A while back I did an introduction about .xinitrc which is a nice display manager free way of autostarting programs with Linux. With .xinitrc you can however do much more than start some programs. In fact you can start the whole desktop with .xinitrc and a command known as startx Continue reading
Howto: make files/folders secure from accidental deletion with a simple gui trick
As it happens we occasionally hit delete where we should not and that can deliver a lot pain if we are using a filemanager which does not support trash can feature. Here is a simply trick to prevent accidental deletion of files and folders inside your Linux box. Continue reading
How to build a Debian package? A case example with Midori 0.50
In this tutorial I will be showing how to build a basic Debian package from source code. For the example I chose Midori 0.50 which is the latest release of small and fast web-browser branch.
Midori is a good choice if you run hardware which does not get along very well with high system and resource demands or if you just want a fast web browser which does it’s job well. Continue reading
Change background in Gnome3/gnome-settings-daemon without using gnome-tweak tool or any GUI
Changing background in Gnome3 can be done in various ways the most common ones being the GUI ways. If you however want to change your Gnome3 background without any graphical user interface you can execute the following command inside the terminal client: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri “file:////etc/skel/drift.png
In the above example the /etc/skel/drift.png is the location of my background so tweak it according to your needs. If you are not using Gnome3 but you are using a windowmanager such as Fluxbox with gnome-settings-daemon then you can add the following line to your startup file:
(sleep 5 && gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri “file:////etc/skel/drift.png”) &
The above line tells your not-Gnome3 windowmanager to wait for 5 seconds and then get the background picture from the given file and apply it while using gnome-settings-daemon. The result of this approach is that your background will not get overwriten by Gnome3 settings but you can use your own custom background easily instead. You might need to tweak the examples given here according to your Linux configuration.