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I am using XFCE as my Desktop Environment, and that includes XFWM – XFCE’s own window manager. I could have used another one, but I find XFWM to be quite good. I did look briefly at what other WMs are out there, and what I pretty much ended with was that a Compositing window manager would be best (XFWM is one), and not just for fun visual effects. Actually, if that’s what you’re looking for Compiz might be what you want to give a try. But I’m not really looking for all those visual effects, and XFWM offered what I needed, so I didn’t see the need to look for anything else. Having been using it for a little while now, I did however figure out a few nice tips & tricks that I...

The option to manually set emblems in Nautilus has been removed starting with Nautilus 3.0. Applications can still add emblems (like Dropbox or Ubuntu One) through libnautilus-extension and gvfs but the option to add them via the preferences dialog has been removed from Nautilus. Fortunately, if you really want to manually set emblems in Nautilus 3, there is a python script that lets you do that. There...

Windows is by far the most commonly used operating system, with over 95% market share. Most computer users have used Windows operating systems exclusively throughout their lives, and may know very little about alternatives. The next biggest operating system is Apple’s OS X. One of the main differences between Windows and Apple is that Windows can be put and run on just about any computer, while...

Sometimes, especially on the command line, it happens that you delete a file or directory you didn’t really plan to delete. A second after hit enter you realize what you have done, maybe you are fast enough to stop the deletion process and save some files, but in the most cases it’s already to late, at least for some files.  If you have no or a too old backup you’re screwed. If you use ext3/ext4...

First and foremost of all, please don’t mix a Hacker with a Cracker. A Hacker is someone that has “technical adeptness and a delight in solving problems and overcoming limits” (http://insideinformationdaily.info/gold-2012.htm) While a Cracker is the popper word for someone that uses security penetration techniques in order to gain access to something. If you dare to mix the two, Linux fanatics...