Tag: tip

  • Don’t use SessionAsync

    If you are trying to write a Cinnamon extension/applet and having this error when trying to parse some data that you have fetched via Soap.SessionAsync: Failed to convert UTF-8 string to JS string: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input Using Soap.Session instead of Soap.SessionAsync may solve your problem. I’ve encountered this problem when working with […]

  • Patching a Debian Package

    This is my experience on patching a debian package. Once you learn how to do it, its so simple and straightforward I wanted to demonstrate. Problem I develop an application named SerialPlot. It’s programmed with Qt SDK. It makes use of QSerialPort module of Qt for accessing the serial port devices. When I updated my […]

  • Emacs mu4e: auto-complete mail addresses

    I love auto-complete package. I wish it was more commonly used by other emacs packages. But luckily auto-complete is very easy to use(*). Below is a small snippet to use auto-complete mode for completing mail addresses when writing an e-mail with mu4e. (*) provided that you already have a nice list of candidates to choose […]