Suuuny Conky is a great conky setup that blends the users system information into a slick wallpaper.
Unfortunately, it is designed for 1440x900 which makes it unusable for people with 1920x1080 displays (like me), but after
some painstaking modifications to the .conkyrc I finally got it working:
Enjoy!
One of the changes Ubuntu 9.10 (“Karmic Koala”) made from 9.04 was the placement of “asynchronous” (that is, all notifications except the volume and brightness ones.) farther down the right side of the screen. The reasoning behind this can be read here:http://www.mail-archive.com/ayatana@lists.launchpad.net/msg00742.html. The problem a lot of users (myself included) have with this is that it leaves a big space between the top of the screen and notifications and they find this aesthetically unpleasing.
Yuck!!
Fortunately, Julien Lavergne has packaged a version with the old behaviour: link.
Back to the future!
notify-osd_0.9.24-0ubuntu2~gilir1_i386.deb – 32 bit notify-osd_0.9.24-0ubuntu2~gilir1_amd64.deb – 64 bit
After much delay, the Caffeine developers are pleased to announce the 1.0 release of Caffeine, an applet that disables the sleep and power saving modes of your Linux system. Version 1.0 adds one major feature: Automatically activate for user specified programs Some applications like games, fullscreen or not, take mouse and keyboard input but don’t prevent the screen-saving and sleep modes. Instead of having to click on the icon before playing games, Caffeine 1.0 automatically activates for any process you want. Read more
Announcing the first release of The Widget Laboratory, a Gtk theme viewer/editor. While the TWL looks like The Widget Factory, they have different purposes. TWL checks the currently viewed theme for changes and updates accordingly, which makes it primarily useful as a theme editor rather than a showcase for themes. Read more
UPDATE: Caffeine 1.0 is out, read the details.
The Caffeine developers (Brad Smith, Tommy Brunn, and me) are pleased to announce the 0.3 release of Caffeine, the program that sits in your notification area allowing you to quickly and temporarily prevent your computer from screen saving or “sleeping”. Several important features that are new to 0.3, Read more
if ( is_front_page() ) { echo '<a href="http://yourblog.com">Home</a>'; };
Add this block to functions.php so that it looks like this:
<li class="page_item_home home-link"><a title="<?php echo wp_specialchars(get_bloginfo('name'), 1) ?>" rel="home" href="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/"></a></li> Home'; }; echo str_replace(array("\r", "\n", "\t"), '', $menu); echo " \n"; }
Don’t you hate it when you have more than five bookmarks and the Places menu moves the bookmarks to a sub-menu? I do so I created a directory called “Media” in my home dir and added links to Music, Videos, Pictures, etc. Not as nice as being shown more than five bookmarks in the places menu but good enough.
UPDATE: The Widget Laboratory 0.1 is out! Read more…
The Widget Labratory is a gtk theme viewer similar to The Widget Factory, with several useful features.
Look familiar?
It can load any Gtk Builder formatted .glade file instead of the classic twf one.
Not anymore.
TWL monitors gtk theme files and updates when there are changes. So you can use it to help design gtk themes.
Open the theme folder in the default file manager.
Download the source and run it:
bzr branch lp:twl cd twl ./bin/twl
