Starting a Gentoo overlay

I’ve been playing with Gentoo (yet again), and so I thought I’d put up a repository of ebuilds I’ve either changed or written myself.

We start off this project with an ebuild for xrdp, as well as a number of patches I’ve written for xrdp. More details on the overlay page.

Starting up an overlay has turned out pretty trivial to do, all you need to make is one extra file in profiles/repo_name and then build your ebuilds as normal using the normal layout (eg: net-misc/xrdp/xrdp-9999.ebuild). I’ve put mine in a Subversion repository to make it easy to update and keep up to date, and written an layman overlay description for my overlay. This makes end-user use really easy as well.

python-fu Make Steam Achievement

This is some python-fu script for The GIMP to make graphics that imitate the style of Steam’s Achievement system. With it, you can create your own fake achievements. This is similar to [Deleted’s Achievement Generator][ach], only it works offline. To use it, open a 64x64 image you want to use as the achievement’s icon. Then go Filters > Python-Fu > Make Steam Achievement.

This script munges your original icon a bit, but you can undo the changes it does (resize and flatten) easily.

To install it, [download the script][dl] and copy it into your `~/.gimp-2.x/plug-ins/` folder. Then restart The GIMP.

[ach]: http://teamfortress2.fr/achievements.php?eng [dl]: /static/projects/junkcode/python-fu-make-achievement/python_fu_make_achievement.py