News and How to Ubuntu: December 2011

Cinnamon: Bring GNOME2-Like Layout on GNOME Shell

10:34 PM

Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME Shell developed by Linux Mint Team that brings innovative features of GNOME Shell and simple layout of GNOME 2. Before we jump into the rest of article, please take a look at the figure below.

As you can see, Cinnamon comes with single panel contains "menu" button on the left, followed by "quick launch" icons and window list. Indicator applet and another notification icon is positioned on the right of panel. Pretty simple, huh? Application launcher is simplified too, with single large box containing installed applications shortcut, favorite applications, and session control to logout, etc.

Installing on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot
Although Cinnamon is developed and intended for Linux Mint, it can be installed on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. First thing first, install GNOME Shell by typing the following command:

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

Once installed correctly, please download the Cinnamon installer here. Download both "cinnamon" and "cinnamon-session" packages and install them:

sudo dpkg -i cinnamon_1.1.2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i cinnamon-session_1.0.0_all.deb

Now, you may logout and select "Cinnamon" on session choices when login.
Cinnamon is in early development, so use with your own risk!

Good luck!

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Install and Configure Slingshot Launcher on Xubuntu (XFCE)

8:06 AM

Hello readers! I have written two articles about XFCE on how to configure dual monitor and enable Dropbox "Copy Public Link" on Thunar File Manager. Today I'd like to show you how to install and configure Slingshot Launcher on Xubuntu (XFCE). For your information, Slingshot Launcher is an application launcher created by Elementary OS team that provides full screen and eye catching launcher. Please take a closer look at the below picture.

As an application developed by Elementary OS team, Slingshot Launcher is definitely fast and lightweight. I have tried to install it on my Xubuntu and bingo! Everything goes well.

Install Slingshot Launcher on Xubuntu (XFCE)
Please download the *.deb file of Slingshot Launcher here. Once downloaded, type the following command:

sudo dpkg -i slingshot-launcher_0.0.1~pre-0~48~natty1_i386.deb
sudo apt-get -f install

OK! Please try your newly installed Slingshot Launcher by running command "slingshot" on the Terminal.

Configuring Slingshot Launcher
The purpose of this section is to create a shortcut for Slingshot Launcher on XFCE panel. Now, right click on the panel and select "Panel > Add new items ...". On the "Add New Items" windows, add "Launcher" to the panel.

New icon has been added to the panel, now right click on the icon, select "Properties". On "Launcher" properties window click on icon indicates "Add a new empty item" and fill in the from so it looks like the below picture.

Of course, you can choose a custom icon for the launcher. Now when you click on the custom launcher, it should execute Slingshot Launcher and display full screen menu on the screen.

Regards.

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Easily Run Various Linux Commands on Windows Using GOW

10:33 PM

Linux has powerful command line tools, we can do almost everything there e.g. file editing, installing or removing application, managing files and directories, downloading stuff from the Internet and even playing your favorite songs. Windows users should be jealous with the Linux command line tools, but don't worry, Windows users can still run various Linux commands with ease by using GOW. GOW stands for GNU On Windows is a tool likes Cygwin but the lightweight one. It brings 130 powerful Linux commands on Windows operating system.

GOW lets you run shell script, edit text files with Vim, search your text with grep, download from FTP with sftp, manage your files and directories with mv, cp. du, rmdir, whereis and more Linux commands from Windows CMD window.

Here is the complete list of commands:

GOW supports most modern version of Windows including Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 both 32bit and 64bit.

Download GOW (GNU On Windows)

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KDE 4.8 Preview (Sneak Peak)

10:16 AM

Yesterday, KDE has release the first Release Candidate (KDE 4.8 RC 1) for its renewed Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. KDE 4.8 which is scheduled to be release in January 2012 you can peek the appearance here.

Taken from the announcement here, KDE 4.8 RC 1 is contain a hundred of bugs fix since its Beta. One of new features in KDE 4.8 is a 'Secret Service', KSecretService is an application which provide shared password storage that help a user to save their password (optionally) and share it with other application, I have not tried this application but (guess) seems similar to Ubuntu password keyring.

