Harsh J

Found that GTK’s Aurora engine is pretty better at theming than any other engine.

You can look for the package gtk-engines-aurora in your distribution and install it. I loved the tooltips shading and other nice bluish things it had to offer, and also liked the dark theme that accompanies the package. Pretty neat stuff.

Back from mars, I haven’t been doing much lately, and have moved my residence. The downtime of internet due to that also rid me of my internet addiction strangely and I feel like cooking in the evenings. Yes, very scary!

And about scary, 11:37 doesn’t follow me as often as before but I do notice it every other day. But do notice the post’s time.

Watched Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in the theaters and found it to be very bad. I did not like the alien touch given to it, not to mention the legend of the crystal skull. Previous movies (With the possible exception of temple of doom - but hey it had great action!)  had better artifacts more historically popular than the crystal skull and that’s why I like em more. This one was meh.

Iron Man was a total mechanical candy, it was sweeter than Robocop, much sweeter. The boss fight not counting, the movie satisfied my interests with just the scene where he first wears his Mark III suit. It was the smoothest thing I’ve ever seen on CGI. I’d watch it on the big screen repeatedly for that sequence alone. Heck, maybe get a HD copy of it too, when its out.

Finally, saw Forbidden Kingdom today. It was good too, if not great. But I do hope there’s no sequel to it. It ended well for once, I don’t wish a sequel to spoil it up. Well unless Jet Li decides to return somehow. The best moments in the movie were only when Jet and Jackie do their attacks against one another. Rest, including the vengeful girl and the monkey king, were sort of meh but did not spoil the fun much. Though there could have been lesser oriental decors and make up. Jackie ought to do a Splinter role in any Turtles movie, he would totally suit Splinter.

Now getting back to the interstellar space, the place where most of you never bother (Bother, not dare) to go, it feels good to have settled down to a distribution and even better to know its Gentoo, of all Linux variants there are. Sure, configuring it took around a week (Only and still my first try) but the system now no longer needs to update via those ISO methods, like Ubuntu or others need for a better experience. I’m rolling with it as it goes!

Beginning to respect cross-platform-ness, I have jumped down into the Qt/KDE river, though I still haven’t managed to get KDE 4.1 installed (Yeah Gentoo does have SOME bad points about it, but otherwise its the best for settling down upon, no version numbers nothing, you are what you’ve got.)

Programming with Qt is quite a pain for someone not used to Object Oriented stuff, but the stuff it can do does not make you give up and let go. Have started a blog on the same, and you will find the link here and content there when its ready enough.

Sorry am I getting too random here? I’ll continue over in another post then.

This problem is very weird, and no amount of googling showed any other similar case.

I emerged GDM (along with GNOME 2.22) on my Gentoo Linux installation and after I restart to see it in effect I met with this nasty irritant:

It comes each time one logs in, automatic or not, after the password is entered. Only if you click the OK button does it go ahead and proceed with the login.

After around 3 hours of madness googling for at least ONE person with a similar case or fix, I got fed up and gave up.

But the entire search time was not futile since I found this page which said that during a boot process, and after login, the /var/log/lastlog file is checked and if found, is displayed.

So I removed /var/log/lastlog and tried a re-login and amazingly enough this dialog box didn’t show up.

Thus, I added the line rm /var/log/lastlog to my GDM init.d script before its first start line and that seemed to have fixed this irritating issue, not in a good default way though, more like a counter hack.

(P.s. I made that window shot shown here, since I could not capture the screen while GDM showed it.)

Any ‘actual’ fixes to it? My DisplayLastLogin variable is already set to false in the gdm.conf, but to no effect.