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Kazam Screencaster- Simple Screen Recording Program in Ubuntu

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:23:35 +0000

azam is a simple screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format.

Optionally you can record sound from any sound input device that is supported and visible by PulseAudio.

Install Kazam Screencaster using PPA:

Kazam got stable ppa and unstable ppa on launchpad.net.

For now, we can get Kazam from the unstable ppa by running following commands in terminal(support Ubuntu 11.10 & 12.04):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kazam-team/unstable-series
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kazam

Kazam on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/kazam

How to Install Minecraft in ubuntu

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:29:34 +0000

This tutorial assumes you’re running on Ubuntu with Unity desktop and ready to go.

First, you need a 3D video driver. Search “additional drivers” in Dash home. In pop-up “Additional Drivers” window, select an appropriate driver and then click on “Activate”. Enter you user password and it starts downloading and installing the driver. You’ll probably have to reboot after that.

Second, install Java. Launch “Ubuntu Software Center”. Search java, then choose to install “OpenJDK6 Java Runtime”(not seven).

Now, go to minecraft.net and download the minecraft.jar file. Open it via archive manager and extract favicon.png under net/minecraft/.

Go back to minecraft.jar, right click to go into its Properties window. In Basic tab, click on icon and change it to favicon.png (the picture file you just extracted). In Permission tab, check “allow executing this file as a program”. In Open With tab, choose “OpenJDK Java6 Runtime” and set to default.

That’s it! Run minecraft.jar, it’ll download what it needs, and go.

Footnote – Simple Note-taking app in the style of elementary

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:25:20 +0000

Footnote is a beautiful, fast, and simple note taking app in the style of elementary. It’s designed for students, this app allows you to take notes efficiently and helps keep them organized.

Install Footnote in Ubuntu 11.10 & 12.04

Do this only if you know what you are doing!

Add this ppa for the dependencies:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nemequ/sqlheavy
sudo apt-get update

Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 can get Footnote from in elementary-os daily build ppa, add the ppa by:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily
sudo apt-get update

install footnote:

sudo apt-get install footnote

PPA Installing the latest KDE 4.8 in (K)Ubuntu 11.10

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:40:49 +0000

The latest set of KDE releases has been announced on Jan 25. It includes major updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications, and the Development Platform. Version 4.8 provides many new features, as well as improved stability and performance. Read the announcement.

KUbuntu 11.10 user can easily upgrade to KDE 4.8 via ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports. Just execute following commands in a terminal window and reboot.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Ubuntu 11.10 can also install KDE 4.8 using this ppa, but it’s a bit risky. Be sure you know what you are doing before running following commands

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

During the installation, it will ask you choosing display manager, choose KDM if you want to keep KDE. Finally, reboot.

SyncWall – Wallpaper Changer with Synchronization Features

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:01:53 +0000

SyncWall is quite a basic wallpaper changer with a special feature, it is the ability to synchronize wallpaper change between several workstations with a basic (and unsecured) client/server protocol. Each workstation must share the same pool of files, there is no FTP or Internet download. Another interesting feature is a simple multi monitor support. Because SyncWall is written with Qt, it runs on Windows and Linux (MacOSX isn’t tested yet).

Features:

Scheduling : you can change wallpaper at startup, by interval or at fixed time
Ability to use/define a « global » hotkey to change wallpaper manually.
Basic multimonitor support in order to share the wallpaper across screens
Ability to add some special effects (emboss, edge, blur, …) to the displayed wallpaper.
Several resizing methods and background filling
Network synchronization of wallpaper change by defining a server and clients. Display parameters are shared across the network (same resizing type on all the desktops)
Supported files :SyncWall uses Qt plugins to load image, so by default it can read basic formats as BMP, PNG, JPG. You can add more formats if needed by using bridge plugins to the FreeImage or the Devil libraries.
For linux platform, the common windows managers are supported (Gnome, Gnome3, KDE3, KDE4, XFCE, …).

Install SyncWall in Ubuntu

Download the code from http://sourceforge.net/projects/syncwall/files/
Extract the package, read and follow the INSTALL.txt.

