Yes that is a mouse. I use this at work. But the default configurations did not let me use the middle button. I wanted to use it for scrolling. So I had to add some custom settings to X. Before we begin, we need to know the device name: # hal-find-by-capability –capability “input.mouse” /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4b4_60_noserial_if0_logicaldev_input Then…
I have used GNOME 3 for quite some time now. Of late the shell started to crash a lot, so I switched to Unity. I usually hate dark themes, I like bright desktop and larger fonts so that my eyes don’t get strained. It is great that people have so many useful gui tools for…
I recently changed my router’s password and even changed the authentication type. Now after that Network Manager started crashing. And thanks to the new GNOME 3 network manager, I was not able to manually change the password, I was not even getting where they had hidden the previous Network Connections window which used to list…
I had recently bought MTS connection which gave a usb stick to connect it. It also gave a rpm for the GUI. Later I found that due to it, some software like vlc and skype had stopped working. I used to get errors like this: roshan@localhost:~/Downloads$ vlc VLC media player 1.1.3 The Luggage (revision exported)…
This is a problem that I faced once earlier also. However, I never cared to solve it then. The solution to this problem is on http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f11.html#binarycodecs. Simply download the tar and extract the tar. Follow the steps mentioned on the page. Posted from GScribble.