gnome-shell extension: move Thunderbird indicator to the top panel

By analogy with moving Skype indicator to the top panel, I created extension, which allows to move Thunderbird indicator from system tray to the top panel:

0. Download archive from here.

1. $ tar -zxvf thunderbird_to_status_bar_v2.1.tar.gz

2. $ mv thunderbird.status@gnome-shell.rdiachenko.org ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions

3. Type 'r' in Alt+F2 prompt to restart Gnome shell

4. Install gnome-tweak-tool:

$ su -c "yum install gnome-tweak-tool"

5. Press Alt+F2 and type in 'gnome-tweak-tool'

6. Choose 'Shell Extensions' and switch on 'Thunderbird Status Icon Extension':

7. Type 'r' in Alt+F2 prompt to restart Gnome shell

More useful extensions here: http://roman-ivanov.blogspot.com/2011/11/fedora-16-useful-extensions-for-gnome.html

gnome-shell extension: move Skype indicator to the top panel

Moving Skype indicator from system tray to the top panel:

0. $ cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions

1. $ mkdir skype.status@gnome-shell.rdiachenko.org

2. $ cd skype.status@gnome-shell.rdiachenko.org

3. Create file 'metadata.json' with this content:

{
     "description": "Integrates Skype Client into the status bar",
  "name": "Skype Status Icon", 
  "shell-version": [ "3.0.2", "3.2", "3.4" ],
  "uuid": "skype.status@gnome-shell.rdiachenko.org",
  "version": 2.0
}

gnome-tweak-tool: customize fonts, themes, shell extensions, enable desktop and window's buttons (minimize, maximize)

gnome-tweak-tool is a nice simple tool for customizing fonts, themes, shell extensions...

To install it, enter the following command:

$ su -c "yum install gnome-tweak-tool"

To run it, press Alt+F2 and type in 'gnome-tweak-tool'. Simple selecting the options performs the changes. 

Some changes may require logging out and logging back in: type 'r' or 'restart' in Alt+F2 prompt to restart Gnome shell and see the changes.

I choose Deluge instead of Transmission

After my "Fedora 16: Installation notes (Part 2)" post I received this comment with several questions. In this post I'll try to answer on the last question: "What are the benefits to use Deluge over Transmission?".

In my first version of Fedora 10 Transmission didn't work properly, so I found a working application with a handy GUI. It was Deluge. As it was my first familiarity with linux, Deluge was an excellent decission.

What about its benefits over Transmission? In my point of view, Deluge has more convenient GUI than Transmission, and for the most users it is a key factor. Nevertheless, I made some search and found the following pros/cons:

Blogger: add Google +1 button, Facebook Like button and Tweet button for the whole blog

Add this gadget into the blog:

Script for adding Tweet Button:

<script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button">Tweet</a>

For more information visit this site: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-button

org.eclipse.swt.SWTException: Invalid thread access

Recently, I've faced with SWTException error when was trying to insert a new TableItem into the SWT Table from another thread. Reading java doc about TableItem class I found out, that with creation a new instance of this class, SWTException may occurred:

Throws SWTException: if not called from the thread that created the parent

It means that I can't create a TableItem instance in the thread which is distinct from that one, in which Table was created.

I wrote a simple program to reproduce my problem: it's a window with one button and with a table which has a single column. When pressing the button a new thread is started. In this thread there's a cycle in which 5 table items are created with timed out = 1 sec.

Here's a code snippet, which represents a first attempt:

Monitor configuration via xrandr

xrandr - primitive command line interface to RandR extension.

$ xrandr

Output:
=======================================================================
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-I-1 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm
   1280x1024 60.0*+ 75.0
   1280x960 60.0
   1152x864 75.0
   1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
   832x624 74.6
   800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
   640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0
   720x400 70.1
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
=======================================================================

'+' - preferred mode;
'*' - current mode.

To change monitor resolution to 1280x1024 and refresh rate from 60 to 75 enter such command:

$ su -c "xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1280x1024 --rate 75"

xrandr wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xrandr

Install Ant and Maven

Install Ant

Download ant from here: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi

$ tar -zxvf apache-ant-x.x.x-bin.tar.gz
$ su -c "mv apache-ant-x.x.x /opt/ant-x.x.x"

Open .bash_profile and add:

export ANT_HOME=/opt/ant-x.x.x
PATH=$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin


Install Maven

Download maven from here: http://maven.apache.org/download.html

$ tar -zxvf apache-maven-x.x.x-bin.tar.gz
$ su -c "mv apache-maven-x.x.x /opt/maven-x.x.x"

Open .bash_profile and add:

export MAVEN_HOME=/opt/maven-x.x.x
PATH=$PATH:$MAVEN_HOME/bin

$ source ~/.bash_profile

Install Sun JDK6 on Fedora

Download Java JDK6 from here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Example: jdk-6u29-linux-i586-rpm.bin

1. $ chmod +x jdk-6u29-linux-i586-rpm.bin

2. $ su -c "sh jdk-6u29-linux-i586-rpm.bin"

3.1. $ su -c "alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_29/jre/bin/java 20000"

3.2. $ su -c "alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /usr/java/jre1.6.0_29/bin/javaws 20000"

4. Check current java, javac versions:

$ java -version
$ javac -version

5. Now you can swap between OpenJDK and Sun/Oracle JDK versions

$ su -c "alternatives --config java"

6. $ nano ~/.bash_profile

Paste into this file the following strings:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_29
PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

7. $ source ~/.bash_profile

Fedora 16/17: Installation notes (Part 3)

Enable 'Remove' function in Nautilus

By default you can't remove any file or folder by clicking 'Delete' button in Nautilus. To activate this function press Alt+F2 and enter 'dconf-editor'. In opened editor:

org > gnome > nautilus > preferences (enable_delete = true)

Now you can delete content from Nautilus pressing Ctrl+Delete.


Install Thunderbird

$ su -c "yum install thunderbird"


Install VirtualBox

0. $ su -

1. # cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

2. # wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo

3. # yum update

4. # yum install binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel dkms

5. # yum install VirtualBox-4.*

6. # usermod -a -G vboxusers your_user_name