Wednesday, June 27, 2012

How to Customize "Send To" Menu Items in Windows 7

Press Windows-R


Type in: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo


Copy shortcuts of executables to this directory.  For example, copy a shortcut of C:\Program Files (x86)\microsoft office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE to this directory.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Change Title Bar Color in Gnome in Fedora 16

I find it annoying that the active window's title bar is colored gray, just like inactive windows.  I never know for sure which window is active when I start typing on the keyboard.  In gnome, you can change the active window's title bar's color like this:

yum install gnome-tweak-tool
gnome-tweak-tool

Theme >Window theme > Clearlooks Classic

Yes!

Monday, June 11, 2012

How do I get bash to autocomplete the first time?

It seems like the default bash behavior is to not show anything if you press tab and there is more than one possibility for tab auto-completion.  It's really annoying.  You can force bash to show all the matching file by editing /etc/inputrc and adding in the following line:


set show-all-if-ambiguous on