Tag Archives: gnome

My Gnome 3.0: A Real Web Desktop

So I missed the stream of What I Want for Christmas Gnome 3.0 by … a while, but better late than never!* The Win Essentially what I want for Gnome 3.0 is what Tomboy just got: a web interface called … Continue reading

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Keeping all your notes in sync with Dropbox and Tomboy

Tomboy is a wonderful note taking program for Gnome. It has some synchronization features built-in, but not everyone has a server to store their notes for synchronizing between multiple computers. Enter Dropbox: a service for synchronizing files between computers. It … Continue reading

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Why not Subversion + DVCS of Choice?

A follow-up to my last post on DVCSes… Gnomers have been discussing DVCSes a lot lately, and at least one seems to prefer bzr as the repository format and git as the protocol it speaks. If this sounds like madness … Continue reading

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Fixing Gnome Notification’s Popup Location

Gnome notifications popup in the lower left corner of your desktop by default* which constantly annoys me. I usually have a terminal open in the lower left corner, and having my work covered by notifications is quite annoying. Luckily the … Continue reading

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Listing All Passwords Stored in Gnome Keyring

I was toying with writing my first desktop application in years and got distracted by how cool Gnome Keyring is. Of course storing and retrieving passwords is pretty mundane, so here’s a fun example that dumps all of the current … Continue reading

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