Attack Of The Clone Theme For Ubuntu

Attack Of The Clones is yet another theme created by JurialMunkey (who is also behind Divergence IV: A New Hope) that features a unique Metacity theme and a very interesting combination of light and dark colors.

Attack Of The Clones requires Murrine Engine 0.98 (which is available in Ubuntu 10.10) - if you're using Ubuntu 10.04, install it using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementaryart/elementarydesktop
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine

To install the theme, download the .zip, extract it, then open the "Appearance Preferences", switch to the "Themes" tab and drag and drop the extracted .tar.gz file onto it.

Download Attack Of The Clones

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.

Wi-Fi app ‘inSSIDer 2′ For Ubuntu

The first Linux release of  award-winning open-source Wi-Fi scanner toolinSSIDer 2 has been made available for download.

inSSIDer scans any network(s) available to your WiFi card/dongle and tracks the signal strength over time – even if you’re not connected to it. This makes it an invaluable tool when deciding on a network to join or for detecting performance issues with your own network.

Download

As this release is of alpha quality it is not recommended for users dependant on the use of a stable WiFi scanning tool.

Pre-packaged .deb files are available for both 32bit and 64bit Ubuntu @github.com/metageek-llc/inSSIDer-2-Cross-Platform/downloads

Auto Shutdown Timer ( Sleep ) script for Gnome Ubuntu

Switch it off. Save energy & money by shutting down your computer automatically.
This is simple script that tell your Linux machine when to shutdown.
Since leaving my computer on for 24 hour, 7 day a week becoming a habit, I made 2 simple and easy to use scripts to shutdown my Ubuntu system automatically. Now I can fall asleep while listening to my favorite music without having to worry about shutting down my computer.
These scripts use Zenity interface & simple bin bash command.
There are 2 mode of shutdown timer in this script:

1. Schedule shutdown timer - shutdown at any given time ( in 24 hour format hh:mm )
2. Countdown shutdown timer - shutdown after given ( mm ) minute.

Screenshot

 Select shutdown timer mode

schedule mode - enter time hh:mm in 24 hour format

 

countdown mode - enter countdown shutdown time [minute]

 Abort shutdown

Download

• Download Auto-shutdown.zip file here.
• If you don't have Zenity pre installed in your system, install using Terminal:

sudo apt-get install zenity

There are 2 bin bash script files inside the folder - Auto-shutdown & Cancel-shutdown

Install & Use

• Extract Auto-shutdown.zip to any folder.
• Right click, select extract here [image below]

• Cut & paste Auto-shutdown folder to ~/.Gnome2/nautilus-scripts [ example image below]

• Auto-shutdown script should be available on right click > Scripts menu [image below]
• You can run shutdown timer script by clicking on Auto-Shutdown or abort shutdown timer using Cancle-Shutdown option.

• Make sure permission to execute as program is given to both script files. 
• Right click on script files > Permissions tab and check the “Allow executing file as program” checkbox.

 

Note: This script is tested on Ubuntu Karmic Koala system. It might work on other Linux distros. I'm not a programmer & this is my first time writing scripts with Zenity interface.

Divergence IV Docky theme

This is a Docky theme based on the Divergence IV GTK2/Emerald theme. This theme comes with a left version as well to mimic the title buttons' switch in Ubuntu.

Divergence IV theme [link]

AwOken - Awesome Token icon set [link]

wallpaper [link]

Instructions:

Unzip to ~/.local/share/docky/themes(create the 'themes' directory if it's not there). For all users /usr/share/docky/themes.

Glest!! An Alternative To Warcraft III

For those who’s hate to play warcraft III game using wine or other emulators on your linux desktop, but you couldn’t find other games similar to warcraft III that could run natively on linux, you should try Glest!!
Although I’m a cyber cafe owner but I am not a games freak, but Glest had caught my eyes 3 years ago, when I started osscc.org. Glest is a good 3D real time strategy game, the game is still under good development progress. You can play Glest on LAN or single player also. Although Glest is not as advance as Warcraft III, but I really enjoy playing it some time, even those kids when we did an exhibition last year gave us a positive feedback when they play Glest on our diskless linux gaming system using DRBL.

Installation
Installing Glest on Ubuntu Linux is far too easy, open your terminal and type the following command:

# sudo apt-get install glest

Glest is a free 3D real-time strategy game, where you control the armies of two different factions:Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and mechanical devices, and Magic, that prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield.

Glest is not just a game, but also an engine to make strategy games, based on XML and a set of tools. A few mods already exist.

Mega Glest

Their other project called MegaGlest seems doesn’t  has so many progress since they registered the project at SourceForge.net on Jan 22 2010, and is described by the project team as follows :
“Currently there is no active development of the real time strategy game glest. This project aims to improve the game and its content. It already has a lot more content than the original game and contains bugfixes and improvements.”

And the stable release of MegaGlest is version 3.3.3 and can be downloaded from here :http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=6054.0

You can visit their site to find out more about this game:
Glest Official Website : http://glest.org/en/index.php
Glest Blog : http://glestblog.blogspot.com/
Glest Forum : http://glest.org/glest_board/

source

GUVCviewer: Finally Webcam Recording Made Easy

For almost two years my primary recording device for YouTube videos has been with not a fancy camcorder, but a webcam.

So believe me when I tell you that I’ve tried a lot of different applications on different operating systems to get the most from my camera, both proprietary and open source. Out of everything I have tried, GUVCviewer packs the best blend of performance and features.

Check out the video for my full review:

GUVCViewer Video Review

I should mention that one problem web cameras face in Linux, as well as every other O/S, is that they are limited by the interface (to date). USB webcams, even USB 2.0, simply don’t have the ability to output 1080p (or even 720p) video at decent frame rates. It will be a while before we see high-bitrate video recorded at 30 fps in 1920x1080p.

This is not a software fault but a hardware limitation. The good news is that prices for camcorders that can handle 1080p video have come down quite a bit!

( Check out Nixie’s blog here and follow her on Twitter! )

To Install GUVCviewer just open Ubuntu Software Center. search GUVCviewer and install

Source OMG! Ubuntu

Minimal ‘conky Orange’ theme

Just take this minimally-stunning ‘Conky orange’ theme by GNOME-look user hardball.

Amongst the many circular  displays you can see are a clock, CPU monitor (with top 3 processes listed), RAM usage (with top 3 largest memory users) and information on your hard-disks and network connection.

Download @ gnome-look.org/content/show.php/conky_orange

All credit to the creators of Elementary Milk.

Extract file and copy folder.

then in terminal:

gksu nautilus /usr/share/windowbuttons/themes/

and paste the folder into the directory.

(elementarymilkwindowbutton)

source GNOME-Look.org