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Filters 2.5.1 : first update to the filters plugin.
DISCLAIMER: This code is provided ‘as is’ without warranty of any kind. Use at your own risk. The author assumes no responsibility for any damages or data loss.
Downloads:
Enjoy 🙂
As a longtime user of a self-hosted Roundcube installation, I was unhappy with the fact that one of my favorite plugins no longer worked with recent versions of Roundcube (1.7.x) and PHP 8.4.x. To make matters worse, the client-side filters plugin I used, seems to be abandonned by the original authors.
This is the old plugin: https://github.com/roundcubevnz/roundcube-plugin-filters
So, I took it upon me to update the plugin to make ik compatible again with the latest versions of RoundCube (1.7.x) and PHP 8.4.x. Tbh, I am not much of a PHP-coder, so I relied heavily on the use of Google Gemini to do the heavy lifting for me. It took me several sessions and many hours, providing feedback and pushing Gemini to produce the new code until it finally did what I wanted, without errors.
The plugin adds a tab to the Roundcube Settings, allowing you to create filters. The filters can also be edited again, saved or saved as (create copy), and deleted.
If you want to use it, download the zipfile, unzip it in your Roundcube plugins folder, and enable it in the config. You may also need to create the DB-table called filters. You can use the sql file in the zipfile. You most likely also need to change the DB name (USE dbname; ) in the sql file before you run this.
It works fine for me, but as always, YMMV.
Everybody likes screenshots, so this is what it looks like when editing an existing rule (click image for large view):
Filters plugin 2.5
DISCLAIMER: This code is provided ‘as is’ without warranty of any kind. Use at your own risk. The author assumes no responsibility for any damages or data loss.
Downloads:
Enjoy 🙂
Since these are not available from the official Slackware repos, I compiled these myself, using the PHP 8.1 Slackbuild script. Compiled with imap support and php-imagick.
Tested succesfully with Roundcube 1.6.x and Nextcloud 30.x.
Downloads:
Enjoy 🙂
Latest version of the MKVToolnix package for Slackware (Sbo build), build on a Slackware-current 15.0+ system. Requires Qt5.
For Slackware-current x64:
You might run into interface issues with this version: the GUI could show partially hidden interface elements, fonts, checkboxes, …
See the next link for more info (GitLab bug report): https://gitlab.com/mbunkus/mkvtoolnix/-/issues/3358
Solution is to create an ENV variable:
QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0
Put it somewhere in /etc/bashrc or the user’s .bashrc. That should fix the interface issues.
Enjoy 🙂
After upgrading an old laptop (HP nc8430) to a kernel from the 3.10 series, everything seemed to work fine, except for my wifi card (Atheros AR5418 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5008E 802.11(a)bgn]). Contrary to the previous kernels, after booting, the wifi led was dead, and I obviously had no connection with my wifi station. At first sight, I tried the wifi radio button, but that didn’t help, the wifi led stayed dead. Wicd could not find an active adapter.
When I ran lsmod , it showed me that all the required modules (the ath9k driver for the wifi adapter, wifi networking, 802.11, …) were loaded. When I ran iwconfig, it even showed me a wlan0 device, albeit not connected of course. WTF is going on ?
Ok, let’s see what rfkill says:
rfkill listI got a surprise: everything was blocked. I also have no idea why, but rfkill now showed me two wifi options: hp_wmi and phy0. I am pretty sure the hp_wmi thingie was never there before. Both of them were blocked (hard and soft), so I unblocked them:
rfkill unblock allNow when I ran wicd-client, it connected to my wifi station. The wifi led come on as well. Good, but now, how do we fix this permanently ?
It appears that the hp_wmi module (support for some HP keys) does not play well with the rfkill module (RFKill is a linux kernel subsystem that provides an interface through which radio transmitters in a computer can be queried, activated, and deactivated).
So, a simple fix is to prevent the hp_wmi module from loading. On a Slackware 14.0 system, this can be achieved by creating a hp_wmi.conf file, in /etc/modprobe.d/, containing the following:
############################################################################## # Do not edit this file; instead, copy it to /etc/modprobe.d/ and edit that ############################################################################## # Blacklist because interferes with wifi (wifi rf blocked at boot) blacklist hp_wmi
This solves my problem: the wifi card now works again straight after booting, just like it did before. If you’re facing the same problem, let me know if this fix also works for you.
If you like to make RDP connections to Windows machines from your Linux box, it is often convenient if you can set a few things right from the start. As such, I wrote a little shell script around rdesktop, in order to make life somewhat easier for me.
This script does the following:
And here is the script:
#!/bin/bash
#-----------------------------------------
# simple wrapper for rdesktop
# set keyb layout on server to azerty BE
# set window size to 1370x840
#-----------------------------------------
if [ $# != "0" ] ;
then
rdesktop -k nl-be -r 'disk:homedrv=/home/david/' -g 1370x840 $1
else
echo "$0: No arguments were supplied. Please supply a valid target
hostname or IP address."
exit 1
fi
exit 0
The script must be invoked with one arument, the hostname or IP adress of the machine you want to connect to. I guess the script is simple enough to understand what it does. Adapt it to your particular needs, and I hope you like it.
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