Author Archives: Svenn-Arne Dragly

Forgot that LaTeX symbol? Use Detexify to find it for you

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

I just came over this website called Detexify that helps you figure out the name of a symbol based on your drawing of it. With most the symbols I tested, it managed to suggest correctly the symbol I was trying … Continue reading →

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Norwegian keyboard on the N950

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

The N950 is delivered with a keyboard without Norwegian keys, so I decided to map holding the function/arrow key and pressing comma (,), period (.) or asterix (*) to ø, æ and å, respectively. I you are Norwegian and just … Continue reading →

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Handling locked screen event in Qt for Maemo

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

If you want to pause an application to save battery power when the screen is turned off, you can do this by listening for the locked screen event in Qt for Maemo. However, this is not made easily available through … Continue reading →

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Handling application minimization in Maemo with Qt

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

When you are developing with Qt on Maemo you might want to minimize or detect minimization of your application to the dashboard. Qt lacks clean functions for these use cases, but thankfully it’s still very easy to accomplish them. Minimizing … Continue reading →

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Loading local gems in cPanel shared host

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

I had some trouble today figuring out why my Redmine installation wouldn’t start running on my shared server. I received the following error in my log/mongrel.log file: ** Starting Rails with production environment… Missing the i18n 0.4.2 gem. Please `gem … Continue reading →

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Making new image in Gimp same size as clipboard

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

Have you ever tried to copy an image in Gimp and open a new image to paste it into? Then you’ve probably noticed that the size of that new image isn’t automatically adjusted to the size of the image in … Continue reading →

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Using Wacom tablet with dual monitors (TwinView) in Ubuntu

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

I have a setup with two monitors on my computer and wanted to restrict my Wacom tablet to only one of the screens. Otherwise, the tablet is expanded to the entire two screens, making any drawing stretched. This has shown … Continue reading →

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Spotify for Linux

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

Awesome news! Spotify is now finally available as a native client for Linux. I have no idea why I haven’t spotted this earlier, as it was already announced in July, but in any case it is finally here. Although they … Continue reading →

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Updated method for drawing springs in Inkscape

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

I’ve written an earlier post on how to draw simple schematically springs in Inkscape. After reading a great tip from ~suv in the Launchpad bug tracker, I figured I should bring you guys another update on how to do this … Continue reading →

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Trafikanten on Maemo

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

Update: The package was pushed to Extras testing on 2nd of October. It was delayed because Maemo’s package repository would not import the new package due to some trouble with the version numbering. There has been missing a native application … Continue reading →

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