3 Beautiful Conky Configurations

1. Conky Meet Faenza

2. Conky Launchpad

3. Conky Ken

The first 2 Conky setups above are very easy to configure - just install conky, then copy the extracted files (look for hidden files and folders too) into your folder and that's it. Conky Ken takes a bit longer to set up but it's not all that difficult, however I couldn't get the weather to work (it might have something to do with might location though). For each of the 3 Conky setups above, download the archive and see the README for exact installation instructions.

And speaking of Conky - Conky Colors, an utility to easily set up amazing custom Conky configuration has just been updated (by the way, I was using Conky Colors in the Compiz 0.9.2 screenshot). Download the latest Conky Colors | How to set up Conky Colors Cairo mode (rings).

Window Applets 0.2.10

Window Applets is a package that comes with two Gnome panel applets: Window Title and Window Buttons which are basically controls for windows that are placed on the Panel instead of the window. They provide a clever way to increase vertical screen space.

New features / changes in Window Applets 0.2.10:

• Disabled applet hiding by default (it was causing confusion with new users)
• Added option to override button orientation (automatic/default, horizontal and vertical)
• Added option to reverse button order
• Updated themes: Ambiance-Maverick, Radiance-Maverick (thank you Cierreics)
• Saturate title icon and darken text on inactive
• Select a more apropriate non-custom title text color
• Added options to set both active and inactive font/color
• Added experimental option to show window action menu on title right click. Warning: Overrides applet menu over title.

To install Window Applets 0.2.10 in Ubuntu, you can use the WebUpd8 PPA:

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gnome-window-applets

Then, right click the Gnome Panel, select "Add to panel" and add "Window Title" and "Window Buttons".

Faenza 0.8 GNOME Icon Theme

This icon theme for Gnome provides monochromatic icons for panels, toolbars and buttons and colourful squared icons for devices, applications, folder, files and Gnome menu items.

An installation script let you choose the logo of your favourite distribution and the appearance of the main menu icon (Gnome/distrib, monochrome/colour).

 Two themes are included to fit with light or dark panels.

 This is a work in progress: a lots of icons are missing especially for devices and emblems.

Installation

Download the tar.gz file and extract it. In the new folder created, run the ./INSTALL script to choose the distribution logo (Ubuntu, by default) and the Gnome menu icon. If run as root, the script will copy the iconsets to /usr/share/icons to made them available to all users. Some default icons used by Rhythmbox and Dockmanager may be also replaced.
Run ./UNINSTALL as root to restore defaults icons.

Launchpad PPA
Faenza icon theme is available to install for Ubuntu users via a PPA repository. Open a terminal and run :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox

         sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme

You can also install the folowing packages:
* faenza-icons-mono to replace 22x22 squared icons for Deluge, Exaile, Fusion Icon, iBus and Kupfer by their monochromatic counterpart.
* faenza-extras or faenza-dark-extras to override some icons displayed in system tray by Faenza monochromatic ones. This affects Liferea, LastFM and RadioTray. Just install the package to match the theme you are using.

Known issues

* You can experience some problems with sound volume icons from Faenza-Dark if your GTK theme display some 22x22 icons in buttons: the icon displayed is the one used for the (dark) panel. This theme blends generally better with a GTK theme that display small icons in toolbars (22x22) and buttons (16x16). You can change the theme's icons size by editing the gtkrc file and adding this kind of line at the beginning:

 gtk-icon-sizes = "panel-menu=22,22:panel=22,22:gtk-button=16,16:gtk-large-toolbar=22,22"

* A lots of applications does not currently support support monochromatic tray icon (deluge, gnome-do, skype, spotify, goldendict) without changing the application icon itself.

* Some applications are configured to always use the same icon regardless of the selected theme: e.g. emacs23, gcolor2, bluefish, hardinfo, defcon, gufw, pithos, goldendict, rssowl, vim, picasa, netbeans, gazpacho. 

To display the Faenza icon, edit as root the /usr/share/applications/application_name.desktop file and locate the line beginning with 'Icon='. Replace the fullpath icon name by the one of the Faenza icon (usually, it's the name of the application itself) without the extension. Don't forget to make a backup before changing one of those files. In some cases, you need to reinitialize the item in Gnome menu editor to display the new icon. Vim desktop file is /usr/share/applications/gvim.desktop.
Picasa desktop files are located in /usr/share/local/applications.

 * Java applications like jDownloader or Frostwire doesn't support themes even if you edit the corresponding .desktop files.

 

Enable Transparent Gnome Panels/Menus/Windows in Ubuntu 10.10

Do you want to customize your Ubuntu desktop with the transparent panels, menus, and windows? As we know, Compiz can do the job, but what if you don't need a complete transparency and want the font and controls/buttons is still perfectly visible?

This tutorial is about how to enable RGBA transparency in Gnome desktop, and this might be what you want.
 
Preparation :

To get RGBA transparency enabled in your Ubuntu, first you need to install and enable graphics driver properly.

And in right-click desktop menu "Change Desktop Background" option Visual Effects tab, make sure Normal or Extra was enabled.

Installation:

Open up a teminal from Appications -> Accessoires menu and add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:erik-b-andersen/rgba-gtk

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Now, install gnome-color-chooser and you can use it to enable RGBA:

sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser gtk2-module-rgba

Launch gnome-color-chooser at System > Preferences > Gnome Color Chooser. Go to Engines tab, tick "Global" and select "Murrine" in the drop-down box.

Now, click Preferences button to go to its configuration window and check the two check-boxes after "Configuration of Enable/Disable RGBA support"

Finally, logout and back in.

Note:

1. You can also install murrine themes with below command, and use it in right-click desktop -> Change Desktop Background -> Theme tab -> click Customize button.

sudo apt-get install murrine-themes

2. Due to bugs, the panel is only partially transparent and only GTK+ applications support RGBA transparency.

Screenshot:

fern-wifi-cracker

Wireless security auditing application

This is a wireless security auditing application that is written in python and uses python-qt4. This application uses the aircrack-ng suite of tools.
It should work on any version of linux running the following:

Requirements:
python
python-qt4
macchanger
aircrack-ng
xterm

To install simply run the following command in terminal after changing directory to the path were the downloaded package is:
dpkg -i Fern-Wifi-Cracker_1.1_all.deb
Software Icon can be found at the application Menu of the GNOME desktop interfaces
Icon can also be found at /usr/share/applications for KDE and also GNOME:
There you find "Fern_Wifi_Cracker.desktop"

Downloads:
http://fern-wifi-cracker.googlecode.com/files/Fern-Wifi-Cracker_1.1_all.deb