Quick-connect options for network shares inside gnome can be even easier than using the Places > Connect to Server options. You can also quick-connect to these using the ALT-F2 run dialog. As far as I understand these are interchangable in their features, its just another more flexible way for you to connect to a remote… Read More »
Not too long ago I blogged about the ability to quickly open a terminal session from within nautilus and a handy right-click. If you missed it you might want to take a look back here. In today’s post there is a similar very easy way to quickly resize or rotate images with a simple right-click.… Read More »
Among the many cool things that I’ve learned this week at Ubuntu Live there is one that I’m definitely going to keep using! Quickly, before I get started, I need to link back to the Ubuntu Forums post that started this whole thing. There is also a lot more examples and extensions on the wiki,… Read More »
This tutorial is for those people that like to run gnome and KDE side by side. This will allow you to only show the native apps in the menus within each desktop environment instead of showing everything. update: I wrote a script to automate this process. If you’d like to use that instead it is… Read More »
As promised today I will show you how to disable the gnome-terminal F10 key so you can better use it within applications like htop. I don’t recall why I didn’t post this when I found it a few weeks ago.. probably just busy with work. I’ll try to do better next time 🙂 To disable… Read More »
This post is in part an update to my previous post on resetting the gnome keyring, and partly due to my continued laziness, efficiency push. I want my machine to do everything for me anymore. The less tedious work I have to do the more actual work I can get done, right? This post will… Read More »
Hey you! Hit ALT-F2 in your gnome desktop and type ‘free the fish’. Trust me. It’s ok. It won’t break your machine. I promise. C’mon! Now you’ve got company on your desktop with Wanda the fish. Try clicking on Wanda and see what happens. Cool little easter egg in GNOME there. …or try ALT-F2 and… Read More »
UPDATE: Reset GNOME Keyring Password on Ubuntu I ran into the weirdest problem the other day. My gnome-keyring prompted me for a keyring password to authorize the use of a key, but didn’t want to take any of my passphases. I tried any passphrase I could think of to no use. My gnome-keyring, for whatever… Read More »
Tonite it’s getting late but I wanted to post something that is useful for quickly getting to the shell from any GUI location. The package nautilus-open-terminal does just what you might guess it does. It allows you to launch a gnome-terminal from a right-click within nautilus. You might remember I blogged about something similar long-long… Read More »
How To Burn An ISO Image : Ubuntu I was working on a project the other day with a friend and he was having some trouble burning an .iso image of one of the Ubuntu 7.04 Herd releases. He asked me about installing gnomebaker or K3B for burning the image. While I have used both… Read More »