Force All Websites To Use The Ubuntu Font

Love the new Ubuntu font so much that you want every website to use it? Say hello to the following plucky Chrome extension which offers to do just that

We recently featured a bookmarklet (small javascript tool that sits in your bookmarks bar) which offered to do the same on a manual basis. This extension goes one ste further by forcibly implementing it on every website. The results range from pretty to, well, not so pretty. Fixed-width fonts don’t become fixed-width anymore, and if you have Chrome syncing your extensions with a Windows machine it’ll mess up there too.

Download

chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gmpnnplimbnbmdaigmnajmbdcinhpddj?hl=en

Elegent Dark Theme For Ubuntu

Change the way websites look in Firefox

Reader rainstride saw that and got in touch to share something most customization anoraks will have a hard time resisting: the ability to change every font displayed on every website.

Rainstride explains: -

“In Firefox you can change some or all of the normal fonts displayed on websites by going to Firefox’s preferences menu. Then pull up the “content” tab, then under “font’s and colors” you will see a drop down menu, and to the left a button that says “advanced”.”

Click on this and the following window will appear:

“Uncheck the “Allow web pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above” checkbox and click ‘Ok’.

In the “Default font” drop down menu just pick a new font.

“For instance, I use a font called Rufscript on everything. The only thing that will not change are image graphics.”

‘Outsiders’ Emerald window borders

Some things are standard: milk on cereal; Doctor in Tardis; window buttons in frame.

Well, the latter was standard; 0rAX0‘s  ‘Outsiders’ Emerald theme pack literally pushes the traditional boundaries away in these off-corner creations.

They certainly look good – but how do they handle? That’s for you to decide.

‘Outsiders’ requires Emerald to be installed and in use as your window decorator.

Download @ 0rax0.deviantart.com/art/Outsiders-Emerald

Five cool conky set-ups for Ubuntu

Here are five cool Conky themes that require no-input other than downloading, installing and then running.

Suuuuny-conky by ~BigRZA

Conky Popup by ~FezVrasta

Conky Tiles by ~BigRZA

Circles of imagination by ~clanlordus89

Conky Ken by ArnoNymus

Increase the size of Compiz shadows

By default CCSM’s (CompizConfig Settings Manager) ‘Shadow Radius’ setting for Window Decorations the fixed at a maximum of 18; you’re unable to go higher using the slider or by adjusting the value box.

However, you are able to enter a value much greater than CCSM offer via gconf-editor:

• Open up gconf-editor (ALT+F2 > gconf-editor)
• Navigate to /apps/compiz/plugins/decoration/allscreens/options/
• Change ‘shadow_radius‘ to a higher value; the effect will apply immediately for you to gauge reaction

I played around, setting mine to 25 and then 48. The result was a very deep shadow that gives the appearance of ‘lifting’ windows off the page. Your tastes will likely vary, so have a play around with different values to find a setting that suits you.

Compiz radius shadow at 48

Compiz radius shadow at 25

Fix Realtek RTL8192SU Ubuntu driver

Here’s quick fix for annoyed users with Realtek RTL8192SU WiFi chipsets wanting some WiFi…

I just bought a new Wi-Fi dongle for my netbook (due to woes with the Broadcom card inside, but that’s a whole other post) and although my no-name budget £10 dongle boasted ‘Linux support’ on the packaging I was a mite miffed to find it incapable of mustering even a faint signal of anything when plugged into my Ubuntu 10.10-running device.

Doubly annoying given it works flawlessly in Natty…

So what’s up?

After Googling around I came up on a bug report titled “Please include firmware for RTL8192SU“. The response was illuminating: -

“On 10.04 & 10.10 the firmware is already there but its in the wrong location.”

The solution to is open a terminal and pop in the following command: -

sudo cp -R /lib/firmware/RTL8192SE /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU

Reboot and, fingers crossed, your dongle will be up and receiving – certainly worked for me!

Need to find out what chipset your dongle uses? Plug it in, open a terminal and type ‘lsusb’. All connected USB devices will be listed.

Add a main menu to Docky

Long for a ‘main menu’ on Docky?

"I’ve been using AWN for quite sometime now, but that’s because of the lack of many docklets in Docky; the main-menu being an important one (at least for me)" he says on why he sought out a solution.

"What we do is change the "click" function of the Docky icon. So I modified that a bit, and got it to display the gnome-menu whenever I click the Docky icon."

Sounds neat, so how does one do it?

1. Install "xdotool" (click here to install)
2. Press ALT+F2 and type in "gconf-editor".
3. Press enter.
4. Navigate to /apps/docky-2/Docky/Items/DockyItem and double click on "DockyItemCommand"
5. In the "value" field copy paste: xdotool key -clearmodifiers alt+F1
6. Press OK and close the box.
7. Click on the Docky icon