FreeNX: Disable Persistent Session

It’s a bit unintuitive to set non-persistent session on FreeNX server. After a few attempts, here is the working settings: Edit /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg: ENABLE_PERSISTENT_SESSION=""<br /> DISABLE_PERSISTENT_SESSION="all"

August 22, 2012 · 1 min · 25 words · kenno

KDE Desktop Shell Scripting Console

I keep forgetting how to run Desktop Shell Scripting Console. So here it is, something just to remind myself: Alt + F2 Type desktop console and hit the enter key Wanna learn more what this tool’s for? Head to KDE System Administration/PlasmaDesktopScripting.

August 16, 2012 · 1 min · 42 words · kenno

FreeBSD: How to check version of installed packages

# pkg_version -v Running pkg_version -v could take a while. If we only want a quick look: # pkg_info -xI If we want to see if some packages are out of date: # pkg_version -v -X -s And to check all out of date packages: # pkg_version -vL "="

August 1, 2012 · 1 min · 49 words · kenno

Installing FreeBSD 9 source

Well, I need FreebSD 9 source to compile fusefs-kmod, which is required by gvfs, which’s in turn required by xfce. A lot of people recommend to use sysinstall to add the so called userland sources. sysinstall -> Configure -> Distribution -> src However, it didn’t work!! Thanks to wblock@[1] who pointed out that “sysinstall is mostly dead” and suggested a few ways to get the sources to your system. One of them is: ...

July 29, 2012 · 1 min · 104 words · kenno

Change cursor theme in Xfce on Freebsd

Install the preferred cursor theme. I personally like dmz-cursor-theme. # pkg_add -r cursor-dmz-theme Then, Applications Menu -> Settings -> Mouse. Click on Theme tab, select the preferred theme and click Close. Log out of the current Xfce session, then log back in.

July 26, 2012 · 1 min · 42 words · kenno