I have been using Conky as my desktop monitoring widgets for quite some time now. Before this, I’ve been using few applications like screenlets and gdesklets, but there’s a lot of drawbacks on these applications. Among them were limited customizations, it’s difficult to develop your own widgets, unable to find widgets you’re looking for, and …
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How To Share Media Between Xbox 360 and Linux
I’ve got a little project going on in the past few days. I have a reasonable amount of media; movies, mp3′s and family pictures in my Linux desktop, Ubuntu 8.10. Would it be nice if I could stream all the movies and music directly from the Linux machine to my Xbox 360? This is a …
Twitux and gTwitter: Twitter Clients for Ubuntu Linux
Following my previous post nazham.com on Twitter, I’ve just beginning to get involved with Twitter. Below are a couple of Twitter clients that I’ve used in Ubuntu: Twitux A Twitter client for GNOME. Twitux is a lightweight client for the twitter messaging service, featuring time-line auto updating, a tray area icon and notification of new …
Installing Google Gadgets on Ubuntu 8.10
Google Desktop gadgets are interactive mini-applications that can be placed anywhere on the user’s desktop to show new email, weather, photos, personalized news or other desired information. Google offers a gallery of pre-built gadgets for download on the official website. To install Google Gadgets on Ubuntu 8.10: 1. Download the .deb package. 2. Install the …
Delay Print Screen in Ubuntu
in Ubuntu, when there’s menu active or visible, pushing ‘Print Screen’ won’t have any effect. It applies to taskbar, context menus, right-click and other menus. But I have a workaround on this one: Simply let Gnome automatically take the screenshot, and delay the action. In your terminal, type: gnome-screenshot –delay=5 The number 5 represents the …
