This is another quick tip: to search typed history at a bash prompt, hit control-r and start typing a command you used previously. It doesn’t have to start with what is typed, as it returns matches which contain the searched text. Hit control-r again (while searching), and it will jump back further in history and [...]
You either want to place the following in ~/.inputrc or /etc/inputrc… I’ve found that while ~/.inputrc works sometimes, it doesn’t on all systems. “\e[1~": beginning-of-line "\e[4~": end-of-line "\e[5~": beginning-of-history "\e[6~": end-of-history "\e[3~": delete-char "\e[2~": quoted-insert "\e[5C": forward-word "\e[5D": backward-word "\e\e[C": forward-word "\e\e[D": backward-word set completion-ignore-case On All lines except the last enable nice readline & [...]
Slashdot got it nearly right, but a bit wrong: the Tango Project is about unifying the Open Source desktop, but it isn’t by Steven Garrity and Jakub Steiner alone. Steven and Jakub presented it at the GNOME Summit in Boston over the weekend, but Rodney Dawes, Tuomas Kuosmanen, Anna Dirks (site currently down), and myself [...]
In addition to BetterDesktop, the Tango Project has finally been announced! “The Tango Desktop Project exists to create a consistent user experience for free and Open Source software with graphical user interfaces.” A few Tango-style icons Jakub has a great post which explains Tango more in-depth.
Today, Novell is releasing something I (and the rest of the team I’m on) have been working on for a while: BetterDesktop.org, a website which focuses on usability studies and analysis for the Open Source desktop.
Aaron’s Banshee presentation was totally awesome. At first, the presentation computer (an MIT thing), caused the screen to roll up, the lights to turn fully bright — and then became a bit stubborn in doing the right thing. A few minutes later, after Aaron and Miguel (who stepped in to help), finally got the wall [...]
After Tuomas (tigert) arrived from his long plane flight, he opened up his laptop in a cube at work, resuming it from its suspended sleep. I was also in the same cube. He then proceeded to show me something, but as soon as he pointed to it (with his finger toward the screen), the display [...]
