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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…

Fedora 18 Released with New Installer and Secure Boot

Fedora 18 codenamed Spherical Cow finally released officially. Fedora 18 now supports UEFI Secure Boot, comes with a rewritten installation UI, and the System Storage Manager(SSM) as a command-line interface to provide a unified view of storage management tools, as well as a choice of five different desktop interfaces. Fedora 18 also introduces UEFI Secure Boot. That is fedora 18 can be installed in the systems which shipped with WindowsRead More…

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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…

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…

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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…

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…

Zorin OS 6 – A Linux Look like Windows 7, XP and Mac OS X

Zorin OS 6 is a linux distribution based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Edition. The Zorin OS team released the “core”, “ultimate” and “business” editions. Zorin OS is developed with Windows users in mind. It looks and feels like Windows 7, Windows XP and also Mac OS X. The noticeable changes in this release which is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS are an all new Zorin Desktop environment, a redesigned softwareRead More…

Install MATE Desktop in Fedora 17 and Ubuntu 12.04

MATE is the desktop environment forked from Gnome 2 desktop code. Gnome team discontinued the Gnome 2 desktop development in favour of gnome 3 and gnome shell. MATE is a familiar desktop environment because it looks and works like gnome 2. Many Gnome 2 users shifted to KDE or XFCE to avoid Gnome 3. But using MATE it is feeling home. MATE 1.2 comes with great improvement in code. AllRead More…

Fedora 17 Released – Download Spins

The Fedora Project released Fedora 17. The Fedora 17 code-named “Beefy Miracle”. Fedora Project is sponsored by Redhat. Fedora is used as the base distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Everytime Fedora try to bring the latest technology available. This time also the latest Gears packed. The Gnome 3.4, KDE 4.8, Gimp 2.8, Libre office 3.5 etc… In the new Fedora GNOME Shell (Default Desktop) works on systems with 3DRead More…

LinuxMint13 “Maya” has been released

The Latest Linux Mint based on Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint 13 “Maya” released. The codename related to Mayan Civilisation and word for “Illution” in India.  Now they comes with two alternate editions of Gnome Desktop. By completly avoiding the Ubuntu Unity Linux Mint 13 features the choice between a productive, stable and mature MATE 1.2 desktop and the brand new modern-looking and exciting Cinnamon 1.4. These two desktops are amongRead More…

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Released Download Now

Ubuntu 12.04  Precise Pangolin released after six months of development. ubuntu.com says it “Proven. Practical. Precise.” You can just go ubuntu.com and download now. 12.04 is a LTS (Long Term Support) release so if you wanted a stable version of Ubuntu with longer support  then you can choose Ubuntu 12.04 without any fear of end of updates or pending bugs etc… New featues of Ubuntu 12.04 is less. They focusedRead More…

Things to do after Installing Ubuntu 12.04 for perfect desktop

Here is a collection of activities an ubuntu user can follow after ubuntu, installing the most popular linux distro for a perfect desktop of all needs. Normaly there are lot of tools availble in open source domain for different tasks like video editing, audio composing, media center, live streaming, office work etc… The confusion is to choose the best tool that fits for a normal user. Now a days ubuntuRead More…

Install Gnome Shell in Ubuntu 12.04

The default desktop for Ubuntu 12.04 is Unity. From Gnome 3 ubuntu team started to develop their own desktop interface upon Gnome. The New gnome shell is droped by default. In  Ubuntu 12.04 Unity interface is somewhat mature. But some people said that gnome shell is more usable and stable compared to unity. A user who want to try gnome shell on latest ubuntu 12.04 can easly install gnome shellRead 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…

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