Paul's Journal

09/17/2010 18:25 #52769

Pyroom
Category: linux

Hey (e:tinypliny,52765) I found a Q10 replacement that is available in fedora. Its called pyroom

and I have a feeling they had Q10 in mind when designing or that they both have a common parent. Its so funny all of these systems look like the terminal prompt I spend most of the day in. This is native and much better as it does not jerk you out when you save. Sorry no typewriter noise but I bet that could be added if needed.

From the command like type sudo yum install pyroom at the terminal or just open up the package manager and search for pyroom to install. It puts an icon in the office folder under applications. ctrl+p for preference settings.

paul - 09/18/10 10:20
JDarkRoom didn't hide the panels for me when I tried it, plus it uses Java vs python on pyroom.

tinypliny - 09/18/10 04:13
Nice one! There is also JDarkRoom and FocusWriter. Once you start to look around, there are surprisingly similar alternatives to what I was using.

I am still setting everything up and playing around... This is very exciting for me to be able to switch to something other than Windows once and for all.

09/17/2010 18:13 #52768

The pears were so delicious this year
Category: food

I think I am going to eat pear sauce every day next week.

09/17/2010 10:10 #52766

PDF-XChange Viewer on fedora 13
Category: linux

While there may be alternatives, you do not need on. I have pdf xchange viewer

running on linux natively using wine.

Install wine using fedora package manager (System->Administration->add remove software).

Search wine and install (A Windows 16/32/64 bit emulator) if it is not already installed.

Then download the installer for PDF Xchange and run the installer like normal. Because i don't normally run this software, I can't tell you how good it works. Its seems to be stable to me though. Hopefully, (e:tinypliny,52765) can give you more info.

It should make a shortcut on the desktop. You can drag that to the panel at the top of the screen if you prefer.

paul - 09/17/10 14:46
Emulators are slow because they emulate the hardware with software. e.g. you could run a powerpc emulator on an intel cpu or a gameboy processor emulator on a cell phone cpu. I believe wine and other virtualization such as virtualbox and vmware actually allows the software to use the hardware directly and therefore are not slow like emulators e.g. QEMU

Its why you can't have wine directly on a powerpc distro.

uncutsaniflush - 09/17/10 12:15
Wine is a compatibility layer that runs the Windows api. My guess is that for the end user there is not much difference between a "compatibility layer" and an "emulator"

But I think you are right, Fedora/Red Hat shouldn't call it an emulator.

paul - 09/17/10 10:59
Wine runs natively off the processor. Wine actually stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. Not sure why they used the term emulator in the package manager.

The more integrated the program is with windows itself, the less likely it is to work. I do believe that you can run many things though this way. :::link::: for more info.

You can always use virtual box for things that need full on windows.

tinypliny - 09/17/10 10:54
That is great!
But opens up a gaggle of questions...

So wine is fine then? I thought the idea was not to use and run things straight off fedora without an emulation interface. Is this a bridge solution till a native PDF Xchange-like solution comes to fedora? You said you were able to run Q10 as well - does that mean I can run almost any windows program on wine (that I can't find native alternatives to) and get away with it... including say, MS Word?!

09/16/2010 19:05 #52762

Seabar lunch 2
Category: food

And I am going there for dinner tomorrow. (e:jon) got the new loco moco which is a hamburger on fried rice with an egg on top and gravy. I think I want to try that next time.

I had the lunch special #2 - nigiri plate with sesame noodles and miso

09/15/2010 23:41 #52751

Mint Linux Test
Category: estrip

Drag drop worked for me in Mint linux Firefox 3.6.3. Seems like Mint uses KDE.

tinypliny - 09/16/10 19:08
Middle Earth has some awful names.

uncutsaniflush - 09/16/10 12:11
(e:paul) - I figured out what the problem was (more or less user error) in Linux Mint see :::link::: and the PCLinuxos box is just too old and patched.

Thanks for all your efforts about this.