Category: win
gimp win language
For some reason, by default, Gimp runs in french on my Windows 7 (English) desktop. I didn’t find any option to change language, in Gimp or GTK. So, to start Gimp in English, make a batch file containing something like:
set lang=en cd C:\Program Files (x86)\GIMP-2.0\bin gimp-2.6.exe
UPDATE: As it may also be useful for other apps peeking into environment variables and as a cleaner solution, we can set it globally or for the current user.
Control Panel\System and Security\System, Advanced system settings, Environment variables... name: lang, value: en
file type association win7
cmd as admin (can’t use this method with powershell…)
C:\Windows\system32>assoc /? Displays or modifies file extension associations ASSOC [.ext[=[fileType]]] .ext Specifies the file extension to associate the file type with fileType Specifies the file type to associate with the file extension Type ASSOC without parameters to display the current file associations. If ASSOC is invoked with just a file extension, it displays the current file association for that file extension. Specify nothing for the file type and the command will delete the association for the file extension.
Examples:
assoc .rar=7zip assoc .rar=
dbus and X forwarding
Under Ubuntu 10.4
It seems some files under ~/.dbus are set to owner root, which causes problems when starting an X application over SSH.
chowning -R ~/.dbus to user seems to fix the problem.
Under Windows 7
PuTTY often crashes when forwarding an X application. Could this be related?
vlc
ca fait 2 fois que je me fais fourrer avec vlc
– ma livecam n’a pas d’image quand je tente d’ouvrir un peripherique
de capture a son nom;
– le desktop recording n’a pas l’air de fonctionner.
EDIT: un cossin trop automatique c’est juste donné le droit d’updater un driver. J’ai rebranché la cam et j’ai maintenant une image invert (AKA je suis bleu). Je ne suis cependant toujours pas capable de rediriger ça dans un file.
steam is single-user
It is not possible to have multiple users running steam (Windows 7). Worse than that, because any user can run steam, passwords are remembered between sessions. AKA my girlfriend receives my steam chat when she’s using my box.
The Steam client is not a system-wide service. It’s a game manager, chat client and browser (!?). Each user has its own steam account — it makes no sense to have these settings system-wide. What kind of design is this? Please fix it! (I’m aware this isn’t an open source project and I don’t really have anything to say about it, but it’s not a feature request. This is a flaw that needs to be fixed).
natural selection 2 beta tests
Lags!
No option to invert mouse in menus. To invert mouse, edit line 197 of player.lua to
local angles = Angles(-1 * input.pitch, input.yaw, 0.0)
Disable hibernation / remove hiberfil.sys
Windows 7, 8, 10
At admin command prompt:
powercfg /h off
This will disable hibernation and remove hiberfil.sys, which saves a lot of disk space when you have a lot of RAM.
jabber (gtalk) client
Google Talk client from Google sucks. I didn’t find any way to disable pop-ups so it keeps switching to desktop whenever I receive a new message, which is horribly annoying when playing games.
Pidgin sucks, as it does the same thing. I also heard that it takes huge amount of RAM after several days of use under Ubuntu (mem leak?).
I’m now using Psi and so far like it.
login to unix remote with rsa key pair from windows
On Windows client, we need:
- PuTTY
- PuTTYgen
- Pageant
Use PuTTYgen to make key pair, save private key to file and copy public key to clipboard. Add key to Pageant.
On Unix remote, edit ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and add public key from Windows clipboard (one-line).
Use PuTTY to login to remote. WinSCP also uses Pageant when possible.