How to enable glass view in Vista?

Glass view: all your windows have a kind of transparency to each other, maximizing and minimizing windows in animating way, navigating through opened windows like below, a small viewing for any application opened in Start bar by moving your mouse on, etc…

By default Vista does not enable glass view, to enable it make sure that your VGA driver is installed.

First, I’d Like to thank Ehab el Gindy (Hobzy) he helped me in that.

To do right click on Desktop->Personalize->Windows Color and Appearance->Open classic appearance properties for more color options then from Color scheme select Windows Aero

Per-application sound settings

Per-application sound settings feature in Vista enables you to adjust sound volume for each application can access your sound device as you see below

Usually, we want to decrease MSN sound because of our cute friends who give us Nudges and Guitar Smash wink while listening to bond team music or Beethoven symphonies loudly, if you don’t use per-application sound settings in this case, you’ll be homeless

To adjust it, open “Volume Mixer” right click on Speaker Icon in Start bar then Open Volume Mixer. Now you can adjust any opened application displayed by adjusting the TrackBar.

Linux Shell Tip #1

As you use linux you will have to type commands into the shell. In this series of posts i am going to tell you how to overcome some annoyances when using the linux shell.

If you open gedit (a simple text editor) through the command line (by typing gedit) you will find that the terminal is still open. And if you close the terminal gedit will be closed too.

To override this behaviour you can type :
nohup gedit

This way if you close the terminal gedit will not be closed.

So what happens and how does nohup solve it??

When you run any program through the shell, this program is opened as a child process to the shell process. That means that the shell is a parent process to the program you have just run. So when you close the parent process(The shell in our case), a hangup signal is sent to the child process (Your program) which closes as a result.

nohup (means “no hangups”) lets your program ignore those hangup signals, so that you can close the shell safely without mistakenly closing the program you have run.

Ofcourse, nohup is not constrained to gedit only. You can use it for any other program:
nohup “Your command”