Metacity, the official GNOME window manager, has a limited compositing support. You can activate it like this:
gconftool-2 -s '/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager' -type bool trueThis is very usefull if you want to use a dock like AVN without changing for something more eye-candy and resource-hungry like Beryl.
tar stands for ‘tape archive’. It’s a widely known and used command, useful to create compressed archive files and decompress them. tar syntax is rather unorthodox.
Create compressed archive
For tar.gz:
# tar cvzf foobar.tar.gz /home/foobar
# tar cvzf foobar.tgz /home/foobar
For tar.bz2:
# tar cvjf foobar.tar.bz2 /home/foobarExtract archive
# tar xvf <archive>To extract content into a given directory:
# tar xvf <archive> -C /path/to/directory;List archive content
# tar tvf <archive>Extract only a given file
# tar xvf <archive> <file>Add file to an archive
# tar rvf <archive> <file>