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Beautiful, compact, responsive, powerful, stretchable as well as careful operate of hardware resources. If we have been seeking for an handling complement that meets all these characteristics, afterwards Macpup is GNU / Linux placement you’re seeking for. Let’s see together in detail.

We mostly consternation either it is probable to revive hold up to a Personal Computer sidelined since deliberate archaic since of a singular hardware resources. What we listen to rught away in these cases is, but doubt, a eminent Puppy Linux, a permanent upon all sides in a initial GNU / Linux some-more renouned with users of a Penguin. As with many renouned distributions as Ubuntu, Puppy has launched a central bieing born of a little derivatives such Macpup estimable of all respect.

Features Macpup

Its categorical advantages are, of course, a minimality as well as compactness, since a measure of usually 173.9 MB, while maintaining a responsiveness interjection to a versatile as well as rarely customizable desktop sourroundings formed upon Enlightenment. This latter underline has additionally authorised programmers to have Macpup demeanour vaguely identical to a placement of Mac OS X.

As topping upon a cake, let us additionally that a placement is to some extent translated in to Italian, that can usually be pleased!
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I took advantage of this break to try and test the Linux distribution for KDE hottest of the moment, I’m glad I did! I tried Chakra in two ways: first in live-USB port on my PC and then rush through native installation on a rather old PC, to test, that despite his years continues to give me great satisfaction. No problem.

What is Chakra: Arch Linux and is not KDEmod, both with perhaps a little more.

Chakra is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Arch powerful that focuses on the KDE desktop. From Arch inherits features such as speed and flexibility advantages immediately apparent from the first day of use regardless of what you do with. The type of release of updates is semi-continuous (half-rolling), a feature that guarantees a good compromise between stability and modernity, thus making it less oppressive dependence on the user since the release of new versions.

The version of Chakra that I had the honor to try 0.3.0 is released just a week ago with the SC version 4.5.4 of KDE. I have not encountered problems with hardware recognition on either PC (beginning to think that this story continue to tell us about the hardware recognition just because “it’s cool,” I do not think these are the problems of Linux distributions, no more). As a matter of time (and space) I would omit information on how to install the system, despite Tribe deserves a lot.

The desktop environment is pleasant and that statement does not derive solely from my preference for KDE. The dark is very elegant desktop theme, the wallpaper is stunning, the customizations related to Kickoff (judicious choice of the favorites) and Dolphin (toolbar and panels) are intelligent and not at all trivial.

The system’s response to my command has been more than satisfactory in every aspect to ensure a good stability in most stressful situations that I have to submit it. On Arch? On KDE? I do not know and do not care!

The system bundles. Undoubtedly it is the characteristic of this distribution I was most impressed, to say the truth is the main reason why I decided to try it. Often, the biggest problem of the installation of KDE are the GTK applications. It is difficult for many, myself included, completely disengaging from them and maybe the time is not yet ripe to make the complete switch to Qt applications entirely satisfactory.

The bundle, and I quote, car mountable file systems are that they contain all the files needed to run an application that is not in the repositories. Simply stated, referring to problems of common nature, is a system for installing software packages that allows us to take advantage of our favorite applications GTK without affecting the cleanliness and stability of our system KDE. The system works something like this:

we go on this page and download the bundle for the software that we are interested
click on the file and proceed with the installation by the excellent, albeit simplistic, CInstall
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In two minutes flat I installed the ubiquitous Chromium.

Although on the official website of the project is presented as a suitable operating system mostly for advanced users, I believe that in the future can enjoy a good reputation even among non-experts. Perhaps the greatest difficulties are inherent in the choice of the ED rather than in its being-based Arch. We know that KDE requires more effort than GNOME, a commitment that comes mostly from the many possibilities of customization with the K Desktop offers.

Moral of the story. Chakra is a ‘good distribution and certainly among the best that package KDE. It is very difficult to transmit their enthusiasm to others in the use of a Linux distribution rather than an ‘other, perhaps because it is a bit’ like visiting for the first time a foreign country, not a monument or museum that counts but rather the ‘atmosphere in the streets. This distribution has many points in its favor, I was able to describe, alas, only a couple of them. Do yourself a favor, put your suitcase in a nice PC, a USB stick, a little ‘healthy enthusiasm and take a trip on Chakra, I’m sure that after you will want to return!

