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There’s a known bug that lies between Swing and Compiz. When you start some swing application on JDK 5 or prior you get a gray window with no widgets rendered. To solve that you can setup an environment variable: export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit Then start your application normally. The problem is fixed on JDK 6.

Like the Firefox Browser at least one Gnome Terminal window is always open on my desktop. So it’s very convenient to have a command line math calculator. “bc” (bc – An arbitrary precision calculator language) is a real language to do calculations. But you can also use it to do simple and practical things at [...]