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Screenlets - Desktop applications, widgets and screen addons for openSUSE

Posted by admin on 5th August 2008


Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python) that can be described as “the virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk”. Sticknotes, clocks, rulers, youtube, gmail and more. Screenlets are free opensource software released under GPL License. Screenlets use GTK2 & Cairo for drawing and windowing. The goal of the Screenlets base-classes is to simplify the creation of fully themeable mini-apps that each solve basic desktop-work-related needs and generally improve the usability and eye-candy of the modern composited Linux-desktop.

screenlets are easy to use and there are hundreds of free screenlets avaialble for download.

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iwlist - Detailed information from Wireless Interface & Wireless scan in Linux

Posted by admin on 16th July 2008


iwlist command in Linux is used to extract more detailed information from a Wireless Network interface which may not be available from running the iwconfig command. This includes detailed information on available Wireless networks, Frequencies supported, power management support, Encryption key sizes supported, WPA keys configured on the device etc.

The general syntax is

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iwconfig - Wireless Interface configuration utility in Linux

Posted by admin on 16th July 2008


Iwconfig like ifconfig is  a Wireless interface configuration utility in Linux.It is used to set the parameters of the  network  interface which are specific to the wireless operation. Iwconfig may also be used to display the parameters and the wireless statistics. iwconfig extracts these information from /proc/net/wireless file.

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Fix Qt… configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0) (library qt-mt) not found

Posted by admin on 16th July 2008


In openSUSE or SUSE Linux 64 bit installations on supported AMD / Intel hardware, sometimes when installing a software from source and running the configure script, you may end up with the error:

checking for Qt… configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support!

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Starting httpd2 (prefork) /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork: undefined symbol: apr_atomic_xchgptr

Posted by admin on 8th July 2008

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After upgrading from Apache2.2.8 to Aache2-2.2.9-22.1, you may have the following error while starting Apache2 webserver. This can happen on openSUSE or SUSE Linux
Starting httpd2 (prefork) /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork: undefined symbol: apr_atomic_xchgptr
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