Articles tagged ‘desktop’

The ultimate battle between Linux desktop RSS readers. It came down to Akgregator and Liferea. Read the scoop, see who won (and why).

PyFontSel is a very simple font selection dialog written in Python and using GTK+ 2.0, very useful when you need to quickly browse the fonts on your system.

I’ve been spending some time lately trying to find the best PDF reader around. KPDF won hands down. Please, don’t even talk to me about Evince, gPDF, xPDF et al. They all have a way to go. And then one day I realised that the copy of Acrobat Reader I had around was an older static [...]

Ever since the decay of XMMS started to become obvious, quite a few years ago, I've been looking for a replacement, the ideal music player that would fit my needs perfectly. It was a long and difficult journey, but I finally think I may be getting to an end. Here's the story of how I got to meet Audacious.

Devil's Pie is a nice utility which can apply various properties on the fly to your desktop windows. Until version 0.13, it used an XML config file. After, it switched to s-expressions, and seriously lacked documentation. This is an attempt to clear the mist.

A small shell script which will launch Firefox in a sensible manner: if it's open, make use of it, if not launch a new session. Also focus the Firefox window if wmctrl is available.

Syntetic benchmark which tests the raw window mapping power for Blackbox and a handful of other window managers. Inspired by Rasterman's similar test.