Some notable feature in KDE 4.8 are :

Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces -- Qt Quick is making its way into the Plasma Workspaces, the new Plasma Components provide a standardized API implementation of widgets with native Plasma Look and Feel. The device notifier widget has been ported to using these components and is now written in pure QML. KWin's window switcher is now also QML-based, paving the way for newly designed window switchers.
Use Dolphin2, file view has been rewritten for better performance, scalability and more attractive visual appearance.
KSecretService optionally enables a shared password storage, therefore making your saved passwords available to many other applications, leading to a more secure system and better integration of non-KDE apps into the Plasma Workspaces and KDE apps into non-Plasma workspaces.
More ..

KDE 4.8 Preview Video
This video is taken from youtube which uploaded by devSantyago (KDE 4.8 git compilation / 2011-11-07)

Bugs can be reported, verified and found at bugs.kde.org. We will update this news with the new post by the time KDE 4.8 Stable already release or it's available to install via PPA.

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Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Stable Has Been Released, Installation Instruction Included

8:21 AM

Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 (Stable) has been released with a brand new interface and features. It comes with many old features too, but the application and source center is removed because they cause many problems to the system. Here’s the noteworthy highlights of Ubuntu Tweak 0.6.0:

Brand new UI and interaction focus on better looking and easy to use
Supports the latest Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and well integrated with system
Every part of Ubuntu Tweak is plug-able, this make Ubuntu Tweak more powerful then ever before
Janitor keeps your system clean
Overview makes you know your system better

As Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 supports the latest Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, it can tweak many GNOME 3 and Unity settings such as changing visual style, icon, cursor, and windows theme. It can also tweak the behavior of Unity such as launcher icon size, launcher opacity, etc.

And the killer feature of Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 is so-called Janitor with a more easy to use interface and powerful clean feature than the old one. Janitor will scan the cruft, after you double check the items you don’t need, select and click the “Clean”. Everything will get out of your system.

Install Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot
The new Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 can only be installed on the latest Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. Please enter the following command on Terminal to install it:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

If you don't want to add such a PPA repository, you can download it manually from Launchpad.

Let's rock with Ubuntu.

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Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update : No Sound at Startup

12:36 PM

If this time you always hear this sound every login at ubuntu, may you will never find it in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, because it's will disabled by default - confirmed by jeremy bicha

the Ubuntu startup sound which have been used for 5 years will be disable by default in Precise Pangolin, on the latest Ubuntu 12.04 development update news, a new version of libcanberra has been upload with startup sound which is disabled.

Ubuntu system sound setting

One thing must be stressed is this sound is disable but not removed, if you want to hear it again, you can enable it in System Setting > Sound (* see screenshot above).

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Mozilla Firefox 9 Stable Has Been Released, Install It via PPA

8:53 PM

Mozilla Firefox 9 has been released and now available on PPA Launchpad. The key feature of this release is Type Inference that significantly improving JavaScript performance. There are also many improvements and bugs fixing:

Improved theme integration for Mac OS X Lion
Added two finger swipe navigation for Mac OS X Lion
Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript
Added support for font-stretch
Improved support for text-overflow
Improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS
Fixed several stability issues
Fixed several security issues

For further information about this release, please read the complete list of changes here.

Mozilla Firefox 9 should be available as a security update via official repository of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal and Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, but if you do not want to wait for it, you can install it via PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat users can install Mozilla Firefox 9 by typing the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox

If you're using Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin or another Linux distributions, you can the latest version of Firefox here.

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Get Dropbox "Copy Public Link" Works on Thunar File Manager [XFCE]

5:44 PM

In my previous post, I shared my experience using XFCE on how to setup dual-monitor. Today, I'd like to share another XFCE trick on how to enable Dropbox "Copy Public Link" on Thunar File Manager. If you have never heard before, Dropbox is online storage service that offers 2GB disk space for free account, while Thunar is default file manager for XFCE desktop, it's like Nautilus in Gnome desktop. Okay, before we jump into the trick, please let me show you what will we do in this post.