You can download the ISO to burn from this page. For more information I invite you to follow the pages of the official forum of Chakra in comments reported by Lazy.

See also Chakra Linux: tested for you … and for me! Part Two
I take this opportunity to wish you all happy holidays!

The lists have been quicklist law menu which appears when we do a right click upon an idol launcher Unity. Here is a preference of a many renouned quicklist, until a Ubuntu developers soak up them permanently.

Note: After we follow a stairs for installing a quicklist, we contingency restart your event if a changes have been not taken in to account.

summary

• Terminal
• Firefox
• Chromium
• Google services
• LibreOffice
• Depots APP
• File Browser
• SSH
• Filezilla
• Thunderbird
• Gedit calm editor
• Banshee
• Rhythmbox

Terminal

Copy a strange file. Desktop as well as open it with gedit:

cp /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop

Search for a following:

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;

And reinstate it with:

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;

Then supplement this to a finish of file:

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow;NewTab;Top;Root;

[NewWindow Shortcut Group]
Name=Nouvelle fenêtre
Exec=gnome-terminal --window
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[NewTab Shortcut Group]
Name=Nouvel onglet
Exec=xdotool windowfocus gnome-terminal pass ctrl+shift+t
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Root Shortcut Group]
Name=Terminal en Root
Exec=gksudo gnome-terminal
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Top Shortcut Group]
Name=Top
Exec=gnome-terminal --command top
TargetEnvironment=Unity

Firefox

Copy a strange file. Desktop as well as open it with gedit:

cp /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop

Search for a following:

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow;

And reinstate it with:

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow;Private;SafeMode;ProfileManager;Tux-planet

Then supplement this to a finish of file:

[Private Shortcut Group]
Name=Navigation privée
Exec=firefox -private-toggle
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[SafeMode Shortcut Group]
Name=Ouvrir Firefox en Safe mode
Exec=firefox -safe-mode
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[ProfileManager Shortcut Group]
Name=Gestion de profiles
Exec=firefox -ProfileManager
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Tux-planet Shortcut Group]
Name=Ouvrir Tux-planet
Exec=firefox "www.tux-planet.fr"
TargetEnvironment=Unity

Chromium

Copy a strange file. Desktop as well as open it with gedit:

cp /usr/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop

Add this to a finish of file:

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow;Incognito;

[NewWindow Shortcut Group]
Name=Nouvelle fenêtre
Exec=chromium-browser
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Incognito Shortcut Group]
Name=Mode incognito
Exec=chromium-browser --incognito
TargetEnvironment=Unity

Google services

French to English translation
Create a latest file:

gedit~/.local/share/applications/google-services-launcher.desktop

With a following contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Google Services
Exec=/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
Icon=/filepath/to/google-icon.png #change this filepath to a tangible idol filepath
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=Gmail;Contacts;Calendar;Docs;Reader;

[Gmail Shortcut Group]
Name=Gmail
Exec=xdg-open https://gmail.com
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Contacts Shortcut Group]
Name=Gmail Contacts
Exec=xdg-open https://www.google.com/contacts
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Calendar Shortcut Group]
Name=Google Calendar
Exec=xdg-open https://calendar.google.com
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Docs Shortcut Group]
Name=Google Docs
Exec=xdg-open https://docs.google.com
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Reader Shortcut Group]
Name=Google Reader
Exec=xdg-open https://google.com/reader
TargetEnvironment=Unity

Then open nautilus as well as do a Drag as well as Drop File launcher.desktop google-services-in a launch club of Unity:

nautilus ~/.local/share/applications/

LibreOffice

Copy a strange file. Desktop as well as open it with gedit:

cp /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-startcenter.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/libreoffice-startcenter.desktop

Add this to a finish of a file:

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=Writer;Impress;Calc;Math;Draw

