X-Nico

unusual facts about Gnome-screensaver


Gnome-screensaver

On some GNOME-based Linux distributions, it is used instead of the framework that is a part of XScreenSaver.


14N

Gnome-Rhône 14N, a WWII French 14-cylinder two-row air-cooled radial engine

Ankur Group

The group is also working on providing Bangla support for some major XServer applications such as office suites, databases, development tools and desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE.

In January, 2003, Taneem Ahmed announced the GNOME Bangla Translation Project and began recruiting for the project.

Astra-Gnome

The vehicle was featured on the September 3, 1956 cover of Newsweek magazine and exhibited at the 1956 New York International Auto Show.

Breguet 470

It was re-engined with more powerful, 937 hp (699 kW) Gnome-Rhône 14N radials in 1937 before being entered into that year's IstresDamascus–Paris race, finishing fifth in a time of 21 hours 3 min, with de-militarised Savoia-Marchetti SM.79s bombers occupying the first three places and a de Havilland Comet racer finishing fourth.

Bristol Biplane Type 'T'

53 had a 70 hp Gnome engine and was flown by Gordon England, and was withdrawn with engine problems.

Fast Girl/Beware Wolf

The Limited Edition Maxi-Single included music videos for "Fast Girl" and "Beware Wolf" as well as a making of the respective music videos and a Screensaver.

GGZ

GGZ Gaming Zone, a Free Software online gaming project which among others develops games for the KDE and GNOME desktops.

Glenbrook, New South Wales

Since 2005, the suburb has been the home of The Australian Gnome Convention organised by the local Rotary Club and held on Australia Day each year.

Gnome

This is evidenced by their allegiance to the Warlock Lord in The Sword of Shannara and to the Mord Wraiths in The Wishsong of Shannara.

GNOME Games

GNOME Blackjack - a computerized implementation of the gambling game.

Gnome King Kyrië

One day, Gnome King Kyrië was shot by a hunter in the heathlands of Riethoven.

Gnome Reserve

The Gnome Reserve is a garden and tourist attraction at West Putford, near Bradworthy, Devon, England, presented as a pastoral refuge for garden gnomes.

Harold D. Kantner

Kantner built a Bleriot monoplane with a 50 horsepower Gnome engine in which he soloed on June 30, 1911 and was given Fédération Aéronautique Internationale certificate number 65 on October 14, 1911 in Mineola, New York.

Heward Grafftey

Due to his relatively short stature and impish looks, Grafftey earned the nickname of "The Gnome from Brome," during his twenty years in politics.

Joan Blades

Joan Blades (b. ca. 1956 in Berkeley, California) was the cofounder in 1987 with her husband Wes Boyd of Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco Bay area software company known for marketing the After Dark screensaver and the You Don't Know Jack trivia game.

Johnny Castaway

Johnny Castaway is a screensaver released in 1993 by Sierra On-Line/Dynamix, and marketed under the Screen Antics brand.

Jules Védrines

He was apprenticed to the Gnome engine manufacturing company, after which he spent six months in England as Robert Loraine's mechanic in 1910, and then returned to France, where he gained his pilot's license (no. 312) on 7 December 1910 at the Blériot school at Pau.

Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes

A gnome, Virum, tells his version of authorship of the songs involved about the heroes of the War of the Lance.

Komputeko

Others who have availed themselves of Komputeko include Cindy McKee's KDE and Joomla translation teams, Esperanto Wikipedia founder Chuck Smith's Drupal translation and the former Amikumu projects, Tim Morley's OpenOffice.org translation team, Guillaume Savaton's GNOME translation team, the translation teams for Plone and Xfce, and Joop Kiefte's Ubuntu translation team.

Le petit gnome

Le petit gnome was a German educational television series produced by SWR Fernsehen, teaching French as a foreign or second language to young German viewers aged 6 to 12 years.

Maria Reidelbach

Her 2006–07 project, Gnome on the Grange, combines a garden, botanical information, a ten-hole miniature golf and Gnome Chomsky, the world's tallest garden gnome (13 feet and six inches high), as acknowledged by Guinness World Records.

Matthew Mercer

Pryzm Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn - Zartu the Dark Unicorn, Elven King, Gnome Ruler

Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum

The player assigns each character a race at creation time: Human, Elf, Half-orc, Gnome or Dwarf.

Money Can't Buy

The DVD also included a PC ROM section which features desktop wallpapers, screensavers.

Napier Gazelle

These helicopter engines were used on the Westland Wessex HAS 1 and HAS 3 (Other versions of the Wessex had 2 Rolls Royce Gnome engines) and the Bristol Belvedere (later Westland Belvedere) transport helicopter.

Nodoka

Nodoka, a theme for the GNOME desktop environment provided as part of the Fedora Linux distribution

Open Source for America

It consists of various open source foundations, and companies, including GNOME, Mozilla, and Canonical.

Run command

In the GNOME interface, the Run command is used to run applications via terminal commands.

In GNOME and KDE, the Run command acts as a location where applications and commands can be executed.

Savignia naniplopi

The specific name is a Latin rendering of "Plop the gnome", a reference to the Belgian children's TV character Kabouter Plop.

Screensaver

The first screensaver was allegedly written for the original IBM PC by John Socha, best known for creating the Norton Commander; he also coined the term screen saver.

Scrooge McDuck and Money

Animation historian Jerry Beck suggests that this short film was likely attached and released theatrically with either The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin or The Gnome Mobile.

Shirl's Neighbourhood

The half-hour show featured former Skyhooks frontman Graeme "Shirley" Strachan and co-host Liz Rule alongside a cast of characters including Norm The Kangaroo, Ol' Possum, Claude The Crow, Stanley The Snake, Greenfinger the Garden Gnome, Yippee the Bunyip, Bartholomew the Sheep and a band of monkeys.

Smart Messaging

Most Monochrome Nokia handsets allow the picture message to act as a screensaver.

Starfield

3D Starfield, an effect simulating forward movement through Outer space amidst a field of stars; included as a screensaver with some versions of Microsoft Windows

T-comma

Although the X.Org Server supports the correct keyboard (ro comma) since at least 2005, selecting this keyboard from the user interface (e.g. GNOME Keyboard Properties) has only recently been made possible.

TetraVex

TetraVex is also available as an open source game on the GNOME desktop as part of the GNOME Games collection under GNU GPL.

The Forever Changes Concert

There was a two-CD re-release in 2007 under the name of The Forever Changes Concert & More, which features extra songs, a live video of Alone Again Or, band images and a screensaver.

UberStudent

In a 2011 April Fools' Day satire, he announced an "UberStudent Dumbed Down Edition" featuring the GNOME 3 Shell.

Windows key

Desktop environments such as KDE and GNOME usually support the key, though it may be necessary to configure its functionality after installation.


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