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Choose login manager GDM or KDM in Fedora


Fedora comes with GNOME as the default desktop environment, and GDM as the default login manager. The login manager is the screen you see when logging in. Like GNOME has its login manager, KDE has its own login manager KDM. While logging in you can select which desktop environment you want to use from the sessions menu of the login manager. But there seems to be no ways to switch between these login managers. But you could do this manually by adding a couple of lines to a file. Check this out.

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New Year 2010 GIMP Wallpaper

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This time it is a new year wall paper, although i am late for it. This is also a simple wallpaper, no complex operations required. Again i have used the flame plugin and had the X effect. Follow the guide and see if you like it.

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Beginners Guide to GCC

GCC is the default compiler in the GNU+Linux systems, and is used to compile small applications, big softwares, and the kernel. Often beginners are overwhelmed with the amount of information provided in the gcc manual. This tutorial highlights the most useful commands and describes how to use them, how to read warnings and errors from the compiler output and compile the C Language sourcecodes with gcc. This tutorial does not cover advanced options and topics, in depth details are avoided. This tutorial will give the basic idea, and after reading this i hope that the manual pages would be easier to read.

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GIMP Glassy Text Wallpaper

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Playing with GIMP is never boring, every time you do some experiment you come to know of some cool effect. The best part is the filters, which if applied properly, can produce jaw dropping effects. While experimenting with GIMP i came to know that how easily glassy texts could be created with gimp. Although i am not a image maker, or a GIMP expert, i will try my best to describe this process. I have broken down this process in some sections, each one describing how to make each image effect component. Let’s start.

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Enable Select-to-Copy MiddleClick-to-Paste in Windows Firefox

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Those who have used GNU+Linux know the very useful select-to-copy and middle-click-to-paste feature, which has grown to a habit. This feature is very much used when browsing. We just select a string and middle-click paste it into the search-bar, or somewhere else. Microsoft Windows do not support this feature. But the good news is this select-to-copy and middle-click-to-paste feature can be enabled in Firefox under Microsoft Windows. Read the following simple guide to know how to unlock the Windows Firefox select-to-copy and middle-click-to-paste feature.

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Split and Join Files

A lot of time we need to carry large sized files and we do not have enough space in a single media. At that time we need to split the large file into several small ones and then carry them in separate media. Also small files are very useful in uploading a large file for sharing or backup in online storage services. Here is a very simple way how you can split a large file in several equally sized small ones in Linux/Unix and again join them in Linux/Unix or in Microsoft Windows.

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Restoring GRUB Bootloader

A lot of times we loose GRUB from the MBR of the hard-disk, for a lot different causes, like file-system damage, Microsoft Windows eating it up and etc. Many people try to reinstall the full GNU+Linux distro as a solution to this. Here is the normal method how you can restore your grub boot-loader into your MBR or in your Partition. Read on.

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Making a Multi Booting CD DVD USB

Introduction

Everybody likes to use, test and hack with the mini distros, but no one likes to burn a CD for each one because they only takes a small fraction of the CD space resulting in low resource utilization and increases junk. What if we could keep all the distros in one single CD or even keep all the distros in one USB drive and boot the distros directly from there through an interactive menu system ? Yes that’s what we are going to do! We are going to pack 7 mini distros into one CD/DVD or USB ready-to-boot, and can carry them around in our pocket, booting any distro, anywhere, anytime, any place.

In this guide we will show you how to pack 7 distros into one CD, DVD or USB and make it bootable. This guide is written primarily for a CD or DVD, but we have also shown how this can be done with a USB flash drive. We will pack all the below GNU+Linux distros into a CD and USB drive, and make a multi booting multi OS CD/DVD/USB:

  1. PuppyLinux read review >>
  2. GeexBox read review >>
  3. Slitaz
  4. Goblinx (mini)
  5. Austrumi
  6. CDlinux (standard) read review >>
  7. Damn Small Linux (DSL)

So don’t wait, get the job done. Keep on reading.
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Geeky Code Wallpaper with GIMP

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gimp_logoI just made a code wallpaper in GIMP ! Although i am not an expert in GIMP i am trying to write up how i made it. This is a guide on how to make a geeky code wallpaper showing a screenful of code with your name highlighted. The screenfull of text in this guide is the ASCII characters of a statically linked ELF binary file, who’s bottom section has a screenfull of text. You could modify with your favorite code or even other texts, like your name peeking out of a randomly generated screenfull of string. Continue reading, and check out the guide.
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