http://netvouz.com/falko/tag/desktop?feed=rss&pg=6 falko's bookmarks tagged "desktop" on Netvouz http://www.howtoforge.com/pclinuxos_gnome The default desktop environment on PCLinuxOS 2007 is KDE, and during the installation you have no choice to install another desktop environment. This guide shows how you can install GNOME from the PCLinuxOS 2007 KDE desktop. falko Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:26:02 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/google_desktop_pclinuxos_ubuntu This article shows how you can install the Linux version of Google Desktop on a PCLinuxOS 2007 desktop and a Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04) desktop. Although the program is still marked as beta, Linux users can already search for text inside documents, local email messages, their Web history, and their Gmail accounts. falko Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:49:46 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/installing_songbird_on_ubuntu_gutsy_gibbon This guide shows how to install the Songbird media player (0.3 Developer Pre-Release) on an Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) desktop. Songbird is a free software audio player with media database capabilities written using XUL and VLC, with an interface similar to Apple's iTunes. From the Songbird web site: "Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet." falko Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:22:33 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/ibm_lotus_symphony_ubuntu_7.04 This document describes how to set up IBM Lotus Symphony Beta 1 on Ubuntu 7.04. IBM Lotus Symphony is an office-suite that is based on OpenOffice.org (a fork of v1.x) and ported to Lotus Expeditor (IBM's enhancement of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform). It contains programs for word processing, spreadsheet and presentation. falko Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:49:46 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/wubi_ubuntu_on_windows Wubi is an Ubuntu installer for Windows that lets you install and uninstall Ubuntu from a Windows desktop. Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows you to run Linux. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the Windows file system (a loopmounted partition), this file is seen by Ubuntu as a real hard disk. That way the hard drive does not have to be repartitioned before the Ubuntu installation. The resulting Ubuntu installation is a "real" Linux system, not just a virtual machine. Wubi makes it easy for Linux newbies to play around with Ubuntu. falko Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:48:35 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntustudio_7.04 Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavour of Ubuntu, built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional. It is an official derivative of the Ubuntu open source operating system and comes with applications such as Ardour2, Wired, Hydrogen, Blender, Inkscape, Pitivi, and many more, as well as a beautiful dark theme. This walkthrough shows how to install it. falko Fri, 11 May 2007 16:31:17 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-ubuntu-system-panel-on-ubuntu-8.10 ubuntu-system-panel is a simple launcher for the GNOME desktop, providing easy access to Places, Applications and common configuration items for your computer. This guide shows how to install and configure it on an Ubuntu 8.10 desktop. falko Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:33:41 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-xbmc-on-fedora-9-i386 The Xbox Media Center (XBMC) is a media center application for Linux, Mac, and Windows that allows you to manage/watch/listen to/view your videos, music, and pictures. It has a nice interface, can be controlled from the desktop or a remote control or via its built-in web interface, and it can be extended by custom scripts. This guide shows how you can install XBMC on a Fedora 9 desktop (i386). falko Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:54:47 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/introduction-to-the-enlightenment-17-window-manager-for-x-ubuntu-11.10 This tutorial is supposed to show some features of the Enlightenment window manager as an alternative to the often used Gnome and KDE managers. I will install Enlightenment on a desktop computer with Ubuntu 11.10 installed. Apart from the login screen however, all of the controls shown on the screenshots should be the same for every installation of enlightenment, whatever distribution you install it on. Enlightenment is already included in the Ubuntu repositories, therefore Ubuntu users and those of any Ubuntu derivatives won't have any problems installing it. It is also available for download for most other distributions though. falko Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:49:52 GMT http://www.howtoforge.com/introduction-to-the-linux-mint-cinnamon-desktop This tutorial is supposed to guide the reader through the features of the Cinnamon desktop, Mint's new desktop environment to be used in Linux Mint 13. Cinnamon concentrates on holding on to classic design and functionality in times where Gnome 3 and Unity come up with different innovations to the user interface. falko Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:07:23 GMT