In this quick tip we will see how to deactivate global Menu in Unity.
Tip- Deactivate global Menu in Unity
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Category Archives: Ubuntu
Conky date- Easy way to display time, date on your desktop
Conky date is another conky theme that allow you to display time, date and information of your system on your desktop.
Ubuntu Zombies
The reason for posting this, is because I have the feeling that something isn’t going quite right to our favorite OS. This is strongly my personal opinion and of course I retain every right to be wrong 
Grub Customizer 2.5.5 is available- Customize grub/Burg from a GUI interface
Few days ago was released Grub Customizer 2.5.5, the new release comes with an improved kde menu compatibility, translation updates, preserving quote charachter, replaced update-grub by grub-mkconfig + output_fileGrub.
Bleeding Edge script is available for Ubuntu 12.04
Bleeding Edge is now available for Ubuntu 12.04, this is a shell script designed for Ubuntu 32 and 64bit. It installs repositories, keys, and software – such as Gimp2.8, adobe reader, dropbox, media players, codecs, MS fonts, drivers, etc with one click. It also cleans up the system.
Gimp plugin registry for Gimp2.8 is available for Ubuntu12.04 | PPA
Gimp Plugin registry is a package of some very useful plugins for Gimp, it contain a number of extensions like Gimp-FX Foundry (More than 117 effects, including blurring, distorting,Roy Lichtenstein effect, planet render effect and more), Elsamuko (Includes effects such as “Obama Hope”, “Movie 300″, ..and more).
Nvidia 295.49 has been released!
Nvidia 295.49 driver has been released! The new release added support for GeForce GTX 690, Fixed a problem where starting, stopping, and moving OpenGL application windows was very slow on Quadro FX 4600, Quadro FX 5600, GeForce 8800 GTX, GeForce 8800 GTS, and GeForce 8800 Ultra, and fixed an OpenGL performance regression which affected Geforce 6 and Geforce 7 series integrated GPUs.
Conky_5 and Conky_2- Another 2 nice themes for conky
In our previous post, we saw together how to install and configure Conky_Lua and Conky next generation themes, today, i will show you another 2 nice and simple ones : Conky_5 and Conky_2 .
Tip for Ubuntu 12.04- Add a new player to the sound menu
In Ubuntu12.04 Precise Pangolin, Rhythmbox is the default player in the sound menu, the sound menu support also some other audio players like Climentine for exp. In this Tip i will show you how to add some unsupported players to the sound menu, like for example VLC or Amarok. You can do that with just one command.
Interview with Canonical’s Jono Bacon | Interview
The Linux world is preparing for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS official release to use and evaluate the next “big” version of the world’s most successful Linux distribution. Much has been said about the last Ubuntu versions and Canonical’s strategies. Many expressed delight with the new technologies introduced lately by Canonical, while others expressed disappointment with some of the changes. This week, we talk to Jono Bacon who is the community manager of Ubuntu, in an attempt to disentangle the thoughts of the linux users community, and understand how a big community is organized and guided the Ubuntu way.
