Equinox is a bran-new GTK2 causal agency not yet occupied by themes much as Elementary. The relatively new GTK2 engine has been newly cyphered to the Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat semiofficial repositories and has it’s personal Ubuntu PPA which, besides the Equinox GTK engine likewise holds a few important themes (click for screenshots)
Yesterday, a new version of the Equinox GTK2 engine has been released 1.30, and with it, 2 new themes called “Equinox Evolution” and “Equinox Evolution Light” (they are downright with GTK and Metacity themes) are gettable in the PPA:
The differences between the two themes as you can see, is the dark/light panel as well as the Metacity theme rounded or squared. The first artifact that will delivery you when extending either of these themes is the appear of Nautilus (Elementary) which appears a draw like the Mac single file trainer and of class, the buttons which appear impressive extending the Equinox generator
To use any of the Equinox themes, you must firstly add the PPA and install the Equinox GTK2 engine:
RecordMyDesktop is a discharged and raw natural action desktop screencasting software job dropped a line for GNU/Linux. The idea is torn into two parts; a code furrow way that performs the tasks of hunting and encoding, and a port that exposes the idea functionality diagrammatically. GTK-RecordMyDesktop is a front-end for RecordMyDesktop
If you ever tried to record your desktop using GTK-RecordMyDesktop (it’s probably the same using the KDE front-end but I didn’t test that), you’ve probably noticed the video doesn’t work on YouTube or it’s rendered very badly. The same beginning occurs when probing to agaze the picture in a picture skilled worker
But here is a quick fix which will make your GTK-RecordMyDesktop videos work everywhere:
1. Firstly defecate secure you have mencoder posted:
sudo apt-get install mencoder
2. Now you can lay your picture availing the copying authority:
In the above command, replace “out.ogv” with the public figure of the video recording you’ve memorialized expending GTK-RecordMyDesktop and the “out.avi” with the name you miss for your unalterable (selected) video. Don’t exchange the “.avi” didactics!
In case you don’t want sound in your video, instead of the above command, use this one:
Deadbeef, plausibly the lightest (GUI) euphony lead for Linux is in conclusion for sale for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
Most of you probably already know Deadbeef (we talked about Deadbeef a while back in our UNE optimization tips post), but for those who don’t, here’s a brief introduction: Deadbeef is not just another music player as it’s a lot different then most Linux music players. The merely penalisation plant that Deadbeef reminds me of is foobar2000 (Windows merely)
There’s nothing fancy about Deadbeef it only comes with everything you need to enjoy your music: last.fm foundation, it can curl any make of line files (including cuesheets, gapless) and has tabbed curllists foundation. There’s a mickle of physical object Deadbeef doesn’t have but being so unimportant, it’s decidedly a music contestant to risk out
In my tests Deadbeef used around 10mb of RAM while Rhythmbox: ~62mb of RAM
What if you want one user to run a command as an another system user without exchanging passwords. For template, you may seek an exploiter St. John to guide an undergo code or tariff bash cuticle scenario as an exploiter greg or still as an exploiter stem ( superexploiter ) without password capture. In this adult a sudo utility with its /etc/sudoers plan data file will be your supporter. This service is very wide moved but at the same spell very little sympathised by Linux users of all levels
This short article describes some basic of sudo usage and format of sudoers configuration file
sudo install
First we need to make sure that sudo and /etc/sudoers the sudo configuration file is available. To do that disseminate:
$ which sudo
or
$ sudo -V
The first command should reveal a location of a sudo binary executable and the second program will output a version number of sudo command its self. The sudo design file cabinet sudoers is in most cases placed in /etc/sudoers. You can utility ls command to regain this file
I’ve been considering writing a PayPal desktop application for Windows for some time now. I’ve dated a building block of attempts at this actioned before, as disadvantageously as computer network systems that implement PayPal’s API. I shelter’t seen an explicit thing of software that handles your PayPal justification operations from your desktop
PayPal’s API doesn’t support everything you might want to do, specifically sending payments, so it’s possible that some of the functionality could only be achieved by scraping the site. My main stack of features is as follows:
1. Instant popup on cash reception
2. Fast and potent complaining, stats and graphs
3. Quickly and well in a few clicks route an evasion
Jolicloud 1.0 is now available for all so I decided to install it on my netbook (Asus EeePC 1005 HA) and write a review for the WebUpd8 readers while waiting for the best netbook Linux distribution to be out – no, not Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 but Aurora.
Firstly, take a look at this video I’ve just made with Jolicloud 1.0 in action on my Asus EeePC 1005HA (full installation):
In case you don’t know, Jolicloud is a netbook operating system (Linux distribution to be technically correct) based on Ubuntu. Version 1.0 comes with a HTML5 interface and it can be installed either in Windows using Jolicloud Express or to its own partition. I’ve installed Jolicloud on its own partition, next to Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04.
First impressions
Before proceeding, here are some Jolicloud 1.0 screenshots so you’ll know what I’m talking about:
Jolicloud 1.0 application launcher
Application directory
The drives pane
Installing an web application
Jolicloud is internet dependent: when I first booted the USB stick I wrote Jolicloud on, it asked me to create an account so without an internet connection you can’t even install it. After you enter your username and password and log in, you can try out some web apps in Chromium (the Jolicloud interface also runs inside Chromium) or install Jolicloud.
The installation process is identical to Ubuntu so nothing new here so I’ll skip to my experience of running Jolicloud for the first time: well, let’s just say I was a bit confused at first. I’m used to doing stuff using a terminal and I could find one. I wanted to install it but I couldn’t find any terminal emulator in the Jolicloud application directory. After a bit of Googling, I found out that you can run a terminal by pressing ALT + F1. So that’s one problem out of the way.
