Archive for the ‘Gnome’ Category
Monday, May 7th, 2007
I had a problem with gnome-volume-control. It didn't save my volume control settings and displayed a mute sign on every startup.
While trying to solve this issue, I did something (I don't remember what it was) that totally messed my sound configuration and now gnome-volume-control stopped working at all. Today ...
Posted in Debian, Gnome, Linux, Tips | No Comments »
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Ok so you have installed Ubuntu and loved the pretty and easy Gnome interface, now what? May be you are thinking, that this Ubuntu is just another operating system. It is indeed just another operating system. But, this one is a Debian Linux based operating system. Sooner or later you ...
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
After disliking camera phones and people using camera phones for a long long time, I finally gave up and bought myself one. I am totally in love with my new camera phone. I love it for making things so easier. I can plugin my phone and share pictures and videos ...
Posted in Dapper, Gnome, Linux, Ubuntu, applications | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
Recently I realized that the Disks utility was showing 8.6 GiB consumed on my Ubuntu partition (I have Xubuntu installed on another partition and have one FAT partition). I decided to free up some disk space by deleting temporary files. I found that there is no tool in Dapper to ...
Posted in Dapper, Gnome, KDE, Linux, Tips, Ubuntu | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Applets are little applications that sit on your panels and make things easier for you. In Ubuntu, your default Gnome Desktop comes equipped with some very useful applets pre-installed but not activated by default. People who are absolutely new to Ubuntu and Gnome desktop are usually unaware of these applets ...
Posted in Gnome, Tips, Ubuntu | 2 Comments »
Sunday, October 8th, 2006
I need an RSS Feed reader. I would definitely like to use some web based tool, but currently no bloglines, Google reader or any other feed aggregator satisfies me. I need something with a very simple user interface, little or no advance features and rock solid support for all type ...
Posted in Gnome, Ubuntu, Web | 6 Comments »
Thursday, October 5th, 2006
I am excited all over again on the new release of Ubuntu. Expected to be released next month but the beta version is currently availabe for download. It has:
Firefox 2.0 RC 1 (code named: Bon Echo):
New Theme (Tangerine) and user interface have been updated to improve usability.
It has inline spell ...
Posted in Edgy, Epiphany, Firefox, Gnome, Linux, Open Office, Ubuntu | 1 Comment »