If you happen to use gitk and Ubuntu 9.10 with desktop effects, you might notice that gitk and other tk-apps tend to look like crap (i.e. giant fonts, buttons, etc), rendering them useless.
gitk looking like crap
I found the solution for this in a blog entry of the Navarra Group. All you have to do is sudo aptitude install tk8.5 and sudo update-alternatives –config wish (here you select wish 8.5 from the list).
gitk looking good again
Neat!
As I noticed today, the desktop-search Beagle seems broken (again) in Ubuntu Karmic Koala. The most annoying thing is that nothing tells you that it’s broken. Only the fact that Beagle doesn’t index a thing, no matter what you change in beagle-settings, gives you a hint.
For some reason I don’t even remember I’ve been a bigger fan of tracker anyway for a while. Installing on a fresh Karmic works like this: sudo apt-get install tracker tracker-search-tool tracker-utils.
If you, like me, frequently use Deskbar, you might also want to install the package libdeskbar-tracker. This enables you to get search results from tracker as you type. If the tracker daemon does not start automatically, you can start it by hand running /usr/lib/tracker/trackerd. To all I know the tracker applet also refuses to start, untill the daemon is up and running.
