Recent updates on Debian for Novell’s (formerly Ximian’s) Evolution E-mail programme added support for gnome-keyring. When you start Evolution for the 1st time after the recent updates Evolution will ask for the gnome-keyring password, then for your smtp password (password for your e-mail account). This can be a bit of a pain, especially for less [...]

One of Gnome’s main philosphy is simplicity but in this endeavour, some things are a pain! For instance, Gnome’s pictures screensaver doesn’t let you specify what directory to look for pictures or photo’s to display (nor has the neat zooming and paning features of Xscreensaver’s Glslideshow). It expects all your pictures to be in a [...]

Make your Linux Gnome Desktop look like a Mac: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin Instructions here: http://www.howtoforge.com/mac4lin_make_linux_look_like_a_mac This is what my desktop like before: And I got this far and gave up: I’m all praise to the folk who put all the work into this. But, having a Apple logos on my Gnome desktop just seems odd. If you [...]