gnome

This article was first written in May 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/126)

GNOME seems to have its own way of managing the numeric keypad, which leads to something very frustrating: the dot (or comma) on the keypad is understood as dot, while the decimal separator in Belgium should be the comma. To change that, I have not found a better solution that to add a line like this in /etc/X11/Xmodmap create it if needed:

keycode 91 = KP_Delete comma

This has been tested on Debian Woody and Debian Sarge, both using GDM and a GNOM

This article was first written in April 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/119)

GConf is GNOME's configuration database. It provides tools for configuring every GNOME application installed. To learn more about what GConf is, how it works, and what tools are available for it, read the very good gnome-gconf documentation

This article was first written in January 2004 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/99)

This has been originally written by Miguel de Icaza (the famous GNOME hacker and creator of Ximian). This was retrieved from: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/1999-September/msg00036.html. People usually look at the memory sizes for the processes and misinterpret the information.

Our preferred free desktop for X (the X Window System) is the GNOME Desktop. There are actually a lot of reasons to prefer it over others [1].

This article is incomplete and was first written in June 2006
for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/338).

To automatically clean the thumbnails generated by Nautilus, and who never get cleaned by GNOME itself and can really fast occupy a large part of your disk space, I setup a cronjob like this in /etc/cron.d/clean-gnome-thumbnails on my Debian:

#
# Clean GNOME thumbnails files
#
# Every day, at 22h.
0 22    * * *   root    find /home/*/.thumbnails/ -type f -atime +90 -exec rm {} ;

This cronjob would remove thumbnails older than 90

This article was first written in November 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/303).

GAP, alias the GNOME Advanced Preferences. Pessulus, a lockdown editor for GNOME. COG alias the Configurator for GNOME, a program for editing advanced GNOME settings i

This article was first written in June 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/135).

To change the default printer when using GNOME, it is pretty easy, provided that you use CUPS and gnome-cups-manager. Go into the "Applications" menu, then "Desktop Preferences", and "System Tools" and click on "Printing". There, you have a list of all preconfigured printers on the system. Right-click on the one you want by default and click on the "Make Default" menu entry.