Misc.

Thanks to all the hard work by the fglrx packaging team, DRI, MESA, Xorg, Radeon,... etc people!

I've been using fglrx with my laptop since I've had it:

And to the people behind the Debian packaging..
* xserver-xorg-video-radeon from testing.
* libdrm-intel1 and libdrm2 from unstable
* libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx from experimental

Long time since I posted anything here. I just have nothing to say. Nothing is happening in general and all days are almost the same!

* Went to Egypt on vacation and came back.

Really, I f****** hate reCAPTCHA. I decided to input "foo" instead of the hard to read word (Which is the scanned part probably).

This is an example of a clueless and non-informative blog entry. Please feel free to skip it.

Years ago when we were young at school, teachers used to ask as:
* Did you forget to eat ?

قرات عند بنت مصرية.

احب ان ادلي بدلوي في الموضوع لاني قد مررت بهذه المرحلة

This post has a bit of my history and emotions. It can be skipped!

The summary is: Katoob has a new maintainer.

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Yes, a long time.

Back in 2002, Gtk 2.x was just released. Efforts were spent porting, rewriting and redesigning parts of GNOME. The aim was GNOME 2.0 and later on 2.x

و اخيرا استمع الى لم تكن تلك حكايتي

انا باحبك يا مصطفى

النهارده وصلني بعد الضهر كتاب رحاب, أرز باللبن لشخصين. لا و انا اللي الصبح كنت لسه باقولها عايز نسجه موقعه لما انزل اجازه!!

لا و انا اللي لسه عامل معاه حركة ندالة من يومين!! بجد اودي وشي فين:-(

Thanks to those 2 comments. Although placing Xft.dpi: 96 in my ~/.Xdefaults did not help, but I managed to do it through the appearance control center applet. I had to purge the gtk-qt theme engine because it was freezing the dialog and setting it via gconf-editor didn't work as expected.

I had to fight with my fonts this morning but here's my configuration. Maybe it'll be useful to anyone:
DejaVu sans book 12
96 DPI
greyscale smoothing, subpixel slight RGB.

I have 2 laptops. My personal one at home and my work one at the office. Both are running testing. A month or two ago, I did a dist-upgrade on the home one. Later on I rebooted (DUH!) it for a reason I can't remember just to end up with very tiny fonts under GNOME. It took me some time to tweak them back again and play with the GNOME anti-aliasing dialog. Now if you know me well, you know that the last thing someone should do to me is to touch my font settings. I have a very sensitive eye (Because I have a very low vision) and I hardly tweak the fonts. All went somehow fine after that.