Installing aclocal on Fedora aclocal is part of GNU Autotools and generates aclocal.m4 files needed by the autoconf build system. It’s typically required when working with projects that use traditional Autotools-based builds. Quick Install sudo dnf install automake The automake package provides aclocal, automake, and related utilities. Verify the Installation After installation, confirm aclocal is…
Any suggestion on good theme configuration for Fedora 41 Linux? My favorite combination of Window borders, Icons, Controls, Mouse Pointer and Desktop is as follows. All packages and themes are from Fedora repository or the Cinnamon repository. Remember to set the cursor theme for QT application like Google Chrome following: https://www.systutorials.com/4068/configuring-mouse-cursor-style-for-qt-applications-in-gnome-mate-desktop/ For this configuration, the…
Troubleshooting IBus Integration Issues in Chrome IBus is the default input method framework on many Linux distributions, but Chrome and Chromium-based browsers have historically struggled with proper IBus integration. Other applications like Thunderbird, Firefox, and GNOME applications typically work fine, which points to Chrome’s specific handling of input methods. Root Causes Chrome doesn’t use the…
Download the kernel source Grab a release from kernel.org. Recent stable versions (6.x and later) are recommended for production systems: wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-6.12.tar.gz tar xf linux-6.12.tar.gz cd linux-6.12/ Use curl if wget isn’t available: curl -O https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-6.12.tar.gz Install build dependencies Required tools vary by distribution. On RHEL/CentOS/Rocky: sudo dnf install gcc make ncurses-devel openssl-devel elfutils-devel flex…
MFC Grid Controls for Modern Development Building UI components in MFC consumes significant development time. While MFC provides many standard controls, a proper grid control for displaying tabular data isn’t part of the framework’s native offerings. The GridCtrl Solution For years, developers relied on third-party grid controls to fill this gap. The GridCtrl implementation from…
Historical Reference: This post covers GNOME 2 / early KDE desktop customization. Modern GNOME (40+) and KDE Plasma (5/6) have different configuration approaches. See Arch Wiki for current setup guides. QT and GTK applications use different settings for cursor styles. This makes the mouse cursor styles for QT applications in the GNOME / MATE desktop…
GTK Cursor Consistency in KDE Plasma When using KDE Plasma with GTK applications, you’ll notice the mouse cursor switches to a default style when moving from the desktop to applications like Firefox or GIMP. This happens because GTK and Qt use separate cursor theme configurations by default. Quick Fix The easiest solution is to explicitly…