MacMenu Bar hack for Gnome 2.20 – GTK+ 2.12

On 31 October 2007, in computing, by ayoli

Fortunately, some solutions came out from the ubuntuforums.org thread mentioned in the previous post. Here are the patch and the applet that I have grabbed from avb’s post in page 99 of this thread, the no underline patch has been made with an idea from page 52 of the macmenu ubuntuforums.org thread (post at the [...]

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Switched to gutsy gibbon

On 21 October 2007, in computing, by ayoli

Finally, i did it only 3 days after it has been released I said switched and not upgraded, because I’ve done a fresh install. Incredibely fast ! About 1 hour to have my new system operational with (almost) all my apps/configs/tweaks. The boot is also really fast compare to feisty. ATM, the only tweak I [...]

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keep a list of installed packages

On 9 October 2007, in computing, by ayoli

As gusty is comming soon, I need to keep a list of my currently installed packages in order to reinstall (most) of them if I make a fresh install (actually update-manager allow to upgrade the distribution when a new one comes, but there is sometimes weird behaviors with this method). So here’s my little command [...]

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Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy gibbon Beta

On 9 October 2007, in computing, by ayoli

I’ve tried the gutsy beta last week on an old toshiba s3000 laptop. The live cd worked like a charm, so I decided to install gutsy on my disk. After the install and reboot, it was still working perfectly : very short boot time, gnome with compiz running very smooth. Then I noticed there were [...]

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gnome icon browser

On 3 October 2007, in applications, computing, by ayoli

Here’s a common problem : When you use gnome icon browser and don’t find the icon you want in the default pixmaps that the browser shows, you try to use the “browse” button and then you browse directories searching the icon you want. But even if you are sure there is icons in the directory [...]

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