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    Turning off loud system beep in OpenSolaris Gnome and GDM

    Since OpenSolaris started using Gnome 2.24, I started getting loud system beeps those were produced on the PC speaker device that by-passes the audio device. Gnome uses kbd to generate this beep. This beep is so loud that it is really annoying. Also it hurts one’s ears when listening to music using a headset. The [...]

    Completely clueless

    On my OpenSolaris. What could be more exciting than this?

    praveen@athena:~$ /opt/sfw/bin/emacs
    Fatal error (11).Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
     
    praveen@athena:~$ file core
    core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file 80386 Version 1, from ‘emacs’
     
    praveen@athena:~$ gdb -c core /opt/sfw/bin/emacs
    GNU gdb 6.3.50_2004-11-23-cvs
    Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    GDB is free software, covered by the [...]

    Modifying Control and Caps Lock keys under OpenSolaris and Linux

    Since I started using Emacs, I started using the Control key more than I had used it before. That is when I started using my Caps Lock key as Control key. In the beginning, I swapped the Control key and the Caps Lock key. However while doing pair programming on my computer, my colleagues found [...]