Half a Page of Scribbled Linux

To create a new application for the menu: Enlightenment Configuration (Main Menu/Configuration/Configuration Panel)/Applications/New Application. I have no idea where this entry ended up.

There’s an Enlightenment menu editor called Entangle. It is shown on the configuration menu on some web sites. It’s not on mine. The package it’s in is e_utils (yum provides entangle tells you this). I installed it but it doesn’t seem to work on my system.

This is from the menu specs Enlightenment uses:

In /etc/xdg/menus is applications.menu. This file tells the menu where to get its entries.

In /usr/share/applications copy a .desktop file to a new entry. Edit this text file and restart Enlightenment. The menu will re-read the entries and place the .desktop entry in the menu depending on its Categories field. The Categories are listed in applications.menu.

My desktop, Hoover, was really sluggish. I use Pinto, the laptop more often when reading my mail, so it’s not clear when this started. I first suspected Comcast until my wife confirmed only Hoover did this. I checked DNS settings and both computers were using the same DNS servers. Some Googling picked up Slow internet (download OK but “looking up” is slow) which pointed to WebBrowsingSlowIPv6IPv4 that had instructions for disabling IPv6. It seems some NICs are broken with respect to IPv6. FWIW, mine’s a Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX, which, IIRC, came with my Comcast installation.

Except for the editor they use, it works in Fedora, too:

• edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
• Add this line: blacklist ipv6
• Reboot

I saw an article on ExtremeTech about KDE 4. It mentioned enlightenment, so I thought I’d give it another look, since I’m only moderately happy with Fluxbox. Here’s a review of Enlightenment 17.

Guides to Enlightenment 17
Download the yum-repo RPM. This adds a repo in /etc/yum.repos.d for e17. Check your other repos per Then yum install enlightenment. To change to E, switchdesk enlightenment. The first time I logged in after this, Enlightenment told me I was running the enlightenment binary and that was bad. So I edited ~/.Xclients-default and changed WM="enlightenment" to WM="enlightenment_start". Then it was happy.

Enlightenment news.
Enlightenment User Guide

Here are some references to print borderless (also known as fullbleed) photographs on the HP PhotoSmart 8450:

HPLIP Fullbleed with lpr HOWTO
HPLIP Fullbleed with kview HOWTO
Setting CUPS printer options

Summary:
Edit file in gimp.
Rotate if needed to make portrait.
Scale so shortest size matches paper size, e.g., 8.5″x11″. Change dpi to 300, change units to inches. Leave aspect linked.
Change image size to match paper size and center.
Save as picture.ps.
lpr -Php8450 -o media=Letter,Photo picture.ps