fvwm Look and Feel, icons and themes

2010-04-27 1 min read Linux

I am liking fvwm more and more. Rather I went ahead to get the themes and icons for fvwm and am quite happy with the amount of customization I can do with the WM. So, I found the themes page for the fvwm which gives about 27 themes and all of them look quite cool.

You can choose to have the gnome and the KDE menu in your fvwm menu which is built dynamically. Decide on when the window should become active and things like Animation, Auto Raise, Banner and the list continues and you dont have to search anything to do any of those. The <a href="http://fvwm-themes.sourceforge.net/doc/FAQ" target="_blank">FAQ is a good resource to start.

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How To Modify Your Wordpress Theme Via The Browser Using Stiqr

2010-04-27 6 min read Learning Uncategorized

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<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/00_Stiqr_logo.jpg" alt="00_Stiqr_logo.jpg" width="253" height="114" align="bottom" />Ordinary <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-build-a-self-hosted-wordpress-blog-for-free/">self-hosted WordPress users know only too well that even though choosing and using thousands of available themes is a snap, creating one is an almost impossible task. You could use <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/customize-design-wordpress-theme-easily-constructor/">one of the customizable themes to modify the look to your liking, but that’s as far as you can go. Theme creating is not for the faint-hearted who are afraid to plunge into <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/html" title="HTML" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML">HTML, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/php" title="PHP" rel="homepage" href="http://www.php.net/">PHP and <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cascading_style_sheets" title="Cascading Style Sheets" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets">CSS coding.

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Upgrade to Fedora 13 from your existing version using yum.

2010-04-21 1 min read Fedora Uncategorized

Well. this time it seems to be very simple :

yum –releasever=13 upgrade

update 22/April/2010:
The key file will not be there so there are two options for you in this case:

  1. Install the following rpms from the downloaded rpms with &#8221;yum –nogpg localinstall&#8221;
    a) fedora-release
    b) fedora-release-notes
  2. Run the whole upgrade with –nogpg option.

Issue observed after the upgrade:
The new kernel was not added in the grub menu and I had to manually add the below entry in the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/gnu_grub" title="GNU GRUB" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/">menu.lst file:

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Liquid rescale and remove objects from the images.

2010-04-12 1 min read Fedora Photo

Ever wanted to remove some unwanted object from an image. Wonder how many thinkgs you have to do, clone and delete and what not:)

There is a simpler way, just paint it in foreground color. Does that sound ridiculous, not any more with Liquid Rescale. First install the plugin for liquid rescale for gimp.

yum install gimp-lqr-plugin

Now, just follow simple instructions below:

  1. in the menu, choose Layer and then Liquid Rescale
  2. click on the New button in the Discard features section on the right: a new layer will be created
  3. put the plugin window on one side of the screen without closing it, and go back to work on the gimp main windows
  4. choose the paint tool and paint over the area you wish to remove
  5. go back to the plugin window
  6. click the Refresh button at the bottom: you should see your discard mask appear in the preview
  7. optionally, in the Mode box on the left choose Lqr + scale back or Lqr + Lqr back
  8. click the Auto size button at the bottom of the Discard features section (optionally choose the scaling direction in the box at the side of the button before clicking it).
  9. click OK

Could it get any simpler.

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