Extraordinary changes will be included to the upcoming release Lisa the code name of Linux Mint 12. Clement Lefebvre Linux Mint project leader just revealed Linux Mint 12 preview features Gnome 3 along with Mint Gnome Shell Extensions “MGSE” and many improvements. Continue reading
Desktop gadget shows pictures in your desktop from many sources online image hosting or locally from directories located in your hard drive. Continue reading
GTK Window decorations is gone, Emerald window decorations is gone, compiz visual effects not working, Title bar is gone along with “close, minimize, maximize” buttons. Many of you guys maybe had to faced these problems before, usually happen when visual effect is active using compiz. so here i will show you how to easily fix these problems. Continue reading
After installing many applications, adding extra repositories you might need to remove useless packages and repositories, this will help you to save some space form system directory and keep your system performing better. Continue reading
it’s quite good to take control of your machine using your phone with bluepad application the idea of the application two packages 1st one installed on your distribution for example Ubuntu 10.04 and the 2nd one the phone and will list the supported phones for this application.
Using Bluepad on your phone will let you to do a lot of things to control you machine such as control multimedia files for playing audio and movies files, presentations files for open office, even games you use this application as game pad.
check this video show how Bluepad working
Here some screenshots
This is the supported devices for BluePad
For more information about Bluepad follow this link
Inform Bluepad community if you tested this application on other devices listed up there.
That’s it for now.
Linux Mint 9 default wallpaper posted on linux mint blog by Clem, looks really good wallpapers I always liked linux mint desktop backgrounds. Linux mint suppose to be released on two days from now according to this post Linux Mint 9 ETA
You can download the whole pack on .zip file from here, or visit linux mint blog post
A quick How To For today create ISO file from CD or DVD using command line.
Usually I use this command to get an ISO image from Disk for operating system, for example I have Kubuntu 10.04 LTS on a Disk, and i want to use that image on my virtual machine, instead of keeping the CD inside my CD ROM all the time.
Also you can use it as a backup way to keep your files safe on ISO file. I am sure you will figure out many ways to use this command for :)
Insert the disk
then open terminal,,, type
I am not sure what dd stand for ” destroy data “, ” delete ” according to wiki :)
if : input file
of : output file for the image will be copied to
dvd : it’s a variable according to what’s the device name located on ” dev ” directory
to get more information about dd unix command follow this link
That’s it for now, If you have any questions please inform me.
dd
if=f/dev/cdrom of=~/cdrom_image.iso
Most Linux distributions released with .ISO file extension it’s quite easy to burn it on CD or DVD, Many applications you can use for burning ISO image by default on Ubuntu and Xubuntu using applications called Brasero disk burner. support Data disk burning, Audio, Video, copy disks…
Found a really Handy Ubuntu documentation to help you out with burning ISO files on Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, even Mac OS X, and windows.
Documentation Link: BurningIsoHowto
It’s quite easier to use keyboard instead of the mouse sometimes, some changes comes up with the new release of Gnome GDM 2.30 for Nautilus. we already reviewed how to move “close, minimize, and maximize” button to right hand side of the title bar in this post. This tested on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, also it’s working on other platforms as long as the gnome GDM 2.30 installed.
So here you can find many shortcuts will help you to easily navigate and use your file browser.
F3 : Extra pane ” This options is new with Gnome 2.30 ”
Ctrl+S : Select Pattern [enter pattern]
Alt+ENTER : File/Folder Properties
Shift+Ctrl+N : Create New Folder
Ctrl+1 : Toggle View As Icons
Ctrl+2 : Toggle View As List
Shift+Right Arrow : Open Directory (List View)
Shift+Left Arrow : Close Directory (List View)
F2 : Rename File
Ctrl+A : Select All
Ctrl+T : Delete (to Trash)
Ctrl+W : Close Window
Ctrl+Shift+W : Close All Nautilus Windows
Ctrl+R : Reload Nautilus Window
Alt+Up Arrow : Open Parent
Alt+Left Arrow : Back
Alt+Right Arrow : Forward
Alt+Home : Home Folder
Ctrl+L : Location Bar
F9 : Toggle Sidepane
Ctrl+H : Show Hidden Files
Ctrl++ : Zoom In
Ctrl+- : Zoom Out
Ctrl+0 : Normal Size
Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, and video chat and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your chatting within one application.
Themes listed down there working for Empathy and Adium, Empathy supports Adium Message Styles starting from 2.27.3 (if built with WebKitGtk support).
How to install Empathy Themes:
This on ubuntu 10.04 LTS
paste the theme folder to this directory “/usr/share/adium/message-styles”
Renkoo and Renkoo Naked have custom background support!!!! Dreams do come true!!
This message style is the realisation of design ideas I’ve had in my head over the past few months. It builds on the basic stripped-down code of a previous, unreleased theme.
This is the first version released and I have set it at v.8 because there are still a number of things I have not touched as of yet. You will probably get unexpected results with.
Metal Chat 2
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Glossy, simple, dark… and light.
Transparency abound, Eclipse can stand in front of anything. It’s fun, subtle, beautiful, utterly kick-ass, and any other adjective you want it to be.
Now with more variants and cleaner code.
Candybars is a simple message view style without buddy icons and other unnecessary distractions. It comes in 25 different color variations.
Adium Matte |
A quick How To: change the password for users accounts on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS using Terminal
change the password for the operating system from time to time, that’s keep your stuff safe.
it really important to know how to choose your password make sure you have included different letters, not a familiar word, not a birthday, not a mobile phone number, try to use capital letters, signs such as ” *-+_..” stuff like this.
Go to terminal
passwd "username" without quotes ""
will ask you for current password
then it will ask you for new password you want, make sure you remember to this instructions to make a strong password.
that’s it for now.
Temporary files located on /tmp directory will be deleted by default with every time you restart or shutdown from ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It becomes handy some times if you want to keep your tmp files for some applications already installed in your machine in case you want to use it later.
Open this your filesystem directory /etc/default/rcS Open this file
In line 10 you will find ” TMPTIME=0 ” by default the value is zero that value delete temporary files with every time you restart the machine.
If you want to keep your files for ever make the value ” TMPTIME=0 ” with negative number. ” not recommended it will ”
If you want to keep temporary file for two days, change the value to be ” TMPTIME=2 ”
so that’s for now 
