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I'm glad to *finally* see a graphical download manager for Linux, kudos for the author.

And in Python, you chose the right language my friend :)

just a little note, don't include *.pyc files...

It's available now

I'm pretty excited too, enjoy :popcorn:

You can change the shortcuts by doing the following:


Open KMenu
Select System settings
Go to 'Keyboard and Mouse' then 'Global Keyboard Shortcuts'
In the KDE Component chose KWin
Change...

I'd appreciate any info about gaming performance with ATI HD 3xxx, I have ATI HD 3300(not high-end I know) and I'm not satisfied with the performance of ATI's proprietary Linux drivers(FPS is...

You don't need to compile SDL from source on Cygwin, use the Cygwin installer to install it.
Also I usually prefer to use native stuff so if I were you I'd stick with the Win32 SDL, I've used it and...

lxde exists in Ubuntu repositories, you don't need to add external repositories

see http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Ubuntu

Yes, this is possible, I have done it.

I usually use the advanced partitioning option in the Ubuntu installer and then select the root, home and swap partitions, unless you tell it to format one...

What cache do you mean?
Usually most of the cache-type files are stored in /var/cache however you shouldn't be modifying these files on your own.
As for the package cache(also known as apt cache)...

This can be done by removing the meta-package kubuntu-desktop, however I'm not sure if this will break something since KUbuntu is the original edition you installed.
so I think you should wait for...

I'll mark this as solved as it is no longer relevant

Thanks for the info, I got an AS5 and it reduced my temps below 65C, 100% load temp dropped to 60-61 C, it should be even lower after the AS5 breaks-in.

I will consider getting a good CPU cooler...

I recently replaced my Intel E6550(DualCore 2.33 GHz 1333 FSB and 4MB of cache) with an AMD Phenom X4 9850BE(QuadCore 2.5 GHz and 4MB of cache), I got a nice performance boost from the 2 extra cores,...

A quick and dirty solution is to forcefully restart plasma :evil:

pkill plasma&&plasma

To read current wallpaper


kreadconfig --file plasma-appletsrc --group Containments --group 1 --group Wallpaper --group image --key wallpaper

To set current wallpaper


kwriteconfig --file...

Pretty useful, thanks.

For me, I give up the 2-3% for the extra 1G of memory(or more), I was suspicious about the performance of the kernel server in a Desktop environment because of its tuning...

I usually install it manually everytime, not so hard.
See Installing Eric4 On Ubuntu 7.10(Gutsy)

This worked for me and it looks like it didn't break anything, I have an intel-hda card which I think is ALC889A

UPDATE:
Turns out It wasn't so straight forward, recording got messed up, sound...

I also have intel hda, this morning I messed up alsa by installing the useless(for me) realtek driver, which only added more problems, to get alsa working back I followed the instructions here:
...

I have an intel-hda sound card, according to the manufacturer's website, it's ALC889A, when I play sound using the following command


aplay -D hw:0,0 "/media/sda1/Program...

The link http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ in step 3 points to a directory not a web page, I think it *think* should be replaced with http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main

According to the comments, the following guide makes audio work with starcraft:
Make Wine and PulseAudio get along

As far as I understand, you want to use a proxy server to provide privacy and anonymity, well in this case you should use/connect to a remote proxy server not install one on your machine, because if...

you should find samba shares by typing


remote:/


in konqueror's address bar, then clicking on the samba shares icon.

note that you need to restart after installing samba to get it working.

try fbpanel

Sorry for the delay, you know one has to earn a living.
I think xsig is ready for release, so I'll simply put it at googlecode, unfortunately I'm not sure how to license it, I've used some code from...