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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h2><span style="color: #660000;">Format Flash Or Pen Drive Using GNOME Disks on openSUSE Leap 15.2 GNOME Version 3.34.4</span></h2></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"> <span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">You can use GNOME DISKS application to format flash drive on Linux . You can use your flash drive on Windows machine(MS compatible) too by choosing FAT filesystem when formatting the drive. You can add a name or label for you drives too. Adding a drive name helps you find the correct drive if multiple drives are mounted/loaded onto your machine. The below screencast will provide a step by step process to format a USB drive on your openSUSE machine.<br /></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="322" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wJE4dgYisMQ" width="400" youtube-src-id="wJE4dgYisMQ"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-51235999320639988782020-08-15T23:32:00.001+05:302020-08-16T00:07:15.999+05:30Use your Android phone to control your Linux machine<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000;"> Use your Android phone to control your Linux machine</span></h2><p style="text-align: left;"> If you watch lot of videos on your big computer monitor by sitting at some distance away from screen, it becomes a pain to get up each time and change the videos. Sometimes i wished I had a remote control for my computer. I found that i could use a tool called <a href="http://wifimouse.necta.us" rel="external">WiFi Mouse</a> to operate my computer remotely from my phone. This post is about how i could successfully configure and use WiFi Mouse. I am using WiFi mouse on an Android phone, but according to WiFi Mouse website Apple products like Iphone and Ipad are also supported. Using WiFi Mouse i could use my phone as mouse as well as keyboard for my computer. The user interface of WiFi Mouse is pretty intuitive and easy to use. The only issue i found is that it is not supporting letters in CAPS when using keyboard mode on the App.<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000;">Steps to configure Android phone as remote control / remote mouse for your Linux machine</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Ensure that both the computer and phone are connected to the same network. My phone is on wifi and Linux system is connected to the LAN port on the same router. The router must always be "ON" for using the tool.<br /></li><li>Download <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.necta.wifimousefree&hl=en_US" rel="external">WiFi Mouse App</a> on your Android phone. </li><li>Install Mouse Server on Linux machine. My machine architecture is 64 bit and i use openSUSE and hence I downloaded and installed <a href="http://wifimouse.necta.us/apk/mouseserver-64.rpm" rel="external">this rpm</a>. You can check about Linux architecture using <a href="https://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/01/32-bit-vs-64-bit-os-architecture-in.html" rel="external">this post</a>. You can create a local repo and install rpms using <a href="https://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/03/yast-software-installer-software.html" rel="external">this post</a>. <br /></li><li>Restart the Linux machine to ensure that Mouse Server has started up .</li><li>Open TCP port 1978 on the Linux Firewall. Check out <a href="https://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2020/08/open-tcp-port-on-opensuse-firewall.html" rel="external">this post</a> for opening firewall. </li><li>Now open the Wifi Mouse App on your phone. It will automatically show your computer / Linux machine if the Mouse Server is already running.<br /></li></ul><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;">Default Screen when you open in WiFi Mouse on phone. </span><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXVUrafPBhYdb1Uds-vgpZUuKzz1pvl0p1H8MkT3DdQtM_cIVZFJ11rLR0yNqh6QQWzwEg2H6ujwvoq4EdfkyJ0cucZpr68WreKNbyJjHXyJKdtalv4sgB5yhVGXwL1JuALaKVwcqDJlE/s1920/Default_Wifi_Mouse_Screen.png" rel="external" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXVUrafPBhYdb1Uds-vgpZUuKzz1pvl0p1H8MkT3DdQtM_cIVZFJ11rLR0yNqh6QQWzwEg2H6ujwvoq4EdfkyJ0cucZpr68WreKNbyJjHXyJKdtalv4sgB5yhVGXwL1JuALaKVwcqDJlE/w225-h400/Default_Wifi_Mouse_Screen.png" width="225" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;">Denied Access Error if Firewall is not configured Correctly</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;">(Failed to Connect:localhost)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBtxe-uo-46MSUSZg15432gKXZ-fE4F6sY1URoGGtnv-7B84KM6nWlGWY1vQqz8nYTKOVT9F7F0-k4q2CqGvjGaGkubZ2hgwPVwwEkq1ApRkR7yx0dyJWuaigA-gOMDldifU8k4kXagcc/s1920/Wifi_Mouse_Error_Port_not_Open.png" rel="external" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBtxe-uo-46MSUSZg15432gKXZ-fE4F6sY1URoGGtnv-7B84KM6nWlGWY1vQqz8nYTKOVT9F7F0-k4q2CqGvjGaGkubZ2hgwPVwwEkq1ApRkR7yx0dyJWuaigA-gOMDldifU8k4kXagcc/w225-h400/Wifi_Mouse_Error_Port_not_Open.png" width="225" /></a><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;">Screenshot of WiFi Mouse After Successfully connecting to Linux Machine </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXRu0lY38fZK_z90zeY1MhuxrtbeAzgJ5hUqVtG8TM4AkJ4sEEA3-NasyGWYrx8myL6xWybNN12Y8nFyhFJ6XOBk2G80M7tPp24eEIqB6yGB6U8P_uEYg83fWvM5TvwoUjCj_d6IUjSjQ/s1920/Wifi_Mouse_Screen_Sucessfully_Connected.png" rel="external" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXRu0lY38fZK_z90zeY1MhuxrtbeAzgJ5hUqVtG8TM4AkJ4sEEA3-NasyGWYrx8myL6xWybNN12Y8nFyhFJ6XOBk2G80M7tPp24eEIqB6yGB6U8P_uEYg83fWvM5TvwoUjCj_d6IUjSjQ/w225-h400/Wifi_Mouse_Screen_Sucessfully_Connected.png" width="225" /></a><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000;">Note</span>:- Solution tested on openSUSE Leap 15.2, GNOME SHELL VERSION 3.34.4</p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-27227576339367982722020-08-15T20:23:00.007+05:302022-07-19T09:35:04.122+05:30Open TCP Port on openSUSE Firewall<div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;">Open TCP Port on openSUSE Firewall</span></h2><p style="text-align: left;"> In this post i will show how to open a firewall on openSUSE and ensure that the setting is made permanent. I will now open terminal on GNOME and open TCP port 1978</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000;">Opening Port using GNOME TERMINAL<br /></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #660000;">Command to add port to</span><br /></p><code class="colorMycode">sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=1978/tcp</code><br /><p></p><p><span style="color: #660000;">Command to keep the port open permanently </span><br /><code class="colorMycode">sudo firewall-cmd --runtime-to-permanent</code><br /></p><p><span style="color: #660000;">Remove open Port</span><br /><code class="colorMycode">sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --remove-port=1978/tcp</code><br /></p><p><span style="color: #660000;">Error that you will see if we try to re-open an Open Port</span><br /><code class="colorMycode">opensuseleap@localhost:~> sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=1978/tcp<br />[sudo] password for root: <br />Warning: ALREADY_ENABLED: '1978:tcp' already in 'public'<br />success</code></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"> GNOME terminal showing addition of port 1978 on openSUSE 15.2</span><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ6OSJA0tc7Rs_08ntGkU-MFHchcdW9osDOE1Dti_mZ1OkqX0BiOjON59xEPi-29MfsKNV__xge6J-JLJ0Sx1VacrBm9ogxyWQN0t9kSpX2PKC7XlaTC5POnjLZ6-TjjzSMSJsWW3WLbw/s706/Gnome_Terminal_Open_Firewall.png" rel="external" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="706" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ6OSJA0tc7Rs_08ntGkU-MFHchcdW9osDOE1Dti_mZ1OkqX0BiOjON59xEPi-29MfsKNV__xge6J-JLJ0Sx1VacrBm9ogxyWQN0t9kSpX2PKC7XlaTC5POnjLZ6-TjjzSMSJsWW3WLbw/w400-h302/Gnome_Terminal_Open_Firewall.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000;">Opening Port using YAST / GUI</span></h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: black;">Search for firewall in GNOME Shell Activities</span></li><li><span style="color: black;">Click and open Firewall tool </span></li><li><span style="color: black;">Provide password</span></li><li><span style="color: black;">In the firewall tool<br /></span></li><ul><li><span style="color: black;">Click on "public" Zone in the left pane</span></li><li><span style="color: black;">Then Click on "Ports" tab to open ports</span></li><li><span style="color: black;">Enter TCP Port 1978</span></li><li><span style="color: black;">Click on "Accept" button to save changes.</span></li></ul></ul></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;">GNOME Shell Activities Showing YAST Firewall</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0IjEuaF4pnLMBgb2Ee-mAJ1GJQWJlOzLtbxprK6Xz449vdautp8D7hgwT8pAbydECJtdt8nZknwvd6gcOHXQLA5Fk3VCY90-z3G-pFBq1mdxhoT0Z9rQR1KU4rZ2XRg5GbQ4B4cK_ock/s1366/Shell_Activities_Firewall_YAST.png" rel="external" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0IjEuaF4pnLMBgb2Ee-mAJ1GJQWJlOzLtbxprK6Xz449vdautp8D7hgwT8pAbydECJtdt8nZknwvd6gcOHXQLA5Fk3VCY90-z3G-pFBq1mdxhoT0Z9rQR1KU4rZ2XRg5GbQ4B4cK_ock/w400-h225/Shell_Activities_Firewall_YAST.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;">Screenshot of YAST Firewall Tool with Labels explaining A</span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: #660000;">ddition of port</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs8KodZBOme_GsDtltboaRMhaHoodd7ZOQ3ClfkIpofZYRdw8TyJBbOSJDLrWpNbQN9fnoQ7DhyBRMlYQh84WRqmnVWT8YbHkuzug9YzuUzr-FN4M0uHbO1zJ8WvvqKaQv_F1QAY1lzj0/s976/YAST_FIREWALL_ADD_PORT.png" rel="external" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="976" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs8KodZBOme_GsDtltboaRMhaHoodd7ZOQ3ClfkIpofZYRdw8TyJBbOSJDLrWpNbQN9fnoQ7DhyBRMlYQh84WRqmnVWT8YbHkuzug9YzuUzr-FN4M0uHbO1zJ8WvvqKaQv_F1QAY1lzj0/w400-h269/YAST_FIREWALL_ADD_PORT.png" width="400" /></a></div></span></div><br /><span style="color: #660000;">Refer</span>:- <a href="https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/533831-Opening-ports-in-the-new-YaST2-Firewall" rel="external">Opening Ports YaST2 Firewall</a> <br /><div><p><span style="color: #660000;">Note</span>:- Solution tested on openSUSE Leap 15.2, GNOME SHELL VERSION 3.34.4</p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-59711775174912971502020-08-14T13:21:00.009+05:302020-08-15T21:34:13.497+05:30Add a Startup sound when logging in or when machine starts up - Login Sound / Melody on Linux Desktop<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"> Add a Startup sound when logging in or when machine starts up - Login Sound / Melody on Linux Desktop </span><br /></h2><p> I was looking a way to play a sound/melody when my machine boots. I found a potential solution <a href="http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2016/09/play-login-sound-ubuntu-16-04/" rel="external">here</a>. But the "Start Up" application mentioned in the article was not available on my Gnome Shell installation. It tried various options from that web-page and ran the commands available in console / terminal. Results are as follows. </p><p><span style="color: #660000;">This solution did not work</span></p><p><code class="colorMycode">opensuseleap@localhost:~> /usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id="desktop-login" --description="GNOME Login"<br />Failed to play sound: File or data not found<br /></code></p><p><span style="color: #660000;">This solution worked</span></p><p><code class="colorMycode">
opensuseleap@localhost:~> paplay /usr/share/sounds/purple/login.wav
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<p>When i ran the above command in terminal i could hear a pleasant melody.</p><p><span style="color: #660000;">To Play sound when logging in</span><br /></p><p> I added the above command to my ~.profile file and voila . I can now hear pleasant sound when i start my machine. To open the .profile file you can press <span style="color: #660000;">ALT+F2</span> followed by typing in the text <span style="color: #660000;">~.profile </span>and then pressing Enter/Return key. Usual location of .profile file is <span style="color: #660000;">/home/<ReplaceWithUserName>/.profile</span></p><p><span style="color: #660000;">Open .profile file using Run Command Window Alt+F2<br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #660000;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5gFlt_oi9c3U4xIKxISuxFlA-Zr_fL_XZwIZfHdC_mNaaDWSxt4L0sn0ygM875xkpXZZzSfaxpbyIJLccPXKHhD0rYjK1SQ2CrjBt_nFFdLBPHelW_hxGF3_TMug8fJhd1mZ7U0IEDgw/s408/open_profile_file.png" rel="external" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5gFlt_oi9c3U4xIKxISuxFlA-Zr_fL_XZwIZfHdC_mNaaDWSxt4L0sn0ygM875xkpXZZzSfaxpbyIJLccPXKHhD0rYjK1SQ2CrjBt_nFFdLBPHelW_hxGF3_TMug8fJhd1mZ7U0IEDgw/s0/open_profile_file.png" /></a></div><span style="color: #660000;"> </span><span style="color: #660000;"></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #660000;">.profile file showing the paplay command to play login sound/melody</span><br /><span style="color: #660000;"></span><span style="color: #660000;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM-yVI-1DweW2a72LcfLyVh8ckpMnIq7eV0ZUqhv0hOZUkFDpVvuizyp-ZuWi5UmYB3m-6uWRh4w0-d1xEY23L3HfaSLiy98SlirmVlHYKlqMJHWPQ_9rA5HOQGLv5jNYxBAqL0-5HMgU/s728/Login_wave_profile.png" rel="external" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="728" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM-yVI-1DweW2a72LcfLyVh8ckpMnIq7eV0ZUqhv0hOZUkFDpVvuizyp-ZuWi5UmYB3m-6uWRh4w0-d1xEY23L3HfaSLiy98SlirmVlHYKlqMJHWPQ_9rA5HOQGLv5jNYxBAqL0-5HMgU/w400-h293/Login_wave_profile.png" width="400" /></a></div></div><p></p>
<p><span style="color: #660000;">Note</span>:- Solution tested on openSUSE Leap 15.2, GNOME SHELL VERSION 3.34.4</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-55652869642956338832020-07-20T13:45:00.002+05:302020-08-15T20:26:39.311+05:30Fix Huge Emojis or Emoticons in Seamonkey on openSUSE Leap 15.2, GNOME Version 3.34.4<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="background-color: white;">Fix Huge Emojis or Emoticons in Seamonkey on openSUSE Leap 15.2, GNOME Version 3.34.4</span></span></h2>
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Lately i have been noticing a irritating issue in Seamonkey web/internet browser. I was seeing huge emojis in all websites. This probably started around the time i upgraded to openSUSE 15.1 and issue continued even in openSUSE 15.2. Sample sites where i found the issue:-<br />
