Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Daily Builds Available

For all that are interested in testing upcoming Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat can do that by downloading Daily Build release that is available from cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/

After you install it you can just update it daily and you will have latest version installed.

Happy testing!

This is pre-alpha of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat so it is not recommended to install it to mail system. Only test system or virtual machine (virtual box).

How To Fix Video Tearing With Compiz

Video tearing is still problems to some users even Sync To VBlank is enabled.

Video tearing for some users only happens when video is on fullscreen.

To fix this you need to install compizconfig-settings-manager

How To Create Simple Plymouth Theme

This tutorial will show you have to create simple plymouth theme for Ubuntu 10.04 or other Linux distribution that uses plymouth.

Just one note, this theme in wallpaper only. There is no animations.




Open terminal and type:

sudo mkdir /lib/plymouth/themes/simple

Find a wallpaper that you wan't to use. Make sure that wallpaper is PNG (.png) and name of wallpaper is wallpaper.png

How To Install Hamachi On Ubuntu

This guide will show how to install and configure Hamachi for Ubuntu.

How To Upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 To Ubuntu 10.10

Cant wait for june 3rd for Alpha 1?

If you want to test Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat you can do this today and there are two ways to update to Ubuntu 10.10 from Ubuntu 10.04.

Mark Shuttleworth Keynote At UDS-M 2010

Mark Shuttleworth delivers his keynote speech at the Ubuntu Developer Summit for the Maverick Meerkat 10.10 release of Ubuntu.

How To Fix Webcam Problem In Skype

You have a webcam that don't work in Skype (for example image is flipped) but it works fine other apps like Cheese?

This is problem to a lot of people, i have two webcams and both are not working good with Skype.

How To Install Fonts On Ubuntu 10.04

You remember times when you would have to search for hidden folders, open it as root and at the end restart PC just to install one theme?

Don't worry in Ubuntu 10.04 is much easier.

AirLines Theme Wallpapers

AirLines is Gnome theme from Bisigi Project

Theme come with 2 wallpaper (which changes during the day).
This was the main reason why i downloaded theme.

First i searched for wallpapers, but i found only one.

Here are wallpapers so if you wan't just wallpapers you don't need to install whole theme.

aillines day

How to Fix Maximize Delay/Lag With Compiz And ATI Driver On Ubuntu 10.04 and 9.10

If you have Ati video card and you are using proprietary drivers than you may notice delay/lag when you are maximizing applications or any window.

This can become very annoying.

How To Change Mouse Cursor In Ubuntu 10.04/11.04 When Compiz Is Enabled

This bug is not fixed from Ubuntu 9.10 then fixed in 10.10 and now is back in 11.04.
The problem is when you change cursor theme it doesn't change if you have compiz turned on,
It changes but it is only visible in some applications (firefox).

If compiz is off then cursor theming works fine.