PulseAudio is together with the new sound applet itself, the most remarkable new feature in the recent GNOME 2.26 release. PulseAudio is a (cross-platform) networked sound server and includes many features such as software mixing of multiple audio streams. A sound server is basically a proxy for your sound applications. It allows you to do [...]
To tile or not to tile, that’s the question. GNOME has always fulfilled my needs of a desktop environment. Nothing has ever been able to lure me away from GNOME. Its screensaver, its network manager, its power management and GTK applications, it all perfectly fits together. On the other hand, maximizing the usage of the [...]
Yesterday I upgraded my favourite desktop environment (GNOME) to version 2.24. The upgrade went surprisingly smooth. This is exactly why I chose to use a rolling release model distribution! Where I probably had end up reinstalling Ubuntu when a new version of it comes out (the release cyle of Ubuntu is linked to that of [...]
My first screenshot of my Arch Linux desktop. Here are the theme & configuration details of my desktop setup: Operating System: Arch Linux GTK: Customized Ubuntu Human Window Manager: Metacity Theme Chocolate Icons: Ubuntu Human Icon Set Wallpaper: Flying Penguins I’ve fnally removed Compiz. The shiny effects a lot of linux users show off with [...]