Different bottom panel for gnome3.

If you miss the bottom panel on gnome3, the do give tint2 a try. Here is how this looks (by default).

procinfo and procinfo-ng : Get system information from /proc.

Install procinfo or procinfo-ng. The procinfo contains three programs :

/usr/bin/lsdev
/usr/bin/procinfo
/usr/bin/socklist

and procinfo-ng contains ::

/usr/bin/procinfo-ng

The description for both of them is similar ::

Name        : procinfo-ng
Version     : 2.0.304
Release     : 5.fc17
Architecture: i686
Install Date: Tue 24 Jul 2012 05:45:10 PM IST
Group       : Applications/System
Size        : 140366
License     : GPLv2 and LGPLv2
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Mon 12 Mar 2012 09:56:55 PM IST, Key ID 50e94c991aca3465
Source RPM  : procinfo-ng-2.0.304-5.fc17.src.rpm
Build Date  : Wed 29 Feb 2012 02:30:54 AM IST
Build Host  : x86-06.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : Fedora Project
Vendor      : Fedora Project
URL         : http://sourceforge.net/projects/procinfo-ng/
Summary     : Console-based system monitoring utility
Description :
Procinfo-NG is a complete rewrite of the old system monitoring application
procinfo.  The goal is to make more readable (and reusable) code and to
restore broken functionality.

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Music players on Linux – the poor mans random song player.

If you have more applications running on your system then your system can handle them then you know what I mean when I say that the Music Players take a lot of CPU. Otherwise harmless, but when you are doing too many things, then lot of times you would feel that probably stopping the Music player might help. But then Linux is all about alternatives. So, there is a command line player called mpg123, which does not use so much CPU. But what about playlist 🙂

colorgcc – Color your compiler output on Fedora

Lets start with installing colorgcc :

sudo yum install colorgcc

Now once that is done, you will need to ensure that the call to g++, gcc and others that you want to use, you will need to create a link in the “~/bin” directory, like so:

for i in g++ gcc c++ cc 
do
    ln -s $(which colorgcc) ~/bin/$i
done

The one liner above will create the links for colorgcc as **** your favourite compiler in your homedir. Don’t forget to add the bin diretory to your PATH variable:

convert word document to html

First install the required package:

sudo yum install wv

Description:

Description : Wv is a program that understands the Microsoft Word 6/7/8/9

binary file format and is able to convert Word

documents into HTML, which can then be read with a browser.

And here is the list of the programs that this utility provides:

/usr/bin/wvAbw
/usr/bin/wvCleanLatex
/usr/bin/wvConvert
/usr/bin/wvDVI
/usr/bin/wvDocBook
/usr/bin/wvHtml
/usr/bin/wvLatex
/usr/bin/wvMime
/usr/bin/wvPDF
/usr/bin/wvPS
/usr/bin/wvRTF
/usr/bin/wvSummary
/usr/bin/wvText
/usr/bin/wvVersion
/usr/bin/wvWare
/usr/bin/wvWml

So, if you want to convert a doc file to html just do:

tora installation on Fedora 17.

Here are the previous links on Tora:

Tora on F16

Tora on Fedora

And if you are interested in installing from source then you can always use this link:
http://blog.amit-agarwal.com/2012/02/06/tora-fedora-16-mysql-oracle/

And if you are interested in just installing it then you can always do:

rpm -ivh "http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/tora-2.1.3-1.fc17.i686.rpm"

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rpmconf – Tool to handle rpmsave and rpmnew files

Install the utility:

sudo yum install rpmconf

Description:

Description : This tool search for .rpmnew, .rpmsave and .rpmorig files and ask you what to do

with them:

Keep current version, place back old version, watch the diff or merge.

And finally run the utility:

sudo rpmconf -a

and if there is a conflict or rpmsave or rpmnew file, then you will see something like this: