Linux Mint

I switched to Mint 14 a couple weeks ago, on my desktops.

I was tired of having to nuke Unity every time I installed Ubuntu, then when testing 12.10 I saw Amazon popping up in local searches and that was the last straw. Message to Canonical: set it to OPT IN not OPT OUT.

(To me,) Mint is Ubuntu with a reasonable user interface.

For servers I still favor Debian though Dart runs CentOS due to the requirements for ArcGIS Server.

Focus follows mouse

I don't know why everyone in the world does not use "focus follows mouse". Or why they renamed it. I think it is a plot to undermine civilization. There are so many of those. Agenda 22 I call it. Worse than Agenda 21!

From Linux Mint forums, the solution cometh: Finally, I went into dconf-editor (you can download it with 'sudo apt-get install dconf-tools' if you don't already have the package) and under: org > gnome > desktop > wm > preferences I found the same settings as in gconf-editor under Metacity. Here I unselected auto_raise and then changed the focus_mode to sloppy. These settings actually took, and now the focus moves with the mouse -- without also bringing that window to the forefront.

Hopefully this helps.

It does! Praise the Internet. The seeds of destruction and our salvation all in one not-place.

GIS notes

Can't get the latest to install so I simply did this for now.

apt-get install qgis 
apt-get install gnuplot gpsbabel gpstrans python-rpy2 xml2 hdf4-tools ogdi-bin python-nose

This gives me Wroclaw release of Quantum GIS. The second line is a subset of suggested items.

python-nose??? I think it's a unit testing thing.