Here’s another CCSM [How To]. There are many users prefer to use certain applications always in maximized mode especially if they have a notebook or a small display. I will show you a couple of ways to set all windows or certain applications window’s to start in maximized mode using Compiz Config Settings Manager “CCSM”. Continue reading
Nitro is a free and open-source task manager, it comes with a simple user interface which is customizable with many pre-loaded theme as we have seen on the earlier release of Nitro task manager in this post.The new release of Nitro task manager allows you to synchronize your tasks with Ubuntu One and Dropbox cloud storage. Continue reading
A pretty neat Unity Lens would become really helpful for web developers who uses Ubuntu with Unity User interface. A new Unity Lens allows you to search for icons, brushes, palettes and designs which you would probably use on the image editor software such as Gimp. Check installation instructions and more information down below. Continue reading
Guest account is a paswordless account which allow users to get access to Ubuntu with limited access to some features such as all partitions including the file system partition are not accessible or modifiable except the home directory for the guest user. Here in this tutorial I will show how disable the guest account from the LightDM on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin. Continue reading
There are many multimedia player with variety of features and different user interface, and here’s another one called SoundBox. SoundBox is a lightweight GTK multimedia player based on GStreamer. Continue reading
The HUD or “Head-Up display” is an interactive way to search inside currently running application menus. This tool becomes handy, specially for applications with many menus and a lot of options, and you hardly remember where is the required options you want to execute. We have seen earlier HUD running on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin with Unity interface. Now it’s available for Unity 2D user interface as well. Continue reading
In the past few weeks, we have seen many of the recent changes occurred Ubuntu Precise Pangolin 12.04 Beta 1 LTS, which has just been released along with Ubuntu derivatives. So, in this post we will go through whats new in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Beta 1 and Download links for Precise Pangolin 12.04 Beta 1. Continue reading
The Long Term Support release Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx has reached its final stage of maintenance for this release with the Forth release Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Lucid Lynx. Now it’s available to download and the other flavor of Ubuntu with KDE desktop “Kubuntu” is available as well. The final release Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin will take the place of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS which suppose to be release in April 26th,2012. However, Ubuntu will keep providing support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx desktop till 2013 and till 2015 for server. Continue reading
Unity Greeter is the login screen for LightDM desktop display manager. The latest Unity Greeter version 0.2.1 for the development release Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin brings several improvements to the user interface and some new features. Continue reading
LibreOffice 3.5.0 final release is not officially released yet, however the LibreOffice facebook page announced that, the final release is bit-by-bit identical to the release candidate 3. So, for who don’t want to wait to get the final release you can simply download the pre-release LibreOffice 3.5.0 RC3 and consider it as the final release. Continue reading
Mozilla Firefox 11 web browser the latest development release brings several new features improves the web browsing experience for regular users and better developing environment for web developers. A couple of new developer features added lately to the Beta version of Mozilla Firefox 11 are a style editor for CSS editing web page elements and 3D web page visualizer tool allows you to easily check the web page structure in 3D. Continue reading