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TZClock-A desktop time zone clock gadget in Ubuntu Linux

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:23:49 +0000

TZClock is a small desktop clock program that you can view the worldwide time by setting the timezone,have multiple clocks in same desktop,set alarm clock,change the font and background color,set hour marks,change the clock size and so on.

TZClock’s Downloadpage provides the deb package:http://www.tzclock.org/download.html

Once you installed tzclock,you can open it from Applications->Accessories->TimeZoneClock

auto-run when login ubuntu

System->Preferences->Startup Applications,Add–>type /usr/bin/TzClock in command area.

Xfce-A more lightweight Desktop Environent than KDE,Gnome

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:06:41 +0000

Xfce is a desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms (such as Linux, Solaris or BSD). Xfce is “Designed for productivity. It loads and executes applications fast, while conserving system resources.” (Olivier Fourdan). This philosophy should appeal to anyone looking for a fast, modern, and efficient working environment for a *NIX box.

Xfce Features

Xfce provides a lightweight desktop environment with a desktop manager drawing a wallpaper and allowing you to have icons on your desktop, a panel with numerous plugins, a standard compliant window manager with a compositing manager, a settings manager to customize your desktop environment, a modern and easy to use file manager and a session manager which allows you to save the current session, autostart applications, shutdown, reboot, suspend or hibernate your computer.

Xfce also provides common applications, designed for the best user experience. Among those applications are: a text editor, a sound mixer which supports multiple sound cards, an application finder to launch your applications in an easy way, an image viewer, a modern terminal emulator, an iCal based calendar to manage events and appointments and a CD and DVD burning application.

Many additionnal features are also provided by the Goodies project: a Web browser, plugins for the panel and the file manager, standalone applications such as a dictionnary, a tasks manager, a power manager, a screenshooter, a notification daemon…

Install Xfce in Ubuntu:

Xfce is the default desktop environment for Xubuntu,so just install Xubuntu-desktop by typing this in terminal (Applications/Accessories/Terminal):

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

Once this installation finish,logout.Select “Xfce” in Sessions box and login.

Install Ubuntu Backgrounds/Icons/Login themes using GnomeArt-NextGen

admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:09:17 +0000

GnomeArt-NextGen is a GUI tool which offers a great deal of themes include gnome background,GDM,window border,splash and so on.GnomeArt NextGen is a complete rewrite of the older GnomeArt. In previous post “http://ubuntuguide.net/3-steps-to-make-ubuntu-910karmic-looks-like-mac-os-x“,I used this to apply window border theme.

GnomeArt-NextGen is an elegant, simple and complete solution for your Gnome styling needs. It incorporates art.gnome.org and offers the possibility to install, view and preview all themes (desktop backgrounds and icons, greeters and much more) available on the website under a convenient user interface. GnomeArt NextGen is a complete rewrite of the older GnomeArt. It has been developed in C# and contains many features that are both usable and handy. It is available under the GPL and is therefore free to use, download and alter for every interested people.

Install GnomeArt-NextGen

Just go to this page and download deb package:

http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9184&release_id=16491

Then,double click to install or use this command in terminal:

sudo dpkg -i packagename

For amd64 user,use following command:

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture gnomeartng-0.6.0-all.deb

Alternatively,download and install using tar.gz package.

Once installation finish,you can launch this from Applications->System Tools->Gnome-Art Next Gen.

Always keep ubuntu gnome wallpaper fresh with Webilder

admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:10:05 +0000

Webilder is a greate open-source program that automatically download new photos from Flickr and Webshots.You can keep getting most interesting photos and automatically change your wallpaper every few minutes.

To install webilder,click here to download deb package,or read this page for more.

After install this,you can manually download new photos or set to automatically download every few days.And preview these windows in this window:

Some of these photos:

15 Beautiful Ubuntu GDM Themes

admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:06:38 +0000

Ubuntu Black:

Click here to download

Ubuntu Sky:

Click here to download

Underground Ubuntu:

Click here to download

Ubuntu Wood:

Click here to download

Ubuntu Leaf:

Click here to download

Ubuntu Blue:

Click here to download

Ubuntu Metal:

Click here to download

Ubuntu V-TEC:

Click here to download

Ubuntu 3D:

Click here to download

Ubuntu Rust:

Click here to download

Energy Bliss:

Click here to download

Ubuntu Professional:

Click here to download

Ubuntu NextG:

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Dark Ubuntu Aurora:

Click here to download

Manager your Ubuntu sources more easily with Ubuntu Tweak

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:07:23 +0000

Ubuntu Tweak is an application designed to config Ubuntu easier for everyone.It provided many usefull desktop and system options that the default desktop environment isn’t provided.At present, It is only designed for Ubuntu GNOME Desktop, and often follows the newest Ubuntu distribution.
Features of Ubuntu Tweak

