I was at a friends and noticed him watching tv maximized to the fullscreen but blended with his desktop so he could continue to work and watch tv without playing 'move the window'.
Azureus is my favourite bt client under linux (ob for win as well). but it seems a little bloated.
Do other versions of java have any performance benefit?
Like blackdown http://www.blackdown.org/ or I know ibm has a version.
Also this emulation site: http://web.utanet.at/nkehrer/jae.html does not work for me under linux. It emulates various arcade classics like defender joust etc. Someone said to me on a irc chan that it's because it probably has some win32 tie ins and not just pure java. What I get is not the plugin download prompt but just a grey screen with the java symbol in the corner.
However I've tried the azureus java browser plugin and that gives me the grey screen as well. I haven't tried 1.5 (ehm 5.0) yet on version 1.42.
Ya I think everyone used the old reliable 2600 stick on just about everything. I know I did on my 64. My friend took his apart and made an hacked together asteroids control with just buttons.
Also I was skimming through that site I mentioned again, and he asks that there was a rumour that William shatner And leonard nemoy did adds for the c64 and vic 20.
I can confirm William did ads for the vic 20 but do not recall any with him for the 64 or any with leonard nemoy.
On the linux side I've never been quite happy with a file browser (yes I've tried a whole wack of em). Coming from the windows side I used windows explorer all the time so I wanted something similar. Konquerer is pretty much it but I'd like something lighter to use in say icewm. Yes, I've tried xfe, gfilerunner, velocity, nautalis, endeavour1/2 etc and found them all lacking in one way or another.
People used to say microsoft cheated by having the browser as part of the os but I think it's actually a good idea. Since I already use ff as my default browser I wish someone would write a plugin for a file browser mode similar to konquerer/windows explorer.
Now going way off topic here but is there any way in linux to preload apps and have them never leave swap during a session? I'd like for example ff, xfe, xchat, and a few other apps to load when I login and never leave swap.
I'd prefer the longer startup but then have instant access to my apps that I specify.
Knoppix is very popular live cd but what I didn't like for installing it was that it was a mixed source debian setup. I'd much prefer it would go sid like morphix.
People always critized microsoft that they cheated by having the browser in memory but this is a handy feature that kde does as well (well, gives you the option of how many konquerer's you want resident in memory).
I currently use ff,tb but I would use the suite if it had a file browser mode. And I'd love to be able to keep it in memory or even better components of it at least. Cause once you stray from kde/gnome, I find the choices if file browser a little lacking.
Now, I know there are tons of options out there, but I guess I prefer a similar browser to windows explorer, and I've tried the lot of em. From xfe, xfwm, endeavour, and just about every single one that looked remotely like a browser similar to windows explorer. It would be great if mozilla had this.
And off topic but I wish there was a way in linux to have things stay in memory. I know mozilla used to have this feature and it was removed to never return, but I think X or the wm should control this.
Say I'd like to have my file browser, file find,a text editor and maybe xchat always in memory. You should be able to specify applications that never leave the swap.
I've never understood why once isn't sufficent. And if once isn't, can 35 guarantee it or is it the more the pass the less like they can retrieve data, but I guess I don't understand to what end.
I really want this feature. From what I've read, the latest kde has this. Does any other DE have this for linux?
There really should be a standard for this. A typical scenario the other day. I was downloading a bunch of crap and compiling something. My gf wanted to check her email, but I told her she has to wait.
Yes I know, I could install some ncurses based email(but I introduced her to evolution and she loves it) or be doing my compile, downloads in a seperate term, but there are many situations where that wouldn't apply.
WinXP has this and as I said I believe kde has it. We really need a standard way of doing this (and without having 2 seperate X sessions going).
You can give all those crap reasons why it makes sense, but I believe it should be how we speak it.
Wanna go to the movies Yes or No.
Wanna smoke some crack Cancel, No, Yes.
WTF??!!!
I can't stand it.
And not only do we speak this way in the english language, I've been conditioned by windows I admit.
But I recall KDE asks you which way you prefer when you install. Gnome should be the same, ask me how I prefer my dialogs and every app should follow.
And just to show how some developers are, I use xfce but did not like that maximized windows can be resized. I found out that this is intentional and will not be changed. sigh
So I thought I'll try nautilus within xfce all being gtk2 apps, they should intergrate nicely.
In nautilus, you can't turn off the damn option for the minimizing windows effects!
