Having seen many a flash desktop with system info, I decided to give Conky a go. Going in to the package manager and installing ‘conky’ was easy enough! With no menu entry I did the old Alt+F2 trick and just entered ‘conky’ to see if anything would happen.
Life!
A small window popped up at the bottom [...]
* post should be read with the Black Sabbath song ‘Changes’ playing in the background *
For nearly two years now I’ve been using Kubuntu (Ubuntu + KDE) quite happily. It was a happy marriage between us, but yesterday we filed for divorce.
Kubuntu Gutsy, and Hardy, had been fine. I’ve even been using KDE4 since 4.0, [...]
Continue reading about KDE to GNOME - I’m going through change-eee-es
My desktop PC is still running Kubuntu Hardy, it’s running dandy, so I see no real reason to upgrade it to Intrepid. But my EEE 701 PC was still running an early Hardy with KDE 3.5.x so I decided to wipe it and do a fresh install of Intrepid on it. Just for the hell [...]
Continue reading about EEE 701, Kubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and Unetbootin
You’ve never heard of the Pandora? OK, let me fill you in: it’s an open source, hand held, console running Linux. Just a hairs breadth bigger than a Nintendo DS this beast is far more powerful than the DS and PSP.
Today (Sun, 5th Oct) is the closing date if you want to pre-order one from [...]
Continue reading about Will You Be Opening Pandoras Box Before Christmas?
It’s out! KDE 4.1.2 was released yesterday (my time) and I eagerly updated my KDE 4.1.1. No visual difference from 4.1.1 as 4.1.2 is merely a load of bug fixes.
I’m not entirely sure what they fixed, but many of the plasmoids still crash my plasma (KDE Twitter being one of the culprits).
In my opinon THIS [...]
Continue reading about KDE 4.1.2 + Lancelot menu = Happiness
While browsing through my RSS feed of Linux.com I noticed a post about ‘Lancelot’ a new KDE menu/plasmoid. I kinda prefer the old style KDE menu but have been forcing myself to use the new menu to see if it really is crap, and it kinda is.
But Lancelot (below) is the best of both worlds!
If [...]
There I was, sitting having my breakfast this morning (tea and some porridge before work) when suddenly my KDE4 crashed. I mean crashed, corrupt looking screen, and needed a reboot.
PC reboots and I’m given the evil flashing-prompt-of-death ™. No login screen.
After much tinkering and typing of commands I eventually gets a God awful, 640×480 login [...]
If you’ve checked my blog before, you’ll know I’m a KDE fanboy, I admit it. More so with KDE4. Granted, 4.0 was a tad rickety, but with the latest release - RC1 - it’s awesome. With a nice wallpaper and plasma theme I present to you: my latest desktop…
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KDE 4.1 beta 1 is now in the Ubuntu repositories for testing. Check Kubuntu.org for full instructions. All you need to do is add a repo, refresh, and you’ll be able to update your KDE 4.0.x to KDE 4.1 beta 1.
Here’s my (KDE 4.1 beta 1) desktop at the moment:
Some things I’ve noticed so far:
The [...]
Having installed Kubuntu Hardy I dreaded the thought of having to recompile the libgpod library to get my iPod Classic (Black) working again. After installing Amarok I thought I’d try my iPod anyway.
Lo and behold, it worked!
Hoorah!
Well, it did. Until I actually flipped through the cover art and played some tracks did I notice that [...]