* View of Basic System Information(Distribution, Kernel, CPU, Memory, etc.)
* GNOME Session Control
* Auto Start Program Control
* Qucik install common usded applications
* A lot of third-party sources to keep application up-to-date
* Clean unneeded packages or cache to free the disk space
* Show/Hide and Change Splash screen
* Show/Hide desktop icons or Mounted Volumes
* Show/Hide/Rename Computer, Home, Trash icon or Network icon
* Tweak Metacity Window Manager’s Style and Behavior
* Compiz Fusion settings, Screen Edge Settings, Window Effects Settings, Menu Effect Settings
* Set the Shortcuts to let qucikly access your favourite applications
* GNOME Panel Settings
* Nautilus Settings
* Advanced Power Management Settings
* System Security Settings
Install Ubuntu Tweak
Option1:
open your terminal, first import the key:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com FE85409EEAB40ECCB65740816AF0E1940624A220

Use this command to edit the sources.list:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

add following into the file,then save and close it.
For ubuntu 9.10:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

For ubuntu 9.04:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

For ubuntu 8.10:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

For ubuntu 8.04

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ppa/ubuntu hardy main

Now,update and install this:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

Option 2:
Visit to this link to download the latest package and source code:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/0.4.x/0.4.9.1
Old version of Ubuntu Tweak is available here:
http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-tweak/downloads/list
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Rotate Random pictures as wallpaper in Ubuntu with Webilder

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:38:44 +0000

Webilder delivers stunning wallpapers to your Linux desktop, directly from Flickr and Webshots. You choose what keywords (tags) to watch for, and photos are automatically downloaded to your computer. Webilder can also change the wallpaper every few minutes.
Webilder can…
* download flickr photos that match tags (for example: beach,party)
* download photos from flickr users of your choice.
* download most interesting photos from flickr.
* download amazing daily proshots from Webshots (requires Webshots account).
* automatically download new photos for you.
* change your wallpaper every few minutes.
* import webshots collections (wbz or wbc formats).
Install Webilder
Option 1.Download a deb package from GetDeb,double click to install.
Option 2.Download Webilder 0.6.4: Webilder-0.6.4.tar.gz.

Webilder requires Python >=2.4, Python Imaging Library (PIL) >1.1.4, GTK+>=2.6, PyGTK>=2.6, including Python bindings for gnome2 and gnome2-extras.

1. Install dependencies, according to your distribution:
* Debian or Ubuntu:

# apt-get install python python-gtk2-dev python-gnome2 python-gnome2-dev \
libglib2.0-dev python-gnome2-extras python-gnome2-extras-dev \
python-imaging

* Gentoo:

# emerge pygtk gnome-python gnome-python-desktop libgnomeui gnome-python-extras dev-python/imaging

2. Extract the archive and install it. You’ll only need root permissions for the last command:

$ tar xzf Webilder-0.6.4.tar.gz
$ cd Webilder-0.6.4
$ su
Password:
# python setup.py install –install-data=/usr

KDE users should replace the last line with following:

# python setup.py install –with-kde –install-data=/usr

Running Webilder

After installing Webilder, you should add it to your panel, so it can automatically download photos and change your wallpaper:

* GNOME Users: Right-click on the GNOME panel, choose “Add to panel”, and select “Webilder Webshots Applet”. If it is not in the list – log off and log in again.
* KDE Users: From the graphics menu, start KWebilder. Go to the preferences Window, to the Advanced Tab, and select KDE wallpapers settings.

When you first start this,you need to download photos or manually import photos by right-clicking the icon and select “Download Photos” or “Browser Collection”(File/Import…).

In Preferences,General tab you can set what time your wallpaper need to be refresh or photos download option.

Enjoy!

How to share and connect remote ubuntu desktop

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:29:25 +0000

This tutorial shows how to enable ubuntu desktop sharing and connect ubuntu desktop from Windows/Ubuntu machine.
Enable ubuntu desktop sharing:
Go to System->Preferences->Remote Desktop.
In General tab,check the two checkboxes below Sharing.
If you want to require a password for this desktop,check “Require the user to enter this password” and set the password in box.

Connect from Ubuntu machine
Open a terminal window(Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and type this command:

vncviewer -fullscreen 192.168.1.101:0

Change the IP in the command.Press ‘F8′ and select Quit viewer if you want to quit the remote desktop.
Or,go to Applications->Internet->Remote Desktop Viewer.Click connect and type IP address.

Connect from Windows Machine
You may need to download vncviewer from this page.Once you install this,start vncviewer from start/All programs/RealVNC/VNC Viewer.

Completely delete a user including the home directory in ubuntu Linux

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:34:47 +0000

If you want to remove a user from your Linux system,you may also want to erase the home directory completely.

To delete a user as well as the home directory,you can use this command in terminal window:

sudo deluser --remove-home username_here

If you have deleted the user,you can delete its home directory by typing:

sudo rm -r /home/username

Done.

Customize your own Gnome desktop colors with Gnome color chooser

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:22:10 +0000

One of the first things in new installed,or reinstalled ubuntu should be customizing your own gnome desktop,and you would like to change foreground and background color of gnome panels,icons,menu,and so forth.
Gnome color chooser is a tiny tool with graphic interface that you can easily change your ubuntu gnome desktop,panels,menus,active windows colors.
You just need to type this command in terminal to install this:

sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser

Then launch the program from System->Preferences->GNOME Color Chooser,and in following screen customize your own colors and click Apply