[How-To] Enabling Font Anti-Aliasing (aka ClearType) in KDE
While going through some of KDE settings I found this simple way to enable Anti Aliasing for Fonts (also known as ClearType in Windows). This will definitely make your fonts more pleasing to look at.
For this, just launch KDE settings - this is generally known as Configure Desktop in openSUSE or System Settings in [...]
Make Use of PeerGuardian 2’s IP Filter in KTorrent
PeerGuardian 2, is an awesome IP filtering software. Though its FOSS, it there isn’t a Linux port of it yet. But don’t worry, if you’re using KTorrent, you can make use of PeerGuardian’s filters. Let me show how you can do so.
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[How To] Fix MBR after installing/uninstalling Windows/Linux in a dual boot
Many, who do a dual boot with any Linux and Windows will face the problem of Master Boot Record (MBR). In easier words, one of them (Windows or Linux) wont boot after installing/uninstalling the other. This is a small guide I hope many would find it useful.
FIXING WINDOWS BOOT AFTER UNINSTALLING LINUX
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Adobe Releases Flash Player 10 For Linux
Adobe released the latest version, Flash 10 for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.
The new release brings in loads of new features, and has better Linux support as well.
Download Flash Player 10 for Linux from here.
Instructions on how-to install the Flash Player can be found here
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[How To] Solution for sudo: must be setuid root problem
I had encountered this problem on sudo/gksu not working few months earlier.
Whenever I had to open an application with gksu it did not open at all ! I was wondering what did i do. I dint know whether i meddled with something or is it any other configuration that created the problem.
If I type sudo in terminal [...]
[How To] Removing Transparency In Games without disabling/switching off Compiz
Admin’s Note: This solution was emailed to me by Bharath, as he was facing this problem and found a solution to this. If you want to drop a tip or a hack, just send me an email via the contact-me form and I might just publish it
Sometimes when playing native games in Linux they may [...]
File Associations:Changing/Removing/Adding default applications for particular filetypes in openSUSE 11 & KDE 4.1
Consider this situation. You have multiple programs installed for a particular file type. Now double clicking it opens an application, but you want it to open in another application.
For example, you want your images to open in showFoto instead of Gwenview, so how do you go about doing this? Let me show you how to [...]
[How-To] Fix Nautilus File Manager Title Bar(Window Decorator) disappearing when Emerald is enabled
Most of the how-to’s and fixes posted here, are generally my experiences and I post them on how I went about fixing it. This particular how-to was mentioned to me by my very good friend, Bharath, who had this annoying problem of the title bars of every window crashing and disappearing when Emerald is chosen as [...]
