Reduce the Firefox 4 menu button to an icon in Ubuntu

Firefox 4 comes with many new features, one of which is the introduction of a ‘menu bar’ button placed to the left of your tabs when the traditional menu bar is hidden.

For my tastes it’s too wide and unsightly, but thankfully reducing it to an ‘icon’ is a relatively easy hack and you don’t lose any functionality.

Better yet the result is far easier on the eye…

Note that I’m using Minefeild builds of Firefox 4 in these screenshots but this ‘hack’ will also work with ‘proper’ builds of Firefox 4, too.

Find the ‘userChrome.css’ file buried within your home folder, likely appearing at‘home/.mozilla/firefox-4.0/userprofile.default/chrome’.

Open the file in your text editor of choice. Paste in the following code: -

#appmenu-toolbar-button {
  list-style-image: url("chrome://branding/content/icon16.png");
}
#appmenu-toolbar-button > .toolbarbutton-text,
#appmenu-toolbar-button > .toolbarbutton-menu-dropmarker {
  display: none !important;
}

Hit save, and restart Firefox. When it re-opens you’ll see a neat icon in place of that wide text menu.

Install Google Web Fonts In Ubuntu

I was reading on Femtux about a Google Web Fonts package for ArchLinux and though I'd make one for Ubuntu. I didn't create a .deb but instead I've modified the original ArchLinux script to download and install all the Google Font Directory fonts on Ubuntu. You can of course manually download the fonts from HERE if you want, but using this script you can install all of them in a few seconds. The fonts included are the new Gnome 3 font, Chrome OS font, Ubuntu font and many more.

What the script does is download all the fonts from Google Font Directory (it includes around 76 fonts, each with many variations that you can use on your desktop or various designs) and installs them under /usr/share/fonts/truetype/google-fonts/ (so if you want to remove them, simply delete that folder).

To download and install all the Google Web Fonts in Ubuntu, open a terminal and type the following commands:

cd && wget http://webupd8.googlecode.com/files/install-google-fonts
chmod +x install-google-fonts
./install-google-fonts

If you want to take a look at the script before running it, download it from HERE.

Once the script finishes downloading and installing the fonts, you can go ahead and try them out. If you want to use one of the Google Web Fonts for your desktop, right click your Desktop, select "Preferences" and set the new font on the "Fonts" tab.

The script creates a "googlefontdirectory" folder in the directory where you run it (your home folder if you've followed our exact instructions) - you can either delete this folder or keep it and the next time you run the script, it will only update the fonts instead of completely downloading them all over again.

Lyricsdownloader for Conky

      

This is a python script that will download lyrics for the song playing in Amarok 1.4x, Amarok 2, Rhythmbox, Audacious, Banshee, Exaile, Gmusicbrowser, Juk, Quod Libet, Listen, Songbird, Muine, Beep Media Player, and MPD and display the lyrics on your desktop with conky.

Both the deb and the tar include an example conkyrc file. The deb installs this in /usr/share/doc/lyricsdownloader/ .

For Amarok 2, Gmusicbrowser, Songbird, Audacious, Juk, BMP, Muine, Exaile, Listen, Quod Libet, Banshee or Rythmbox support, you need python-dbus installed. For MPD support, you must
have MPC also installed. Songbird also requires the extension 'dbusbird'. If you run this from your own conkyrc, make sure that text_buffer_size is set to a high enough value or the lyrics will be cut off. In the example conkyrc it's set to 6076.

If your favorite media player is not supported, leave a comment, and I'll see what I can do.

Requirements: python, beautifulsoup, python-dbus

install BeautifulSoap

sudo apt-get install python-beautifulsoup




to run the conky type

conky -c .conkylyrics

Get the configuration for lyricsdownloader here

Get the configuration for .conkylyrics here

NOTE: The album art in the screenshots is displayed with a separate superkaramba theme for Amarok 2. It's available here: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Amarok+2+Simple?content=93541

(lyricsdownloader_0.9.7.tar.bz2)

(lyricsdownloader_0.9.7.deb)

Faenza-styled gaming icons

Created by popular Deviant Artist half-left, 22 game icons are currently included. These range from fun-favorites like Super Tux Kart and Frozen Bubble to survival horror game Amnesia: Dark descent and ‘hard-to-describe-in-a-single-sentence’ puzzle game ‘Minecraft.

Use of the pack requires the Faenza icon set to be installed (PPA instructions here).

Download and further install instructions to be found @ half-left.deviantart.com/art/Faenza-Game-Icons

LIBREOFFICE FAENZA ICONS

By default, Faenza uses the OpenOffice icons for LibreOffice. But if you're usingLibreOffice, you may want some custom Faenza icons for it - there are no official icons yet but Funnyguy has created some beautiful Faenza Libreoffice icons which you can download via Gnome Look.

To install the icons, download the archive in your home folder, extract it and run the following commands:

cd
cd 138257-libreoffice-faenza-icons_V2
sudo ./lo-install

Download LibreOffice Faenza icons.