Yesterday we looked at the basic "Keep Above" and "Keep Below" options within KWin. This allows you to keep your programs 'on top' of all your other programs, so that they're never hidden (until they're closed).
Read more »KWin Basics - Part 1.2.1 - Advanced Window Management - Window identification
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Cooking with Linux - Still Searching for the Ultimate Linux Distro?
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Why does a person install one Linux, then another, and then yet another? Because a person can, of course! Such is the nature of choice, and Linux gives you a choice...and what a selection.
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Five More Desktop Blog Editors for GNU/Linux Users
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There were some excellent suggestions about very good blog editors for the GNU/Linux platform provided in the comments section of my previous post Five Desktop Blog Editors for GNU/Linux Users. So much so that I have decided to compile a second list of desktop blog editors for GNU/Linux platform.
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Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, SimplyMEPIS - 3 distros, 9 wireless stories
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Just as as I was getting comfortable using Ubuntu on my desktop, enthusiastic readers have assailed me with stories about how I should give other Linux distros a try - particularly the KDE pair PCLinuxOS and SimplyMEPIS.
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The Complete Ubuntu Desktop Setup
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Ubuntu is a good distribution, but it requires a good amount of changes to make it really useful. Here is my attempt at it.
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A first look at the Firefox 3 visual refresh for Linux
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"Mozilla ruffled some penguin feathers last month when the organization revealed that Firefox 3 would get an extensive visual refresh to maximize integration with Windows and Mac OS X, but not Linux. After the decision was widely criticized by Linux enthusiasts, Mozilla reversed its position and decided to revisit Linux theming.
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Unboxing the Everex $200 Linux Computer
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Why should you be interested? Well, instead of Windows, it comes installed with gOS, which is a version of Ubuntu that is customized to work well with web-based tools from Google, Facebook, and Skype. When I heard that, I had to order one of these PCs to check it out for myself. :)...In this post, I’m just covering the unboxing.
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AMOR: a desktop companion
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AMOR is a nice toy which is absolutely senseless. It displays a tiny figure on your desktop, running on top of your windows or falling down to the bottom. It is a KDE application, but it should be no problem to use it in Gnome (as I do).
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How To Disable ipv6 on Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”
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I found a really quick fix today for disabling ipv6 completely on Ubuntu 7.10 (not yet tested on previous versions). This might be of interest to some of you that have had networking problems, as I’ve heard disabling ipv6 at least within the browser has been a help here. This tutorial will disable ipv6 completely on the machine.
Read more »Firefox hack can expose your Google account
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GNUCitizen.org has discovered a way for malicious JAVA scripts to be hidden in a page that will be automatically extracted by Firefox’s JAVA reader. There is an easy fix if you install the NoScript Firefox extension, but this means that you’ll be running absolutely no scripts, making for a far more boring web browsing experience.
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Ubuntu and OpenSUSE LiveCD results in blank Screen
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If the graphics card is not supported by default (Nvidia or ATI propriety drivers), then the Live CDs do not boot normally. Both in case of Ubuntu and OpenSUSE, the users have to use alternative methods.
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Linux Media Player Roundup - Part 4
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Welcome to part 4 of our media player roundup. Today we'll be covering a couple of interesting players that most older Linux users may remember, and most new users may not even know exists. We'll also be covering players that don't typically fit what would be considered the norm for a media player, but which provide you with quite a wide range of possible applications for daily use.
Read more »Linux Lite: 5 Tiny Distros That Pack A Big Bang
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Some distributions of the open-source operating system are bloated, but Puppy Linux, Knoppix, SLAX, NimbleX, and -- yes -- Damn Small Linux will get you up and running fast.
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Water in the tank and KIWI updates
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David Mikos has been busy adding tons of improvement to atlantis plugin, fishes now move in school, another cool new addition is water and waves to complete the picture of a fish tank. It would be added to git packages soon.
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Automatix lands a Linux user in trouble
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Tracking down the cause of Stan's problems has been easy. A few days after Ubuntu was installed, Stan wanted to play an encrypted DVD. He found that this was not possible on Ubuntu. Hence, like any budding Linux user, he searched in that great wasteland, the world wide web.
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