Setting the default printer under GNOME
This article was first written in June 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/135). To change the default printer when using GNOME, it is pretty easy, provided...
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This article was first written in November 2005 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/303). GAP, alias the GNOME Advanced Preferences. Pessulus, a lockdown editor...
View ArticleHOWTO Automatically clean thumbnails generated by Nautilus
This article is incomplete and was first written in June 2006 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/338). To automatically clean the thumbnails generated by...
View ArticleGNOME 2.x Desktop
Our preferred free desktop for X (the X Window System) is the GNOME Desktop. There are actually a lot of reasons to prefer it over others [1]. Most of them are summarized here: GNOME in a nutshell and...
View ArticleUnderstanding Memory usage in GNOME
This article was first written in January 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/99) This has been originally written by Miguel de Icaza (the famous GNOME hacker...
View ArticleScripting GNOME configuration
This article was first written in April 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/119) GConf is GNOME’s configuration database. It provides tools for configuring...
View ArticleActivating the comma instead of the dot in OOo Calc
This article was first written in May 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/126) GNOME seems to have its own way of managing the numeric keypad, which leads to...
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