Solving KDE Freeze

It was after a long time, I decided to install (and use) KDE4 on my desktop. I had always a notion that KDE4 was slow.. especially after trying the initial releases. I was a KDE3.5 person and loved it since Slackware had it. However after trying the latest version available on the Ubuntu (And Hence LinuxMint) repositories, I found my assumption to be pretty flawed!


I installed KDE4 and started it... After a while, the screen made no movements. It froze! Now I put on my debugging hat and started scouring forums for a solution. So here's what I had to do:

Hacking Wordpress

I was to configure and install wordpress for a client and so my recent obsession is wordpress themes. Wordpress has a large collection of themes, however a lot of wordpress premium themes are for sale (you need to buy them).


After a lot of searching on the web I found methods to get the professional look and feel for a website by extending wordpress with plug-ins and themes. 


A few websites I found useful for getting themes :

• wordpressthemes.com
• wordpress.org/extend/themes
• wordpressthemesbase.com
• freewpthemes.net
• skinpress.com
• fthemes.com
• premiumwptheme.net

Now let us see how the files are designed.

Devhelp documentation for C

Standard C Library documentation can be easily found on the command line via the terminal. Do a simple 'man scanf' and you get the entire documentation for the function. This functionality requires the appropriate manual pages to be installed which is part of the standard C library documentation.

Dev-Help is a documentation viewer for GNOME and has various books to be used by developers. Standard repositories of Ubuntu, LinuxMint and Debian contains many devhelp books but a notable exception is the Standard C Library Documentation

Clipboard management

When doing something that requires extensive research or repetitive words that need to be copied over and over again, it is almost tedious to right click and press copy and then right click and then paste. Worse still, is when we are in a console window or a virtual terminal. Here I present some tricks to make the most done work of IT professionals, i.e., copy-pasting, much easier!

Firstly, about a very simple way of copy pasting. While on X (XServer or Xorg or X11, which is the graphics server for *nix based systems), simple select some text with the mouse and then middle click on the destination application window. If your mouse does not have a middle mouse button (for scrolling ones) press the right and left keys simultaneously. Cool huh!