GNOME
This is a simple note on how to access remote linux machine files through SSH from GNOME File browser Nautilus. My server is Debian Squeeze and Client is Ubuntu 10.04. Remote machine configuration Install the OpenSSH package as shown below. # apt-get install openssh-server Local machine configuration Install the OpenSSH client package as shown below, [...]
Many Business laptop models equipped with Fingerprint Sensor. Though it is not considered as good security system for a laptop login, still some specific applications utilize this feature for identification and authentication. My Sony laptop VGN-CS15GN/B is having Upek Fingerprint sensor. In this case my OS is Fedora 13 64bit. By default Fedora supports Fingerprint [...]
Are you bored with limited features of screenshot tool in your linux distro? Here is the Shutter, an advanced screenshot tool. It is a must tool for any technology blogger and technical writer. It has amazing features defined as below by the project itself. This post is to introduce this wonderful tool to the community. [...]
GoogleCL is a project intended to access Google services from Linux command line. Uploading the pictures to Picasa Web Album is one such service. Though the intention of this project is to make the services easily accessible from command line, I have written a simple GUI wrapper script to make this service available from GUI [...]
Many times I have felt the sound clip played while login to Ubuntu desktop is unwarranted. I am not interested in this login sound, which makes my kids to come to me and start doing all possible things to prevent me from working. My Ubuntu version is 10.04. The following command plays the login sound [...]
Ubuntu uses Centralized password management tool called Seahorse. This tool is a front end GUI to GNOME's keyring management system. In simple this tool stores all passwords with a master password which is normally same as login password. This tool can manage your PGP keys, SSH Keys and pass phrases we use in different applications [...]
Trash in GNOME is generally handled in Nautilus file browser. Trash icon's context menu provides shortcut to empty trash. But while working in command line, you may not prefer to empty trash by going to Trash icon in panel or file browser. In older version of GNOME, the trash folder is in .Trash folder in [...]
I prefer GMail web interface than any other desktop client. Out of the box you can't select GMail web interface as default mail client in GNOME on Ubuntu. But you can get it done with gnome-gmail application. Step-1: Download the latest installation package .deb from here and install it by double clicking it or through [...]
Some times back I had written a small review on Pardus Linux 2007. I had mentioned that I did not use it for long time, but it is worth to watch this innovative and good performing distro. My production system is Ubuntu based. Before upgrading/installing Ubuntu 7.04, I was trying to use Pardus ...
