Tag: GNOME
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Making GNOME 3 usable under FreeBSD
As usable as it could be after their developers got infected by that brain parasite (it is funny how functionality-wise pretty much everything is done in wrong way). Plugins needed/enabled: To be able to install extensions from your browser make sure /usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin in your path. In order to have screensavers make sure…
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How to type unicode character in GNOME (using its code)
Do CTRL + SHIFT + u then type its code and press enter when done.
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Changing file associations from command line
It can be done from command line using xdg-mime – might be useful if weird programs are started xdg-mime default nautilus.desktop inode/directoryThese associations are kept in /usr/local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, ~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, maybe also some other mime* file in those directories
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Enabling/disabling menu icons in GNOME
It can be enabled with gconftool-2 –type bool –set /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons trueand disabled (quite surprisingly) with: gconftool-2 –type bool –set /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons false
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Formatting USB drive with FAT32 using FreeBSD
Assuming your usb drive is /dev/da0 Using fdisk: Using gpart: However if you want GNOME to automount usb drive you shouldn’t follow instructions above 🙂 Instead do this:
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Where GNOME 2 stores mouse configuration
In directory ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse