Working with Linux on a PC 1640

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I think this is an issue with the X server, if yours supports alpha, then you can have alpha icons. IIRC, XFree86 doesn't, and only the latest versions of Xorg do. It's coming however.

theme

icons are vector maps, and scale smoothely, unlike pixmaps.

rt click, properties, select custom icon.

so change it?

Odd, this used to be a function of the filemanager, although I haven't used it much. It works this way in (for example) evolution, drag a message from one folder, over to a folder with subfolders, and it toggles open, showing the subfolders. Not sure when this changed, but it looks like it's due to Apple *patenting* the "spring loaded folders" thing. Pretty lame patent.

When you click on the image, to view it, why do you care what the program that views it is called? EOG gives you the name of the *image* which would seem to be the relevent info. If you need to know the name of the app, you can select "About" from the menubar. If you need to open it with something other than the default media viewer for that format, then you can always use the open with dialog.

That's a function of the config of the X server, which errs on the side of easy config-detection, for the LiveCDs. On my Hoary HD install, moving a window with an image in it, shows the image moving, as you'd expect, not greyed out, or opaqued as if it were not dbl buffered.

Within GNOME progs, no they don't. With non-GNOME progs, they can. Just like non-Apple complient programmes running on OSX can differ :)

what is this? maybe it's there, and you don't recognize it? What does it's function serve?

Autosize what and how? can you be more specific?

Again, what is this?

Expocity, a fork of Metacity, coming to the main tree soon, although not in Hoary yet.

tarball, if that's your thing :)

I haven't found much use for that, other than in a mr potato sort of way, but it's kinda cool. Maybe I'll find it useful down the road.

You have missed a lot of the bells and whistles. :) For example, this may be turned off by default, especially in the LiveCDs, but turn on preview for local files in the file management prefs dialog. hold the mouse pointer over a text file, or an mp3, or a video clip (make sure it's with in the size limit you set on the dialog) and you get a preview of what the file is. (or rather, contains.)

Drag a file, say, a spreadsheet, from the filebrowser to the menu bar on top of the screen, instant shortcut to that file. Don't know if OSX does that or not, either way, I find it useful.

Session management, you can have multiple sessions, and load them upon login, not person, but nice.

vFolders in Evolution, are one of those things that I ignored at first, but am finding more and more useful. (not specifically GNOME issue, since Evo can be used elsewhere, but Evo is the mail app for GNOME)

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