Tag Archives: Customizing Ubuntu

[How To]: Edit Icon Captions on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

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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.

[How To]: Add Background to Windows On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

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A quick how to.It’s quite good to get your own customization for windows on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Now you can add a background to Ubuntu’s windows using Backgrounds and Emblems.

That’s is the final look

Quick steps to do it.

go to Edit then go to Backgrounds and Emblems

Drag and drop the pattern you want to be the background or you can add your own pattern.

You can make background simple using colors.

also you can assign emblems to each file from there.

That’s it for now.

[How To]: Get Mac OS X Menu Look on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

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A lot of people interesting to make Ubuntu 10.04 LTS menu to looks like Mac OS x menu, looks really good to integrate every menu bar for each window or applications running to main Panel bar for ubuntu.

Using Gnome2-Globalmenu package using it gnome also working on other desktops.

you can download and install the package from any one of those

  • Google code select 10.04 Lucid packages you can download using repositories or DEB package
  • Launchpad packages Also you will find 10.04 Lucid packages

Maybe you will need to logout to activate global menu package.

after the installation you can add applet to main panel and select Global menu applet. it will be active directly.

you can customize it from global menu applet preferences

Enjoy it. That’s it for now.