Talking about Terminal, we have been working on the same default terminal for a long time. Why not change it a little. Keeping this in mind, we have selected two cool alternatives to replace the default Ubuntu terminal for your basic to advanced operations. Both of them are unique in their own way and serve the main stream purposes as well as some special purposes. These two are basically terminal emulators and are aimed mainly at increasing usability of gnome terminal in Ubuntu.
Cairo Dock – An awesome dock for Ubuntu desktops has been released. As we have already discussed in our previsou post ‘Ultimate Docks for Ubuntu‘, Cairo GLX dock is a dock manager that uses Cairo / OpenGL to render graphics (many in correlation with Compiz) with full hardware acceleration. It’s fully configurable and fully customizable and can be used as a taskbar too. You can easily add applets in the dock or as a desklet. So, its a must have for eyecandy lovers.
Open the terminal and type this -
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cairo-dock-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cairo-dock
and done. Now close the terminal and fireup Cairo dock from Applications>System Tools>Cairo Dock and enjoy.
GnoMenu is a consolidated menu for gnome that brings eye candy to the world of the Gnome menu’s in Ubuntu. Fully functional menu , supports themes , for a composited or non composited Ubuntu desktop. It can emulate the look and feel of the most beautiful menus of most modern desktops, and it can also use custom menus, due to its powerful theme XML engine making it a essential requirement for Ubuntu lovers.
After the previous post of Ubuntu customized themes, we are back again to share a few more eyecandy stuff with you all. This time, we are not only having some really cool themes for you but we have some good-looking wallpapers and icon-themes as well. For those who havent read our previous post, its here. This time, things are getting more classy, more shiny and more awesome.
A bit long title for this post though but to start with the Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal’s default desktop environment viz ‘Unity‘ that just got updated to version 3.6. This release comes with a lot of bug-fixes and updates. The recent upgrade to Unity and other programs just made Unity even more usable by fixing many bit-size bugs. The process is still being continued as Natty reached ‘feature freeze’ as per the schedule and now, there will not be any significant feature improvements. The developer team will now be focusing on Stability and Looks of Ubuntu. As Natty has reached only Alpha 2, we wont suggest you to get it on your machines due to stability reasons (still an Ubuntu freak then go on)but to keep you updated, we have come up with some significant features & improvements in Natty from software packages to Unity.
Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 3 -> Direct-link (Torrent)
Kubuntu 11.04 Alpha 3 -> Direct-link (Torrent)
Xubuntu 11.04 Alpha 3 – > Direct-link (Torrent)
Ubuntu Studio 11.04 Alpha 3 -> Direct Link (Torrent)
Gnome2 Global-Menu is the globally-shared menu bar of all applications launched in your desktop session. As we all know that Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 2 and Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition comes with a Global menu, we are here to discuss the installation of Gnome2 Global Menu for GTK Applications in Ubuntu Gnome . Gnome2 Global Menu has a PPA to make the installation easy for Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10.
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.
Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat as we know it came with really good looks. The default Warty wallpaper and the updated Radiance and Ambiance themes are really an eye-candy. But after a few weeks of regular usage, we are actually bored of the GUI. So we want a change. For that we have found a few themes to be installed in Ubuntu that will give our Ubuntu Gnome Desktop a cool new look. These themes are fully equipped with new icons, wallpapers, window-borders and many more. Here they are:-
