The Gnomification of Firefox

After the small post about Gnome3 as a working environment, I stumbled in a French article about regaining screen estate in Firefox. The advice seemed sound, and I went to apply the changes.

I already posted on Google+ the results, so I'm now summarizing the steps you need.

• First things first, you need the Adwaita Theme[en] that, as usual, you can find on addons.mozilla.org.
• Then you need the HTitle extension, from the same source. Big warning! The extension hides the titlebar, so if you use the same Firefox profile in other desktop environments, you could loose the titlebar when Firefox is maximized!
• Next you want also the Movable Firefox Button. This is optional but very convenient as you can move the FF button (which contains all the menus and such other things) in the url bar or in the tab bar, in the position you want it. In the original article it's just after the url bar, I prefer to have it as the first item in the tab bar.
• Install the OmniBar which let you merge the url bar and the search bar as Chrome do, but without losing functionality.
• Now you can move the tab bar on top of the url bar if you like, just type the usual about:config into the url bar and set the property browser.tabs.onTop to True.
• Now you can install the Status Titlebar Gnome Shell extension. This is also optional but it may be very useful in case you have similar windows open.

And then you're done, this is this same post viewed in a gnomicized Firefox:

Mageia 2 on Macbook Pro: how to enable brightness keys with nvidia driver

Here's how to make brightness keys (eg. F1 and F2) to work on Mageia 2 on Gnome 3.

Add this line to the Device section of the xorg.conf (after you configured the proprietary drivers under Mageia control center):

Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"

Here's the page that helped me.

Edit: note that this configuration may lead to X11 crashes as well as the same configuration with noveau (which does not need any Option in x.org.conf).

Mageia 2

It's out. It's amazing. It works on the macbook pro. Enough said.

Go update or install NOW!.

Mandriva and Mageia, Am I not a farseer?

Note this blog post of mine (and the date) and this announcement from Mageia.

No more left to say.

Mageia 2

Mageia 2 Beta2 is out.

The main new features from Mageia 1 are:

• Kernel 3
• Systemd
• KDE 4.8
• GNOME 3 (currently 3.3, 3.4 is planned for release)
• Many updated browser versions (Firefox, Chromium, Opera)

The installation on my trusted companion, the MSI s271 went very well and the issues presented by Mageia 1 have been resolved (I had to upgrade to the latest firmware for the power management to work correctly).

Sadly, NetworkManager still fails me (fortunately, Mageia includes Mageia Control Center so network configuration is still a breeze, even if there's no connection monitor on Gnome3).

Currently, I'm using the Gnome3 desktop as main environment on this installation and the only complaint I can think of is lack of customization possibilities.