Desktop related tutorials
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Roll your own custom RDP thin client |
| Post date: November 11, 2007, 05:11 Category: Desktop Views: 2901 Comments: 0 |
Tutorial quote: Have some old boxes around? You can save money buy following the tutorial below and roll your own thin client using openSuSE 10.2 and a custom xdm script that loads a python script containing two button, one for shutting down the computer and one for logging into an RDP session.
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Hide your folders in KDE |
| Post date: November 11, 2007, 05:11 Category: Desktop Views: 1446 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: Want to keep your MP3s away from your boss’ or big brother’s view? Of course, in Linux anything that starts with a period is “suppose” to be hidden; but all we have to do is type “ls -A” or turn on the viewing of hidden files in KDE…not too hard. Basically what we can do is set a transparent PNG as our folder icon, and rename our folder with a ” “(space). This will actually keep the previous name of the folder.Also we will keep anyone out of the folder that doesn’t know Linux commands, and doesn’t know exactly where we have placed the icon. This works GREAT for the desktop. |
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Reset your Settings for any Program |
| Post date: November 11, 2007, 05:11 Category: Desktop Views: 1298 Comments: 0 |
Tutorial quote: Ever messed with settings and majorly screwed something up? I have.
Yesterday I was trying to pull a stunt by trying to embed Konsole in my KDE desktop and when I restarted the X server I had no desktop icons and couldn’t even get back to my settings to change it back! I was thinking OMG, RRR (Repartition, Reformat, Reinstall) time.
But wait, what if I just clear out my settings? Kind of a crude way of doing it, but it worked. |
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How To Make Desktop Applications Start Automatically After Login (GNOME) |
| Post date: November 9, 2007, 11:11 Category: Desktop Views: 1141 Comments: 0 |
Tutorial quote: How To Make Desktop Applications Start Automatically After Login (GNOME)
You probably know this: you power on your machine, and immediately after you have logged in you manually start your two or three favourite applications. Why not have the system start these applications for you automatically? This short guide shows how to accomplish this under GNOME. |
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The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 7.10 |
| Post date: November 1, 2007, 10:11 Category: Desktop Views: 2213 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: This guide shows how to set up an Ubuntu Studio 7.10 desktop. The result is a fast, secure and extendable system with focus on multimedia creation - the real-time (RT) kernel is installed by default. It provides all you need for daily work and entertainment, incl. codecs, Flash, Adobe Reader, VMware, Skype, TrueType fonts, Cedega, and many more. |
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Make Your Linux Desktop Look Like A Mac - Mac4Lin Project Documentation |
| Post date: October 30, 2007, 11:10 Category: Desktop Views: 2775 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, 07:10 Category: Desktop Views: 2245 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, 09:10 Category: Desktop Views: 4873 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, 10:10 Category: Desktop Views: 1682 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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