drewp for 2007 August
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T 2007-08-07T19:44:59 Disable launching of evolution on feisty:

This is a tip for Ubuntu users who are not evolution mail users.

I run fvwm2 with my own key bindings, and when I upgraded Ubuntu from dapper to feisty, some new key bindings started taking precedence. If you too are having the problem where pressing the mail key (keycode 236) is launching evolution, then you probably also want to run gnome-keybinding-properties and shut that binding off. There's certainly a way to do this in gconf too, but I don't know what the ids are there.

On the other hand, the new bindings to the volume keys and play/pause are nice so I guess I can thank Ubuntu for forcing me to notice them :) The play/pause button now talks to rhythmbox as you'd expect.

T 2007-08-23T23:49:12 The strdup man page is informative:

Some versions of the strdup man page contain this:

The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

None.

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

T 2007-08-31T20:05:48 Screenshot of emacs image-dired mode:

I noticed image-dired mode on the emacs 22 release notes.

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.announce/11

I found a version that worked with emacs21 here: http://www.update.uu.se/~ams/home/emacs/lisp/image-dired.el

I had to (setq user-emacs-directory "/home/drewp/emacs/") to make it work.

Here's a screenshot: http://bigasterisk.com/post/image-dired-mode.png

I'm in the middle of adding tags to the 4th image. The docs claim I could select multiple images at once, but in my 2 minutes of checking this out I didn't see how to do that.

Metadata nuts would probably be interested to know that the tags are written to a file with lines like "/path/to/file;tag1".

Image nuts would probably care that image-dired uses imagemagick to make its own jpg thumbnails, which it keeps in a directory called image-dired. I.e. there seems to be no attempt at sharing thumbnails with other systems.

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