Enable Desktop Effect in Fedora 13
This post is specific to enabling 3d (desktop effects) in fedora 13 running on Nvidia graphics. I struggled to enable the desktop effect in Fedora 13. But eventually I managed to enable the desktop effects using the following steps. Note: This is a 3 steps process. Please follow all the steps to enable desktop effects in Fedora 13 1. Install Nvidia drivers ( if you have 4Gb of RAM or more you will probably have...

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How to install Cairo Dock in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
Cairo Dock is a docking application for Linux. It's quite awesome and makes a wonderful addition to your Linux's look and feel. Let's see how to install this lovely utility in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). But before we get into the details of installing it. Let's see how it looks like on Ubuntu 10.04. Let's get on with the installation. Open a terminal window and add the following line and copy paste the following...

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OSD Lyrics: A multi-player lyrics finder for Linux
Do you like singing along while a song is playing and sometimes miss out on lyrics. You might face this more so on Linux as Windows has fairly good options for a lyrics finder. OSD-Lyrics tries to fill this gap by allowing you to download lyrics. More over it supports a large number of media players. OSD Lyrics is inspired by lrcdis. With OSD Lyrics, you can enjoy an OSD lyrics show with various media players in ...

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Install Google Chrome on OpenSuse 11.3
Google Chrome is a lightening fast browser and is available cross platform. Let's see how to install Google Chrome on Open Suse 11.3. All you have to do is go to Google Chrome Download Page. 1. Click on Get Google Chrome (BETA). 2. On the subsequent page make sure OpenSuse is selected. Click Accept and Install. 3. The package file will be downloaded and opened in YaST and Google Chrome will be installed on...

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Fix color issues in videos on Ubuntu 10.04 {Lucid Lynx}
Have you have suffered from color issues on videos in Ubuntu 10.04. Say for example you start playing a video and you see high amounts of blue tinge while playing a video. I ran into this problem today and it wasn't too much of difficulty to fix it back to normal. The issue at hand looks something like this: Let's see how to fix this on the default movie player Totem Movie Player on Ubuntu 10.04 and also VLC ...

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New Flock will be based on Google’s Chromium: Dumps Mozilla!
Flock is a social browser which till recently was based on Mozilla. No more. The new version of Flock will be based on Google Chromium. Note: It's currently not available for Linux. The move is to make it a little lighter and faster. We managed to have some sneak peak into the beta version of upcoming Flock (based on Google Chromium). It’s almost as good as Google Chromium though has still tried to stay social ...

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Upgrading packages/softwares in OpenSuse 11.2
Upgrades are very important for any operating system. It keeps running things smoothly and ensures the security of your machine. Let's see how to upgrade packages and softwares in OpenSuse 11.2. This is pretty simple to achieve. Go to Computer > Install Software Select the tab that reads Upgrades. Click the first package and click CTRL+A to select all the packages. Click Upgrade Click Apply to begin...

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Install LXDE (Light weight desktop manager) on Ubuntu 10.04
This post is inspired by one of my geek friends. She totally loves Linux and keeps experimenting it. She suggested I try LXDE as my desktop manager on Linux. The "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment. I wasn't disappointed when I installed it. It's lightening fast and loads up in no time. Following are some of it's features: Lightweight It...

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Installing Opera 10.10 in Isadora {Linux Mint 9}
Opera is one of my favorite browsers as it comes as a full package with support for email (POP and IMAP), IRC chat client, RSS feedreader. You can also extend its functionality using widgets. Installing Opera 10.10 on Linux Mint is pretty easy. Let's see how to install it: 1. Open Synaptic Package Manager by going to Menu > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager 2. Search for ...

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How to install Docky on Linux Mint 9 {Isadora}
Docky is a branched out application from Gnome-Do and has turned into a full fledged dock application for Linux. Docky is a frontend for GNOME Do (Do) that introduces an entirely new way to interact with Do. Docky helps Do become more directly involved with your desktop by providing a persistent mouse based Dock interface while remaining true to Do's keyboard only interaction. Being tied directly into Do allows...

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Restoring Grub in Ubuntu: How-to

Jul 13th

Posted by Vivek in How-to | 918 views

Share I had to re-install Windows on my partition and in the process it was obvious that I was going to lose my Grub. However, I knew I could very easily get it back. You can lose grub for various reasons and the most common being installing windows, which unfortunately doesn’t respect your settings and