Penguin Inside

Reviving the blog

2012-03-09T08:20:00.002+05:30

Hello Readers,

I was pretty busy last two years & couldn't give much time to this blog.
But now I'm back and ready to blog.

10 Mistakes Linux learners should avoid

2010-01-11T08:16:00.003+05:30

If you are a Linux learner, this is definitely for you.
I’m not talking about non-geeks, People who don’t care or don’t want to know how their computer works. Today, Linux distributions are getting more and more popular, specially Ubuntu. Many ‘technical users’ of Microsoft Windows are showing interest in using or trying out Linux, but they repeat some common mistakes.

Which are,

Ignoring the official help documentation provided by distribution.

e.g. Ubuntu fresh install will have a blue question mark icon in panel, after Firefox icon. Ubuntu help center is not useless, Its there to help you. honestly how many people have used the official help documentation.

Rushing to forums or IRC for spoon feed or quick solution.

Don’t just don’t do that without searching on Google or any other Search Engine. Google is your friend. specially try http://www.google/linux for custom Linux searches. Don’t ignore Wiki documentation its contributed by community members and its easy to understand.

Ignoring the messages or errors thrown by system.

In GNU/Linux every error does not tell about crash or panic, If you read the error carefully you can find out what is wrong. for example… If apt-get finds packages with broken dependencies it will tell you that “There are ‘n’ broken packages” but it will also tell you use “apt-get install -f” to fix that.

Avoiding the use of "root".

You can't learn or get friendly with Linux until you don't know how to use root privileges. Play with the system, mess it up. Its the best way to learn. If you are too conscious, you can install GNU/Linux on Virtual Machine and keep a working snapshot as backup.

Over expecting.

Don’t over expect, GNU/Linux can’t perform like 3000% faster than Microsoft Windows, but still its a lot better. Its very stable that does NOT mean that, It will be completely error free.

Relying on Wine too much.

Wine is good way to run Windows applications on Linux, but you can’t run every application on Wine. Wine isn’t perfect. Instead of that find the native alternatives to Windows applications. So if your application is not working don’t shout, find a work-a-round.

Finding for a perfect distribution match.

You’ll never find one! DistroWatch isn’t a matrimony service. Choose a distribution which is a closest match. and start to customization, there is no particular distribution which will provide “everything” out of the box you need. No one is preventing you from spinning off your distribution, So make a good one and share it with others!

Start from CLI.

Many people may have disagreement on this, but I think its really not needed. To use GNU/Linux you don’t have to be a CLI geek. You only need to know the basic idea of CLI and its syntax. Learn the basics only if you are using Linux on your Desktop. There are a lot reference material available for Linux and BASH commands you can refer to it when its necessary. If you are learning Linux for server implementations you have no option to CLI.

Blaming it on Linux.

If you are a IT expert, and you are having troubles with Linux, then note this – “You should not think you are an expert”. I really don’t care if you are student on Microsoft IT Academy, but there is already too much anti-Linux stuff on Internet. I have seen many ‘expert’ bloggers blaming Linux for their mistakes. By the way Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, so the blame-game isn’t fair.
These are just 9?
Well here is the 10th.

Giving up on Linux.

Were you a Mac OS or Windows pro when you born? absolutely not. There is nothing you can perfect in just one day. even the simplest tasks in our life, like walking needs practice. So does Linux. Learning Linux is not a challenge or critical mission in your life, its just an OS.
Its just a misunderstanding that Linux is hard to learn, think its easy, so its easy for you.

e-Book Collection Management on Linux

2010-01-09T12:10:00.003+05:30

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Having trouble sorting out hundreds of e-Books? No troubles for me, because I don't have much e-Books. But some people do have huge collection of books. If the collection is too big, its really not friendlier to find a book by file name. We need something like Book Shelf to keep them in order, that is what e-Book Collection Managers are, but they are a lot flexible than our real life Book Shelves.

I have already lied to you, I do have a e-Book collection, and the e-Book manager I use is eKitaab. There are not too many applications available in this category, few available applications are.

Calibre

Calibre is quite popular tool for e-Book management. Its not just a manager, It can be used as.

News Reader
e-Book format converter
Sychronization client for e-book reader devices.
and e-book organizer, Calibre can detect and fetch e-book information tags using it’s ISBN number.

eKitaab

eKitaab (“Kitaab” = book), is a simplified one, The only thing it can do is to maintain a catalog of all the books, and download their information from Amazaon using thier ISBN number. Its lightweight, Its small, and Its clean. The only thing that bothers me is the ugly (very ugly) Java GUI.

Mendeley

This software is basically for research papers, but you can still manage documents with it, especially PDF books. Mendely is quite powerful application, I use regularly to organize information and documents.

Zotero

Similar to Mendeley, Zotero is also a resource manager, It's a firefox extension. It's very good for those who don't want rich featured application like Mendeley or Calibre

Bibshelf

This thing, doesn’t do anything, but its still there, I guess this software is still in development (not actually current version is 1.6.0). Bibshelf does not deal with any e-book, in-fact it just shows a table or catalog of the books we have. (We have to enter the information manually, Bibshelf won’t detect the books automatically.) But lets just give this application time to evolve. :)

Screen Sharing with Linux

2010-01-05T09:16:00.006+05:30

Teamviewer

Most popular screen share tool out there, TeamViewer, has released a beta Linux client. Though it doesn't support all the features of Windows client. but still its quite close.

More Tools >>

Yuuguu

Yuuguu is a screen-sharing software which uses Instant Messenger like interface, Yuuguu allows clients to view host's screen in a browser, that means no download. with Yuuguu you can login into IM services like MSN, GTalk, Yahoo, ICQ, which allows your clients to view the shared screen without registering to Yuuguu. However host will need to download a client and register.

Yugma

Yugma is another screen-sharing software which is cross-platform, However the Linux client is still beta.

Vyew

Vyew is quite different than all of these services. It is completely browser based, developed as a Java applet. Vyew provides some good presentation features. The performance wasn't so impressive, still not too bad!

Gitso

Gitso is a classic VNC solution, but reversed. Its not a service, Its a software. that means you may require proper routing, If you are behind a router or firewall.

How to build .deb package from tar.gz

2009-12-26T08:08:00.007+05:30

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Often newbies (not so new) complain after installing a package from source. It's actually easy to install a package from source, but you may face some troubles while un-installing those. especially when you delete compiled directory from where you execute make install command.

