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Install Gnome Tweak Tool in Ubuntu 11.10

Vivek — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:39:55 +0000

Ubuntu 11.10 has been released. However, it’s difficult to change Gnome themes on Oneiric Ocelot in an easy way. So if you want to get some eye candy going you might need Gnome Tweak Utility installed. Let’s quickly see how to install Gnome Tweak Tool in Oneiric Ocelot.

Open a terminal window and type the following:

sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

Once installed Gnome Tweak Tool will appear as Advance Settings in the Menu.

Now you will be able to change themes and other settings.

Unity Opera

Vivek — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:53:22 +0000

Kyle Baker of Kyleabaker.com has written a lovely script to unite Opera with the new Unity interface of Ubuntu 11.04. Unity Opera has the following features:

Count:

Total number of tabs open appears on the launcher Icon and is updated in real time as you open or close the tabs.

Note: The private tab counts is not shown

For complete list of features, download and instructions to install checkout the post by Kyle Baker at Unity Opera.

Phatch: Simple Batch Image Processing Tool for Ubuntu

Vivek — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:28:59 +0000

Have a lot of images/photos which you want to process. Whether it is resizing, shrinking, applying shadow or watermark or tag, phatch is perfect tool for Linux. Phatch which stands for Photo+Batch, is a wonderful tool for Linux to easily batch process your photos.

Phatch is a simple to use cross-platform GUI Photo Batch Processor which handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, apply perspective, shadows, rounded corners, … and more in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually. Phatch allows you to use EXIF and IPTC tags for renaming and data stamping. Phatch also supports a console version to batch photos on webservers.

In order to install the phatch, type the following command on terminal.

sudo apt-get install phatch

Phatch Home Page

Clean up Grub with Grub Customizer

Vivek — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:50:30 +0000

Grub is the screen you see when you start your machines. Over a period of time with all the kernel updates, the grub is overloaded and becomes ugly. In many cases you wont be using an old kernel unless there is something dramatically wrong with the new one. So let’s see how to clean the grub and make it look slimmer and neater. You can do it the hard way every time or you can just install Grub Customizer which will solve the problem for you.

Grub Customizer is a graphic utility to customize GRUB 2 of your linux machine. Use the following commands to install the Grub Customizer.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grub-customizer

Hope this keeps your startup screen and GRUB 2 clean.

Boxee: A social media center for Ubuntu 10.10-Fix the libdirectfb dependency issue!

Vivek — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:13:42 +0000

Boxee is a fantastic media center application and rocks wonderfully well with Linux. We wrote about how to install Boxee on Lucid Lynx. What’s interesting is that the new version of Boxee plays wonderfully well as a almost full fledged social media center integrating services like facebook, twitter, buzz, digg and flickr.

Also, it has some amazing apps and channels like ted.com. You can also add your personal feeds.

Boxee Beta from boxee on Vimeo.

I tried installing it on Ubuntu 10.10 and was surprised to receive some dependencies issue after downloading it from official site. The deb file gave a dependency error of requiring libdirectfb. However, libdirectfb is already available as a higher version (on ubuntu 10.10) and you don’t have to worry about installing it.

It’s not a big deal to fix the libdirectfb dependency issue for Boxee on Ubuntu. You can now change the dependencies by following the instructions from here.

Or you can download the changed dependency package and don’t have to worry about changing the dependency.

Boxee 32bit Deb

Boxee 64bit Deb

[via: Boxee Forum]

Download 400 National Geographic Wallpapers automatically on Ubuntu

Vivek — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:38:22 +0000

If you are one of the guys who loves changing wallpapers, then now you can download 400 National Geographic wallpapers from 2008 and 2009 contests. To download all the wallpapers you can run the following scripts.

Download the scripts for Linux: 2008 Wallpapers | 2009 Wallpapers

Download the script and run it from the folder that you want the wallpapers to be downloaded.

