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make urxvt update utmp

Shade — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:39:44 +0000

In Debian Lenny, urxvt isn’t able to update utmp by default. My solution is to simply make it setgid utmp. This might not be the thing to do on a multi-user system, but on my desktop it does what I need it to.

Here’s how to make it persistent between package upgrades

dpkg-statoverride root utmp 2755 /usr/bin/urxvt

more awesome than awesome

Shade — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:11:41 +0000

What’s more awesome than awesome? This.

09:33 < jspears> is there an equivalent to 'awesome -k' for awesome3?

09:33 < jspears> I tried just using lua but it seems to error on valid syntax

09:34 < farhaven> I just start another X server

09:34 < farhaven> like this: startx -- :1

09:34 < farhaven> and if awesome works fine inside that one, the syntax is okay

09:51 < CIA-5> awesome: Julien Danjou  * rda52a7b197bd / (awesomerc.lua.in lib/awful/util.lua.in): awful:

               add helper to check configuration file syntax

09:51 < CIA-5> awesome: Julien Danjou  * r116de391421a / (luaa.c structs.h): lua: add awesome.conffile()

09:55 -!- sm217 [~sm@92.112.172.241] has joined #awesome

09:56 -!- GGLucas [~GGLucas@5357FFDA.cable.casema.nl] has quit [Ping timeout: 480 seconds]

09:56 < MadCoder> farhaven: your answer seems to be obsolete :P

09:57 < farhaven> damn :D

lirc, stupid mplayer tricks

Shade — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:03:36 +0000

I’ve not taken the time to find out which package needs fixage, but modifying /etc/lirc/hardware.conf so that DEVICE=”/dev/lirc0″ fixed the lirc startup problems where it wasn’t finding the (correct) device.

I tried mplayer with aalib1 built in last night. Somewhat less than really useful, but cool.

udev vs. lirc

Shade — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:16:42 +0000

I installed udev on the mythtv machine because I wanted /dev/dvd automagically handled, but in the process lost /dev/lirc. This caused some consternation and troubleshooting, including swapping batteries in the remote, until I finally saw that lircd was logging errors. Fortunately the fix was as simple as dpkg-reconfigure lirc, and I haven’t found any other breakage yet.