Fedora
Change the look and feel of Fedora with emrald, change to openbox, fvwm, emerald, metacity or openbox
2010/06/25
I have been looking for this information for quite sometime now. Did not quite find this information in the net. Finally looked through some of the packages in the repository and found the one that I …
wordpress Fedora 11 desktop client.
2010/06/25
Another wordpress client on Fedora for wordpress. Simple and easy to configure and use. Here’s how it looks. […] sudo yum install lekhonee […] <a …
Twiiter from Pidgin on Fedora 11 -Leonidas
2010/06/25
If you are twitter fan but find it difficult to follow it on your web-browser then this is for you. Just install the plugin and get going to see the twitter messages in the pidgin window. […] …
Quick one liner bash function to navigate parent directories quickly
2010/06/25
up () { for i in $(seq 1 $1) ; do cd ..; pushd +1 ; done; } — if you like the popd and pushd way .. up () { for i in $(seq 1 $1) ; do cd ..; done; } — otherwise .. <div …
find duplicate entry in a list in bash with sed
2010/06/25
Here I will take an example of rss2email list, but I guess I will be able to pass on the concept. Here is example of the output of the r2e list command: […] 1: …
bash script to change the vim colorscheme from the list of locally available schemes
2010/06/24
Today I was just wondering how good it would be to have a script to change the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/vim" title="Vim (text editor)" rel="homepage" …
Use GIMP to create awesome looking collage in minutes
2010/06/24
Here is an example to begin with: <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/300x200-dscn0161.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1228" …
Check file usage using fuser
2010/06/24
There is a package called psmisc that provides a useful application fuser. The package provides the below (on fedora): […] /sbin/fuser /usr/bin/killall /usr/bin/peekfd /usr/bin/pstree …
Google chrome on Fedora 11 Leonidas.
2010/06/24
Earlier I had posted a article on installing <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2009/07/20/chrome-chromium-on-linux-repo/" target="_blank">chromium on Linux. Chromium is …
Script to add all the partitions to the fstab.
2010/06/24
I wrote a simple script today to get all the partitions on all the disks and then create <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fstab" title="Fstab" rel="wikipedia" …
Fedora 11 Leonidas — Fix HDD (Hard Disk) and CD/DVD automount issues for users other than root.
2010/06/22
I have been thinking of putting this for quite some time now. By default no user (other than root) on Fedora 11 has the permission to mount CD/DVD and or ntfs/vfat partitions. So HAL automount does …
Oracle GUI client on Linux with mysql support
2010/06/22
I was looking for some nice client for Oracle and mysql. I did find mysql-administrator and navicat to be useful but this is much better. <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tora/" …