Method 1

The common method is to use dh_make and dpkg-buildpackage to create a .deb package and install it. This is how we do it.

Install required packages.

sudo apt-get install dh-make fakeroot build-essential autotools-dev

Step 1.

Extract the contents of Tarball

tar -xvzf source.tar.gz

Step 2.

Change directory to source folder

cd /path/to/source/folder

Step 3.

Create control files, selecting the attributes of package.

dh_make

Step 4.

Finally compile the package.

sudo dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

Step 5.

Install all the packages, created by

dpkg-buildpackage

Method 2

Another method is to use

checkinstall

, which is quite easier.Some packages may use different build tools, or you may want to build application with qmake, cmake or something else instead of make. Or just wanted to be able to remove package without troubles. Use

checkinstall

Step 1. Install required packages.

sudo apt-get install checkinstall

Step 2.

There are no harder steps. Build your package first, your build method may differ.

./configure && make

Step 3.

At the end, replace the

sudo make install

command with following.

sudo checkinstall -D make install

Check install will also allow you to create package with custom meta-data, It will also create a deb package which you can keep for later use.

10 Ridiculous Reasons Not To Use Linux!

2009-12-08T20:30:00.004+05:30

Here are top 10 reasons, which are often used by people to avoid use of Linux on their desktops.

I often ask people why they don't like to use Linux on their desktop, some people actually gave me these reasons. Now, before you start beating me with ugly stick, I must tell you that these reasons are seriously ridiculous.

10. Linux, You mean that CLI thing?

9. My hardware doesn't meet the requirements.

8. My dog ate the root password.

7. Whenever I'm settled on a particular distribution, a new one appears.

6. Its incomplete. It lacks the Disk De-fragment Utility.

5. My files were infected by Virus.

4. Does not turn off automatically. Always need to do that manually.

3. Security is too tight, Sometimes even I can't access my files.

2. Updates and Patches(Evolution of software) speed is faster than my broadband speed.

1. I couldn't find a CD-Key or Crack.

Last but not least,

0. Linux is obsolete. - Andrew Tanenbaum

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15 Power tools for Linux that you cant afford to miss.

2009-11-24T07:55:00.004+05:30

I'm talking about some tools, which comes in very handy while you are in trouble or save you from future trouble or even help you to do things fast. Note that I'm not listing all the tools, neither I'm ranking those.. I have just picked few tools which I use regularly, and have good experience with them.

Because this list is quite big, so I'm not going to add screen-shots and make the post bloated.

FSlint

FSlint is a very good utility to find duplicate files, bad names, empty folders, all that trash that you don't want to be on you file system. Install using -

sudo apt-get install fslint

TestDisk

TestDisk is a powerful undelete or data recovery tool. However it does not support ext4 yet. but still many distributions are using ext3, If you have any important data on your disk, then you should have this installed. Install using -

sudo apt-get install testdisk

TrueCrypt

Everyone have important or valuable data, even if it is not too valuable for you. TrueCrypt is an extra bit to your basic file security. Download and Install the available package.

BleachBit

Linux system is nothing but a huge file system, where most of your things are files, and some are useless. BleachBit, the more I use it the more I love it. BleachBit is probably a lifesaver for Linux installations having small storage spaces. Download and Install (because Ubuntu repositories may have old versions)

PalimpSet Disk Utility

Now you can see this utility as default for Disk Management in Fedora, now also in Ubuntu. Its a really nice utility, not as partition editor, but as a front-end to S.M.A.R.T. Now you can simply monitor disk health very easily. This utility is developed by Redhat and don't any homepage. but you can install it using your debian package manager / apt-get

sudo apt-get install gnome-disk-utility

Gconf-Editor

You won't have this installed on most of your distributions using Gnome, gconf-editor is nothing but a front-end to gconftool-2 command line utility. which is a gnome configuration tool. Using this tool on command line is a bit of a drag for newbies, because you can't remember all key paths. Gconf-Editor will give you a feel of Windows Registry editor, If you are a gnome user you will be able to make some big changes by changing a simple boolean or string values.

sudo apt-get install gconf-editor

Eiciel

Extra file permissions, always a problem for newbies on Linux system. ACLs are life savers when you need file permissions for files that are exceptions. However I'm very comfortable with setfacl and getfacl, but Eiciel is a very good ACL front-end for newbies who are not very good on CLI, or don't want to use CLI.

sudo apt-get install eiciel

Guake

This just a normal terminal, with different look and behavior, It adds a Quake or Unreal Tournament like console ( which you get after pressing ~ and where you type god ) to your linux desktop. But on Linux you can spawn it by pressing F12 not the ~. Guake is very nice tool if you are a frequent console user, It saves you from opening and closing and handling those gnome-terminal windows.

sudo apt-get install guake

Meld

If you are dealing with any kind of configuration files or program code, You always need a difference viewer and patcher. Meld is a visual diff and merge tool. You can compare two or three files and edit them in place. A powerful tool for CVS, SVN or Bazaar users.

sudo apt-get install meld

Wine

May be I don't need to tell about Wine, its already so famous.. However its one of the programs I never forget to install on a Linux system. Download and follow install instruction (default repositories don't keep latest version)

Glipper

You will always need a clipboard - Read Why

sudo apt-get install glipper

AutoKey

Program your own system wide shortcuts or abbreviations to any kind of content like address, name or something that you need to type many times. Or assign shortcuts to operations or applications.

sudo apt-get install autokey

Conduit Synchronizer

Conduit Synchronizer is still in development, Its a part of gnome project. but its really useful. Conduit is a synchronization application for GNOME. It allows you to synchronize your files, photos, emails, contacts, notes, calendar data and any other type of personal information and synchronize that data with another computer, an online service, or even another electronic device.

sudo apt-get install conduit

BackInTime

If you are a regular Linux desktop user, Your configurations and stuff won't break the boundaries of your home folder. Back In Time is a back up and restore utility for those who love their data.

sudo apt-get install backintime-gnomeOrsudo apt-get install backintime-kde

ClamTK

Its tough to get your Linux infected by Virus, really tough. But its really not good to keep inactive windows viruses on Linux machine, however they do anything but you may spread the infection. Clam-Tk is a very good front-end to ClamAV. some people may like KlamAV, but Clam-TK is bit more simple and up-to common expectations. Download and Install (Ubuntu repositories hold old versions.)

