There was some recent discussion on one of the local User Group lists this week about “What is your favorite underdog OSS application?” This discussion brought out quite a few of the little never-heard-of applications, yet many of them have proven to be really useful! If you’ve never spent an hour or two poking around… Read More »
In a release long, long ago and in a galaxy far, far away I blogged about how to configure Ubuntu to print directly to a .pdf file. Looking back to this article it appears to be outdated an in need of some corrections. This tutorial will outline how to use and, if needed, configure your… Read More »
Some time ago I blogged about keyboard shortcuts for the Gnome Desktop. I figure its time to revisit some of these. If I’ve missed any that you find helpful as usual drop a comment. I am unaware of any definitive list of Gnome shortcuts. Could this be a start? Gnome Desktop Keyboard Shortcuts Alt-F2 :… Read More »
Recently I blogged about the advanced permission management tool for nautilus, which could be switched on using the gconf-editor. I noticed that one of the comments mentioned that neither of them had adequate support for ACLs. This post will remedy that. If you have no idea what ACLs are you might skip this post as… Read More »
I like to keep on top of my machines health. I like to do this without programs getting in my way, or dedicating desktop space to monitoring applications. The way I’ve found to do this simply and effectively is with the System Monitor panel Applet. Adding the System Monitor Applet To add the system monitor… Read More »
A few of us were discussing minimal desktop environments the other day and I was reminded of the olden days when I used XFCE. I really liked the clean interface which did not display any desktop icons by default. Looking back on that I was reminded that it is an option available in Gnome as… Read More »
update: I realize the formatting for this post is a bit screwed up. If anyone has any tips on fixing it I’d appreciate it. It looks fine in the editor view, but when I publish it everything gets screwy. Today’s tip is a Gnome Desktop tweak that may be new to some of you. Did… Read More »
Yesterday it was brought to my attention that the Gnome-Do team had released a major update, 0.5! Being completely addicted to Gnome-Do I immediately upgraded to check out the new features. Here is a basic rundown of the new features and, of course, how to upgrade your system! Features After taking a look at the… Read More »
Recently you may have seen this topic on Tombuntu’s blog, but if you missed it here is an outline of how to enable the advanced permissions dialog in the Nautilus file manager. Activating the Advanced Permissions Dialog in Nautilus Activating (or deactivating) the advanced permissions dialog can be done by way of a single command. … Read More »
I wanted to quickly toss something out there for all of you on the interweb. I spent some time last evening cleaning up a few of my code projects. If you have been using either of them you may want to update. apturl for Gnome Do I spent some time in the #gnome-do channel last… Read More »