The only problem i’ve had with LXDE and Mint is that running as a guest in VirtualBox, the guest additions will not install properly. I tried mounting the additions from the host and installing them, no dice. I tried installing from the software repositories using the aptitude update manager, no dice. So it didn’t work out of the box for me, but a quick recompile did the trick. No moving around files or manipulating configurations are necessary, just recompile for the running kernel and you’re in business.

You put a quarter in at the top, and it falls onto a tray that pushes a pile of coins toward you. Any coins that fall off the front of the machine are yours to keep. Sometimes you’ll find other prizes interspersed among the coins.

Create a simple class of dictionaries to make a dictionary of dictionaries. No need for generators, iterators or lambdas. Use a deck of cards for example.

The structure for graphics drivers changed completely from Windows XP To Vista. So forget your video card. You might have the latest and greatest money pit of a video card, but it still won’t run Battlefield 3.

There are multiple ways to do it. Some are platform dependent.The best way is probably through socket, but you can use platform and os too.

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Keeping a dictionary of treerowreferences is the way to go. It makes keeping track of rows a breeze. You don’t have to worry about row locations changing over time as the treerowref keeps track of that automatically.
When you add a parent row to a treestore you get an iterator returned. …

If you want to set a cell to a pixmap, ok no problem, but what about setting individual liststore values to a pixmap? You can’t do it directly unless you’re using a gtk.STOCK_ image. Here’s a way around that little problem.

You don’t need heavyweight communication layers for very simple message passing between threads in python. It’s pretty simple to use pipes and implement your own thread class.

If you like the standard window decorations and dont need/want to create your own buttons to handle custom events, closing a dialog without destroying it is a simple one-liner in pygtk. This is helpful when you have logic that replaces individual widgets inside a dialog and you don’t want to recreate the whole dialog.