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Just installed Archlinux on my ThinkPad T61
Posted by cviorel
on February 24, 2011
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Quick gnome tweaks
Posted by cviorel
on December 24, 2010
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Here are some tweaks for your gnome:
Print all subdirectories and entries under a dir, recursively:
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gconftool-2 -R / |
Change GDM font:
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sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type string \ /desktop/gnome/interface/document_font_name "Ubuntu" sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type string \ /desktop/gnome/interface/font_name "Ubuntu" sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type string \ /desktop/gnome/interface/monospace_font_name "Monospace" |
Change GDM backgound:
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sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type string \ /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "/path/to_image" |
Set default gnome terminal size in Lucid Lynx
Posted by cviorel
on May 26, 2010
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Use these commands to change the default gnome terminal size:
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gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/default_size_columns \ --type integer 160 gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/default_size_rows \ --type integer 50 |
XMLStarlet: command line XML toolkit
Posted by cviorel
on February 5, 2010
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XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files […] Continue Reading…
Vacuum your Firefox 3
Posted by cviorel
on February 3, 2010
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This tip will hopefully speed up your Firefox 3 by optimizing it’s database.
Firefox stores your browsing data using SQLite – self contained, small footprint database.
Having database store your browsing data has one drawback, you have to optimize the database […] Continue Reading…
Turn off or limit the Recent Documents feature in Ubuntu
Posted by cviorel
on January 27, 2010
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If you want to turn off the Recent Documents feature in Ubuntu, all you have to do is create a .gtkrc file in your home directory.
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touch $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 |
Then add gtk-recent-files-max-age=0 to this file.
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echo 'gtk-recent-files-max-age=0' | tee -a $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 |
This is documented here.
This will also work in […] Continue Reading…
Ubuntu One coming to Windows
Posted by cviorel
on January 26, 2010
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At PyCon 2010, Ubuntu One development team will focus on helping Ubuntu users who also use a Windows box. This is great news!
Source.
Skype for Linux 2.1 beta2
Posted by cviorel
on January 21, 2010
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Skype just released Skype for Linux 2.1 beta2 aka “Talking Screens”.
Chats are faster, UI supports switching styles on the fly, and audio is a lot better than before. You can download it here.
What’s new in this version:
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Disable splash screen in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
Posted by cviorel
on January 18, 2010
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You can disable the splash screen and instead view details about your boot process by following the next steps:
1. Edit grub
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sudo vi /etc/default/grub |
2. Locate the following line
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" |
and remove quiet and splash.
After that, the line should look like this:
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" |
3. Save and exit.
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:wq |
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Karmic Koala Beta on ThinkPad T61 (continued)
Posted by cviorel
on October 20, 2009
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After the latest updates, enabling touchpad on/off key (fn-f8) is now working. There are some annoying gdm random restarts without a trace in the logs. I suspect it’s the nvidia proprietary driver and I hope it will be fixed […] Continue Reading…