gnomecc color scheme - my favourite.

2010-07-11 1 min read Fedora

my favourite <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser">gtkrc-2 file.

Snapshot of how it looks.

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6700 free and redistributable fonts for Linux.

2010-06-25 1 min read Fedora Linux

Today I was searching for some good fonts for my desktop running Fedora 11 – Leonidas. In my quest to find the required fonts that I would liked, I reached some good sites so just thought would share the same with you.

First, how do you use them, simple steps:

mkdir ~/.fonts

Now you can put your fonts in this directory. You can make sub-directories to keep your fonts organized. On F11, I did not need to refresh the font server or logout and login. 🙂

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Periodically download and use as wallpaper from Flickr in Fedora using Webilder.

2010-06-16 1 min read Fedora

Ever wanted to have wallpaper downloaded from Flickr directly using the tags and then apply them as wallpaper, then the way to go is download Webilder <a href="http://www.webilder.org/static/downloads/Webilder-0.6.3.tar.gz">here. Just do the regular stuff to install the same.

tar xvfz

cd

./configure

make

sudo make install

And then right click on the gnome panel and add the widget. Configure the tags to download and the duration to change the wallpaper and enjoy.

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Linux Advocacy and cool things to do with Linux.

2010-04-12 2 min read Linux

I have heard a lot of Linux advocacy and read probably a couple of artilcles also on them but they lack one thing : the end user perspective. Linux is great no doubt, but there are far too many things to confuse people at all levels. For example, if you do a google search for which distro is good for me, you will find different sites giving you different results. So, whats my point?

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Another nice utility for blogging from within firefox.

2010-04-11 1 min read Linux

Scribfire is another nice utility for blogging withing firefox. Nice features and quick and easy to configure and use ..

Gnome 3.0 – the beginning of workflow era

2010-03-31 1 min read GNOME

There is  a nice article <a href="http://d0od.blogspot.com/2009/09/gnome-3-quick-visual-tour.html">here. This talks about gnome 3.0 with screenshot. Definately worth looking at. And if you want to see the plan then you can head over <a href="http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero"> here.

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