Tag: ubuntu natty narwhal

10.04 Lucid Lynx and 10.10 Maverick Meerkat are almost identical in the looks department – both used the old boring (no kidding) Gnome interface. They even have the same cat-sounding names. If you don’t know your Ubuntu very well you won’t spot the difference easily. (clue: wallpaper) 11.04 Natty Narwhal and 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot are…

The window switching for same apps on Unity – starting with Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal – is confusing. It is easier to determine windows of different applications with the use of Alt+Tab combo where there is an overlay icon shown by default. When switching between windows of the same application it’s hard to determine which…

Ever got tired of Nautilus showing all disks or partitions present on your system? While it helps you access these devices quickly, sometimes it becomes an eye sore when there are too many disks with long funny names, and add to that your external disks, flash and CD/DVD drives – the list becomes confusingly long.…

If I remember correctly, Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) and Maverick Meerkat (10.10) lacked the concept of a “control center.” Although the app is readily available, Ubuntu did not make use of it “visibly.” The control center remained hidden among the multitude of apps that comes pre-installed with the operating system. Natty Narwhal has the Control…

The default Unity launcher quicklist for Firefox could certainly do with a few additional options. It’s easy to add a few more. This tip I got from AskUbuntu. There are more quicklist tips available and you can read it at this page – http://askubuntu.com/questions/35488/list-of-custom-launchers-quicklists-for-unity. I only wanted to add a few more useful options than…

A bug or what? While I was tinkering around with the gksu ‘force-grab’ functionality with the Ubuntu Software Center (USC) I realized that it was updating the cache every time I entered a wrong password. Although the Software Sources window did not come out, as expected, because of the wrong password, nothing else should have…

I’m using this appindicator on Ubuntu 11.04 that has an icon that doesn’t blend too well with the Radiance theme. Although the icon is monchrome-ish, I think it was intended originally for the Ambiance theme. On the panel it looked the odd-man-out because it had more white color than black. Searching for the name of…

If you are using the patched version of Notify-OSD* from Leolik’s PPA and using Notify OSD Configuration GUI** of AmandeepGrewal to change the look of the notification bubble, chances are you may also have edited the .notify-osd file by hand to include either or both of the following: bubble-prevent-fade and bubble-close-on-click. These two options are…

The default scrollbars for applications that don’t support the overlay scrollbar are too fat and ugly. They could certainly use a little workout to shave off a few excess weight. If you can’t wait for another six months for Ubuntu to roll-out support of the overlay scrollbars to all applications like me, well, let us…

(1) The Unity launcher appears to look better when the backlight is set to toggle. That is, when an application (app) is running its icon backlight is On and turned Off when it is not. This makes the running app more distinct against the non-running ones. Take a look at the comparison. The one on…

Let us face it, the default look for the Nautilus file browser on Ubuntu 11.04 is not too appealing. It looks dated. Like a remnant of the past. However, it doesn’t have to be that way. Thanks to Nautilus Elementary. To install Nautilus Elementary, add the following PPA to Ubuntu Software Center: ppa:am-monkeyd/nautilus-elementary-ppa. Open gnome-terminal…

Maybe not really today because the release happened about 3 days ago, April 28. However, it is only today that I finally was able to get a copy. The Ubuntu download servers were too slow that day, presumably, from the thousands to millions of people trying to get their hands on the new release. What…

What is that narwhal doing there on Google Maps? If you want to see it live on Google Maps, coordinates are: 51°29’30.82″ N 0°07’28.59″ W Is that Natty the Narwhal? Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the Narwhal to show when I tried to embed the map here. I guess it only works when you are viewing…

The reason why docks usually don’t have much appeal to me is simple. It takes longer to get from one window to another on situations where multiple windows of the same application are open. Let us say for example I have several windows of LibreOffice Writer open. It would take me how many steps to…