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How Desktop Environment Tweaking Helps Me Be More Productive
A few months ago, someone asked about whether the rices*/modifications/tweaks people displayed on reddit.com/r/unixporn (where people show off their desktops, not human pornography) were actually useful. Someone commented they’d like to see a post on how someone uses their mods. So I decided to write this up. *I know the term ricing could be considered…
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Does CentOS 7 Make a good Desktop distro?
People often recommend using CentOS for your desktop machine if you find Fedora’s pace to be too fast. Does this even make sense? I decided to explore the idea of CentOS 7 as a desktop computer using my wife’s requirements as the benchmark. Why? Because my wife likes long term support distros. What’s more long…
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My First Attempt at Customizing my Fedora 22 KDE 5 Plasma Desktop 5
So I found out today that there is no way to re-enable different backgrounds and plasmoids per virtual desktop. It appears to be a mix of forcing people to finally use activities and a complication that was causing all kinds of bugs (according to their bugzilla). I was bummed for about an hour. The different…
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My Main Linux Activity Desktops
I just updated the Desktop Screenshot page. Here’s a gallery of my latest desktop with KDE 4:
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Year of the Linux Desktop? For Real this time!
I still really love using Linux, but I don’t follow the Linux press like I used to. I’ve settled into a comfortable zone where I only follow Fedora and KDE news since that’s what I use. But I followed it very closely for nearly 10 years. Every year there’d be multiple articles asking whether this…
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December Desktop Background
Just click on the image. Then right-click and set as desktop background or save it to your computer and use your OS’s methods for setting the background.
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November’s Desktop Calendar
Click on the image and the right-click and either set as desktop or save it to your computer and use the OS’s background feature.
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Oct 2011 Desktop Background
I forgot about this little project for a while, but I remembered in time to make October’s background. I’ve decided to stop making the square versions of the background. If I get enough people who actually want it, I’ll reinstate it. To set as your background, click on it then right-click and set as desktop.…
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July 2011 Desktop Background
Here are your new desktop backgrounds for July 2011! Just click on the one that matches your monitor type and then either right-click and set as desktop or save it to your computer and save it as your desktop manually.
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June 2011 Desktop Calendar
Here are some desktop background calendars for June 2011! Just click on the image and then set it as your background.
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March 2011 Desktop Background Calendar
This is Sandy, a jackass penguin. They are originally from South Africa, but her parents are at the Baltimore Zoo. Click on the desktop you want and then right-click and select “set as desktop background”. If you don’t have that option, save-as to your computer and then set it manually.
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February Desktop Background
Here’s the background for February. A little shoutout to my alma mater. Click on the image and then right click to set as your desktop or save to your computer to manually set to the desktop.
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January 2011 Desktop Background Calendar
Here’s your calendar for January 2011. It’s a goose getting dry on top of a shelf of ice on a lake that was partially frozen over. Click on the image you want then right-click to set it as your background or save it to your computer and then set it that way. For Square Monitors:…
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December Desktop Background
Here’s the desktop background for December. I know it’s Western-centric – perhaps next year will be more neutral. To use as your background just left-click on the appropriate image for your monitor size. Then right-click on the image and your browser will probably have an option called “set as desktop background”. If it doesn’t, you…
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The State of Desktop Search on Linux
Desktop search is one of those techs that keeps coming back and never really sticking. At least that’s how it seems to me. Look at how giddy I was about Beagle back in 2006. And I tried it and it was, generally, pretty awesome. It really worked well. It was like the speed of locate…