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<li>Browsing though random links like <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/1540" target="_blank">https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/1540</a></li>
<li>After Logging into <a href="http://yahoomail.com/" target="_blank">yahoomail.com</a> and <a href="http://hotmail.com/" target="_blank">hotmail.com</a>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Seamonkey with Huge emojis in gitlab.gnome.org :(</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"> Seamonkey with Huge emojis in yahoomail :(</span><br />
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This issue was not seen in other mozilla browser like firefox or in opera .<br />
<span style="color: #660000;">No huge emoji/emoticon in Firefox for the same website. The hand and Shell emojis look normal :)</span><br />
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I saw that thunderbird users reporting similar issues <a href="https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/thunderbird-with-huge-icons-emoticons-mate-18-04/16249/16" target="_blank">here.</a> I got a clue from that link that a font package by the name fonts-noto-color-emoji was causing these big emojis to show up. For the uninitiated Thunderbird, Seamonkey and Firefox share some of their codebase. So issues seen in one software may potentially appear in the other<span style="color: #660000;"></span> too. <br />
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I opened YaST and found that i had similar package installed on my openSUSE Leap 15.2, GNOME Version 3.34.4<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">YaST showing noto-coloremoji-fonts</span></div>
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I removed that font package / software and noticed that the original issue vanished and then i had font display issues. I could live with those placeholders. They look much better than those huge emoticons.<br />
<span style="color: #660000;">Font display issues in Seamonkey after removal of <span style="color: #660000;">noto-coloremoji-fonts using YaST</span></span><br />
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To resolve the font display issue i through of installing some other emoji fount. I found emojione-color-font in YaST and installed the same which resolved the issue.</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Install emojione-color-font using YaST</span></div>
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Finally everything is good in Seamonkey after replacing fonts-noto-color-emoji with emojione-color-font .<br />
<span style="color: #660000;">Seamonkey looking good after using emojione-color-font </span><br />
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If you are using zypper you can remove noto-coloremoji-fonts and install emojione-color-font using following command.<br />
<code class="colorMycode">sudo zypper rm noto-coloremoji-fonts<br />
sudo zypper in emojione-color-font</code>
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</div><p><span style="color: #660000;">Note</span>:- Solution tested on openSUSE Leap 15.2, GNOME SHELL VERSION 3.34.4</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-54670705137122446632013-08-12T08:42:00.006+05:302013-08-12T08:44:38.751+05:30openSUSE 13.1 Milestone 4, GNOME live ISO<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;">Some Juicy Tidbits</span></blockquote>
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Here are some points to note before taking a look at "<span style="color: #660000;">M4</span>".</blockquote>
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<ul>
<li> openSUSE 13.1 is expected to be released around <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap#openSUSE_Distribution" rel="external">November 2013</a>.</li>
<li>openSUSE 13.1 will be called <span style="color: #660000;">"Bottle"</span>. Yes, it is "weird".</li>
<li>openSUSE 13.1 will probably feature <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Goals_13.1#GNOME" rel="external">GNOME 3.10</a></li>
<li>openSUSE 13.1 Live ISO features <span style="color: #660000;">GNOME Version 3.9.1</span></li>
<li>openSUSE 13.1 will <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Goals_13.1/Port_to_GStreamer_1.0" rel="external">replace GStreamer 0.10</a> with GStreamer 1.0. This can have huge impact on openSUSE / GNOME as multimedia playback, Nautilus preview and many applications depend on GStreamer framework.</li>
<li>openSUSE 13.1 is expected to <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Goals_13.1#systemd" rel="external">drop sysvinit</a> completely and move to systemd completely.</li>
<li>openSUSE 13.1 will feature a new reborn YaST with a Ruby back-end instead of YCP and the project is <a href="http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2013-08/msg00018.html" rel="external">progressing well</a> and milestone 4 YaST will be powered by Ruby.</li>
<li>openSUSE 13.1 M4 Live images written onto USBs using <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick#Linux_Instructions" rel="external">imagewriter</a> supports data persistence ( Hybrid ISO ) across reboots.</li>
<li>You can access, read and write contents from Hard disk to Live ISO session and vice versa</li>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;">Live ISO Preparation</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">Download Live ISO </span></blockquote>
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The openSUSE 13.1 Milestone 4, GNOME live ISO (64 bit ) was downloaded from the <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/developer/en" rel="external">developer page</a> using <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Aria2C" rel="external">aria2 client</a> which makes use of <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Metalink#Example_usage_of_aria2" rel="external">Metalink</a> technology. Metalink can deliver very fast download speeds since clients support multiple connections, to multiple mirrors, automatically. In addition,
it can do automatic error detection and correction.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">Verify ISO</span></blockquote>
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The md5 associated to the ISO was <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/developer/en#sig_md5" rel="external">downloaded</a> and the ISO was verified using <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Download_help#Using_Linux" rel="external">md5sum</a> command. Ensure that both the ISO and md5 files are in the same folder and run the command as shown below. If you get a "OK" after execution, it indicates that the ISO is not corrupted.</blockquote>
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<code class="colorMycode">$md5sum -c openSUSE-Factory-GNOME-Live-Build0652-x86_64.iso.md5<br />
openSUSE-Factory-GNOME-Live-Build0652-x86_64.iso: OK</code></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">Write ISO onto USB</span></blockquote>
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After verifying the ISO I used <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick#Create_a_Live_USB_.28GUI.29" rel="external">SUSE Studio Image Writer</a> to write the ISO onto a blank USB / Flash / Pen / Thumb drive. Imagewriter is available in openSUSE repos. It is also usable on <a href="https://github.com/downloads/openSUSE/kiwi/ImageWriter.exe" rel="external">Windows</a> and other Linux distributions like Fedora, Red Hat (RHEL) and Mandriva. The Linux versions can be downloaded from this <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/package/imagewriter" rel="external">page</a>.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;">GNOME Live ISO Overview/Review</span></blockquote>
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The default desktop is no different from GNOME 3.0 and minimalistic but it does have a right click functionality which allows one to :-</blockquote>
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<li>Change Desktop settings (<span style="color: #660000;">gnome-control-center</span>)</li>
<li>Change wallpaper</li>
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Curiously, the much hated, "Universal Access" settings has been removed from the top panel.</blockquote>
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openSUSE 13.1, M4 features GNOME Version 3.9.1 and openSUSE 13.1 will be called "<span style="color: #660000;">Bottle</span>" . Here is a screenshot of GNOME settings "<span style="color: #660000;">Details</span>" which can be invoked using command "gnome-control-center" and navigating to "Details". </blockquote>
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The Details application can be used to:-</blockquote>
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<li>View System info like openSUSE and GNOME versions, System architecture etc.</li>
<li>Set default applications for mail, browser, calendar, video, audio and images.</li>
<li>Set default actions for various removable media like CD, DVD, USB etc. </li>
</ul>
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No major changes were noticed in <span style="color: #660000;">Nautilus</span> and the <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/03/nautilus-tips-and-tweaksopensuse-123.html" rel="external">preview feature</a> works.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Tweak tool</span> (gnome-tweak-tool) has minimal changes when compared to GNOME 3.6. It now includes facility to customize the wallpaper settings like Stretch, Center, Scale, Span, Zoom and None.</blockquote>
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The "<span style="color: #660000;">Activities</span>" application window has undergone major changes. The applications are no longer grouped under various types like Accessories, Games, Graphics, Internet etc.. There is a button/slider which can be used to switch between full list of applications and <span style="color: #660000;">recently</span> used applications as shown below.</blockquote>
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Though applications are no longer classified into types, two new type of application categorization/grouping have emerged in GNOME 3.9.1 namely "<span style="color: #660000;">Sundry</span>" and "<span style="color: #660000;">Utilities</span>". Clicking on these application type/group opens a kind of pop up window revealing applications under those categories. The following screenshot shows applications under "Sundry" Category.</blockquote>
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The <span style="color: #660000;">Application search</span> functionality has been improved in Activities window and the search results appear in an orderly fashion and are grouped appropriately.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">GNOME Control Center Improvements </span></span></blockquote>
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The Control Center has undergone major upgrades and the number of "configurable" items has been increased drastically. Some of them are described below.</blockquote>
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The Activities based search can be easily customized through <span style="color: #660000;">Search Settings</span> to allow/disallow searching for Documents, Contacts, Files and passwords</blockquote>
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The <span style="color: #660000;">Privacy Settings</span> can be used to activate automatic screen locking, setting up of cleaning Temporary files, Remove user name from Top panel / bar etc.</blockquote>
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The <span style="color: #660000;">"Users" setting</span> now has a button which on clicking shows a User's Login history.</blockquote>
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Firefox plays html5 videos very well. The video is from Anime "Shingeki no kyojin".</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Enabling GNOME Shell Classic</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Install GNOME Shell Classic</span></span></blockquote>
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I use zypper(command line based package manager) to install the package named <span style="color: #660000;">gnome-shell-classic</span> and the package gets installed successfully as shown below.</blockquote>
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<code class="colorMycode">$sudo zypper install gnome-shell-classic</code></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Activate GNOME Shell Classic</span></span>
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Open Shell Activities(left win key) and locate YaST and then open <span style="color: #660000;">/etc/sysconfig Editor</span>. sysconfig Editor can be used to set various system level settings. In sysconfig navigate to <span style="color: #660000;">Desktop > Window manager > DEFAULT_WM</span> and change it's value from "gnome" to "gnome-classic" as shown below and save it. After logout and login GNOME classic will get applied/enabled.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">GNOME Classic Overview</span></span></blockquote>
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GNOME Classic restores the classic GNOME 2.X desktop on GNOME Shell. You can see the following changes:-</blockquote>
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<ul>
<li>Main menu and Places menu are seen in top panel.</li>
<li>Icons are seen on desktop. </li>
<li>Time is moved right hand side of panel.</li>
<li>Bottom Panel has an application switcher to show show and switch between opened applications.</li>
<li>Classic Alt + Tab behaviour is restored.</li>
</ul>
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Default Screen for GNOME classic or GNOME 2.X desktop</blockquote>
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GNOME Main menu as seen on GNOME classic</blockquote>
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Classic Alt+Tab behaviour</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Shortcomings of M4 Live ISO</span></span></blockquote>
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<ul>
<li>GTK YaST works but YaST installer is <a href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834371" rel="external">broken</a>. The workaround is to use ncurses version of YaST or zypper </li>
<li>The LIVE ISO is a bit laggy.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-65610892561785722412013-07-10T08:34:00.001+05:302013-08-11T19:48:40.222+05:3030 Years of “Hello, World”<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Nice Post from another blog:-</blockquote>
