LinuxQuestions.org - Blog Entries

Swiftfox - A faster build for Firefox webbrowser

Posted 05-13-2009 at 05:41 PM by rbkumaran

Tags firefox, internet, linux, opensource, opensuse

Swiftfox is yet another free browser which is an optimized build of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. The browser is fully compatible with any existing themes, extensions for Firefox. Read More

rbkumaran

LQ Newbie

Posted in Utilities

Views 2994 Comments 0 rbkumaran is offline

xclip - Copy contents from command line to X clipboard in openSUSE

Posted 04-14-2009 at 01:54 AM by rbkumaran

Tags clipboard, linux, opensource, opensuse, scp

xclip is a command line interface to the X11 selections (X11 clipboard). It can also be used for copying files, as an alternative to sftp/scp, thus avoiding password prompts when X11 forwarding has already been setup. xclip reads from Standard Input or from one or more files and copy it to the X11 clipboard making it available to the X applications.Read More

rbkumaran

LQ Newbie

Posted in Uncategorized

Views 3228 Comments 0 rbkumaran is offline

Installing ATI drivers in OpenSUSE 11.1

Posted 03-02-2009 at 11:37 PM by phoenixrising (Learning Something Everyday about Linux)
Updated 03-02-2009 at 11:43 PM by phoenixrising

Tags ati, driver, fglrx, opensuse, x11

I was trying to install/enable drivers for my ATI video card in OpenSUSE:

1. In my case the typical 1-click-installs didn't work

2. The best way (I guess) is to do it the hard way -- download the driver from the ATI site and manually configure/build/install it; This guide worked for me. Note: for openSUSE 11.1, instead of 103 use 111)

3. All the desktop effects are working now and as a welcome side-effect, openoffice.org is not crashing anymore like it...

phoenixrising

LQ Newbie

Posted in How-to

Views 5960 Comments 0 phoenixrising is offline

Krsync - A Kommander based GUI frontend for rsync

Posted 01-11-2009 at 02:28 PM by rbkumaran

Tags kde, krsync, opensource, opensuse, rsync

Krsync is a simple GUI frontend for the famous rsync to synchronize files and directories between systems or even two different directories on the same server. Krsync is a Kommander based GUI for rsync.Read more

rbkumaran

LQ Newbie

Posted in Uncategorized

Views 3529 Comments 0 rbkumaran is offline

Page 3 of 3

Total Blogs

2,191

Total Entries

8,288

Entries in Last 24 Hours