How To Add Programs To X / Gnome Session Startup

April 11th, 2007 Today while setting up and trying new application I found that one of the Gnome panels containing Applications, Places and System menu (taskbar for Windows users) wasn't displaying. After restarting the Gnome session I found an error message along the lines of: Error panel already running will exit panel.

April 11th, 2007 Go to the following menu: System -> Preferences -> More Preferences -> Sessions Click on Startup Options tab and click on Add button to add your program to startup.

May 14th, 2007 SessionSaver is a popular Firefox extension which allows you to seamlessly save existing session and restore it automatically at startup. You can also name the session and retrieve them anytime in future.

January 8th, 2009 There is a strange conflict between keyboard short-cuts and Gnome Environment. We have got many complaints regarding Gnome doesn’t let you bind keyboard shortcuts with the Super (windows key) combination, except the Super key itself (alone).

December 18th, 2007 GrooveMonitor is a service utility that tracks groove behavour and creates reports for error reporting to MS (what else does it report?). It loads on startup.

May 25th, 2009 After writing a detailed guide of tips and howtos about Xfce (a free desktop environment for Unix and other platforms such as Linux, Solaris and BSD) we started our expedition on Xfce and soon encountered a problem that we had no feasible and complete solution to. One of our developers was having some problems with the Xfce panels.

April 13th, 2008 I am using Linux (Fedora Core 6) on a pretty high end hardware (at least when I bought it) - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz (4M shared L2 Cache) with 2 GB DDR2 RAM, nVidia dual-head graphics card for over a year now. And yet a simple change made it at least 20-40% faster.

November 3rd, 2006 We deployed an application on client site yesterday and we faced a really puzzling problem. Some data stored in session variable ( $_SESSION["messages"] ) was returning the data of a global array $messages.

April 30th, 2007 To monitor CPU temperature in Linux you will need to install lm_sensors package and then install gnome-applet-sensors (assuming you are using gnome) to get a nice graphical display. The devil is in the details.

October 14th, 2007 Autoexec.bat is a legacy file in Windows which is executed every time you start Windows. Commands you want to run with startup of windows, and applicable to all users, are added to autoexec.bat.

April 11th, 2007 Anaconda has a well documented defect where it installs i586 based kernel in i686 machines. It causes problems with several drivers including nvidia drivers.

July 14th, 2007 This question was posed by a visitor of this site. Here is how you can change the default home page location in Firefox and everything you can do with it.

April 13th, 2009 Coming from the Linux community, Ubuntu is perhaps the most visually attractive distro among other nerdy ones. I remember, after my reviews of Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex, how people were crazy about the theme and the wallpaper that is by default there.

February 16th, 2006 Often we come across procedures which need to be performed by issuing commands in a telnet session. It is relatively easy to do it manually but is definitely not suitable for automation.

August 26th, 2007 Java is used either for long running server side applications / application servers or for running short scripts. Let's look at how you can speed-up both these type of applications.