Useful software for a high school environment.

This is an attempt to chronicle common use cases for a desktop system, with the intention of then evaluating KDE ability to satisfy these use cases. I’ll attempt to keep everything on this page as time progresses.

Ever wanted to merge (join) two or more avi files seamlessly? There are numerous pieces of software to do this in Windows, but in Linux, all you need is a package called transcode, and you are ready to go with a simple command.

If you have just installed Fedora (or any other distro which uses xorg) you may have encounter the problem by which your cursor works, but you just can’t see it that is you have no cursor. The solution is fairly simple.

Open for editing the xorg config file as root. It is usually located at /etc/X11/xorg.conf . Locate the device section of the configuration file.

Add the following entry into the device section (on its own line):

Option     "SWcursor"     "True"

Restart the computer (or just xorg). Your problem should now be gone.

I have not tried any of these solutions yet, but will try to keep this page up to date as I learn more.