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Posted by jodrell@spod.uk.net on 2003-08-01 00:00:00 Straw (http://www.nongnu.org/straw) is an excellent RSS aggregator for GNOME. RSS is a way of getting the headlines from news websites without having to open a browser and browsing to the site. Straw lets you subscribe to the news feed for a site, and then read the headlines straight from your desktop. To get Straw working on Red Hat takes a b..

Posted by jodrell@spod.uk.net on 2003-08-01 00:00:00 +(8)- If you've ever hand-written a desktop entry file, you'll know that each file contains an "icon=icon.png" line that specifies the image used. If you're writing a desktop entry file, you should try not to enter an absolute path for the icon. If you use just the base name of the icon (ie "gnome-gimp.png" instead of "/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome..

Posted by jodrell@spod.uk.net on 2003-08-01 00:00:00 gconf-editor is a program designed to give the user access to the guts of the gconf database. gconf is a system for storing user preferences. All the data is stored in XML files in a directory called .gconf. If you've ever played with the Windows Registry, gconf-editor should be familiar. The window is broken into two panes - one contains a tr..

Posted by jodrell@spod.uk.net on 2003-08-01 00:00:00 By default, Nautilus uses a directory called .desktop in your home directory. But it can be very handy to have the desktop show your home directory (NB: it is expected that this will become the default in a future version). To set your home directory as the default, run gconf-editor and browse to /apps/nautilus/preferences. Click on the checkb..

Posted by jodrell@spod.uk.net on 2003-08-01 00:00:00 If you often switch between GNOME and another window manager, for example Blackbox, there's no obvious way to have a common background image that's used for both. However it's not hard to craft together some shell code using gconftool to get the filename of the current GNOME background. Then you can use bsetroot or xset to set your background ..