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Making GNOME 3 usable under FreeBSD
As usable as it could be after their developers got infected by that brain parasite (it is funny how functionality-wise pretty much everything is done in wrong way). Plugins needed/enabled: To be able to install extensions from your browser make sure /usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin in your path. In order to have screensavers make sure…
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Script to clean ports
Since make clean seems not to work properly anymore#!/bin/sh cd /usr/ports for port in find . -name work -type d | sed -E -e ‘s/\/work.*$//’do cd /usr/ports/$port make cleandone
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Running Cinnamon on FreeBSD 10
If it fails to start complaining that it can’t find any theme install x11-wm/metacity
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Compiling latest versions of monodevelop on FreeBSD
Clone their repository from git (tarballs created by them fail way too often) git clone https://github.com/mono/monodevelop.git Optionally checkout version you want to run (list tags by running git tag -l in that newly created monodevelop dir, and checkout one you want using command similar to git checkout tags/monodevelop-5.7.1.47).After that you need to edit file monodevelop/scripts/configure.sh…
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Interesting security related read
Can be found here – BetterCrypto.org and ECRYPT II
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HP printer with FreeBSD
Install /usr/ports/print/hplip-plugin (in the past mirror for that one was quite unstable so it was difficult to download all files needed). After that install /usr/ports/print/cups-filters as well (have no clue why they are removed from normal cups installation but without them you might have lot of errors similar to “Returning IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for Print-Job”. Printer…