Notifications in Fedora 14

We use the following command

$ notify-send  "This is some text"

or

$zenity --info --text "This is some text"

This will display a text balloon "This is some text".
The problem appears when we want to display the output of a command.
For this, I used a python script. Here's the source code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import sys
import pynotify
pynotify.init("Output comand")
arg=sys.argv[1]
print arg
s = os.popen(arg).read()
n = pynotify.Notification("Output",s)
n.show()

If you wish to use a compound command, then you will need to use quotes.
For example, we use the command "ls-a 'as follows:

$python testpy.py "ls -a"

This is just a small example, you can create more complex applications.

How Install Firefox 4 on Fedora 14.

Firefox is one of the latest versions of the Mozilla .

It is currently available in two repositories - Remi and Spot.

See the next steps if you want install Firefox 4.

First , go on super user shell.

# wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/firefox4/fedora-firefox4.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-firefox4.repo

Now, you can install Firefox 4

# yum --enablerepo fedora-firefox4 install firefox4

That is all.

Fedora 14 and Blender 3D

It is a great disappointment to me that Fedora 14 comes with Blender 3D version 2.49b-10.
I expected a pleasant surprise to see version 2.5.
Here is the result:

# yum search blender
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Adding en_US to language list
updates/pkgtags                                                   |  10 kB     00:00     
============= Matched: blender =====================
blenderplayer.i686 : Standalone blender player
LuxRender-blender.i686 : Blender export plugin to LuxRender
blender.i686 : 3D modeling, animation, rendering and post-production
spe.noarch : Python IDE with UML,PyChecker,Debugger,GUI design,Blender & more
libpano13-tools.i686 : Tools that use the libpano13 library
yofrankie-bge.noarch : 3D Game with characters from Big Buck Bunny movie

Of course, you can use version 2.5 from the official site.