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<a external="" href="http://csharperimage.jeremylikness.com/2013/07/30-years-of-hello-world.html%20rel=">30 Years of “Hello, World”</a>: I recently took a vacation the same week as the 4th of July and had lots of time to reflect upon my career to date. It was a little shocking...</blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-17306091245051199782013-06-01T19:20:00.002+05:302013-06-01T19:20:35.793+05:30Pleasant Open document format surprise<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The other day, when i asked for some details about outlets from my telephone / cellphone provider by email they replied back to me and sent an attachment (spreadsheet) in ods format which was a pleasant surprise.</blockquote>
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In the "past" I have only seen proprietary formats like .xls, .doc, .ppt in my emails as attachments. I used to tear my hair out when I saw haphazard tables and overflowing text whenever I opened "word" documents in LibreOffice and OpenOffice. The less said about opening Excel with "macros" in LibreOffice / OpenOffice the better. Guess, those days of excruciating pain are finally over and we can all move towards a bright future where data is shared in Open document formats.</blockquote>
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Three cheers ! for the silent revolution brought about by <a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/" rel="external">LibreOffice</a> / <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/" rel="external">OpenOffice</a> / <a href="https://www.oasis-open.org/" rel="external">OASIS</a> and co.</blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-46768652296351753012013-05-12T23:36:00.000+05:302013-05-12T23:45:58.777+05:30Razor-qt desktop on openSUSE 12.3<div class="separator tr_bq" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://razor-qt.org/" rel="external">Razor-qt</a> is desktop which a KDE-ish</blockquote>
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<ul>
<li>highly configurable, </li>
<li>easy-to-use,</li>
<li>light weight(low hardware requirements),</li>
<li>fast desktop environment based on Qt.</li>
</ul>
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Razor-qt cosists of various components:-</blockquote>
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<ul>
<li>Panel -you can add plugins, behave like GNOME 2.X applets</li>
<li>Desktop with icons support</li>
<li>Application launcher(razor-runner)</li>
<li>Settings (Configuration center)</li>
<li>Sessions</li>
</ul>
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Razor-qt works with various WMs, but <span style="color: #660000;">Openbox</span> seems to be the preferred window manager.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Installation:-</span></span></blockquote>
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I have <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/03/dartmouth-is-out-grab-it-now.html" rel="external">openSUSE 12.3/ GNOME 3.6</a> installed, the following procedure was used to install Razor-qt.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Pre-installation:-</span></span></blockquote>
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First i turned-off Autologin , created "new" user and used this new user for logging into Razor-qt. For details see <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/10/user-management-on-mantis-opensuse-122.html" rel="external">User Management on GNOME 3.X</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Installation</span> using YaST</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Add repo</span></blockquote>
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Add the following <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/02/video-demo-on-addition-of-custom-repo.html" rel="external">additional repo using YaST</a>:-</blockquote>
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<code class="colorMycode">http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/QtDesktop/openSUSE_12.3/</code></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Install Packages</span></blockquote>
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Install the following packages <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/02/yast-installer-video-demo.html" rel="external">using YaST Installer</a></blockquote>
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<ul>
<li>Base packages</li>
<ul>
<li>razorqt</li>
<li>pavucontrol -simple GTK based "mixer" for PulseAudio </li>
</ul>
<li>Additional packages</li>
<ul>
<li>qtdesktop - Will <span style="color: #660000;">pull in various</span> "Must have" Qt applications :-</li>
<ul>
<li>juffed - Simple tabbed text editor</li>
<li>nomacs - Lightweight image viewer</li>
<li>qlipper - Lightweight clipboard history</li>
<li>qterminal - Advanced terminal emulator</li>
<li>quiterss - QuiteRSS - RSS/Atom aggregator</li>
<li>qupzilla - Web browser based on WebKit core</li>
<li>qxkb - Qt keyboard layout switcher</li>
<li>qpdfview - Tabbed PDF Viewer </li>
<li>screengrab - Screen grabber</li>
<li>clementine - A cross-platform Music Player based on Amarok 1</li>
<li>smplayer - Complete Frontend for MPlayer</li>
<li>speedcrunch - A calculator with history display</li>
<li>vlc - multimedia player for various audio and video formats</li>
<li>qbittorrent - A Bittorrent Client built with C++ / Qt4 </li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Installation u</span></span></span>sing zypper</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Add repo</span></blockquote>
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open comman launcher(Alt+F2) and open terminal using command ("gnome-terminal") and run following command:-</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<code class="colorMycode">sudo zypper ar -c -f -n 'QtDesktop_openSUSE_12.3' http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/QtDesktop/openSUSE_12.3/ QtDesktop_openSUSE_12.3</code></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Install Packages</span></blockquote>
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Run in the following command in terminal to install the desktop </blockquote>
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<code class="colorMycode">sudo zypper in razorqt pavucontrol qtdesktop</code></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Razor-qt Overview</span></span></blockquote>
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At first time login, Razor-qt provides a dialogue box with a list of window managers and I chose Openbox </blockquote>
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The default desktop looks conservative with a touch of gloss. The analog clock adds a nice touch to the desktop.</blockquote>
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We see a traditional main menu <code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F1)</code></blockquote>
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Lot of plugins / applets can be added to panel by right clicking on it. We can see Application Menu, Quick Launch, Task Manager, Colour Picker, Lock Tool, CPU Usage tool, Network Usage tool, Show Desktop tool etc.. added in the screenshot below</blockquote>
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Each plugin on panel can be customised. Task Manager can be customised to make opened applications look like squares instead of rectangles.</blockquote>
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Desktop icons / items can be added by creating launchers inside <code class="colorMycode">~/Desktop</code> folder by using commands like <code class="colorMycode">"gnome-desktop-item-edit 1.desktop"</code></blockquote>
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Razor runner makes launching applications keyboard friendly <code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F2)</code>.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Razor Configuration Center</span></span></blockquote>
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The Razor Settings applet / plugin on the panel is very useful in configuring the desktop. "Razor Session Configurator" can be used to make applications like Artha(Dictionary tool) to start along with the desktop.</blockquote>
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To change themes we need to use both "Openbox Configuration Manager" as well as "Razor Appearance Configuration" .</blockquote>
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"Razor Shortcut Configuration" can be used to create keyboard shortcuts to launch applications easily using keyboard.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Qt Applications</span></span></blockquote>
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SpeedCrunch is a cool calculator which has lot of inbuilt formulae</blockquote>
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qBittorrent makes a powerful torrent downloader. qpdfview is a cool lightweight pdf viewer with "tabs" support.</blockquote>
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JuffEd is a good text editor and NoMacs does a good job as image viewer</blockquote>
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QupZilla makes a wonderful webkit based browser and has variety of features like AdBlock, RSS reader, Cookie Manager and web inspector. It also has a good collection of inbuilt themes.</blockquote>
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SMPlayer and VLC (Audio & Video players) play almost anything you throw at them.</blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-6889319673383372522013-05-04T21:47:00.002+05:302013-05-04T21:47:31.572+05:30Changing mouse settings from command line<blockquote class="tr_bq">
To configure mouse settings from command line we can use an utility called "xinput". The <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/12/demystifying-man.html" rel="external">manual for xinput </a>defines it as a utility to list available input devices, query information about a device and change input device settings. i.e. xinput can be used to configure a variety of input devices like mouse, keyboard etc...</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">List Connected Devices</span></span></blockquote>
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On a GNOME 3.x desktop we can open command launcher <code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F2)</code> and then use the command <code class="colorMycode">"gnome-terminal"</code> to open terminal.</blockquote>
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To list all the devices connected to a machine we can run the following command in terminal <code class="colorMycode">xinput --list</code>. In the following screenshot you can find that an optical mouse is connected to the machine and assigned a "device id 8".</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Enable and Disable the device</span></span> </blockquote>
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Sometimes we don't want mouse movement to bring up a machine from sleep. To disable the input device(mouse), we find the device id by listing all devices as shown above. After finding the device id of the mouse (8) we can run the following command in terminal to disable the mouse <code class="colorMycode">xinput --disable 8</code>. Similarly to enable mouse again we can run the command <code class="colorMycode">xinput --enable 8</code>. To make things more convenient we can set <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/01/custom-keyboard-shortcuts-on-gnome-342.html" rel="external">keyboard shortcuts for these commands</a> as shown below</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Switch mouse buttons from right handed to left handed</span></span></blockquote>
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I for one use, "left handed" mouse settings . I find that on some "light weight" desktops, GUI based mouse settings are often not available which makes changing mouse settings a hassle. xinput comes to the rescue in these cases. To get the default mouse button mapping the following command can be used :- <code class="colorMycode">xinput get-button-map 8</code>. To change the default mapping from right to left you can use the command <code class="colorMycode">xinput set-button-map 8 3 2 1</code>. The following screenshot shows the demo.</blockquote>
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The above setting made through terminal will last only for one login session but, we can "apply" this setting every time we login by plugging the relevant command into the <code class="colorMycode">~/.profile</code> file in "home" directory as shown below.</blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-57907606801495934442013-04-28T21:42:00.000+05:302013-04-28T21:42:03.844+05:30What is dconf editor, how is it useful ?<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Dconf is </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>low-level configuration system whose main purpose is to provide a backend to GSettings on GNOME 3.X desktops.</li>
<li>dconf is a simple key-based configuration system. Keys exist in an unstructured database.</li>
<li>dconf system can be considered as a kind of replacement for gconf system which was used in GNOME 2.X series desktop.</li>
<li>dconf-editor is a Graphical Editor for Simple key-based configuration system which is dconf.</li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Install dconf Editor</span></span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/03/configure-community-repositories-in.html" rel="external">Configure Community Repositories in YaST, GNOME/openSUSE</a>.</li>
<li>Open quick command launch window <code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F2)</code> and run command <code class="colorMycode">"gnome-terminal"</code> to open terminal.</li>
<li>In terminal run the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in dconf-editor"</code> to install the tool.</li>
<li>You can also install it using YaST. Refer:- <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/02/yast-installer-video-demo.html" rel="external">Install package/software using YaST Installer</a></li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Launch dconf Editor</span></span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>To launch dconf Editor open command launcher <code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F2)</code> and run command <code class="colorMycode">"dconf-editor"</code>.
