But, in a fresh Arch Linux install you still need a few gstreamer packages to enable totem-video-thumbnailer to do its job…

1. Install necessary packages (as root):

pacman -Sy --needed totem gstreamer0.10-{{bad,good,ugly,base}{,-plugins},ffmpeg}

2. Delete old video thumbnails to force generation of new ones:

rm -rf ~/.thumbnails/fail

3. Browse a folder of video files in Nautilus:

In some cases you may need to restart Nautlius for the changes to take effect:

killall nautilus

…or simply log out and log in again.

System Info

• Arch Linux – Kernel 2.6.31-ARCH
• Gnome 2.28.0
• packages gnome & gnome-extra

Source

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Common_codecs

http://www.google.com/reader/m/ or from a mobile browser just: http://www.google.com/reader/

• Platform: Windows XP Pro SP3 + Java 1.6.0_13
• jEdit Version: 4.3pre16

Utilities -> Global Options -> jEdit -> Text Area:

Anti Aliased  smooth text: subpixel

UNCHECK: Fractal font metrics (for better smooth text display)

The combination of subpixel antialiasing (a must) and Fractal font metrics (makes little difference) causes the unbearably slow scolling.

Thanks to the jEdit Community Forums.

Source:

http://community.jedit.org/?q=node/view/4148

Surprisingly enough there are no documented settings for Recent Documents, not even something in gconf-editor, so people have been going stone age to prevent this functionality. In the past you could change permissions for the file that stores the data in your home directory, but it seems in later versions of Gnome the following is the current method of choice.

METHOD:

Enter the following into a terminal:

rm ~/.recently-used.xbel
mkdir ~/.recently-used.xbel

When you’re done, go check your menu and Recent Documents should be grayed out.

This works because the data concerning your recent documents can’t be written to a directory and the Recent Documents menu item is simply disabled. (I played around with retaining the text file and changing its permissions, but they were eventually always overwritten.)

NOTES:

It has been mentioned that you may receive GTK related warnings in the console after applying this, since we did a sort of end-run that’s kind of expected.

There was another method that involved making the file immutable (sudo chattr +i ~/.recently-used.xbel) but this is only for ext2/ext3 filesystems (I prefer JFS whenever applicable).

There may also be a left over file, ~/.recently_used that you can also remove:

rm ~/.recently-used

SOURCES:

Arch Linux Forums /  Disable Gnome Recent Documents [solved]

Disable recent documents – Ubuntu Forums

I take no responsibility for coming up with this hack, I just wanted to clearly document it. BTW, this has been a problem since 2005 > Bug 30942 – Request to add option to disable ‘Recent Documents’ lists

I downloaded the Live CD .iso and booted it in VMware Server on an XP host, then plugged in a 1GB Corsair Voyager USB drive and enabled it for the VM so the Live CD virtual machine would have access. From there I just followed the guide on the eeeuser.com wiki and ran the USB drive install script, booted off the USB stick on the Eee and BAM! this s**t was fast! I was super impressed, I mean Arch is a KISS fast distro but eeeXubuntu destroyed my Arch install by comparison.

Anyways, after playing on the USB stick live OS for a while I opted to install, one partition at ‘/’ (no swap) and MurderFS... I mean ReiserFS. The current eeeXubuntu Live CD is based on Xubuntu 7.10 while the current version of Xubuntu is Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS but I think there’s a guide on the eeeuser Wiki to run the upgrade manager to get to 8.04.. I’m cool with 7.10 for now though.

Wireless worked with NetworkManager Applet OUT OF THE BOX, thank god. I followed the guide (again on the eeeuser.com Wiki) to install ucview to have some fun w/ the webcam (cheese was giving me some issues I couldn’t resolve).

