Wednesday Aug 13, 2008

MacOSX look/gui for Linux Ubuntu




 Turn your gnome-desktop to Mac OS desktop. See youtube video here:

Mac4lin on sourceforge.net. 

The goal of this project is to bring the user interface of Mac OS X

(newest version being Leopard, ver.10.5) to GNU/Linux and UNIX-System

like Operating Systems. The project is built for GTK.




Download all the tar balls and the Documentation PDF. The Documentation is very 

neat , step by step with screenshots. 

I wanted to add show desktop, work space switcher to Avant Window Navigator but they were not available from

synaptic package manager. They were available for 0.3.1 version of AWN. 


  To get those show desktop , workspace switcher and many other applets:

   1. Uninstall avant window mangaer completely form synaptic

   2. sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

   3. Add these lines at the end of file

       deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu/ hardy main

       deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu/ hardy main

   4. save and quit

   5. open synaptic manager and then do reload


   6. now search for 'avant'
  You will now see new packages with '-bzr' prefix. Install the following   

        i. avant-window-navigator-bzr
       ii. awn-manager-bzr
      iii. awn-core-applets-bzr ( contains workspace switcher, show desktop and many useful    applets )
       iv. libawn0-bzr
Cool! Now you have all the applets to add to your Avant Window Manger
Edit: I have found a better blog, it very neat and has screen shots. You can follow that :p http://maketecheasier.com/turn-your-ubuntu-hardy-to-mac-osx-leopard/2008/07/23/



Posted at 08:27AM Aug 13, 2008 by Naga Sathyanarayana Bodapati in Personal  |  Comments[0]

Friday Aug 08, 2008

How to move firefox, thunderdbird into System Tray in Ubuntu

Today, I managed to compile 'alltray' application and move firefox ,thunderbird to  system tray in Ubuntu 8.04.

About  alltray(from sourceforge.net):

With AllTray you can dock any application into the system tray/notification area. A high-light feature is that a click on the "close" button will minimize to system tray. It is written in C using GTK and Xlib. It works well with Gnome, KDE and XFCE 4 

Compiling on Ubuntu - 8.04

Alltray requires libgtk-2.0-dev, libgdk-pixbuf-dev, libgconf2-dev libraries.

Install them from synaptic package manager.

1. Download alltray source 

2. extract it (gunzip alltray-0.70.tar.gz && tar -xvf alltray-0.70.tar)

3. cd alltray-0.70

4. ./configure

5. make

6. sudo make install

Thats it! You can now dock any graphical application to system tray :)

 $alltray firefox

 $alltray thunderbird

   You can edit the Launcher Properties to avoid opening terminal and typing the command.

RightClick on the browser icon -> Properties->Command : alltray firefox %u

   Also at anytime you can use  AllTray.desktop(in alltray-0.70 source directory) to move any application to System Tray

Binaries

Get the Binaries directly from this page: http://alltray.sourceforge.net/ . Some of the binaries were not available at the time of writing this blog.

 Please let me know if you have any comments. This is my first blog :)



Posted at 01:57AM Aug 08, 2008 by Naga Sathyanarayana Bodapati in Personal  |  Comments[0]