I didn't remember ever since when my Bash filename and directory name completion functioned wackily. Everytime I hit 'tab' to complete a directory name, Bash didn't append the backslash nor printed out candidates (just like what it described like here and here). It drove me banana. Meanwhile, my ...

Finally, my search for a good Makefile for LaTeX  document writing  was ended by this solution. You may have heard about latex-makefile or latex-mk or other LaTeX makefiles. But either they are too complicated, dependent on other external programs, need to install before use or not  powerful enough to get ...

In a job interview two months ago, no matter how hard I tried I simply couldn't export the screen of my laptop running Ubuntu Linux to a projector. It was the first time that I linked a Linux computer to a projector. Luckily the interviewers were generous enough and ...

Here is the error message I got today *** No rule to make target gtkcolorsel.c', needed bylibgtk_3_la-gtkcolorsel.lo'. Stop

The reason for that is because the output files from previous builds make Automake unhappy.

The solution is enter the jhbuild shell, and do: git clean -xdf

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After upgrading from openSUSE-11.4 to 12.1, I have spent two days on tweaking GNOME3 to make it usable. Phew.

Initially, GNOME3 (gnome-shell 3.2 precisely) was unable to start at all. .xsession-errors showed that Clutter failed to start. A deeper reason was that Clutter wasn't able to ...