Archive for the ‘XFCE’ Category

Using Terminal to Shutdown Processes

Friday, September 7th, 2007

XFCE does not come with a system monitor utility like the one I had in Gnome. I used the utility to kill unresponsive processes. So how do we kill unresponsive programs using the terminal? To understand how Linux handles processes and how you can control them read this great article ...

My Cute Little XFCE Desktop Environment

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

I have previously used XFCE with Xubuntu. But then I replaced it with Debian Etch and Gnome. But Gnome was becoming a little too heavy for me. I was bored and needed some change. So I decided to install a complete Gnome free system. First I downloaded latest Debian net-install ...

Xubuntu: Easily Switch Keyboard Layout

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Xubuntu (Ubuntu Linux's XFCE based flavor) does not come with any graphical utility to switch keyboard layouts. There is a little XKB plugin that you can add to your XFCE panel but it only shows the layout in use. It does not provide an interface to add keyboard layouts neither ...