I thought I would re-visit one of my favorite topics of late, KDE 4.5. The SC has been out long enough now for some of the smaller issues to pop up and workarounds be revealed. Most of these smaller issues are, by no means, deal breakers, but some of them can be annoying. Not everyone [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Xfce Window Manager Tweaks
Lately I have been focusing on the desktop environment Xfce. NOTE: You can see all the Ghacks Xfce content here. Why have I been focusing on Xfce? It’s a very light weight desktop that you will find much faster than other Linux DEs and it’s come a long way in terms of usability and incorporating [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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A sneak peek at GNOME 3
Recently I did what every good technical writer does – spent a lot of time getting something working that has yet to be released in order to test it out and write about it. This “it” was gnome-shell. GNOME Shell will be the basis of the newest release from GNOME to arrive sometime near the [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
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Enable Composite for Window Transparency in Enlightenment
If you have played around with the Enlightenment window manager you know it is, for such a lightweight window manager, pretty impressive. But if you’ve not enabled compositing, you have yet to see how much you can do with transparency. Although compositing in Enlightenment will require the necessary hardware (a video card capable of using [...]