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More AWN Eye Candy

Neil Patel upated his blog with news that Avant Window Navigator, everyone’s favorite dock-like menu bar for GNOME, now had reflections enabled (and some bug fixes) in the latest subversion thanks to some contributors.

Pscott was kind enough to package it within minutes of being pinged in IRC, a simple conary update avant-window-navigator and voila, new AWN. (See, don’t you wish you were running Foresight right now?)

Here is a picture of my dock taken just minutes ago with the new AWN from subversion:

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Changing AWN to use reflections and have the icons sit on top of the bar does require two changes in Gconf, it’s not in the AWN preferences yet. This Youtube click shows you how, or just do this:

  1. Open Gconf (Applicatons > System Tools > Configuration Editor)

  2. Click on Apps > Avant-Window-Navigator > Bar

  3. Change the Bar_angle value to 30

  4. Change the Icon_offset value to 10

  5. Close Gconf

  6. Restart Avant-Window-Navigator (Right click on it (not on an icon!) and click Close. Hit ALT-F2 to run it, and type avant-window-naviagor to start it. Voila!

Thanks again to the fine developers, and to Pscott for packaging it so quickly. It’s the little things that keep me happy, like eye candy.

_Update: Thanks to Cornelius in the comments, these settings make the reflection much more apparent:

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bar_angle: 45

icon_offset: 18

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Comcast speeds

I haven’t been a huge fan of Comcast since we were switched over from Time Warner last year. They jacked prices up 30%, and have horrible customer service, but the quality of service of the broadband connection has maintained.

I recently switched to a commercial account recently through an accomodation program at work, so I’m getting better upload and download speeds, for about 15% cheaper than my previous bill.

The speed tests were interesting, why couldn’t I have had this kind of speed 7 or 8 years ago when I was running a Counter-Strike server?!

Harmony 880 on Linux

I received an email from Phil Dibowitz two days ago regarding his work on trying to get the Harmony 880 remote working on Linux. He had seen a blog post from late last year where I had added on to Aaron Bockover’s bounty to get Harmony support working.

Ironically enough after responding to his email, I went through my morning routine of checking the news on the ‘net while I ate breakfast, and saw the same story on Digg (linking here), and now a few hours later, Phoronix has picked up the story as well.

I would like to post one correction to the stories I’m seeing: this was originally Aaron Bockover’s idea. Aaron is a Linux developer and maintainer of Banshee, everyone’s favorite music manager for the GNOME desktop.

I’m excited to see all the interest in getting Harmony remotes working on Linux, and take Phil’s advice: give Logitech constructive feedback that we want to see support on Linux.