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How to replace Activities word with any image in Gnome Shell

Written by Alex Diavatis on . Posted in Linux tutorials

For this tutorial I will use Gnome Shell 3.4 and its default theme, but this will work also on 3.2 and pretty much on any theme that doesn’t already use an image for Activities. You will need user-theme extension, gnome-tweak-tool, … Continue reading

Configure conky-Lua in Ubuntu (12.10 & 13.04 Raring Ringtail), Fedora, debian and LinuxMint | Howto Conky

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in eyecandy, Fedora, Linux Mint, Linux tutorials, Ubuntu

Updated 05-04-2013: Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. There are many nice themes available for conky that can display clock, CPU usage, ram usage, swap, disk, net and more, one … Continue reading

Coverflow ALT-TAB- A nice extension for Cinnamon

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in eyecandy, Linux Mint, Software

Coverflow ALT-TAB is a great  extension for cinnamon that  let’s you Alt-Tab through your windows in a cover-flow manner.

Howto- Install Cinnamon on Fedora, LinuxMint, Ubuntu(ppa) and opensuse

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Fedora, Linux Mint, Linux tutorials, Ubuntu

Cinnamon is the new desktop environment created around the Gnome 3.2, to give power Gnome Shell users a Gnome 2 like layout and experience. It is develloped and maintened by LinuxMint team. The latest release is Cinnamon1.3.

Libreoffice 3.5 has been released!| Install in Ubuntu10.04 and 11.10, fedora, debian, LinuxMint | PPA

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Fedora, Linux Mint, Linux tutorials, Ubuntu

LibreOffice 3.5 has been released, this is a major release that comes with many new features and improvements, in this release for the first time will be enabled the online update checker which informs users when a new version of … Continue reading

Howto- Configuring BIND master and slave DNS servers

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

DNS (Domain name system) servers are one of the most crucial parts of hosting servers on the internet. DNS servers give us the ability to connect to websites and other types of servers by using words and number instead of … Continue reading

Arch Linux step by step installation

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

Arch Linux (or Arch, pronounced /ˈɑrtʃ/ ]) is a Linux distribution intended to be lightweight and simple. The design approach of the development team focuses on simplicity, elegance, code correctness and minimalism. “Simplicity”, according to Arch, is defined as “…without … Continue reading

How to Create a LiveCD for your local Fedora installation

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Fedora

Question : How to create a Livecd for your Fedora Local installation ?

Fixing a few common grub errors | Broken Bootloader and error 17/15

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

Grub is short for GNU GRand Unified Bootloader. To be simply put, it’s a boot loader package from the GNU Linux project. It’s the common and reference implementation of a multiboot Linux system. It allows you to choose which operating … Continue reading

30 Great tutorials for GIMP

Written by Ayesha .A on . Posted in Linux tutorials

It is certainly inspiring that a free piece of software gives you so diverse possibilities, comparable to any paid software you can get in the market. In this post I have attempted to collect the best tutorials of GIMP, in … Continue reading