YuuGuu on Linux x86_64 (64bit) CPUs

Jeremy Coates — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:36:54 +0000

Here at Solution Perspective we use YuuGuu quite a lot, especially with some of our clients, for remote screen sharing and to check out that we’re all talking about the same things or to take control of their screens to sort an issue out. We also happen to use Linux (Fedora in particular) a lot, and several of our machines are 64bit (x86_64 processors). For quite some time we’ve had to use, the fairly brilliant Linux – Windows layer called Wine to get YuuGuu to run on our Linux boxes.

Well no more! YuuGuu have released a native Linux version, available for Ubuntu, Fedora and Suse flavours (which can probably be coaxed to work on other distributions as well). This works fine for i386 (32bit) CPUs but not on our machines with the 64bit ones.

After a bit of digging and playing about, we’ve found they’ve also got native 64bit versions in testing and that works well, so there’s no more need for us to use Wine in order to run this very useful screen sharing application – life’s a little less complicated now.

Beryl window manager and Java blank windows

Jeremy Coates — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:50:37 +0000

If like me you’re using the Beryl window manager for linux (extremely cool eye candy) and have misbehaving Java applications that don’t show windows properly, the title bar draws but the rest is blank, then you’ll need to employ the fix as detailed in several places on the net including Arch Linux Wiki – Beryl.

Basically add the following to your .bashrc file or /etc/profile (then restart X)

export AWT_TOOLKIT="MToolkit"

As I’m running on x86_64 I also had to install a 386 library (libXp) as well (as the Java in use was a 386 version) for the Java apps to work. This cured things for blank windows with the Zend Studio IDE and Business Accountz both of which I use daily!

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YuuGuu on Linux x86_64 (64bit) CPUs

Beryl window manager and Java blank windows