All I can say: It’s good to be back, and keep winning.

-fredforfaen

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-sid/desktopfx/unstable/ ./

Then install the gpg key like this in a terminal(as root) :

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/A42A6CF5.gpg && apt-key add A42A6CF5.gpg

Now do this :

apt-get update

apt-get install compiz-fusion-all

In a terminal do this (not as root) :

fusion-manager

Now you can start playing around, just right-click on the fusion icon in your tray and start from there. If you want it to start at login, add this to auto-started applications :

compiz –replace

and

emerald –replace

or just

fusion-manager

Now you’re set to go!Have fun!

Here’s two screenshots of my current XFCE and Compiz Fusion setup :

For support crack open your favourite irc-client and connect to server irc.oftc.net and join channel #sidux-cf .

After having used bittorrnado for several years now i discovered rtorrent that seems faster and more flexible than btlaunchmanucurses, that i’ve used previously. It just seems like it does the job better and faster.
First of all you need to install it:

su

Password:

apt-get install rtorrent

Now you need to create a configuration file called .rtorrent.rc in your home directory. Use your favorite text editor and open the empty file. Click here for a complete list of commands to insert into the file. You don’t need all the commands, just a few, so I’ll give you an example from my .rtorrent.rc file:

#Max uploads per torrent
max_uploads = 15

#Max downlad/upload rate in KiB, 0 is unlimited
download_rate = 0
upload_rate = 30

#Default save directory, change to suit your needs
directory = /home/thomas/tmp

#Look for torrents in specified directory, change to suit your needs
schedule = watch_directory,5,5,load_start=/home/thomas/tmp/*.torrent

#Stop and remove deleted torrents
schedule = untied_directory,5,5,stop_untied=

Save the file and start rtorrent from a terminal. Now…..I have specified rtorrent to look for torrents in my tmp/ folder, so to download i just save my torrents to that directory and delete the torrents and move the files when they are done. You can also tell rtorrent(in the terminal) to get a torrent from a location on your harddrive, or a web location, just press backspace and paste/type in your location or address for the torrent-file and hit enter. For more information on how to use rtorrent do this:

man rtorrent

Here is a screenshot of rtorrent in action:

And BTW to quit you do a:

^q

My XFCE4/beryl setup:

Ion3 screenies, tiled and floating:

First of all you need lm-sensors, if you haven’t got it crack open a terminal and just do this:

su

Password:

apt-get install lm-sensors

Now you need to detect your sensors, do this:

sensors-detect

Answer yes to every one of the questions. Now your set! Just reboot and your sensors should be up and running.But if you don’t want to reboot you can just modprobe the modules(sensors) listed at the very end of sensors-detect, like this:

modprobe it87

Now lets see if it all works, do this:

sensors

This should give you an output like this:

it8712-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
VCore 1: +1.38 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V)
VCore 2: +2.67 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V)
+3.3V: +3.31 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V)
+5V: +4.27 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +6.85 V)
+12V: +12.22 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +16.32 V)
-12V: -11.77 V (min = -27.36 V, max = +3.93 V)
-5V: -4.84 V (min = -13.64 V, max = +4.03 V)
Stdby: +3.74 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +6.85 V)
VBat: +4.08 V
fan1: 4017 RPM
fan2: 0 RPM
fan3: 0 RPM
M/B Temp: +25 C (low = +127 C, high = +127 C) sensor = thermistor
CPU Temp: +42 C (low = +127 C, high = +60 C) sensor = thermistor

Good luck!

Flash

First of all you need to install nspluginwrapper:

apt-get install nspluginwrapper

Now go get flash9 here and unpack the file to somewhere logical. I unpack it to /home/thomas/flash for example (to unpack do this in the directory where you have placed the tar.gz file :unp filename.tar.gz). When you’ve unpacked it you will find one file of interest : libflashplayer.so

Shut down Iceweasel. Now go to ~/.mozilla/plugins then do this:

nspluginwrapper -i /home/homedir/folder/install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so

When you start up Iceweasel again flash should be installed.

PS: This is my way to do it….. there may be other more correct ways to get there.

Java

Java may not work on all sites with this solution but it works generally, and it’s easy to install. Shut down Iceweasel and do this:

apt-get install java-gcj-compat-plugin

Thats it! Just fire up Iceweasel again and it should work.

Good luck!

PS: I’ve tested these two methods only once, there may be errors. Contact me by commenting here or send an e-mail to fredforfaen at gmail dot com if it doesn’t work.

tar -cvzf archivename.tgz /path/to/file/or/folder

Do a man tar to get more info.

Enjoy!

This applies to all Debian based systems.This will REMOVE KDE, and all packages that are dependent on it.USE THIS COMMAND ON YOUR OWN RISK!!!

Here we go :
su
Password:
apt-get remove ksysgardd koffice* kde* kivio-data

If you get a error message like E: Couldn’t find package XXXX just remove that from the command and run it again.
If you haven’t already, you should install another window-manager, there are several to choose from but use apt-cache search XXXX to find your wm of choice.
I’ll give you an example on how to install Ion3:

apt-get install ion3

And you probably want to use the ion3 scripts for stuff like weather, RSS and etc.If so do this:

apt-get install ion3-scripts

Now what you may say….well restart X and choose ion3 as session….. but if you’re wondering how to configure ion3 thats another matter….maybe I’ll make a note here on that too.But if you don’t like the command-line or keyboard you should maybe go for something like XFCE4.Use apt-cache search XXXX to find it.
Good luck!

PS:Haven’t seen ion3 before……here is my setup:

Here’s my XFCE4 setup with beryl

find / -type f -size +200M

This finds all files larger than 200 mb. Of-course you can turn that around and look for files smaller than 200 mb ….if so, just do this:

find / -type f -size -200M

The / can be anything of your choice … for example if i want to search my home dir for files i would do this:

find /home/thomas -type f -size +200M

This would find all files larger than 200 mb in /home/thomas.

Now you would maybe want to search or save the output of this command. To search it you could just use grep, like this :

find /home/thomas -type f -size +200M|grep avi

All files larger than 200 mb containing the keyword avi will be shown. Now you may want to save your output in a file, do this

find /home/thomas -type f -size +200M > largefilelist

This finds all files larger than 200 mb in /home/thomas and saves it as a text file called largefilelist. Well now you may want to search that file, do this:

cat /your/path/to/largefilelist|grep avi

This finds all files containing the keyword avi in the file largefilelist. If you have several output files you want to combine, do this:

cat file1 file2 file3 > joinedfiles

This combines file1, 2 and 3 in one merged file called joinedfiles.

Hope this is usefull in some way.Thats all for now