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GnoMenu and Minimized Windows List in Gnome Shell

There are two new great extensions for gnome shell is published. One is GnoMenu the large menu offer all the essentials in a simple uncluttered intuitive interface. GnoMenu offers all applications in categories, favorite apps on the left, search ability, list/grid view, logout, lock screen, advanced and system setting on the top left and restart shell, suspend and shutdown on the bottom left. GnoMenu is one of the most comprehensiveRead More…

Mountain Shell – A Mountain Lion OSX Theme for Gnome Ubuntu and Fedora

Mountain Shellis a very nice Gnome Shell theme create by DzaDze. Mountain Shell theme brings the Mountain Lion OSX look and feel to gnome. The theme is minimalistic and provides maximum usability. This is nice theme for everyday usage. If you can combine this shell theme with Adwaita Cupertino GTK3 theme then that will bring great looks to Gnome shell. This theme is working on Gnome 3.6 also. A modifledRead More…

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Ten Essential Gnome Shell Extensions

Gnome shell extensions are great piece of code for extending the usability and feature of gnome shell. By using extensions we can make gnome shell looks and works like gnome 2 or any other. Still gnome shell is maturing and missing lot of important features like weather, dock, poweroff etc.. we can transform the shell with extensions. Some essential extensions are listed below. Remove accesibility : This extension removes the accessibilityRead More…

Install Cinnamon Desktop in Fedora 17

Cinnamon, the desktop UI created by linuxmint team upon the gnome shell codebase is now 1.4. The good news is fedora is included the cinnamon 1.4 in its official repositories. So the installation of cinnamon desktop in fedora 17 is very easy now. Just open the terminal and type the commands below. su yum update yum install cinnamon If you are using yumex, the yum extender and an easier installationRead More…

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Change Chrome Font hinting in Gnome – Fedora,Ubuntu

The Google chrome browser or chromium browser is not always accepting the font hinting settings done is the gnome control center or gnome tweak tool. The result is all other application font hinting and google chrome browser, chromium browser font hinting are different some time. This lead to bad look of fonts in google chrome or chromium browser in gnome 3 desktop. To disable the font hinting in gnome justRead More…

Gnome Clock App with World Clock, Timer and Alarm – Try now.

A clock app debut in the upcoming Gnome 3.6 Release. The development is going on. It is far away from the complete application. This Gnome clock app is a very nice one with world clock, which is present in gnome 2 dropped from gnome 3, timer, alarm, stopwatch etc.. The application name is clocks. It is written in Python so you can try without compiling or doing complex build. JustRead More…

Gnome 3.4 Released. Updated UI, New Apps, New Features

Gnome 3.4 Released on 28th March 2012. The Latest version of Gnome 3 comes with lot of improvements and updates. This gnome provides much more stable and rich interface for clutter free computing. New Apps in Gnome 3.4 Lot of changes in the default applicaitons of Gnome 3.4 introduced.  The Address book app have  ‘Contacts’. UI Changes to Gnome organiser and Gnome ’Documents‘. A disk management utility ‘Disks’ The default chat clientRead More…

Gnome Shell Looks Like Gnome 2 – Cinnamon Desktop

The main problem with gnome 3 is users are feeling in foreign land. It is much improved desktop with radical changes. Even Linus Torvalds also feels like bad to use gnome 3. Then to this scenario gnome shell extensions came into picture. They add a new way to tweak gnome shell. Also gnome tweak tool helped user a lot to change various functionalities of gnome shell. Now Gnome open anRead More…

Gnome 3 Extensions for Fedora 16

Tweaking gnome 3.2 gnome-shell is essential for everyday computing. Need Desktop Icons, Need all buttons, install themes, change wallpapers frequently etc. are essential needs. For new users the overlay mode of gnome shell, dash is little bit confusing first time. Also need the Alt+Tab, Weather extension, System Monitor, Calendar integration, Places menu, Applicaitons menu are must needed extensions for gnome shell. There is a fantastic developer called fpmurphy developed lotRead More…

Gnome 3.2 Released – Features and Updates

Gnome 3.2 Released on 28th September 2011. The new version includes lot of new features and bug fixes that criticized in gnome 3. Since the last version, 3.0, approximately 1270 people made about 38500 changes to GNOME. The Gnome 3.2 is based on GTK+3.2 and clutter toolkit 1.8 Online Accounts in Gnome 3.2 The Gnome 3.2 comes with more tighter integration with online services like facebook,twitter,google plus etc. You canRead More…

Download Faenza Icons for Gnome – Ubuntu and Fedora

Faenza is a popular icon theme for linux. It is also used in some versions of android to create a great look. Recently a version 1.0 released. Faenza 1.0 adds a number of new icons and even launches support for symbolic icons in GNOME Shell. You will get the original page on deviantart and gnome look. What is new in Faenza 1.0 ? The change log here… * New apps:Read More…

Internet Connection Sharing in Ubuntu 11.04/ Fedora 15

I have a small inetwork in my home. We have two internet connections one wired line and other is my internet dongle. I used wired line most. One day I got stuck with that and decided to share my dongle to all others. I used a script called Nat script to share the connection in Fedora 14. Now network manager is there to manage all the network activities in gnome.Read More…

Linux Mint 11 Kataya Released – An Ubuntu without Unity

Adding Fire to the discussion the Linux Mint 11 Released. This version is based on ubuntu 11.o4 and shipped without the Unity desktop environment it includes the 2.6.38 Linux kernel – Linux 2.6.39 was released one week ago. . Linux mint is with the gnome 2.0 interface and Mint menu, the most appreciated menu system developed by Linux Mint team. “With GNOME 2 mint could rely on one of theRead More…

Fedora 15 Post Installation Guide for Perfect Desktop

Fedora 15 is released with more great features. Above All gnome 3 Rocks…!!!. Fedora is the complete distribution with the full installation of a working copy of gnome 3.0 and Gnome shell. Ubuntu’s Controversal movement away from gnome shell to unity started lot of discussions. But now its time for gnome to prove what they giving to the end user.  The New features includes a completly updated gnome environment,  theRead More…

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