Here is another way ( manually ) change your login screen / x-splash background image besides using Xsplash Background Settings tools.
How to manually change login screen background / xsplash image ?
Prepare background image
Resize the new image that you're going to use as login screen background to fit your screen resolution using any image manipulation program ( GIMP / gThumb Image Viewer )
Convert or Save image in .jpg format
Resize image using gThumb Image Viewer
Open Xsplash image folder as root
Press Alt-F2 to open Run Application dialog & type / paste this line:
gksudo nautilus /usr/share/images/xsplash
Backup original login image by renaming the file. [ eg. bg_backup.jpg ]
Copy & paste the new image into xsplash folder opened earlier using line above.
Rename the new image with the same name as original image. [ eg. bg.jpg ] [see image below ]
ClutterFlow is a CoverFlow clone for the Banshee media player.
ClutterFlow uses the Clutter toolkit to harness the OpenGL powers.
Last weekend I tried to install this awesome banshee extension on my Karmic Koala.
And because I wanted to try the new OpenShot video editor, I made this short demo video:
This CoverFlow style plug-in is still in development, Banshee might
crash at certain point while using this plug-in. Here's the installation steps:
Install Banshee
Banshee 1.5.2:
Add ppa & install Banshee by running these command in Terminal:
Watermark entire image files in a folder with one batch process. As my weekend project, I wrote another simple bin bash script that apply Zenity as graphical user interface & ImageMagick composite command to overlay a selected watermark image on all image files inside a targeted folder. This script might be useful for those who want to protect their digital photos or images using visible watermarking technique.
ImageMagick
should be able to handle over 100 of image format but I've only tested
this script with .svg, .png, .bmp, & .jpg files in my Ubuntu
system.
Installation & use shown in this video:
Install script:
Make sure Zenity & ImageMagick installed on your system.
You can install both apps by typing this command in Terminal:
sudo apt-get install zenity imagemagick
Download Batch Watermark script from here. [Download]
Extract Batch Watermark.zip anywhere.
Open Batch Watermark folder.
Simply double click & run Install.sh file
or install manually by:
Copy paste Batch Watermark file to ~/.Gnome2/nautilus-scripts
Make sure permission to execute as program is given to script files.
Right click on script files > Permissions tab and check the “Allow executing file as program” checkbox.
How to use:
Browse to directory or folder containing image files that you wish to watermark.
Run Batch Watermark script. Right click > Scripts > Batch Watermark
Browse & select an image file that going to be used as watermark.
Select size of watermark image
Select opacity of the image.
Finally select position of watermark image.
When process is done, new set of all watermarked images with *_wm.* name prefix will be placed inside Watermarked folder.
Known problem:
Script
fail to execute if directory of watermark source image have space in
their name. Please let me know if anyone can fix this.
Happy new year, welcome 2010!
This is our new year project! Tweak Gnome Ubuntu Karmic Koala desktop to look like Mac OS X Leopard [almost].
Lots of people love the look and practicality of Mac OS X desktop GUI. So, we've tried to find equivalent or alternative applications, theme & applet to imitate Mac OS X desktop.
Here is the screen cast of the desktop :
These are equivalent apps, theme & scripts used for Ubuntu desktop in the video:
With some bash scripts, applications themes & configs, this is the best imitation Mac OS X Leopard on Gnome Ubuntu we able to imagine so far. We also improvise existing Mac OS X cairo-dock theme with Dashboard launcher. Continue on how to do this.
Yes, with wine 1.1.17 & winetricks you now able to use Photoshop CS4 on Ubuntu linux. Follow steps on how to do this.
Steps :
Install Wine 1.1.17
Download and install .deb wine 1.1.17 (Ubuntu/Debian Package here) find installer that suite your system. Best way to do this is with a clean Wine install by using this command at terminal
rm -r ~/.wine winecfg
This will remove all of your Wine applications and libraries and set up a new environment.
Download winetricks, a helper script for installing Wine software and install the required software. Just follow the instructions given.
This article shows simple tutorial on how to open Google Wave using Thunderbird 3.0 content tabs. Content tabs allow users to browse in (mostly) the same way as with a browser. See test video and steps on how to make it happen.
Steps
Get the Thunderbird 3.0 aka Shredder from mozilla Launchpad PPA:
Computer, My network, Trash, Home and mounted drives can be enable, disable or renamed using gconf-editor [ configuration editor ]. Watch video on how to:
Alt+F2 to open run application diaogue.
type in gconf-editor
find apps>nautilus>desktop tree and alter any of available key.
Download Script
Right-click it and select "Extract Here"
Run the "InstallXpGnome.sh" by double-clicking it and choosing "Run"!
Settings are saved and can be reverted by running the Restore_Settings.sh script in the restore folder.
Source: http://ubuntu.online02.com/node/14
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