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Linux Desktop Hacks: Tips & Tools for Customizing and Optimizing your OS Review by Eric Hegstrom
A true gem for novice and advanced user
Oh I just love this book. I buy a lot of technical books and find about 1 out of 5 are books I use alot. This is one of them. pretty up to data and covers gnome and KDE though most of the Hacks are not window manager specific -- Hell some of the funnest stuff is done from the command line. Full of great stuff for getting you system running the way you want.
It's not just limited the desktop but gives good info on the boot manager etc. I've been doing linux since '99.
There are 100 quality hacks in the book - I find more than 80%interesting and I'll probably use half of them over the next few months. Just finding:
kstart --fullscreen program_name"
to start a program in full-screen kiosk mode under KDE was news to me. Also includes other things you need to know like painless ways.