Linux Tutorials on the topic “desktop”
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How To Take Screenshots Of Your Android Smartphone
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: android, desktop •
Comments: 21 How To Take Screenshots Of Your Android Smartphone Unfortunately it is not possible to directly take screenshots of an Android phone (e.g. by tapping on a button). This tutorial shows you how you can take screenshots of an Android smartphone with the help of a computer where the Android SDK is installed.
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Changing From Microsoft Windows To Linux Mint 11
Author: CSch •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 9 Changing From Microsoft Windows To Linux Mint 11 This is a tutorial for people originally using the Windows Operating System who want to try out Linux Mint 11. It is supposed to show the differences and similarities between the two systems and depict Linux' functions with examples.
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DesktopNova - Automatically Change Wallpapers On Ubuntu 11.04 (With Classic Gnome)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 6 DesktopNova - Automatically Change Wallpapers On Ubuntu 11.04 (With Classic Gnome) DesktopNova is an application that automatically changes your desktop wallpaper after a preset period of time. It works with Gnome amd Xfce desktops. This tutorial shows how to use DesktopNova on an Ubuntu 11.04 desktop with the Classic Gnome interface.
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On Linux Mint 11
Author: CSch •
Tags: ubuntu, desktop •
Comments: 3 Enabling Compiz Fusion On Linux Mint 11 This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Linux Mint 11 desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.
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How To Take A Screenshot Of Your Login Screen
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, linux •
Comments: 7 How To Take A Screenshot Of Your Login Screen Normally you use a screenshot tool to take screenshots of your Linux desktop. Unfortunately, this doesn't work if you want to take a screenshot of your login prompt. This tutorial explains how you can take a screenshot of your Linux desktop login screen nevertheless.
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 15 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 3 Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 15 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Fedora 15 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. I will use the free nouveau driver in this tutorial instead of the proprietary NVIDIA driver. nouveau is an accelerated Open Source driver for NVIDIA cards that comes with experimental 3D support on Fedora 15 - on my test system 3D support was working without any problems.
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On An OpenSUSE GNOME 11.4 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, suse •
Comments: 0 Enabling Compiz Fusion On An OpenSUSE GNOME 11.4 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an OpenSUSE 11.4 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.
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How To Make An Ubuntu 11.04 Classic Desktop Resemble A Mac (With Elementary, Docky & Gloobus-Preview)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 4 How To Make An Ubuntu 11.04 Classic Desktop Resemble A Mac (With Elementary, Docky & Gloobus-Preview) This article shows how you can change the appearance of your Ubuntu 11.04 desktop (with the Ubuntu Classic interface, i.e., GNOME instead of Unity) so that it resembles a Mac. This can be achieved with the help of Elementary, Docky, and Gloobus-Preview. Elementary is a project that provides a popular icon set and GTK theme; Docky is an interactive dock (like the one you know from a Mac) that provides easy access to some of the files, folders, and applications on your computer, and more; and Gloobus-Preview is an extension for the Gnome Desktop Environment designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file or directory.
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu Classic 11.04 Desktop (GNOME) (NVIDIA GeForce 8200)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 2 Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu Classic 11.04 Desktop (GNOME) (NVIDIA GeForce 8200) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) desktop with the classic GNOME interface, i.e., no Unity (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop (With The Unity Desktop)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop (With The Unity Desktop) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) desktop with the Unity interface (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card which I assume it has because otherwise Unity wouldn't start, and GNOME would be used instead). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.
