It seems that there is some hope for my media buttons in Linux. Previously, the best solution appeared to be to recompile a patched version of my kernal. This wasn’t very appealling. Pointed out to me today was the the linEAK project. This is a daemon that sits and listens to the codes generated by the keyboard and will fire of events for the media keys. All without having to mess around much beyond starting the daemon. I’ve been in Windows this week (waiting for SharpE bugs to surface), but when I go back to Linux, I’ll definitely be giving linEAK a go. I will keep you posted on how it goes. How exciting!

If you have been keeping up with SharpE and talking on #sharpe then you’ll find this ninja site very funny. If you haven’t, well, shame on you!

Just discovered a cool Opera feature - hold down the right mouse button and scroll the wheel to change your tab without moving the mouse.

Opera 7! Opera 7! Opera 7!

Opera.com

I just uploaded a page for dWall along with the version 1.0.0 release of dWall! There are lots of lovely changes, which are listed below, or just grab the release from the dWall page.

• • Subfolders now supported.
• • ‘Apply Options…’ feature extended to support folders as well as image files.
• • TreeView now used to display wallpapers.
• • Wallpapers organised by name, rather than just how they are ordered by Windows.
• • Can refresh folders. F5 for current folder, Shift-F5 for whole tree.
• • When wallpapers are resized on applying, aspect ratio is now maintained.
• • Preview image keeps aspect ratio.
• • Can now edit paths for folders.
• • No longer have to restart dWall for changes in wallpaper timer to be enacted.
• • Folders display their path in the statusbar when selected and active status.
• • Can now traverse wallpapers with keyboard, and preview updates itself.
• • Entire interface recoded using more standard window components.
• • Altered menu drawing routine to take account of caption width.
• • Fixed memory leak in Random wallpaper changing.
• • Went through code fixing all the little bugs people have pointed out.
• • Fixed bug with sizing of options form.

Enjoy =)