I thought there must be some gconf option or something for this. I did a little search and found a bug filed for this that spanned the last two years about why the developer would not add this option stating that this was a visual cue to the user that the app has minimized to the task bar.
Even if it gives some visual cue, give a god damn option to turn the motherfucking piece of shit animation off.
In the end he incorporated an option to turn off all effects like draw contents when moving windows, which is something I do want.
Some developers have to get their head out of their asses and listen to their users once and awhile.
When I'm doing a search and getting tons of crap hits from certain domains, I wish there was an option to filter them out of the search. Then maybe could start to get some hits like the web was a few years back.
Yes, I know you can filter a domain in the advanced, but that seems like only one domain you could exclude and even if you could chain more, you'd have to do it before the search. I want it during the search.
I've said this so many times and I think this is what linux developers need to do. After all, this is what microsoft has done, fight fire with fire I say.
I don't know what the current legalities are concerning taking someone's ui and making it your own. But if that isn't an issue I saw copy it.
But then people will complain about innovation, instead of being a follower. Well, that's where the expand part comes in (not in the way microsoft does with trying to contaminate standards, but with actual new features.)
Heck, if the gimp team doesn't want to do this, I wish someone would fork it and do this (call it PSgimp;) ).
A little off topic, but dealing with ui's. I favour gtk2 apps for my uses. But I like to use hotkeys. Call it the windows way if you want but I've been conditioned that alt will highlight the file menu and get you going in the menus. (I use alt up arrow enter to close apps all the time.)
This doesn't work in gtk2. You need to actually hit alt-f. But ok no biggie, I'll continue. Once in the menu by pressing alt-f, other alt combinations have no effect. For example a common gtk2 editor like gedit, If I press alt-f, and then say alt-e for edit, it has no effect. Also normally to get out of the menu's and back in the work area, one would press alt to collapse the menu's, but since alt alone does nothing, I tried alt-f to get in the menu, and another alt-f to get out, but this does nothing. I actually have to click with the mouse on the work area to get out of the menus. I'm using gtk2.2 so forgive me if this has been fixed in 2.4 which isn't in deb sid yet.
Also going way off topic now, but gtk apps, while being fairly sippy once launched, take a bit to first launch. Using gedit as an example again, it literally takes about 3-4 seconds to first launch (on my p4 1.6). I'm in a icewm environment so maybe being in a gtk2 environement like gnome would help, but I'm wondering are there some gtk libs I can have that launch when I log in to help speed things up.
It mentions it can do it, but the review didn't seem to stress the system with some multimedia stuff. The reason I mention this is because twinview tech from ati and nvidia does have limitations. With opengl apps (I believe d3d as well), you can only have vsync on one output at any given time. Also with movieplayback, you only get hardware overlay to one display.
This has bugged me in trying to set up nvidia's tvout with linux. I almost wish it was like the older tv outs where it was just a copy. Both had overlay, both had vsync. Yes you had to lower your monitor refresh and you were stuck with a copy of the screen, but everything just worked.
From what I understand back in the b&w days ntsc was a solid 30 fps per second, and when switching to colour it became 29.97. I read some article about it talking about 29.97 drop frame. Never really understood it. Can someone explain it in laymens terms? And when they show old b&w stuff, do they need to slightly slow it down to 29.97?
First off, divx (being mpeg4) is superior to dvd (mpeg 2). It's just that when you use a dvd and RE-ENCODE it your dealing with another generation so at best you'll just meet the quality of the dvd.
And from a quality standpoint most people agree XVID is the winner. And for a little background divx was open at one time and then after getting lots of help from people closed it up. A team formed that took the last open copy and made XVID (divx spelled backwards) which a lot of people believe surpassed DIVX.
So on principle alone I will not use DIVX. It's dead to me. But they are all mpeg4 implentations and as long as they keep in compilance I'll stick to xvid. And that's what I want out of my next gen dvd player, mpeg4 playback. Not wm9, not qt (never will touch it because of their crap player, and even if you think their player is the cat's ass, I hate my video being locked into one player, so personally I wish qt would just die).
Last time an article came up about SIP with freeworld dialup I tried both kphone and linphone. Kphone I could get working even behind my firewall but the quality seemed lacking. Linphone seems to have more codecs available to it and wanted to give it a try but I'm behind a firewall.
Anyone have tips on configuring it? Or a user's guide somewhere?
