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New feature in Nautilus – resize icon on desktop.

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:36:25 +0000

On Desktop on Gnome using nautilus, now you can resize individual icons. Just right click on the icon to resize and in the menu you will get a resize icon :

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Resize icon

and then you can resize the icon from the borders:

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Resize icon

“Where is this icon?” Nautilus script is incredibly nifty (omgubuntu.co.uk)
Use Nautilus’ Emblems feature to keep your home folder organised (omgubuntu.co.uk)
Screenshots: Desktop Unity in Natty (omgubuntu.co.uk)
Add a quick-access shortcuts to the GNOME right-click menu (ghacks.net)

Gnome Icons, themes and window decorator.

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:06:34 +0000

Yesterday, I had tried fusion theme, but that did not work our that good for me. Reasons multifold:

I like the features of GNome
I am used to GNome
Other window managers did not look that lucarative to me.
Compiz was chocking my CPU..
and so on..

So I went back to my GNome but wanted to change the looks so searched enough today to get the right set of Icons and themes. I think I finally got some decent ones and here are the links for the icons that I liked:
<a href="http://www.junauza.com/2008/08/10-really-cool-icon-sets-for.html" target="_blank">http://www.junauza.com/2008/08/10-really-cool-icon-sets-for.html
and this one <a href="http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/05/ultimate-gnome-icon-theme.html" target="_blank">here.

bash script to change icon theme to check out all the installed themes (personal)

Wed, 19 May 2010 16:38:44 +0000

I am really annoyed with the time that is required and the number of clicks that it takes to change the gnome icon theme. So here’s a small script that I wrote to quickly check out all the icon themes that I have in my ~/.icons folder.

#!/bin/bash
[[ ”$1” == ”” ]] && time=5 || time=$1
[[ ”$2” == ”” ]] && (
cd ~/.icons
cont=”y”
echo ”Select one of the icon themes”
echo ”When you like some theme just press Ctrl+c”
for i in *
do
[[ -d $i/cursors ]] || (
echo ”Now trying …. : $i”
gconftool-2 –type string -s /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme ”$i”
sleep $time
)
done
) || gconftool-2 –type string -s /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme ”$2”

bash script to periodically change the cursor theme.

Fri, 07 May 2010 03:27:41 +0000

#!/bin/bash
[[ ”$1” == ”” ]] && time=5 || time=$1
[[ ”$2” == ”” ]] && (
cd ~/.icons
cont=”y”
echo ”Select one of the icon themes”
echo ”When you like some theme just press Ctrl+c”
for i in *
do
[[ -d $i/cursors ]] && (
echo ”Now trying …. : $i”
gconftool-2 –type string -s /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_theme ”$i”
sleep $time
)
done
) || gconftool-2 –type string -s /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_theme ”$2”

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