Many of touchpad available on laptops/netbooks usually have dedicated button to disable and enable the touchpad. However, there’re few older on does not include this feature. So, here’s an indicator to easily disable and enable touchpad manually or when disable it when the mouse is plugged. Continue reading
A quick method to access your favorite websites and RSS feed posts through Google Readers indicator on Ubuntu 11.10 Unity Panel. Continue reading
Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 has been released. Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 will introduce some new features and new user interface design kinda looks suitable to the upcoming release Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. Now it’s available to install for tester and developer through Launchpad PPA. Continue reading
Using top left corner to show unity launcher becomes really handy specially if you are currently opening any maximized window and you want to select anything in the window closer to the left edge. Continue reading
MAC OS X Lion introducing new scrolling improvement simulate same scrolling gestures in touch screen devices. it’s now available to use on Ubuntu. Continue reading
du is a disk usage command allows you to easily know file and directory sizes, also you can view file and directory sizes decreasing starting by biggest file, otherwise increasing by smallest file. Continue reading
Usually I keep terminal running and I use ” poweroff ” command to shutdown the machine. Adding additional power option to your user account menu in Gnome Shell user interface for easily shutdown “poweroff”, and hibernate from user menu. Continue reading
Gnome Shell Extension notify you for how long you been setting since you activate the toggle timer extensions so you can take a break of whatever you are doing or start working on other stuff. Continue reading
Let’s speed up the daily usage for Ubuntu 11.04 using Unity interface with some tips & tricks for Keyboard shortcuts and mouse tricks. These shortcuts definitely will make your daily usage In Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity Interface easier and will save a lot of time in many ways. Continue reading
By default all drop down menus don’t have icons, so this is a quick way to enable icons in menus. sometime icons become handy to easily identify menu entry choice.
Note: maybe some of drop down menu don’t include icons according to gtk icons availability.
Yum is package manager used on several RPM system, used for update and install/uninstall additional packages on your distributions, also used for updating currently installed packages in your system. Continue reading
gedit is a text editor comes with most linux distribution using Gnome desktop environment. We will check some additional plugins and features for gedit will make it easier to use as a simple text editor or another advanced highlight modes of writing. Few gedit plugins are pre-installed by default, also we had a look at how to install extra plugins for gedit on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick and Fedora 14 Laughlin in this post. Continue reading