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Smarten Up Your Desktop With This Conky & Wallpaper Combo
The look of people’s desktops are a lot like sandwiches. Some are plain and simple, others decorated with all manner of awesome-sauce.
But both types can get stale if left alone for too long.
If you feel that your own desktop could do with freshening up then the following Conky and wallpaper pairing might just prove to be a good starting point
3 Themes for Linux Dock ‘Plank’
It may be yet to see a stable release but that hasn’t stopped many folks from (get ready for pirate punnery) from ‘walking the plank‘ of instability by using it. What am I jabbering about? Plank – a lightweight dock application famed for its use in elementary’s will-it-ever-arrive Luna OS. If you are crazy enough [...]
[How To] Change Unity-2D Launcher Color and Opacity
The pace of development on Ubuntu’s Unity interface sees ever-more options added to it, much to the delight of tweakers everywhere. But for Unity-2D, the lighter and less resource intensive version of Unity, customisation options look a little thin on the ground. But looks are often deceiving… How To Change unity 2D Launcher Colour and Opacity [...]
Orta Theme Ported to GTK 3; Here’s How to Install It
Orta was one of the most popular GTK2 themes created for GNOME-based desktop. But when Ubuntu upgraded to Gnome 3 (and respectively GTK 3) in 11.10 users were no longer able to use GTK 2 themes like Orta. Luckily for us, talented theme developers have started creating new gorgeous looking GTK 3 themes as well as porting [...]
We Review Open-Source RTS Game 0 A.D.
0.A.D is a completely open-source RTS available for Linux, Mac and Windows. The game, which is in heavy development, currently sits at the Alpha 8 junction. Undeterred by the development nature I took the title for a spin…
‘Mounty’ – Simple Disk Image Mounter for Ubuntu
Mounting disc image files (.iso, .img, .dmg, etc) in Ubuntu isn’t hard. There are a number of applications available designed to carry out the task.
But Mounty, a system tray applet, is probably the easiest of them.
“Four Seasons” Wallpaper Pack
If there is one thing that most people agree on about the wallpapers it’s that no one likes looking at bad looking wallpaper.
“Four Seasons” is a wallpaper pack I created inspired by the diversity of the four seasons of our planet. The pack includes wallpapers for each each season – Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, and a “Four Seasons” wallpaper which represents all of the seasons in a unified image.
[How To] Add a “Places” Menu in KDE
KDE. Some think of it as the desktop environment that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. What I like most about KDE is that there is Plasmoid (a form of widget for KDE) for almost everything – Facebook, clocks, weather, tweeting, start menus, Dash, calculator, system monitors etc… you name it. One plasmoid I find really [...]
Give Your Linux Desktop ‘New Hope’ With this GTK3 Theme
Hope GTK theme is a modern and stylish looking GTK theme that looks great on the modern Ubuntu desktop. But there was one aspect of it that didn’t I felt looked out of place: the use of a ‘light toolbar’ in apps such as Nautilus: – So I modified the theme to use a Dark [...]
Ubuntu-Coloured GNOME and KDE Stripe Wallpaper
No-one likes staring at a rubbish desktop wallpaper. Unfortunately for Ubuntu its recent crop of default wallpapers haven’t been the strongest in its seven-year history. So I decided to blend the ‘purple-ness’ of Ubuntu’s recent drapes to GNOME 3′s iconic ”Stripes” wallpaper, and that found in the recent release of KDE Software Compilation. GNOME Stripes Long [...]
Getting the Most from Marlin File Browser; Plus See What’s New
Marlin is a sleek, fast and sexy Nautilus alternative.
Just over a week ago we told you How to Install ‘Marlin’ File Browser in Ubuntu 11.10. Since then Marlin has been updated with a handful of additional changes – some which might tempt the more reluctant into giving it a try.
[How To] Customise Unity like Never Before
Ubuntu 11.10 bring a lot of nifty changes in Unity featuring – chameleon theming, active blur, ability to change launcher opacity, relocation of the Ubuntu button from the panel to the launcher, and so on.
These new features have opened up the door for a lot more customisation in Unity than many think possible.
Read on for a guide on radically changing the look of Unity in Ubuntu 11.10…
Making Dolphin Even Better: Add ‘Service Menus’
Among the things that I love most in KDE is it’s file manager – Dolphin.
Dolphin is fast, looks great and is future-rich. Recently I’ve thought “How can Dolphin possibly get any better?” and today I stumbled upon a very neat and useful tweak for Dolphin that makes it almost perfect – service menus.
[How to] Beautify Thunderbird in Ubuntu
Mozilla Thunderbird is the default email client in Ubuntu. It is easy to use and setup, has many advanced features and allows for easy customisation.
And customization is exactly what this article is all about.
LiveUSB Install – Not Just Another Live USB Creator for #Linux
USB pendrives – those little things in your pocket that can sometimes save your skin. They are so small, yet they can be so extremely useful.
So what happens if you want to try out a GNU/Linux distro, but you don’t want or can’t use a CD/DVD – the answer is pretty simple – you make a LiveUSB.