Installing requirement
You have to install an application called "xclip" that can be installed by typing the following command:

sudo apt-get install xclip

Downloading script
Download the script called "dropbox.py" here and place in "/usr/bin". Once downloaded and placed well, please type the following command to make it executable:

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/dropbox.py

Setting Up Thunar File Manager
Now, you have to add custom action in Thunar File Manager which will get the public url using dropbox.py and then copy it to the clipboard using xclip:

In the Thunar menu, go to Edit/Configure Custom Actions...
Press the uppermost button in the left (the + button).
In the dialog which appears, fill the following entries:

bash -c "dropbox.py puburl %n | xclip -i -selection clipboard"

In the Appearance Conditions conditions page, mark every checkbox but the Directories one.
Accept, and then close

Now, you can copy Dropbox Public URL from Thunar's context menu as shown in the first picture above.

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How to: Dual Monitor Setup on XFCE (Xubuntu)

2:20 PM

Dear readers! Recently, I have switched to XFCE (Xubuntu) because my Unity interface runs very slow on my computer, especially when running Netbeans IDE to do my college assignment. XFCE is a lightweight desktop environment for Linux, compared to Unity, XFCE is more and more faster! So today, I'd like to share my experience using XFCE to you. OK, let's start with dual monitor setup on XFCE (Xubuntu).

I have two monitors: main display on my notebook has 1280x800 pixels resolution, and my second display (LCD monitor) has 1366x768 pixels resolution. We are going to place the second monitor at the right of the main display (as seen at the picature above). OK! Let's do this.

Open the "Settings Editor" by clicking the application menu > Settings > Settings Editor (see the image below).

In the Settings Editor window, select "display > Default > VGA1 (may be differ from yours) > Position" and double click do the "X" item. Please fill in the form to match your screen resolution. In this case, the width of my main display (laptop monitor) is 1280, so I fill "1280" in the value field. Please "Save" and check if everything is done well.

Now, please log out, plug your second monitor to the PC or Laptop, and do login action. If you did it well, you should have second display on the right of your main display.

Enjoy :)

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Blender 2.61 Available to Install via PPA

11:35 AM

Blender 2.61 has been release with 180 bugs fixed since it last release, it's available in ppa:cheleb/blender-svn and ready install it through them. this version is available for Ubuntu 11.04 (Lucid) until Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise), here to install Blender 2.61 via PPA, as follows :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cheleb/blender-svn
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender

Blender 2.61 test Cycle and Fluids (taken from here)

What's New Blender 2.61
Most notable features in this release is the new render engine Cycles, the Camera Tracker, Ocean Simulation texture and Dynamic Paint. Check following links for the full changelog.

Cycles Render Engine
Motion Tracking
Dynamic Paint
Ocean Simulation
New Add-on, read here
More Features, read rest of the news here

to see more images which created by Blender 2.61, visit this gallery.

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Fix dpkg error "dpkg: error processing (--unpack) trying to overwrite…"

7:44 AM

I have a feedback on my article about installing ProZilla Download Accelerator, he said that he encountered this problem:

Sedang membuka paket prozilla (dari .../prozilla_2.0.4-build2~tahutek~oneiric_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: ada kesalahan saat memproses /var/cache/apt/archives/prozilla_2.0.4-build2~tahutek~oneiric_amd64.deb (--unpack): mencoba menimpa '/usr/share/locale/locale.alias', yang juga ada dalam paket locales 2.13+git20110622-2

The above error is in Indonesian, the English version about the error is shown on the picture below:

Please take a closer look at the red-marked area! Today we are going to fix this problem. OK, let's get started!

