How to autostart any program when Gnome desktop session starts

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 29th, 2007 I needed to run Synergy server for my triple monitor setup at startup of Gnome session. crontab isn't going to help here.

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 14th, 2009 Windows control panel is something we are all familiar with in Windows operating systems like Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Vista & now Winfows 7. Unfortunately you may not have found a direct equivalent of Windows Control Panel which works in Linux systems like RHEL, Cent OS, Fedora, Ubuntu etc.

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.

May 2nd, 2007 The Trashcan on your Fedora Core desktop (tested for gnome) is actually located in ~/Trash directory. So a simple commaond as below should clear your trash: rm -rf ~/.Trash/* Why did I need this? There were some files in the Trash can which I didn't have permission to clean.

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.

September 14th, 2009 You may find several instructions to autostart synergyc during login and after login. I had a hard time using them.

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).

July 27th, 2009 With the increase in availability and deployment of open source software in personal and commercial environments, the Software libre initiative seems to succeed in its aim of putting an end to the predatory vendor lock-in. Especially, during this  period of economic recession the when IT products development costs are rising, open source software are fast becoming viable alternatives.

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.

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.

January 3rd, 2009 Mac fonts are lucrative to say the least. But what if you are a Linux user? Can you use their fonts in your good ol' Ubuntu? Preferably yes.

August 6th, 2009 In Windows registry holds the key importance.  There are some behind the curtain features in Windows, which can only be accessed by editing the registry. Essentially, Windows registry includes useful settings that can be used to improve it's performance.

November 4th, 2008 I hope you all remember our detailed reviews on Fedora 10, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 8.10. But we are not finished yet.