Category: desktop

This may be required to have your chat and mail windows on every desktop in KDE. One example can be for Gaim: Right click on the window titleAdvanced -> Special Window SettingsSelect “Use window class (whole application)” and click OKSelect tab: Geometry Check “Desktop” Select “Apply Initially” Select “All Desktops”Restart the application and see.. The…

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All configuration done on detected DeskJet 610C printer attached to parallel port 0.dmesg detects the printer properly and all seems fine with CUPS. But nothing is printed via CUPS. Checking the /var/log/cups/error_log: I [15/Apr/2006:16:03:42 +0300] Job 1 queued on ‘DeskJet-610C’ by ‘…..’.I [15/Apr/2006:16:03:42 +0300] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 16099) for job 1.I [15/Apr/2006:16:03:42 +0300] Started…

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Decided to try to access my GMail using mutt .. A good .muttrc configuration does the mail fetch trick.. I’ll add the details later. On Debian we have exim4 can be used synonymously as sendmail .. The sendmail part is a little bit tricky. Some tls and auth settings in exim4 configuration and still I…

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Use OpenOffice (2.0.2 that I have).. And never use the *.doc format again. Native formats like *.odt rocks. 2.2 is way way better..

I have Firefox 1.5.0.1, Thunderbird 1.5, and gaim-1.5.0-12.el4 on RHEL4 AS on x86. All of those was hanging when a file dialog was involvedand the file dialog was never been displayed. The RHEL4 Update 3provided gnome-vfs2-2.8.2-8.2.. This was experiencing the problem,force upgrading to gnome-vfs2-2.10.0-5 fixed it Ooops .. That was fine until I rebooted by…

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