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Organizing Mailing List messages with Evolution

This article deals with the various methods that can be used in order to achieve more effective and productive management of email messages which originate from mailing lists.

Taking a screenshot of a menu under GNOME

Probably, you have noticed that I rarely include images in my posts. There are times though that a screenshot is required in order to avoid lengthy descriptions. A picture is like one thousand words…

Tab Links extension for the Epiphany browser

If your web browser of choice is Epiphany and you always wanted to copy all of the open tabs’ links to the clipboard in various formats with one click of the mouse, then this plugin might be what you were looking for…

Turning off window animations in GNOME

Well, it took me several months, but, finally, I found out how to turn off those animations when minimizing windows in the GNOME desktop. I intended to set Metacity as the window manager in a VNC session to see if it’s usable and accidentally, while checking its options in the configuration editor on my current [...]

Use Python to get the web page data in Epiphany

Sometimes, things are not that straightforward as one might think. Yesterday, I spent over two hours on the Epiphany Python Console checking almost all of the available functions in order to find a way to store the displayed page’s HTML data in a variable. Before quitting, I decided to get some help over at the [...]

Epiphany Python Console – Open New Tab

This is a quick tip about how to open new tabs with Python code in Epiphany.

Epiphany Python Console – Documentation

The availability of good and complete documentation for an API is one of the most important factors in order someone to be able to effectively use that API for application programming. Good API documentation saves time and effort. It provides all the needed information a programmer, either professional or amateur, would need in order to [...]

Tab Session Management extension for Epiphany

One of the features I’d like all browsers, that support tabbed-browsing, should include by default is to let the user save the current window’s tab layout (aka tab session) to a file and also provide the ability to load such a saved tab session. My main browser, Epiphany, does not have this functionality and I [...]

A Note About The Epiphany Extensions on Fedora

This is just a quick note for Fedora users who use Epiphany as their main web browser. As you have probably noticed, there is an epiphany-extensions package in Fedora-Extras. These extensions add some more functionality to Epiphany. If I recall correctly, this package does not contain all of the extensions that are available for this [...]

Music Collection Sharing With Rhythmbox

Actually, this title is not very descriptive, as sharing music with Rhythmbox takes only one click of the mouse. However, this article intends to provide an overview of what happens behind the scenes after this mouse button has been pressed and how Rhythmbox and Avahi work together in order to make the sharing of music such an easy task.