Andrea Olivato’s Blog

Just a quick tip to monitor download status and problems while using Amule. On Gnome, the program notify is used to show notifications on the desktop, for example evolution uses it for new messages alerts.

Amule does not support it natively but on its configuration panel it is possible to specify a custom command to launch on some events. For example, as you can see from below screenshots I set to launch the command

notify-send "Download Completato - %FILE"

when a Download finshes.

You can set other custom events obviously, like errors or chats, also using native amule variables like %FILE, which prints out the name of the file that determinated the event.

I submitted asdGB to the two most used gnome apps websites. You can find my work on the following links

Gtk Apps

Gnome Files

Have you ever dreamed about an andvanced IA (I’m ironic) who could understand what browser you opened and open all the links you click on your DE in THAT browser and not in the default one?

Well this is asdGB (Automatically set default Gnome browser), a simple bash script which runs in background, checks for opened browsers and sets the default handler for http / https links on the one you prefer. Obviously if you got only one browser opened it will set that one as default. This means memory and resource saving. This means no more too many windows opened.

asdGB is released under GPL v3 licence and it’s as simple as ./asdGB.sh!

Official Page and Download:

http://blog.andreaolivato.net/software/asdgb-automatically-set-default-gnome-browser

I noticed that even upgrading to latest version of autounmask (0.21 on my portage tree) I got the same loop bug of the previous versions.

Exactly like for the previous version the problem regards an infinite loop generating when unmasking a package and it’s caused by not understanding the PortageXS function getArch(). To avoid the problem and using this wonderful tool without PortageXS it’s possible to manually set the arch on the bin file.

Just open it with your favorite editor as Root
su
vim /usr/bin/autounmask
Then find this line
my $arch = $pxs->getArch();
comment it and add this other
my $arch = 'amd64';
obviously replacing amd64 with your arch.