GUADEC 2014 report

 Thanks to the sponsorship by GNOME foundation, I was able to attend GUADEC 2014 held at Strasbourg, France. It was a great experience for me as I was attending a developer conference of such kind for the first time. There was a huge attendance for the talks with both the rooms having considerable audience for each and every talk.
  There were lots of talks in the conference and the ones that really interested me were how to sustain the open source projects and more on the philosophy side. I had been late at the AGM talk and had a hard time finding a chair! It was a huge participation in that one.
   The talk by Frederico Quintara on private and public keys became interesting as he gave a demo at the same time.
   The coffee room was constantly abuzz with people talking about Gtk+ and what not! and occasionally somebody would curse out loud because they broke something instead of fixing it :D It was a great environment and a really fun one to be in!
   The best part of GUADEC 2014 was the people that I met. I had been working with many of them for about 3 years now and finally got an opportunity to meet them. That felt great! Apart from them, I got to interact with people working on different modules and got ideas of integration of GTG with their modules and such.
    Overall it was a new and exciting experience for me and something that I would love to do more often if time permits.

  Only one feedback to the organizing committee: It would have been better if the lunch venue had been closer to the conference venue.


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Bonjour GUADEC!

So right now I am in the beautiful city of Strasbourg, France surrounded by great minds of Gnome. How exciting!
This is my first GUADEC and I am here as a GSoC mentor and maintainer for Getting Things Gnome!. The talks here have been really good so far and I am looking forward to the  next 2 days of the conference.
The better part of the conference though, is not the talks that you attend but the people you get to meet. I finally met the people I had been working with for the past years and boy, It felt great!! More updates and a report of the conference will come soon :)
Thanks to Gnome Foundation for sponsoring me :)

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Solved: The "Preventing laptop from suspending on lid close Gnome" headache

    Locking your screen on closing the lid is no longer an option in Gnome. Don't you hate it? I for one have to close the lid often and I hate it when the laptop is suspended. I had to go over a lot of places for getting a solution and finally got one after lots of IRC discussions, a bug report (which I marked invalid myself ;) ) and obviously googling.

TL; DR version:
There are 2 possible solutions:
1. Changing "HandleLidSwitch=lock" in /etc/systemd/logind.conf (didn't work for me...)
2. Run this on a terminal: systemd-inhibit --what=handle-power-key:handle-suspend-key:handle-lid-switch sleep 999999. Don't put in bashrc file, I am not able to log back in my OpenSuSE 12.3 installation!!

Now, the longer version:
    The problem started when the gnome devs got frustrated with the system inhibitors preventing their laptops from suspending. In the comments, you could literally see the devs crying about this problem and fearing that their laptop batteries would soon die.
Solution: Gnome has default removed the lid switch handle and even if it is present, it ignores it by default.    This means, no matter what setting you have, the laptop would suspend on lid close. The points made by the devs will make you agree with their solution.
    I was not aware of all this discussion and hence thought the problem was with Gnome-Tweak-Tool which gives you an option to set the action on laptop lid close. Hence, reported a bug. Later on, after some Google search for alternatives I realized that the problem was not with the tool but with Gnome, but didn't know what.
    I discussed the issue at #suse irc channel but turns out they are mostly KDE users. On trying a gsettings solutions, I found an error saying that the power schema itself was missing! Then I went to the Gnome channel and luckily Florian Müllner was online the third time I posted the question. He told me that the problem was not about the power schema but about system-inhibitors and gave me a heads up for the solution. He is a really patient guy!! A little bit of Googling brought me to the above mentioned 2 solutions.
    Unfortunately the first one doesn't work for me but works for others. The second one worked for me though. The solution may have worked but I didn't want to enter the command everytime and hence I put it in my bashrc file as I never want my laptop to suspend on lid close. Turns out, I am unable to login to my OpenSuSE installation ever since I modified the bashrc file!! Will have to modify the file now :(
    I must say the Gnome experience since Gnome 3 has not been that good.

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