‘geode’ video driver for OLPC, ArchLinux

Compiling geode from CVS – had configure fail with XORG_RELEASE_VERSION: command not found Was lacking xorg-util-macros package.

Xorg: multiple languages (layouts)

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section “InputDevice” Identifier “Keyboard0″ Driver “kbd” Option “XKbLayout” “us,ru,lt” Option “XKbOptions” “grp:alt_shift_toggle” EndSection Note it’s “us”, not “en”!

Default Firefox UI font too big (using awesome)

As said here, to change the default font of GTK+ applications, edit .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory and add gtk-font-name=”sans-serif 8″ This was somehow automatically tweaked in Xfce. Some of the options are tweaked by setting values in ~/.config/xfce4/Xft.xrdb, but that’s not it: these values set the same stuff as Xorg’s /usr/local/etc/fonts/local.conf (or default.conf). Anyway, [...]

Disabling the xterm beep (bell)

Here’s a great article. According to it, I just added exec xset -b & to .xinitrc and set nobeep to .cshrc.

It’s awesome!

I think I’ll be using awesome from now on. It might take some time moving all my settings from Xfce; but probably not, considering how fast I’ve found the settings I had in Gnome “pretty much irrelevant”. One of the issues was flipping back to good old XTerm. This thread on Ubuntu forums was helpful. [...]