March 2010
7 posts
I dreamed this and everybody wants to read about...
I was hanging around in a cul-de-sac that was very similar to the cul-de-sac where my parents live. All the garage doors were open, and all the garages had cars in them, and all the cars were stacked on top of things. One garage had 50’s-era Corvette propped up on two chest freezers. Another had two Pontiac Grand Prixs stacked one on top of the other, both a little crumpled and crushed....
How to upgrade Deluge BitTorrent client in Ubuntu...
Deluge is a BitTorrent client available for Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac OS X. It is my preferred client for Ubuntu. Unfortunately, the version (1.2.0) included in the repositories for Lucid doesn’t want to stay running for more than half an hour on my machine.
The quick and simple fix is to add the Deluge team’s PPA (personal package archive) to the list of repositories in...
Ray Kurzweil on Avatar: This movie is not very... →
“Why, when we read left to right is the most destructive action first?”
– Ivanka Majic, on the serious thinking that went into the decision to rearrange window controls in Ubuntu Lucid [via ars]
Benjamin Humphrey: 16 things that could be... →
“It’s not easy for the average user to change [the window controls] back to the right (Gconf is NOT easy!)”
Benjamin hits on a few things I had noticed, and a number of things that passed me by — I eschew gnome-panel and its terrible applets, and they feature heavily here. One thing I had missed is that the new window control placement and order breaks many existing themes.
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How to Fix the Window Buttons in Ubuntu Lucid
Window buttons in Ubuntu have always been at the top right of the window, arranged, left to right, Minimize, Maximize and Close. Like so:
In the most recent Alpha release of Ubuntu, the window buttons have been moved to the top left of the window and rearranged, like so:
Here is how to move the buttons back to their original location and order.
Press Alt-F2 and run gconf-editor
In the tree...
ubuntu finally replacing xsane scanning app with... →
This is good, because xsane is friggin’ complicated and gnome-scan never really got off the ground.