DUDE, this thing flies! General responsiveness is awesome by my standards, and I’ve run all major operating systems on a huge range of hardware with all sorts of configs (let’s not get into that). I can even freakin’ watch the bigger Flash vids that straight up refused to work on my Arch install. Don’t think I’m bashing Arch, heck no, I like to think I have a darn good understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of Ubuntu based distros vs. Arch Linux and bottom line is I believe that eeeXubuntu is just a super well-put-together distro for the Eee. Color me impressed. But maybe Ubuntu or Debian in general is better suited to the Eee platform?.. I don’t care cause I’m more than happy with eeeXubuntu.

Gripes? out of the box it likes to complain about my battery capacity there’s a bit in the eeeuser.com Wiki about setting up ACPI correctly – I’ll fix it soon / when I get pissed. Whatever, this is sweet.

I had to release my excitement so I spewed this out, comments welcome.
eeeuser.com Wiki eeeXubuntu Home

eeeuser.com Wiki: Customize eeeXubuntu

I’ve been doing a few reinstalls on my workstation boxes lately so I put together this list to save myself some time. This will change as I remember/find stuff.

System/Utilities

• JkDefrag (Auslogics Disk Defrag Defraggler)
  
• XP Noire Theme
• Foxit Reader
• WinDirStat
• 7-zip
• Cygwin

Media

• VLC
• Foobar2000
• Quicktime (no iTunes)
• Mp3tag

Web

• Firefox + Firebug + ColorZilla + Prism + Web  Developer
• Flash Plugin
• Thunderbird
• Pidgin

Development

• Dreamweaver + Updates
• Eclipse with PHP Development Tools (jEdit + FTP/SFTP Plugin (Aptana Studio))
• Filezilla
• Notepad++
• Putty
• WAMP

Graphics

• The GIMP
• Inkscape
• Irfanview + Plugins

Other

• uTorrent
• PeerBlock (PeerGuardian)
• OpenOffice.org + JRE

This made a lot of sense, major changes are being made. Besides, the new look alone was enough to get me interested. Yay, the future KDE won’t be so terribly ugly – oh and I know you can theme 3.5, blah blah but it still looks like garb. When I first saw Dolphin I thought they purposely had stolen some design elements from Gnome/Tango and was glad of it. Let’s hope that all the KDE apps get prettied up to match.

What I really like about KDE 4 is the new graphics system. Screw the widgets and Expose rip off, it’s the fact that all the 3D and composting effects are all integrated into the desktop environment. Hey, Compiz/Beryl/Fusion has come leaps and bounds – I’ve followed it from the beginning, but its bloated. I think that the user experience will benefit from direct integration. And I don’t need the millions of cute effects, I want a GPU rendered desktop with high performance, shadows, transparency and good virtual desktop implementation.

I’m always glad to give a different desktop a go and I hope KDE 4 becomes something that satisfies my needs. Until then, the power of Openbox compels me.

Something feels a little off, but it’s not bad.

macfox II – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3174

macfox II Graphite – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3430

Here’s the key to look for:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors

Change the “Background” key from the default blue RGB value (“0 78 152“) to let’s say “0 0 0” for a black background.

To set an image as the background, you want the key:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop

Set the value of “Wallpaper” to the path of the image file you want set as your background.

There are some other settings under the “Control Panel” tree worth taking a look at, have fun.

Resources: Change the Logon Screen Background Color – PC Tools Registry Guide

Change the Logon Screen Wallpaper - PC Tools Registry Guide

Open up regedit, (Start > Run > regedit) this is the main key you’re lookin’ for:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager

(The above alone worked for me, but some references say you also need the change the corresponding keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_USERS – so change them too if you’re having troubles.)

For each of these set the “DllName” key to the path to your preferred .msstyles Visual Styles file. If you want to choose a color variation other than the default for that syle, you also need to change the key “ColorName” to match the name of the folder for that variation found under the shell folder.

So with the default Luna style in Green, change “ColorName” from “NormalColor” (Blue) to “Homestead” and for the Silver color change it to “Metallic“.

Reference: Changing visual style for classic logon in XP, And other various settings …. Neowin Forums