If you’re looking to pretty up your Linux desktop with some cool widgets take a look at the screenlets package. Screenlets is availible as a Debian or Ubuntu package so installing is just a matter of going to your package manager and searching for “screenlets”. Once installed you can access the screenlets from the applicatons [...]
If you’re looking for a really cool 3D Linux desktop do a search for Compiz. You’ll want the Compiz and CompizConfig packages from your distributions package system. In Ubuntu you can use the Synaptic Package Manager to download and install the necessary software.
Once installed you’ll want to open up the CompizConfig Settings [...]
If you’re a new Linux user you’re probably wondering if you can install a different Desktop for Linux. With the standard install of Ubuntu you get Gnome but you may want to give a few others a try such as XFCE or KDE.
For those of you wanting to run the Avant launcher but can’t because of compiz, I have a solution for you. Basically Avant was meant to be run with a composite manager such as compiz, but because some of us don’t have adequate video cards, we can’t run this cool tool.
Note: Avant [...]
Adding a simple ListBox widget in your GTK application is easier than you think. This tutorial will show you how to create ListBox-like functionality in GTK using Glade3. GTK uses the TreeView control as their do-all list control. You can create simple lists, tree-like lists and all sorts of various list views. What is really [...]
Read More »Today I whipped up a simple GTK application using the Anjuta IDE, Glade 3, and the new GtkBuilder system. As some of you know, Glade 3 and GTK changed things up. First Glade stopped using generated code which required you to use libglade. Now the GTK developers created their own interface interpretor called GtkBuilder. [...]
Read More »This code will show you how to search for Windows Services. The ServiceController class handles almost everything service related. You can also check if services are running by checking the service.Status property and you can search for installed services using the sample code below. The services we are talking about are the services that run [...]
Read More »Visual Basic for Linux is here, sort of. In my search for the perfect RAD environment for Linux I came across a project called Gambas. Gambas is a Visual Basic like development environment for Linux which is very much like Microsoft’s drag and drop Visual Basic but it is not a clone. For an Open [...]
Read More »This code snippet will let you force a background color into a PNG file with C#. When working with PNG files in Visual Studio sometimes you’ll run into situations where the background of a PNG shows up as grey or even blue. This is because of the PNG files transparency and Windows can sometimes [...]
Read More »The following code shows you how to build a UDP server in C# using the UUdpClient class for the networking and BackgroundWorker class for reporting data back to the application. This particular UDP server class is designed to be used with a Windows Forms or GUI. When using the UDP server you pass a BackgroundWorker [...]
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