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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 establishing relationships [...]
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 this to lock [...]
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.
Now [...]
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 without DRM restrictions that [...]
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 and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
GNOME’s Vala programming language lets you use the GLib2 object system at the heart of the GNOME desktop without having to do object-oriented programming in ANSI C. Unlike Mono or Java, a Vala program does not require any virtual machine or runtime libraries, so people who use your Vala objects don’t even have to know [...]
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