Gnome-Do

Gnome do is powerful launcher tool, aspired from Mac OS X quick silver. gnome do can be used as dock or panel too. It can be used to launch almost anything with a few keystrokes. If you really don't like mouse or pointers. You should try gnome-do. Download and install (Ubuntu repositories hold old versions.)

Measuring performance of GTK theme

2009-10-30T09:17:00.002+05:30

Does GTK theme make any noticeable change in performance? Yes. as I have mentioned in previous post - Top 10 Gnome Performance Tweaks, Here is a way to figure out how much does it matter. If you are interested in creating GTK themes you should know how to check performance of theme..

I’m going to check performance of three completely different themes.

Mira, Mist, and Wasp

You will need GTK-Perf utility.

To install it on Ubuntu, use following command.

sudo apt-get install gtkperf

Run the utility and see the results, Lower is better.

1. Mira

Result: 10.96 Seconds

GtkEntry - time:  0.14
GtkComboBox - time:  3.28
GtkComboBoxEntry - time:  2.72
GtkSpinButton - time:  0.53
GtkProgressBar - time:  0.21
GtkToggleButton - time:  0.56
GtkCheckButton - time:  0.26
GtkRadioButton - time:  0.36
GtkTextView - Add text - time:  0.77
GtkTextView - Scroll - time:  0.29
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time:  0.48
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time:  0.65
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time:  0.60
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time:  0.09
---
Total time: 10.96

2. Wasp

Result: 7.72 Seconds

GtkEntry - time:  0.21
GtkComboBox - time:  2.07
GtkComboBoxEntry - time:  1.45
GtkSpinButton - time:  0.23
GtkProgressBar - time:  0.09
GtkToggleButton - time:  0.34
GtkCheckButton - time:  0.27
GtkRadioButton - time:  0.38
GtkTextView - Add text - time:  0.63
GtkTextView - Scroll - time:  0.26
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time:  0.39
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time:  0.64
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time:  0.65
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time:  0.09
---
Total time:  7.72

3. Mist

Result: 6.17 Seconds

GtkEntry - time:  0.13
GtkComboBox - time:  1.42
GtkComboBoxEntry - time:  1.13
GtkSpinButton - time:  0.08
GtkProgressBar - time:  0.06
GtkToggleButton - time:  0.28
GtkCheckButton - time:  0.19
GtkRadioButton - time:  0.41
GtkTextView - Add text - time:  0.64
GtkTextView - Scroll - time:  0.12
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time:  0.36
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time:  0.67
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time:  0.57
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time:  0.09
---
Total time:  6.17

-- “Ultimately you will find that simple themes are twice faster than high detailed themes.. This wont matter much if you got a healthy machine, But if you are running on older machine with poor or onboard graphics card, that too with bigger resolutions. GTK themes will make a big difference.”

Linux firewalls for newbies

2009-10-23T08:52:00.005+05:30

Firewall is a very important aspect of security, You will not need firewall when you are behind router in your personal network. because router conceal your private network from public network. But, You will always need a good firewall configuration when you are in big private or Wireless public networks.. Not everyone can use iptables because its huge, and very confusing for newbies. Here are some easy to use firewalls for Linux..

1. Firestarter

This is a rich featured and user friendly firewall application, Firestarter provides many advance features like ICMP filtering, Service filtering, Internet connection sharing, local DHCP server.. making it a must have application for any Linux desktop installation Screenshots / Download

2. Gufw

A popular front-end for ufw (Which is a front-end for iptables) firewall, You will find this installed by default on Linux Mint, Configuring a firewall is now easy as pie.. Gufw is the most easiest configuration tool for firewall you will ever see, However it serves very limited amount of functionality. Screenshots / Download

3. Guarddog

I like this configuration utility since I used it for first time. Guarddog allows to configure advance firewall with few clicks, besides that It also supports configuring firewall through presets for different services and protocols.. If you don't know about networks too much, you can think about Guarddog Screenshots / Download

4. KMyFirewall

KMyFirewall is a front-end for iptables, However its not completely user friendly. because you need to write the iptables rules using GUI, then apply them. You can use KMyFirewall for creating complex firewall rules. but until you don't have enough knowledge of iptables. it can difficult to use KMyFirewall for you. Screenshots / Download

5. Firewall Builder

This is the most popular firewall graphical front-end, fwbuilder supports multiple types of Firewall ( iptables (netfilter), ipfilter, pf, ipfw.Cisco PIX and more ) and Platforms ( Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Windows, Mac OS X ). Firewall builder is awesome, but its a professional more than a desktop utility. Screenshots / Download

6. Other IPTable frontends

There are many other Iptables front-ends around which can help you to build firewalls. e.g. UIF, KIptablesGenerator, Simple IPtable Script generator, Easy firewall generator

Quickest way for audio editing

2009-10-18T15:45:00.004+05:30

Ardour or Audacity are very good options for audio editing on Linux, but It adds some unnecessary complexity to audio editing and production, for example creating small audio snippets, applying simple effects, or even recording audio from multiple sources and mixing etc, can be done very easily on Jokosher.

Jokosher is currently in development, The latest release is 0.11.x, but It can save your big time.

Some of my friends use Audacity for audio production for screen casts, no wonder because its very good. but Audacity adds unnecessary complexity to their unprofessional work.

Jokosher on the other hand have an magnificent UI, specially its lot more cleaner and friendlier..

Jokosher is extensible and Cross-Platform. You can easily create extensions for Jokosher, If you are a Python programmer.

Download

Screenshots

Changing the Metacity button order

2009-10-13T07:52:00.004+05:30

Do you ever wish that title bar buttons should be in another order? Mac OS users definitely prefer reverse order buttons over standard order buttons.

Here is a way to change the Title bar button order…

Your default Metacity title bar looks like this…

Simply execute following command..

gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "close,maximize,minimize:menu"

Now you will have a Mac a like button order…

You can also try something else like…

gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu,maximize:close,minimize"

In this sequence “ : ” serves as a separator between right hand side and left hand side…

If you want to switch back to standard layout, “menu:minimize,maximize,close” is the default layout..

