What I don’t like about Gnome 3 desktop is how it hides everything from you under multiple layers of mouse clicks in order to try to simplify. But what it does is over categorize everything! This would work just fine on a tablet pc, but I’m on a desktop or full laptop and I consider myself a power user!

In order from most to least important: It works. It’s free. It’s easy to configure. What more could you ask? There’s even a config generator. Here’s the list of packages required to build on Fedora 12

With one host connecting and launching dbus sessions, this should work. You can get the variable from running sessions in /proc/ /environ. But as soon as you have multiple hosts, you need to figure out which host you’re coming from.

Perhaps you don’t have iptables running or you don’t want to process icmp stuff in your firewall rules. Echo this as root, and it will take effect immediately. If you’re wondering if changing things like this, tcp timeouts, and open ports will trick nmap fingerprint scanning, the answer is no.

Here’s a quick way to show all available video modes available with your current combination of video driver and physical displays. If you’re hand tweaking /etc/X11/xorg.conf to your liking, you should avoid listing display dimensions that your system doesn’t support. This little tool will let you know exactly what’s available.

Animated aquariums are nice and all, but how about an animated ascii art aquarium? Bonus points for embedding your aquarium into your desktop!

If you want to select a range of lines from a file, look no farther than your handy ’sed’ utility. It is by definition, the perfect tool for the job!

The easiest fix is to fix the permissions or delete the .dbus directory from your home directory. If this doesn’t work, run the offending application with dbus-launch which forces a new dbus session bus to spawn for this application. Don’t skip the option or you’ll end up with multiple dbus sessions left running in no time.

The biggest reasons seem to be stability and performance utilizing some features of OpenGL. It’s about time someone takes the big leap and wrangles the X monster. If you were to start from scratch right now, designing GNOME, KDE, XFCE, etc., all without Xorg’s quirks and limitations, would it come out the same? I don’t think so.

Custom RPM repositories may modify comps.xml to include custom rpms, rebuilt packages, or ports. Existing Existing groups can be modified or you can create new groups entirely. Packages can install by default, optional, mandatory, or conditional.