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Archive for February, 2009
GNOME leaves a lot of useless files
Feb 20th
I have been cleaning my ~/ and noticed a lot of files in ~/.metacity/sessions/ and ~/.config/metacity/sessions/ (800+) and in ~/.nautilus/ (600+).
Nautilus and Metacity are to blame for these behaviours. Bugs have already been reported in the Debian BTS and in the upstream bugzilla.
I hope this will be fixed shortly.
Lenny…
Feb 15th
Well, I am sure all of you have already read the announcement: Lenny (aka Debian 5.0) is out!
I have been using Debian on all my machines since at least mid 2003, when Woody was stable. Sarge was then released in 2005, then Etch the year after.
I have updated my personal repository of unofficial packages for this new stable release. I have let etch packages available (under oldstable), but will remove them in a while. This repository is mainly mainly composed of backported or patched packages for my own use, but can be used by anyone (but I do not guarantee anything 
).
My new xorg.conf
Feb 7th
~$ [ -s /etc/X11/xorg.conf ] ; echo $? 1
Yes, it is an empty file! I have just upgraded xorg to the experimental packages. hal does its job, and all devices are automatically detected and configured.
This is actually a great improvement, especially for those who had to fight against the XFree86 configuration file just to get a graphical session working, back in the late 90′s.
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