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Volume 46 November, 2010 Happy Thanksgiving LXDE: All Hail The Halo Of halevt OpenOffice 3.2, Part 6: Computer Languages A to Z: QRS OpenOffice Base LXDE: The Heart & Soul: Forum Foibles & ms_meme's Nook lxderc.xml Alternate OS: Syllable, Part 2 Double Take LXDE: Tips & Tricks Games Zone: PopCap Games & Mark's Quick Gimp Tip1 Get Slick With xbindkeys Ladies of PCLinuxOS: tuxalish And more inside! TTaabbllee OOff CCoonntteennttss 3 Welcome From The Chief Editor 4 Happy 7th Birthday, PCLinuxOS 5 Screenshot Showcase 6 LXDE: All Hail The Halo Of halevt The PCLinuxOS name, logo and colors are the trademark of Texstar. 9 Screenshot Showcase The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is a monthly online 10 OpenOffice 3.2, Part 6: Base publication containing PCLinuxOSrelated materials. It is published primarily for members of the PCLinuxOS 13 Double Take & Mark's Quick Gimp Tip community. The Magazine staff is comprised of volunteers from the PCLinuxOS community. 14 ms_meme's Nook: Linux Town 15 Ladies of PCLinuxOS: tuxalish Visit us online at http://www.pclosmag.com 16 Screenshot Showcase This release was made possible by the following volunteers: Chief Editor: Paul Arnote (parnote) 17 LXDE: Meet The Heart & Soul lxderc.xml Assistant Editors: Andrew Strick (Stricktoo), Meemaw Consultants: Archie Arevalo, Tim Robinson 21 Alternate OS: Syllable, Part 2 Artwork: Sproggy, Timeth 26 LXDE: Tips & Tricks Magazine Layout: Paul Arnote, Meemaw, ms_meme 33 Get Slick With xbindkeys HTML Layout: Galen Seaman 35 Screenshot Showcase Staff: Neal Brooks ms_meme 36 Forum Foibles: Come Ye Thankful Users Come Galen Seaman Mark Szorady Patrick Horneker Darrel Johnston 37 Shotwell: A Lightweight Linux Image Handler Guy Taylor Meemaw Andrew Huff Gary L. Ratliff, Sr. 38 Screenshot Showcase Peter Kelly Leiche 39 Computer Languages A to Z: Q, R, S Contributors: 41 ms_meme's Nook: Linux Street Dan Malewski 44 Game Zone: PopCap Games The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercialShareAlike 3.0 46 Screenshot Showcase Unported license. Some rights are reserved. 47 More Screenshot Showcase Copyright © 2010. 2 WWeellccoommee FFrroomm TThhee CChhiieeff EEddiittoorr November, in the United States, is a time for friends I've made all around the globe, as a result of gives us a closeup view of Syllable, in his Alternate reflecting on the things that we are thankful for. This this great Linux OS. OS: Syllable Part 2 article. Pete Kelly reveals the is largely due to November being the month when "magic" of xbindkeys, a command line utility that can Americans celebrate the landing of the "Pilgrims" at On a more personal note, I am thankful for my help customize your Linux desktop, in his Get Slick Plymouth Rock, along Cape Cod in Massachusetts, wonderful wife, Laura. I am thankful for my job, and With xbindkeys article. Leiche shows us another with our Thanksgiving holiday. The founding of the the good life I live and lead. I am thankful for my lightweight Linux app, with his Shotwell: A settlement at Plymouth Rock by those fleeing friends and family. I am thankful for the ability to help Lightweight Linux Image Handler article. Gary religious persecution started the earnest European people in my daily job, and all the people I cross Ratliff, Sr. continues his trek through the alphabet of colonization of the North American continent. paths with as I carry out my job responsibilities. I am computer programming languages, with his thankful that my wife and I have good health. I Computer Languages A to Z: Q, R, S article. So what are you thankful for? routinely run across folks from all walks of life that many would say have been dealt a really bad hand, Mark Szorady is back with another installment of his As for me, I am thankful for this wonderful OS, called and who, time and time again, muster up the monthly Double Take & Mark's Quick Gimp Tip PCLinuxOS. I am thankful for the tireless, selfless strength to battle back. Many of their stories are column. Ms_meme returns with another installment work of Texstar inspiring. I am thankful for the companionship of our of Forum Foibles, as well as two new entries into and our two cats, Buddie and Kitty, and our dog, Lucky. ms_meme's Nook. To wrap it all up, we have a development column celebrating the 7th Birthday of team to make This month, we wrap up our coverage of the LXDE PCLinuxOS, and I present another game review in PCLinuxOS the desktop environment. First, I cover how to customize my Game Zone: PopCap Games article. best Linux distro the way hardware events are handled on your around. I am computer with LXDE installed, in my LXDE: All Hail In commemoration of the Thanksgiving holiday in the thankful to be