Setting Up Global Shortcut For Rhythmbox

Global shortcut, I believe some of you didn’t know what it is. It is equal to keyboard shortcut in applications. What make it different is, in normal shortcut, you have to have an active applications. In other word, that particular application need to be on focus. While global shortcut doesn’t need to be on focus. [...]

Nautilus Hidden Feature: Directory Note

Directory notes, is a little hidden feature of nautilus. Using it, you will be able to write down a note about anything you want to write in particular directory. To access it, all you have to do is:

Show/Hide Desktop Icons in XFCE

If you follow this blog, you should know that I had already posted an entry about this topic, but for gnome desktop.

How To Recover Dissapearing Panel

From time to time, there are people who had a bad time where they meet bug which cause gnome panels (bars at top and bottom of the desktop which hold tray icon, start menu, and task bar) to disappeared. Most of them didn’t know what is going on and how to recover it. Well, there [...]

GColor2: Simple Colour Picker For Gnome

This colour picker is just doing what it should do: pick colour from anywhere on desktop where you mouse click at. Simple, very basic and get the job done!
– Gcolor2 @ SF

Show/Hide Desktop Icon On Ubuntu

I like things on my laptop to be simple and easily accessible. From time to time, I download stuffs. Some tutorial files, new products to test, deb updates, and several other random stuffs. Most of the time, I just throws this trashes to my desktop to make me easily remember that I have this particular [...]

How To Add New Profile In Gnome-Terminal

I got a case where I need to switch between different terminal font-size in many times a day. So, a profile in gnome-terminal is helping me very much. Here how you create a new profile in gnome-terminal:

Aqualung

If you are frequent reader in this blog, you may know that I’m an amarok user. You may ask, why a gnome user use amarok as it’s music player. Well, up until now (or yesterday to be exact) I don’t find a good and intuitive UI that match my need. All player that I tried [...]

Mengukur Layar Dengan Screen Ruler

Ingin mengukur pixel suatu object dilayar? bisa screen-shoot, layar web, gambar desain, dll. Dulu, saat masih pakai KDE saya pakai Kruler. Setelah pindah ke Gnome juga tetap pakai KRuler. Alasannya, saat itu tidak menemukan aplikasi yang sama yang jalan di gnome. Nah, pagi ini, saat sedang mengerjakan sesuatu dan membutuhkan penggaris, sedangkan system baru di [...]

Recover Lost Gnome’s Window/Task List Panel

One member of id-ubuntu mailing list asked a question, “How to recover a lost minimized window in gnome?”. If you have the same problem, here’s how to recover it:

Right click on an empty space on your top panel. (It’s where Applications, Places, System, and Tray Icon reside)
Select Add to Panel…
Add to Panel window will shown. [...]