The top panel looks like on Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04: there’s an icon on the upper left corner that takes you to the Jolicloud launcher, you have the Window Picker Applet – which includes the usual window list and the maximized windows titlebar and close button. To me, that’s some rudimentary version of what I’ve used to optimize my Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04. But luckily, Jolicloud 1.0 doesn’t have the top panel locked like UNE 10.04 has so you can customize it very easily.
Default applications
Jolicloud doesn’t come with many default applications (other than the ones required for it to run) – the default browser is Chromium and Nautilus is the default file manager. There’s also Dropbox which is installed by default and that’s about it. But there are some web apps like Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Google Docks, YouTube and a few others. But you can of course install other applications such as Pidgin, VLC, OpenOffice.org, GIMP, Transmission or basically any application which is present in the Ubuntu repositories.
The good
If I were to review Jolicloud in just two words, it would be “user friendly”. You definetly don’t need to be a geek or to have ever used Linux to run Jolicloud. Everything is one click away. I’ve installed Spotify with a single click, directly from the Jolicloud application directory and it worked out of the box. The user doesn’t need to know what WINE is, that it is required to run Spotify and so on – everything about Jolicloud is KISS.
To play some local music, I’ve installed Banshee and it played my music without having to install some other packages. Sadly, it doesn’t come with the netbook interface for Banshee. To play movies just install VLC and that’s it. YouTube works out of the box (Flash) so even my mother could use Jolicloud without which is not something I could say about Windows for instance.
Now, about Fn keys: I’m really happy to say they all worked with my Asus EeePC 1005HA out of the box (which isn’t something I can say about Ubuntu 10.04 sadly).
The bad
Not every application in the repositories is available in the Jolicloud application directory so if you want to install some additional application, you’ll have to use the terminal (for instance: gtk-recordmydesktop which I had to install manually to make the video in this post). Also, to run an application which you didn’t install via the Jolicloud app directory, you’ll have to launch it via a terminal as there’s no menu entry in the Jolicloud launcher.
There is also a bug I’ve discovered in Jolicloud 1.0 which is apparently inherited from Ubuntu – it cannot mount USB drives. There is however a fix for this. Press ALT + F1, then in the terminal write:
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
And then put a “#” in front of the line which looks like this: “/dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0″ so after editing, it looks like this:
What more can I say? I am truly impressed with Jolicloud. Not with its interface which is great an all but I don’t care about that all that much. But because everything works (well, except the USB automount issue), I don’t have to tweak for days and with a single click I can install whatever I need – which is the purpose of a netbook after all: to have internet access wherever you go, not to fix what the developers couldn’t do right.
I still have things to try such as how long my EeePC battery will last for instance but I have a feeling this has also been improved in Jolicloud.
The Pidgin Embedded Video with with the visualization piece of land has been uploaded to the Frasten PPA (thanks to Frasten for the heads up!) so you no longer have to hoard it. In suit you titlet distinguish what I’m blabbing out about, see this post
To install Pidgin Embedded Video in Ubuntu, run the following commands in a terminal:
This piece is a hurried constellation non-automatic of a Linux DNS server occupying hindrance. I believe that bind do not need much introduction, but before you proceed with the installation and configuration of bind nameserver make sure that bind DNS server is exactly what you want. Default mode and physical process of impediment on Debian or Ubuntu may drill around 200MB of RAM with no zones numbered to the config hand tool. Unless you concentrate the identification utilisation of a bind via single bind “options” config settings, be disposed to have some unoccupied RAM acquirable hardly for this bringing. This point is yet more important if you stomach for your personal VPS server
Another DNS nameservers available on a Linux systems are NSD ( Name Server Daemon) or djbdns ( tinydns ). Both are unimportant alternatives to bind9 DNS server and have less RAM requirements. Apparently are yet faster. In this article we will not go into details of what Domain Name Service ( DNS ) is nor how DNS works. Rather we merely focus in a two-needled curve of a survival geographical area and config data file for a given up realm / receiver sustaining www, communicating services
Sample scenario notes to help you ready this DNS bind howto:
nameserver IP address 192.168.135.130
sample domain / host: linuxconfig.org
authoritative nameservers for a linuxconfig.org geographical area: ns1.linuxconfig.org ( 192.168.0.10 ) and ns2.linuxconfig.org ( 192.168.0.11 )
www and mail services for linuxconfig.org will item to: 192.168.0.10
View replete C. W. Post on Linuxconfig.org
Antoni, the reviewer of Pinguy OS sent us a tip on installing MIB-Ubuntu Plymouth theme in Ubuntu that’s a theme based on Mandriva 2010.1 and I must announce, it looks impressive!
To install MIB-Ubuntu Plymout theme, do the following:
Then extract the contents of the zip to your home folder, then open a terminal and run this (firstly navigate to the folder where you extracted it using a terminal; if you extracted it on your Desktop, that would be: cd ~/Desktop):
sudo cp -R MIB-Ubuntu/ /lib/plymouth/themes/
sudo update-alternatives --install /lib/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth choice.plymouth /lib/plymouth/themes/MIB-Ubuntu/MIBUbuntu.plymouth 100
sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymo-uth #there, determine the difference of the motif yo-u need to wont so bore on book
s-udo -update-initramfs -u
Please note that I didn’t test this (I’d had to fix my Plymouth all over again and I don’t have time right now), but Antoni tested it (in fact he sent us the installation instructions too) so it will work if you follow that exact steps
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