I've tried all versions of 2.6 (2.6.1,2,3) but still get this problem. Everything seems smoother/more responsive except for a problem I have with a game (enemy territory).
In 2.4 this game usually loads a map in 20-30 seconds. In 2.6 it takes about the same time but every map thereafter gets longer and longer, until they start taking several minutes. I did a test by launching my own server and just kept reloading the same map. 1st try 32 seconds, 5th try over 4 minutes. If anything it should be slightly quicker as some would be in memory/swap.
The only other game I have in linux similar to enemy territory is quake3. It has the same normal load times in both 2.4 and 2.6, but it's maps are much smaller than enemy territory's so it doesn't stress the system as much.
This leads me to believe that it's more a swap/memory issue than a graphics driver issue. I did hdparm tests and dma is enabled and I'm getting about the same speed in 2.4 as in 2.6. My system is a p4 1.6 with 128 megs ram gf4ti 4200. Now, I realize 128 megs is low these days, and would probably help aleviate this problem but it seems when a system is stressed in this way 2.4 performs better than 2.6. In 2.4 I can play on a server for as much as I want but with 2.6 I usually get kicked within a couple of new maps due to it timing out. Reconnecting to the server doesnt help, but quiting ET and restarting helps for that initial map, but then the cycle repeats.
I don't see a way on this forum of attaching my config, I compiled the kernel myself and have gone over it several times to see if some option could be the cause of this.
The first thing I tried was turning off the preemptive kernel option, but didn't help. My system is debian based (morphix distro) and as I mentioned I compile the kernel myself, not a precompiled kernel.
I also made sure X doesn't have a negative nice value. You might suggest to throw more ram at the problem and even though it might help, I shouldn't have to as 2.4 seems to get by.
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I was at a friends and noticed him watching tv maximized to the fullscreen but blended with his desktop so he could continue to work and watch tv without playing 'move the window'.
Is there any way to do that in linux today?
Azureus is my favourite bt client under linux (ob for win as well). but it seems a little bloated.
Do other versions of java have any performance benefit?
Like blackdown http://www.blackdown.org/ or I know ibm has a version.
Also this emulation site: http://web.utanet.at/nkehrer/jae.html does not work for me under linux. It emulates various arcade classics like defender joust etc. Someone said to me on a irc chan that it's because it probably has some win32 tie ins and not just pure java. What I get is not the plugin download prompt but just a grey screen with the java symbol in the corner.
However I've tried the azureus java browser plugin and that gives me the grey screen as well. I haven't tried 1.5 (ehm 5.0) yet on version 1.42.
Ya I think everyone used the old reliable 2600 stick on just about everything. I know I did on my 64. My friend took his apart and made an hacked together asteroids control with just buttons.
Also I was skimming through that site I mentioned again, and he asks that there was a rumour that William shatner And leonard nemoy did adds for the c64 and vic 20.
I can confirm William did ads for the vic 20 but do not recall any with him for the 64 or any with leonard nemoy.
I'm skeptical with a blacklist, some site will slip through the cracks.
Say when the kids are logged in their account I only want certain sites available and thats it. Like disney.com, ytv.com etc and thats it.
Then when they want a new site, they would tell the parent and verify it, and then add it to the list.
Getting nostalgic in my older years I found this site with a bunch of commodore commericals:
m me rcials.htm
http://www.commodorebillboard.de/Commercials/Co
But the one they're missing is the one with that jingle 'I'm playing games with my 64!'
The reason I want that one is my friend was actually in that commerical and it would be cool to see it again.
On the linux side I've never been quite happy with a file browser (yes I've tried a whole wack of em). Coming from the windows side I used windows explorer all the time so I wanted something similar. Konquerer is pretty much it but I'd like something lighter to use in say icewm. Yes, I've tried xfe, gfilerunner, velocity, nautalis, endeavour1/2 etc and found them all lacking in one way or another.
People used to say microsoft cheated by having the browser as part of the os but I think it's actually a good idea. Since I already use ff as my default browser I wish someone would write a plugin for a file browser mode similar to konquerer/windows explorer.
Now going way off topic here but is there any way in linux to preload apps and have them never leave swap during a session? I'd like for example ff, xfe, xchat, and a few other apps to load when I login and never leave swap.
I'd prefer the longer startup but then have instant access to my apps that I specify.
Knoppix is very popular live cd but what I didn't like for installing it was that it was a mixed source debian setup. I'd much prefer it would go sid like morphix.
