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Nodoka Theme MATE

Sweet Memory Back in my old days, I had been using Fedora Linux 7 alongside Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. My personal reason why I used to be a Fedora user is because of its default theme. A blue, simple, gorgeous theme called Nodoka, one of the best theme ever made. With the rebirth and the rise of MATE Desktop , I'm really curious to try Nodoka theme in MATE desktop, and amazingly, the theme works perfect. And so I present you a Ubuntu package port of Fedora's Nodoka theme here and I call it nodoka-theme-mate . Installation Download the tarball, extract it, and install the debs with command sudo dpkg -i *.deb Download Download the tarball HERE . Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with MATE Desktop 1.8.0 and nodoka-theme-mate

How To Make Ubuntu's Unity Runs Faster

Since Ubuntu 11.04, Unity has been the default desktop for Ubuntu. Many user don't like, but many others love it. At the first, I also didn't like Unity, but then I slowly realized that Unity brings perfect Desktop philosophy : beautiful, elegant, but also simple and looks professional. We could search and execute applications by searching in dash. With all its pros, Unity also comes with its cons. One of most disturbing thing of Unity desktop is its desktop-3D-effects-bloated and makes Unity runs slowly in middle or low specs PCs. But we don't have to be sad, there are tricks to make Unity Desktop runs faster, and they are quite simple to do. Install CCSM The tool to tweak Unity is ccsm, so we need to install it first : sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager Disable Animations 1. Open Compiz Config Settings Manager 2. Go to category Effects , and select Animations . 3. Change all animations settings to None by double clicking the options i