I like very much Ethan Schoonover Solarized color palette. So I decided write a guide, howto get Solarized colors to most commonly used Linux terminals (Gnome-Terminal, Konsole, XFCE Terminal, Mate-Terminal), Text editors (Gedit, Vim) and IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans). These are not my projects, so the greatest honor belongs, of course, these projects owners and Ethan Schoonover.
1. Install Needed Tools (git, mercurial, 7-zip)
2. Create and Change to Solarized Directory
3. Solarized...
This is quick tip howto add "Open in Terminal" to Nautilus (Gnome File Manager) context menu on Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL). Many Linux, Nautilus Open in Terminal feature is installed by default. For some reason on Red Hat-based Linux, this does not exists. This is very useful little feature and speed up moving to console from Nautilus.
1. Change root user
su -
## OR ##
sudo -i
2. Install nautilus-open-terminal package
yum install nautilus-open-terminal
3....
Here is easy way add date and time to Linux terminal title. This trick works at least following terminals Gnome Terminal, xterm, urxvt, rxvt.
Simply type the following command line:
while sleep 1 ; do echo -ne '\033]2;'`date`'\007'; done &
What is Gnome Do?
GNOME Do (Do) is an intelligent launcher tool that allows users to use the keyboard to rapidly perform tasks such as launching applications, manipulating files and data, running scripts, or sending e-mail. It is similar to the applications GNOME Launch Box (Linux Gnome), KRunner (Linux KDE), Quicksilver (Mac OS X), LaunchBar (Mac OS X) and Butler (Mac OS X).
What is Gnome Do - Docky?
Gnome Do - Docky is a nice frontend for GNOME Do (Do) which introduces an entirely new...
What is Gnome Shell?
GNOME Shell is the defining technology of the GNOME 3 desktop user experience.
It provides following core interface functions:
Launching applications
Opening files
Switching between open windows
Adding and deleting workspaces
Moving windows between workspaces
Dynamic system-related information display (including transient notifications)
Providing a flat list of user-account related actions
Logging out or switching the session, and stopping or...