A drop-down terminal can save you a lot of time. Always handy, it appears when you press a combination of keys on your keyboard (usually a plain-and-simple F12 key). KDE has Yakuake. Since some people chose to use only G[...]
To hide the icons that show up on the Gnome desktop, launch gconf-editor and go to apps > nautilus > preferences. Uncheck the box at the right of show_desktop and close gconf-editor. [...]
You can do this by installing AllTray. Once you start the software, a window will pop up asking you to click on the application window you wish to minimize. [...]
If by chance your GNOME files are displaying thumbnails that you know aren’t part of the video file or picture they’re supposed to represent, or if Nautilus is showing both thumbnails and icons for the same t[...]
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