Add a image to the list of background files in gnome

2010-03-23 1 min read Fedora GNOME Photo

In Gnome, when you right click on the desktop background you will get a menu for ”Change Desktop backgound. The images displayed in this menu are quite a few but if you want to add your own (read: more than some 5-6 files) then it takes really some time in using the GUI to add them. And if you want to add a few 10’s of file, like say 50 then you are done.

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unbound variable – bash completion not working and having issues with other stuff like command not found.

2010-03-23 1 min read Bash Learning Linux

I generally use vi/vim for all my practical purposes of working with text files. And I have all the vi/vim plugins required to work with the files. This causes the following to be in the skeleton for all the bash scripts that I create:

set -o nounset                              # Treat unset variables as an error

With this all the unbound variables as errors and was problem with all the shell scripts that was being sourced in the startup of bash. So all I had to do was remove this from all the startup scripts and then from the skeleton of the bash script in vim :).

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Just days wait to a great operating system.

2010-03-22 1 min read Fedora Linux

Was thinking about writing this for some time now.. but guess someone already did that <a href="http://www.junauza.com/2009/05/fedora-11-leonidas-is-almost-ready-to.html" target="_blank">here.

To get the list of features you can check out this <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList" target="_blank">page.

Here is a brief from the page:<table border="0">A simple, modular system service to manage devices and designed to partially replace

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More windows Microsoft like openoffice and keet it working.

2010-03-22 2 min read Fedora Linux

Some people say that <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank">OpenOffice doesn&#8217;t completely suit their requirement as compared to the Microsoft Office. Though most of the times I do not have that problem 🙂 But there are still couple of things that do not work with OO seamlessly and thus if you want better OO (with respect to working with MS files more seamlessly) here&#8217;s something worth a try.

You can try the <a href="http://go-oo.org/" target="_blank">go-oo OO.

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Useless Linux Terminal Commands

2010-03-21 1 min read Bash Linux

Useless Linux Terminal Commands Not long ago, I have listed here some useful Linux terminal commands and those that I described as deadly. This time, I decided to gather some commands that I think have no practical use. I know it sounds interesting but you may disagree with me on some of the commands that I&#8217;ll list here as you may find a few of them useful. We can however agree to disagree as long as you explain to us why or how you find them handy.

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