People always critized microsoft that they cheated by having the browser in memory but this is a handy feature that kde does as well (well, gives you the option of how many konquerer's you want resident in memory).
I currently use ff,tb but I would use the suite if it had a file browser mode. And I'd love to be able to keep it in memory or even better components of it at least. Cause once you stray from kde/gnome, I find the choices if file browser a little lacking.
Now, I know there are tons of options out there, but I guess I prefer a similar browser to windows explorer, and I've tried the lot of em. From xfe, xfwm, endeavour, and just about every single one that looked remotely like a browser similar to windows explorer. It would be great if mozilla had this.
And off topic but I wish there was a way in linux to have things stay in memory. I know mozilla used to have this feature and it was removed to never return, but I think X or the wm should control this.
Say I'd like to have my file browser, file find,a text editor and maybe xchat always in memory. You should be able to specify applications that never leave the swap.
I've never understood why once isn't sufficent. And if once isn't, can 35 guarantee it or is it the more the pass the less like they can retrieve data, but I guess I don't understand to what end.
I've seen a couple that have mp3 playback and voice recording abilities.
Anyone have suggestions on such devices? Or maybe a roundup of multifunction usb pen drives would be nice.
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I really want this feature. From what I've read, the latest kde has this. Does any other DE have this for linux?
There really should be a standard for this. A typical scenario the other day. I was downloading a bunch of crap and compiling something. My gf wanted to check her email, but I told her she has to wait.
Yes I know, I could install some ncurses based email(but I introduced her to evolution and she loves it) or be doing my compile, downloads in a seperate term, but there are many situations where that wouldn't apply.
WinXP has this and as I said I believe kde has it.
We really need a standard way of doing this (and without having 2 seperate X sessions going).
Any work being done on this?
You can give all those crap reasons why it makes sense, but I believe it should be how we speak it.
Wanna go to the movies Yes or No.
Wanna smoke some crack Cancel, No, Yes.
WTF??!!!
I can't stand it.
And not only do we speak this way in the english language, I've been conditioned by windows I admit.
But I recall KDE asks you which way you prefer when you install. Gnome should be the same, ask me how I prefer my dialogs and every app should follow.
And just to show how some developers are, I use xfce but did not like that maximized windows can be resized. I found out that this is intentional and will not be changed. sigh
So I thought I'll try nautilus within xfce all being gtk2 apps, they should intergrate nicely.
In nautilus, you can't turn off the damn option for the minimizing windows effects!
I thought there must be some gconf option or something for this. I did a little search and found a bug filed for this that spanned the last two years about why the developer would not add this option stating that this was a visual cue to the user that the app has minimized to the task bar.
Even if it gives some visual cue, give a god damn option to turn the motherfucking piece of shit animation off.
In the end he incorporated an option to turn off all effects like draw contents when moving windows, which is something I do want.
Some developers have to get their head out of their asses and listen to their users once and awhile.
When I'm doing a search and getting tons of crap hits from certain domains, I wish there was an option to filter them out of the search. Then maybe could start to get some hits like the web was a few years back.
Yes, I know you can filter a domain in the advanced, but that seems like only one domain you could exclude and even if you could chain more, you'd have to do it before the search. I want it during the search.
I've said this so many times and I think this is what linux developers need to do. After all, this is what microsoft has done, fight fire with fire I say.
;) ).
I don't know what the current legalities are concerning taking someone's ui and making it your own. But if that isn't an issue I saw copy it.
But then people will complain about innovation, instead of being a follower. Well, that's where the expand part comes in (not in the way microsoft does with trying to contaminate standards, but with actual new features.)
Heck, if the gimp team doesn't want to do this, I wish someone would fork it and do this (call it PSgimp
A little off topic, but dealing with ui's. I favour gtk2 apps for my uses. But I like to use hotkeys. Call it the windows way if you want but I've been conditioned that alt will highlight the file menu and get you going in the menus. (I use alt up arrow enter to close apps all the time.)
This doesn't work in gtk2. You need to actually hit alt-f. But ok no biggie, I'll continue. Once in the menu by pressing alt-f, other alt combinations have no effect. For example a common gtk2 editor like gedit, If I press alt-f, and then say alt-e for edit, it has no effect. Also normally to get out of the menu's and back in the work area, one would press alt to collapse the menu's, but since alt alone does nothing, I tried alt-f to get in the menu, and another alt-f to get out, but this does nothing. I actually have to click with the mouse on the work area to get out of the menus. I'm using gtk2.2 so forgive me if this has been fixed in 2.4 which isn't in deb sid yet.
