Linux

This title is actually a bit misleading, but still quite true.

As it turns out, the bug appears to lie not in the fglrx driver, as previously thought, or in the Gnome Power Manager, also as previously thought, but in Compiz/Fusion. I can ascertain this because I recently installed the most current version of Compiz/Fusion from git sources using directions here.

This was four days ago. I continued to use the sleeparound.sh script I had written, until one day I mis-clicked the launcher, and shut the lid. I thought to myself “Oh, Crap!”, as I had a few things open. So, I let it sleep, and opened it back up, and voila! It asked for my password!

I couldn’t believe it, so, I shut the lid, let it sleep, and opened it, and again was greeted with the password prompt. I was so excited that I did this about five more times, and said “Look, honey, it works!” She smiled and nodded, but was not overly thrilled.

PLEASE NOTE: Before I upgraded compiz, I installed the proprietary ATI driver with directions from cchtml and customized my /etc/default/acpi-support file as I did previously.

All in all, I basically over-rode the Ubuntu-installed packages, but it seems to have resolved the issues I was having. Prior to upgrading compiz, I was still experiencing the suspend issue with the proprietary ATI driver.

Hopefully, it won’t be long before the versions that I have are in the Ubuntu repos!

/cs

Yo.

I have a desktop machine and a laptop that I run together with synergy.  The desktop is a Dell with a dual-head configuration, and the laptop is, well, a laptop.

I have been running the laptop to one side, and have ended up with cricks in my neck on several occassions.  I did not like this, as cricks hurt!

So, I figured out a way around it.

I configured my synergy.conf to specify that the boxes were both right AND left of each other in the links section:

section: links
tuck:
left = eli
right = eli
eli:
right = tuck
left = tuck
end

I then arranged things so that I have a monitor from the dual head on each side.  I had to put the right monitor on the left, and the left monitor on the right in order to get everything working the way I wanted.  Now, I run the synergys daemon on the laptop, and use it to control the desktop.  The configuration works in such a way that the left monitor for the desktop machine is to the right, and the right monitor is to the left of the laptop.  This creates the effect that I wanted: Right to left, my mouse runs through a monitor, the laptop, and then another monitor and vice versa.  It may sound a little confusing, and it actually is.  It took about 30 seconds of seeing it in action to get used to the idea.

One of the neat side effects is that it loops around.  So, if I go to the right-hand monitor (which is actually the left monitor of the desktop), it continues onto the left-hand monitor (which was originally the right monitor on the desktop).

This allows me to easily see all three monitors in a more consistent and less neck-strenuous fashion.

/cs