Phosphor is a nice screensaver (at least, I love it) that scrolls a text on the screen in a old school 80’s style. On Ubuntu 7.10, it comes with xscreensaver-data-extra from universe repository. I wrote a bash script to generate the text choosing a random fortunes from a folder ~/fortunes where I save the fortunes [...]
My laptop screen is sometimes not bright enough and I have reach the top of the brightness according to the brightness control that is on the keyboard. The gnome applet brightness control has never worked either. But today I’ve found an utility (which was on all my previous linux distrib, I guess) : xgamma. Now [...]
I’ve found a post on ubuntu-fr forums about tilda with true transparency, wow . This point me to this article with a link to the patch and a deb package. I tested the package which worked fine on gusty, but update manager always wanted to upgrade it. So I took the patch and use the [...]
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