a The Halo Of halevt article. I also show you how to United States, this month's cover features a (public part of the customize some of the behavior of the LXDE domain) image from American artist Jean Leon wonderful desktop, in my LXDE: Meet The Heart & Soul Gerome Ferris, depicting the signing of the PCLinuxOS lxderc.xml article. I finish up with a roundup of Mayflower compact by those early settlers who community. I am items about LXDE that are too short to warrant their landed at Plymouth Rock. thankful for the own article, but are nonetheless important, in my administrators LXDE: Tips & Tricks article. As you go forth into the day, use this time of year to and moderators remind yourself of the things you are thankful for. of the Meemaw presents her sixth article in her OpenOffice Until next month, I wish peace, happiness, good PCLinuxOS series, taking a look at OpenOffice Base, the fortune, serenity and tranquility to each and every forum, for database program of OpenOffice. Darrel Johnston one of you. working hard to maintain order and civility there. I am thankful for all the volunteers who freely give their time and efforts to help make this magazine possible. I am thankful for all of the great new 3 HHaappppyy 77tthh BBiirrtthhddaayy,, PPCCLLiinnuuxxOOSS Introduction by Paul Arnote (parnote) To celebrate the seventh birthday of PCLinuxOS, it's srlinuxx from tuxmachines.org came up with a novel probably best to let its founder, Texstar, lay it all out way to copy the LiveCD to the hard drive, and for you, in his own words. posted it on our forums. Jaco utilized this October 24, 2003 marked the birth of PCLinuxOS. information, along with inspiration from the Mepis After seven years, PCLinuxOS is definitely alive and installer, and wrote a pyqt script to make the LiveCD well, with its numbers of users steadily increasing. PCLinuxOS: installable; thus the birth of a new distribution. Regularly, PCLinuxOS is in the top five most popular distros on Distrowatch.com. A little walk down history lane On October 24, 2003, PCLinuxOS Preview .4 was released as a fork of Linux Mandrake (Mandriva) Of course, all of this is due to the exhausting and by Texstar 9.2, utilizing mklivecd scripts from Jaco Greef, a selfless work of Bill Reynolds, a.k.a. Texstar, who multimedia kernel from Thomas Buckland (2.4.22 branched out from his days of maintaining a custom In the summer of 2003, I became interested in tmb) and a customized KDE (3.1.4tex). Preview .5 repository for Mandriva, to create his own distro. LiveCD technology after looking at Knoppix and a through .93 were built upon on previous PCLinuxOS Yep. The one we all know and love, as PCLinuxOS. fresh distribution from a fellow named Warren, called releases. After 3 years of updating one release from Mepis. I was interested in helping Warren with Mepis the other using the same gcc and glibc core library, Today, PCLinuxOS sports virtually any desktop at the time, but I had no clue how to build Deb files. we found too many programs would no longer environment you may want to use or try: KDE, Coming from 5 years of packaging rpms and not compile or work properly against this aging code Gnome, Xfce, LXDE, Openbox or Enlightenment. really wanting to learn a new packaging system, I base. And all of those either currently have lightweight happened to come across a South African fellow by "mini" versions already available, or they are the name of Jaco Greef. He was developing a script currently in the works. These are all maintained by a called mklivecd and porting it to Mandrake Linux. I, small but efficient group of dedicated developers, along with Buchanan Milne (Mandrake contributor) who help with maintaining the remasters and with and a few others, began working with Jaco to help maintaining the more than 13,000 software titles in debug the scripts. I got an idea to make a LiveCD the official PCLinuxOS respository. based on Mandrake Linux 9.2, along with all my customizations, just for fun. I had previously As most of you already know, PCLinuxOS has provided an unofficial 3rd party repository for the garnered a strong following, and has a reputation of users of Mandrake for many years, but had since "everything working right out of the box." Although parted ways. Since Mandrake was a trademarked the "official" slogan for PCLinuxOS is "Radically name, myself and others decided to name the livecd Simple," many have referred to it as "The Distro after our news site and forum pclinuxonline, thus In November 2006, we utilized a one time source Hopper Stopper," since many users' search for a PCLinuxOS. code snapshot from our friends at Mandriva to pull in Linux distro that works with all their hardware ends an updated glibc/gcc core and associated libraries.