Ok, new year, new decade and a new desktop.
New ? not exactly. It takes most of my prebious desktop features and ressources with some changes and evolutions.
I’m trying to give you most of the details and ressources (orignals and my mods) bellow, in case you need to ask for something that missing, feel free to comments.
Happy new year to all 
Jan 10
Nov 04
Here is my november setup on my Asus eee 1101HA, running ubuntu jaunty (9.04) with gnome.
I have to try a lighter environment because gnome eats too much memory, unfortunately no time at the moment.
You’ll find below most of the used ressources in this setup.
Continue reading »Apr 09
Gospy-applet is a Gnome applet that monitors changes on servers and web pages. You can add an illimited number of sources to monitor. It is possible to detect changes in HTTP header fields, IP associated with domain name, page content, page status, page load time and so on.
source http://gospy-applet.labs.libre-entreprise.org/ Continue reading »
Jan 08
Here’s a new howto explaining the steps to compile, install and enable the gnome-globalmenu-0.7 series from trunk on your desktop.
This has been tested on Ubuntu intrepid ibex but it should work on hardy too. It should also work with other distributions, except for the first step (dependencies install).
Globalmenu works with “real” gtk applications. That means globalmenu will not work with firefox and openoffice.
Big thanks to rainwoodman and lviggiani for their awesome work on this very useful application. Continue reading »
Nov 10
Here’s a new howto explaining the steps to compile, install and enable the gnome-globalmenu-0.6 on your desktop.
This has been tested on Ubuntu intrepid ibex but it should work on hardy too. It should also work with other distributions, except for the first step.
Globalmenu works with “real” gtk applications. That means globalmenu will not work with firefox and openoffice.
Another note : globalmenu doesn’t require anymore to patch libgtk, good news
Big thanks to rainwoodman for his awesome work on this very useful applet.
A new version of this guide is now available here
Mar 12
The popular hack to gtk and applet that imitates the Mac menu isnt’t maintained by its original creator AdQ.
Fortunately, rainwoodman started a new project based on adq patch and applet (now, totally rewritten from scratch) : globalmenu.
Now, the menus are detached to the panel applet only if this one is running, the menu key bindings (eg Alt+F) are now functional.
Here is a short guide with two possible methods to install global menu on Ubuntu.
Continue reading »Dec 13
Create a new launcher on your panel or in the menu (using menu editor : right click on the menu and then, choose “edit menus”).
Insert and/or select the following in the launcher properties window:
- Type: Application
- Name: FireFTP
- Command: firefox -chrome chrome://fireftp/content/
- Comment: FireFTP Client
- optional : you may want to choose an icon for this new launcher.
Oct 31
Fortunately, some solutions came out from the ubuntuforums.org thread mentioned in the previous post. Here are the patch and the applet that I have grabbed from avb’s post in page 99 of this thread, the no underline patch has been made with an idea from page 52 of the macmenu ubuntuforums.org thread (post at the bottom of the page) :
- gtk+ 2.12.0 gtkmenubar.diff
- no label underlines patch
- mac menu applet for patched gtk+ 2.12 (deb for gutsy 32 bits)
NOTE : I have edited this entry to add the no underline patch and modifiy the instructions to use this patch.
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Oct 03
Here’s a common problem :
When you use gnome icon browser and don’t find the icon you want in the default pixmaps that the browser shows, you try to use the “browse” button and then you browse directories searching the icon you want.
But even if you are sure there is icons in the directory that you have selected, you can’t see them and hihlight the one you want. Normal. The “browse” button is just here to select a directory where the icons are, then you can see them in the icon browser and pick the one you want.
Two people in two days ask me the same question, and I’ve seen many people with this problem before (even me few years ago). So should we consider this as a bug and post it to gnome devs ?
Sep 28
Coverfinder is a nice application that grabs cd covers on amazon. Unfortunately, there is no deb provided for feisty on coverfinder site.
But it’s not really difficult to build. Here”s what I did : Continue reading »
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