Gnome uses Nautilus as it’s file manager and ultimately the desktop manager. And Ubuntu uses Gnome. I like a clean desktop. But every time I mount a drive, a new icon is added to my desktop. This just will not do. It seems that on at least one of my [...]

The latest Ubuntu 8.04 just shipped with Firefox 3 beta. It has disabled many of my beloved plugins. Completely by accident I ran across a workaround for broken firebug and thought this was a workable solution. Other than the time involved in modifying all my plugins and reinstalling them in all of [...]

A little over 2 weeks ago I brought you Growl for Linux. I still think it’s pretty slick.
For those that know I’m a command line junkie but has to co-exist in a desktop world I have managed to get my favorite irc client to report highlights to the desktop using Mumbles.
To make this all possible [...]

Was looking into some Growl like apps for linux.
I found mumbles while looking for this howto over here.
Sports a nice list of extras
Update: Geyser at first glance seems similar, well the author of mumbles is offering to work together.
Another Update [4-7-2008]: Found this dbus hackery using python. And the I found specto listed over [...]

This one I pretty much followed what this link said to do. I’m poting it here so it’s easier to find later.
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