gphotoframe Free digital photo frame for your desk.

2010-08-11 2 min read Fedora GNOME Photo

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 also.

Gnome Photo Frame is a photo frame gadget for the <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME Desktop. Let’s see how this works.. run the command gphotoframe from a terminal:

Here is what you will see :

Don’t panic on seeing the blank/black page. You need to add the source first. So <a class="zem_slink" title="Mouse (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_%28computing%29">right click on the window and go to preferences:

How To Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

2010-07-23 1 min read Fedora Linux

For those of you who don’t know about ailurus:

Ailurus is cross-<a class="zem_slink" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux-distribution <a class="zem_slink" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPL <a class="zem_slink" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers.

And the features include:

Ailurus can …

display Linux skills

install popular software

change <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME settings

display <a class="zem_slink" title="Hardware" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware">hardware information

enable some third party repositories#

clean apt/yum cache#

backup and recover apt/yum status#

the features marked with ”#” support Ubuntu/Fedora only
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Right click menu in Gnome desktop with user entries.

2010-07-18 2 min read Fedora Linux

I, along with couple of others I think, have been looking for this for quite some time. What I wanted is that when I right click on the desktop with GNome, I should see my entries in the default menu. I did quite some search on this but no luck. Finally today, I did it and that too in two ways.

Lets do it the Gnome way first:

Install nautilus-actions using the command

New GNOME 2.24 is an incremental improvement

2010-07-15 1 min read GNOME Linux

<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 available <a href="http://linux.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Empathy-Screenshot-27288.html">here.

Gnome Icons, themes and window decorator.

2010-07-14 1 min read Fedora Linux

Yesterday, I had tried fusion theme, but that did not work our that good for me. Reasons multifold:

I like the features of GNome
I am used to GNome
Other window managers did not look that lucarative to me.
Compiz was chocking my CPU..
and so on..

So I went back to my GNome but wanted to change the looks so searched enough today to get the right set of Icons and themes. I think I finally got some decent ones and here are the links for the icons that I liked:
<a href="http://www.junauza.com/2008/08/10-really-cool-icon-sets-for.html" target="_blank">http://www.junauza.com/2008/08/10-really-cool-icon-sets-for.html
and this one <a href="http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/05/ultimate-gnome-icon-theme.html" target="_blank">here.

Mod your gnome desktop, change the colors the easy way.

2010-06-25 1 min read Fedora GNOME

Install the autoten application. You can find the instructions in my earlier post today <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2009/04/20/autoten-install-nvidia-gnome-color-chooser-and-many-others-in-one-click-on-fedora/">here.

Gnome color chooser is an application to allow you to change the color of your gnome DE in all aspects. Very easy to use GUI. Just install it and run it as gnome-color-chooser. Here’s a screenshot of the application.

The beauty of this application is that it allows to use XML files as input so there are lot of possibilities. And one of the most lucarat5ive ones is to download a pack of color schemes from <a href="http://gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/84941-daX_UltraPack220_3v2_gnomecc.tar.bz2">here. This has 220 theme colors to select from in the form of XML files which can be used directly with Gnome Color Chooser. So enjoy.

solang – Photo collection viewer.

2010-06-25 0 min read Fedora Photo

$\"GNOME\"$: Image via Wikipedia

Name       : solang

Arch       : i686

Size       : 1.8 M

Summary    : A Photo Manager for <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnome" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME

URL        : https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/solang/

License    : <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_general_public_license" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPLv3+

Description: Solang is a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/free_content" title="Free content" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_content">free photo manager that will act as a front-end for

directory based local storage as well as remote photo-storage

systems, as can be said, on the ”Cloud”. Basic editing support is

also planned as well as a small pipelaine for RAW processing.

The aim of this project is to break the performance charecteristics

of current popular photo management <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">softwares and provide a fast

and reliable alternative that does not place humongous demands on

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