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(Click at the picture to enlarge) Ubuntu 11.10 With Customized GNOME 3 Gnome Fallback Desktop, Appears Almost Exactly Same As Gnome 2 Desktop (Minus System Menu) Gnome 3, alongside its controversies, has redeemed itself at the first its release. Alongside gnome-shell, Gnome 3 project also brings fallback-session, a 2D desktop that very similar to the previous Gnome 2 interface, with several minus changes. I've installed and tried it in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot by apt : sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback At the first look, I felt so familiar but annoyed with these things : 1. The top panel appears big and very ugly with size 30 pixels and unable to be resized into 24 pixels as in Gnome 2 desktop. 2. Top panel theme is not consistent at the applets each others. Looks so bad and crappy. 3. System menu gone. There are just Applications and Places menu. 4. Distributor logo officially hidden. 5. Removable media is not shown in ...

Distributor Logo Brought Back to GNOME 3 Gnome Fallback Desktop As I've ever said, GNOME 3 gnome-fallback desktop is the only one that official to perform Gnome 2 desktop interface in GNOME 3 desktop (gnome-panel, metacity). But there is another problem in appearance of GNOME 3 gnome-fallback : The Distributor Logo Disappeared ! From internet forums, I later knew that this “problem” is official by default. We don't know the reason behind. Maybe the taste among GNOME developer about desktop is just different with us, but we all realized that Distributor Logo at the left corner of Gnome Menu is ultimately pretty and we want that amazing logo back ! But not to be worried, there is a way to bring back our pretty Distributor Logo, and here it is : 1. Edit the gtk3 theme we're using (Ambiance or Adwaita or another theme). As a sample, I use Ambiance theme in Ubuntu (if you use another theme, just adjust this way with your theme). Open terminal and type this ...

GNOME 3 gnome-fallback is the only way that's official to use GNOME 3 with Gnome 2 like desktop experience. Another existed fork of Gnome 2 is not officially supported by GNOME developer, that means we could use that but with its our own risks about unstability. In Ubuntu, this desktop is installable by apt : sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback . But, there is one bad unfixed look in GNOME 3 gnome-fallback desktop : the top panel looks so big and so ugly (fixed at size 30 pixels and unable to resize by alt+right click>properties ). But apparently, there is a way to fix this appearance problem, and this is the way : 1. Open Home, unhide hidden folders by clicking menu View>Show Hidden Files or press Ctrl+H . 2. In the .config folder, create a new folder gtk-3.0 , and then create a file settings.ini . 3. Next, edit file settings.ini and put this lines : [Settings] gtk-icon-sizes = panel-menu=16,16:gtk-large-toolbar=16,16 Save and...

GNOME Alsamixer as the replacement of Volume Control applet After uninstallation of pulseaudio, Volume Control disappeared The error message In Ubuntu – particularly in Ubuntu 10.04, there is one bug about sound. It happened in some users, especially in users who used old machines with old chipset and old soundcard. The bug is, when we play musics or videos using media player (Smplayer, Clementine, Audacious etc), in the middle of playing, the sound server will be suddenly stopped. Even, this bug caused Mplayer crashed and stopped suddenly. The error message of the bug is written like this : pa_stream_writable_size() failed: Connection terminated. I've googled for this problem, but I got no clear solutions and I finally almost gave it up. But then, suddenly I was wondering about Ubuntu system and since Ubuntu 10.04 there was some changes in system, especially in pulseaudio and sound system. In previous versions, there was a volume control as an independent applet on the...

If we are a web developer, we often need some attractive stuffs to be included in our web project. Common stuff of it is flash or gif animation. But, because flash animation need flash plugin to be able to be played in browser, and also because of the filesize, flash animation would make our website heavier –and we all know, heavy-to-load web page is ultimately annoying. The better solution is to use gif animation. It is extremely light and ultimately flexible to be included in web page. In Windows, we could make gif animation easily using Image Ready. And how about Linux? Once again, do not worry! We've already had the way. The app we need to create gif animation in Linux is gifsicle . It is a command-line app, but don't be afraid, it ain't horrible but very simple and easy. Here it is the steps : 1. Edit our image to be multiple frames, and save them as gif. We could do this using GIMP (which has capability to save into gif). Or we could do this us...

Conversion process Step 4. Last step, click continue Step 3. Select image collection folder Step 2. Select Filetype as gif / or another Step 1. Add Action Save For some reasons, we need to convert our image collections from one to another format (e.g : from jpeg into png, gif etc). In Linux, we have had convert, a command-line tool, part of the popular tool imagemagick. But, in order to convert multiple images at once, undertaking it using convert is absolutely difficult (I've tried, and followed the manual, but always been failed). But, don't worry! We have a great solution. In Linux, there is already a GUI tool to do very complex actions of image manipulation called PHATCH . Now, here it is the steps : 1. Open phatch, and select “ Add an action ” button. 2. Scroll down, find and select action “ Save ” . 3. In Save action dialog, there are columns about image profile we want to convert. Select “ As ” and select the format we wanted (ex : gif)...

Updated Version Light-Themes Appears Perfectly In Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx When this post written, Ubuntu has released their newer releases : Oneiric Ocelot 11.10 and Precise Pangolin 12.04 alphas. But so many people are still comfort using “ old ” Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It is all about Unity and Gnome 3 issues which so many people feel discomfort and unsatisfied by both of Gnome Shell and Unity. And so, many people still hold their Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on because of its so familiar and ultimate usable Gnome 2 desktop. MATE desktop has born as a reincarnation of the old Gnome 2 desktop, but it is still buggy and extremely unstable. But, there is one interesting issue in the now hot UI issues in Linux Desktop : People really love Ubuntu Ambiance theme in Ubuntu Maverick and newer. It is very good-looking, sexy, but looks very professional and elegant. It feels like “ The True Linux Desktop ” and even now Ubuntu Ambiance has been ported into another Linux distros. The problem is...

Openshot Video Editor Today, personal broadcasting is on our fingertips. Now, we could easily make any video documentation, music video covering, or even amateur movie making! (and then, uploaded to the Youtube). These eases happened because of the rapid development of multimedia technology. Today, almost in every low-end cellphone presents camera with video recording capability as a basic feature. Everytime, everywhere, we could tape our memories to be digital clips. But, raw recording is of course boring. People need editing and add some cute stuffs like Video title, animation effects, and transition effects between multiple clips. So what we need is a video editing software. In Windows, we knew windows movie maker as a simple but easy-to-use and full-featured video editor. How about Linux ? Nothing to be worried. In Linux, we have so many video editors, but as my personal opinion, I have two winners of the software : Kdenlive and Openshot Video Editor . Both of those editor...