1) How to add minimize and maximize buttons. Run dconf-editor Go to: desktop -> gnome-> shell- > windows From your right side options double click on “buttons_layouts”. Erase it’s current text (which should be = :close ) and enter the below code instead: :minimize,maximize,close Source for this tip. 2) Adding “Shutdown/Power Off” and “Restart/Reboot” options into [...]
Archive for July, 2011
The strange thing about GNOME 3 or Fedora Core 15, there is no “Shutdown” or “Power Off” and”Restart” options in the menu. It only provides “Suspend”. Don’t ask me why, I am not even sure this is decided by GNOME 3 developers or the Fedora Core developers. However, there is a way to add the [...]
The choice of desktop environment can influence the choice Linux distribution for one to choose from. This happened to me once, now I decided to move to Fedora Core for the same reason. Linux desktop is indeed getting better. I still remember the good old days, where writing your own fvwmrc is the way to [...]
Who in the right mind would use “Ctrl-Delete” combination of keys for deleting files in a file manager? Huh? Hello!!! There is a delete key on every keyboard. It says “D-E-L-E-T-E”, it means delete, why on earth I need to use another key to delete? From one of those weird things about Gnome 3… Thank [...]


