Kubuntu 15.04 comes with the new Plasma 5 desktop from KDE. I like Plasma 5, but the tray icon of many non KDE applications is not supported. Someone suggest to install wmsystemtray and use an “ugly box” floating around in your desktop 🙁 I have just found another solution: install Read more…
SWFTools (a collection of utilities for working with Adobe Flash files, SWF files) was removed from the Ubuntu repository for some security problem with the PDF library used (I don’t remember exactly, anyway it’s not the point…). If you need to use SWFTools, you have to build it from the Read more…
I’m on KDE 4.13.0 and sbackup is not showing the notification icon. It’s an old problem, the program is looking for some process like “x-session-manager”, “gnome-session”, “gnome-shell”, “ksmserver”, “xfce4-session” but in my KDE system none of these processes is running, so the notification icon is not shown. If you run the Read more…
The problem: you use Pidgin for instant messaging and you write in different languages but you can spell check only in the language of your operative system.
I use often lftp to move data from server to server/client. I like this FTP client because is small, very powerful to use and present in every Linux distribution. Plus, I can run lftp from the shell (maybe from a screen session) and forget it until the job is done Read more…
The problem: you have a PDF with some coloured elements (like some logo, separation lines, etc…) but you need a PDF in B/W. The solution: you can print your file (with a B/W printer) and then scan it 🙂 or, using GPL Ghostscript, run this command… gs -sDEVICE=pnggray -r150x150 -sOutputFile=output-%02d.png Read more…
You can bind a specific IP address from the router, but if you are not the network administrator (eg: you work with your laptop) you can try to request your “preferred” IP address editing your dhclient.conf like the following example (append this config to the bottom of the file): interface Read more…
I’m using for my personal cloud Sparkleshare and I’m very happy with it. The 26 of May they released a new version (the 1.1) but for Linux you can get only the source code. I have built for myself the binary package (using checkinstall) for Ubuntu and I put the Read more…