[Writer Shortcut Group]
Name=Texte
Exec=libreoffice -writer %U
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Impress Shortcut Group]
Name=Présentation
Exec=libreoffice -impress %U
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Calc Shortcut Group]
Name=Classeur
Exec=libreoffice -calc %U
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Math Shortcut Group]
Name=Formule
Exec=libreoffice -math %U
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Draw Shortcut Group]
Name=Dessin
Exec=libreoffice -draw %U
TargetEnvironment=Unity

Depots APP

Copy a strange file. Desktop as well as open it with gedit:

cp /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-software-center.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/ubuntu-software-center.desktop

Add this to a finish of a file:

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=SoftwareProperties;SoftwareSources;

[SoftwareProperties Shortcut Group]
Name=Gestionnaire de mises à jour
Exec=update-manager -c %u
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[SoftwareSources Shortcut Group]
Name=Ajouter/Editer des PPAs
Exec=gksu software-properties-gtk
TargetEnvironment=Unity

File Browser

Copy a strange file. Desktopet open it with gedit:

cp /usr/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop

Search for a following:

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;

And reinstate it with:

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;

Then supplement this to a finish of file:

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=Videos;Documents;Music;Pictures;Downloads
[Videos Shortcut Group]
Name=Videos
Exec=nautilus Videos
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Documents Shortcut Group]
Name=Documents
Exec=nautilus Documents
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Music Shortcut Group]
Name=Music
Exec=nautilus Music
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Pictures Shortcut Group]
Name=Pictures
Exec=nautilus Pictures
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Downloads Shortcut Group]
Name=Downloads
Exec=nautilus Downloads
TargetEnvironment=Unity

 


Connexions SSH

Create a latest file:

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/ssh-launcher.desktop

With a following calm (change a residence of a aim machine):

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Remote Servers
Comment=Login to my servers
Exec=gnome-terminal --disable-factory --sm-client-disable --class=remoteserver -x ssh -t cible.fr
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=utilities-terminal
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=RemoteServers
X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=Server1;

[Server1 Shortcut Group]
Name=SSH vers dedibox
Exec=gnome-terminal --disable-factory --sm-client-disable  --class=remoteserver -x ssh -t cible.fr
TargetEnvironment=Unity

Then open nautilus as well as do a Drag as well as Drop record ssh-launcher.desktop in a launch club of Unity:

nautilus ~/.local/share/applications/

Filezilla

Copy a strange file. Desktop as well as open it with gedit:

cp /usr/share/applications/filezilla.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/filezilla.desktop

Add this to a finish of a record (change a login as well as cue as well as server address):

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=Server1;

[Server1 Shortcut Group]
Name=FTP in to exam server
Exec=filezilla ftp://test:[email protected]:21
TargetEnvironment=Unity

Thunderbird

Copy a strange file. Desktop as well as open it with gedit:

cp /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop

Add this to a finish of a file:

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=Compose;AddressBook;ProfileManager;

[Compose Shortcut Group]
Name=Composer
Exec=thunderbird -compose
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[AddressBook Shortcut Group]
Name=Carnet d'adresses
Exec=thunderbird -addressbook
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[ProfileManager Shortcut Group]
Name=Gestionnaire de profiles
Exec=thunderbird -ProfileManager
TargetEnvironment=Unity

Gedit calm editor

Copy a strange file. Desktop as well as open it with gedit:

cp /usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/gedit.desktop

Add this to a finish of a record (change a [username]):

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=OpenDoc;OpenDocRoot;

[OpenDoc Shortcut Group]
Name=Ouvrir un fichier...
Exec=/home/[username]/.local/share/applications/scripts/gedit-shortcuts normal-mode
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[OpenDocRoot Shortcut Group]
Name=Ouvrir un fichier en root...
Exec=/home/[username]/.local/share/applications/scripts/gedit-shortcuts root-mode
TargetEnvironment=Unity

Create a book gedit-shortcuts similar to this:

mkdir ~/.local/share/applications/scripts && cd ~/.local/share/applications/scripts
touch gedit-shortcuts && chmod +x gedit-shortcuts
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/scripts/gedit-shortcuts

Add this to a file:

#!/bin/bash

case $1 in
normal-mode) gedit $(zenity --title='Open file...' --file-selection);;
root-mode) gksudo -u base -m "Password" "bash -c 'gedit \$(zenity --title=\'Password\' \
--file-selection)'";;
esac

Enusite open nautilus as well as do a Drag as well as Drop File gedit.desktop in a launch club of Unity:

nautilus ~/.local/share/applications/

 


Banshee

Copy a strange file. Desktop as well as open it with gedit:

cp /usr/share/applications/banshee.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/banshee.desktop

Add this to a finish of a file:

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=Play;Pause;Stop;Previous;Next;Preferences

[Play Shortcut Group]
Name=Lecture
Exec=banshee --play
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Pause Shortcut Group]
Name=Pause
Exec=banshee --pause
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Stop Shortcut Group]
Name=Stop
Exec=banshee --stop
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Previous Shortcut Group]
Name=Précédent
Exec=banshee --previous
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Next Shortcut Group]
Name=Suivant
Exec=banshee --next
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Preferences Shortcut Group]
Name=Préférences
Exec=banshee --show-preferences
TargetEnviroment=Unity

 


Rhythmbox

Copy a strange file. Desktop as well as open it with gedit:

cp /usr/share/applications/rhythmbox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/rhythmbox.desktop

Add this to a finish of a file:

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=Play;Pause;Previous;Next;Stop

[Play Shortcut Group]
Name=Lecture
Exec=rhythmbox-client --play
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Pause Shortcut Group]
Name=Pause
Exec=rhythmbox-client --pause
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Previous Shortcut Group]
Name=Précédent
Exec=rhythmbox-client --previous
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Next Shortcut Group]
Name=Suivant
Exec=rhythmbox-client --next
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Stop Shortcut Group]
Name=Stop
Exec=rhythmbox-client --stop
TargetEnvironment=Unity

We present an overview of the hotkey for the GNOME desktop environment, that may be useful to speed up operations carried out every day with our PC.

For those like me used to working with Penguin and the GNOME desktop environment, there are a number of commonly used hot keys (and maybe others that I found randomly pressing the keys) I would like to share with you.

Obviously, the more savvy they know already, but in this case, I appeal to all those who have approached the world GNU / Linux from a relatively short time, and those who have never thought, for example, the ability to move quickly from a desktop another, or restore a minimized window, simply by using the keyboard or the mouse.

I state that many of these functions are linked to your video card driver and not normally available with open source versions, so if you want to experience the wonders of Compiz and GNOME, you may need to force things to enable proprietary video drivers.

Alt + F1

The key combination to open the Applications menu.

Alt + F2

Displays a dialog that allows you to quickly perform an application. You can start an application by typing its name or selecting it from among those known.

Stamp or PrintScreen

Capture quick screenshot of the desktop.

Alt + Print Screen

Capture quick screenshot of the active window.

Ctrl + Alt + RIGHT ARROW
Moving quickly on the work right.

Ctrl + Alt + LEFT ARROW
Moving quickly on the work of the left.

Ctrl + Alt + DOWN ARROW

The key combination allows you to collapse the desktop to the center of the screen. You can easily scroll through the work areas while continuing to hold down Ctrl + Alt and alternating between Left / Right Arrow.

Ctrl + Alt + D

Minimize all open windows showing the desktop. Press the combination once again, the windows are maximized.

Ctrl + L

Nautilus allows you to quickly open the desired folder. After entering the path of the folder press Open. The same command, if executed directly in Nautilus, it shows the folder path where we are.

Ctrl + Alt + T

Open the terminal.

Alt + Tab

See all the open windows in the active work. Holding down the Alt key, click on the TAB every time we move from one window to another. Once you select the window that we want, release the Alt key to take control.

Alt + SPACEBAR
Opens the menu for the active window.

Ctrl + Shift + F10 or F10

Both open the context menu if the focus is on the desktop, within applications works only the combination Shift + F10. Useful if you are working only at the keyboard and do not want to use the mouse.

Alt + F10

Toggle full screen mode with the screen half of the applications / windows active.

