Monday, November 25, 2013

Eclipse: quick SVN plugin installation...

On Eclipse toolbar choose Help --> Install New Software

On "Work with:" text input, on the right, click on "Add" button.

Insert new site point:
alias: SVN
URL: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/subversive/1.1/update-site/

The url point to the latest available version(november 2013) of svn releases.
You can check the latest available going on:
http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/latest-releases.php
and checking the Latest Stable Build paragraph,
in the "Update Site:" point.

After you entered those values, you can proceed with the installation click forward button.
If you want you can avoid to install SVN sources by not-checking the flag in the components-to-install menu .

Next restart eclipse.
After eclipse will ask you to choose a connector from a list; choose and go forward and all is done.

Bye



Saturday, November 23, 2013

Debian Wheezy: you are looking for chrome? You have Chromium!!!

Chromium is the Google's open source chromium web browser.
It's included into debian repositories...

Having these repositories into the sources.list(see here), give these commands as root...

apt-get update

apt-get install chromium


Look into internet application menu or give chromium from command line..

Bye....
  

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Debian Wheezy: change desktop resolution from command line

From command line execute xrandr command to display a list of available resolutions.

xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 331mm x 207mm
   1280x800       59.9*+
   1024x768       60.0 
   800x600        60.3     56.2 
   640x480        59.9 


The * is the current selected.

xrandr -s 1024x768

for set a resolution(one from the availables)


Bye..