This tutorial will explain the instructions to install the Mac OS X Lion theme in Ubuntu 11.10/Oneiric Ocelot. Step 1: Install Cursors Open the terminal and run the following commands : wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47950494/Mac-Lion-Cursors.tar.gz sudo tar -xzvf Mac-Lion-Cursors.tar.gz -C /usr/share/icons Step 2: Download the Mac OS theme Next step is to download Mac Os theme and copy into .themes folder . If you already have .themes folder , then dont execute first command . mkdir ~/.themes wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47950494/Mac-Lion-Theme.tar.gz tar -xzvf Mac-Lion-Theme.tar.gz -C ~/.themes Step 3: Install Mac Icons This is same as previous step .Copy the icons into .icon folder . [&hellip
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This tutorial will explain instructions to disable bluetooth and Wifi in Ubuntu 11.10 during start up . Step 1: Go to terminal and type following commands to edit /etc/rc.local file. gksudo gedit /etc/rc.local Step 2: Add following line before exit 0 line : rfkill block bluetooth Similarly for Wifi ,Add following line rfkill block wifi
This Tutorial will explain how to change start up sound in Ubuntu . The format used in Ubuntu for startup sound is .OGG, so you have to convert music files into OGG before you set it as start up sound in Ubuntu . There are many converters available in market , so you can opt any converter.I have mobile Media converter to convert it into .OGG format. See also : How to : Install Mobile Media Converter in Ubuntu 11.10 Next step is to copy the converted OGG and paste into Ubuntu sound folder .To do that , enter following [&hellip
This tutorial will explain the instructions to install Mobile Media Converter in Ubuntu 11.10. Mobile Media converter is a free multi platform audio and video converter. It support formats like MP3,WMA,OGG,WAV,MPEG video , AVI, WMV, FLV, MOV,AMR and 3GP. A good thing about this software is that it comes with integrated Youtube downloader which is useful for video buff like me .It also supports iphone and iPod mp4 files. The program has a very easy-to-use and simple GUI (Graphical User Interface) that helps even the most amateur user. Most of the times, the only data that you must enter is [&hellip
By default , the Guest session is enabled in Ubuntu 11.10 . This tutorial will show you how to remove the Guest session from the logon screen in Ubuntu 11.10.It is not imperative to do ,but its good to remove guest session to maintain privacy . Step 1: Go to terminal and run the following command to edit lightdm configuration file. sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf Step 2 : Add the following line at the bottom. allow-guest=false Step 3: Restart the system
This tutorial shows you how to configure Thunderbird in order to send and receive mails of Gmail account . Step 1 : Log on your Gmail account and Go to Options(Gear icon) which is at top & Click Mail Settings . Step 2: Go to Forwarding and POP/IMAP option and change the options as below . Step3: Next step is to configure Thunderbird which is the default mail client in Ubuntu 11.10 . Go to Mail -> Setup mail . Step4: Enter your required Gmail Login Credentials in Mail Setup . Step5: That’s it done !! If you [&hellip
This tutorial will show you how to install Ubuntu tweak in Ubuntu 11.10 . For beginners , Ubuntu tweak is a application similar to TweakUI which we use in Windows . It is used to configure Ubuntu .It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default environment doesn’t provide . To install the Ubuntu tweak 0.6 version (developer’s version) ,first you have to install stable version . To install stable version , Go to terminal and run the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/next sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak-0 To install the latest version which is 0.6 [&hellip
ClipGrab is a free downloader and converter for YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and many other online video sites. ClipGrab can convert downloaded videos to MPEG4, WMV, OGG Theora, MP3 and OGG Vorbis or simply store the videos in their original format. ClipGrab can download videos in HD and to do so, all you have to do is make sure that HD is selected in the Quality drop down menu. What I like is that ClipGrab automatically detects when you paste a link to your clipboard via Growl alerts and can auto download it if you want. In addition, downloads are surprisingly [&hellip
BleachBit helps you to clean your computer to free space and maintain privacy. In other words , we can say its alternative to CCleaner which is used in windows platform for the same purpose . Uses of Bleachbit : Free disk space Reduce the size of backups and the time to create them by removing unnecessary files Maintain privacy Improve system performance (by vacuuming the Firefox database, for example) Prepare whole disk images for compression (common for “ghost” backups and virtual machines) by wiping free disk space What’s new in 0.9.1 : Clean segments and segment_usage in Google Chrome History [&hellip
Generally whenever you install any package in Ubuntu , by default it installs all the components . This post is about reducing the no of components , in other words you can say unnecessary components which in turn increases the size of the package .To illustrate , lets take of example of XBMC media player installation. As usual , first i tried with sudo apt-get install package name format . sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-standalone As you can see 118MB is required to install XBMC media player . This happens as it installs all recommended packages . Here we can [&hellip