Tag Archives: gnome

GNOME 3.8 Released. Brings Back Classic Mode

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, opensource, Releases, Software

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This morning, GNOME 3.8 was released. While there are many new exciting features for the GNOME Shell users of 3.8, I will be taking a look at the new Classic Mode reboot for GNOME. Ever since the implementation of GNOME … Continue reading

The naturalness in the evolution of desktop environments

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Gnome, Software

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I’ve been browsing distrowatch.com lately noticing something that is happening for some time now, but maybe surprised me for the first time because it is still happening. What I am talking about is that there are more Linux distributions releasing … Continue reading

Power Off comes back in GNOME

Written by Alex Diavatis on . Posted in Gnome, opensource

Democracy always wins!! It took almost two years for GNOME Developers to release that the majority of users were unhappy with the Suspend option instead of the standard Power Off.

GNOME's Application Menu. Smart or Dummy?

Written by Alex Diavatis on . Posted in opensource, Software

First off, Application Menu has not any similarity with Unity’s Global Menus. While Global Menus copy the Window App Menu from the usual spot (inside App) into Unity’s top panel -the Mac style-, Application Menu, is one single menu that … Continue reading

GNOME 3.6 is getting serious with Initial System Setup

Written by Alex Diavatis on . Posted in News

GNOME 3.4.1 released a few days ago, but its progress didn’t stop. The releasing cycle for 3.6 has already begun. To be honest, I don’t think that 3.4 release was quite exciting, apart maybe from GTK 3.4 that brought a … Continue reading

MATE Desktop version 1.2 arrives- Install in Ubuntu 11.10 & 12.04 Precise Pangolin

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in Linux Mint, News, Software, Ubuntu

MATE a traditional desktop environment that forked from Gnome 2 and is available as for those users who want the original Gnome 2 environment. The name ‘mate’ is derived from the South American beverage called mate that is made from the … Continue reading

gSharkDown – A nice application to search, Listen and download your favorite music from grooveshark service

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in Software

gSharkDown is a GNOME desktop application for downloading and playing audio files from the grooveshark.com service.You can search, listen and download your favorite song with one click and without opening your browser.

Install GNOME and KDE on Arch Linux

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

Question : How  to install  KDE  or  Gnome  in  ArchLinux ?

turn on "fallback" mode of GNOME3 on Fedora15

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Fedora

Question: How  to turn on “fallback” mode of GNOME3 ? Answer :   Fallback mode is GNOME 3′s more GNOME 2-like mode of operation for people without hardware 3D – or who just don’t like the GNOME Shell. To activate … Continue reading

How do I disable auto login in ubuntu

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

  Question when you  get  some  issues  that  your Ubuntu cannot  start normally   but autologin still activated ,  (Gnome  Freezing) ?