How To Configure the Euro symbol in Gnome 3
File this under: Useful for me. It’s another of those things that is easy when you know how but not entirely intuitive. From the System Settings app, select Keyboard (or just launch the Keyboard app...
View ArticleDisplay path name by default in Nautilus
By default, Nautilus now shows an irritatingly click-dependent path bar rather than the much handier copy/pastable location bar. This is easily fixable with dconf. $ dconf write...
View ArticleMTB3: Yet another (very simple) background switcher for Gnome 3
Way back when I started playing around with Python, one of the first applications I wrote was a transitioning background application. It worked quite nicely, but it was very tied to the Gnome 2 way of...
View ArticleManaging startup applications in Gnome 3
I’m sure this used to be on a menu but now, if you want a GUI to get at your start-up applications, you need to enter the following command in a terminal. gnome-session-properties The interface is...
View ArticleMTB: A simple background switcher for the Gnome Desktop environment
Two years ago this month, I knocked together a simple background XML powered background switcher for Gnome 2. Time marches on, Gnome 2 was replaced by Gnome 3, and I kept on intending to update the...
View ArticleMTB: Quick Update
I mentioned, earlier this week, that I have finally gotten around to rewriting my simple background switcher so that it actually works under Gnome 3. At the time I was intending to tidy up the code a...
View ArticleGnome 3.16: A First Impression
I ran a system update today and Gnome 3.16 turned up. Which was nice. One thing that I always found mildly annoying in Gnome 3.14 (and I think that this was also true of Gnome 3.12) was that when I...
View ArticleLearning Genie with Project Euler
I’ve recently started playing around with the Genie programming language. This is a variation of Vala but with a more Pythonesque syntax. And I do like Python. Genie is a compiled language that uses...
View ArticleGive me convenience, or give me death
GNOME Foundation partners with Purism to support its efforts to build the Librem 5 smartphone The GNOME Foundation has provided their endorsement and support of Purism’s efforts to build the Librem 5,...
View ArticleNVIDIA
A quick update to my previous post. The excessive CPU issue returned and, after some poking around the problem proved to be the NVIDIA graphics driver, which doesn’t play nice with Wayland....
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