Ctrl + Alt + L

The combination of these buttons allows you to quickly lock the PC.

Ctrl + Alt + Function

Pressing a function key from F1 to F6 leads to one of 6 text consoles available. To return to graphical mode, press the Ctrl + Alt + F7.

Winkey + M or WinKey + N

Displays the negative.

Winkey + E

Shows an overview of all work areas.

Wheel + Winkey

The scroll wheel when pressing the WinKey allows quick zoom on your desktop. The yield is significant and I find very useful, especially if you were to use glasses.

Ctrl + Wheel

If you position the mouse pointer on the taskbar and GNOME you have more than one application open, pressing the Ctrl key combined with the scroll wheel of your mouse, will allow for the cycling of active applications. In other words a kind of Alt + Tab when using a mouse.

If you have multiple tabs open with an application like gedit, this combination of buttons and scroll wheel will scroll the focus between the tabs themselves.

Used with Nautilus (the GNOME default Explorer) this pair + wheel button changes the size of the icons of folders and files in the active window, but did not affect the size of folders: opening them because the content will be shown to the default size.

Alt + Scroll

Holding down the Alt key and sliding the back wheel, the window on which is located at the time the mouse will start to disappear, to become almost completely transparent.

It also works with GNOME toolbars without affecting the drop-down menu if you wish to access it. This means that clicking on an entry from the slash (in nose if the bar is completely transparent), the menu will be displayed in his usual consistency and opacity.

The feature is definitely useful if you want that prying eyes can not see what you’re doing.

Shift + Wheel

Used with Firefox is equivalent to using the Next and Back buttons in your browser. Useful feature if you’re lazy and you also weighs just slide the mouse on the screen.

How are these tips? I do not know, I hope they are useful to someone and I will be happy to add your own, if they have other, to the list of this article.

Tired of the new Unity? No problem: there is KDE! With a few click you can install the main alternative to GNOME desktop environment and use all its functions.

Starting with version 11.04, Canonical introduced into Ubuntu Desktop Environment (DE) Unity. This choice has disappointed many, partly disappointed immaturity of the new interface.

One of the viable solutions to remedy what many see as supporters of the Penguin a step back, would be to switch to KDE (K Desktop Environment), a graphical environment GNOME alternative to the better known (it is based on Unity) and available for almost all UNIX-based operating systems

Among the many distributions that mounting this ED, Kubuntu is definitely one of the best, always based on Ubuntu and Canonical developed by itself, with version 11.04 has reached a level of stability and performance excellent.

If you already have Ubuntu up and running, the installation of Kubuntu would result in the loss of all data and applications installed on the system: a real nuisance as well as a waste of time! Would always be possible to install dual-boot with Ubuntu, but this would require a request in terms of space occupied considerable.

So what? Thanks to a very simple operation you can install KDE Kubuntu and all the utilities in your host system side by side with the existing ED. In this way it takes up less space than a dual-boot and you have the freedom to use almost all KDE applications already installed.

Installing KDE

Open the package manager, and insert the term in the search engine kubuntu. Next, select the item kubuntu-desktop and click on Install:

You notify us that they will be downloaded to other packages: confirm by pressing Select. Now, let the voice language-pack-kde-en. We select the first result, which contains the files for KDE Italian language, and confirm.

Finally, press Apply:

We wait for the installation is complete (it will take a long time, being the fairly large amount of programs and dependencies to download and install), and finally reboot the system.

When you arrive to the login screen, select Start as a desktop, from the pulldown menu at the bottom, the voice KDE Plasma Workspace, and log. You’ll find yourself in front of the KDE desktop in all its glory.
Uninstalling

If you are dissatisfied with KDE, and want to uninstall it, go into Unity from the login panel as you did for KDE, and access the package manager. Look for the entry kubuntu-desktop, and confirm the uninstall.

At this point, however, you’ll notice that several programs will be staggered characters. To resolve this problem, enable Nautilus to display hidden files, by clicking on View-> Show hidden files:

Bring in your Home account, and look for the folder. Fontconfig. Enter it, and delete all the files in it.

Reboot the system, and will be reported to the default font in Unity.