One may experience strange font sizes in X Window (e.g. “logically 8 point fonts” characters that are physically displayed at 15 points or more), or when printing. For instance, in KDE problems like those described in some KDE bug reports may appear. The problem is that the precision of the display (in dpi) is not … [Read more…]
To disable a plugin in NanoBlogger version 3.2 one must rename the plugin script, e.g.tidy.sh, to modify its extension (by convention into .off). In the nanoblogger Debian GNU/Linux package, plugins are installed in the/usr/share/nanoblogger/plugins/ directory. In order to enable/disable plugins, it is therefore necessary to rename files in that directory, e.g. for the tidy.sh plugin: … [Read more…]
This post describes how to compile, package and install the Xenomai real time Linux extension (previously called RTAI/Fusion) version 2.0 on the Debian GNU/Linux sid distribution on an IA-32 computer. Xenomai is the continuation of RTAI‘s previous development branch called Fusion, that has been split from RTAI on 2005-10-08. Fusion / Xenomai is now independent … [Read more…]