Linux Tutorials on the topic “desktop”
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Installing Beryl On An Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Desktop With An ATI Radeon Graphic Card
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 10Installing Beryl On An Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Desktop With An ATI Radeon Graphic Card This tutorial shows how you can install and configure Beryl on an Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) desktop with an ATI Radeon graphic card. With Beryl, you can make your desktop use beautiful 3D effects. We will use the open-source ATI driver that comes with Ubuntu plus AIGLX to achieve this; the other way to do this would be to use the closed-source ATI driver together with XGL which seems to be a bit unstable.
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Displaying "MyComputer", "Trash", "Network Servers" Icons On A GNOME Desktop
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop • Comments: 3Displaying "MyComputer", "Trash", "Network Servers" Icons On A GNOME Desktop This short guide describes how you can configure your GNOME desktop to display various icons such as My Computer, Network Servers, Trash, etc. on the desktop. By default, these items are placed on one of the panels (Trash) or hidden in the Places menu. Having these icons on the desktop is useful if you switch from a Windows desktop to a GNOME desktop and are used to having them on the desktop.
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Opening Files With A Single Click Instead Of A Double Click In GNOME
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop • Comments: 2Opening Files With A Single Click Instead Of A Double Click In GNOME This short guide describes how you can configure your GNOME desktop so that you can open files and directories with a single mouseclick instead of a double click. This is helpful if you switch from Windows to Linux and used to open files and directories with a single click on your Windows desktop, too.
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Importing Outlook Express Emails Into Thunderbird And Evolution
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, email • Comments: 11Importing Outlook Express Emails Into Thunderbird And Evolution This tutorial shows how you can import Outlook Express emails, contacts, and account settings into Mozilla Thunderbird and Evolution. This is quite useful if you want to switch from Windows to Linux but don't want to lose your mails and address book. The procedure should be similar if you use Outlook instead of Outlook Express.
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Displaying Weather And System Information On A GNOME Desktop With gDesklets
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 5Displaying Weather And System Information On A GNOME Desktop With gDesklets This tutorial shows how you can display weather forecasts, system information like CPU and memory usage, news feeds, music player controls, etc. on a GNOME desktop with gDesklets. gDesklets is a programm that can place small desktop widgets on top of the user's desktop.
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How To Use NTFS Drives/Partitions Under Ubuntu Edgy Eft
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 2How To Use NTFS Drives/Partitions Under Ubuntu Edgy Eft Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows how to install and use ntfs-3g on a Ubuntu Edgy Eft desktop to read from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions. It covers the usage of internal NTFS partitions (e.g. in a dual-boot environment) and of external USB NTFS drives.
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Installing The Aptana AJAX Development Environment On Ubuntu
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, programming, ubuntu • Comments: 1Installing The Aptana AJAX Development Environment On Ubuntu This tutorial shows how to install the Aptana IDE on an Ubuntu Edgy Eft system. The Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code.
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The Perfect Desktop - Part 3: Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 The Perfect Desktop - Part 3: Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the third in a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that runs also on older hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
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The Perfect Desktop - Part 2: Mandriva Free 2007
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, mandriva •
Comments: 2 The Perfect Desktop - Part 2: Mandriva Free 2007 With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the second in a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Mandriva Free 2007 in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
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The Perfect Desktop - Part 1: Fedora Core 6
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 1 The Perfect Desktop - Part 1: Fedora Core 6 With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the first of a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Fedora Core 6 in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
