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Show Desktop with Hot Corner (hover) - Ubuntu 11.04

This effect can be done using compiz! First, install Compiz Settings Manager from the repositories Go to " General " and click " General Options " Look for " Key Bindings " tab, and under it select " Show Desktop " (the one with a monitor icon) Finally select " Bottom Left " (for example)

Exposé Mac Os X like in Ubuntu 11.04

This effect can be done using compiz! First, install Compiz Settings Manager from the repositories Under " Filter ", filter by the keyword "scale" Finally, select " Scale " and in the " Binding " tab, assing a method to " Iniciate Windows Picker " (with the monitor icon). For example: " BottomRight "

Sysmonitor Indicator Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexeftimie/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install indicator-sysmonitor source

Adding Themes to Empathy

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To install themes (like adium themes) extract the downloaded file and move the *.AdiumMessageStyle into the folder .local/share/adium/message-styles/*.AdiumMessageStyle You will need to create this folder

Netspeed

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What is Netspeed? Netspeed is just a little GNOME-applet that shows how much traffic occurs on a specified network device (for example eth0). You get the best impression of it, if you look at the screenshots below. How does it look like? This screenshot shows netspeed monitoring a W-Lan device. How to Install sudo apt-get install netspeed

Hp photosmart 7260 under Ubuntu 10.04

The problem: The printer hangs when i try to print a document (any type). At launchpad.net a ticket was submited with the same problem. A Suggestion, update to last version of hp-lib (the actual version es 3.10.5). Run hp-check -t (the first line says your installed version) Update to your last version using Synaptic, searching for hp as keyword. The solution: change the default: hp:/usb/photosmart_7200_series?serial=XXXXXXXXXXXX to: usb://hp/photosmart%207200%20series?serial=XXXXXXXXXXXX Edit this from System->Administration->Printing Select the desire printer-> Properties Under device Uri: edit what i said before. Note: XXXXXXXXXXXX is written by default, copy it straightforward Its represent your printer serial number. This solution was submitted by ben_reily at launchpad

Creating Iso files from directories

mkisofs -o name.iso directory

Pino Twitter Client

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Pino is Twitter and Identi.ca client for Linux desktop (actualy, for any OS, that has X11). It's simple, fast and also fancy :). Pino is written in Vala language and compiled to the native binary code. or you can download an archive with source code or get the latest revision from mercurial repository: hg clone https://pino-twitter.googlecode.com/hg/ pino-twitter Packages Ubuntu sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vala-team/ppa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:troorl/pino Arch Linux You can download PKGBUILD at AUR . Thanks to pizzapunk Fedora su -c 'yum install pino' Also you can download RPM package for Fedora 12 in the download section . Thanks to Joel Barrios. Debian Unofficial Debian packages from Kirya.net http://packages.kirya.net/ FreeBSD FreeBSD users are now able to install it via ports: cd /usr/ports/net-im/pino make install clean ... or as a binary package: pkg_add -r pino Installation from sources Pino uses Waf build system . To build and insta...

Mandar al procesador de pecho!!

Una alternativa es mantener las teclas Alt (izquierdo)+System Rescue (Print Screen) y escribir REISUB. donde R - Devuelve el control al teclado (Raw) E - Manda todos los procesos al term, es decir, los hace terminar (End) I - Manda los procesos al Kill. S - Sincroniza el disco duro (Sync) U - Desmonta todos los sistemas de ficheros (Unmount) B - Por último, reinicia el ordenador. (reBoot) nunca me acuerdo esto yo

Meld

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Meld es un programa de software libre , para la visualización y fusion de diferencias entre archivos y directorios en un entorno gráfico . Permite a los usuarios ver las diferencias de dos o más archivos de manera visual con coloreo de código en diferentes líneas. Ademas tiene la capacidad de trabajar con diferencias entre versiones de repositorios (CVS, SVN, etc). Requerimientos: gnome2 libs python2.2 or python2.3 pygtk2 and gnome-python2 Screenshot: