ShareI Believe the Title Says it All… Recently, I upgraded my home server to Ubuntu 11.04, looking good and working good, minus one or two snags. One is an issue the DEVs don’t seem to want to fix right now…which seems silly to me because it pegs the CPU to 100% and starts causing a …
Category Archive: desktop config
Nov 02
Fluxbox: An introduction and “How-To”
ShareFluxbox, I love it, I swear by it. It’s awesome. You should take it for a test drive. What is it? Fluxbox is an alternative desktop environment which forked from the Blackbox 0.61.1 desktop environment. Fluxbox is a lightweight window manager for the X11 window system written entirely in C++ for a fast minimalist user experience. …
Jul 23
Compiling “Ipager” for better workspace-switching
ShareTo put it simply, Ipager is an awesome program. Whenever I use Gnome, one of the applets that’s always on my gnome-panel is the workspace-switcher applet. One of the major problems with that app is the size. Workspace-switcher is TINY and there’s no setting to change that nor will there ever be as it’s an …
Jul 22
Using “Guake” for a quick go-to terminal
ShareA program I heard about a few years ago, I only recently actually installed Guake and took it for a test-spin. I like Guake… what it does, it does well. Pressing the default hotkey of F12 brings Guake into view once it’s running. Pressing F12 again makes it disappear… easy simple program. To install Guake …
Jul 22
Modifying the appearance of your bash prompt
ShareOne of my favorite modifications is an extremely simple one but it’s visible all the time– that of course is your bash prompt. If you’re anything like me you’ve almost always got a terminal or two open and why not make those normally simple prompts work for you and actually provide you with some useful …
Jul 22
Building HTML photo galleries /w “Curator”
ShareOne of my big hobbies in addition to linux is photography. I’m constantly taking pictures at different events with my DSLR and wanting to get those pictures online to friends and family as soon as possible once the event’s over and I finally arrive home. One of the software gaps I’ve been trying to fill has …