When you’re building applications that need terminal-like functionality, embedding a full terminal emulator can feel like overkill. Enter Ptyxis—a lightweight, versatile tool for integrating terminal …

So, the other day, I wanted to have squid store its pid in the regular ‘var/run’ directory. Good simple enough – just add the following to “/etc/squid/squid.conf” : […] pid_filename …

A new mail client is coming in town. Gnome is working on new mail client called geary. Currently only supports imap accounts. Description: […] Geary is a new email reader for GNOME designed to …

Was searching for this for sometime now, finally found it. sudo yum install nemo sudo yum list nemo* First just install nemo. Configure nemo not to interfere with default desktop and also make it …

Here is a link to a very beautiful set of icons for you gnome/kde desktop: http://bokehlicia.deviantart.com/art/Pacifica-Icons-402508559

On Fedora with Gnome-shell 3, its been long time that I was not able to get transparent window. So, finally I thought to spend some time to try to fix that. Finally got that fixed with all the …

Here is a script that can help you set the proper envirionment to start a gnome-shell from one of the terminals. #!/bin/bash - …

If you run into issues with gnome-shell then gnome-shell should allow you to disable all the plugins and get the gnome-shell. But since gnome-shell is still evolving, you might run into issue where …

Here is another screenshot of my laptop desktop with Gnome 3 and AWN (Avant window Navigator) running. Looks beautiful, isn’t it? […]

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

Image by grantc via Flickr […] 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 …

Add/Edit GDM Sessions Each session is a *.desktop file located at /usr/share/xsessions. […] You can change background image, gtk/icon theme by hands (as described at …