TimburyDotOrg is owned and operated by Timbury Computer Services. For over ten years, Timbury Computer Services has shown home, small business and corporate clients how to use Linux and Open Source software to maximize efficiency and lower costs.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 tr…
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 t…
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 ins…
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>>
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.
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