Configuring custom actions in Thunar and Nautilus

2009-10-10T11:06:00.004+05:30

Still relying on Nautilus scripts too much? Most of the Nautilus Scripts are nothing but normal scripts, and you don’t have to use those as Script, because you can directly integrate them with Nautilus or Thunar very easily.

Integrating Commands and Scripts in Nautilus -

To add custom actions to Nautilus, You will need nautilus-actions package installed. To install nautilus-actions simply execute following command.

Ubuntu / Debian Users -

sudoapt-get install nautilus-actions

Fedora users -

su –c “yum install nautilus-actions”

Once the package installed, Execute the nautilus-actions command, Or launch it from preferences menu.

Lets create a simple Nautilus Action, ‘Enqueue in Totem’

Click ‘Add’, Fill up the ‘Label’/’Tooltip’ Then Select Icon.

Then simply select ‘Main’ profile and edit. Add path “/usr/bin/totem --enqueue” and parameters %M

Add the file types you want to make option visible on.

Done.

Thunar Custom Actions -

Lets add the upload to ImageShack nautilus script in Thunar.

Task is quite similar, Open Thunar > Edit > Configure Custom Actions

Add a New Action, Fill Name, Description and the Command

/path/to/script/sendToImageshack.py %f

Select the image file type or make your selection as per your script.

Then save the configuration, and Try it out.

Best 5 PDF Readers for Linux

2009-10-07T13:37:00.005+05:30

Some heavy, some light PDF Readers for Linux...

1. Adobe Reader

Original closed-source PDF reader from Adobe. Adobe Reader provides large number of unique features, which makes it a must have application.. Speed of rendering PDF is slower but perfect. Allows to view PDF with embedded Flash Supports 3D and Interactive PDF and Forms. Precise Rendering

2. Evince

Open Source PDF viewer, uses Gnome libraries and used as default document viewer for Gnome. Renders PDF very fast after recent updates. Evince provides all the necessary features you need for reading. Evince does not support 3D PDFs, but works very well with forms. Evince also supports other formats like Postscript, DjVu, Tiff, Dvi

3. Okular

Another Open Source PDF viewer, Default document viewer for K Desktop Environment. Okular provides more features than Evince. but renders slower with larger PDFs. Okular is not able to view 3D rendering, forms are bit buggy with Okular. Okular is also able to view Postscript, CHM, DjVu documents.

4. ePDFView

A very basic PDF viewer, my best choice for lightweight distros, ePDFView have the least features, but PDF is viewed quite prs precisely

5. Foxit Reader

A closed-source PDF reader from Foxit Software, It's lightweight faster, supports handful of features. Rendering quality is compromised. Does not support 3D and PDF forms..

6. Gloobus

Gloobus is a universal file previewer for Linux, It is able to view files very quickly. Gloobus supports few formats like

Source: C++, JAVA, PHP, SH, PYTHON, Images: JPG, PSD, XCF, PNG, GIF, SVG Documents: PDF, CBR, CBZ, DOC, ODF, XLS, ODS, PPT, ODP Music: MP3, OGG, MP4, MIDI, WAV Video: MPG, AVI, OGG, FLV, WVM Other: Folders, Plain text files

It does not do anything else than previewing a file. Its good and the fastest way to view small PDF files. though gloobus is not for reading.

Wikitize your Desktop – Zim

2009-10-03T12:39:00.006+05:30

Zim- Desktop Wiki, where name confuse the most. Zim is Wiki like but not just a Wiki, It’s a lot more than just a Wiki like editor. This application exists for more than 2 years now and It’s not too popular.

In this post I’m going to talk about different possibilities of Zim’s use.

Zim brings the concepts on Wiki to your desktop. Actually It’s a WYSIWYG editor which allows to link quickly to other page or any file on your drive.

Features -

You can simply link to a non-existing page and It will be created automatically.
You can create automatically linked pages according to calendar, like Year – Month – Day format.
Inserting mathematical equations using LaTex.
Inserting Screenshot and Images
Exporting all data in HTML
Basic markup
Cross platform
Quickly attaching files.

If these are the features, What exactly I can do with this?

Using Zim as alternative to sticky note / TODO softwares

If you are using Tomboy or something like Gnote, You should give Zim a try. Zim’s ability to link quickly to files and other pages makes it easily manageable. Unlike sticky notes, You don’t have to keep searching the old entries because of back-links.

Writing Personal Diaries on Zim

Sounds funny but true. Just create pages using the calendar plug-in.

Writing documentation
- Writing manuals
- Writing reference material

Linking tons of pages to each other is no joke on static HTML, try doing that with Zim. You don’t have to create about links anymore.

Quickly creating small websites & presentations

Though creating dynamic web content using PHP MySQL is the best option, but if you do not have a PHP/MySQL server at hand. HTML is still the most lightweight way to create websites.

Launching another GUI login Session using GDM

2009-10-02T09:42:00.005+05:30

Launch another GUI session in your current one. Sounds stupid, why anyone would do that? I have no idea.. but I know how to do that. Its quite simple, (Yeah and its quite useful too, so you must at least try it once.)

You can use this feature, if you want to try out multiple desktop environments simultaneously, or login another user account which you have access, because everybody can not have root / administrator access.

Simply run following command...

gdmflexiserver --xnest

This will open a new login window

now login...

SchoolKid - Color Scheme for NetBeans and Gedit

2009-09-30T19:06:00.004+05:30

Your IDE or Text Editor color scheme is quite important, if you are going to stick in front on monitors for hours, Schemes with white background, providing extremely high or low contrast will eventually pop your eyes out.

Here is the color scheme for Gedit and Netbeans,

Tested with PHP, Python and HTML

I use Comic Sans MS font, Though its not fixed width / Sans Mono family font, but its cleanly readable if Anti-Aliasing is applied. and Yeah it looks funny too. Specially if you are using full hinting, fonts will become too thinner, in such case Comic Sans bold saves the day.

Still, You can use any font you want to use..

Remember to enable anti-aliasing the fonts in NetBeans, Just execute the NetBeans using the following option.

-J-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on

Installation Instruction Included

Download -

Clipboard management with Linux

2009-09-26T21:38:00.005+05:30

Why do you even need it? Clipboard management is not just for content editors. In fact you will always need one on your Linux box. You may find that your Clipboard is not persistent, this depends on what desktop environment you use, the lightweight desktop environments have such problems. Clipboard manager is not used only to remember the text you copy or cut. They simply make your life a bit more easier.

