I hit a snag recently when installing Openbox on the newest Alpha2 for Unity Linux. I initiated Conky in my autostart.sh and it was always on top…of everything on my desktop. That’s not a good thing when you’re trying to browse the web with your Conky layout on top of your browser. After thinking about some of the setting [...]
Conky Always on Top Fix in Openbox
I hit a snag recently when installing Openbox on the newest Alpha2 for Unity Linux. I initiated Conky in my autostart.sh and it was always on top…of everything on my desktop. That’s not a good thing when you’re trying to browse the web with your Conky layout on top of your browser. After thinking about some of the setting [...]
Mozilla Firefox, From Darling to Enem...
What is wrong with everyone in Linux land bagging on Mozilla Firefox and their 5.0 release?
Complaints pretty much have one thing in common: They claim there isn’t enough ‘new and shiny’ things inside FF5 to warrant a major version. This is illogical thinking because major version means NOTHING when it comes to usability o [...]
Some Random Helpful Hints
I’ve been slowly collecting a few commands that are useful to me for various things while using Linux. I figured that I would share some of these handy commands. In no particular order, they are:
To copy, preserving permissions AND structure AND recursively, from a remote system to your local system:
rsync -r -a -v -e ssh server1.addr [...]
Radio Tray – A Radio Player That Fits...
Radio Tray is a very simple application that plays your favourite radio stations and it does so from the system tray, meaning any station you want to listen to is only two clicks away. Naturally you’ll need to add your favorite streams to this program before it will actually be useful. Most websites offering streaming will give you access to [...]
Install Firefox 4 on Linux Mint Debia...
I am testing out Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) and wanted to benefit from Firefox 4 and all its speediness. It’s not available in the repositories and since LMDE uses Firefox and NOT Iceweasel, you really can’t install it from the Mozilla Debian repository. So, I decided to manually install things.
Normally I don’t like [...]
Back to the Basics with Debian
Sometimes, you just have so many problems with the distribution you’re running that you have to wipe it out with a clean slate. I did that this past week and am now using Debian.
With using Debian there comes a feeling of being back to the very basic of Linux distros…much in the same way when you use Arch…it just feels plai [...]