Change cursor and couple of other settings in window managers like fluxbox and fvwm (except gnome and KDE)

First off, get cursor theme from <a href="http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xsortmode=high&page=0&xcontentmode=36" target="_blank">here. You can download the one of your choice. Now create a directory &#8221;~/.icons&#8221; if it does not exist. Extract the file you just downloaded in this directory. [If you are using GNome then you could have dropped the tar file itself in the Desktop properties window and selected the theme from there. I have since the days of RH9 not used KDE and so am not sure how to do this in KDE, sorry guys.]

Break Free and let firefox remember all the passwords even the ones that are not saved by default

Here we go against one more security policy of most of the sites like Bank and paypal and so on. These sites do not allow Firefox or any other browser to save the password. This is using some tags in the html/code of the page that would mark the field as not completeable or savable. So, what do you do?

I am on a home computer to which no one has access so why not save the password!! Let do it. There are couple of hacks that have been found to make firefox remember all the passwords. Here are a few of them (but Linux is not covered in any of them).<h1 id="article-title"><a title="Permanent Link to Tweak Firefox’s Password Saver Without An Extension" rel="bookmark" href="http://cybernetnews.com/2006/06/07/tweak-firefoxs-password-saver-without-an-extension/">Tweak Firefox’s Password Saver Without An Extension <h1 id="article-title"><a title="Permanent Link to Make Firefox Remember Passwords without a Bookmarklet" rel="bookmark" href="http://cybernetnews.com/2009/02/13/firefox-remember-passwords/">Make Firefox Remember Passwords without a Bookmarklet

Linux Malware – Proof that Linux is not as secure as we all think

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gnome-blog — Deskbar applet for blogging

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Add a image to the list of background files in gnome

In Gnome, when you right click on the desktop background you will get a menu for &#8221;Change Desktop backgound. The images displayed in this menu are quite a few but if you want to add your own (read: more than some 5-6 files) then it takes really some time in using the GUI to add them. And if you want to add a few 10&#8217;s of file, like say 50 then you are done.