything else other than an animated coffee bean and an error message… So MPlayer it is! :)

By: rozie

rozie — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:05:55 +0000

UUID/labels are good solution, if you reffer to device only via mountpoint. I guess as a developer you often use /dev/sdX, then they are not enough indeed.

Recently I also started to use Chromium, but still Firefox is my default browser - add-ons cannot be replaced, and even if they are present in Chromium, they are not 100% the same (Adblock for example).

By: Cliff Brake

Cliff Brake — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:57:00 +0000

Hi Marcin, thanks for the tips. Do you have any pointers to the “window grouping” feature referenced above? I likewise use konsole with tabs quite a bit, but don’t yet understand grouping. Thanks, Cliff