by Dave | Aug 5, 2014 | Tinker Blog
For a long time I’ve noticed that if I have two separate Firefox windows open (not tabs- windows), one will be in the foreground and the other can’t be clicked or changed. One has the focus, the other is untouchable until the first has been closed....
by Dave | Aug 4, 2014 | Tinker Blog
This morning I was sickened for the last time at how ugly Skype looked when I opened it. While I was a KDE user I rationalized it away thinking that like many proprietary vendors, the Skype developers had targeted GTK and their support in KDE just failed. Or that they...
by Dave | Aug 1, 2014 | Tinker Blog
I’m not a big fan of the Nautilus file app, but it’s ok. On the left side it shows certain folders, location bookmarks, and mounted disks. If you want to hide or change the way they’re displayed, open up the Disks app. Find and select the partition...
by Dave | Aug 1, 2014 | Tinker Blog
I just switched back from Kubuntu to Ubuntu recently and was annoyed that CTRL+ALT+T continued to open Konsole in Ubuntu rather than Gnome Terminal. The keyboard shortcuts in the System Settings just showed that it would open the default Terminal program. According to...
by Dave | Aug 1, 2014 | Tinker Blog
By default Ubuntu 14.04 has a ‘Guest Session’ option on the login screen. I don’t like that and also in my tinkering (and for work) I have an extra user account for a service I need to run. I want to hide that option. To disable the Guest Session,...
by Dave | Aug 1, 2014 | Tinker Blog
As far as tools go, I am really picky. Really, really picky. For a long time I had the Logitech Touch Mouse M600 which is a lot like a wireless mouse with a touchpad on top of it. But it’s mouse shaped and full size. I liked it just fine. Unfortunately the...
