Tag Archives: shutdown

Delete Gnome Thumbnails on Shutdown

Posted on May 31, 2010 by admin

Gnome saves thumbnails for most document types.  This process can speed up subsequent viewing of files, but it can also be problematic: The number of files is not limited (this can be addressed with gnome-tweak) nor is the overall space … Continue reading →

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libvirtd: Gracefully Shutting Down VMs

Posted on February 20, 2010 by admin

libvirtd – part of libvirt – is a daemon that manages virtual machines in Linux – including those running under KVM.  I recently made the move from controlling my virtual machines with scripts in /etc/init.d to libvirtd.  libvirt has a … Continue reading →

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