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Getting Tasque Running

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:...

A Tale of Two Desktops

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...

I Fixed My Broken Nautilus Thumbnails

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...

Nautilus Thumbnails Not Showing on Desktop

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...

KDE is Dead To Me

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...