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Compiz-Fusion: Missing Title Bar Fix.

by Ken Coulton on Jun.06, 2010, under 02. Quick Start Guide, 05. Customizing, Compiz-Fusion

When you first install Compiz-Fusion on to a Vectorlinux 6.0 system, you may notice that the
compositing manager fails to display the title bars correctly on the program windows.
There is a simple fix for that and here it is.

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Creating Launchers and Menu entries on Xfce4. Example xcalc.

by Ken Coulton on Jun.06, 2010, under 02. Quick Start Guide, 03. Menu's and Launchers

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Understanding Workspace Settings.

by Ken Coulton on Jun.06, 2010, under 05. Customizing

Keeping all your applications, webpages, and references up on one desktop can be crowded, so why not 2, or
3, or 4 desktops.  Linux can give you multiple desktops to organize your tasks and makes it easy to navigate
through them all.

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Changing the Xfce4 wallpaper.

by Ken Coulton on Jun.06, 2010, under 02. Quick Start Guide, 05. Customizing

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Auto starting Compiz Fusion with a delay script.

by Ken Coulton on Jun.06, 2010, under 02. Quick Start Guide, 05. Customizing, Compiz-Fusion

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Customizing your keyboard shortcuts in the xfce4 environment.

by Ken Coulton on Jun.04, 2010, under 02. Quick Start Guide, 05. Customizing

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Installing Compiz Fusion on Vectorlinux.

by Ken Coulton on Jun.04, 2010, under 02. Quick Start Guide, 05. Customizing, Compiz-Fusion

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Connecting to a Windows Network on Vectorlinux Light.

by Ken Coulton on Jun.02, 2010, under 07. Internet Connectivity, Networking

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Installing Openoffice.org on your Slackware based Linux box

by Ken Coulton on Apr.22, 2010, under 04. Installing Software, 06. .rpm extension applications.

Openoffice is the #1 office suite for Linux, but your distributions repo’s rarely carry the newest one. Openoffice is easy enough to download from www.openoffice.org but there is no version for Slackware users. It’s not straight forward but it can be done and here’s how.

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Windows Networking with Vectorlinux Standard 6.0

by Ken Coulton on Apr.19, 2010, under 02. Quick Start Guide, 07. Internet Connectivity, Networking

Vectorlinux has a tool for making sharing files with a Windows machine called vlsmbmnt. Trouble is the version included with the fresh install needs upgrading. This is an easy fix when you know what you are looking for. Here’s a tut to show the way.

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