Recently, Eclipse started ignoring clicks on dialog buttons for me. This seems to be due to some changes in gtk 2.18. It does not use native windows for all widgets anymore, and SWT seems to rely on it.
Thanks to this blog post, I have this fix in my bashrc:
1alias eclipse="GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true eclipse"
The Debian bug tracker also [...]
I got a new computer at home a week ago and finally got around to assemble all the parts. Which wasn’t as easy as expected, especially fitting the CPU cooler was a hard fight.
Specs
For the curious, here are the specs:
CPU
AMD Phenom II X4 965 (4×3.4 GHz)
Mainboard
MSI 790GX-G65
Graphics
ATI Radeon HD 3300 (on-board)
RAM
8 GB, DDR3
Hard drives
2x SATA [...]
For the roundcube packages I wrote about before, I needed a lenny build system. I did not want to load the required packages to the production server. I used to use debootstrap for this but I wanted to keep a clean base system without copying around all the time.
After a bit of searching, I stumbled [...]
For testing packages of RoundCube webmail that I backported from Debian unstable to stable (lenny), I tried to install lenny in a virtualbox machine.
But for some reason, the installation reliably freezes at some (variable) point. The last time (I think on the 4th run), the final state shows a progress bar titled “Select and install [...]
Today the question came up at work if it is allowed to have extra commas in debian/control dependency fields as in
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlib:Depends}
The substitution misc:Depends may well be empty. So is this allowed?
It actually is as Tollef Fog Heen quickly replied on IRC (thanks). It is also covered by a test case in the dpkg [...]