InsanityWeTrust » Linux http://www.insanitywetrust.net/blog Insanity is a frame of mind. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:41:56 +0000 en hourly 1 Announcing Linuxophile! http://www.insanitywetrust.net/blog/announcing-linuxophile/ http://www.insanitywetrust.net/blog/announcing-linuxophile/#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:33:59 +0000 Raghunath http://www.insanitywetrust.net/blog/announcing-linuxophile/ Just wanted to make a quick and happy announcement that my new site: Linuxophile is ready and up now. I shall be constantly updating all Linux related news, tips and other cool stuff out there from now on, although I probably won’t be able to resist the temptation of posting a couple of them out here from time to time :)

So here we go: http://www.linuxophile.com/ for all your Linux related needs :)

Do let me know what you like or not like about the site, what can be improved, etc.

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Don’t believe me? Prashanth Ellina tells you how!

Here are the instructions available on his website:

    To stop Nautilus for drawing the desktop by default:
    gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false
    Get the xscreensaver (matrix in this case) to draw itself on the desktop
    /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -root
    You can also get the animation working everytime u log in by typing the following instructions:
    vi ~/.config/autostart/glmatrix.desktop - use your favorite text editor to open the file
    [Desktop Entry]
    Version=1.0
    Encoding=UTF-8
    Name=No name
    Name[en_IN]=Desktop matrix
    Exec=/usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -root
    X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
    If you want to revert to your old desktop setting:
    gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop true && nautilus
    Awesome Tip! Major Thanks to Prashanth for putting up the original article
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I am running Ubuntu Dapper on my system here, so use the app manager that your flavour comes with :) So here is how to do this …

Just in case of a snafu, back up your /etc/fonts/ folder
Run the following command sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts.
Download the following: http://localhostr.com/files/f1f6f300383aa38e236c.tbz
Extract all the files into the “/etc/fonts” folder – don’t know how to do this? – Here you go:
sudo tar xvjpf fontconfig.tbz -C /etc/fonts/

and you are done!!

Hope this was atleast a little helpful. Let me know if there is anything else that u might want to know…

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