Simply, type the following command:

cd /var/cache/apt/archives/
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite 'file_name'
sudo apt-get -f install

Replace "file_name" with the suitable one. In this case, the troublesome file is "prozilla_2.0.4-build2~tahutek~oneiric_amd64.deb". So, you must replace "file_name" with "prozilla_2.0.4-build2~tahutek~oneiric_amd64.deb".

cd /var/cache/apt/archives/
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite prozilla_2.0.4-build2~tahutek~oneiric_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get -f install

You can use this trick to another file that cause such an error.

Regards :)

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Nautilus Script : Easy Send File to FlashDrive or Removable Device

10:55 PM

One simply function that I always expect would land in nautilus is small utility which allow us to copy file to mounted device easily, Yeah.. a similar function like Windows. There are many ubuntu user which come from Windows, a function like this will make them feel comfortable using their new OS (Ubuntu).

There is small nautilus script which can simplify our work, this script allow us to send file to Flashdrive or other mounted device trough 'right click' menu in nautilus, this function is similar to 'send to' in windows, see following screenshot.

Nautilus Send file to mounted device

Install Nautilus Send To Script in Ubuntu
There are simple way to do as above, first step you have to do is download the following files :

Download Nautilus Send-to Script

go to /home/username/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts (*replace username with yours) then copy the file you have downloaded there.

You can try it whether it well implemented or not, select a file in nautilus the right click > script > send to, if you're find 'send to' in there, mean the script was well implemented to your nautilus.

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SOFA: SPSS Alternative for Linux

7:45 AM

If you have ever used SPSS statistics application before, you might know what SOFA is. SOFA stands for Statistics Open For All can be used to be an alternative to paid statistics software SPSS.

SOFA is a user-friendly statistics, analysis, & reporting program. It is free, with an emphasis on ease of use, learn as you go, and beautiful output.
SOFA lets you display results in an attractive format ready to share. And SOFA will help you learn as you go.

The key features of SOFA such as:
Ongoing Development
SOFA Statistics is a new project and features are being added on an ongoing basis. Priority areas are being completed first

Beauty - Attractive Output
Beautiful output is a feature, even in a statistics/analysis program! It means that SOFA output can be used for presentations or automated reporting without manual formatting or reworking. Many statistical programs do not place much emphasis on aesthetics.

Database Friendly
Many statistics programs make you import data from a database before you can use it. Not SOFA. You can connect directly to your database, and all its tables. Just give SOFA the login details. You can even edit data from within SOFA, or apply a simple data filter to focus on the subset of a table you are interested in. SOFA currently supports:

MySQL
Microsoft Access
SQLite
PostgreSQL
Microsoft SQL Server

The third feature I've mentioned above is the special feature that other statistics software don't have. You can do such a direct connect to DMBS (Database Management System) without having to import the database itself.

For further information about SOFA, please take a closer look to its website.

Install SOFA on Ubuntu
Simply download the .deb file here, and type the following command once downloaded:

sudo dpkg -i sofastats-1.1.2-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get -f install

SOFA is available for Windows and Mac too, you can download the installer here.

Regards.

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Install Spotify Client in Ubuntu

2:16 PM

Spotify - A new world of free music is just a click away, Discover and share it all with your friends.

Spotify is peer-to-peer music streaming service that gives registered user access to millions of songs from major and independent record labels such us Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal which free to listen. Spotify is support Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, iOS (iPod/iPhone), Android, BlackBerry and now it comes to Linux.

We can install Spotify trough a two way, download the following source (*.deb) other way install spotify trough official repository.

Download Spotify for Ubuntu (*.deb)
Spotify for Linux for now only available in debian package, download spotify client for linux/ubuntu trough following link, then install spotify manualy using command 'dpkg -i' in terminal.

http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify/

Install Spotify in Ubuntu trough Repository
Besides of using the way above, you can also install spotify via official spotify repository, do as follows

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free

before updating repository, add following public-key to your system then spotify is ready to install.

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 4E9CFF4E
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install spotify-client-qt

Spotify on a Unity Dash

Unfortunately spotify service is limited to my country, I just tried up to login page only.


