gnome-tweak-tool gets a fantastic new Font Selector window

2011-10-27 1 min read Fedora
Here is the quick look at how the Font Selector looks like now. And its not just for the gnome-tweak-tool, its for all the places for font selection. I really loved it. So intuitive to use and amazingly good to look. This is what a good design and thinking can do. Kudos to Gnome team for coming up with this. [][1]Font Selector for Verne Related articles Cum instalam interfata Gnome 3 in Linux Ubuntu 11. Continue reading

sakura – Reaaly good terminal with very few dependencies.

2011-03-30 1 min read Fedora Uncategorized
I was searching for something in the Fedora repos and found a really good terminal, sakura. Its very much like Gnome-terminal. I did not find much difference other than using less memory. To install: 1 <td> <div class="text codecolorer"> sudo yum install sakura </div> </td> </tr> and the details of the package: Name : sakura Arch : i686 Version : 2.3.8 Release : 1.fc14 Size : 137 k Repo : installed From repo : fedora Summary : Terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE URL : http://pleyades. Continue reading

Typing the current date automaticly in any application with a key binding.

2010-07-20 1 min read Linux
$ xvkbd -xsendevent -text $(date +%Y%m%d) I don&#8217;t want to waste time to all the time type the current date. I have set this snippet in my kde shortcuts with meta+l. All the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/window_manager" title="Window manager" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager">window managers have <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/keyboard_shortcut" title="Keyboard shortcut" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_shortcut">key-bindings AFAIK. That works in all softs, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/command_line_interface" title="Command-line interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface">CLI or <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/graphical_user_interface" title="Graphical user interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en. Continue reading