lefred

lefred

I am MySQL Community Manager for EMEA & APAC. I joined the MySQL Community Team in May 2016. I have been an OpenSource and MySQL consultant for more than 15 years. My favorite topics are High Availability and Performance.
  • Joined: April 26, 2016
  • Articles: 596
  • Comments: 372

Get rid of the touchpad while using the mouse

I've been fighting several weeks (and making a huge number of typo's due to that) with the touchpad of my macbook pro on Fedora/Gnome. I've tested several solutions : - disable it in Gpointing Device Settings --> fail (it always comes back after a short moment) - use synclient TouchpadOff=1 --> fail - creating udev rules : --> fail 
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ENV{ID_CLASS}="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=1"
ACTION=="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="input", ENV{ID_CLASS}="mouse", RUN+="/usr/bin/synclient TouchpadOff=0
So the best solution I've found (one that works) is : rmmod bcm5974 Now I'll try to add it into the udev rules too.

Fedora 13 on mac book pro 13″

I used preupgrade to updgrade Fedora from 12 to 13. After the process, I had to resync the partition in refit to be able to boot Linux. I rebuilded the needed packages for nvidia and the broadcom wireless card. I needed also to do some modifications to be able to use the integrated iSight webcam: 1. download the apple firmware : 
wget http://www.i-nz.net/files/projects/linux-kernel/isight/against-revision-140/firmware/AppleUSBVideoSupport
then extract it (using the Fedora 12 package isight-firmware-tools) : 
[root@delvaux ~]# su -c "ift-extract --apple-driver AppleUSBVideoSupport"
after this operation it should be working for most of the macbook pro, but not for this model, another change is needed. first find the idProduct number: 
[fred@delvaux Desktop]$ lsusb -v | grep  iSight -B 3 | grep idProduct
  idProduct          0x8507
and mofify the file /etc/udev/rules.d/isight.rules with the returned value : 
[root@delvaux rules.d]# cat isight.rules 
ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="05ac", SYSFS{idProduct}=="8507", RUN+="/usr/lib64/udev/ift-load --firmware /lib/firmware/isight.fw"

Which Microblogging client to use ?

I have tested 3 Twitter clients to use on my gnome desktop: - Gwibber (gwibber-1.2.0-3.349bzr.fc12.noarch) - Pino (pino-0.2.6-1.fc12.x86_64) - Turpial (turpial-1.0-b1.fc12.noarch) I've found Gwibber very nice, doing what I need but it's very slow and sometimes freezes (becomes dark). It has also facebook support (nice to see the status updates of your friends). Pino is my favorite one for the moment, it's fast, doesn't support facebook (yet?). Something I don't like is that you have to switch between the accounts (twitter and identi.ca) which is annoying. Turpial is not was I really wanted, it doesn't fit really in the desktop and it's only in Spanish. I hope that Pino will keep improving and stay fast as now. http://gwibber.com/ http://code.google.com/p/pino-twitter/ http://code.google.com/p/turpial/ Update ! I've just tested Gwibber 2 (gwibber-2.30.0.1-1.fc12.noarch) and it has very nice features: possibility to see all the messages or only by account, possibility also to see images (updated in facebook for example). I will for sure test it and discover it a bit longer, nice improvements !

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