Hardware

XFCE4 review: After Over 10 Years with KDE, I'm Moving to XFCE, and Xubuntu!

In choosing a Linux desktop, I want something both highly stable and great looking. I stare at these monitors for 10-14 hours a day! Speed and ease of configuration/use are also important. This post is about my journey from KDE4 to XFCE4, and is also a review of sorts.

Dual Head Xorg Config for a RadeonHD RV630 aka Radeon HD 2600XT

** Note ** I've sold this card since, but I'll repost this in case it is useful to anyone:
Just a reference in case anyone else is trying to figure out how to get dual head working (with screen stretch) on Ubuntu in particular since Ubuntu doesn’t figure it out by itself. Took me awhile to get this figured out.
The magic lines (in “Device") are this

Green Networking - Converting Standard Computers to Thin Clients

These days it’s all about saving money, power, the planet. This post is intended to get you excited to try thin client computing on your home network- assuming you have one.

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Simplifying Configuring CUPS Printing Clients on a Network

If you have a server computer with a printer attached and a client computer across the network there’s a super simple way to configure cups, create a “/etc/cups/client.conf” file and stick a line like this, with the server's IP address in it:
ServerName 12.34.56.78

Setting up multi monitor / dual head 1280x1024 with the Intel G31 Integrated Graphics Chipset

Just a recipe for dual head on Xorg/Linux with the GMA 3100 included with my G31 chipset in case I forget.

1) Obtain “intel” xorg driver version 2.1.1 or later. Build/install.
2) Configure i915 kernel driver, load
3) Configure xorg with the following unusual parts: Monitor Identifiers should match these options under the video card Device block.

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