I used to click Places->Home Folder to browse my home folder and find out something by navigate in this nautilus file manager.Here’s a quick-way to open folders in ubuntu desktop which will save a lot of time.
Just press / key in your ubuntu desktop,and a “Open Location” window pop up.
Mac4Lin brings the Mac OS X user interface to POSIX Operating Systems (GNU/LInux, FreeBSD, openSolaris etc.). The project is built for desktop environments based on GTK.
This tutorial shows how to install this Mac theme in ubuntu karmic and do some easy configurations.
Download and install Mac4Lin
Since Gnome upgraded to 2.28 in Ubuntu Karmic,the old GDM setup utility missed most of functionality,although there are some articles show how to manually change login interface in Ubuntu Kamic.GDM2 Setup is a login interface management utility for the new GDM, allows for wallpaper setting, autologin option, prompted or userlist login, etc.
Remmina is a remote desktop client written in GTK+, aiming to be useful for system administrators and travellers, who need to work with lots of remote computers in front of either large monitors or tiny netbooks.Remmina supports multiple network protocols in an integrated and consistant user interface. Currently RDP, VNC, XDMCP and SSH are supported.
When you’re operating on Ubuntu and want to visit Windows partitions,you can open up nautilus file-browser and just click the partition in left to view its files.However,it’s boring that a window pop up ask for password every time you click to mount a new partition.
We used to type man to find out forgotten parameter of special command.However,there’s only single color in the long output of man command and we need to take a hard look at on it.Here we can try to get colors in man page by edit .bashrc file.
Open .bashrc with your favourite editor:
gedit ~/.bashrc
add following into the end:
Hawksope is a cross-platform pluggable menu based launcher.With it,you can quickly read your gmail messages,access to twitter,instant access your delicious.com bookmarks,search with google and access hard drive contents.
Hawkscope is a productivity tool that allows you to access your hard drive contents quickly via system tray / menubar icon with dynamic pop-up menu.
Update-Manager window frequently pop-up when I’m operating on my Ubuntu machine.
It’s very annoying and follow is what I did in my Ubuntu Karmic machine to disable this annoying pop-up window.
When you are operating on several windows and want to do some compared things,it is convenient to quat tile windows,or tile windows vertically/horizontally with keyboard shortcuts.
X-tile is a gnome applet for your panel (or optionally a standalone application)that allows you to select a number of windows and tile them in different ways.
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