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<li>Alternatively you can press left "Win" key or <code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F1)</code> to open "Activities" and type "dconf" upon which you can see dconf Editor appearing grouped under "Applications".</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">dconf Editor Essentials</span></span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">Find keys</span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The various keys can be found by invoking search settings from top panel and then plugging in appropriate "search string" as shown below</blockquote>
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dconf Editor is a very useful configuration editing tool and the inner "workings" are as follows:-</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>All the settings are categorised broadly under Schemas.</li>
<li>All the Keys that logically belong together are grouped together under Schemas.</li>
<li>The various key's values can be changed by double clicking on them and entering new values. To save new settings we need to press return key .</li>
<li>To restore original values we can always use the "Set to default" button at the bottom of the tool.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">dconf Editor Usage</span></span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The tool can be used for many purposes like:-</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>Changing preferences/settings for many native GNOME applications settings. Example:- <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-get-totem-301opensuse-114gnome.html" rel="external">Get Totem working again after crash</a> by changing schema <code class="colorMycode">"org.gnome.totem"</code></li>
<li>Perform some advanced settings which is sometimes not possible to do from even the applications. It is possible to reduce inbox refresh time to 30 seconds in Evolution. In this case it is accomplished by changing schema <code class="colorMycode">"org.gnome.evolution.mail"</code><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">Evolution interface allows minimum refresh rate of 1 minute</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">dconf Editor allows reduction of refresh rate to 30 seconds.</span></blockquote>
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<li>Change default directory where the screenshots are stored if "Print Screen" button is pressed. In this case schema that is modified is <code class="colorMycode">"org.gnome.gnome-screenshot"</code>
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<li>We can change mouse button modifier (Modifier to use for modified window click actions) from <SUPER> or "Win" key to <ALT>. You can use "Alt" key and click on any open window to "drag" it around. The schema to be changed in this case is <code class="colorMycode">"org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences</code>".
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</li>
<li>It can serve as a replacement / alternative for <code class="colorMycode">"gnome-tweak-tool"</code> and <code class="colorMycode">"gnome-control-center"</code>. Most of the settings in Tweak tool are available / changed using dconf Editor.</li>
<li>Change mouse from left to right click by editing the schema <code class="colorMycode">"org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse"</code> as shown below.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-46953128112628843352013-04-13T23:15:00.000+05:302013-04-13T23:15:11.395+05:30Why should we install mozplugger on openSUSE 12.3, GNOME 3.6 ?<blockquote class="tr_bq">
MozPlugger is a generic Mozilla plug-in that allows the use of standard Linux programs as plug-ins for media types on the Internet. MozPlugger will help the Mozilla / Gecko based browsers to handle a variety of file formats like pdf, office formats (xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, doc, docx), LibreOffice file formats etc. Without installing mozplugger we find that very few file types are present in "Helper Applications" window in both SeaMonkey and Firefox.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">SeaMonkey with few content types in Helper Applications</span></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">Firefox also shows only a few content types in Application preferences</span></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">When i try to open a <a href="http://www.cantonmarathon.com/uploads/sample.xls" rel="external">sample xls</a> file hosted online SeaMonkey tries to download and open it outside the browser.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Download and Install Mozplugger</span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">Step 1:-</span> First step would be to <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/03/configure-community-repositories-in.html" rel="external">Configure Community Repositories in YaST</a> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">Step 2 :-</span> Before we proceed to download the rpms we need to understand what type of rpms we need. <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/01/32-bit-vs-64-bit-os-architecture-in.html" rel="external">32 bit Vs 64 bit OS architecture in Linux</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">Step 3 :-</span> Since i use a 64bit OS I downloaded the following rpms</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>mozplugger-1.14.3-3.fc18.x86_64.rpm from <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=mozplugger" rel="external">link</a></li>
<li>mozilla-filesystem-1.9-8.fc18.x86_64.rpm from <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=mozilla-filesystem" rel="external">link</a>
</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">Step 4 :-</span> I dumped these rpms into a directory and <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/04/converting-plain-rpm-directory-into.html" rel="external">Converted the directory into a repository using YaST</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">Step 5 :-</span> I open terminal <code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F2 ==> gnome-terminal)</code> and install mozplugger using command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in mozplugger"</code></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Post installation lot of content types are present in Helper Applications window</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Post installation, I can open <a href="http://www.cantonmarathon.com/uploads/sample.xls" rel="external">same xls</a> "inside" SeaMonkey . LibreOffice opens the file in embedded mode inside the browser.</span></blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-83559905324830439432013-04-13T20:26:00.005+05:302013-04-13T20:34:20.300+05:30Converting a Plain RPM Directory into a repository using YaST<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The following are the steps involved in converting a "Plain RPM Directory" into a repository using GTK-YaST on openSUSE 12.3, GNOME 3.6 :-</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>Dump all the rpm files you have in a suitable directory under your "Home" directory. I have all my rpms in directory "~/Software/rpms"</li>
<li>Press Left "win" key / Alt+F1 to bring up Activities window / launcher.</li>
<li>Then type "install" and it will bring up an application called "Install/Remove Software". Click on that to open YaST Software Manager.</li>
<li>Click on menu Configuration==>Repositories to navigate to "Repositories" window</li>
<li>Click on the add button in this window and it will take you to "MediaType" window where you need to choose "Local Directory" and press on "Next" button.</li>
<li>In the next window provide appropriate "Repository Name" and "Path to Directory" where your rpms are present. Also choose the option "Plain RPM Directory." and press on "Next" to complete the process.</li>
<li>You will now find the "rpms" repository in the main window of YaST software Manager. </li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Screencast showing creating local repository using YaST</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Note:-</span> The trick for converting Nautilus Pathbar to textual input entry is to press <code class="colorMycode">Ctrl+L</code></blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-48790556783025737192013-04-13T17:01:00.002+05:302013-04-13T23:36:53.785+05:30Image resize and rotate using Nautilus on openSUSE 12.3, GNOME 3.6<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The Nautilus-Image-Converter is an extension that allows you to resize / rotate images from Nautilus. This extension is very useful when uploading images to websites (size limitations), creating thumbnails etc.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Installation & Usage </span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">Step 1:-</span> We need to <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/03/configure-community-repositories-in.html" rel="external">Configure Community Repositories in YaST, GNOME 3.6, openSUSE 12.3</a></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step 2:-</span> Launch command launcher<code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F2)</code> and open terminal using command <code class="colorMycode">"gnome-terminal"</code>.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step3:-</span> Using zypper we can install the relevant extension using command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo -u root zypper in nautilus-image-converter"</code>.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step4:-</span> Use the context menu (or) right click menu to "rotate" and resize images. The extension automatically appends a ".resized" and ".rotated" string to the names of newly created files, lest the original file gets overwritten.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Screenshot showing Nautilus "resize". Resize supports "resize to pixels", "scaling" and "custom size" functions.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Screenshot showing Nautilus "rotate". Rotate supports "pre-defined rotations" and "custom angle" functions.</span></blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-75982246824130058092013-04-13T16:13:00.000+05:302013-04-13T16:13:15.378+05:30Graphical frontend for Systemd on openSUSE 12.3, GNOME 3.6<blockquote class="tr_bq">
For the UN-initiated :-</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>systemd, init - systemd system and service manager</li>
<li>systemctl - Control the systemd system and service manager</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Sample usage of systemd :- <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-to-restart-network-service-in.html" rel="external">Restart Network Service using Systemd</a> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
If you are not comfortable with running systemctl / systemd commands from console / terminal then you can install "systemd-ui" which acts like a Graphical front-end for systemd system and acts like a service manager.
