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 [...]

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 [...]

libreoffice 4.0 stable version

LibreOffice 4.0 Stable Version has been released and announcment by Document Foundation on February 7, 2013. It come with new feature, better look and more  improvements. On this release LibreOffice 4.0 now compatible with Microsoft’s Rich Text Format (RTF) and DOCX file formats – the latter being the XML-based Word document format first introduced in Office 2007 and brings [...]

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 [...]

MATE Desktop Environment

MATE Desktop Environment 1.4.0 has been released and announced by Mate Desktop Developer team. MATE Desktop Environment is a traditional looking desktop environment derived from Gnome 2, specially designed for Gnome 2 Fans who did not want to switch to Gnome 3 for several reason.  On this release, MATE Desktop Environment 1.4.0  fixes numerous bugs, new themes, improvements and [...]

grub 2.0 ubuntu 12.04

GRUB 2.0 (Grand Unified Bootloader) was release on June 28, come with some major improvement and brings a new menu structure with submenus, a new theme for gfxmenu and support for new platforms and It also brings new drivers for AHCI, EHCI, EFI serial etc. Grub is arguably the best piece of software in the [...]

ubuntu

On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Auto Mount Feature is enable by default, when you insert a media disc or flash drive it will be auto mount. If you want disable it, follow the guide how to disable auto mount on ubuntu 12.04 Step-by-step to Disable Auto Mount in Ubuntu 12.04 Step 1. First, install dconf-editor sudo [...]