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I hate it when the Icon text is surrounded by a ghetto highlight on the desktop. Fix for removing the ghetto icon text highlight. Edit the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file [quote]# Changing default ghetto looks style "xfdesktop-icon-v…
This is the lspci devices output for the super-crappy Pangolin performance laptop panp7 from system76 (*February 2011) a.k.a Clevo W765CUH (Model: W76CU) LSPCI Output for Reference: [box]Host bridge: Intel Corporation C…
The latest pulseaudio debian repositories are at this: http://debian.orson.at/ I hope they fix the low-volume-through-front-speakers issue I have been having with the older versions... [b] NOTE: This was a bad decision.…
Some stuff you can do for a faster boot time on Crunchbang. 1. Enable autologin. Open the terminal and type [quote] gksu gdmsetup [/quote] You will need to enter your administrator password. Go to the "Security" tab and…
With my new found "Su" power, I compiled the RTL8191SEvB wireless driver in Crunchbang and am documenting all the (as it turns out, rather minor) hurdles and leaps here. The good news is if I can do it, you can surely d…
After much heartache, I have finally given up trying to make other worthy linux distros work on my crappy System76 Pangolin "Performance" PanP7 laptop. In short, there is no other OS apart from Ubuntu that can work with…
If you want to run linux and are getting a laptop, and see this wireless card listed in the specs: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Run. Run as far as you can from any laptop that has this wireless card. The Realtek RTL8191SEvB wire…
This is so great. I haven't had a one horizontally rotated monitor with one vertically rotated monitor setup since I left the mac platform, more than a year ago. The problem was I was always using the stupid closed sour…
I don't feel like enough people thank the Gnome 3 and Fedora team for what they do. This release is nothing but awesome. I don't care what the people who are not ready to give up gnome 2 say. The workflow of this new in…
I am really tired of struggling with skype on Debian (and Crunchbang) to get its audio to work properly. If the microphone works the output doesn't work, if the output works, the microphone doesn't. I think I may have f…
I am loving Fedora 15 and gnome shell despite what some other people are saying. It installed with everything including 3d right out of the box. You can get it yourself here http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora I was exc…
So I decided to have my own Natty Party, went and bought a kilo of 85%++ dark chocolate (they have an excellent lindt sale at walgreens), brewed a couple litres of tea and took 11.04 for a test spin. Very fancy, I admit…
It's Natty release day. That's Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity - a new desktop environment with a shady and rocky past fraught with disagreement and warfare between Canonical (the Keepers of Ubuntu) and GNOME - the erstwhile de…
Couple questions about partitions in linux. Question 1: I have three partitions on my laptop: / swap /home Let's suppose that I am distro-hopping and want to install some crazy distro on my "experimentation" laptop. Let…
I like that the new gnome-shell is created with js and css. It means a lot more people will be able to play with and add stuff to the desktop once its released. It just makes it way easy to tweak the interface. Here I t…
GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0) I get to bat my eyelashes at this gibberish every time my laptop boots. And every glib soul on the World-Wide-Web seems to be just as mystified as me abou…
Seriously, this is what I feel like when do anything on Linux. Not only do I have no idea about how to deal with most problems, I also feel as if I am always trapped in a hung window somewhere in OS hell. There is alway…
Just wanted to let everyone know that the keyboard shortcut for bringing up lxterminal or the command-line window under lubuntu is: F10 or Ctrl+Alt+T Couldn't this document describing the lxterminal have included this t…
I don't use a mouse at home because I have borderline RSI. Instead, I have a Wacom Bamboo tablet and stylus that I use for all kinds of input from simple pointing-and-clicking to drawing and painting on pressure-sensiti…
So I tried to configure the xorg (wth?) wacom drivers using a text editor called gedit (wth?). When I opened it this bit of gibberish was waiting for me: [quote]WALTOP needs a patched kernel driver, that isn't in mainli…
Well, I installed Fedora 14 from the live cd a couple of days ago and real life got in the way. So I didn't really get a chance to play with it until today. In terms of hardware, everything just works. But I expected th…
This is pretty neat. Once you install bluezproximity on fedora you can set it to listen for the proximity of a specific bluetooth device - say your cellphone - and lock and unlock the screen. The beats having to type yo…
I love you. I feel like I don't tell you this enough. This morning I tried to install ubuntu on a secondary drive and it was a nightmare to get stuff working. Then I just popped in you live CD and overwrote everything w…
I tried out a zillion live-CDs over the past week and the most appealing and uncluttered distro has to be lubuntu. Not only does it not assume that I am an idiot and need a million applications cluttering my operating s…
