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How to move icons/components/widgets on KDE4 panel
Jan 10th
You can move panel components like start menu button, task bar, pager, system tray, clock and other widgets on the panel and rearrange them to suit your needs. The same can be done not only on the main panel of KDE4 but also with any new panel that you might have created. Follow these steps to do it.
- Click on the far right plasma button to open panel settings.
- Now move the mouse cursor back on to the panel and drag which ever widget you want to move. Typically whenever a widget become movable, it shows four-arrowed image on the widget. Then More >
How to create PDF file from a man page in Linux
Dec 6th
The ps2pdf command can be used to create PDF in Linux. This command converts PostScript to PDF using ghostscript. You can redirect the output of “man” command to ps2pdf command to geneate PDF out of man page. The following example shows how to create a PDF of ifconfig man page.
[neo@techpulp ~]# man -t ifconfig | ps2pdf - > ifconfig.pdf [neo@techpulp ~]# okular ifconfig.pdf & [neo@techpulp ~]#
How to get multimedia support in Fedora 10
Dec 4th
The standard Fedora Core Linux doesn’t include support for MP3 and DVD playback and other proprietary video and audio formats like MPEG, AVI, QuickTime etc due to patent and license issues.
However there is a website which provides the software that RedHat and Fedora Project doesn’t include in its repository. It is http://rpmfusion.org/. RPM Fusion is a merger of Dribble, Freshrpms and rpm.livna.org and its goal is to simplify end-user experience by grouping everything in a single location.
First of all, you need to install two rpms from rpmfusion.org which add necessary repository entries in the easy installer “yum“. You need to More >
Why my Unix/Linux VNC session shows only xterm instead of full desktop
Nov 3rd
The default VNC startup script (~/.vnc/xstartup) doesn’t include any commands to start standard desktops like KDE or GNOME. It contains commands to start primitive TWM as window manager and one xterm terminal as application. The following will be the typical startup file for VNC in Fedora systems.
[neo@neo.techpulp.com ~/.vnc]$ cat xstartup #!/bin/sh # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop: # unset SESSION_MANAGER # exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey vncconfig -iconic & xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & twm &
You can change the line More >
How to enable X server on network in Fedora Linux systems
Sep 27th
Please read How to view remote UNIX desktop from Microsoft Windows system to know more about accessing X server from a remote host.
X server comes with built-in support for remote desktop because of its client and server architecture. In Fedora Linux systems, X server is disabled on the network by default. That means the X client programs residing on the same host only can connect to X server. If enabled, typically X server runs on port 6000.
To enable X server on the network, search for DisallowTCP in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf file and modify it to look like the following.
DisallowTCP=false
You may have to either restart the More >
How to view remote UNIX desktop from Microsoft Windows system
Sep 27th
X server is the default Graphical User Interface (GUI) toolkit used in almost all flavors of UNIX family of operating systems and most notably Linux and FreeBSD. The famous desktops are KDE and GNOME. X server toolkit has bulit-in support for remote desktops because of its client and server architecture. X server hides the underlying graphics hardware and presents a unified Application Interface (API) for client programs like KDE and GNOME applications. Unlike Microsoft Windows, the client program can reside in another host and X server can reside on another host. i.e A Windows user with a X server software like More >
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