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...
by Dave | Jan 3, 2013 | Tinker Blog
Not too long ago I decided to switch back to KDE as my desktop environment. My reasons were aesthetic and technical. I do think that Canonical’s Ubuntu plans are great. I like a lot of what they’re doing. But it’s all a mish-mash of technologies and...
by Dave | Nov 15, 2011 | Tinker Blog
Need to work on focusing? Try out the Tea Time timer on Launchpad. You can set up set periods of time. Depending on your work style that might include a timer for when you need to look away from your display, how long you should be in ‘flow’ time hacking...
by Dave | Nov 15, 2011 | Tinker Blog
If you’d like to get some nice thumbnails of your OpenOffice/LibreOffice documents, follow these instructions from Webupd8: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flimm/ooo-thumbnailer sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ooo-thumbnailer Once installed, restart...
