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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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 […]
Read moreopenSUSE 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. […]
Read more10% global desktop market share for GNOME this year?
Will we see Jeff’s dream of a 10% desktop market share for GNOME this year?
Read moreFedora 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 […]
Read moreopenSUSE 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 […]
Read moreDisabling 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. […]
Read moreSimple 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 […]
Read moreFSF response to Microsoft’s “Promise”
The Free Software Foundation has
Read moreKDE 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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