Also going way off topic now, but gtk apps, while being fairly sippy once launched, take a bit to first launch. Using gedit as an example again, it literally takes about 3-4 seconds to first launch (on my p4 1.6). I'm in a icewm environment so maybe being in a gtk2 environement like gnome would help, but I'm wondering are there some gtk libs I can have that launch when I log in to help speed things up.
It mentions it can do it, but the review didn't seem to stress the system with some multimedia stuff. The reason I mention this is because twinview tech from ati and nvidia does have limitations. With opengl apps (I believe d3d as well), you can only have vsync on one output at any given time. Also with movieplayback, you only get hardware overlay to one display.
This has bugged me in trying to set up nvidia's tvout with linux. I almost wish it was like the older tv outs where it was just a copy. Both had overlay, both had vsync. Yes you had to lower your monitor refresh and you were stuck with a copy of the screen, but everything just worked.
New parents using this in the privacy of their homes capturing those moments when you not expecting them is the way this should be pushed.
How much would you pay to see your first steps, your first word?
From what I understand back in the b&w days ntsc was a solid 30 fps per second, and when switching to colour it became 29.97. I read some article about it talking about 29.97 drop frame. Never really understood it. Can someone explain it in laymens terms? And when they show old b&w stuff, do they need to slightly slow it down to 29.97?
First off, divx (being mpeg4) is superior to dvd (mpeg 2). It's just that when you use a dvd and RE-ENCODE it your dealing with another generation so at best you'll just meet the quality of the dvd.
And from a quality standpoint most people agree XVID is the winner. And for a little background divx was open at one time and then after getting lots of help from people closed it up. A team formed that took the last open copy and made XVID (divx spelled backwards) which a lot of people believe surpassed DIVX.
So on principle alone I will not use DIVX. It's dead to me. But they are all mpeg4 implentations and as long as they keep in compilance I'll stick to xvid. And that's what I want out of my next gen dvd player, mpeg4 playback. Not wm9, not qt (never will touch it because of their crap player, and even if you think their player is the cat's ass, I hate my video being locked into one player, so personally I wish qt would just die).
Last time an article came up about SIP with freeworld dialup I tried both kphone and linphone. Kphone I could get working even behind my firewall but the quality seemed lacking. Linphone seems to have more codecs available to it and wanted to give it a try but I'm behind a firewall. Anyone have tips on configuring it? Or a user's guide somewhere?
inserting a quarter/pressing start was the best video game sound effect ever.
I've tried all versions of 2.6 (2.6.1,2,3) but still get this problem. Everything seems smoother/more responsive except for a problem I have with a game (enemy territory). In 2.4 this game usually loads a map in 20-30 seconds. In 2.6 it takes about the same time but every map thereafter gets longer and longer, until they start taking several minutes. I did a test by launching my own server and just kept reloading the same map. 1st try 32 seconds, 5th try over 4 minutes. If anything it should be slightly quicker as some would be in memory/swap. The only other game I have in linux similar to enemy territory is quake3. It has the same normal load times in both 2.4 and 2.6, but it's maps are much smaller than enemy territory's so it doesn't stress the system as much. This leads me to believe that it's more a swap/memory issue than a graphics driver issue. I did hdparm tests and dma is enabled and I'm getting about the same speed in 2.4 as in 2.6. My system is a p4 1.6 with 128 megs ram gf4ti 4200. Now, I realize 128 megs is low these days, and would probably help aleviate this problem but it seems when a system is stressed in this way 2.4 performs better than 2.6. In 2.4 I can play on a server for as much as I want but with 2.6 I usually get kicked within a couple of new maps due to it timing out. Reconnecting to the server doesnt help, but quiting ET and restarting helps for that initial map, but then the cycle repeats. I don't see a way on this forum of attaching my config, I compiled the kernel myself and have gone over it several times to see if some option could be the cause of this. The first thing I tried was turning off the preemptive kernel option, but didn't help. My system is debian based (morphix distro) and as I mentioned I compile the kernel myself, not a precompiled kernel. I also made sure X doesn't have a negative nice value. You might suggest to throw more ram at the problem and even though it might help, I shouldn't have to as 2.4 seems to get by.