restoring panel for KDE 4.1

I installed openSUSE 11.1 and within no time i screwed my panel while trying to personalize things.

This is how we restore it to default, (read it in opensuse forum)

Log out and open a command prompt using Ctrl+Alt+F1. Then login as same user. And run this command

rm .kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc

This is the filewhere configuratations are stored for any user. If you remove it the default settings will reappear.

Then use Ctrl+Alt+F7 to log back in.

On KDE 3.5, there is “kicker” that restores the panel. When I tried that on 4.1, the default KDE 3.5 panel appeared. So it is better to use the above command. But i still feel that 3.5 is better. It is much stable but the graphics of 4.1 is too good.

You can run kicker by pressing Alt+F2 and then typing kicker and pressing enter.

Mukti 09 promo video

Mukti 09 promo video out

Trying ubuntu 8.04 and NTFS write support on Linux

I have shifted to Ubuntu after using openSUSE and I must admit that I am totally impressed by Ubuntu. Its repositories are simply amazing. You can search and install almost everything that you require even linuxdcpp. Also I have seen that Ubuntu is highly documented when I was browsing through the LTSP section.

Last night accidently I found out that you can write on NTFS partitions from Linux, then I googled a little bit and found out that ntfs-3g the driver for NTFS partitions on Linux is actually read/write driver. Take a look at the ntfs-3g home page and support section.

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Pen-GUI-n at Mukti 09

Pen-GUI-n event is a new event in Mukti this year. I am assigned to coordinate this event. So I will have to learn some GUI programming for this first. After the exams are over I will learn at least GKT and pyGTk.

Visit the link above for the details. And please take part .

Mukti 09 coming up in Feb 09

MUKTI is an annual national level technical symposioum on GNU/Linux and Free Software organinsed by GNU/Linux Users’ Group of NIT Durgapur. This year it is sheduled from 6-8 February, 2009.

So be prepared all of you who want to participate. This year we have some new events with the regular events as in previous years.

The entries for some events with prelims will be accepted in January. There is an online programming event called Codecraker which was a huge success last year.

So gear up for Mukti and visit our site regularly for updates.