Into.the.Void.

One of the things that good Linux applications should have is uniformity. Just like Mac OS X does. All applications should use the same keybindings to perform the same tasks. For example, on _every_ OS X application, in order to quit it you have to press “CMD+Q”, it’s that simple and everybody follows it. Everybody. On Linux though there are some applications that simply don’t care about uniformity. One of these applications is smplayer.

While it is almost standard for Linux applications to quit using Ctrl+Q, smplayer simply doesn’t have this option. It has the option of closing the current video with Ctrl+X but it doesn’t have the simple option of quitting using a keyboard shortcut.

So, the next (oneliner actually) patch does simply what I described above. It makes smplayer quit using “Ctrl+Q”.

The screenshot that shows what the patch does:

smplayer-0.6.8-quit.patch:
--- smplayer-0.6.8/src/baseguiplus.cpp 2009-08-13 16:07:04.000000000 +0300
+++ smplayer-0.6.8/src/baseguiplus.cpp 2009-08-13 16:08:22.000000000 +0300
@@ -67,8 +67,7 @@
tray->setToolTip( "SMPlayer" );
connect( tray, SIGNAL(activated(QSystemTrayIcon::ActivationReason)),
this, SLOT(trayIconActivated(QSystemTrayIcon::ActivationReason)));
-
- quitAct = new MyAction(this, "quit");
+ quitAct = new MyAction(QKeySequence("Ctrl+Q"), this, "quit");
connect( quitAct, SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(quit()) );
openMenu->addAction(quitAct);

And a patched ebuild for smplayer-0.6.8 to use this minor patch (only one line is added to the ebuild):
smplayer-0.6.8-r1.ebuild

P.S. Keybindings in smplayer can be set through Preferences, and someone could actually put Ctrl+Q as the quit shortcut but I think that this should be the default setting like most other applications have it. Uniformity matters.

Filed by kargig at 16:19 under Gentoo,Linux
Tags: bug, bugfix, ebuild, Gentoo, Linux, Mac, MacOSX, media player, patch, smplayer
5 Comments | 10,880 views

If you have an IMAP server based on Courier-IMAP and you get complains from people using the default Mail.app on Mac OS X about getting many warning messages and not being able to connect, the remedy is to increase the maximum allowed concurrent sessions per IP. They possibly have multiple accounts on the server and Mail.app is not able to handle each connection properly.
The cure is to open up /etc/courier-imap/imapd-ssl and /etc/courier-imap/imapd, find the MAXPERIP setting and change it to something like:
MAXPERIP=10

Don’t forget to restart your courier-imap server for changes to take effect.

By default the MAXPERIP setting is set to 4. On the imapd-ssl file it’s not even included in the config file (but still set to 4) so you need to add it yourself.

Filed by kargig at 12:20 under Linux,MacOSX
Tags: configs, courier, imap, Linux, MacOSX, mail, maxperip, ssl
No Comments | 9,374 views

I’ve written a small perl script to parse random entries from the extremely usefull commandlinefu.com website. Quoting from their site:

Command-Line-Fu is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again.

The script code is very “clean”. I can almost say that it’s written in a very python-ish way.
Sample output:%./cfu.pl
CMD: for (( i = 0; i < 100; i++ )); do echo "$i"; done
URL=http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/735/perform-a-c-style-loop-in-bash. Title=Perform a C-style loop in Bash.
Description: Print 0 through 99, each on a separate line.
%./cfu.pl
CMD: rsync -av -e ssh user@host:/path/to/file.txt .
URL=http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/20/synchronise-a-file-from-a-remote-server Title=Synchronise a file from a remote server
Description: You will be prompted for a password unless you have your public keys set-up.

You can get it from here: commandlinefu.com random entry parser perl script

As far as I’ve tested, it works out of the box on default perl installations of Debian, Gentoo and Mac OS X.

Filed by kargig at 01:28 under Gentoo,Internet,Linux,MacOSX
Tags: commandlinefu, debian, Gentoo, MacOSX, oneliner, parse, perl, script
3 Comments | 11,679 views