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| = Mat Booth =
| | Mat Booth is a software engineer for the Red Hat Eclipse Team. |
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| Mat Booth is a software engineer who works commercial [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCADA SCADA] systems by day and hacks on Fedora and other Open Source software by night.
| | He can be contacted by email at [mailto:mbooth@fedoraproject.org mbooth@fedoraproject.org] and goes by '''mbooth''' on various Freenode IRC channels, including #fedora-java and #fedora-uk. |
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| Email: [mailto:fedora(at)matbooth.co.uk fedora(at)matbooth.co.uk]
| | He mostly maintains Eclipse and Java related packages in Fedora, a comprehensive list can be seen in the [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packager/mbooth/ Package Database]. |
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| Website: [http://www.matbooth.co.uk/ www.matbooth.co.uk]
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| = Activities Within Fedora =
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| == Package Maintenance ==
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| A comprehensive list of the packages I maintain in Fedora can be seen in the [http://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/mbooth Package Database]. What follows is a brief test plan for some of the packages I maintain.
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| * '''eclipse-epic'''
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| ** Run eclipse from a terminal with -consoleLog.
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| ** Open Perl perspective, create a new Perl project with Module::Starter bits and create a new Perl file.
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| ** Syntax highlighting, occurrence highlighting, content-assist and Outline view contributions work.
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| ** Syntax error markers shown in Problems view and task tag markers shown in Tasks view.
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| ** Mouse-over Perl built-in function tooltips work.
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| ** Hit Ctrl-Shift-F to make sure Perl Tidy formatting works.
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| ** Right-click a built-in function "Perldoc" option opens Perldoc view.
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| ** Right-click a user function "Open Declaration" option works.
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| ** Create a "Perl Local" run profile and run, results appear in console.
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| ** Set a breakpoint and debug local profile, results appear in console and variable view works.
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| ** Create a "Perl CGI" run profile and run, server status appears in console, results appear in browser.
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| ** Set a breakpoint and debug CGI profile, server status appears in console, results appear in browser and variable view works.
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| ** TODO: Pod::Checker, Perl::Critic integration.
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| * '''eclipse-phpeclipse'''
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| ** Run eclipse from a terminal with -consoleLog.
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| ** Open PHP perspective, create a new PHP project and PHP file.
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| ** Syntax highlighting, occurrence highlighting, content-assist and Outline view contributions work.
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| ** Syntax error markers shown in Problems view and task tag markers shown in Tasks view.
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| ** Start, stop and restart apache successfully.
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| ** Apache stops when eclipse is closed.
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| ** When running apache, right-click the editor "Show In->PHP Browser" works.
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| ** When running apache, right-click navigator view "Open PHP Browser" works.
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| ** Right-click navigator view "External PHP Parser" runs and results are in the console.
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| ** Win32 help preference page is removed.
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| ** Mouse-over PHP built-in function tooltips work and PHP Manual view works.
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| ** Right-click a built-in function "PHP Help" opens help system to correct page.
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| ** Right-click a user function "Open Declaration" option works.
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| ** All the "PHPEclipse Help" links work in the help contents.
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| ** TODO: Run profiles and debugging.
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| = Random Notes =
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| == Reinstate Tap-to-Click Touchpad Behaviour ==
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| Section "InputDevice"
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| Identifier "TouchPad"
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| Driver "synaptics"
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| Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
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| Option "TapButton1" "1"
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| Option "RTCornerButton" "2"
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| Option "RBCornerButton" "3"
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| Option "SHMConfig" "on"
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| == Asus Laptop Sound Fix ==
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| Specifically for F10 on Asus Model F3Sr laptops, but this is probably valid for other configurations too.
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| In '''modprobe.conf''':
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| options snd-hda-intel model=lenovo
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| == Sun Java on Linux Bug ==
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| For this locking assertion failure:
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| java: xcb_xlib.c:82: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed
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| Fix for sun-java5-bin:
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| sed -i 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g' /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.14/jre/lib/amd64/xawt/libmawt.so
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| Fix for sun-java6-bin:
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| sed -i 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g' /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.5/jre/lib/amd64/xawt/libmawt.so
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| == Missing Grub Splash Workaround ==
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| Grub splash screen image is missing on new installs of F10 and F11. To workaround, add the '''verbose=0''' option to '''/boot/grub/menu.lst'''
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| == New Installation Checklist ==
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| * Allow users of the wheel group to have sudo access by uncommenting the line that says ''%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL'': '''su -c 'visudo' '''
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| * Add myself to the wheel group: '''su -c 'usermod -aG wheel mbooth' '''
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| * Enable compose key: '''Keyboard Prefs->Layouts->Layout Options->Compose Key Position'''
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| * Setup mail notifications: '''sudo yum install mail-notification'''
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| * Add a shortcut to a bigger terminal: '''gnome-terminal --geometry 120x60'''
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| * Install [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890 Tree Style Tabs], [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3615 Delicious] and [http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html Flash Player] plugins.
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| tar -xzvf libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
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| sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
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| * Trick Windows into thinking it is the primary device so it will boot. '''/boot/grub/menu.lst'''
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| title Winders Gaming Partition
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| rootnoverify (hd1,0)
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| map (hd1) (hd0)
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| map (hd0) (hd1)
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| makeactive
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| chainloader +1
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| * Mount remote shares.
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| su -c 'echo "ic:/raid /mnt/raid nfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab'
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| * Use vim alias even when root. '''/etc/profile.d/vim.sh'''
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| if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" -o -n "$KSH_VERSION" -o -n "$ZSH_VERSION" ]; then
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| # [ -x //usr/bin/id ] || return
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| # [ `//usr/bin/id -u` -le 100 ] && return
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| # for bash and zsh, only if no alias is already set
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| alias vi >/dev/null 2>&1 || alias vi=vim
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| fi
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| * Disable PC speaker.
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| su -c 'echo "blacklist pcspkr" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf'
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