Monday May 11, 2009
Playing with OpenSolaris Desktop Settings
If you have not yet tried Compiz on OpenSolaris, you should certainly check it out on the latest OpenSolaris release (2009.06 release is only weeks away). The development builds , of course are available at pkg.opensolaris.org/dev. As with all dev builds, use at your own risk though 
There have been many blogs about Compiz, here is a link to get you started:
http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/fun_with_visual_effects_compiz
After you have your Compiz settings in place , and tried the Ctrl- Alt - arrow keys combination, you might see that your previous windows have disappeared...but of course they haven't. Try the same combination of keys and "browse" through the Compiz windows till you get back your previous desktop! This is addictive and you could end up spending hours adjusting and playing with these settings.You can adjust your Compiz settings by clicking on the Preferences tab under Visual Effects.
Also try out the new desktop settings (System->Appearance or right-click on the desktop) which have some really cool colors and designs!
I adjusted these screenshots using the GIMP image editor. The image editor is available as a package in the http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release repository. I used the Package Manager to download this package.
After a successful installation, I launched the image editor application from /usr/bin/. More on the desktop settings and Package Manager in my next blogs.
Posted at 11:49AM May 11, 2009 by Jyothi Srinath in Sun |
Wednesday May 06, 2009
Back to blogging
It's been many months since I blogged, but the approaching Community One and Java One conferences has got my blogging fingers going again.
See http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/2009/west/index.jsp and http://java.sun.com/javaone/ for registration and other
event-related information.There's going to be an OpenSolaris booth at the conferences of course.
Many at Sun are blogging about the new release, and you can find a list of the many blogs at http://opensolaris.org/os/blogs/.
I read a couple of interesting blogs on Cnet news about opensource software. This one is very heartening to read -
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10223005-16.html?subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&part=sphere
And this one is certainly a good topic for some animated discussion -
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10233715-16.html?tag=mncol;posts
Looking forward to an interesting summer as the OpenSolaris 2009.06 release gets ready to roll out at the end of the month.
Posted at 02:34PM May 06, 2009 by Jyothi Srinath in Sun |
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