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Pain-Free Networking Networking on Linux can be painful, especially in comparison to other operating systems. You should never need to use the command line or configuration files to manage your network (unless you want to!); everything should "Just Work" as automatically as possible and ne...

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However if I want to use slim, the background of the slim login window stays as the background of my LXDE session, which is not what I want of course. Here is my slim.conf. I suppose something's wrong but I can't see what. Code: $ cat /etc/slim.conf default_path /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin default_...

If I open a translated desktop file with LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8, the following works as expected (ipython session): In [1]: import xdg.DesktopEntry In [3]: e=xdg.DesktopEntry.DesktopEntry() In [4]: e.parse('plugins/Games/Chess.desktop') In [5]: e.getName() Out[5]: u'\xc9checs' In [6]: print "%s&quo...