9 articles tagged "Kde"
- Download of the day: Fedora 9 CD / DVD ISO
Fedora 9 has been released and available for download. Some of the more interesting new features include a new package management system and other softwares.
- Download of the day: Opensuse Linux 10.3 GM CD / DVD ISO
Opensue Linux version 10.3 GM has been released. The openSUSE project provides free, easy access to the world’s most usable Linux distribution, openSUSE. openSUSE is released regularly, is stable, secure, contains the latest free and open source software, and comes with several new technologies. The latest version of the popular Linux distribution has a lot [...]
- I turn my Linux computer off and when I turn it on it runs disk check (fsck) on hard disk. Why?
A typical question asked by many new Linux users. The answer is pretty simple:
Your partitions are not being unmounted properly when you last shutdown the Linux desktop. Linux needs to shutdown properly (I’m sure this applies to Windows and Mac OS too) before powered off. If you skip this step there could be data loss.If [...]
- How to: Control Amarok Media Player with Bluetooth Enabled Phone
This is a nice hack and a small how to about controlling Amarok media player:
Ever since I’ve received my new phone, bluetooth has excited me. To be honest, the notion of being able to control my pc from the phone was the exciting aspect. Ever wondered how to do this? Let me elaborate.(Image Source: Authors [...]
- Gnome per user language encoding configuration using .dmrc file
Sometime you may see different language encoding in X than on your console (tty) prompt. Sometime two different user need two have different language encodings.
~/.dmrc file - Per-user language support
In theory this file should be shared between GDM (Gnome) and KDM (KDE), so users only have to configure things once. This is a standard .ini [...] - Download of the day: SSH Menu ~ Save and Open SSH Connections on a single mouse click
For last couple of years I’ve used my own shell script based solution to list and open ssh connections. Now I found a nice applet called SSHMenu:
The SSHMenu is a panel applet that makes all your regular SSH connections a single mouse click away. Each menu option will open an SSH session in a [...] - Amarok audio player for Linux / UNIX Tips and Howto
Amarok is an audio player for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. This article offers some good tips for new Linux users:
Amarok is one of the best audio players for Linux, but there is a lot more it can do than just play your tunes. We are taking a look at our top five tips of [...] - Download OpenSuse Linux 10.2
Update: Download latest OpenSuse Linux version 10.3.
I know most of us tired of answering questions about the Microsoft-Novell deal.. but OpenSuse Linux 10.2 is here….
openSUSE is a community project, sponsored by Novell, to develop and maintain SUSE Linux components (such as YaST).
Some of the Good application included:
* AppArmor: gives certain applications rights based on [...] - Quick way to switch from KDE to GNOME or viceversa
This tip is submitted by reader Zacharie:
switchdesk is the command to switch from KDE to GNOME or viceversa. This command provides a simple method of choosing between the various desktop environments available under Fedora Core, Cent OS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
If X Windows is running, switchdesk will bring up a dialog box which allows [...]
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