Mar 08

Set background image in Nautilus File Manager in Ubuntu

Scribbled on Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Updated on: 31 July, 2008 at 5:32 PM IST

Here is the step by step procedure for the geekier approach.

Method 1 (The manual method) :

  • Open a terminal window
  • Type this command in the terminal
gedit .gconf/apps/nautilus/preferences/%gconf.xml

Jan 18

Why should I be a Vegetarian ?

Scribbled on Friday, January 18th, 2008

Look I don’t want to advocate that non-veg is bad but yeah I do feel that vegetarianism is a lot way better than chewing flesh.

So here are some facts and reasons that provides a base for my decision:

  • Human dental structure and other herbivores dental structure matches whereas carnivores have conspicuous canines thats especially meant to tear away the meat and gulp it down. Read on…
Jan 17

How many files are open ?

Scribbled on Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Most probably to find the answer in Linux, you will type this command at terminal (shell):

lsof | wc -l

lsof will give a row of open files and the result is piped(|) to word count (wc) command that counts the rows/lines (-l)

Read on…

Jan 16

Desktop of the month

by T on Wednesday
Jan 16

The Fiction We Live

by T on Wednesday
Jan 13

Close the batch file after executing a program

by T on Sunday
Jan 13

A standalone Helloworld XUL example (XULRunner)

by T on Sunday
Jan 11

Copy Text to Clipboard- IE, Firefox and Opera

by T on Friday
Jan 09

Changing Network Interface Card Priority in Win XP

by T on Wednesday
Jan 07

Blatant rip off - Smother Me

by T on Monday


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