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…
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…
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…
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…
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’.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Change the Background of Gnome 3 GDM Login Screen
We cannot change the theme of Login screen of Gnome 3 GDM. We can only change the background image of the login screen. If you change that frequently then you will get a fresh feel of the operating system. I tried this on Fedora 15 and worked well GDM Customization # su – gdm -s…
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…