Category Archives: Linux

WordPress Automatic Update on Linux NTFS Partition

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Ghodmode

My primary development box runs Kubuntu Linux and Windows 7 in a dual-boot configuration. NTFS works with Linux, but ext4 doesn’t work with Windows, so most of my hard drive is formatted as NTFS. Due to this unusual setup, I … Continue reading →

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A Better Linux Startup

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Ghodmode

Do you want to start a program when you boot or startup your Linux system? Okay, look in /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc.d or /etc/rc#.d or /etc/inittab or /etc/init.d or /etc/X11/Xsession or /etc/X11/xinitrc or $HOME/.xinitrc or $HOME/.kde/env or $HOME/.config/autostart or $HOME/.kde/Autostart or … Continue reading →

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“Default” Applications Obstacle to Desktop Linux Adoption

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Ghodmode

KDE/Qt applications and Gnome/GTK applications read default system settings from two different places. I use KDE and I don’t have the Gnome desktop environment installed, but I ran into this problem while running a GTK application that wanted to open … Continue reading →

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