How To?
Font Manager 0.5.5 – Easily Manage Fonts On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Simple way to get access to installed fonts on .fonts directory, usually when you need to install extra fonts you will have to paste it on .font directory. But with Font manager tool you can easily add extra fonts, configure fonts substitution, make a full archive backup of installed fonts, comparing fonts, even more.
Font Manager associated with fonts on appearance preferences, to easily modify fonts for the desktop, applications, documents, window titles.
Tested on many distributions Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Gentoo, Arch, Zenwalk, Fedora. and now Font Manager added to Fedora repositories to be installed as default font manager on Fedora distribution. Tested in many window managers ” KDE, Gnome, Xfce ”
Also you can assign many directories from font manager preferences to automatically search for fonts on you machine.
To Backup Fonts easily export it on .zip file from export collections.
Check the release notes for updated version Font Manager 0.5.5 Here
Download Font Manager 0.5.5 From Google Code with Deb file for ubuntu -10.04 and Linux Mint 9, includes the source code. Also check Gtk apps Here Download options For other distributions ” Fedora, Gentoo, arch ”
That’s it for Now.
GUI For GoogleCL Script 0.1
Already reviewed GoogleCL on LinuxNOV on this post for how to use GoogleCL without using Graphical User Interface, but in this post will show simple script for GoogleCL also you can get access to blogger, contents, Docs, Picasa, and Youtube.
Download GoogleCL GUI 0.1
Follow This link To download and how to use GoogleCL GUI 0.1
Also check google code for more informations about GoogleCL Project
basically after installation you can add icon launcher with the script location
will show a quick example for using Google Docs on GoogleCL GUI 0.1
After you select the service you want it will ask you to specify the account you want to get access to then drag and drop the link showed up on your Terminal to your browser to grant access to this service on your google account.
Then will show up options for Google Docs to list your documents or edit it, upload new document, delete it, or download documents.
simply select option you want, for example will select upload documents and it will ask you to select document you want to upload.
then it will show you that, the file uploaded successfully.
Thanks to angenoir71
That’s it for now.
Launchy Great Applications Launching Tool For Cross Platform
Great Launching tool for multi purposes has a lot of features for launching applications, Documents, Bookmarks, and folders, even more features and customized with a lot of skins, by default comes with 9 skins.
How To install Launchy ?
beginning with the installation process for Ubuntu, also you will find a installation source package for another distributions and platform.
Download Launchy .Deb package form sourceforge, or you can download the source tar.gz to compile it.
How To Run Launchy at the Startup for Ubuntu 10.04?
Go to preferences then Startup Applications
Add new startup program
Name : Launchy
Command : launchy %u
Distribution : it’s up to you, just to know what is this application about later.
Now you won’t need to start launchy every time you logged in to the system.
Main Options Window For Launchy
A lot of options there to customize user interface and showing the launchy window always on the top, system try, location on you display, Hot buttons to show launchy, by default Ctrl+Space, modify it to the way you like.
Suggestion List: to modify the delay time and number of suggestion applications list, and more, but it’s really recommended to check the box for underline matched text to easily identify the application you want.
System options: to change update time for the catalog, checking for updates at the startup, showing hidden files on launchy browser, and using portable mode for USB stick mode to save launchy configurations on it.
Also you you can customize the visual effects for launchy for fading in time, fade out time, and opaqueness or transparent.
Catalog: you can add extra directories and files to be accessed by Launchy.
check Launchy website for more plugins and Skins.
Customize Desktop With Conky System Monitor
it’s really cool way to show informations for your hardware specification and more on your desktop CPU usages, RAM, Swap, uptime, wireless signal strength, free capacity for your partitions, download/upload speed, downloaded/uploaded size for this session, IP address, Kernel version, username, time, date, most processed files, and even more according to Conky website it has more than 300 objects to use.
Here’s a conkyrc screenshot from my machine.
will begin with the installation process for Ubuntu
How To install Conky
Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and earlier releases of Ubuntu
you can find conky on ubuntu software center or synaptic
or you can open Terminal and type:
Fedora 15 Lovelock | Fedora 16 Verne
yum install conky
you can install conky for other distributions, just download the source code form Here and compile according to the instruction there.
make
make install
How to Run conky at the startup
Go to System – preferences then Startup applications
add new one
for name type : conky
for command type : conky
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and now every time you run your machine conky will startup
will add article soon for how to configure conky soon.
That’s it for now.
Post updated: installation on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.
[How To]: Monitor User Accounts on your system
it’s really important to know what every logged in user doing on the system, that’s really help to know where are CPU and Memory usage going on usually.
1. How To show logged in user accounts for this system
Open Terminal and type
output example
This will show current logged in users to the system, also if you switching user and you didn’t logged out from the second user it will be listed.
tty7 : terminal name that connected to the stander input with 7
and time and date for logging time.
2. Showing more informations for current logged in users for this system
open Terminal and Type
This will show more information about up running time for this user, current window manager used by this user and the load average.
Output example
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
mb tty7 :0 02:01 4:06m 23:08 0.40s gnome-session
3. How to show accessed applications for specific user
Open terminal and type
mb is the username change it with yours or any another active user account.
output example
1572 ? 00:00:00 gnome-keyring-d
1590 ? 00:00:00 gnome-session
1624 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
1627 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
1628 ? 00:00:03 dbus-daemon
1631 ? 00:00:02 gconfd-2
1638 ? 00:00:09 gnome-settings-
1640 ? 00:00:00 gvfsd
1645 ? 00:00:00 gvfs-fuse-daemo
1649 ? 00:03:48 compiz
1650 ? 00:00:00 polkit-gnome-au
1653 ? 00:00:38 nautilus
1654 ? 00:00:12 gnome-panel
That’s it for now.
