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Going fast with DWM

Mike Diehl — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0000

If there was any justice in this world, there would be two cars parked in my driveway. One would be a 1977 Ferrari 308 GTS. The other would be a midnight blue BMW M3 convertible with all the amenities. I'd want the leather seats and power everything. more>>

Bash Co-Processes

Mitch Frazier — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0000

One of the new features in bash 4.0 is the coproc statement. The coproc statement allows you to create a co-process that is connected to the invoking shell via two pipes: one to send input to the co-process and one to get output from the co-process. more>>

IRC, Still the Best Support Around

Shawn Powers — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:00:00 +0000

If you haven't gotten our subtle hints during the past year or so, IRC certainly is not dead. It really is the best way to get knowledgeable support from the folks who know best. There are a few caveats, however, that may not be obvious to people new to this old-school chat protocol.

Get a Good Client more>>

Resetting Gnome’s Settings in Ubuntu

Zach Schneider — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:00:00 +0000

One of the great things about Linux is how easy it is to customize. Now unfortunately if you don't know what you're doing and sometimes even if you do know what you're doing, you can get into trouble. more>>

Guerrilla Tactics to Force Screen Mode in Ubuntu

Michael Reed — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:06:51 +0000

Readers of my previous posts will know about the bad luck I've had when it comes to getting the screen setup on Linux, particularly with Ubuntu Linux. It's a particularly annoying problem when the hardware detection goes wrong and one is presented with a list of unsuitable screen modes. more>>

OpenOffice.org Resource Files

Bruce Byfield — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Most users interact with OpenOffice.org on the desktop. But what if you need to do a selective restore on the files that store custom gradients or colors? Troubleshoot why an extension won't install? Share resources with other users? For these kinds of tasks, you need to know a bit about where OpenOffice.org stores its files, and what you can do with them. more>>

Start and Control konsole with DBUS

Mitch Frazier — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:41:05 +0000

Some time back I wrote about creating a number of konsoles automatically using dcop. Although we were at the time well into the KDE4 era I had not yet upgraded since there were still things that weren't quite working with KDE4, most of these have now been fixed so I've upgraded some of my systems to KDE4, which means it's time to update the original code to now use dbus. more>>

Tech Tip: Use gxmessage for Displaying GUI Messages from Scripts

Kris Occhipinti — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:10:23 +0000

There are many dialog programs out there, Zenity, Kdialog, xdialog, etc. I love programs like these. They make it so easy to spice up a shell script with a little GUI action. Today I'm going to go look at a dialog program called gxmessage. more>>