Spotifiy-Client in Ubuntu

Have you tried this, is it running smoothly ?, please give us a feedback.

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Free High Resolution Gimp tutorial PDFs

7:27 PM

Tuxradar is giving you high resolution GIMP tutorial PDFs which means they'll look awesome on your screen, or printed out. The down-side of this is that the files are quite big - the total download is 90MB. This collection contains 18 tutorials and you're free to use these tutorials for personal use or for non-commercial offline redistribution.

Okay, if you like it, please download by clicking the below link:

Download Tuxradar free high resolution GIMP tutorial PDFs

Enjoy :)

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How to : Make Apple Natural Scrolling Work in Ubuntu

11:28 AM

Natural scrolling is when you scroll with a trackpad, you move your finger down if you want to scroll down. It’s as if you’re moving the scrollbar, not the page itself. [makeuseof.com]

Natural scrolling is a features that change the habit in using touchpad, this technologies is inspired by man's natural habit that is moving the hand downward to make the page down or moving the hand upward to make the page up (like reading newspapers).

If you're Mac-Ubuntu user or using laptop that support multitouch trackpad, there's a good news for you because you can install 'apple natural scrolling' or just test it in ubuntu, check this out

Install Natural Scrolling in Ubuntu
‘Natural Scrolling’ can be installed in Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 through this PPA ‘ppa:zedtux/naturalscrolling‘, do in your terminal as follows :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zedtux/naturalscrolling
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install naturalscrolling

Once installed run the application from the dash, after that you will see natural scrolling indicator on the top of your bar.

Run natural scrolling from the dash

Go to the indicator, enable, and test it. You can also make it start automatically if you prefer, see following screenshot.

Natural Scrolling indicators

Personally i do not like using this feature, apparently it takes some adjustment and I am not accustomed to, what about you ?

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OOo4kids: OpenOffice.org Remix for Children

7:04 AM

OOo4kids is OpenOffice.orf remix for Children, especially for 7 -12 years old. The key points of this remix are:

Easier installation
Adapted user interface
New start center
New fonts "education"
User preferences simplified
Password protection
User levels for each age ranges

Install on Ubuntu

To install OOo4kids on Ubuntu, simply type the following command on Terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://deb.ooo4kids.org testing main"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ooo4kids-en-us

For a brief description about OOo4kids, please consider to watch this video:

EducOO presents OOo4Kids 1.0 ! (EN) from Jean-Marie LAFON on Vimeo.

Enjoy :)

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Trick: Batch Download with ProZilla Download Accelerator

5:26 PM

I have written about ProZilla download accelerator that can boost your download speed. Unfortunately, it has no batch download functionality so you can't download multiple files at one command. Today i'd like to show you how to download multiple files using ProZilla download accelerator. OK! Let's get started!

Open up your Terminal emulator and type:

gedit $HOME/.bashrc

Gedit will be opened and display the content of .bashrc files, now add this script at the end of .bashrc:

proz-batch() {
for x in `cat $1`;
do proz $x;
done
}

Once finished, please save your work and type this command:

source ~/.bashrc

Now, you can download multiple files by entering text file containing download links:

proz-batch list.txt

Happy downloading :)

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Install / Download Opera 11.60 "Tunny"

10:52 AM

Opera 11.60 has released today, the latest version of its Internet browser Opera 11.60, “just in time for the festive season”, according to a company announcement today.

Opera 11.60 code name "Tunny" has been relaese, Opera 11.60 comes with new features, design, also bugs fix, read the full Opera 11.60 changelog here.

Opera 11.60 "Tunny" Screenshot

Opera 11.60 Screenshot

What's new Opera 11.6
Opera come with new look of mail interface, here are some summary taken from its official site :

Revamped address field
The address field has been revamped with new search suggestions, and you can also find your favorite websites faster in the results list. To add pages to your bookmarks or Speed Dial instantly, just press the star in the address field.

New browser engine
Opera 11.60 offers significant improvements to the browser engine, providing a faster and more stable Internet experience. Enjoy improved website compatibility, faster page loading, and a higher level of overall stability when browsing.