5 Things You Have To Know About dpkg Package Manager
What is dpkg ?
it’s a package manager for Debian system, and working on other distributions built from Debian system. Used for installing and Removing packages on you system. as same as using synaptic package manager on Ubuntu, but the difference that dpkg using for individual package without installing extra dependencies for this package.
so let’s open Terminal and see what we have here
1. Listing all installed packages on your system
2. show installed packages for a specific Applications
for example will check installed packages for FatRat download manager, open terminal and type
Here is the output
ii fatrat 1.1.1-5 multi-protocol download manager, feature ric
ii fatrat-data 1.1.1-5 data files for fatrat
you can replace fatrat with any other application name.
3. show installed files for specific package.
will use fatrat in this example too. go to terminal and type
it will show a list for installed file for fatrat.
4. If you want to know which package installed any file located on your system
For example i need to know which package installed this file ” chatIncoming.wav ” which located in this directories /usr/share/skype/sounds/
This will be the output
skype: /usr/share/skype/sounds/ChatIncoming.wav
show skype package name that installed this file before the colon.
5. Installing and uninstalling Deb packages we already showed you how to do it in this post
That’s it for Now.
[How To]: Mount ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG Files On Ubuntu Using Furius ISO Mount
It’s quite easy to get access to Image files without burning them using Furius ISO mount, with application you are able to mount these files ” ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG ” it’s completely simple GUI “ Graphical User Interface ” , automatically add a mount point for the selected image file. then it will be appear in your user directory or your home directory.
[How To]: Install Furius ISO mount
If you are using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, or Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1 Go to Ubuntu software center and search for “Furius” it will limit search result then download and install it.
To install Furius ISO Mount on other distributions, it required dependencies packages ” fuseiso, mono, libgtk2.0-cil, libmono-system2.0-cil, gksu ” , then download the source code from Here.
Main Features about Furius ISO mount
- Mount ISO, IMG, BIN, MDF and NRG Files
- Auto create mount point for mounted image file
- Able to mount multiple Image files in the same time
- Check sums for MD5 and SHA1
- Burning this files using Brasero, or Nautilus
After the installations open it and browse Image file you want to mount or simply you can drag and drop it on the application window.
Selected Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook iso file , then press mount
Then it will automatically adding mount point and appears on your Home directory or computer. also you can check sum key using MD5 or SHA1 and compare it with original one to make sure your image file is not corrupted.
You can unmount it by selecting unmount drop down menu or from the application it self.
That’s it for Now.
Background For Google Home Page Make your own schedule
I Just noticed that google added small option to add background for Google search engine home page. it’s a cool way to change the look to the regular look to google home page.
you will find change background image down on the left.
select image from the public gallery, editor picks, your own picase album, or you can upload it directly from your machine.
Something To Do :
I tried to make a quick daily schedule for your stuff to do. it might help to remember what to do. cause most users using Google as homepage, so every time you open your web browser you will see it. give it a try guys, make your own background.
That’s it for now.
[How To]: Convert Ogv To FLV using simple Nautilus Script
I found this script really handy to convert Ogv to Flv directly, I thought to share it with you guys. helps you to quickly convert out Ogv files to flv with different resolutions.
Download and install Ogv to Flv Converter 1.3 check the installation instructions there.
after you done the installation simply right click on the file you want to convert and select script then convert from ogv to FLV 1.3
then it will ask you to select required resolution for the Flv output file
it will take a while then comes a successful message to inform you that the process done. Thanks “Siafu Linux” for this simple tool.
That’s it for now.
[How To]: Edit PDF Files On Ubuntu Using PDFedit
it’s really good application for modifying PDF files with a really simple interface, free opensource PDF editor, fully editing PDF files for pictures and links.
Free editor for PDF documents. Complete editing of PDF documents is possible with PDFedit. You can change raw pdf objects (for advanced users) or use many gui functions. Functionality can be easily extended using a scripting language (ECMAScript).
Also check [How To] wiki collection for PDFedit
- HowtoAddAccentedText – Howto add accented text
- HowtoCreatePdfToWhatever – Howto create pdf to whatever conversion
- HowtoPdfToXml – Howto convert pdf to xml
- HowtoUsePDFeditWithoutInstallation – Howto Use PDFedit Without Installation (the trick is “klik”)
- ScriptingAddNewScript – How to add your script to PDFedit (step by step example)
That’s it for now.
FatRat Awesome Download Manager For Ubuntu 10.04
Usually everyone downloading files with many ways using HTTP/HTTPS, FTP/FTPS, torrent, and SFTP, with this application you can download all in one, Open source application written in C++.
Supporting Rapidshare download, Torrent download, you can also create torrent files, Integrated torrent search engine for many websites pirate bay, linux tracker, btjunkie, Youtube videos, you can get remote access to fatrat via japper or web interface. Get more features with fatrat plugins. before we go any further will show you:
How To Download – Install FatRat
If you are using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
go to terminal and type
or you can install it directly from ubuntu software center, search for fatrat
Also you can download the source code from FatRat site for other distribution
then extract the package and compile it
make
make install
To add extra plugins for subtitles search engine, unpack plugin, czshare download/upload manager.
That’s it for now.
[How To]: Edit Icon Captions on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
another quick how to for editing icon captions, become handy for easier navigations for files and knowing more informations about this file.
You have many options to show beneath icons such as size, type, date accessed, date modified, owner, group, permission, octal permission, MIME type, selinux context, and Location.
For any opening window go to edit then preferences then select display tab.
modify it as you wish, every time you zoom in to increase icon size it will show more caption details.
That’s it for now.
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