Since Ubuntu 9.10,there’s no “login window” option in System menu to change login window icons,background.To change login appearance in Ubuntu 9.10 and higher version becomes inconvenient.Fortunately,there are two GUI tools I found that could instead to accomplish this task.
1.GDM2Setup,a GUI tool designed to configure login screen behavior.It can be installed by following commands in Applications->Accessories->Terminal
sudo [...]
Flashget for Linux 1.0.2 has released with BT/7.23 and 64-bit system support.If you used to be a Windows user,you might would like to install and configure Flashget in your Ubuntu machine.
Install Flashget:
Ubuntu user can download the deb package and double-click to install,then there should be a launcher “FlashGet” in Applications->Internet menu.
Source Package:http://bbs.flashget.com/download/flashget-1.0.2-0_en.tar.gz
RPM Package:http://bbs.flashget.com/download/flashget-1.0.2-0_en.noarch.rpm
Deb Package:http://bbs.flashget.com/download/flashget-1.0.2-0_en.noarch.deb
Configure Firefox [...]
I have written a tutorial about how to install Firefox 4.0 Beta 3 pre in Ubuntu few days ago.I think here is a permanent way to upgrade or install the most recent Firefox release or beta release,and it is Ubuntuzilla.
Ubuntuzilla is a python script for Ubuntu user to easy-download and install the latest stable Mozilla [...]
After two months development,Ubuntu Tweak has released a new stable version 0.5.5.It brings two major improvements.
1.Purge PPA: In Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.5,now you can delete PPA packages that you don’t want anymore just by a few clicks.Keep tasting the latest, coolest applications on PPA and don’t worry about they make your system unstable.
2.File Type Manager supports [...]
Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 3 Pre has been released.If you want to test the latest Mozilla Firefox beta release in Ubuntu,you can add ubuntu-mozilla-daily ppa into your repository.It should add the latest packages as quickly as possible.
Open up a terminal window from Applications->Accessories menu and run this command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa
update your [...]
If you have been using Firefox for a while then you might encounter this frequently asked problem.Turn off the address bar drop-down list in Firefox to prevent your browsing history being known by others.Here is an easy way that just set the number of the addresses in drop-down list to 0 and it won’t show [...]
Plymouth splash screen is the initial splash screen at boot-up.Ubuntu 10.04 uses Plymouth instead of xsplash to manage the fancy boot graphics.If you want something different,you can try following method to change the default Plymouth splash screen.
First,you can run this in terminal (or search “plymouth-theme” in System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager) to see available themes in the [...]
Thunderbird 3.1 was released a month ago and it can be easily installed in 32-bit Ubuntu with Ubuntuzilla.
Finally,64-bit Thunderbird 3.1 was added into its PPA and we can run following commands in terminal(Applications->Accessories->Terminal) to install in a 64-bit machine:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eugenesan/mozilla
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install thunderbird
The newest Ubuntu Software Center coming with Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat has plugins support.(However there’s no plugins available yet).Ubuntu Software Center 2.1.5 adds History tab,all installations,removals,upgrades will be recorded by day.
Test Ubuntu Software Center 2.1.5 in Ubuntu 10.04:
The new Software Center can be installed from Guiodic’s PPA,just open up a terminal window (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and run [...]
Ubuntu 10.04 uses Nautilus 2.30.0.If you have been using Ubuntu for a period of time,you may be used to using location entry in Nautilus.Nautilus 2.30.0 by default uses the Button Bar to show the current location in file browser.
There are 3 ways to temporarily switch to Location Entry:
1.Use [Ctrl]+[L] key combination to enable the Text [...]
