My journal has been sadly devoid of computer fun entries lately. I just haven’t had time to play with my computer so much, I hadn’t even customized xfce4 since my reinstall a few weeks ago, and that’s sad! Well I remedied that, and did a few other fun things this morning.
I was sick of launching all my programs from the Run prompt, and finally got around to putting them in my xfce4 control panel, which now looks like this:
For full screenshot, see here.
I have xfce4-weather installed, so I have current temp (and whatever other readings I want, in the summer I go temp and humidity, in the winter I go temp and wind chill). And lauch buttons for aterm[1], xmms, mozilla, gimp, gnumeric, logjam and liferea, then the volume control (green thing) and clock. I’m sure I’ll think of more programs that I use regularly, but that’s most of them.
Yeah, I installed liferea. I really loved using firefox + sage, it was everything I wanted in a feed aggregator, and it looked great. But I go so sick of firefox being bad, each time I upgraded there was a new problem, least of which was reinstalling all my extensions each time. I was patient with it, I could handle the find tool not working, and various other annoyances, but this last time I installed it, it’d seg fault each time I pressed enter after putting something in the addressbar. I couldn’t take that. So I unistalled firefox and decided I needed to find a new aggregator. I installed straw, but I don’t think my system has enough Gnome love for it to work properly. So I went with liferea, and it works fine, even if I don’t love it as much as firefox and sage.
I got around to changing my website‘s favicon today. If you go to my site in a browser that supports it you can see it’s just a little leia head, much better than the silly flower I had before (which was designed with a way old site layout in mind). I also gave a favicon to caligula‘s website. I was discouraged to find that when I opened up mozilla the icon didn’t show up, but then wondered.. “does mozilla ever show them? I think it’s only sometimes.” It turns out that mozilla removed automatic support for all of them, preferring to only show them when this was in the <head>:
<link rel=”SHORTCUT ICON” href=”/favicon.ico”>
So first I added that, then I went in search of a solution to it not automagically showing all favicons, and found it here:
Mozilla no longer reads /favicon.ico images by default although Mozilla still reads page icons defined with the <link> tag. Set the following pref to turn the feature back on.
user_pref(“browser.chrome.favicons”,true);
So, you’d first close mozilla (editing text files while it’s running is silly, since they’ll just be overwritten), then you open the ~/.mozilla/default/orojbmpz.slt/prefs.js file and drop in that user_pref. Yay now I have favicons everywhere in mozilla!
Now I need to go outside and rake leaves. *groan* Owning a house is so much fun!
[1] aterm -tr -bg black -fg white -tint magenta -sh 25 +sb -fn ‘-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-m-*-iso10646-1’