Author Archives: Donncha

If you can't get at your IDE C …

If you can’t get at your IDE CD burner because Nautilus keeps loading the ide-cd module try the following trick:

Login as root and enter the following, you might have to repeat the command a few times as Nautilus probes the CDROM on a regular basis.
# /sbin/rmmod ide-cd cdrom ; /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi

Of course, I should just modify my /etc/modules.conf but I CBA!

I have a huge and growing coll …

I have a huge and growing collection of photos thanks to my interest in photography and my Fujifilm 2800z so earlier today I decided to display them in the background of my desktop..
Changing the background in X used to be simple. Just run wmsetbg with the filename of the image and it worked. Not so in Red Hat 8/Gnome 2.
I first searched on freshmeat and found chbg which is supposed to be.. well, I’m not sure. It’s damn confusing and I could only get it to display images in a window. (I suspect this has something to do with Gnome 2 and/or Nautilaus)
I then stumbled across chbg-gnome2 which is a very simple Perl script that uses the Gnome 2 gconf database to set the background. I copied (or symlinked) a few images into a directory, added a crontab entry for chbg-gnome2 pointing at that directory and now my background changes every 2 minutes! It’s The Unix Way of doing things I suppose.

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