I have been giving Bodhi Linux a lot of love lately. You can see my articles here (“Adding Visual Effects on Bodhi Linux” and “Bodhi Linux: Enlightened Ubuntu“). One of the main reasons I like Bodhi so much is the Enlightenment desktop. Not only is it a lightweight desktop, it’s also one of the most [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software, Uncategorized

So you’ve followed the latest series on KDE 4.5 (see Ghacks KDE 4.5 content) and you are now using the spectacular latest release from the KDE team. You want to use Compiz, but quickly realize that it is not necessary as KDE has it’s own built-in compositing effects. What you will find is that the [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Security

Recently I had a request to illustrate how I managed to get a particular theme working in GNOME. The article referenced was my article on “What will Ubuntu 10.04 bring to the table“. The image in that article was using a number of cool tricks to get the look they had. So I thought I [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

So you’re enjoy the series on Xfce4. What’s more, you’re enjoying Xfce4 itself! It’s a fantastic desktop environment that should get far more attention than it does. And because Xfce 4 is so lightweight, you might get the idea that you could easily add more to it and hardly feel the hit. You are very [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

There was talk, some time prior to the release of 10.04, that RGBA support would be included in the release. Well, it wasn’t (much to the chagrin of many – including myself). That doesn’t mean it can’t be done. In fact, it can and it’s not all that difficult. There are a few bugs lingering, [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Advanced

If you’ve read me long enough, you know I like my eye candy. And one of my favorite bits of eye candy is Compiz (check out all the Compiz-related content here on Ghacks). And although Compiz can really saturate your desktop with 3D effects, it doesn’t actually offer anything within the applications themselves. Fortunately there [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Firefox, Linux, Mac, Software, Tutorials Basic, Windows

For those of you who are lucky enough to have the Elive distribution running on your desktop you  might have noticed there is no CCSM (Compiz Config  Settings Manager). At least not that you can find. You can’t run the command ccsm and you can’t install the application ccsm. At one point Elive had a [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Have you ever used the Linux pager? If you’ve not you might want to read my article “Get to know Linux: The pager“. The KDE 4.4 pager is, as the above article will agree to, a very handy tool – and one you shouldn’t ignore. Not only can it make your life much more organized, [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

If you read my most recent article (“Upgrading to KDE 4.3.5 and should you“) you will have noticed two things: 1) I am behind by one release on my KDE updates ;-) and 2) KDE has come a long, long way since 4.2. For the longest time one of the reasons I didn’t use KDE [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic