By default in Gentoo there is no application folder and all applications are either showing in a single container without further organization than being presented in alphabetic order, eithe ...

GDM is responsible for managing displays on the system. This includes authenticating users (The greeter program), starting the user session, and terminating the user session. The main functi ...

by wiki.debian.org. GDM is the GNOME Display Manager, a graphical login program that uses Wayland or the X Window System. Wayland is a communication protocol that specifies the communication ...

X.org is the software component that allows graphical applications to display windows on screen. It includes a driver that makes efficient use of the video card. The features offered to the ...

"App Folders" is the name given to the grouping of applications in the gnome-shell overview. gnome-shell comes with two predefined app folders, 'Utilities' and 'Sundry'. The app folder confi ...

This page give an introduction how to use the gsettings command line tool. Dconf is a settings database used in Gnome3 and similar systems (such as Unity and XFCE). Before we give examples w ...

by DevynCJohnson. Dconf is a settings database used in Gnome3 and similar systems (such as Unity and XFCE). Dconf is the predecessor to Gconf which was used in Gnome2. Dconf acts like the re ...

D-Bus is a free/open source inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism that is part of the freedesktop.org project. The term “IPC” can be used to describe methods of getting information ...

This chapter describes the structure and contents of “binary” and “source” packages. The former are files directly usable by dpkg, while the latter contain the source code, as well a ...

IEPM (Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring) group at SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), Stanford University and Department of Energy (DOE). PingER (Ping End-to-end Reporting) i ...

Andy Wagoner. In order to successfully sniff packets you need to be on a LAN that is connected to a hub or a switch that has port mirroring enabled. When using packet sniffing tools, keep in ...