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Ubuntu Tweak is an application to config Ubuntu easier for everyone.It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn’t provide.With its help, you will enjoy with the experience of Ubuntu! Note:- This is still in beta version What is new in ubuntu tweak 0.5.6 beta As the user request, the next version of Ubuntu Tweak will add a new feature, it is called: Reset Setting. You may don’t like the effect after tweaking some options, how can you go back? Ubuntu Tweak will help you go back easily! After every resettable option, there will be an reset button. The tooltip will tell you what is the default value, and you can reset the value by just one click. Install Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.6 beta in ubuntu 10.04/9.10 Open the terminal and run the following commands sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-tweak-testing/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak Desktop reset option screenshot

There are lot of Music players available for Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) but VLC is the most popular media player, not only for Ubuntu 11.04 or Linux Distros but also on Windows (7, Xp or Vsita) and Mac OS X. VLC is a free and open source multimedia player. it’s available for all common platforms. it has been developed/maintained under VideoLAN project. VLC is known as all in one media player, because it can play all the common media file formats – like mp3,avi,flv etc. Actually VLC is capable of handling a lot of input and output file formats. Ubuntu 11.04 has banshee media player as a default media player, which is a nice one but not suitable for all cases. VLC can be installed in multiple ways – e.g from Command Line, Ubuntu Software Center or from Synaptic Package Manager. Here we will cover any two methods. After installing you may need to install some proprietary libraries and codecs e.g libdvdcss2 for playing music/movies DVD (Encrypted using CSS (Content ...

This is tutorial number 1 in the series of Linux tutorials for Windows users : How to install Ubuntu Desktop Edition . Even if the process itself is pretty simple (there are only some clicks to be made and a form to complete), there are some things that need to be made clear for the new user and, of course, there are some useful tips. Let’s proceed. The first step is getting your brand new Linux ( Ubuntu ) .iso image that you will burn on a CD that we are gonna use for the install process. To do that, just go to http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Here you will have several download options. For the purpose of this tutorial, choose the Desktop Edition tab, click the radio button for Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop (the latest version) and then choose the architecture that fits your machine. Throughout this tutorial I will use the 32bit version, but that mustn’t stop you from choosing the 64bit version if your machine is able to cope with that. Choose the nearest mirror a...

Wallpapers are same on each workspace in ubuntu default,here is a way to make wallpapers different on each workspace,but you must have installed CompizConfig Settings Manager ,and you will lose any shortcut on desktop,so install Avast window Navigator for better results. Now go to System –> Preferences –> CompizConfig Settings Manager ( Advanced Desktop Settings ) tick Wallpaper on(if not go to Desktop Cube, click to go to Appearance –> background images ),and click on it to go to its configuration page,click New and add the wallpapers you want Open a terminal window and type code: gconf-editor in the next window,go to apps –> nautilus –> preferences and deselect show_desktop on the right of the window then close it Done. Following is my wallpapers:

Installing Google Earth in Ubuntu Maverick is very easy.I’m running Ubuntu Maverick 64 bit,so I need install the dependance package: ia32-libs and l ib32nss-mdns . Open up a terminal window from Applications -> Accessories menu and run: sudo apt-get install ia32-libs lib32nss-mdns Now let’s start installing: First install googleearth-package from the default repository using this command: sudo apt-get install googleearth-package Then run the command: make-googleearth-package --force it will take a few minutes and finally generate a deb package. Install the deb by the command ( change the package name to yours ): sudo dpkg -i googleearth_5.2.1.1588+0.5.7-1_amd64.deb Finally,launch Google Earth from Applications – > Internet menu.

Ubuntu Jaunty has VLC media player installed by default,but not the latest version.You can check it by navigate to Help->About in the VLC player window.VLC 1.0 has gotten several cool new features.Here I’ll tell how to install it on ubuntu 9.04 1.Run this command in terminal to open sources.list file. sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list 2.Add the two lines to the end of the file,then save and close the file. deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/vlc/ubuntu jaunty maindeb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/vlc/ ubuntu jaunty main 3.Get the key by following command sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com  7613768D 4.Install and upgrade VLC media player sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install vlc sudo apt-get upgrade vlc You can skip the third command if VLC running well after sudo apt-get install vlc. Click here to decorate your VLC with VLC skins.

After reinstalling Windows in the computer dual boot with both Windows and Ubuntu Linux,you need restore grub because mbr has been rewritten.This tutorial shows how to restore grub 2 . Update: Today I ghost my XP system,but after restore grub,I cannot boot into XP by clicking the old windows option in grub menu.So you’d better to run this command to renew the grub2 boot list after trying following method: sudo update-grub 1).Using grub4dos First download grub4dos from here . 1. For XP user ,copy the file “grldr”(without quotes) from grub4dos package to C:\ .Edit boot.ini (hidden file in C:\) and add this line to the file: c:\grldr="grub4dos" For Vista/win7 user ,copy the file “grldr”,”grldr.mbr” to C:\ .Create boot.ini file in the root directory of C:,copy and paste following into this file. [boot loader] timeout=0 default=c:\grldr.mbr [operating systems] C:\grldr.mbr="Grub4Dos" 2. Now,create menu.lst in root directory of C:,its content: timeou...

This tutorial will tell you how to install Real Player and enable firefox plugin,remove imposed audio icons optionally in ubuntu. First,download Real Player by execute following command in a terminal window: wget http://www.real.com/realcom/R?href=http://forms.real.com /real/player/download.html?f=unix/RealPlayer11GOLD.bin then, in terminal go to the directory where you download the file,make the .bin file executable by command: chmod a+x RealPlayer11GOLD.bin execute command: sudo ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin press any key when prompted,after installed you can open Real Player at Applications–>Sound&&Video–>Real Player11 For enable mozilla firefox plugin,type following command: cp /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so ~/.mozilla/plugins /nphelix.so && cp /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/ nphelix.xpt ~/.mozilla/plugins/nphelix.xpt And remove imposed audio icons by: sudo /opt/real/RealPlayer/postinst/install_icon_resource.sh uninstall Update: Another  easy w...