</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Install and Use systemd-ui</span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">Step 1:-</span> We need to <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/03/configure-community-repositories-in.html" rel="external">Configure Community Repositories in YaST, GNOME 3.6, openSUSE 12.3</a></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step 2:-</span> Launch command launcher<code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F2)</code> and open terminal using command <code class="colorMycode">"gnome-terminal"</code>.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step3:-</span> Now, it is possible to install systemd-ui using the command "sudo -u root zypper in systemd-ui".</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step 4:-</span> Launch the systemd-ui using the command <code class="colorMycode">"gnomesu systemadm"</code></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step5:-</span> Using this tool you can</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>Check Current status of the Service, </li>
<li>View Service dependencies,</li>
<li>Start Service,</li>
<li>Stop Service,</li>
<li>Restart Service,</li>
<li>In-activate Service etc..</li>
</ul>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-30644412329419048762013-04-04T09:47:00.000+05:302013-04-04T09:47:20.020+05:30Download Favourite pictures from Flickr on openSUSE 12.3, GNOME 3.6<blockquote class="tr_bq">
To download pictures that you have marked favourite from the popular Photo sharing site Flickr you can use an application called "FlickrFaves". It is a Java based application which means that you need to have openJDK or Sun/Oracle JRE installed on your system.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Getting Started</span></span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>To install openJDK or Sun/Oracle Java on openSUSE 12.3 you can take a look at this post <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/03/dartmouth-is-out-grab-it-now.html" rel="external">Dartmouth is out, Grab it now !</a></li>
<li>If you need to create a shell script to Launch Jars then you can take a peek at <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2011/10/launch-java-jar-file-or-package-in.html" rel="external">Launch Java Jar file through shell script</a></li>
<li>You can Launch Jars using <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/03/why-should-we-use-nautilus-actions.html" rel="external">Nautilus Actions</a> using Context / Right click Menu.</li>
<li>If you are using GNOME 3.x then there is a quick and dirty hack through which you can <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/10/execute-jars-on-gnome-342-opensuse-122.html" rel="external">Double click on jars to Execute Jars</a></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Downloading and Installing FlickrFaves:-</span></span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
There is no need to install anything except that you need to setup up Java/JRE on you system. All you need to do is <a href="http://magnusvk.com/flickrfaves" rel="external">download the jar</a> which is marked / labelled as "executable "and "launch the jar" to use it.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Use FlickrFaves</span></span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">Step1:-</span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Open a quick command launcher <code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F2)</code> and open the terminal using command <code class="colorMycode">"gnome-terminal"</code>.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">Step 2:-</span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Launch jar using the following command from terminal</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<code class="colorMycode">java -jar /home/<ProfileName>/Downloads/FlickrFaves-2.0.4.jar</code></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step3:-</span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
On pressing "Authorize" button it will open the default web browser and take you to a page where you need to "Login" and "Authorize" the application to enable FlickrFaves to use Flickr.</blockquote>
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After successful Authorisation you will see a success page</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step 4:-</span></blockquote>
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Comeback to FlickrFaves application and click on "Complete Authorization".</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step 5:-</span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Configure your download folder and other settings like "number of files to download" and start downloading your stuff.</blockquote>
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After downloading your pictures it will show a download successful message like this</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Add FlickrFaves to GNOME Activities</span></span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #660000;">Step 1:-</span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Open command launcher<code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F2)</code> and use the command <code class="colorMycode">"alacarte"</code> to open GNOME 3.X menu editor</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step 2:-</span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Add the relevant command(<code class="colorMycode">java -jar <Path>FlickrFaves-2.0.4.jar</code>) and create a menu item as show below</blockquote>
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You can now locate FlickrFaves in Activities</blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-678131571817771872013-03-28T16:00:00.000+05:302013-04-16T14:21:34.153+05:30Nautilus Tips and Tweaks,openSUSE 12.3, GNOME 3.6<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Nautilus has undergone massive changes in recent versions and it is going to be a challenge figuring out a few things. The following long winded article would be useful in figuring out various <span style="color: #660000;">"Hidden"</span> functionalities of Nautilus. But before doing anything, do <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/03/configure-community-repositories-in.html" rel="external">Configure Community Repositories openSUSE 12.3</a></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Where are Preferences / settings in Nautilus?</span></span></blockquote>
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After opening Nautilus you need to click on the Nautilus icon on top panel to pull down the various settings / preferences.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> Do you need nautilus to confirm with you before executing each script and provide an option to run in a terminal?</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">If yes then you can enable using following menu in preferences</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">How can i sort icons ?</span></span></blockquote>
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By clicking on the drop down button next to the "Wheel" like button on the menu bar, you can access functions like :-</blockquote>
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<ul>
<li>Zoom in / out which allows us to increase and decrease icon sizes.</li>
<li>Reload which allows us to refresh Nautilus. <code class="colorMycode">(keyboard : F5)</code>.</li>
<li>Allows Sorting and reverse sort of icons by:-</li>
<ul>
<li>Name</li>
<li>Size</li>
<li>Type</li>
<li>Modification Date</li>
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<li>Hide / Show Hidden files & folders (Names starts with a dot (.) ) </li>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;"> How can i Bookmark various folders ?</span></span></blockquote>
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Bookmarking folders in Nautilus makes them appear in the "pane" on the left hand side of Nautilus. You can use the wheel / Gears like button on top right hand side of Nautilus to :-</blockquote>
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<ul>
<li>Bookmark Folders <code class="colorMycode">(keyboard : Ctrl+B)</code> so that they appear on "left pane".</li>
<li>Open New Tab in Nautilus <code class="colorMycode">(keyboard : Ctrl+T)</code></li>
<li>Create New Folder in present working directory.</li>
<li>Selecting all matching items <code class="colorMycode">(keyboard : Ctrl+S)</code>. You can select all png files in a folder using this functionality.</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Where are "New File" and "Refresh" Context / Right click menus ?</span></span></blockquote>
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They have ahem! been "removed". We can easily restore these functions by using "Nautilus Actions". I would take a look at this post (<a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/03/why-should-we-use-nautilus-actions.html" rel="external">Nautilus Actions?</a>) before coming back here to read further.</blockquote>
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Use <span style="color: #660000;">"touch"</span> command to create a "New File"</blockquote>
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Install <span style="color: #660000;">"xdotool"</span> <code class="colorMycode">(sudo zypper in xdotool)</code> to simulate key presses. Now, all we need to do is simulate F5 key press to add refresh functionality to context menu.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Restored "NewFile" and "Refresh" Menu items</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">How can I preview files ?</span></span></blockquote>
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Preview functionality in Nautilus allows you "preview" contents of all files without actually opening them. You can even play video and audio tracks using this functionality. It can be accessed by ensuring that you have the following packages installed:-</blockquote>
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<ul>
<li>Install <span style="color: #660000;">"sushi"</span> (Quick Previewer for Nautilus) <code class="colorMycode">sudo zypper in sushi</code></li>
<li>Install <span style="color: #660000;">"unoconv"</span> (Allows us to preview doc,ppt,xls,docx,odt,odf etc) <code class="colorMycode">sudo zypper in unoconv</code></li>
<li>Install <span style="color: #660000;">"nautilus-evince"</span>(Allows previewing pdfs) <code class="colorMycode">sudo zypper in nautilus-evince</code></li>
<li>Install <span style="color: #660000;">Gstearmer libs</span> (Allows previewing Audio and Video files) <code class="colorMycode">sudo zypper in gstreamer*</code> (Will pull in lot of packages <span style="color: #660000;">:)</span> ).</li>
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After installing above stuff you may restart system and to preview files you can press <span style="color: #660000;">"spacebar"</span>. You can "preview" virtually any file now :). You can see preview samples here:-<a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2011/11/audiovideo-and-doc-preview-features-in.html" rel="external"> Audio,video and doc preview features in Nautilus</a></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Also chekout :-</span> <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/04/image-resize-and-rotate-using-nautilus.html" rel="external">Image resize,create thumbnail and image rotate using Nautilus on openSUSE 12.3, GNOME 3.6</a></blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-39153315563388433502013-03-27T12:57:00.003+05:302013-03-27T12:57:55.947+05:30How to Install fonts on openSUSE 12.3, GNOME 3.6 ?<blockquote class="tr_bq">
If you are surfing websites with a lot of regional language content, it is likely that they use non English or other language fonts. Typically all the text in these websites appear haphazard, illegible and look like ugly boxes. I don't have the relevant fonts for viewing <a href="http://www.disapprovallook.com/" rel="external">disapprovallook</a> and i see all the text in the webpage appear like boxes.</blockquote>
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Usually, sites which host non-English content provide links to the fonts they use. To fix content in <a href="http://www.disapprovallook.com/" rel="external">disapprovallook</a>, I downloaded the relevant fonts from the <a href="http://www.disapprovallook.com/?page_id=2" rel="external">website</a> and then extracted the zip file using file roller to get the font file. Font files usually end with name/extension (.ttf). To install the font i use command launcher(Alt+F2) and open the "~/.fonts" folder in my home directory.</blockquote>
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Now i copy(ctrl+c) and paste(ctrl+v) the font (*.ttf) file into the fonts folder.</blockquote>
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Then I refresh the website again to see the text in correct font. Sometimes, we may need to restart the browser for the changes to take effect. Now i can see the text in correct format as shown below.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Alternative Install using Zypper </span></blockquote>
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The above installation procedure is generic one and applies to many Linux desktops. Alternatively, if you have already configured the <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/03/configure-community-repositories-in.html" rel="external">community repositories</a> on your openSUSE machine then you can open terminal through command launcher using the command <code class="colorMycode">"gnome-terminal"</code> and then run a search for font packages available for install using zypper.</blockquote>
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<code class="colorMycode">
$zypper se *font* | less</code></blockquote>
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And then install the relevant fonts using a command similar to</blockquote>
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<code class="colorMycode">$sudo -u root zypper in chinese*font*</code></blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-46627398928934126342013-03-24T17:22:00.003+05:302013-03-26T16:29:07.984+05:30Change address bar's background and text colour in SeaMonkey<blockquote class="tr_bq">
I noticed that whenever i accessed https / encrypted pages, the Address / URL bar appeared dark in <a href="http://www.seamonkey-project.org/" rel="external">SeaMonkey</a> (kind of Firefox cousin). This issue cropped up after I migrated from GNOME 3.4 to GNOME 3.6. </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Dark Address bar in SeaMonkey in GNOME 3.6 at DuckDuckGo.com</span></blockquote>
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This issue does not occur in some themes. The "default" theme is probably adjusting it's settings to achieve better integration with rest of the desktop which is good, but in this case it proving to be counter productive.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Address bar looks normal in Non https URL</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Normal looking address bar, "Nautipolis theme" at DuckDuckGo.com</span></blockquote>
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With inputs from "Mozillazine" forums, i figured that i had to do the following to address the issue with the address bar:-</blockquote>
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<ol>
<li>Create a folder called "chrome" under my SeaMonkey profile ("~/.mozilla/seamonkey/<profileName>/") folder </li>
<li>Create a "<a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserChrome.css" rel="external">userChrome.css</a>" file inside it.</li>
<li>Make some entries in this file to customize my address bar.</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
I chose to use some yellowish colour as background and black as the text colour. I found the site (<a href="http://www.colorhexa.com/" rel="external">colorhexa.com</a>) extremely useful in figuring out the hexadecimal codes I needed. The following is the code i had to use to change the settings the way i wanted it.</blockquote>
