If you’re using a minimal window manager (Fluxbox, IceWM) you may have noticed that OpenOffice looks like crap. You’re getting plain, unthemed widgets that look archaic compared to todays slick QT/GTK themes. Luckily, the solution is quite simple. For a local solution (just your user account) open up your ~/.bash_profile file and enter the following:
export […]

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Those of you interested in the Getting Things Done methodology will really enjoy Michael Ramm’s interview on the Fresh Ubuntu Podcast. Michael Ramm is an IT guy with a passion for productivity and–recently–Linux. He is an active blogger at Black Belt Productivity (I definitely recommend you take a look!). The conversation ranges from KDE vs. […]

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I recently had a need to download a video from Youtube, and it was just a frustrating process. Many of the Firefox extensions that claim to do that are rather half-baked (the best being VideoDownloader) and it was jut a bit of a hassle. Then I discovered youtube-dl, and nice shell script put together by […]

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We’re in the double digits! This week’s podcast is about setting Gmail as your default mail client at both the desktop environment and browser levels. We focus on using Firefox to access Gmail, but these ideas could be extended to other browser! If you’re a Gmail user, this could be really useful.

Set Gmail as Default […]

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We’re in the double digits! This week’s podcast is about setting Gmail as your default mail client at both the desktop environment and browser levels. We focus on using Firefox to access Gmail, but these ideas could be extended to other browser! If you’re a Gmail user, this could be really useful.

Set Gmail as Default […]

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