New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Smuxi -User-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users for GNOME/GTK+ Smuxi is an irssi-inspired, flexible, user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users, targeting the GNOME desktop. Smuxi is based on the client-server model: The core application (engine) can be placed onto a server which is connected to [...]
Hi, this tutorial shows how you can set up a Mandriva One 2010.1 Spring desktop (with the GNOME desktop environment) 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 [...]
Hi, this tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Fedora 13 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card – I’m using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. I will use the [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Cortina: Yet Another Gnome Wallpaper Changer Few years back, I always lamented that there are few and little wallpaper changer apps for Ubuntu desktop. Fast forward to today, this is no longer the case. There is the evergreen Desktop Drapes that has been around since the early days, the [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Gstyle – A new full gnome theme manager gstyle is a full gnome theme manager this software try to concentrate every possibles themes types in one main window with easy install of new themes form gnome-look, deviantart, customize.org… or by direct download from the software. (…) Read the rest [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. How to install GNOME Activity Journal in Ubuntu The GNOME Activity Journal is a tool for easily browsing and finding files, contacts and other resources on your computer. Using Zeitgeist, it keeps a chronological journal of your activity and supports tagging and bookmarking (using the new Tracker 0.7) and [...]
Say you want to write a small shell script that locks up your GNOME desktop at specific intervals. What command would you use? In this case, your best bet would be gnome-screensaver-command –lock This has the same effect as you pushing the Lock Screen button in GNOME. You can forge a small shellscript and use [...]
Are you a desktop nut like me? Are you constantly tweaking your desktop and never quite happy with it? Are you a collector of wallpapers and do you like your wallpaper to change at a given interval or when you change to a different workspace? If you are that person then Wallpapoz is for you. [...]
Linux GDM is a GDM login screen theme.Gdm (the GNOME Display Manager) is a highly configurable reimplementation of xdm, the X Display Manager. Gdm allows you to log into your system with the X Window System running and supports running several different X sessions on your local machine at the same time. This tutorial will [...]
This tutorial shows how you can set up a Mandriva One 2009.1 desktop (with the GNOME desktop environment) 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 [...]
I have been using Dropbox for quite some time now and I really like it. It is cross platform, meaning it works on my Linux machines (at home and at work) and also my OS X machines. It is a very, very simple way to synchronize files between machines. Recently I switched to KDE 4.2.2 [...]
One of many’s pet peeves is how slow the Gnome menus appear when you hover over them, which is a shame really because that’s something we can fix in five seconds flat – just put this text into the file .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory: gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0 Read more at Tux Training
This tutorial will explain howto tweak Nautilus to display size of files under their name Method 1 Go to places one option from this list (This example i am selecting Home Folder) Read more at Ubuntu Geek
Gnome does a pretty bad job at utilizing screen real estate. Desktop environments in Linux use up far too much screen real estate for just about everything. This problem is not exclusive to Ubuntu.. 8px font in Windows is hard to read, but an 8pt font in Linux is perfect, if not a little large [...]
While I’m a die-hard Google user — especially the PIM apps — I still appreciate offline applications for the integration with the desktop, speed, and features they sport. The Evolution contact and calendaring application is a great example: it’s as feature-packed as Microsoft Outlook, but with GNOME integration, and it’s fast. Gmail, by comparison, is [...]