New mail design
The Opera browser's built-in mail client allows you to manage your messages automatically. In Opera 11.60, we've introduced a number of improvements, including a cleaner layout, message grouping, a more intuitive view in your inbox and easier navigation.

Download Opera 11.6 for Linux
Till now opera 11.60 has not been available in the PPA , download Opera 11.60 for Linux through following links (*.deb), for other Operating System go to this page.

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Autohide GNOME Shell Top Panel Bar - GNOME Shell Extension

8:41 AM

Autohide Top Panel is GNOME Shell Extension that lets you hide GNOME Shell top panel bar, Autohide Top Panel extension initially created by fpmurphy, this extension now available in GNOME Shell Extension website. See following video to see how it's works

Download Autohide Top Panel Extension
You can install Autohide Extension via GNOME Shell extension here, or download the extension through following links.

Autohide Top Panel Extension

If you're not using Ubuntu, download the extension from here, extract it and place it under /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions (or ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions).

After finished downloading, install extension using GNOME Tweak Tool then activate it by switch toggle on/off , once installed, refresh your desktop (log off the computer) to see it works.

Activate Autohide Extension in GNOME Tweak Tool

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Install 7-Zip Archiver in Ubuntu

10:48 AM

7-Zip is a file achiever application which has ability to archives file with very high compression ratios, 7-zip was that originally design for windows but you can use it in Ubuntu now, 7zip also have own achieve format that known as 7z.

p7zip is the Unix command-line port of 7-Zip, p7zip-full provides utilities to pack and unpack 7z archives within a shell or using a GUI through nautilus. p7zip support following archive format :

Packing / Unpacking : 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ and TAR

Unpacking only : APM, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, LZMA2, MBR, MSI, MSLZ, NSIS, NTFS, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z.

Archive using 7-zip via Nautilus

Install 7-Zip in Ubuntu
p7zip is available by default in ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric repository, you can install p7zip in ubuntu trough simply command as following :

sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

7-Zip extension for Ark to extract .rar files, also install:

sudo apt-get install p7zip-rar

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How to Change Mouse Cursor Theme on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

10:53 PM

The newly Ubuntu version 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot has no configuration tool to customize your appearance including mouse cursor. But there is nothing impossible, you can still change mouse cursor using many many tricks. Today, I'd like to show one of those tricks. OK! Let's get started.

First thing first, please install your desires cursor theme. In this tutorial, I will use Oxygen Cursor Theme that can be installed by typing the following command:

sudo apt-get install oxygen-cursor-theme

Now, we are going to install Ubuntu Tweak for easier configuration:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

Once installed, please proceed to "Tweaks > Theme", under "Cursor Theme" option select your desired mouse cursor theme. The next step is activating the change to system-wide environment, you can do that by typing:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme

You will be offered many options, please type the number of your desired mouse cursor theme and press Enter:

Now, logout and login again to see the effect.

Enjoy :)

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GNOME Shell Extensions Website Has Been Launched

6:03 AM

For those who are using GNOME Shell must be excited with this news. GNOME shell extension website has been launched yesterday as public alpha stage. You must use Firefox with an extension - which is installed by default on GNOME 3.2 - to get an easy one-click install from the website. There is also an "on-off" button shown if you are running GNOME Shell when visiting the website.

As an alpha stage, there are some bugs and problems:

There are some bugs that currently cause the browser plugin to not work correctly in WebKit-based browsers like Epiphany or Chrome. We will fix these bugs in subsequent releases of GNOME Shell, but for now using Firefox to access extensions.gnome.org is advised.
Extensions that use GSettings to store user settings cannot be currently installed as a user; this limitation will be fixed for GNOME 3.4. In the mean time, extension authors should avoid the use of GSettings if they want to make their extension available via extensions.gnome.org.
Due to a bug in GNOME Shell 3.2.1 code, the uninstall button will not work for some extensions. Disabling extensions still works, but if you want to remove an extension entirely, you'll need to manually delete it from ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions.

