Who can use these laptop and netbook touchpads, trackpads, whatever you call the thing you-accidentally-tap and lose-focus-and-type-into-the-wrong-spot. Specialized layout keyboard navigation is the way to go! Customized Conky to a top horizontal bar, always visible by setting my desktop margins. Installed Pytyle to organize my windows running on top of Openbox, with vi-like keybindings relying on [...]
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Visual Tour: MeeGo 1.1
February 28th, 2011 
Wez MeeGo is an open source, Linux based distro, that pulls from various other open source projects. It supports devices like: netbooks, handhelds, TV’s, and IVI’s (In-Vehicle Infotainment). Intel/Atom and ARM platforms are supported. Enjoy this visual tour, and stick around for a few more words at the end. (Images total ~1.5MB)
Tags: Customize your login screen
August 10th, 2010 Wez Customizing the look of the GDM / Login screen is a great way to add a personal touch to your system. We do this by running the gnome-appearance-properties as the gdm user, and launch it through dbus-launch which sets up the appropriate environment variables for us. In short: fire up a terminal window and run: [...]
I'm not anti-social, I'm just not user-friendly
May 28th, 2009 Wez I’m sure you’ve waded through an application manual, slowly and probably painfully, just to get that tiny bit of info on how to make the light-bulb feature glow red instead of blue.