Once downloaded, make the script(s) executable

chmod +x natgeo2008.sh

and

chmod +x natgeo2009.sh

Now run the script using the following command

./natgeo2008.sh

and

./natgeo2009.sh

The wallpapers for 2008 download at default of 1024 resolution and 2009 wallpapers are downloaded at 1600 pixels resolution. The 2008 script downloads around 226 wallpapers and 2009 script downloads 170 wallpapers.

[via: Webup8]

Install Real Player 11 in Fedora 13

Vivek — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:00:09 +0000

Real Player 11 is quite an advance music player which has been around for quite sometime. The good part is it’s also available for Linux. Installing it on Fedora 13 is no rocket science and works as flawlessly as on windows.

All you have to do is download the rpm package (Download link at the end of the post), double click it and install.

After it’s install you can start it by typing the following commands at Terminal:

cd /opt/real/RealPlayer/
./realplay

Following are some of the screenshots of the player in action.

Have fun!

Scan your hard disk with GSmartControl on Ubuntu 10.10

Vivek — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:19:30 +0000

Scanning your hard disk from time ensures that you are not risk of losing any data and that you will be able to safely back up your data if your hard disk showed some critical errors. With Ubuntu (and Linxux in general) you won’t need to buy those expensive softwares for checking the health of your hard drive.

GSmartControl is a graphical application for Linux (Ubuntu 10.10) for scanning your hard drive for errors.

GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl, which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive’s SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.

Some of it’s features include:

automatically reports and highlights any anomalies;
allows enabling/disabling Automatic Offline Data Collection;
allows enabling/disabling SMART itself;
supports configuration of global and per-drive options for smartctl;
performs SMART self-tests;
displays drive IDs, capabilities, attributes, and self-test/error logs;
can read in smartctl data from a saved file, interpreting it as a read-only virtual device.

In order to install GSmartControl on Ubuntu 10.10, go to Applications > Ubuntu Software Center and search for gmsartcontrol to install it.

Once installed you can find it under:

Following a gallery of screenshot of the program in action.

Install the latest Avant Window Navigator Lucido using PPA on Ubuntu 10.04

Vivek — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:34:48 +0000

Avant Window Navigator is docking application for Linux and is one of my favorites amongst others. With lucido theme, it looks pretty neat. Let’s see how to install Avant Window Navigator Lucido on Ubuntu.

1. If you are using the stable version of AWN, then you should remove it first before installing the trunk version. To do so, type the following commands in Terminal.

sudo apt-get remove avant-window-navigator avant-window-navigator-data awn-settings awn-applets-c-core libawn1 vala-awn
sudo apt-get autoremove

2. Now add the Lucido PPA to your software sources

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:albyrock87/lucidoppa

3. Update your software sources

sudo apt-get update

4. Add official AWN applets PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:awn-testing/ppa

5. Update

sudo apt-get update

6. Install AWN Lucido

sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-trunk avant-window-navigator-data-trunk python-awn-trunk awn-settings-trunk awn-applets-python-core-trunk python-awn-extras-trunk awn-applets-python-extras-trunk awn-applets-c-core-trunk awn-applets-c-extras-trunk

Once installed you can find it under Applications > Accessories > Avant Window Navigator
Following is how it looks on my machine.

Linux gets Spotify love: Install Spotify in Ubuntu

Vivek — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:52:47 +0000

The wait is over and Spotify is now available for Linux. Following is how you can install spotify in Ubuntu 10.04.

Note: Because they are not able to run ads on this client, this service is only available for spotify premium users. But we can safely assume that it’s coming soon to free users as well.

1. Add repository to your software sources


sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following line at the end of the file


deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free

2. Open the terminal window and paste the following command to add the spotify public keys

gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.de.pgp.net --recv-keys 4E9CFF4E
gpg --export 4E9CFF4E |sudo apt-key add -

3. In the terminal paste the following command

sudo apt-get update

4. Type the following command to install spotify

sudo apt-get install spotify-client-qt

5. Once installed you can run it using the run prompt (ALT+F2) and typing spotify.