So, Here are some clipboard management applications for Linux desktop.

Glipper - GNOME

The best Clipboard Manager for Linux is Glipper for GNOME, which works as a Gnome Panel Applet. Unfortunately you can not make it run anywhere else than Gnome Panel. Glipper is very flexible and configurable and got some extra ordinary features (via Plugins)...like

Snippets - Just WOW
Actions - Do something when text matches a specific syntax for example launching a URL
Share the clipboard data between multiple Glippers over Network!
Nopaste integration.
Growing the existing small entries in clipboard

Now thats serious!

Klipper - KDE

Klipper is the default clipboard manager for KDE, but You can use it on any other desktop environment if you have a system tray. Though Klipper may not offer all the functionality like Glipper but it can be used outside of KDE. Klipper have all the flexible configuration you need.

Clipman - XFCE

If GNOME and KDE have it, than why not XFCE. unfortunately its nothing but a Clipboard Manager, the only thing it offers is saving your clipboard content, but hey! that is the main purpose of clipboard manager..and a good news for minimalistic people.

Parcellite

Parcellite manges your clipboard, and offers Actions and Shortcut features, but the one thing that makes its special is, It can be used on all desktop managers (with system tray). So if you are *box/WM user then say yes to Parcellite.

DDM

Screenshots Desktop Data Manager, is not just a Clipboard management tool but also a Screenshot and Download manager tool. Lets just talk about the Clipboard manager, DDM provides the more integration with your system than any other in above list. but it also conflicts the many gnome utilities too. That is why I didn't installed it. DDM provides you some unique feature that other Clipboard manger won't provide.

Tint 2 and Visibility Configuration Generator

2009-09-21T16:17:00.003+05:30

Some people does not like configuring their applications by editing text files manually. Actually its not the quickest way to do it.

Here is a easy way to configure your Tint 2 or Visibility.

Tint-Wizard

An application programmed in Python, Tint-Wizard is able to generate very detailed Tint 2 Configurations.

Tint Wizard will hardly miss any configuration. It is very easy to use, so I don't need to tell you any more. If your Tint2 configuration file is ~/.config/tint/tintrc and not ~/.config/tint2/tint2rc, You need to rename all the "tint2" & "tint2rc" terms to "tint" & "tintrc" ( You can simply use Gedit - Find and Replace to achieve this, CLI geeks can go for 'sed' )

Quick Configuration Generators -

Tint Configuration Generator
Visibility Configuration Generator
( Credit for this scripts goes to dbboltan from Ubuntu Forums, Post )

Technorati Tags: Tint2,Configuration,Window Managers,Linux,Open Source

10 Panel / Dock applications for your Window Managers.

2009-09-19T08:02:00.004+05:30

I often get complains from some people, about Openbox or Fluxbox because they lack decent panel / pager applications [ Which is NOT true ], not all the people are satisfied with Openbox's confusing right-click menus
Here is the listing ( not ranking ) of some of these applications, which can be used on Window managers.

[ If you need composite manager, have a look at Compositor for Window Managers ]

1. Gnome Do

So far the the best dock and launcher application I would say. Gnome Do offers wide range on plug-ins allowing you to do even more on each key you press, Gnome Do is surely the fastest way to beat the Window Manager menus. You can also use Gnome-Do as your dock-bar ( which will need screen compositor Look here ).

2. Cairo-Dock

Cairo-Dock, one of the most famous dock-bar applications on Linux, Cairo-Dock is the highly customizable application where you can customize most of the things you want, the Linux style!, You will also find various themes and plug-ins for your Cairo-Dock. People usually don't use Cairo-Dock on oepnbox or fluxbox, but actually its works flawlessly. ( You don't need a screen compositor to run cairo-dock but it is recommended to use on for better results )

3. Avant Window Navigator

Avant Window Navigator, again a very popular dock-bar application, loaded with many useful docklets, but Avant is comparatively less configurable than its closest match Cairo-Dock, but also less confusing. If you want bring up the power to your window manager, Avant is the easiest way, somehow you can rely on it for most of the work. ( Avant Window navigator can not run without a Composite manager)

4. fbpanel

fbpanel is rich featured but also a lightweight, Desktop panel application, and of course highly customizable. fbpanel is not fully configurable via GUI yet, but you can always mess up with the configuration files. If you want a very simple panel which can do most of the things for you, fbpanel is the best choice for you.
This fbpanel configuration looks a lot different than the default configuration, You can get this Mac like configuration Here.

5. Perl-Panel

A full featured desktop panel programmed in Perl, Its quite heavy on resources, but very easy to handle, configuration is as easy as pie.

6. BMPanel & BMPanel 2

Very nice theme-able, customizable panel application, though you have to mess with the configuration files. but by default BMpanel 1 & 2 offers almost everything you need. It is also one of the most beautiful applications for Linux. You can simply look the theme gallery Here

7. BarPanel

A bit strange panel application with interesting menu structure, however its not way too good neither bad.

8. Tint 2

A lightweight panel, offering essential features. Tint became famous after its implementation in Crunch Bang, If you configure it properly, Its a real eye-candy

9. PyPanel

This is an minimalistic Panel, does not offer too much, but also won't disappoint you too much.

10. Can I use something else?

Of course why not? Your GNOME-Panel, XFCE4 Panel and Kicker ( KDE Panel ) will work with Openbox ( except desktop environment specific features like Restart / Power off ), But the panels I listed above are so good that you don't need these ones.

Technorati Tags: Linux,Desktop Environment,Panels,Dock Bar,Applications,Openbox,Window Managers

SpiceBird 0.7 – Strong bird to your fleet

2009-09-14T22:35:00.003+05:30

Still using Thunderbird? Mozilla Thunderbird is very good for sure. but If you haven’t used Spicebird yet, You are missing too much. However its still a beta.
Like Thunderbird, Spicebird is also based on Mozilla and Open Source, but its more innovative. Its developed by an Indian company called Synovel ( at least someone doing something creative here )

Synovel has also an open source collaboration suite called as CollabSuite, which reminds me of Zimbra ( Which also provides a collaboration suite and desktop client, though I really don’t like it a lot ).

