Install gnome globalmenu 0.7 series

On 8 January 2009, in applications, computing, config, by ayoli

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. [...]

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How to install DBdesigner4 on Ubuntu Intrepid

On 21 November 2008, in computing, config, by ayoli

DBdesigner is a tool to design models and database graphically with a nice feature that can draw the database schema from an existing database (reverse engineering. There is no deb and the install may be a bit tricky due to depndencies to old libs and missing links.

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How to install globalmenu 0.6 on ubuntu intrepid

On 10 November 2008, in applications, config, by ayoli

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 [...]

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Global menu the new gnome macmenu

On 12 March 2008, in applications, computing, by ayoli

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 [...]

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Make a search plugin for firefox and IE 7

On 15 February 2008, in computing, by ayoli

Here’s a short guide to help you make and set up a search plugin for firefox and Internet Explorer 7 (a search engine of your site to add in the search engine field near the adress bar of your browser), with auto discovery and link to install it easily. It’s based on opensearch specifications and [...]

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My phosphor screensaver

On 30 November 2007, in applications, computing, config, by ayoli

Phosphor is a nice screensaver (at least, I love it) that scrolls a text on the screen in a old school 80’s style. On Ubuntu 7.10, it comes with xscreensaver-data-extra from universe repository. I wrote a bash script to generate the text choosing a random fortunes from a folder ~/fortunes where I save the fortunes [...]

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tilda with true transparency

On 21 November 2007, in applications, computing, by ayoli

I’ve found a post on ubuntu-fr forums about tilda with true transparency, wow . This point me to this article with a link to the patch and a deb package. I tested the package which worked fine on gusty, but update manager always wanted to upgrade it. So I took the patch and use the [...]

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MacMenu Bar hack for Gnome 2.20 – GTK+ 2.12

On 31 October 2007, in computing, by ayoli

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 [...]

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