Dolphin 16.04.3
One thing that was not working with my Gentoo installation was the information for image dimensions (and image data in general) in Dolphin. The resolution is to rebuild Dolphin with the semantic-desktop use flag turned on.
echo "kde-apps/dolphin semantic-desktop" >> /etc/portage/package.use/dolphin |
emerge --ask kde-apps/dolphin |
I thing that this flag should be on by default when building a system with KDE desktop profile or at least mentioned somewhere in the Gentoo wiki.
27.10.2016 UPDATE: The method below fixed the monitor for a little while, it finally gave up!
Lately one of my LCD monitors was doing some strange things, like loud buzzing noises when turning on, to screen flashing and going completely black. I through it was a time for a new one, because this LCD was manufactured way back in 2007.
Being on a tight indie game developer budget it is not the right time for a replacement, so consulting google about the problem revealed some clues varying from opening the monitor and putting epoxy around the capacitors to changing the refresh rate of the monitor.
Changing the refresh rate from 75Hz to 60Hz and muting the build in speakers fixed the problem for me.
I hope that this solution will last at least until releasing my next game, which if successful will help me put aside some money for replacing my 3 monitor setup (all 3 manufactured 2007.) with 3 Dell U2415 monitors 🙂
I recently installed Gentoo GNU/Linux + KDE 5 on my dev machine. One thing that was bugging me was the crappy font rendering in NetBeans.
To relolve the problem, locate your netbeans.conf file. Usually under /etc in your NetBeans installation folder, and append to netbeans_default_options the follwing:
-J-Dswing.aatext=true -J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd --laf Metal |
This will enable font smoothing in SWING and use default system settings for font smoothing. The last entry –laf Metal sets the preferred UI theme for the IDE, it should be Swing based theme such as Metal or Numbus.
Happy coding 🙂
Here is a macro picture which I took during my last mountain hike in “Elena”.
Rarely something catches my eye in such details worth shooting, but this stone surface was unique. The pic was taken with my phone – LG G4 and ‘normalized’ with GIMP (Colors->Auto->Normalize). I made a wallpaper out of it, and it’s currently used on my desktop.
The wallpaper is available in the following sizes:
If you can’t find your size, drop me a comment and  I will see what I can do about it 🙂 Feel free to use the picture for whatever purpose  you see fit, just drop me a note or mention me as an author.
Latest
emerge --sync emerge --update --deep --newuse @world |
broke “dev-python/cryptography” on my development “server”. By server I mean Intel Celeron at 400Mhz with 768Mb of RAM. Currently running MySQL, Apache, Apache Tomcat, Samba and Deluge.
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=pentium2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/cryptography-1.1.2/work/cryptography-1.1.2-python2_7/temp.linux-i686-2.7/_openssl.c -o /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/cryptography-1.1.2/work/cryptography-1.1.2-python2_7/temp.linux-i686-2.7/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/cryptography-1.1.2/work/cryptography-1.1.2-python2_7/temp.linux-i686-2.7/_openssl.o /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/cryptography-1.1.2/work/cryptography-1.1.2-python2_7/temp.linux-i686-2.7/_openssl.c:2096:15: error: ‘SSLv2_method’ redeclared as different kind of symbol SSL_METHOD* (*SSLv2_method)(void) = NULL; |
As the build error says dev-python/cryptography is looking for SSLv2. Doing
equery u openssl [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for dev-libs/openssl-1.0.2h-r2: U I + + asm : Support assembly hand optimized crypto functions (i.e. faster run time) + + bindist : Disable EC algorithms (as they seem to be patented) -- note: changes the ABI - - cpu_flags_x86_sse2 : Use the SSE2 instruction set - - gmp : Add support for dev-libs/gmp (GNU MP library) - - kerberos : Add kerberos support - - rfc3779 : Enable support for RFC 3779 (X.509 Extensions for IP Addresses and AS Identifiers) - - sctp : Support for Stream Control Transmission Protocol - - sslv2 : Support for the old/insecure SSLv2 protocol -- note: not required for TLS/https + + sslv3 : Support for the old/insecure SSLv3 protocol -- note: not required for TLS/https - - static-libs : Build static versions of dynamic libraries as well - - test : Workaround to pull in packages needed to run with FEATURES=test. Portage-2.1.2 handles this internally, so don't set it in make.conf/package.use anymore + + tls-heartbeat : Enable the Heartbeat Extension in TLS and DTLS - - vanilla : Do not add extra patches which change default behaviour; DO NOT USE THIS ON A GLOBAL SCALE as the severity of the meaning changes drastically + + zlib : Add support for zlib (de)compression |
Reveled that OpenSSL is build with ought SSLv2 suport. Adding sslv2 use flag for OpenSSL and rebuilding resolved the problem.
echo "dev-libs/openssl sslv2" > /etc/portage/package.use/openssl |
According to me, this is a bug in “dev-python/cryptography“. The ebuild should do some kind of checking if sslv2 use flag is enabled, or it should introduce use flags controlling the version of ssl used.
