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25 August, 20106 March, 2011Fedora, FOSS

Browse remote shares in non-GVFS aware apps

GNOME uses a virtual file system to mount remote shares, like Samba and NFS. The shares appear in any GNOME-based GVFS aware application (and those that use Nautilus as the […]

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10 February, 201010 February, 2010FOSS

KDE SC 4.4 is here

The KDE SC team has finally announced the much awaited 4.4 release, dubbed “Caikaku.” The sleek modern desktop environment from KDE SC has finally arrived. I’ve been waiting a long […]

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31 January, 201031 January, 2010FOSS

openSUSE 11.2 web links don’t work in Thunderbird under KDE fix

My mum’s machine runs openSUSE 11.2, with KDE 4. She continues to use Thunderbird as her mail client as it is familiar. Naturally she also uses Firefox for web browsing. […]

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5 January, 2010Tech

10% global desktop market share for GNOME this year?

Will we see Jeff’s dream of a 10% desktop market share for GNOME this year?

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23 December, 20096 March, 2011Fedora, FOSS

Fedora 12 and Compiz (Settings Manager)

Fedora uses the older method of enabling Compiz, via the gconf plugin. The “Desktop Effects” program under System -> Preferences runs the /usr/bin/compiz-gtk script (part of the compiz-gnome package) to […]

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16 November, 200916 November, 2009FOSS

openSUSE 11.2 – Mono with Windows.Forms by default, in GNOME

I was pleased to see (although not too surprised) that the KDE desktop in openSUSE 11.2 does not ship Mono by default. With GNOME, however it’s a different story. The […]

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21 August, 200921 August, 2009FOSS

Disabling single click in Dolphin (without KDE)

Justin switched to Dolphin under GNOME because Nautilus was too slow at expanding directories and the like. One annoying “feature” for him is that Dolphin uses single click by default. […]

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29 July, 200924 August, 2009FOSS

Simple graphical kill in GNOME

Under KDE you can press CTRL+ALT+ESC and get a cursor which will then kill any application that you click on. It’s a handy little feature. Under GNOME, you need to […]

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20 July, 200920 July, 2009FOSS

FSF response to Microsoft’s “Promise”

The Free Software Foundation has

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4 June, 20094 June, 2009FOSS

KDE 4: The Komplete Desktop?

I’ve just finished my second article for Linux Magazine, on whether KDE 4 is complete enough or not. Feed back welcome. -c

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