I love tabs - Tabbed browsing has become an invaluable and integral part of my daily surfing. I also love the Terminal Emulator built into GNOME, but when it comes to opening multiple instances of Terminal Emulators, I prefer split screen over tabs. This is where Terminator wins for me, hands down. I’m just too [...]
Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE’s Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod support [...]
The GNOME desktop environment is the default for Debian etch, and is one that I use every day. One thing that I always have a hard time remembering is how to setup global keyboard shortcuts, so this quick guide will document the process.
There is a simple applet (reached via the menu “Desktop | Preferences | [...]
Hamster is a time tracking tool that runs as a GNOME panel applet. With Hamster, you can track what you’re doing, when you’re doing it, and for how long easily and right from your panel.
Hamster will be included in GNOME version 2.24, and likely also in Ubuntu 8.10.
Read more at Tombuntu
When you install an application, in most cases it will show up somewhere in the menu. Sometimes the location seems to be a bit arbitrary.
So, firstly we’ll have a look at how to move items in the menu. Once again, all of the following information applies to Ubuntu.
To move things around in the menu and [...]
The latest development snapshot of Opera 9.5 has full support for virtual folder with powerful filter which supports a regular expression. Let’s give it a try! Adding GPG signing and better multiple identity support would be an icing on the cake.
I’ve been struggling with various mail clients to deal with my huge IMAP mailbox which [...]
If you have installed openSUSE with the default selections of choosing one of the available (say KDE4) then only the selected Desktop environment is installed. However, should you later choose to install and use another desktop Environment say (GNOME) then this can easily be installed and as always just a few clicks away.
To install GNOME [...]
Epiphany is the free opensource web browser for the GNOME desktop. Its goal is to be simple and easy to use. Epiphany ties together many GNOME components in order to let you focus on the Web content, instead of the browser application. Epiphany displays webpages with the same speed and accuracy as other popular browsers, [...]
KDE 4.1, the second major release of KDE 4, has been released. KDE 4.1 adds new applications (including the KDE PIM suite), improvements to the Plasma desktop shell, and improved frameworks for developers.
The same day as KDE 4.1 was released, packages were available for Ubuntu. You can easily install a KDE 4 desktop alongside your [...]
Ubuntu System Panel
This application is just a gnome panel applet pretending like improved version of windows start menu. So lets get started.
Installation
Ubuntu System Panel is not included in repositories but fortunately its simple to install. First checkout source code.
Read more at ubuntu snippets
Keep a terminal application open all the time? A drop-down terminal such as Guake might suit you better. A drop-down, or Quake-style, terminal stays hidden until you call it up with a key combination.
Guake is easy to configure, supports tabs, and works fine with Compiz desktop effects turned on. I’ve also written before about a [...]
Nautilus is the graphical file manager (along with a few other nice features) in GNOME. Most users only use the bare minimum features of Nautilus (including me, as I’m mainly a console jockey) and don’t realize how powerful and flexible Nautilus truly is.
* Managing Nautilus from the keyboard
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GNOME Do (Do) is an intelligent launcher tool that makes performing common tasks on your computer simple and efficient. Do not only allows you to search for items in your desktop environment (e.g. applications, contacts, bookmarks, files, music), it also allows you to specify actions to perform on search results (e.g. run, open, email, chat, [...]
I prefer a clean desktop with no icons cluttering it up, but by default most Gnome based distros adds icons to the desktop for every single removable drive that you attach to your system.
Read more at Tux Training
This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 11
desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e.
that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on
their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure
system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and
the [...]