Using a PC with FC-15 Linux… Install eclipse. Follow all steps on the android development web page to install the Adroid SDK and ADT plugin for eclipse. If you ever need access to Android’s sources you will need git and a tool named ‘repo’ written by google, which works on top of git. The tool […]
Month: June 2011
Desktop points to user’s home folder (~) in Fedora
Usually this problem means that the var XDG_DESKTOP_DIR got somehow set to $HOME instead of “$HOME/Desktop”… FIX: Edit the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and fix it: XDG_DESKTOP_DIR=”$HOME/Desktop” … typically this file should look like this: XDG_DESKTOP_DIR=”$HOME/Desktop” XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR=”$HOME/Download” XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR=”$HOME/Templates” XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR=”$HOME/Public” XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR=”$HOME/Documents” XDG_MUSIC_DIR=”$HOME/Music” XDG_PICTURES_DIR=”$HOME/Pictures” XDG_VIDEOS_DIR=”$HOME/Videos”
How to write an ISO image with XCDRoast…
It may sound like a dumb question, since X-CD-Roast is a GUI tool for writing files and images, but it’s logic is so user-unfriendly and unnatural that in reality it’s not at all simple to create a CD or DVD from ISO using this app. Ok, so how do you write an ISO image with […]
Checking ‘dynamic’ conditions in Makefile’s
How can you test ‘dynamic’ conditions in a gnu Makefile? The net is full of GNU-Makefile advise explaining how to define variables and then later use them at compile time to run different commands or different targets. This is all very useful but often time you want to run a command and test it’s result […]