Fedora 20 Installing KDE

From the command line: Optionally, if you want to run KDM instead of GDM: Note: This guide should work on Fedora 19 as well; but I haven’t tested it. Source: http://marcofalchi.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/fedora-1920-install-kde-kdm-swith-from.html

January 2, 2014 · 1 min · 31 words · kenno

How to extract .xz file

Today is the first time I ever saw a compressed file in *.xz format. According to this page TIP: extract .xz format, we can decompress it by running the following command: Just make sure you have “xz-utils” package, on Debian system, or something equivalent on other distros installed.

December 29, 2013 · 1 min · 48 words · kenno

Kill all processes of a user

The following command will kill all processes belong to a single user on Linux. pkill -u username Credit: Linux – Kill all processes for a user

May 9, 2011 · 1 min · 26 words · kenno

Banshee crashes: The database disk image is malformed

Banshee just crashed on me with the following error message: <br /> [Info 20:44:59.949] Running Banshee 1.6.1: [Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2010-06-18 18:47:49 UTC]<br /> [Info 20:45:01.043] All services are started 0.949921<br /> Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.<br /> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteException: <strong>The database disk image is malformed</strong><br /> database disk image is malformed<br /> at Mono....

September 28, 2010 · 2 min · 223 words · kenno

Amarok 2.3.0 and PulseAudio Problem

Ever since I upgraded my Ubuntu desktop from 9.04 to 10.4, I have been having problems with Amarok dropping sound randomly. For example, if Amarok is playing the music and another program requires to use sound, Amarok will become silence. One solution to restore sound in Amarok is to kill pulseaudio and restart Amarok. It works, but very annoying. Fortunately, installing libxine1-gnome and configure Amarok to use Esound (ESD) instead of PulseAudio fixed the problem....

May 17, 2010 · 1 min · 81 words · kenno