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I’ve switched some weeks ago to Linux Mint and Cinnamon from Xfce and in these days I’m a kind of exploring the new desktop.

I’m used to take screenshot for work, totake some notes and so I installed the Cinnamon screenshot applet.

After some day using it I was a bit bored by the screenshots saved in Pictures folder by default so I traied to change this behaviur.

Looking into the applet js file i discover that the applet is based on gnome-screenshot and so I find an easy solution to my problem.

You can edit the with dconf-editor the configuration string

I’m working on a project in which we have to call some JS method of the containing page from a Silverlight application.

It seems to be really straight forward like:

HtmlPage.Window.Invoke("GlobalJsMethod",param1,param2);

But this works only for global methods and not for JS class methods.

In fact this will not work:

You can make a global wrapper for every class methods but you can also do something like this:

private ScriptObject _jsObject = HtmlPage.Window.Eval("JsClassInstance") as ScriptObject;
private void UserControl_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
                _jsObject.Invoke("JsMethod",param1,param2);
        }

that is far more elegant.

This is only a quick tip. Maybe I’ll write a more detailed post an JS-Silverlight interaction in the future.

Today I started my xfce desktop and it looks like …“different”. No theme loaded, default icons, no background. I tried to change theme from Xfce Settings but nothing, it doesn’t work.

My .session-errors reveals a

After a bit o googling it seems to be an aged bug of xfce when used on multiple monitor configuration.

The solution, or better, the workaround is to delete the file:

Now you can log out and log in again in your themed Xfce :-)

Just a quick tip useful when you have to do something special for Silverlight designer to work correctly.

bool _inInDesignMode = DesignerProperties.IsInDesignTool;

Yesterday I discovered that wordpress does not have a blogroll feature any more so I looked around to find a way to show my feedly subscription list in my blog.

I didn’t find anything interesting so decided to implement a simple javascipt class to convert the opml file exported from feedly to an html page so that I could easily create a wordpress page or widget.

The script is really very simple, it takes the ompl, deserialize it and create a corresponding HTML string using from a basic template defined in the JS itself. It can be certainly improved (for example adding some css class to the template for graphical customization) but, for now, it just work for my needs.

After today update of debian Sid VMWare keep crashing on startup without any interesting log.

. The crash it’s caused by the curl update that changed the lib interface.

There are two ways of solving this: downgrade Curl (i.e. using snapshot debian) or applying a patch that force vmware to use its own libcurl instead of the system one.

Thewe are the 2 patches, one for vmware and one for vmplayer:

--- /usr/bin/vmware-original 2013-02-09 18:22:36.194459631 +0100
+++ /usr/bin/vmware 2013-02-09 18:22:45.234459997 +0100
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@

if "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Workstation" --icon="vmware-workstation" &&
/sbin/modinfo vmmon; then
+ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libcurl.so.4
exec "$libdir"/bin/"vmware" "$@"
fi

--- /usr/bin/vmplayer-original 2013-01-30 22:06:11.253190017 +0100
+++ /usr/bin/vmplayer 2013-02-09 20:38:33.488125792 +0100
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@

if "$BINDIR"/vmware-modconfig --appname="VMware Player" --icon="vmware-player" &&
/sbin/modinfo vmmon; then
+ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libcurl.so.4
exec "$libdir"/bin/"vmplayer" "$@"
fi

I decided to apply the patches so that I can update the whole system.

Here is my new desktop wallpaper (and current blog header), one of the best shot I’ve taken during my MTB trips.

Wallpaper Crocione!

It was taken here on Cuvignone pass and, on the background, you can see (from left to right): lake Varese, lake Monate and lake Maggiore.

I think it’s worth a visit!