by Dave | Aug 27, 2009 | Tinker Blog
After upgrading to GNOME 2.26 and the very latest Tasque, I no longer show any “Task Management System” in the preferences. ** (Tasque:17844): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /usr/lib64/tasque/Tasque.exe could not be loaded: Assembly:...
by Dave | Aug 24, 2009 | Improving Apps, Tinker Blog
There are two real desktop environments for Linux: KDE and GNOME. Yes XFCE and others, I’m completely leaving you out. There are always people that defy convention or want to try something out there. I love BeOS and Haiku but I doubt I will ever push it as a...
by Dave | Jul 10, 2009 | Tinker Blog
For a couple of weeks, instead of seeing thumbnails in my Nautilus folders, I just see the default “Still Loading” icon. This is very annoying to me. Searching around people just suggest deleting the folder where thumbnails are cached. If you need to debug...
by Dave | Jun 25, 2009 | Tinker Blog
For some reason, lately I’ve noticed that Nautilus (which is the GNOME file manager and is the part of your Linux system that draws the desktop in GNOME) isn’t keeping up with picture thumbnails. An easy temporary fix is to press F5 which will refresh the...
by Dave | Jun 8, 2009 | Tinker Blog
I know that I am a technology snob. I dislike or don’t use some things just because I don’t ‘like’ them. KDE has been one of them- although in my defense I have tried it out at various times. I tried it out again on Saturday, thinking that this...