I like the tracker service in Gnome, which indexes files so that you can easily search for them from the Activity view or the file manager. However, I don’t like tracker-extract, which also indexes the file contents: I use Recoll for such a service, and tracker-extract uses too much CPU (it indexes new or modified […]
Updated on 26 March 2025 with more screenshots about the new font. GNOME 48 has just been released on Arch Linux! (And thus, also on EndeavourOS). Unfortunately, many extensions have been turned off because they are not yet compatible (that’s quite usual with new versions of GNOME): The most critical one is the first one […]
This post is outdated; please look at the new post. I like the tracker service in Gnome, which indexes files so that you can easily search for them from the Activity view or the file manager. However, I don’t like tracker-extract, which also indexes the file contents: I use Recoll for such a service, and […]
I haven’t used Fedora for a few years but wanted to try it again (Fedora 39). I was immediately hit by a problem, which is not due to Fedora itself, I seem to understand. I’ll use this example project (taken from my TDD book): https://github.com/LorenzoBettini/demo-attsw. It is a simple Java Swing application where UI tests […]
I have already started blogging about Ansible; in particular, I have shown how to develop and test an Ansible role with Molecule and Docker, also on Gitpod. This blog post will describe my Ansible role for installing the GNOME desktop environment with several programs and configurations. As for the other roles I’ve blogged about, this […]
In a previous blog post, I showed how to install Arch Linux on a PineBook Pro. In this blog post, I’m showing how I customize Gnome on that installation. First, Gnome 43 has “Gnome Console” as the default terminal application. I wouldn’t say I like it since it’s too basic. So I install the traditional […]
Now that Gnome 42 has been released and available in most Linux distributions, I started experiencing problems with the Dropbox icon in the system tray. First of all, I have no problem with Ubuntu 22.04, which comes with the extension “AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support” https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-support/. Moreover, I think the problem is not there because, while […]
In this post, I’d like to share my experiences in setting a Google Online Account in GNOME and KDE. Actually, I have more than one Google account, and the procedures I show can be repeated for all your Google accounts. First, a disclaimer: I’ve always loved KDE and I’ve used that since version 3. Lately, […]
In this small blog post I’ll show how Eclipse looks like in Linux Gnome (Ubuntu 17.10) with a few Gnome themes. First of all, the default Ubuntu theme, Ambiance, makes Eclipse look not very nice… see the icons, which are “packed” and “compressed” in the toolbar, not to mention the cut “Filter Files” textbox in […]
In this post I’ll show how to add an Eclipse launcher as a favorite (pinned) application in the Gnome dock (I’m using Ubuntu Artful). This post is inspired by http://blog.ttoine.net/en/2016/06/30/how-to-add-eclipse-neon-launcher-in-gnu-linux-menus-and-launchers/. First of all, you need to create a .desktop file, where you need to specify the full path of your Eclipse installation:
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[Desktop Entry] Version=Oxygen Name=Eclipse Java Comment=Eclipse is an IDE Exec=/home/bettini/eclipse/java-latest-released/eclipse/eclipse Icon=/home/bettini/eclipse/java-latest-released/eclipse/icon.xpm Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Utility;Application;Development; |
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