21 February 2010  Developing,Foresight

For using stable Gnome-Shell, you can read and install it here.
To get the latest Gnome-Shell available, you only need to change some packages to use git instead. This packages are built in my personal repo, and they work perfectly with Foresight Linux.

We start with 32bit users.
Open Terminal and write:
sudo conary …

15 November 2009  Applications,Developing,Foresight,Linux

Iv’e been using Banshee and Exaile most of my time in Linux, Rhythmbox is even less. But using them all long enough to get frustrated on them.
So I started today to look for alternative music players for Gnome environment in Linux. There is several applications out there, but usually they are too …

8 October 2009  Developing,Foresight,Tips/Tricks

Read about Gnome-Shell – Bleeding edge + installation too.
The GNOME Shell redefines user interactions with the GNOME desktop. In particular, it offers new paradigms for launching applications, accessing documents, and organizing open windows in GNOME. Later, it will introduce a new applets eco-system and offer new solutions for other desktop …

26 September 2009  Applications,Developing,Foresight,Linux

I always used Blastbits to create Foresight Linux installation usb sticks. But now i think i will use unetbootin instead, feels safer.

Installed unpublished Foresight XFCE 2.1.2 version into a 1GB usb stick. Worked fine, tried to boot it from usb stick, worked fine too. Could install xfce from usb stick.
Warning
But …

21 September 2009  Applications,Developing,Foresight

After some painkillers, I’ve managed to build ffmpegthumbnailer and also added it for Mediatomb.
The errors i manage to fix was:
aclocal: couldn’t open directory `m4′: No such file or directory
Was fixed by creating an empty m4 folder, that gets removed afterwards. So all Foresight users will never see it.
libffmpegthumbnailer/videothumbnailer.cpp:198: error: ‘errno’ …