cinnamon 1.8

Cinnamon 1.8 the desktop environment developed by the team of Linux Mint has many new features and many bug fixes , and various improvements in its different areas, such as the section on developers. All this makes cinnamon 1.8 desktop environment be a complete and interesting. Started with Nemo file browser . The fork of Nautilus continues to [...]

Bumblebee 3.1 tumbleweed

Bumblebee 3.1 tumbleweed has been released and announced by The Bumblebee Project Team.The important news of this update is the integrated support for backend Primus, which can – your choice – go to the backend  VirtualGL default for optirun. For those who does not know, Bumblebee is a unique application that allows you to get in Linux Nvidia Optimus [...]

hard drive bad sector

How to know if you have bad sectors on your hard drive in Ubuntu Desktop and how to fix them. You can use badblock program to fix this problem. The badblocks is program command line based allow to test your harddrive for, you guessed it, bad blocks. The badblocks program is part of the e2fsprogs [...]

entangle ubuntu

What is tethered shooting?. Tethered shooting is method hook up your DSLR camera to your Laptop/PC and take pictures, you are shooting tethered. You can either trigger the camera from your Laptop/PC or directly from the DSLR camera itself and then view the image on your computer screen. Depending on the camera, you can control [...]

usb login ubuntu

This tutorial will learn a method how to login into Ubuntu 12.10 using USB flash drive. This can be accomplished by use of PAMUSB (Pluggable Authentication Modules USB) and some sort of USB storage device such as USB memory stick, mobile phone with SD card attached. It is compatible with many display managers ((LightDM, GDM, MDM [...]

Configure display manager

The New MDM 1.0.6 (Mint Display Manager) available for ubuntu 12.10/12.04 based distribution. MDM 1.06 is default display manager for Linux Mint 14. MDM 1.0.6 is a new Display Manager developed with code is based on GNOME Display Manager 2.20. It provides UI (User Interface) configuration tools, themeability, remote, automatic and timed login, event scripting, language selection [...]

gnome shell

GNOME Shell 3.6 allows users to be displayed notifications in the lock screen. By default, Gnome Shell 3.6 disabled feature the lock screen notifications due to privacy concerns. The lock screen plays much the same role as a screensaver – it is what is displayed when your device is idle. The difference between the lock screen and [...]

DockBarX is an app launcher or switcher that works as a GNOME2 panel applet, Avant Window Navigator applet or as a stand-alone dock. The new DockBarX 0.90.3 has been released come with the stand-alone dock supports applets, included applets, Cardapio menu and also work in MATE Desktop panel applet. With DockBarX, give every appearance of the Windows 7 [...]

terminal

On this brief I will shown you how to make google search available in your ubuntu terminal. The reason why enable google search on ubuntu terminal, in Ubuntu Desktop environment most of the installation is done through terminal. During installation , sometimes you may get error . Generally newbies search on Google by using  error message as [...]