Friday, 18 March 2016

HotCorners in OpenSUSE with XFCE

There is a plugin for XFCE to use "Hot Corners" to start specific actions by moving the mouse curser into the corners of the screen. The plugin is easily compiled but does not show up in openSUSE 64bit as available Xfce panel. This comment remarks that under x86_64 openSUSE the Xfce plugins must be installed into the folder /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/.
So, a quick
sudo mv /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libhotcorner.so /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libhotcorner.so
resolves this problem.

P.S.: There seems to be a problem with the fixation of the "Custom Command" you can put in. For me this command would be skippy-xd --activate-window-picker to activate the window manager tool Skippy (openSUSE download). The custom command is working fine in HotCorner but sometimes when opening the properties dialogue again the setting is gone and the configuration file ~/.config/xfce4/panel/hotcorner-17.rc does not contain the custom command setting any more.

Thursday, 3 March 2016

Clementine MP3 distortions

I had some distortions, spikes, blubbs, blopps, quirks ... when I played some MP3 files with Clementine under openSUSE. The same file played fine in foobar2000, Rhythmbox, etc. I could not find any solution on the internet. Suggestions tested, like changing the output plugin for the GStreamer audio engine, did not work. I finally found the solution by uninstalling:
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-fluendo_mp3
0.10.18-3.1        271.0 KiB
and installing:
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3
21-1.2     1.4 MiB
Now Clementine is my favourite music player under Linux, but foobar2000, customized over the years, is still my #1.