With Midnight Commander (mc) and Gnome Terminal running gnome-shell even when you go to Keyboard Shortcuts and disable the menu shortcut key it would still open up a menu when you were in mc and pressed F10 to exit. I finally got so fustrated with it I found this post and it worked :)

OK so here is what I did.

mkdir ~/.config/gtk-3.0/
 
cat ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css 
@binding-set NoKeyboardNavigation {
	unbind "<shift>F10"
}
 
* {
	gtk-key-bindings: NoKeyboardNavigation
}

Make sure when you create the file or edit it that you do not have any gnome terminals open.

I wanted to change the default background in;
gnome-base/gdm-3.2.0-r1

su -
su - gdm -s /bin/bash
gdm@opteron ~ $ dbus-launch
No protocol specified
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-tDdIT0TeFd,guid=842b21d1eef42fd311455f2d00001199
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=7002
gdm@opteron ~ $ export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-tDdIT0TeFd,guid=842b21d1eef42fd311455f2d00001199
gdm@opteron ~ $ export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=7002
gdm@opteron ~ $  ps aux | grep dconf
david     6716  0.0  0.0 128544  2908 ?        Sl   11:20   0:00 /usr/libexec/dconf-service
gdm       7005  0.0  0.0   7960   824 pts/0    S+   11:27   0:00 grep --colour=auto dconf
gdm@opteron ~ $ /usr/libexec/dconf-service &
[1] 7007
gdm@opteron ~ $ GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file:////usr/share/backgrounds/gnome/stripes-gentoo.jpg"

I wanted a way to log into Gentoo Bugzilla with Chromium using CACert SSL certificates without needing to click through the red screen of hate.

First we need dev-libs/nss with USE="utils".

Next as your normal user;

wget http://www.cacert.org/certs/root.crt
wget http://www.cacert.org/certs/class3.crt

certutil -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -A -t "TCu,Cu,Tuw" -n \
"CACert Class 1 Root Certificate" -i root.crt
certutil -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -A -t "TCu,Cu,Tuw" -n \
"CACert Class 3 Root Certificate" -i class3.crt
rm root.crt class3.crt

Thats it ...

I just updated to Firefox 4 and when I wanted to send email links with Thunderbird I could not get it to work with some of the old methods like editing ~/.mozilla/firefox/mfqbagaq.default/prefs.js.

I got it to work by opening Preferences > Applications > and adding Content Type: mailto and entering the link to /usr/bin/thunderbird.

That's it :)

I just did an update on my main ~amd64 box that I have had for over 5 years, the hardware is starting to get a little dated but it is still running strong so no worries. It had been about 3 weeks since my last update.

I went ahead and updated to the latest xorg-server version x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.2.902 and nvidia driver x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29.

I was a little nervous as I use a custom xorg.conf for my two monitors that I have set-up just the way I like it and sure didn't want to break it. No worries as it works perfect, also the fonts seem even better than before and I thought they were good then.

The first problem to overcome was with dev-perl/Gtk2-WebKit-0.08. I had this before but had cleaned up my overlay so I had to redo it, here is the simple fix;

--- /usr/portage/dev-perl/Gtk2-WebKit/Gtk2-WebKit-0.08.ebuild	2010-05-31 05:11:03.000000000 -0400
+++ /usr/local/portage/dev-perl/Gtk2-WebKit/Gtk2-WebKit-0.08-r1.ebuild	2010-07-23 21:41:09.000000000 -0400
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-perl/Gtk2-WebKit/Gtk2-WebKit-0.08.ebuild,v 1.1 2010/05/31 09:11:03 tove Exp $
 
+EAPI=2
+
 MODULE_AUTHOR=FLORA
 inherit perl-module
 
@@ -19,5 +21,9 @@
 	dev-perl/glib-perl
 	dev-perl/extutils-pkgconfig
 	dev-perl/extutils-depends"
+src_configure() {
+	addpredict /root/.local/share/webkit
+	perl-module_src_configure
+}
 
 #SRC_TEST=do

Next was dev-python/sexy-python-0.1.9-r1. It took a little research on bugs.gentoo.org. I had to do two things. Remove 2.7 from /etc/make.conf so it would not try to build against python 2.7 so;

USE_PYTHON="2.6 2.7 3.1" <= old
USE_PYTHON="2.6 3.1" <= new

ln -s /usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf /usr/include/gdk-pixbuf

Here is the update script I use at the moment :)

#!/bin/bash
. /etc/init.d/functions.sh
ebegin "Updating $(hostname -f)"
eend $?
emerge --sync;
emerge -avuND world;
emerge --depclean;
revdep-rebuild;
eix-update
einfo "Do not forget etc-update!"

I was arch testing mod_wsgi for x86 stabilization and needed to test it so here is what I did.

First you will need to have apache working fine I have;

www-servers/apache-2.2.16

Then I installed ~x86 version of mod_wsgi;

emerge -av www-apache/mod_wsgi
[ebuild   R   ] www-apache/mod_wsgi-3.3

Next I created a little test;

def application(environ, start_response):
    status = '200 OK'
    output = 'Hello World!'
 
    response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain'),
                        ('Content-Length', str(len(output)))]
    start_response(status, response_headers)
 
    return [output]

Saved it as /var/www/localhost/htdocs/hello.py

Next I edited vim /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/default_vhost.include
and added;

WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/localhost/htdocs/hello.py

Next To enable mod_wsgi, you need to edit your /etc/conf.d/apache2 file and add '-D WSGI' to APACHE2_OPTS.

Here is my line;

APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D MANUAL -D SSL -D \ 
SSL_DEFAULT_VHOST -D LANGUAGE -D PHP5 -D WSGI"

Now when you restart the server you should see on http://localhost/ the "Hello World!" message.

Thats it!

revdep-rebuild -L libGl.so.*

As a general rule for upgrading to cups 1.4 when something regarding
local usb printers doesn't work:

1. disable kernel usblp: CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=n
2. delete /etc/cups
3. (re-)install cups 1.4 with USE="usb"
4. configure printer(s) from scratch via the cups webinterface
5. if your printer is a multifunction device, be sure you got the udev rules
setting the device permissions in shape so cups can access the device

If for whatever reason (broken/old printer drivers) that doesn't work
out there's still the way to install CUPS 1.4 with USE="-usb" to get
the old CUPS 1.3 behaviour back.

I had the same problem a while back "the cdrom drive wouldn't open up and stay open" It was driving me crazy as I attempted to put a disk in the drive before it closed. It was too fast for me, it would grab my hand before I could get the disk inserted :) Once I removed ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support from the kernel and only used Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers It worked fine again.

< > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support (DEPRECATED) --->
<*> Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers --->

More info;
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319829

May be worth a try ...