Desktop related tutorials
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Make Your Linux Desktop Look Like A Mac - Mac4Lin Project Documentation |
Post date: October 30, 2007, 06:10 Category: Desktop Views: 1911 Comments: 1 |
Tutorial quote: Do you want to give your desktop a dash of Mac OS X? The goal of this project is to bring the look and feel of Mac OS X (latest being 10.5, Leopard) to *nix GTK based systems. This document will present the procedure to install Mac4Lin pack & tweak certain things to get that almost perfect Mac OS X like desktop. |
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The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) |
Post date: October 23, 2007, 02:10 Category: Desktop Views: 2050 Comments: 0 |
Tutorial quote: This document describes how to set up an Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) desktop. The result is a fast, secure and extendable system that provides all you need for daily work and entertainment. About 23.000 packages are available in the repositories. |
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The Perfect Desktop - Slackware 12 |
Post date: October 12, 2007, 04:10 Category: Desktop Views: 3831 Comments: 0 |
Tutorial quote: This tutorial shows how you can set up a Slackware 12 GNU/Linux desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktop. |
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How to compile and install compiz-fusion from git on Fedora 7 |
Post date: October 10, 2007, 05:10 Category: Desktop Views: 1417 Comments: 0 |
Tutorial quote: This guide describes how to compile and install the latest compiz-fusion from git on Fedora 7. compiz-fusion is the cool cube desktop you see all over the internet from linux users. Fedora 7 has packages only for beryl which is concidered obsolete. compiz-fusion is the merge of beryl and compiz! |
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The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 10.3 (GNOME) |
Post date: October 9, 2007, 04:10 Category: Desktop Views: 2107 Comments: 0 |
Tutorial quote: This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 10.3 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. |
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Five X Windows Background Hacks You Probably Didn't Know |
Post date: September 26, 2007, 04:09 Category: Desktop Views: 1084 Comments: 0 |
Tutorial quote: Command lines to do amazing things to your desktop background, when you get tired of wallpaper. Includes animated and static backgrounds using fbsetroot, bggen, ImageMagick, xaos, xlock, and xscreensaver. |
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Installing The IBM Lotus Symphony Beta 1 Office Suite On Ubuntu 7.04 |
Post date: September 25, 2007, 03:09 Category: Desktop Views: 1311 Comments: 0 |
Tutorial quote: This document describes how to set up IBM Lotus Symphony Beta 1 on Ubuntu 7.04. IBM Lotus Symphony is an office-suite that is based on OpenOffice.org (a fork of v1.x) and ported to Lotus Expeditor (IBM's enhancement of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform). It contains programs for word processing, spreadsheet and presentation. |
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Modifying PDF Files With PDFedit On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn |
Post date: September 15, 2007, 18:09 Category: Desktop Views: 1153 Comments: 0 |
Tutorial quote: This article shows how you can install and use PDFedit on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn desktop. PDFedit is a free and open-source editor for manipulating PDF documents. |
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How To Enable NTFS Write Support (ntfs-3g) On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn |
Post date: September 9, 2007, 17:09 Category: Desktop Views: 1450 Comments: 0 |
Tutorial quote: Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows how to install and use ntfs-3g on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn desktop to read from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions. |
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