Here are my likes and dislikes in Spicebird PIM Client.

Spicebird makes a very good impression when you start it. It utilizes the the common tabbed interface, which is very easy to use. Spicebird makes it handy to maintain all its different aspects like Mail Client, Chat Window, Calendar, Feed Reader etc.

Spicebird 0.7 adds these following features.

Chat with friends on services like Yahoo, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ and Jabber

Add iGoogle Gadgets to Spicebird

Disable the applications that are unused

Access Google calendar

Experimental support for managing blogs

Available in more than 10 languages

Basic set of add-ons

Import data from Thunderbird, Outlook and Outlook Express

You can view the full release note here

The Good -

The features I like most are Ability to disable the applications, the Customizable home interface with Google Gadgets, and the Blog posting support, and of-course the Instant Messenger Client, ( However I’m going to stick with my Pidgin. )
Good thing is Spicebird is a decent application suite, Its very similar to Thunderbird, so its make very good email client and calendar software. but Its still not a good IM or an Aggregator.

The Bad -

Spicebird isn’t good while managing large number of IM contacts and flexible chatting interface that Pidgin provides, or the Aggregator features that RSSOwl provides. or the calendar application like Mozilla Sunbird, Spicebird is good, but not the best.

Is it the final conclusion for Spicebird? – NO It’s still in development, and I’m considering large number of mind-blowing improvements.
Many people posted things like, “Is it the end for thunderbird+lightning?” on their blogs.
Answer to this question is definitely NO, until users have freedom to select their applications.

Technorati Tags: Spicebird,Email,Mozilla,Applications,Cross Platform

Screen Compositing without Compiz, Metacity or KWin

2009-09-12T19:43:00.003+05:30

Screen compositing is quite easy on Gnome or KDE, because both the Metacity and KWin / Compiz allows screen compositing.
Compositing is a feature of your Window Manager and WMs like Openbox, Fluxbox, IceWM does not support compositing it self. and because of this disadvantage you are unable to gain pure transparency or to use softwares like Avant Window Manager, Gnome Do and many more.

So here is the most lightweight way to composite your screen, We are going to use Xcompmgr.
Xcompmgr, is more universal, It can work with most of the Desktop Environments.
Installing xcompmgr -
You will find xcompmgr in ubuntu and fedora repositories. To install use following commands.
On Debian / Ubuntu based distros.

sudo apt-get install xcompmgr

On Fedora

su –c “yum install xcompmgr”

Launching xcompmgr -
Launching xcompmgr is quite easy, all you have to do is to execute the command which is

xcompmgr

If you want to set options for Window drop shadows, blur amount, shadow offset etc, read the xcompmgr man page, which is very easy to understand.

man xcompmgr

Once you launch the xcompmgr, You will be able to use applications which requires composited screen.

Auto-starting xcompmgr on start up.
If you are using Gnome or KDE its very simple to add your command in start up applications. Gnome start-up application configuration utility is located at Menu > Preferences > Startup Applications

If you are using KDE, you will find start-up application configuration in advance tab of KControl.
Auto starting Xcompmgr with Openbox – Edit your ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh file

# Run the system-wide support stuff
. $GLOBALAUTOSTART
# Programs to launch at startup
hsetroot ~/wallpaper.png &
#MAKE SURE YOU PUT THIS FOLLOWING ENTRY
xcompmgr -c -t-5 -l-5 -r4.2 -o.55 &
# SCIM support (for typing non-english characters)
export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.utf8
export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
export QT_IM_MODULE=scim
scim -d &
# Programs that will run after Openbox has started
(sleep 2 && avant-window-navigator) &

That’s all everything is done!

Technorati Tags: Linux,Openg Source,Compositor,Desktop Environment

Best way to create perfect chromium launcher on Linux.

2009-09-08T09:25:00.004+05:30

As some people ( Readers from My Chromium Guide ) asked me that how can they create a Launcher that will work every where Gnome/KDE/Openbox or anywhere, a universal launcher for chromium browser that will save them from editing all the launchers, and putting options after the command every time. (I’m not talking about custom script ).

Those common problems are…

You always have to put the command options when ever you create a new launcher.

You also have to edit the command in Gnome/KDE preferred applications.

Your launcher may not work with another file manager or window manager menus, so you have edit those again.

Creating a script is a good way, but its not flexible, and you may not be able to use extra options after your script.

So here is a classic Linux solution ( I’m sorry that I didn’t mentioned earlier), This will solve all your problem, and you do not have to edit any launcher.
Your command will be flexible, as original command.
Just execute following commands. on any Linux distro, any Desktop environment.. this will work just fine.

Chromium users -

alias chromium-browser="chromium-browser --enable-extensions --enable-plugins --enable-user-scripts"

Google Chrome users -

alias google-chrome="google-chrome --enable-extensions --enable-plugins --enable-user-scripts"

These are the aliases, but work isn’t finished yet. These fresh aliases are unsaved. so lets just save them.
Again

Chromium users -

echo "alias chromium-browser="chromium-browser --enable-extensions --enable-plugins --enable-user-scripts"" >> ~/.bashrc

Google Chrome users -

echo "alias google-chrome="google-chrome --enable-extensions --enable-plugins --enable-user-scripts"" >> ~/.bashrc

Now everything is done, and you have don’t have to worry about these options now.

Even if you use command like chromium-browser --app=http://penguininside.blogspot.com The web application will execute with all options enabled, and you don’t have to mention it again.

Technorati Tags: Linux,Open Source,Browsers,Chromium,Google Chrome

Parallels Desktop 4 Linux – Virtualization Walkthrough

2009-09-05T16:49:00.004+05:30

If you are a regular Mac user then you might know what Parallels Desktop is.. Parallels Desktop for Linux is a virtualization software developed by Parallels Inc. Now Parallels Desktop for Linux is ready to join the battleground with VMware Workstation / Player and Virtual Box.
I’m going to find out, is Parallels worth 80$? It’s about 100$ cheaper than VMware Workstation but lot costlier in front of Virtual Box and VMware Player.

Requirements
Features
Product Link
Screenshots
Here are some things that you will find different in Parallels Desktop.

