Posted by admin on 7th September 2008
Alltray is a free opensource tool to dock any application with no native tray icon (like Evolution, evoluThunderbird, Terminals) into the system tray. A high-light feature is that a click on the ‘close’ button will minimize back to system tray. It works well with Gnome, KDE, XFCE 4, Fluxbox and WindowMaker.
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Posted by admin on 5th August 2008
Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python) that can be described as “the virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk”. Sticknotes, clocks, rulers, youtube, gmail and more. Screenlets are free opensource software released under GPL License. Screenlets use GTK2 & Cairo for drawing and windowing. The goal of the Screenlets base-classes is to simplify the creation of fully themeable mini-apps that each solve basic desktop-work-related needs and generally improve the usability and eye-candy of the modern composited Linux-desktop.
screenlets are easy to use and there are hundreds of free screenlets avaialble for download.
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Posted by admin on 16th July 2008
iwlist command in Linux is used to extract more detailed information from a Wireless Network interface which may not be available from running the iwconfig command. This includes detailed information on available Wireless networks, Frequencies supported, power management support, Encryption key sizes supported, WPA keys configured on the device etc.
The general syntax is
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Posted by admin on 16th July 2008
Iwconfig like ifconfig is a Wireless interface configuration utility in Linux.It is used to set the parameters of the network interface which are specific to the wireless operation. Iwconfig may also be used to display the parameters and the wireless statistics. iwconfig extracts these information from /proc/net/wireless file.
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Posted by admin on 16th July 2008
In openSUSE or SUSE Linux 64 bit installations on supported AMD / Intel hardware, sometimes when installing a software from source and running the configure script, you may end up with the error:
checking for Qt… configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support!
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