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Pop-up message upon low disk space

For reasons which I am not going to explain here, the root partition of my eeePC (running Ubuntu Intrepid) has gone dangerously low on disk space. Usually, I have about 250MB to 300MB remaining in the partition. But twice now, the free disk space went below 50MB, and once almost at zero. When the disk [...]

Posted 19 December 2008 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Pidgin notification balloons

A while back, I posted about installing pidgin-plugin-pack to enhance the functionalities of Pidgin. Since then, I have discovered an additional plugin, which is not part of the plugin pack. This plugin is called “pidgin-libnotify”. It creates notification popup balloons to inform you about activities, such as new incoming message, buddy sign in/off, etc. To [...]

Posted 18 September 2008 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , ,

Sound clips for Pidgin in eeePC

When I first started using Pidgin in eeePC 900 (running Ubuntu Hardy), I wonder why there was no notification sounds. In Pidgin, you can enable various sounds for when someone login into the IM or chat, logout, when someone send you a message, and when you send a message back. However, none of these sounds [...]

Posted 28 August 2008 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,