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In the title of this message I have listed two remote access clients: the Remmina gui based RDP software and XFreeRDP which is command line based. Right now these are the tools I am having a play with to try out different remote access systems, which in my scenario is to allow me to remote…

I just want something that lets me zoom in and out with the mouse wheel, lets me run multiple instances, and is easy to use. Gliv fits the bill for that, and you can easily install it directly with apt. However, it is not currently maintained. GPicView, the default viewer of LXDE, was also evaluated,…

One of the things people like to do with PCs is to use them as media centres for playback and recording of videos, TV broadcasts and music etc. I haven’t really got into this in a big way other than for playback of my CD and DVD collection. Nevertheless I have used a computer for…

Hibernation is a somewhat controversial subject in the Linux desktop community. It is considered to be difficult to implement and to have the potential to cause a lot of problems. I have used hibernation wherever possible on all my Linux desktops but it is not always straightforward. Older hardware may not support it, and even…

What’s interesting about Chrome is the different icons. On Mint computers and Lubuntus the icon has been square, while on Xubuntu we are back to the old round icon. This may be because of the different installation method I have used. In general it is better to use a package supplied with your distro rather…