Posts Tagged ‘gnome’
Guake – Dropdown-Terminal for Gnome
Guake saves you the time of managing your terminal windows with circumstantial key-combinations and mouse-clicks by providing a configurable dropdown-terminal which you can call with F12 by default. Just like with usual terminals, it is possible to create new tabs, but also to edit the opacity, the size, colors and everything you need:
Guake is available in the default Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Arch repositories. The source-code is downloadable at http://guake.org/downloads
Install GNOME Desktop On Ubuntu 11.10
If you would like your Ubuntu 11.10 better with the old GNOME desktop (no launcher but a good old system panel and so on), you can just install the gnome package and choose it as your default desktop environment. Therefore open a terminal and enter:
sudo apt-get install gnome
During the installation there will be some prompts that you will have to answer. Click OK on the first one after you are done reading:
Next, you will have to decide which desktop environment you want to configure as your default:
After installation, the GNOME as well as the Unity desktops will be available on the cogwheel-button in the login-screen:
How to Install New Icons and Cursors (Linux Mint)
The way to add new icons and cursors is simple yet not really obvious in Linux Mint. To add new cursors, download any from a webside that provides these (as this), and drag and drop the package file onto the theme preferences of your Control Center:
To add new icons, just download and extract them into /usr/share/icons as root. Afterwards they are available in the Appearance section of the Control Center.
Quicklink Current Files on the Desktop Panel (Ubuntu Linux)
There is a desktop panel applet for Ubuntu Linux and its derivatives that is able to store files and folders within a dropdown window accessible from a tiny icon on the panel bar called Topshelf. It is available in the default Ubuntu repositories.
It receives content by just dragging and dropping it into its window which opens upon clicking the topshelf icon. This way you do not have to browse long ways through the file system to find the files you are working on regularly but have easy access on them by quicklinking.
Fast Execution Bar (Linux Gnome Desktop)
If you are tired of browsing through your files or the menu to find and open an application you do not use regularly or if you just want to speed up the process of opening a program, there is an application for the Gnome Desktop called GNOME Do which you might like.
Install it as usual with your package manager and start it. To call the execution bar, press SUPER (Windows Key on Windows keyboards) + Space and enter the name or parts of the name of any application, script or executable.
If it is not the desired app that is proposed, you can browse the other possibilties with the Up- and Down- keys. To cancel the bar, hit ESC and to execute the displayed program hit Enter.