Change ANY Gnome 3 shortcut
I am making shortcuts left, right and centre in the Gnome 3 interface. Turn on shortcut editing [quote] gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface can-change-accels true [/quote] Hover mouse over the menu entry Press Del…
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Alt+Tab Vs. Alt+~ in Gnome 3
It took me all this while to find out that one of my greatest annoyances in Gnome 3 is actually solvable by a simple change in position of my finger while typing the alt-tab combination. [center] Alt + Tab Switches Appl…
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Linux alternative to TortoiseSVN
I found it. At last. TortoiseSVN was so good on windows that I really started to miss its awesome GUI features on linux. The clever thing to do would probably have been to guess that it would be named after some other h…
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Google talk plugin on Fedora 15
I finally installed the Google talk plugin on Fedora 15 last night. I used the official x86_64 rpm package on the Google talk page. It pulled in a ton of dependencies. When I checked later, it had updated/installed all …
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Latest LaTeX on Fedora 15
For some hideous reason Fedora 15 still has a release from 2007 cluttering its repositories. But it's thankfully pretty easy to install and get a recent TEX environment up and running in Fedora 15. All instructions are …
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[Solved] External Monitor problems on Fedora 15
[color=blue]Found a nice solution to the crazy external monitor problem in Fedora 15: Download the latest release of ARandR from here: http://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/files/arandr-0.1.5.tar.gz Extract to some …
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Nvidia and Intel Graphics in Fedora 15
There's something really wrong with my setup here: [quote] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller : nVidia Corporation Device (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:fc31] …
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Fedora 15 with XFCE. Some Notes
Remove irritating desktop icons from view. * desktop settings > icons > icon type > choose "None" Getting information about package versions from Yum * yum info packagename Side note to e:paul: R does pull in the follow…
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Making a bootable USB in Linux
Sometimes the simplicity of things across all distributions of linux are most refreshing. To burn an iso into a USB and create a bootable USB, I was glad to find out that I didn't need to hunt for programs as I usually …
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Fedora missing fonts for Gnumeric?
Why are the row and column numbers displaying as numeric placeholder skeletons in Gnumeric?? Does Gnumeric use some proprietary fonts that the mighty forces at Fedora have decided to outcast from the distro?? Aaargh. Ca…
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Suse Suse Studio?
Okay, NOW I have tried everything except OpenSuse. Though Debian has been my favourite in terms of usability and friendliness, there is something really wrong with how Debian systems interact with R and deal with numeri…
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What do I need?
Things are not great in linux land. Maybe my particular combination of requirements breaks things? I can't believe it. This is my list of absolutely essential software for my linux machine. These are ones that I use on …
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Worst luck indeed: Fedora 15 BSOD
Seriously? Behold Fedora 15's Black Screen of Death. [quote]Transcript of Error: [5.693915] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Invalid ROM contents [5.825510] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Pointer to BIT loadval table invalid [5.849874] nou…
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Fedora 15/Satellite P750 Bluetooth issue
Where on earth is the bluetooth??! According to: [quote] systemctl status bluetooth.servicebluetooth.service [/quote] [quote] - Bluetooth Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service) Active: active (ru…
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Texmaker error in Fedora 15
Escapist solution to ensuing mess:[/size] The wrestling match with Texmaker on Fedora 15 got way too confusing. I found that Texmaker has a fork called Texstudio and I have installed it instead. The x86_64 version of Te…
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Fedora-tor!
Fedora the Beefy Miracleator! ----- Totally inspired: http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html But without the consummate V's.
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Back on Fedora. Installing mp3/ape codecs.
My super-generous brother swapped out my crappy problematic System76 PanP7 this past weekend. As a result, I now have a brawny top-of-the-line quad core i7 8GB RAM Toshiba Satellite P750 with Dolby advanced audio and Ha…
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Fedora 17 gets a name - Beefy Miracle
I really need to start participating in these votes. Votes :: Name ------------------------------- 1182 :: Beefy Miracle 1035 :: Liege 881 :: Never 791 :: Gernsback 641 :: Rocky Ripple 628 :: Alpharabius 550 :: Panguipu…
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(H)Umpteen Choices!
Humpty Dumpty was making a longtable Yes! It was part of a thesis, and not a fable Something about "Save" was taking far too long Humpty didn't want to become egg foo yong Stopping and listening to e:strip voices Lead t…
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Save takes longer in gedit and gnumeric
Pedestrian observation but hitting Ctrl+S or the save button in linux (on gedit and gnumeric)"^ is always followed by a longer delay in saving the state of whatever program I am in (specifically programs that I use for …
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Linux Bugreport Rap
If something isn't broken don't go tinkering and fixin' for you could be shot to hell without so much as a token But if something really is awry there is little point in being shy fire those irate bug reports at upstrea…
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rcconf - Debian runlevel Configuration
With a thing called rcconf, I can see these are the things running on startup of my system │ [*] alsa-utils │ [*] anacron │ aumix [/color] │ bluetooth[/color] │ [*] bootlogs │ [*] console-setup │ [*] cron …
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All packages on my Crunchbang
Since I am estripping my Crunchbang this time, why not just post EVERYTHING on my system thus far... It's quite an interesting list. :) The ones installed on Feb 7 came with the system and the ones in the last 2 days ar…
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Wine + PDFXchange on Crunchbang
I tried some alternatives but they all appallingly bad e:tinypliny,55072. So I am back to Wine + PDFXchange in my new crunchbang install. Running notes from the install: The Wine for amd64 machines come from the dev.car…