First Impression -

Installation Process of Parallels Desktop is completely based on TUI, All you need to do is to execute the binary file with root privileges “parallels-desktop-4.0.6576.434360.run”

sudo ./parallels-desktop-4.0.6576.434360.run

Once you execute the installer, A text based installation wizard will appear..There is nothing special in installation. Its as easy as pie.

The GUI and Management -

The GUI is good enough, but the best it does not go with my GTK theme ( well that is not important :P )..

At the first look, You will feel something is different, but in short time you will notice, most of the dialogs, wizards are identical to VMware Workstation..

Here you have a feature that any other virtualization software don’t have and that is configurable GUI and Toolbars. You can change the feel of your GUI..but this does not make any big difference.

You can bring your VM’s from other softwares, using Migration tool.

You can start parallels in safe mode.

Virtualization -

Your VM speed and CPU performance is going to be very close your VMware WS / VirtualBox as Parallels is completely dependant on your hardware’s virtualization ability.

Adaptive hypervisor allows you to smoothen the performance.

DKMS – Dynamic Kernel Module Support

You can prioritize the resource to Virtual Machine of Host OS

Other features -

You can get some additional benefits like.

Easy and reliable shared folder support

Migration tool to migrate VMs and Create VMs from physical machines.

A good Image tool, that allows to convert disk image types. and resize the images.

Virtual machine auto-start

GPU -

Parallel Desktop does not support native Direct 3D support on Linux/Windows host (unlike Mac OS X), but still you can get Direct 3D support using WineD3D, You can follow THIS guide which is applicable to Parallels too, as Parallels GPU give you OpenGL 1.1 support.

The one thing about GPU that impressed me was 256 Video memory, twice as Vmware WS / VirtualBox

Problems occurred -

Parallels Desktop gave me some extra pain..like

Keyboard function and control keys lockout.

Parallels Desktop GUI crashed many times

Keyboard lockout occurred in both Fedora and Ubuntu test, and was the most annoying part of Parallels Desktop.
Parallels GUI keeps crashing time to time ( Tested on Ubuntu, Crash frequency was less on Fedora ). In this care Virtual Machine never crashed, Just GUI that means, If you launch Parallels again you will find VM working fine.

Conclusion -

Despite few bugs, I think Parallels Desktop is worth on its price. Parallels Desktop 4 is new to Linux, and I would like to give it some time to fix the bugs. The Parallel’s Virtual machine works smooth.
But for now I’m staying with Virtual Box 3 and VMware Player.

Technorati Tags: Linux,Open Source,Virtualization,Parallels Desktop

Ultimate Download Management guide for Linux

2009-09-02T12:46:00.003+05:30

When I got started with Linux, The one thing I couldn’t find was good download managers. but today we have plenty of them, in fact what we have on Linux is simply better than Adware/Shareware download managers on Windows.
Downloading in Linux is not limited to using Wget, KDE KGet or Gwget or cURL now..

In this guide, I’m going to tell you the various ways for good and reliable download management on Linux, for every type of download you can ever do.

Downloading from Direct HTTP / FTP links
Bit-Torrent Downloading
Video / Audio Downloading
Rapidshare / FileFactory / MegaUpload and Downloading from Other sites.

Note that there are many small download managers around, but I will be listing only rich featured ones.

Downloading from Direct HTTP / FTP Links

In this category, I was able to list 3 downloaders which proved they are best.

[Click on image to enlarge]

All these downloaders, support some common features like.
Multiple Thread / Multiple File Downloads

FTP/HTTP Downloads

Download by category

Download Scheduling

Speed Limiting

Custom site settings

And huge list of other mumbo-jumbo that you don’t want to know

MultiGet -

If you look at MultiGet, fist thing you will notice, that its quite similar to Flashget. But this is not an adware,
Though Multiget have less features than D4X, still I rated it first for its ease of use and more universal design on GUI. and this is cross-platform too. so if you want to kick Flashget out of your windows, feel free to do that. Download MultiGet - HERE

D4X -

D4X, This is a popular download manager, most of the people are using this on Linux. D4X have the lot more management features compared to other download managers, but its GUI design is quite different ( actually strange ). Finding and editing some settings, is like a solving maze. but once you get familiar with it, There is not problem

[ Website of this software is down, But its available in Ubuntu repositories. You can use following command to install ]

sudo apt-get install d4x

Uget -

Uget, You will find this quite simpler in first sight. compared to others. Currently I'm not using it for downloading large files. but for small files, and regular downloading. because I found it bit lightweight.

[ Home page for Uget is under construction, You can get Uget HERE ]

Downloading from Bit-Torrent

Bit-Torrent clients are not big deal for Linux, there are tons of bit-torrent clients for Linux.. But only fewer with good GUI and all the features that a Bit-Torrent client need today. for example DHT / PEX or Web UI etc.

Deluge -

Deluge is the ultra featured bit-torrent client for Linux, but its quite heavy on resources compared to others. Deluge is the Bt client I always prefer to use, due to its extensibility and good plug-ins, and awesome features.
Deluge – Download - Screenshots

Transmission -

On most of the Linux distributions you will find Transmission installed, Transmission is a lightweight bit-torrent client with essential features. Its also extensible, many add-ons are being written.
Transmission – Download – Screenshots

Monsoon -

Monsoon is another good bit torrent client, Its simple to use, loaded with essential features..Most of the people know Monsoon as default bit torrent client of OpenSUSE.
Monsoon – Download – Screenshots

Video / Audio Downloading, and Also downloading from *Tubes

Miro

Miro is multimedia bit-torrent client and player, and also a Video RSS aggregator full of free videos, I’m using Miro since its first release. If there is anything you should not miss on your desktop, then its Miro.

Vuze

Vuze is a multi-platform, powerful multimedia bit-torrent client you can ever use. You can browse through tons of videos and download or play them. Vuze is very easy to use and one of my must have apps for desktops. However I don’t know all the videos are legal or not.

Firefox Extensions for Downloading Online Multimedia

There is one extension, which is solution for downloading online multimedia content for you. That is Video Download Helper, There are many add-ons for this purpose, but I’ll simply suggest you the best. Get it here.

Downloading from RS, FF, MU and Others

I tried some downloaders like, but only one was able to work flawlessly

Tucan

Want to download tons on files from file host like RS, MU, FF or mostly used ones? Tucan is what you need to get, one software to sort most of annoying waiting and crappy downloads. Tucan is cross platform, extensible , and open source, That is why its one of my favorite apps.

