Update Linux from 4.12 --> 4.13

Linux kernel 4.13 released to stable in Arch Linux.

Guake!

Guake is a drop-down terminal application in GNOME. Installing Guake is easy. Use your distribution's package manager, most distros have it in their repositories. In Arch, I just

$pacman -S guake [enter]

You can configure Guake to follow your theme and also change the hotkeys. The example above has transparency and added in the startup application list.

You can just as well use the Cntrl+Shift+T shortcut to get Gnome-terminal but when you need to open many instances of the terminal to do jobs simultaneously, Guake is convenient and clean because in one click of the key it drops down and keep tabs.

Some Help You Are

Not all good motives end well. You thought you were doing somebody a favor but the other person is doing you mischief.

User Tips On Evolution Mail [4]

This is the fourth of a series of blog posts on Evolution Mail.

Link to third part of the series

Link to second part of the series

Link to first part of the series

I happen to like Evolution Mail's user interface.

The left panel is the email list and the right panel is the email itself. This is the vertical view of the main email window. If you hit the F9 key the email folders are revealed on the left side.

When you want to read emails, go to Mail mode and the keyboard shortcut for that is Cntrl + 1. Make sure the email list is the focus. If you want to view or read the email on its own window, type Cntrl + O. Use the spacebar to move a page down. Use the Backspace key to move one page up. Pressing the spacebar when you are on the last page of the email will move you to the next unread email. These will happen even if the next unread email is on another folder.

Evolution Mail doesn't download images automatically by default. There are privacy issues in automatically downloading images so use your own judgement. You can download images manually for each email with Cntrl + I.

You can mark emails as read with Cntrl + K. If you want to mark it back as unread just type Cntrl + Shift + K. Okay?

If you want to reply to the current email, type Cntrl + R.

Last but not the least you can always ask a friend in a GNOME desktop environment by invoking the Help key, the F1 key.

GNOME 3.26 Released

Per gnome.org press release GNOME 3.26 is released today.

The release notes for GNOME 3.26 is here. The search results in GNOME 3 has a new layout. The Settings application has a new improved appearance. The status icons tray on the bottom left is gone. If you can't work without it you can restore it with an extension. You can follow instructions and explanations here.

A Mother's Anguish

Photo by David Burke as it appears on mailonline.co.uk

Sometimes animals exhibit human-like emotions that will embarrass some of our politicians.

When Pacman Creates Pacnew Files

If you are an Arch linux OS user for sometime, encounters with its package manager called pacman is usually a non-event. I mean if you have machines with Windows OS, any kind of update is usually a major chore not to mention headache. This experiences not withstanding pacman updates sometimes gives us warnings when it creates pacnew files. Sometimes new versions of packages carry with it a new default config file. What pacman does is it detects your existing config file and renames the new incoming one as *.pacnew

It is recommended that attention to these *.pacnew files be given and to compare them immediately with your existing config file. I use an application called 'Meld'. To install Meld use the command #pacman -S meld. It's in the main repositories.

What Meld does is graphically show you the differences between the two files. In this case, your existing config file and the *.pacnew file which pacman just created. Use your mouse and decide if the difference is important enough to be incorporated to your config file. Then save the config file. Do this with every *.pacnew instance you find. To find pacnew files use the locate command.