I am probably writing this post too late. To many out there this could be an old news. But, since it was long since I wrote on Sathya Says, (been searching for something to write about) and also this post is worth featuring here, I decided to write this.

Recent times has given birth to many ideas in beautifying one’s desktop. Windows+Linux and related people contribute much towards this. Like Stardock, for example, is a company that offers variety of products to customise your Windows desktop. WinCustomize.com is also another website worth mentioning.

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After nearly a year, the fantastic guys developing KDE have released the much anticipated KDE 4.2 version. The 4.2 version comes after about a year after a (disastrous) KDE 4.0 release. Linus might’ve switched to Gnome [no link bait here, go Digg it if need the info] but I’m still hooked on to KDE and especially love the KDE 4 series. KDE 4.1.3 was pretty awesome, and I can’t wait to try out it out, but the official Sabayon repositories don’t have KDE 4.2 yet.

You can install the RC version from Naendo repo, I recommend that you wait for the packages to be available in repos.

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Well I upgraded the KDE installation in my Sabayon system to KDE4 (by default, Sabayon installs KDE 3.5.10) and after logging in, and opening Firefox, the first thing I noticed was the absolutely FUGLY,  and yes I MEAN FUGLY look of Firefox. Don’t believe me? Have a look

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I’ve been trying out Sabayon 4 since the past weeks, and its been really great (will post a review soon). The one really irritating thing though, is on hitting the Windows(“Super”) key on the keyboard would result in Sabayon 4 switching VT’s. Now if you’ve no idea what VT’s are…. well that I would post some other time, basically you’d drop to a console prompt.

Anyways to remove this binding, open the Terminal, switch to root by typing su root

Now, type rc-update del keymaps default; rc-update add keymaps boot hit Enter, and reboot.

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Here’s a short tip: If Amarok 2.0 doesn’t add any songs to your playlist or collection, or the collection scan is getting hung at up 47% or 79% try installing mysql. Since Amarok 2 now makes use of mysql as its backend, it expects mysql to be installed(nope, mysql-client won’t do either). As a result, after scanning, it cannot add the songs to the collection database and the process just stops.
Just install mysql, and you should be rocking to music on Amarok again

Couple of days ago, Veetrag informed me that YAPodcast will covering Linux as the topic for this week’s podcast and asked me if I could join. Naturally, I agreed(how can I refuse!). Anyways so here it is: YAPodcast 14: Linux for beginners: Download it.

Do drop your comments and feedback, they would be much appreciated.