Keep your GNOME fonts organized
You don’t have to mix your favorite fonts with the ones that came with the system. Instead, you can make a .fonts folder in your home directory and drop all your new GNOME fonts in there.
Category Archives: GNOME
Custom clock in GNOME
Want a customized clock and date applet display in the GNOME Panel? Open gconf-editor and go to apps > panel > clock_screen0 > prefs. Edit the format field and type custom in it. Now, in the custom_format field type <span color=”#333333″>%a %d %b</span> <b>%H:%M</b> If you are interested in CISSP then go through 70-640 dumps… Read More »
Faster GNOME menus
If you find your GNOME menus rather slow when accessing them, you can greatly speed up things with echo “gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0” >> ~/.gtkrc-2.0 Alternatively, just edit the .gtkrc-2.0 file in your home directory and add the line gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0
Drag and drop in GNOME
GNOME allows a certain degree of freedom when it comes to drag and drop. For example, you can drag URL addresses from Firefox directly unto the desktop and GNOME will automatically create a link to the website. Same goes for text and images. Drag a text from a webpage and drop it on the desktop… Read More »