Running Compiz Fusion
I made the switch from Beryl to Compiz-Fusion just now. Overall I like the fact that I have some of my favorite Beryl plugins in Compiz and that there is finally a Compiz Settings Manager so that I can easily set up the plugins to my liking.
Customizing Your Gnome Desktop: Buttons & Windows Borders
Not in Linux, and more specifically not in Gnome (our focus). On a Linux desktop, you will find that you can completely customize the appearance of your desktop to your liking and while some of the cooler looking effects take some practice and a lot of reading (stuff we will not be going over here), you can make your Linux desktop resemble Windows or OSX, while at the same time you can make it completely original.
Linux/Windows Haters
You have the Linux crowd that hates anything to do with Windows and believes that everyone should be using Linux. You Windows users who ask “why would you need something like Linux?” Then you have the OSX folks who just wonder what all the arguing is about in the first place. Why can some people not accept the fact that different people like to use different operating systems to be productive. Some are just more productive on a non-Windows machine. Some people like OSX because it is easier for them to use in their day to day life.
Customizing Your Gnome Desktop: Wallpaper
This week during our “Customizing Your Gnome Desktop” series, we are going to look at customizing your desktop background, better known as the wallpaper. This is probably the easiest thing to customize on a Gnome (or Linux) desktop. It is about the same level of simplicity that is required to change the desktop wallpaper in Windows.
Customizing Your Gnome Desktop (Indroduction)
The Linux desktop is becoming more popular everyday. One of the great advantages of the Linux desktop is that you can customize to your liking, sometimes changing the look to be nothing that resembles what you started with.
Microsoft vs. Linux vs. Patent Office
If you roll web browser over to the ever so wonderful Digg.com website, you’ll probably notice a lot of talk about Linux, Microsoft, and patents. The basic argument rolls down to this,
Microsoft: Linux violates some of our patents.
Linux Folk: Show us the offending code.
Microsoft: No, but we’re not going to sue you anyway so [...]
I Was Going to Switch to Compiz But…
I was going to switch from Beryl to Compiz today. The reason being because Beryl was originally a fork of Compiz and they are now merging the Beryl stuff back into Compiz. Downside is though, while Compiz might be more the more stable of the two, it is the most difficult to set up and [...]
F-Spot, Cooler Than I Thought
Last night I discovered that I can upload photos to my image gallery via F-Spot. F-Spot is a photo management program for Linux. I think that the interface is based heavily on Google’s Picasa program. It’s written in C# and runs under Mono.