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For servers I still favor Debian though Dart runs CentOS due to the requirements for ArcGIS Server. | 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 == | == GIS notes == | ||
Latest revision as of 22:47, 29 January 2013
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.
