Gnome 3 screenshot with conky dock

Just to give you a idea of how beautiful it looks, here’s a screenshot 🙂

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Gnome 3 shell themes

If you are using gnome-shell and are bored with the same default theme then read on…. 🙂

By default changing the default theme requires that you modify the files yourself or copy few files to the required directories. Well, if this is not in your scheme of things for changing the theme, a very simple task. Now, you can simply do this with gnome shell extensions.

bash completion

I was working on some functions in bash to make my life easier and realized that if I added custom completion to my functions, it will be really good. So I headed over to google and searched for what I wanted. I did get a lot of information on bash completion but not a single concrete example that could help me do what I wanted. So, with the help of man pages and some results from the Google pages, I was finally able to accomplish what I wanted. So here it is:

Total upload and download on any interface.

Something that I have been searching for a long time, finally some look inside the <a class=“zem_slink” title=“Procfs” rel=“wikipedia” href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs" _mce_href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs">/proc got me what I wanted. Hope this will save someone’s day. So far, the only option I could think of was to run conky which becomes a little heave on some of the very old laptops I have to use sometimes 🙁

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Results of Fedora 16 Release Name Voting

Fedora 16 is codenamed Verne. Here are other details:

The voting has concluded for the Fedora 16 release name, and the
results are in!  Thank you to the Fedora community members who made
name suggestions and participated in the voting.

The Fedora 16 release name is: Verne

Voting period:  Tuesday 2011-04-05 00:00:00 to Monday 2011-04-11 23:59:59
Number of valid ballots cast:  421

Using the range voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum
of (421*9) = 3789 votes.

sakura – Reaaly good terminal with very few dependencies.

I was searching for something in the Fedora repos and found a really good terminal, sakura. Its very much like Gnome-terminal. I did not find much difference other than using less memory.

To install:

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and the details of the package:

Name        : sakura

Arch : i686

Version     : 2.3.8

Release     : 1.fc14

Size        : 137 k

Repo        : installed

From repo   : fedora

Summary     : Terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE

URL : http://pleyades.net/david/sakura.php

License     : GPLv2

Description : Sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE. It’s a terminal emulator

with few dependencies, so you don’t need a full GNOME desktop installed to

have a decent terminal emulator.

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use finch, less memory and cpu usage, in replacement for pidgin.

Well, if you are on linux then you have options – is a known fact. But how those options help?

I was working on a machine which had very less RAM and was quite old system and it was running F14. Guess what would be the state of the system with pidgin, xmms, firefox, evolution and couple of terminals. Now, this is where if you could save a few cycles of CPU then you can actullay see the difference in sluggish GUI and and an okay sort of GUI. So, first off, kill pidgin and use finch.