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Running Openbox on Fedora 18

About Openbox

Openbox is a window manager.  It is the default window manager of several distributions the most prominent of which is probably Crunchbang. It is also the most common window manager used with LXDE and RazorQT.

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Nexus 7 – First Impressions

I may represent a small portion of the technologically aware population, but I just recently purchased my first touch screen device, a Nexus 7 32GB tablet.

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Quick Review of Fedora 17: Beefy Miracle

I just downloaded and ran the LiveCD of Beefy Miracle, Fedora’s most recent release.

Likes:

  1. Japanese input methods and fonts come preinstalled.
  2. Accessibility features available.
  3. Generally polished interface
  4. Feels mature finally.

Dislikes:

  1. Stuck with fallback mode on unsupported video cards
  2. Touch screen design for use on non-touch devices is stupid.
  3. Lack of configuration options, right clicking on the wallpaper and panels does nothing.  There’s no way to change the default window manager theme which is over-sized and made for fingers not cursors.

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Switch from Firefox to Google Chrome

I’ve pretty much made the switch from Firefox to Google Chrome for the time being.  There are still a few things I like better about Firefox but Google Chrome finally broke past the showstoppers and added a few plus points on its side as well.  First I wanna show you a screenshot of me running maximized Chrome on my Fedora LXDE/Openbox Desktop. Continue reading

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