Oct 05, 20111 min read
Dark Themes in Ubuntu
I was getting bored with my old Ubuntu theme, so I thought I will play around a little with dark themes. So here goes: Here are the list of things used: - Wallpaper: - Window Control: - Window Bord...
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8 posts tagged with Ubuntu.
Sep 03, 20102 min read
Fun with X - hacks in Ubuntu
I have always wanted to have more control over my GUI windows so that I can control them and monitor them via commands. So when I looked around for tools to help me do that I found a couple in Ubun...
May 21, 20102 min read
The power of Ubuntu - showing dynamic messages in your desktop background!
I worked on this cool hack to dynamically show Twitter messages embedded into the desktop background. The basic idea is to have some dynamic text (which could be fetched from the web) embedded in a...
Jul 11, 20091 min read
Getting Reliance (Huawei) USB Data Card to work in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)
In order to get Reliance USB Data Card to work in Ubuntu, follow these steps: 1. Make sure wvdial is installed 3. Add the device configuration to your /etc/wvdial.conf Replace with your 10 digit Re...
Jun 11, 20094 min read
Associating files with URLs on Ubuntu (Gnome) - a quick hack
You just downloaded a file from the Internet, for ex, a PDF, a word document from , or a video from or a talk from . You downloaded this file some days back and now, when you viewed it and wanted t...
Jul 15, 20082 min read
Getting Rosegarden to work in Ubuntu (Gnome)
I am one of those many people out there who had trouble in getting to "sing" in Ubuntu under Gnome Window Manager. Finally after trying a lot of permutations and combinations, I got Rosegarden to w...
Jul 12, 20082 min read
Adventure with Ubuntu, Wubi, yum, libc and the like
Note: This is not for the casual reader. If you are facing any issues with any of the keywords mentioned above, you might want to continue... So here I was trying to install some packages from a YU...
Jul 25, 20062 min read
Want a Linux flavor for human beings?
My first experience with any Linux flavor has been usually bad. But this one wasn't. I had heard about a long time back but somehow could not use it. The requirement of the Internet for installatio...