This post is meant to help a specific person leaving ubuntu's unity for debian's gnome. He finds unity easier to use then stock debi...

I'm tired of google chrome/chromium -- for some reason more and more websites are rendering incorrectly in it. Part of the reason is bec...

Update 3/7/2013: there are now *gnome-bluetooth packages (3.8.1-2) in the jessie repos now. While I haven't looked closer at them, I p...

Once upon a time it was possible to de/encrypt in gedit, and life was good. Then GNOME 3 came along, and the seahorse plugin for edit disapp...

Update 30 May 2013: frippery extensions are out now for gnome 3.8. Phew!  http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html Original ...

Looking at my ~/.local/share/tracker folder I've got 1.5 Gb wasting away. Also, tracker has a way of eating up CPU cycles,. Given that I...

I occasionally move pictures off my phone and the CF card of my camera. It annoys me a little bit that shotwell  gets to open and import my ...

Quite some time ago me-tv crapped out on me (it's working again as of 9 Jan 2013). While good things came out of it (set up vlc with dv...

22/12/2011 An explanation and solution is here:  http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=67502&p=510197#p512994 SOLUTIO...

So after the turmoil of being thrown into a new desktop metaphor, I've finally reached a stage where I'd feel less at home in Gnome ...

UPDATE 02/02/2012: It seems like whatever the problem was, it's gone now. An up-to-date testing system with ibus runs smoothly. 26/11...

So, I stuck it out. The new gnome-shell is fairly functional for me, finally. The lack of system indicator applets was solved by using conk...

Debian testing has now transitioned to gnome-shell/gnome3. It's...different...from gnome 2.32, so be warned. While I'm as frustrated...