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Automatic Desktop Wallpaper Changer for Linux
I have a lot of wallpaper that I wanted to switch automatically. After a lot of search i found that there a command way to control all the gnome settings. So I the command I used is “gconftool-2″. So code is like: [bash] #!/bin/bash folder="/h …
Adding RedHat DVD as Repository
When we try out a new linux OS its always a pain to download and install all the software and add packages we needs on that. Its even worse if you don’t have an unlimited connection. But actually most of the software we need is already there in the CD/DV …
Birthday Reminder For Gnome Panel
This program checks the file /home/rsrijith/shell/birthday_reminder.txt to find the upcoming birthdays in 20 days and writes into the file /home/rsrijith/shell/birthdays. There is a file called /home/rsrijith/shell/birthdays1, the difference between it an …
Find Invisible Users In Gmail
Finding who is invisible is something that I always wanted to do.It’s always fun to ping a person who feels none can see him/her online. While studying XMPP protocol I found out that even when the person is offline the chat client knows that person is onli …
“Send To” in Linux for Nautilus
It’s been a common practice among the windows users to right click and search for “Send To” option when a file needs to copied to the USB or any other Drive. Why spare me, even i used to do this while using windows, when to my astonishment i found that th …
Tab Feature in Vim
Vim is one of the simplest looking but most powerful editor I have seen. So thought of listing a few interesting one that I came across. Tab Opening of Files. There are two methods of starting files in tabs. By opening vi the files you want to op …
Reminder for Gnome Panel
This is the program that lets us to enter the text and time at which it should be reminded me. The command has the following options -d: date eg: 17/3/2009 -t : time [ It's should be entered as 24hr clock] eg: 20:00:00 -r : reminder text [ …
Customizing Mysql Prompt For multiple Servers
If you are using mysql regularly on multiple servers its really useful to have the promt in mysql to show something more than mysql>. It would be useful if it showed the username,hostname, current database and things like that. So how to do this. …
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