Finally start SyncWall by running:

syncwall

Hacking: Add Output Device Chooser on Gnome Shell Sound Menu

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:30:24 +0000

If you have more than one sound cards, it’s inconvenient to change sound output device by Volume Menu -> Sound Settings -> Output -> Choose a device for sound output.

Here’s a Gnome Shell extension by TigerSoldier that adds output device chooser on Volume Menu so that you can choose the default output device without launching Sound Settings.

This extension is available in extensions.gnome.org (open it in gnome shell via firefox browser).

Code: https://github.com/tigersoldier/Output-device-chooser-on-volume-menu

Install Focus-Effects & Cover-Flow Alt-Tab extensions for Gnome Shell

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:08:34 +0000

1. Coverflow Alt-Tab is available in extensions.gnome.org.

Replacement of Alt-Tab, iterates through windows in a cover-flow manner. It *does* cycle backward while `Shift’ key holded (eg. Alt-Tab cycles forward, Alt-Shift-Tab cycles backward.) If you experienced misbehavior, error, or even crash, please file an issue at google code project page (with “~/.xsession-error” or the log of gnome-shell). Thanks!

To install this extension, in Gnome Shell use Firefox web browser to open extensions.gnome.org and turn the extension on.

FOCUS EFFECTS

2. For now, Focus effects is not available in extensions.gnome.org. We can get it using git.

Open up a terminal window and install git:

sudo apt-get install git git-core

Create a folder for git project:
mkdir git_project && cd git_project

Now, executes following 4 commands:

git clone https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-focus-effects-extension.git
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
cp -r gnome-shell-focus-effects-extension/focus-effects@paradoxxx.zero.gmail.com ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/
cp gnome-shell-focus-effects-extension/example.ffxrc.json ~/.ffxrc.json

Finally, refresh your Gnome Shell (or logout and back in). Enable Focus effects in Advance Settings -> Shell Extensions (sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool)

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Classic Menu Indicator Update: Added System Settings Menu

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:25:56 +0000

ClassicMenu Indicator is a Gnome2 style application menu indicator applet for the top panel of Ubuntu Unity desktop. ClassicMenu Indicator just updated: fixed bug in handling of missing/unusable icons, and added System Settings menu.

Here’s the System Settings Menu:

They are integrated into indicator with menus of Personal, Hardware, and System:

Install Classic Menu Indicator:

Add this ppa and install Classic Menu in Ubuntu 11.04, 11.10, 12.04 via:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:diesch/testing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install classicmenu-indicator

qshutdown – Simple GUI for Schedule Shutdown/Reboot on Ubuntu

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:49:10 +0000

The description of qshutdown from its web site: qshutdown is a slim program to shutdown/reboot/suspend/hibernate the computer. It is a grafical tool that shows the time until the corresponding request is send to the gnome-, kde-session-manager or to HAL/DeviceKit if the first two won’t do. Otherwise the command ‘sudo shutdown -P now’ is used. This program may be useful for people who want to work with the computer for a certain time.
qshutdown works on various OS (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu…. (possibly even on Unix like FreeBSD – I have not tried yet)).

Install qshutdown in Ubuntu:

qshutdown is available in Ubuntu’s universe repository, it can be installed via Ubuntu Software Center, but it’s old.

For the latest, add this ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hakaishi/qshutdown

Then update the source:

sudo apt-get update

Now, qshutdown in Ubuntu Software Center is updated.

Cinnamon – Gnome Shell Fork with Classic Gnome Panel and Launcher

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:31:00 +0000

Cinnamon is a LinuxMint project, a fork of Gnome Shell. Cinnamon comes with a Gnome2-like panel at bottom, with classic menu, favourite apps, and system tray icons on it. Cinnamon also has Gnome Shell Activity icon on top-left with “Windows & Themes”.

Cinnamon just released 1.1.3 version few hours ago with improvements of menu, panel launcher, etc. See Cinnamon 1.1.3 release note

Install Cinnamon:

Download and install .deb packages of cinnamon and cinnamon-session on this page.

After that, log out and select Cinnamon session to log in.

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