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<code class="colorMycode">
#urlbar[level] .autocomplete-textbox-container >* {background-color:#FFFFB7 !important; color: #000000 !important; }</code></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Screenshot of css code in userChrome.css</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> Better looking address bar after changing the settings</span></blockquote>
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To change non address bar settings for non https URLs the following code might be used in the userChrome.css file</blockquote>
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<code class="colorMycode">
#urlbar { background-color: #00FF00 !important; color: #000FFF !important; }</code></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> Customized Address bar look for normal http pages</span></blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-39382377471479937632013-03-24T15:23:00.001+05:302013-03-24T17:10:30.046+05:30Smudged Icons in Application Switcher GNOME 3.6<blockquote class="tr_bq">
I noticed that i was seeing smudged and distorted icons in Alt+Tab Application / Task Switcher in GNOME 3.6/ openSUSE 12.3. I also noticed that this condition appeared and disappeared from time to time. I failed to understand as to what was is causing this problem.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Image showing smudged icons in Alt+Tab switcher</span></blockquote>
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After a few days i noticed that whenever i refreshed my GNOME desktop this issue disappeared. I confirmed that the solution does fix the issue issue by restarting my OS and i found that refreshing GNOME, indeed helps in banishing the smudged icons. Hope they fix this in GNOME 3.8.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Alt+F2 followed by running the command 'r'</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Alt+Tab switcher looks good after desktop refresh :-)</span></blockquote>
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<span id="goog_1340325775"></span><span id="goog_1340325776"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-69853924452503014332013-03-20T22:18:00.003+05:302013-03-20T23:35:00.852+05:30Reverting Disqus to older version again ?<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Disqus as a comment platform is very good and i am very thankful to them. But they has recently started "turning ON" Advertisements on my blog without my express consent. They did it once in the past and I had documented as to how I reverted back here (<a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/08/reverting-from-disqus-2012-to-older.html" rel="external">Reverting from DISQUS 2012 to older version)</a> . They have done it again . I received a mail in my inbox about providing me with more revenue etc.. and I started seeing advertisements on my blog.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Mail from Disqus about the new disqus and advertisements appearing on my webpages :(</span></blockquote>
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Then i had to go back to Disqus website. Navigate to Settings and under Settings navigate to "Discovery" tab .Then i had to change the "Discovery" settings from increased "Revenue" to "Just comments" and everything is back to normal :)</blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-92025039850966174422013-03-18T12:19:00.005+05:302013-04-04T08:16:53.868+05:30Dartmouth is out, Grab it now !<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We had sneak peeks at Dartmouth earlier here ( <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/02/opensuse-123-rc-1-gnome-36.html" rel="external">1</a>, <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/02/sneak-peek-at-kde-opensuse-123-rc1-live.html" rel="external">2</a>, <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/11/opensuse-123-milestone-1-kde-492.html" rel="external">3</a>, <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/11/opensuse-123-milestone-1-gnome-36.html" rel="external">4</a>) and it is out now and unlike Mantis did not face any hiccups in the development life cycle. I generally prefer to install any openSUSE version using Live ISOs rather than DVD as they seem to install faster than DVDs, but they do have a downside as they cannot be used for upgrading from older to newer version of the distro.This article is about preparing the ISO image, installing 12.3, things to do before installation and <span style="color: #660000;">30+ list of things to do after installing openSUSE 12.3 / GNOME 3.6.2</span>. </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #660000;">How to prepare an ISO?</span></span></blockquote>
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I downloaded the openSUSE 12.3 GNOME live ISO which is available through download <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/123/en" rel="external">page</a>. I usually download my ISOs through torrent as it is:-</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li>Much faster compared to direct downloads.</li>
<li>More reliable as after downloading them i can "verify" or
hash check the downloaded file to ensure the integrity of the ISO. </li>
<li>Allows me to stop and resume downloads.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
I burned / wrote it onto a flash drive using <a href="https://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick" rel="external">SUSE Studio Image writer</a>. For those trying to burn 12.3 Live ISOs onto CDs there is bad news. The new Live ISOs don't fit on a CD and size of ISO is nearly a GB. For example the 64 bit version of GNOME is of size (890 MB). They can be written onto DVDs though.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Why a fresh install is better?</span></span></blockquote>
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I usually prefer a fresh install instead of upgrade because:-</blockquote>
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<ul>
<li>There is always a danger of incompatible libraries between old versions and newer versions on GNOME as well as openSUSE </li>
<li>Sometimes there are even architectural changes between various of release like usr merge and systemd etc..</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #660000;">What are the things to do before installation? </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Verify downloaded media</span></span></blockquote>
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We need to verify the downloaded ISO image using the md5sum command and compare the output from terminal to that of the md5 files obtained from <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/123/en" rel="external">download page</a>. Running the following command should give you an output like "29725b..." which you can check against the content inside md5 files.</blockquote>
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<code class="colorMycode">md5sum openSUSE-12.3-GNOME-Live-x86_64.iso</code></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Read Release Notes</span></span></blockquote>
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We obviously need to read through the <a href="https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/openSUSE/12.3/" rel="external">release notes</a> before starting any installation. Some important pointers are:-</blockquote>
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<ul>
<li>There would be "No Network after Installation". You may need to reboot the machine once manually. Yeah this is a real downer <span style="color: #660000;">:-(</span></li>
<li> Since 12.3 uses systemd you need to use commands like <code class="colorMycode">"sudo systemctl restart network.service"</code> instead of <code class="colorMycode">"sudo /etc/init.d/network restart"</code>. An example is given <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-to-restart-network-service-in.html" rel="external">here</a>.</li>
<li>Systemd: Cleaning Directories (/tmp and /var/tmp). By default, systemd cleans tmp directories daily as configured in <code class="colorMycode">/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf</code>. Users can change it by copying <code class="colorMycode">/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf</code> to <code class="colorMycode">/etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf</code> and modifying the copied file. It will override <code class="colorMycode">/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf</code>.</li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Backup data and settings </span></span></blockquote>
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The following are the things to backup before proceeding with new installation. </blockquote>
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<ul>
<li>You obviously need to backup all your data files like videos, mp3s, text files, pdfs etc:</li>
<li>You may also want to backup settings of the applications you have used before so that you need not loose any data and re-customize the applications on your new installation. To access your old application settings you should open nautilus (assuming you are using previous versions of GNOME) and then press <code class="colorMycode">"ctrl+h"</code> and then navigate to your home directory. Some of the directories i would back up would be:-</li>
<ul>
<li>Notes from tomboy which are available in directory <code class="colorMycode">~/.local/share/tomboy</code>.</li>
<li>Old stats folder for gkrellm available in directory <code class="colorMycode">~/.gkrellm2</code>.</li>
<li>Old bookmarks and browser (Firefox, Seamonkey) related settings which are present in <code class="colorMycode">~/.mozilla</code>.</li>
<li>You can backup your thunderbird mails which are available from <code class="colorMycode">~/.thunderbird</code></li>
<li>Although not recommended you can also backup installed gnome shell extensions and migrate them to new desktop. The extension files are located in <code class="colorMycode">~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions</code></li>
<li>You may migrate your old themes from <code class="colorMycode">~/.themes</code></li>
<li>You can migrate the custom application menus you created using alacrate from here <code class="colorMycode">~/.local/share/application</code>.</li>
<li> If you use <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/03/download-manager-for-file-and-video.html" rel="external">FreeRapid</a> then you may want to backup the settings folder so that you can retain history of your downloads. The settings folders are <code class="colorMycode">~/.FRD</code>.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Note:-</span> <code class="colorMycode">~</code> means /home/<profileName> i.e. <code class="colorMycode">/home/<profileName>/.FRD </code>is the same as <code class="colorMycode">~/.FRD</code>.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Installation:-</span></span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
As usual openSUSE installation is pretty straight forward and what i am describing here applies to installation from a Live ISO. You need to plugin the USB into your system and while booting press F10 or whatever function key which allows you to get the "boot from media" menu. Here we need to choose the USB device.</blockquote>
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<ul>
<li>I would recommend booting into the LIVE session first and test a few things by opening some applications, testing sound etc to ensure that the installation media is good.</li>
<li>Then we can reboot and choose the "installation" menu to start the installation.</li>
<li>In the first screen you can choose the right keyboard layout and Locale / Language settings.</li>
<li>Then you can choose the place you live on the world map to set
the time / timezone right. You may opt to disable the setting "Set Hardware
clock to UTC...". This will cause issues if you dual boot with another OS. The other OS would always show UTC / GMT time.</li>
<li>In the next screen YaST would offer you the best installation and partition setup based on your system configuration. You may choose to import your existing partition setup or even use the "Expert" option to do custom partitioning.</li>
<li>In the next screen you can create a "user" and set the password for that user. You will also notice that this password would also be your root or admin user password.</li>
<li>After you confirm the settings, the installation will begin and after a few minutes the installer will ask you to reboot and upon rebooting an automated configuration process takes over and does some magic and finally your will be logged into the DE which you have opted to install.</li>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Things to do after installing openSUSE 12.3 / GNOME 3.6.2</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Steps to open terminal:- </span></span></blockquote>
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In terminal you can easily run various commands to install various software. During installation you will need to provide the admin password that you have entered during installation. You can open command launcher <code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F2)</code> and then use the command (<code class="colorMycode">"gnome-terminal"</code>) to open a GNOME terminal.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Steps to refresh desktop:-</span></span></blockquote>
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To refresh the GNOME desktop you press <code class="colorMycode">"Alt+F2"</code> which opens the command launcher and use the command <code class="colorMycode">"r"</code> and hit return or enter key. This will refresh / restart your GNOME 3.X desktop.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Notes about Zypper:-</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">sudo</span> - It is a command used to elevate permission to "root" user level </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">zypper</span> :- zypper is a package manager used in openSUSE . You may also read about <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2011/09/understanding-package-management-in.html" rel="external">Understanding "Package Management" in Linux</a></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">in</span> :- this option is used to instruct zypper to install the packages following the option. </blockquote>
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You can check <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/12/demystifying-man.html" rel="external">Man for zypper</a> or take a look <a href="https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Zypper_manual_%28plain%29" rel="external">here</a> for more details. </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">01.)Configure Community repositories</span></span></blockquote>
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Setting up of the "Community repositories" is the first step in setting up our system. You can take a look at this article to <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/03/configure-community-repositories-in.html" rel="external">configure the repos</a>.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">02.)Check For Updates</span></span></blockquote>
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To check for updates you can open the terminal and use the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper up"</code> to check for available updates. You will be surprised about the number of updates that are waiting to get installed. </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">03.)Improve multimedia experience</span></span></blockquote>
