Desktop is Your Home

There is a way to keep your home tidy. Keep it in sight!

There is no reason to keep the artificial Desktop directory in your $HOME. Let your Home dir be your Desktop and you quickly find how usefull it is.

At the terminal window type:

gconftool-2 –set "/apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir" –type bool "true"

Your Nautilus should immediately notice the change [...]

Posted at Apr 20th | no comments | Filed Under: HOWTO read on

Git repository over HTTP WebDAV with nginx

The goal is to create Git push repository available over HTTP protocol. I need to have read-write access, with read-only access for the rest of the world. Since I do not use any webservers other than nginx anymore, I configured it with nginx. It turned out to be pretty simple in theory, but not fully [...]

Posted at Apr 13th | 6 comments | Filed Under: HOWTO read on