Daily Archives: August 11, 2009

nautilus-open-terminal backport for Jaunty

I am addicted to the “Open Terminal” plugin for Nautilus. I have a lot of different SFTP bookmarks and mounts, and I always want to open an SSH terminal using the menu. However, anyone using Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) knows that it’ll crash the file browser, which is a serious bummer. I’ve backported the package from …

August 11, 2009 – 7:19 am | By Kristopher Ives | Posted in General, Linux | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Tip: Force your GNOME panel to reload

If you’ve installed a GNOME Applet, but you can’t see it in the Add menu, then you’ll either have to reload gnome-panel or wait a while. Reloading isn’t the cleanest thing, but you can do it by executingkillall gnome-panel and then gnome-panel via ALT+F2. Doing this in a normal terminal isn’t advised, because if that …

August 11, 2009 – 5:28 am | By Kristopher Ives | Posted in General, Linux | Tagged , , | Comments (0)