Gnome
New feature in Nautilus – resize icon on desktop.
2011/01/10
On Desktop on Gnome using nautilus, now you can resize individual icons. Just right click on the icon to resize and in the menu you will get a resize icon : […] and then you can resize the icon …
New feature in Gnome/Nautilus
2010/12/05
One of the things that I never realized that I am missing in Nautilus until they put the feature in was this. When a file is being copied and there is conflict, there should be option to rename the …
gphotoframe Free digital photo frame for your desk.
2010/08/11
First install the gphotoframe application with the command : […] sudo yum install gphotoframe […] and if you want gnome-screensaver compatibility then install the package gphotoframe-gss …
New GNOME 2.24 is an incremental improvement
2010/07/15
<a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/149081">Link Quite good details on the new improvements.. Currently I am installing empathy which looks quite interesting. Screenshot for empathy …
Mod your gnome desktop, change the colors the easy way.
2010/06/25
Install the autoten application. You can find the instructions in my earlier post today <a …
Viewing archive without extracting.
2010/06/25
I was looking for this option and searched the net to find quite some utilities to do this. […] And a nice article on this this is <a …
gnome-disk-manager – the easier way to manage disks in Gnome with Palimpsest
2010/05/25
I had been using quite different set of tools to this but this is really good. Just install the gnome-disk-manager with […] sudo yum install gnome-disk-manager […] The interface is very …
bash script to change icon theme to check out all the installed themes (personal)
2010/05/19
I am really annoyed with the time that is required and the number of clicks that it takes to change the gnome icon theme. So here’s a small script that I wrote to quickly check out all the …
Disk identification by UUID in Fedora.
2010/05/19
Yesterday I managed to delete my complete /usr directory and thus had to re-install my OS but I learned something new yesterday which I didn’t know earlier or actually never bothered to find …
bash script to periodically change the cursor theme.
2010/05/07
#!/bin/bash [[ ”$1” == ”” ]] && time=5 || time=$1 [[ ”$2” == ”” ]] && ( cd ~/.icons …
My project in sourceforge.net gnomedesktopwal
2010/04/07
My project is accepted in sourceforge.net and I have a stable version released today in sourceforge. The link for the project is : <a class="aligncenter" …
Change background in gnome from shell script.
2010/04/05
I learnt this just now but this is something I wanted to try for some time. I wanted to know a way to change the background from the shell without actually using the change background GUI option. I …