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Compose key not working with iBus

Saturday, December 8th, 2012

The iBus input method does not work with the compose key – see Debian bug #591459 and Ubuntu bug #493766. It seems that iBus is intercepting all keystrokes and substituting its own instead, even though xev shows the Multi_key and accent being produced. For example, Multi_Key + ‘ + e leads to ‘e instead of […]

Exploring and rooting the iPPea TV

Saturday, November 24th, 2012

Skip to the rooting process, if you wish. The iPPea TV is a pretty neat gadget, to say the least. The USB-stick sized device features a full Android 4.0.3 OS, a 1Ghz Ingenic JZ4770 MIPS processor (complete with FPU!), 512 MB of RAM, 2 GB flash storage, and about 800 MB of internal memory. Overall, […]

A simple su implementation in C

Friday, November 23rd, 2012

Sometimes, you might need to keep things simple. Here is a very simple su implementation written in portable C that can be used on almost any architecture – e.g. Embedded Linux, Android, Windows, etc as long as it supports C. It is licensed under the 3-clause BSD licence so any use is OK as long […]

Solving “libtool: Version mismatch error”

Thursday, October 18th, 2012

After ./configure and make, you get this interesting scenario: The solution?

Quilt responding with “File series fully applied” and not working

Monday, October 15th, 2012

The story so far… File series fully applied (no output) # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean) What’s happening here? Well, it turns out that we need to reset and clean the .pc directory of quilt: Now, let’s try applying the patches: Applying patch patch-number-one.patch patching file configure.ac Applying patch fix-build.patch patching […]

When git am fails, use 3way

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

Applying: Very valuable piece of art error: patch failed: Apple.java:212 error: Apple.java: patch does not apply error: patch failed: Window.java:840 error: Window.java: patch does not apply Patch failed at 0001 Very valuable piece of art When you have resolved this problem run “git am –resolved”. If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run […]

fclose() freezes/hangs when run inside pthread on Android 2.1

Monday, June 25th, 2012

There appears to be an obscure bug that has somehow recently activated on ARMv6, non-FPU builds of VLC for Android. This has been only observed on Android 2.1 and possibly on other Android 2.x platforms with ARMv6, non-FPU builds Android 2.2. On the other hand, it works perfectly on an Android 4.0 on a NEON […]

Enabling icons in Qt4 apps on GNOME / GTK

Sunday, June 3rd, 2012

By default on the latest versions of Debian and Ubuntu, the gconf preferences “/desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons” and “/desktop/gnome/interface/buttons_have_icons” are set to false by default. Despite this, GTK2 and GTK3 applications both display icons next to their menus by default. However, Qt4-based applications such as VLC media player don’t display icons. To fix this: Or, open gconf-editor and […]

Set Debian to gksudo / sudo mode instead of su-to-root

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Or open gconf-editor and set /apps/gksu/sudo-mode to true. This way, you don’t have to set an insecure root password.

Creating Debian packages (properly) using debhelper

Saturday, April 28th, 2012

Now, open up debian/control and modify the section field to fit one of the valid Debian sections. Then, the Build-Depends field should have whatever packages you need – minimally it should have debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), dh-buildinfo, dh-autoreconf (if you need it), along with any libraries your application will need. Set the Homepage field to be […]

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