Sometimes when you install a new program from the Ubuntu repositories, it doesn’t show up on the menu until you log out and log back in. You can easily reload the Gnome panel though by killing the process and restarting it. Simply open a terminal window and enter the following: Continue reading
Many Linux media players do a great job of keeping your screen saver from activating when you’re watching a video. But what about when you’re watching videos online? Firefox and other major browsers have no such feature to keep your screen active while watching videos. Continue reading
I’ve shown previously how to fade a single edge of an image with GIMP. That’s a cool effect, but sometimes you want to fade all of the edges of an image. So today I’m going to show you how to fade all of the edges of an image. Continue reading
If you’re using the proprietary Nvidia graphics driver in Ubuntu Linux, your system has the ability to rotate the video display. Why would you want to do this? Well, I have an HP w2207 wide screen monitor that can rotate into portrait mode. This can be handy for editing long documents or working with portrait images in the GIMP. Continue reading
Today I’m going to show you how to install the Lynx web browser in Ubuntu 10.04. Lynx is a text only web browser that runs from the Linux terminal.
Why would you want to run a browser like this? Well, the reason I run it is because it shows you how a website looks to a search engine bot. Continue reading