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Ultimate Docks for Ubuntu

17 Jan
To customize the Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop and making it further more good looking and easy to use, we have Docks for you. A dock is a rectangular bar that has launchers and applets on it that can replace the Gnome panel and act as an eye candy as well. The main aim behind these docks is to improve the usability of Gnome and add cool looks to the desktop. We have 3 best Docks for your Ubuntu system viz. Avant Windows Navigator, Docky and Cairo Dock.

Avant Window Navigator

Avant Window Navigator (AWN) is a dock-like navigation bar for the gnome desktop. It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window list. So it can add to functionality, simplicity and usability of your Ubuntu & can work to replace your existing Gnome Panels and help add Eyecandy to your Ubuntu Desktop.

Install :- Open the Terminal and type in this :-

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:awn-testing/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-trunk avant-window-navigator-data-trunk python-awn-trunk awn-settings-trunk awn-applets-c-core-trunk awn-applets-c-extras-trunk awn-applets-python-core-trunk python-awn-extras-trunk awn-applets-python-extras-trunk

Make sure you donot have any previous version installed from the Ubuntu repository. If yes, then remove it via Synaptic.

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DockbarX 0.40 for Ubuntu 10.10

22 Nov

DockbarX is a free and open-source gnome taskbar applet with grouping and group manipulation. It gives your panel a cool new look and is intended to increase usability of your panels and enable you to use your desktop more efficiently. It also provides the facility to “pin up” your favourite applications on the panels so that you may be able to use them instantly. So, DockbarX in simple terms is an awesome desktop customization tool. We are glad to announce that DockbarX 0.40 is available for Ubuntu now.

New Features & Updates :-

  • Theme package have been updated.
  • The default theme has changed. The new default theme DBX.
  • Recent and most used menus has finally started working for Open Office applications.
  • Number of entries in recent and most used menus are increased.
  • A few new languages added to translations.

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ubuntu-restricted-extras – One simple solution

14 Jun

Fed up with no movie playing in Ubuntu or now flash animation or youtube video in Firefox

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras is one simple solution to all problems like No Flash player in your browser, no media plugins for playback of certain multimedia files and all. It will install everything.

I think the above explanation is more than self explanatory. :p

 
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