Now only one task is remaining, That is adding Uget or Multiget into Firefox Flashgot Extension.

Flashget allows to pass the link directly to download manager, D4X is already supported, But you need to add Uget-GTK and MultiGet manually.

To do so, Open Flashgot options, Click ADD, Enter name Uget, and locate the binary.

/usr/bin/uget-gtk

Save the options, Now you will be able to send download directly to Uget. :)

Technorati Tags: Linux,Open Source,Download Management,Download Management.

10 Unique Tips to get Elegant Gnome Desktop

2009-08-31T15:54:00.006+05:30

You can see many pretty Linux desktops every where on the internet.
but having a really cool desktop like shown in screenshot is not possible for everybody. Most of the time customizing the look and feel ends with a bulky desktop that you never thought of!

So I'm going to give you 10 tips to establish a elegant desktop.
That means, your desktop should be beautiful but also powerful.

Elegance is not achieved by adding Vista like Sidebar, Mac like DockBar, Heavy Compiz effects or anything even more stupid, like a system monitor to show off your system configuration X_X.

1. Say no to Desktop Icons.

Turn off the Nautilus Desktop. (If you don't know how to do it, look HERE). Tons of icons or files on your desktop spoils the whole look.

Using Keyboard Shortcuts or Panel Icons is a faster way.
For those people who can not live without icons/launchers on desktop, Can use nautilus or any other desktop manager. but don't put more than 3-4 launchers on desktop.

You can also make use of launcher applications like Gnome-DO. Gnome-DO is the one of the most powerful tool, you can use on Gnome Desktop.

2. Use Compiz more for features, less for effects.

The Compiz window manager have a greater number features than Metacity. Try not using Compiz for desktop effects like, wobbly windows, desktop cube/cylinder, fire effect, water effect etc.

Instead of that implement Compiz window management features like Grouping and Tabbing, Application Switching, Window Rules, Tile, Shelf or Edges.

By doing this you not just achieve the Eye-Candy effects but also very good Window Management features.

3. Using Avant/Cairo docks Or Gnome-Panel.

Gnome Panel provides the maximum functionality among all the dock programs for Gnome. Using Avant or CairoDock will add very good eye-candy effects, However these docks are not lightweight and also needs a screen compositor running for proper transparency.

If you decide to use these Avant or Cairo, then try to use it as your primary dock application, Add a Menu, System Tray and Custom launchers to it. Window list is available in those by default. If both of the panels have window list or menu..Its just waste of space. Try using only one panel for all your work.
If you are using Gnome-Panel don’t forget to theme it, if there is no panel background by default.
If your GTK theme does not have a default panel background, then you must get one!, leaving Gnome-Panels with defaults look hurts. You can change the panel background simply from panel properties, And from Gnome Color Chooser too.
You can get panel backgrounds on Gnome-Look.org

4. Do not make extra use of widget softwares like Screenlets or Google Desklets.

Only use those widgets which are necessary and really really 'useful' to you.

Filling the screen with Weather applets, Huge analog clocks, Flashy CPU/Memory meters, is childish and immature, Instead of that try to use Conky, a lightweight and highly configurable system monitor.
Sometimes its better not to use these software, as they are not resource friendly.. and they make your Linux desktop more like Windows Vista.

5. Keep open space

The more visible desktop is more elegant desktop. the corners and edges of your desktop should be cleanly visible.

Don't fill the desktop with junk.

Don’t put widgets or panels on every edge or corner.

Don't make use widgets that cover a big part of your desktop, specially on small monitors.

Utilize the features like ‘Hide/Close to Tray’ or ‘Auto hide’

6. Customize the Color Scheme

Try to use GTK themes using solid colors, for example GTK Themes which allows customizing the colors, because they provide the most clean lines and visibility, than a fanatic desktop.

Color scheme is the most important in every aspect. Make sure the colors you choose a decent amount of contrast, not to high or not to low.
Some basic color selection can be done using gnome-appearance-properties. but not in detail. so You can use Gnome Color Chooser to achieve this.

Selecting colors is easy task, but selecting good colors is not!..To get dirty with tons of good color schemes Visit Adobe Kuler This is your resource to thousands of eye catchy color schemes.

Also you can use Contrast-A, which requires Adobe AIR Runtime. Similarly you can get Adobe Kuler Desktop

7. Choose a proper Desktop Wallpaper.

Wallpaper is one of the most important aspect of your desktop.
Your wallpaper will be more visible when you will follow "Point 5". by this method, You can fully utilize the beauty of the wallpaper, when you are not running applications beauty of your desktop is completely dependant on the wallpaper.

Choice of Wallpaper is very important, Make sure it goes with scheme.
Abstract or Minimalistic wallpapers are a good choice for a Linux desktop. Only thing that have to match with theme is the color, But if you are using a Landscape wallpaper or something else. make sure your theme goes with wallpaper. Sometimes even simple gradients will look good on your desktop.
Here are some sites where you can get Wallpapers – Deviant Art, Gnome Look, VladStudio, Graffiti Wallpapers, Wallpapers Stock

8. Make use of Gnome Art Manager.

Gnome Art manager is a software to help you quickly install Metacity / GTK / GDM / Icons Themes or Even Wallpapers, Splash Screens from art.gnome.org

However not all the themes are very good. :)

9. Window Decorations

Selection of Window decoration is quite easy, If there is Metacity theme provided with your GTK theme, You should use that. Otherwise use customizable Metacity themes, which will adapt the 'Selection Color' from GTK theme. e.g. Themes like Metabox, Clearbox, Human, Murrine etc.
When you don’t use such themes, either use the same color as your window color or use complete contrast color.
You can also use the Emerald Window Decorator. which provides advanced window decorations than Metacity. Emerald provides extra animations and eye-candy effects but make sure it goes with your GTK theme, or it looks worse.
You can get Metacity and Emerald themes at Gnome-Look.org

10. Always save and share your custom themes

Why?, Save every good combination or theme you create. If you don’t save and share it with others. It will never evolve or improve. Submit your ideas to brainstorm.

About Icons

There are no important specifications for Icon Themes, just make sure you are using a suitable one. :)

Additionally, Enable font Sub-Pixel smoothing and hinting.

This options is enabled by default on most Distros.

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