For now, there are a few extensions available for download such as Alternative Status Menu, Frippery Application Menu, Dock, Exaile DoubanFM Control, etc. So, please take a closer look to GNOME Shell Website and grab what you like :)

GNOME Shell Extension Website

Enjoy :)

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Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1

8:53 PM

Right on Ubuntu 12.04 release schedule, yesterday (Dec 1st, 2011) the development team has release Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1, Ubuntu Alpha scheduled to be released twice (Alpha 1 and 2) before the Ubuntu 12.04 beta which will be released in March 1st, 2012.

Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1 Application
Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1 comes with Linux kernel 3.2, some default application has been changed and some of them has removed. Among the software packages bundled with Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 are :

Firefox 9 BETA
Thunderbird 9 BETA
Ubuntu Software Center 5.1.2
Gedit 3.2.3
Gwibber 3.3.1
Onboard 0.96
Rhythmbox
LibreOffice 3.4.4

For now Banshee, Tomboy and gbrainy have been removed, there is no certainty whether it will be included in next release or not.

Download Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1 CD ISO / DVD Images
Now Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1 available for download, although alpha version is not recommended to install because of security and stability reasons you can still download and install it in your PC. download Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1 ISO through following link.

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ProzGUI: GUI Version of ProZilla

4:29 PM

Recently, I wrote an article about ProZilla Download Accelerator that runs under command line interface. If you don't like that "geeky" stuff and want an application that has Graphical User Interface with similar function, you might want to try ProzGUI.

ProzGUI uses "Tk" library, so it is definitely fast and lightweight. ProzGUI has its own configuration file, so you can install both ProZilla and ProzGUI without any conflict.

You can install ProzGUI by typing the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alza/project
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install prozgui

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Gnome 3 Core Application Mockups

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Gnome 3 is contain of several supporting application which tightly integrated with the core OS, all supporting application start from utilities, panel, dash, widget, extension, and file browser are well collaborated to make good appearance and performance of Linux desktop.

The GNOME developers has release mockup for some of core application that support Gnome. At glance, some of their mockup looks good, eye candy and feel modern, Is This new appearance of Gnome 3.3 or more ? well, let's see..

Here following mockup taken from Gnome website, give your opinion so that they can give a better. (click the image to get larger size).

Web Application Mockup
Impression to be conveyed is simple, clean, beautiful view of the web.

Gnome 3 Web Application Mockup

Chat Application Mockup
Chat application mockup (this design may dedicated to empathy) seen some significant differences from application that now exist, this is looks blend with the main system.

Gnome 3 Chat Application Mockup

Contacts Application Mockup
Some goals is contact application must be tightly integrate with online contacts storage, simple and easy way to view details, and provide a way to link contacts stored in the user's various web accounts, so unifying them into a single person.

Gnome 3 Contact Application Mockup

Mail Application Mockup

Impression to be conveyed is simple, streamlined, and beautiful email client designed for GNOME 3. hmm.. what about thunderbird, or this is thunderbird ?

Gnome 3 Mail application Mockup

Nautilus Mockup (File Browser)
Seem to be many changes that occur in Nautilus, It would be nice to have a simple and elegant replacement to show the Documents, Photo, Movie, or Music directory, from the mockup that shown, is it possible if nautilus will probably have an application like "Globus preview" by default.

Nautilus showing document directory

Nautilus showing picture directory

Nautilus showing Movie (Fullscreen)

Nautilus showing video directory

Boxes Mockup
It would be wonderful to have a simple GNOME 3 app for accessing other computer systems or images. designed by Jon McCann, Jakub Steiner.

Clock Application 'widget' Mockup
Clock application 'widget' get more complex and fitted with Word clock, Alarm, Stopwatch, and Timer.

Some of design above looks very interesting, blend with the core system, modern and functional, we hope that all of the design above can be realized immediately. For more information, you can check @ https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/.

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