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I think both are safe enough. Laptops are just designed such that some part will be warmer (and will tolerate more heat) than other parts. Also, you're not limited to only tweaking that parameter,...

Well, the CPU temperature seems to rise and drop very quickly. Therefore, some of the appleSMC sensors may reflect the temperature you feel under your palms better (which changes more slowly). So,...

Thanks a lot Joushou for the great script and others for the corrections!
One more annoyance eliminated :)

Here is a patch to make the change to the fan speed gradual (you can make the change as...

I posted an improved version of the patch (+ the deb package) for bcm5974-dkms to make click-and-drag work with Macbook 5,1:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/mactel-support/+bug/356317

It does...

alexmurray, thanks for the instructions.

I posted a patch (+ the deb package) for bcm5974-dkms to make click-and-drag work with Macbook 5,1:
EDIT: Removed this one as it is obsolete now. See the...

I posted a patch (+ deb package) for bcm5974-dkms to make click-and-drag work with Macbook 5,1:
EDIT (improved version): https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/mactel-support/+bug/356317

Please test it...

Thanks for the widgets fatsheep. It looks nicer than the defaults.

However you are lacking a "pressed" (active) state for the buttons. Here is a patch that adds this, together with a more...

Try running compiz like this:

compiz --replace gconf decoration wobbly fade minimize cube rotate zoom scale move resize place switcher &

I wasn't putting gconf in the arguments, and I couldn't...

I got xgl/compiz working without crashing on Mobility X300, fglrx driver v8.23.7 on Dapper Flight 5. However, I have one annoying problem. Xgl seems to have high cpu usage (60-70%) while I'm rotating...