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Display Reminders In Gnome Panel
It was a long standing requirement of mine to create a reminder software or something which can keep me reminding of things as I always keep forgetting things. So I made a reminder that displays my reminders on the Gnome Panel.
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Automatic Desktop Wallpaper Changer for Linux
Posted by Srijith R in gnome, linux, shell scripting on August 13, 2010
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:
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“Send To” in Linux for Nautilus
Posted by Srijith R in linux, shell scripting on August 10, 2010
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 there exists no such option in the default window (“Nautilus”) in Ubuntu. So i thought of making one for my convenience.
Nautilus supports user scripts inside it. This can be easily embedded into the manager by inserting it into the folder ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ folder where ~ stands for the shortcut for home folder.
I used zenity ( a in build gnome dialog box) to get the radio box for selecting the drive to copy to.
The Send to function looks like this
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Reminder for Gnome Panel
Posted by Srijith R in linux, panel, shell scripting on August 9, 2010
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
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