byronc bits http://byron.theclarkfamily.name/blog breaking old technology, one bit at a time Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:12:24 GMT Blogofile hourly 1 gnome-screensaver and alternative window managers http://byron.theclarkfamily.name/blog/2009/06/30/gnome-screensaver-and-alternative-window-managers Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:15:18 MDT http://byron.theclarkfamily.name/blog/2009/06/30/gnome-screensaver-and-alternative-window-managers gnome-screensaver and alternative window managers I've been using gnome-screensaver with awesome for a while without any problems. Unfortunately that all came to an end when GNOME 2.26 hit Debian Sid last week. Just so that no-one else has to dig for this, gnome-screensaver now uses gnome-session to determine idle time. gnome-screensaver will run without gnome-session, but the screensaver and locking mechanism will never kick in. Fortunately, there is an easy fix. I changed my 

gnome-power-manager &

line to 

gnome-session &

in ~/.xsession and everything works now.

]]> pcapy http://byron.theclarkfamily.name/blog/2009/05/21/pcapy Thu, 21 May 2009 09:21:35 MDT http://byron.theclarkfamily.name/blog/2009/05/21/pcapy pcapy So, pcapy is a great, simple library to interface with libpcap. It works well for reading live packets and dump files. There's only one problem: there is no way to modify or create a struct pcap_header from Python code. So there's really no way to add data to the packets and add them to a dump file.

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