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openSUSE installation doesn't provide codecs for any of the <a href="http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_formats/12.3" rel="external">restricted multimedia</a> formats like mp3. There is a famous "1 click Install" procedure to overcome this predicament here. The recommended one-click for gnome desktop is named "<a href="http://opensuse-community.org/codecs-gnome.ymp" rel="external">codecs-gnome.ymp</a>". Once you click on the installer, you need to be ready with your mouse and click on "Agree / I trust" buttons that appears endlessly one after the other. Finally, we need to refresh the desktop.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">04.)Install your backed up application profiles</span></span></blockquote>
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You can opt to move all the application profiles which you have backed up to respective folders on your new installation. Sometimes we may need to change ownership of these files and folders if you see an "X" marked on the file or folder icon in Nautilus. To do this we open a terminal and then we can apply the "change ownership" command on all folders and subfolders by running the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo chown -R <profileName> /home/<profileName>/"</code> in the terminal. </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">05.)Install Banshee</span></span></blockquote>
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The default audio jukebox on openSUSE 12.3 is Rhythmbox. But if you need Banshee then you can open the terminal and run the command. <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in banshee banshee-extensions-default"</code>. It integrates well with <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/03/10-1-gnome-shell-extensions-that-i.html" rel="external">Media Player Indicator</a> which is a Gnome Shell Extension. The extension allows you to control playback, volume and also preview cover art of the track that is playing.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">06.)Install Mp3 support</span></span></blockquote>
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If you don't have mp3 support even after using the above one click in step3 and you get an error that you need "Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) demuxer", then you need to install mp3 codec by running the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3"</code> in the terminal.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">07.)Install Video player</span></span></blockquote>
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The default video player Totem is pretty good but <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/01/big-bash-of-video-players-on-gnome-3.html" rel="external">not good enough</a>. It is better to go in for a "mplayer" based media player so that most of the media formats are supported. You should consider using <a href="http://www.mplayer2.org/" rel="external">mplayer2</a> backend which claims to be better than standard mplayer backend. We can open terminal and run the following commands to install various video players.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Install gnome-mplayer</span></blockquote>
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<code class="colorMycode">sudo zypper in gnome-mplayer mplayer2-as-mplayer</code> (or) <code class="colorMycode">sudo zypper in gnome-mplayer</code></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Install smplayer</span></blockquote>
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<code class="colorMycode">sudo zypper in smplayer2 mplayer2</code> (or) <code class="colorMycode">sudo zypper in smplayer </code></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Install umplayer</span></blockquote>
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<code class="colorMycode">sudo zypper in umplayer mplayer2-as-umplayer</code> (or) <code class="colorMycode">sudo zypper in umplayer </code></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">08.)Install Note Making application</span></span></blockquote>
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If you need to use stickies or note making application then we need to install Tomboy. To install tomboy you open gnome terminal and run the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in tomboy"</code> to install Tomboy. Once you open the application it will automatically detect the old notes from your old profile which you have migrated to <code class="colorMycode">"~/.local/share/tomboy"</code>.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">09.)Install GKrellM</span></span></blockquote>
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By installing <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/01/gkrellm-on-gnome-3-opensuse-121.html" rel="external">GKrellM</a> you can get various stats like internet, CPU usage etc. To install GKrellM you can run the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in gkrellm"</code> in terminal. You can see your old internet usage stats if you had migrated your old stats to <code class="colorMycode">"~/.gkrellm2"</code>.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">10.)Install offline dictionary</span></span></blockquote>
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<a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2011/09/offline-dictionary-thesaurus-for-gnome.html" rel="external">Artha</a> is a cool offline dictionary which has many advanced features and is very useful in day to day life. You can run the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in artha"</code> in terminal. You can access artha once it is started through the key combination <code class="colorMycode">"ctrl+alt+w"</code>.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">11.)Install favourite web browser</span></span></blockquote>
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openSUSE 12.3 / GNOME 3.6 comes with Firefox as default browser. For installing any other browser you can run the following commands in terminal. </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">GUI based browsers </span></blockquote>
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To install <a href="http://www.seamonkey-project.org/" rel="external">SeaMonkey</a> (Web-browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, IRC chat, and HTML editing made simple—all your Internet needs in one application.) use <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in seamonkey"</code></blockquote>
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To install <a href="http://www.opera.com/" rel="external">Opera</a> (really fast browser with inbuilt email client, torrent client and a irc chat client ) use <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in opera-gtk"</code></blockquote>
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To install <a href="http://www.chromium.org/Home" rel="external">Chromium</a> (open-source clone of infamous google chrome) use <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in chromium"</code></blockquote>
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To install <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/epiphany/" rel="external">Epiphany</a> (default browser for GNOME desktop) execute the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in epiphany"</code></blockquote>
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To install <a href="https://midori.jottit.com/" rel="external">midori</a> (light weight webkit based browser) use <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in midori"</code></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Text based browsers </span></blockquote>
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Unlike browsers which support javascript, flash and other plugins text browsers are as the name suggests can only render the text from any webpage. Many major sites do support text browsing. </blockquote>
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To install Links use the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in links"</code></blockquote>
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To install Lynx use the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in lynx"</code></blockquote>
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To install w3m use the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in w3m"</code></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">12.)Install Bleachbi<span style="font-size: large;">t</span> </span></span></blockquote>
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Bleachbit is essentially a clean up tool for your Linux desktop. According to the <a href="http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/" rel="external">Bleachbit</a> website it identifies and erases broken menu entries, cache, cookies, localizations, recent document lists, and temporary files in Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Bash, and 50 other applications. It is your Linux equivalent of ccleaner in windows. You can install Bleachbit in terminal using the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in bleachbit"</code>.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">13.)Install Image editor</span></span></blockquote>
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12.3 comes with GIMP pre-installed but, If you want a light-weight, basic image editor then you can go in for <a href="http://pinta-project.com/" rel="external">Pinta</a>. Pinta is the Linux equivalent of Paint.NET on windows. To install Pinta you can execute the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in pinta"</code> in terminal</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">14.)Install Sun Java JDK / JRE / browser plugin</span></span></blockquote>
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openSUSE comes bundled with a community version of Java called openJDK and a browser plugin called icedtea-web. This should be good enough for most of the users but if you do need Oracle/Sun java then read on. </blockquote>
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Due to some licensing issues, Oracle (Sun) Java/ JRE could not be distributed through the official repositories of openSUSE, since openSUSE 12.1. </blockquote>
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You need JDK if you want to develop something using JAVA. If you just want to <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2011/10/launch-java-jar-file-or-package-in.html" rel="external">run some jars</a> and some applets in the browser like Firefox then you need to install JRE and JAVA Plugin. Here is a <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installing_Java#Install_Oracle_Java_SE" rel="external">official</a> quick guide to install the newest and secure version of Java. For people who just want the software and averse to long installation procedures i would suggest installing them from user maintained repositories. openSUSE don't guarantee any stuff downloaded from user maintained repositories. I usually install Java from user maintained repositories and they work just fine. Before installing Oracle JRE you should remove openJDK by executing the following command in terminal.</blockquote>
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<code class="colorMycode">sudo zypper rm -u java-1_7_0-openjdk icedtea-web</code></blockquote>
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You can find "1 Click Install" links for JRE 1.6 <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/package/java-1_6_0-sun-plugin" rel="external">here</a>. You can get JRE 1.7 <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/package/java-1_7_0-sun-plugin" rel="external">here</a>.</blockquote>
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Similarly you can get JDK 1.6 <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/package/java-1_6_0-sun-devel" rel="external">here</a>. You can get JDK 1.7 <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/package/java-1_7_0-sun-devel" rel="external">here</a>. </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">15.)Install GNOME Shell Extensions /<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Remove Annoying "Universal Access"</span></span></blockquote>
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According to GNOME <a href="https://extensions.gnome.org/about/" rel="external">site</a> GNOME Shell extensions are small pieces of code written by third party developers that modify the way GNOME works. If you are familiar with Firefox Addons or Chrome Extensions , GNOME Shell extensions are similar to them. You can take a look at a few of the extensions in this <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/03/10-1-gnome-shell-extensions-that-i.html" rel="external">post</a>.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">16.)Install Acrobat reader</span></span></blockquote>
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<a href="http://projects.gnome.org/evince/" rel="external">Evince</a> is the default pdf document viewer for the GNOME desktop. It is already installed on openSUSE 12.2. For day to day purposes, Evince is good enough. But it is not rich in features like <a href="http://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/" rel="external">Acrobat reader</a>. To install Acrobat Reader use the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in acroread"</code> in terminal.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">17.)Enable desktop icons</span></span></blockquote>
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To enable desktop icons we need to make nautilus as desktop manager instead of gnome shell. To do this we should open the command launcher <code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F2)</code> and use the command <code class="colorMycode">"gnome-tweak-tool"</code> and open Advanced Settings tool. Here we can select "Desktop" in the navigation tree on the left and then turn ON nautilus as the desktop manager. You can optionally turn ON other options like "Computer Icon", "Home Icon", "Network Icon", "Trash Icon" etc...</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">18.)Enable location bar in Nautilus</span></span></blockquote>
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One can enable location bar instead of path bar in nautilus. The advantages of using location bar are that you can always see the full path of the folder you are in and also copy paste the same if required. we should open the command launcher <code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F2)</code> and type in <code class="colorMycode">"gnome-tweak-tool"</code> and hit return key. You can then select "Files" in the navigation tree on the left and then turn "ON" the required option as shown below.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">19.)Enable minimize maximize and close buttons in all applications</span></span></blockquote>
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One can easily enable minimize maximize and close buttons in all application windows in GNOME Shell. To do this we must open the command launcher <code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F2)</code>. Then type in <code class="colorMycode">"gnome-tweak-tool"</code> and hit return key. You can select "Shell" in the navigation tree on the left and then select the required option which is "All" in menu "Arrangement of buttons on the title bar" as shown below. One can also enable other cool options like date in calendar which gets displayed in top panel, configure shutdown options etc.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">20.)Customize the Dash menu</span></span></blockquote>
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The Dash menu is the menu bar which appear on the left hand side of the screen if you press the left windows key on your keyboard. You can easily Add and remove items, rearrange items in the DASH. A detailed post about customizing the DASH is available <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-add-7-remove-application-from.html" rel="external">here</a></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">21.)Add programs to start up</span></span></blockquote>
