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Faenza Icon theme for Gnome 3.2 makes Ubuntu a little more eye candy

Vivek — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:13:50 +0000

Faenza Icon theme is one of the most popular icon themes for Oneiric Ocelot. The theme now supports Gnome 3.2. It also comes loaded to make unity a little more prettier.Installing the theme is very easy. You will need to have Gnome Tweak Tool installed. Just type the following in a terminal window and you are good to go.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme

Once installed. Open the Gnome Tweak Tool and change the icon theme.

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.

Install Nvidia 275.21 on Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10

Vivek — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:23:48 +0000

Nvidia 275.21 has been released. This version adds support for GeForce 540M and fixes a some of the problems. Following are some of the features:

Note: This driver will only works for Geforce 6 series and above

Restored the release splash screen in the NVIDIA X driver (the beta splash screen was accidentally reenabled between 275.09.07 and 275.19).
Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-settings to crash when configuring multiple X screens after all monitors were unplugged from one of the X screens.
Fixed a bug in nvidia-settings that caused the display configuration page to show extra disabled displays after connecting a new monitor.
Added X configuration options “3DVisionProHwButtonPairing”, “3DVisionProHwSinglePairingTimeout”, “3DVisionProHwMultiPairingTimeout”, and “3DVisionProHwDoubleClickThreshold” to configure hardware button based pairing in NVIDIA 3D Vision Pro. See “Appendix B. X Config Options” in the README for more information.
Fixed a bug that prevented initialization of the NVIDIA 3D Vision or NVIDIA 3D Vision Pro hub if no EDID was present.

How to install Nvidia 275.21 on Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10 using PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

All you have to do is to enable the drivers by going to

System–>Administration–>Additional Drivers

and activate the driver

All that is left is to reboot the machine to see the drivers in action

Install Firefox 8 nightly on Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, and 11.10

Vivek — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:05:59 +0000

This is a quick post on adding the nightly PPA of Firefox for Ubuntu 11.10. The current version of this nightly build is Firefox 8. Firefox has been loosing constant market share to mainly Google’s Chrome. The result being some quick updates are now being rolled out to Firefox.

Note: This is a nightly build and will have some bugs so please use it at your own risk.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install firefox-trunk

Change the Keyboard Layout in Fedora 15 {LoveLock}

Vivek — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:25:12 +0000

Fedroa 15 was released a while back and as much as it has shown some tremendous improvements, I fail to understand why should it be rocket science to do something as simple as changing the keyboard layout. With Gnome 3 making Fedora 15 shine, it should be easier to just type “keyboard layout” in the search box to come to the screen for changing the layout of keyboard. However that is not the case. So in order to change the keyboard layout (different language keyboard layout) follow the steps below:

Note: The keyboard setting under Activities > Applications > System Settings > Keyboard doesnt have the option to change the keyboard layout.

Go to:

Activities > Applications > System Settings > Region and language and click the Layout tab.

Click the + button to add a keyboard layout.

Play around with rest of the 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.

Install Chromium Dev version in Ubuntu 11.04

Vivek — Sat, 07 May 2011 17:21:02 +0000

When you install Chromium on Ubuntu 11.04 using the software center you get the stable version on your machine. However, if you want to flirt around with the latest features you will need the Dev channels to be able to use the developer version of Chromium. Let’s see how to update the channels to dev version to install the latest developer version of Ubuntu 11.04.

Adding the dev channels repository to your Ubuntu Repos:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:chromium-daily/dev
sudo apt-get update

Once you have added you can start your update manager to update chromium (currently 12).

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

Install LibreOffice 3.3 on Ubuntu using PPA

Vivek — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:45:23 +0000

LibreOffice the forked open source suit emerging from Open Office is now available in Launch pad PPA. The current version of LibreOffice 3.3 RC 2 can now be installed using a PPA on Ubuntu.

A Word of Caution: Installing LibreOffice will lead to complete removal of Open Office. So if you are using Open Office and want to keep it then this method is not suitable.

Install using the terminal:

sudo apt-get purge openoffice*.*
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libreoffice

Also, install the following packages for better compatibility with your desktop environment.

For GNOME

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome

For KDE

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde

Monitor and change CPU with Indicator-CPUfreq

Vivek — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:21:51 +0000

Want to use the full capacity of your CPU on Linux. Now you can change the CPU frequency on the fly on your Ubunut using Indicator-CPUfreq. The utility is fairly simple to use and can be added to the panel.

Download the DEB files from

indicator-cpufreq_0.1.1-public.deb (Maverick)
indicator-cpufreq_0.1.1-public.deb (Natty)

Now you can unleash the true potential of your CPU on Ubuntu.