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Changing the GNOME Menu panel in openSUSE GNOME back to Gnome defaults
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Tips & How-To's
Applications
Linux
OpenSuSE
Seems like lot of openSUSE Gnome users don’t like the new Gnome panel, which is radically different interface from the traditional Menu bar with Applications/Places/System entries. Personally I prefer the new style, perhaps because I’m used to the openSUSE Kickoff panel, and I really dig the search feature
You can go back to the default Applications / Places / System panel pretty easily. To do this:
Right click the bottom panel and choose add a panel Now right click the top panel and choose Add to Panel In the search input box type “menu”, and you will see about six entries, one of which is “Traditional main Menu” Add the menu to the panel, move it to where you like, and delete the “original” menu.
Mounting file system created by Wubi in other Linux distros
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Tips & How-To's
Linux
Applications
I wasn’t aware of this tiny little thing - the filesystem in the file created by a Wubi install can be easily mounted as a loop device.
To do so, just open the Terminal and type the below:
mount -o loop
This will make the kernel auto detect the filesystem type and try to mount it. Alternatively, if you’re sure of the filesystem type, mention it explicitly
mount -t -o loop
Updating to openSUSE 11.2
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Tips & How-To's
Linux
OpenSuSE
As mentioned openSUSE 11.2 is now available. If you’re on previous versions of openSUSE you can do an inplace upgrade to 11.2 by using zypper.
openSUSE 11.0/openSUSE 11.1
Just change the repos to mention 11.2 instead of 11.0/11.1, as shown in the pic:
Once that’s done, open the terminal, and switch to root
su root
Then refresh the repos
zypper ref
Finally, do the distribution upgrade
zypper dup
openSUSE 11.2 Milestone/RC versions:
openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8 And Release Candidates(RC) add boot from USB flash disk option, here’s how to use it
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Tips & How-To's
Linux
OpenSuSE
Howdy folks! Been a loong time since I last posted isn’t it? Just been busy with work & travel (won’t bore you with the details, just check my personal blog).
I’ve been looking forward to the upcoming openSUSE 11.2 version ( it’s no secret that I’m a fan of openSUSE), but the main problem for me was that I don’t like holding onto optical media, and have a 8gig USB flash disk, especially for these things.
Start torrent downloads from anywhere using Dropbox and Transmission
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Tips & How-To's
Applications
I’ve been using Dropbox pretty extensively ever since its private beta days and just love its simplicity and ease with which I can keep all my files in sync across multiple computers. Even more awesome is its simple web interface - just upload a file and boom, the file you uploaded gets sync’d across all your computers. This coupled with Transmission‘s ability to start downloading torrents automatically when a torrent file is available in a folder means you can start torrent downloads from anywhere, even if your computer is not accessible.
Writing an iso file to a CD-R/DVD-R from Linux Terminal
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News
Commands
Terminal
Linux
Ever wondered if there’s a quick and easy way to write an iso file to a CD-R/DVD-R ? Don’t want to open K3B or Brasero ? Here’s a handy way of writing the iso file.
First, switch to root using su
su
Next, type
cdrecord -scanbus
You’ll get something like this:
scsibus0:<br /> 0,0,0 0) 'TSSTcorp' 'DVD+-RW TS-L632H' 'D200' Removable CD-ROM<br /> 0,1,0 1) *
Note the first 3 numbers corresponding to your CD/DVD writer.
Using KWin as a Desktop Video Recording and Screencast tool
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Tips & How-To's
Applications
Linux
Not many know of this, but as of KDE 4.2, Kwin, the window manager has a nifty little feature - it can grab videos of desktop much like a screencasting tool such as Camtasia. This functionality requires Kwin’s composition mode to be enabled (ie, you must be using Kwin’s desktop effects).
Below video shows where and how you can enable the video recording feature. Note this video was recorded using KWin.
Get Kannada Language displayed properly in Gentoo and Sabayon
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News
Indic
Linux
Terminal
Tutorials
Well I was browsing through some Kannada sites the other day and all I got was big blocks.
Turned out that Gentoo and Sabayon didn’t have support for displaying Kannada characters, though, I had no such problems with Hindi & Bengali characters [amongst others]. Changing the Character encoding in Firefox to Auto-detect or Unicode didn’t work either. After doing a bit of searching, found the solution. So open the terminal, switch to root user and type
If Amarok 2.0 doesn’t add any songs to your playlist or collection…..
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Tips & How-To's
Amarok
Tutorials
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.
[How-To] Enabling Font Anti-Aliasing (aka ClearType) in KDE
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Tips & How-To's
Linux
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 Kubuntu.
From there, Under Look & Feel, Click on Appearance. Navigate to Fonts, and under use Anti-Aliasing, choose Enabled from Dropdown box