F.lux - Colour Temperature Adjustment

f.lux is a app that changes/adapts colour temperature of your display during the day.
By adapting the colour temperature for the time of the day it will make your screen more viewable and it is good for your eyes.

f.lux makes your computer screen look like the room you're in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again.
Tell f.lux what kind of lighting you have, and where you live. Then forget about it. F.lux will do the rest, automatically.

Customize Unity-2D In 11.10

Unity 2D have come a long way from last release, but it still it is not customizable like Unity 3D. You can do basic customization with Unity-2D Settings tool.

You can do more customization if you edit some source files.
Problem with this is that changes that you made are not permanent and they will be changed to default with new Unity 3D updates.

VirtualBox Guest Additions Available From Additional Drivers In Ubuntu 11.10

Today i decided to install Ubuntu 11.10 in VirtualBox to give it a try. After installation i saw a notification that additional drivers are available, i clicked and notice that Ubuntu have detected that i am running it in VirtualBox and offered to install VirtualBox Guest Additions. Awesome.

Installing Latest Proprietary Display Drivers In Ubuntu

Ubuntu allways come with latest stable proprietary drivers for your ATI or nVidia card but it may happen that ATI or nVidia release new drivers and you need to wait to be available via update manager and they may not be available until next release.
You can install theme manually and this is the way to do it.

Fix The Delayed In Loading Of The Plymouth

I really hate the delay in loading plymouth boot when starting Ubuntu.
When it start loading first is black screen for some seconds then plymouth animation show for 1 sec and it done.

If you have some cool plymouth the you don't even see animation.

Hitler Is Briefed About GNOME 3

I for one like Gnome 3 and Gnome Shell. But i thinks it lacks of configuration, theme, fonts, icons....
Yes you can get Gnome Tweak Tool but this are some basic customization setting that all DE have.

To bring little humor in this debate here is how Hitler (from movie Downfall) reacted to Gnome 3.

Window List Gnome Shell Extension

This extension will put classic window list in the top panel.

Elementary Luna Gnome Shell Theme

This is a Gnome Shell theme inspired by Elementary OS.

Install .zip and .7z Support In Ubuntu

I was using Linux Mint for 2 releases now, i installed latest Ubuntu to test it and today i downloaded some .rar and .7z archives and in Archive Manager manager i was getting error that "Archive type no supported".

Make Gnome Shell Extension Work After Gnome 3 Update

You have configured your shell, installed all necessarily extensions and updated system and you notice that extensions don't work anymore...

To fix this you need to change "shell-version" in metadata.json file for every extension.

Control Volume Via Keyboard

If have old keyboard that don't have media buttons you may want to create keyboard shortcuts witch will help you control volume on your system.

example of old keyboard without media buttons

You can do this in two ways.

Fix Clementine Notifications In Gnome Shell

Clementine is a multiplatform music player. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.

It works awesome on all platforms but in Gnome Shell it have bug with notification system in gnome shell, this cause that notification is not showed when song changes.

How To Share Folders In Gnome 3

In Gnome 2 to share folders on local network you would just right click and in properties menu chose "Sharing Options" and just click share and you're done.

But in Gnome 3 there are no "Sharing Options" this really sucks and in "Personal File Sharing" setting it always says that required packages are not installed.

Now the only friendly way to share folder is with Samba Server Configuration tool.

Fix Sound Card Problems With Asus K50AB On Ubuntu

People who have Asus K50AB (HDA ATI SB VIA VT1708S) laptops know there are problem with sound on Ubutnu and other Linux distributions.
Main problems are that headphones jack in not working (not muting speakers) and microphone is not working.

You can fix this problems by installing latest Alsa Drivers Modules.

Fullscreen Flash Video With Dual Monitors Workarounds

Because a "security feature" users with dual monitor setup can't enjoy watching fullscreen flash video on one monitor while doing stuff on other, in other word you can't multitask.

Plank - Lightweight Dock App

Plank is lightweight dock application for Linux. It is created by Docky team and it will be default Dock in Elementary OS Luna.

The main advances of Plank is simplicity and lightweight.

How To Install Flash Player 11 Beta For Chrome and Firefox

Adobe has released Beta 1 for Flash Player 11. This version don't brings new things compare to Windows version.

Things that are good in Flash Player 11 beta are 64bit version available and smother experience in full-screen.

Dark Fragments GTK Theme

Dark Fragments is a dark GTK 2 theme, it look really nice :)

Fix Webcam Problems For Google+ Hangouts

Google+ in new social network created by Google.
One feature of Google+ is Hangouts. Hangouts is group video chat.

/facepalm :P

How To Install/Compile Elementary Slingshot In Ubuntu

Slingshot is launcher that is develop by Elementary team.
Slingshot is still not available via PPA but you can get source and compile it.

How To Install MS Fonts In Ubuntu

You might ask you're self "Why would i install them?", well i install theme because some sites like eztv.it don't look nice without them.

Ubuntu 11.04 And ATI Proprietary Drivers

You might say that Ati Proprietary Drivers for linux are getting better with new release. But also it seams that with new release they fix one problem but new one come knocking on the door ;)

In Ubuntu 11.04 Compiz seams to be slow, but don't worry there is a easy fix for this.

How To Add Windows (Wine) Apps To Unity Launcher

Because Unity Launcher and Dash only show application that are in /usr/share/applications/ you can't add or view apps that are installed via Wine.

Awesome Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Plymouth Theme

I just found an awesome theme for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Plymouth.
This plymouth theme is inspired by one community wallpaper that comes with Ubuntu 11.04

Why Desktop Linux (Still) Sucks. What We Can Do To Fix It.

Very interesting video on Why Desktop Linux Sucks, session from 2010.

Very interesting facts what what should be done to make it better.
Discussion on audio and video problems, audio and video editors on linux, package management and software on linux.

Add Skype To Messaging Menu

Well everyone know what Skype is, this tutorial will show you how to integrate Skype in Ubuntu Messaging Menu.

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Beta Released

Beta version of upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal has been released.

Ubuntu Natty Wallpaper

Here is one awesome looking Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal wallpaper by rikulu

Shotwell PPA for Lucid

Shotwell is the default photo manager for Ubuntu. In order to get updates to the app, you need to use the PPA. Yorba (the creators of Shotwell) will not push the newest version, 0.8, the thier PPA. The reson for this is as follows.

It turns out we can't easily release Shotwell 0.8 for Lucid in the Yorba PPA.  The problem is that Lucid has only Vala 0.8, but Shotwell requires Vala 0.10 to build.  We can't pull in Vala from the Vala PPA, because that would give us version 0.11, which can't be used to build Shotwell either (see #2638).  There's no easy workaround, so I'm marking this as wontfix.

Ubuntu Cloud Wallpapers

Here are 2 nice looking Ubuntu cloud wallpapers by below-the-surf.

AMDOverdriveCtrl - Tweak Tool For ATI Cards

AMDOverdriveCtrl is tool that allows you to control and monitor frequency and fan settings on your ATI GPU card.

Customize Unity-2D Launcher

Before you start here is for Ubuntu 11.10

Tis guide will show you how to remove items, rearrange, change background and icon size in Unity 2D Launcher.

Since i started using Unity 2D mounted drive icon started to bug me because it show all drives (NTFS) and not only flash drives and etc. Unity 2D don't follow GTK theme and don't support skins so you get bored if you look same thing :)
Also i don't use Trash so i don't need icon there :) and i like to Workplaces switcher to be at bottom.

Plymouth Stargate Theme

One more awesome plymouth theme created for Stargate fans by zeckman1138 from gnome-look.org