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You can easily Add and Remove items to start up of your GNOME session. Open the command launcher <code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F2)</code>. Then type in <code class="colorMycode">"gnome-session-properties"</code> and hit the return key. In this window you can click the "add" button on the right hand side of the window which will in turn open up a new window where you can type in the command that will launch the relevant applications when the system starts up. I would typically add the following applications to the startup of my GNOME based system:-</blockquote>
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<ul>
<li>Network Monitoring Tool(GKrellM)</li>
<li>Offline Dictionary(Artha)</li>
<li>Note Making Application(Tomboy)</li>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Adding items to GNOME session startup</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">22.)Change Themes</span></span></blockquote>
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Dark theme lovers can start rejoicing as "Adwaita" supports dark themes now. Dark theme support can be turned ON using the relevant slider as shown below in <code class="colorMycode">"gnome-tweak-tool"</code>.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">23.)Change default applications</span></span></blockquote>
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If you need to change default applications on your desktop e.g.You want to make Opera default browser instead of Firefox then you should Open the command launcher <code class="colorMycode">(Alt+F2)</code>. Then type in <code class="colorMycode">"gnome-control-center"</code> and hit the return key. This will open "Settings" where you can locate an application/applet by name "Details" under "System" category. Open "Details" and navigate to "Default Applications" on the tree like menu on the left hand side of the application. Here you can change the default applications of your system.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">24.)Force applications to appear in openwith list</span></span></blockquote>
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If you want some rogue applications to appear in nautilus file "open with" list (Or) when you right click on a file then you essentially need to edit the launcher in GNOME 3 applications using Alacarte(menu editor) and add a %U after the command. For detailed explanation take a look at <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/02/force-programs-to-appear-in-open-with.html" rel="external">this</a> post.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;">25.)Install archive manager</span></span></blockquote>
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Even though openSUSE 12.3 comes with a good archive manager in the form of <a href="http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/" rel="external">File Roller</a> we usually require archive mangers that have advanced functions</blockquote>
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<ul>
<li>Splitting the file into multiple parts and rejoin the split file</li>
<li>Handle multiple file formats(7zip, xz, bzip2, gzip, zip, tar)</li>
<li>Create self extracting executables </li>
<li>Encrypt archived files</li>
<li>Test archived files</li>
<li>Accessible through right click in Nautilus</li>
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<a href="http://code.google.com/p/k7z/" rel="external">J7Z</a> is one such cool archive manager which satisfies all the above requirements and more. It has built in themes / skins too. To install J7Z we can run the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in j7z"</code> and then press return or enter key in a terminal.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">26.)Install clipboard manager</span></span></blockquote>
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For power users who miss the GNOME 2.X clipboard applet which was sitting prettily on the panel and wish you had similar application on your GNOME 3.X desktop then <a href="https://launchpad.net/glipper" rel="external">Glipper</a> or <a href="http://parcellite.sourceforge.net/" rel="external">Parcellite</a> comes to your rescue. To install Glipper run the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in glipper"</code> in terminal. To install Parcellite use the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in parcellite"</code> in terminal. Parcellite and Glibber automatically adds itself to the start up list and will start automatically when you boot GNOME, next time.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">27.)Enable icons in buttons and Menus</span></span></blockquote>
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To do this you can take a look at this post (<a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/01/gnome-shell-context-menu-appearing.html" rel="external">GNOME Shell Context Menu Appearing Plain without Icons</a>)</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">28.)Make things easy using Nautilus Actions</span></span></blockquote>
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Actions is useful in adding custom menu items to the right click menu and execute arbitrary commands. It provides a way to automate many day to day tasks like image conversion, opening Nautilus in admin mode etc.<a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/03/why-should-we-use-nautilus-actions.html" rel="external">Why should we use Nautilus Actions?</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">29.)Change right click options on files</span></span></blockquote>
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This is about setting a list of open with applications and setting default applications for any file. For more information you can take a look at <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/02/changing-right-click-options-for-files.html" rel="external">Changing right click options for files</a> on GNOME 3.X desktop.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">30.)Creating custom keyboard shortcuts</span></span></blockquote>
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You can use the "keyboard settings" tool under Activities(Alt+F1) and create custom keyboard shortcuts to run scripts,execute jars etc.. For more details you can take a look at <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/01/custom-keyboard-shortcuts-on-gnome-342.html" rel="external">Custom Keyboard Shortcuts on GNOME 3.x desktop</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">31.)Create custom menus or application shortcuts in GNOME</span></span></blockquote>
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In order to create a new menu in the Accessibility dropdown or add your own application launcher to the panel you can take a look at <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-to-add-custom-menus-or-application.html" rel="external">Adding custom menus or application shortcuts to GNOME 3.X panel</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">32.)Force some programs to appear in openwith menu</span></span></blockquote>
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You can follow the method described in step 29 or check out editing of launcher using alacarte in <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/02/force-programs-to-appear-in-open-with.html" rel="external">Force programs to appear in open with list on GNOME 3.x desktop</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">33.)Read through GNOME Cheat Sheet</span></span></blockquote>
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GNOME 3.X desktop have lot of cool inbuilt features like creating screen recordings, desktop refresh, theme refresh etc.. You can learn many thing by reading <a href="https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet" rel="external">GnomeShell/CheatSheet</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">34.)Read about various GNOME 3.6 features</span></span></blockquote>
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Various GNOME 3.6.X features were covered by me through</blockquote>
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<li>Details about GNOME Documents integration with Skydrive and Google Drive were dealt with in <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2013/02/opensuse-123-rc-1-gnome-36.html" rel="external">openSUSE 12.3 RC 1 GNOME 3.6</a></li>
<li>Many Nautilus related changes and new features were covered in <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/11/opensuse-123-milestone-1-gnome-36.html" rel="external">openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 1 GNOME 3.6</a></li>
<li>GNOME Box and other features were covered through <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/10/quick-peek-at-gnome-36.html" rel="external">Quick Peek at GNOME 3.6</a></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">35.)DVD authoring tools</span></span></blockquote>
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Bombono DVD is a DVD authoring program for Linux. It is made easy to use and has nice and clean GUI (Gtk). To install Bombono you can run the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in bombono"</code> in terminal. It is very easy to create Video DVDs from individual video files using Bombono.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">36.)<span style="font-size: large;">DVD Image Slideshows</span></span></span></blockquote>
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Imagination is a lightweight and simple DVD slide show maker for Linux. If you have a large collection of images and you want to burn them with a sound track this would be the go-to tool for you. To install Imagination you can use the command <code class="colorMycode">"sudo zypper in imagination"</code> in terminal.</blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-35773765282891427572013-03-17T21:10:00.007+05:302013-03-18T10:18:46.052+05:30Configure Community Repositories in YaST, GNOME 3.6, openSUSE 12.3<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Community repositories (repos) in openSUSE are repositories that are essential repositories through which most of the software requirements can be met. Community repos can be configured using YaST Software Manager and the repos can be classified as:-</blockquote>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Official :-</span> These are basic repos which power the distro</li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Main Repository (Oss)</span> - This has free software. Packages don't get updated as this is kind of baseline stuff.</li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Main Repository (Non-Oss)</span> - This has Non Free software. Packages don't get updated as this is kind of baseline stuff.</li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Main Update Repository (Oss)</span> - All security updates and other patches Main Repo can be obtained from this repo.</li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Update Repository (Non-Oss)</span> - This is </li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Additional Repositories :-</span> These repos are as the name mentions are used to obtain software that are not part of Official repos.</li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Essential Repositories</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Packman Repository</span> - Contains lot of packages of type multimedia codecs (a.k.a. restricted codecs that cannot be distributed by the openSUSE), Games,Media players( VLC, Mplayer) and other utilities.</li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Libdvdcss Repository</span> - This contains a package which can handle proprietary/encrypted DVDs.</li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">More Repositoies</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">openSUSE BuildService - Education</span> - Contains cool software like Artha, Bluefish, Bluej etc...</li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">openSUSE BuildService - GNOME:Apps</span> - Contains lot of cool GTK applications</li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla</span> - Contain latest versions of Firefox and SeaMonkey and Thunderbird.</li>
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<span style="color: #660000;"> The following video / screencast shows the procedure to add community repository</span></blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-90686960319484820602013-03-16T22:22:00.001+05:302013-03-17T11:25:48.745+05:30How to Format USB drive using YaST partitioner on openSUSE ?<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">How to format USB using YaST partitioner on openSUSE so that we can use the same on both windows and Linux?</span></span></blockquote>
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This is a short screencast / video on a cool and easy way to format or partition a USB / pendrive drive using YaST partitioner on openSUSE 12.2, GNOME 3.4.2. I have used a Kingston, DataTraveler 108 of size 8GB in the screencast. If the USB drive is partitioned in the way specified in this video then it can be used both on Windows and Linux machines. I was able to successfully use the partitioned USB on openSUSE 12.2 and a windows 7 machine. </blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6467568475380394249.post-84063791612847817772013-03-15T00:49:00.003+05:302013-03-27T12:42:46.983+05:30Download manager for file and video sharing sites on GNOME 3.4.2, openSUSE 12.2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In order to automate and queue downloads from file sharing sites like 4shared, filejungle, depositfiles, mediafire etc.. and video sharing sites like youtube, dailymotion, vimeo etc., we can use a Java based downloader called <a href="http://wordrider.net/freerapid/" rel="external">FreeRapid</a> on GNOME 3.4.2, openSUSE 12.2.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step1:-</span></blockquote>
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We need to Install Sun JRE(Java Runtime Environment) for GNOME 3.4.2, openSUSE 12.2 . You can refer to <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/2012/09/opensuse-122-gnome-342-is-out-mantis.html" rel="external">this page</a> to install the same.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step 2:-</span></blockquote>
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Download the latest "All platforms" version of FreeRapid from <a href="http://wordrider.net/freerapid/download.html" rel="external">this page</a>.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step3:- </span></blockquote>
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Extract the downloaded file using your favourite archive manager or just right click on the zip file to open Nautilus context menu and use the menu / option "Extract Here" to extract the contents.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step4:-</span></blockquote>
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Open Alacarte (GNOME 3.X menu editor) and add the relevant menu item as shown below. Ensure that you are adding the full path to "frd.sh" in "Command" textbox.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">open alacarte through command launcher</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Add FreeRapid to Activities menu using Alacarte</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step5:-</span></blockquote>
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After adding FreeRapid to Activities, we can locate it by launching Activities (Alt+F1 or Left Win key) and then typing in search query as "freerapid" in "Activities" window.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Step 6:-</span></blockquote>
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If you open any youtube video or open a file sharing site and copy the url in your browser then it prompts you to download the relevant file or video as FreeRapid can monitor your clipboard. Clipboard monitoring can be toggled on and off using F7 key.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">FreeRapid downloading one of <a href="http://vazhavandan.blogspot.com/p/videos.html" rel="external">my youtube videos</a></span></blockquote>
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