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autoten- install nvidia, gnome color chooser and many others in one click on Fedora.

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:38:53 +0000

There is a application/GUI called autoten from Dangermouse, find <a href="http://dnmouse.org/autoten-2-12.fc10.noarch.rpm ">here, which will help you install these.

designed to help get basics up and running fast
dvdplayback plus other codecs needed
parental controls
flash plugin
video card drivers
wireless drivers
set up sudo
java 6u7
realplayer
googleearth
frostwire
Limewire
lightscribe
compiz-fusion
skype
parental controls
plus many others

I tried it to install couple of things and it was a breeze. Here is a screenshot of the application.

gnomecc color scheme - my favourite.

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:59:26 +0000

my favourite <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/gtkrc-2.0-gnome-color-chooser">gtkrc-2 file.

Snapshot of how it looks.

Mod your gnome desktop, change the colors the easy way.

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:47:16 +0000

Install the autoten application. You can find the instructions in my earlier post today <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2009/04/20/autoten-install-nvidia-gnome-color-chooser-and-many-others-in-one-click-on-fedora/">here.

Gnome color chooser is an application to allow you to change the color of your gnome DE in all aspects. Very easy to use GUI. Just install it and run it as gnome-color-chooser. Here’s a screenshot of the application.

The beauty of this application is that it allows to use XML files as input so there are lot of possibilities. And one of the most lucarat5ive ones is to download a pack of color schemes from <a href="http://gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/84941-daX_UltraPack220_3v2_gnomecc.tar.bz2">here. This has 220 theme colors to select from in the form of XML files which can be used directly with Gnome Color Chooser. So enjoy.

Desktop with cairo-dock

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:46:54 +0000

Just love the look now.

Heres the screenshot:

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”

Spruce up your firefox with lightweight themes – Personas

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:46:30 +0000

Head over to Firefox addons site for persona <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10900" target="_blank">here. This addon will give you the ability to change the look and feel of the browser without restarting it. Though it is not completely like themes and does not change the look and feel of the buttons and plenty of other things but this does make the browser a lot better. Here are some screenshots to show you how it feels like:

fvwm Look and Feel, icons and themes

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:07:45 +0000

I am liking fvwm more and more. Rather I went ahead to get the themes and icons for fvwm and am quite happy with the amount of customization I can do with the WM. So, I found the themes page for the fvwm which gives about 27 themes and all of them look quite cool.

You can choose to have the gnome and the KDE menu in your fvwm menu which is built dynamically. Decide on when the window should become active and things like Animation, Auto Raise, Banner and the list continues and you dont have to search anything to do any of those. The <a href="http://fvwm-themes.sourceforge.net/doc/FAQ" target="_blank">FAQ is a good resource to start.

Change cursor and couple of other settings in window managers like fluxbox and fvwm (except gnome and KDE)

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:58:34 +0000

First off, get cursor theme from <a href="http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xsortmode=high&page=0&xcontentmode=36" target="_blank">here. You can download the one of your choice. Now create a directory ”~/.icons” if it does not exist. Extract the file you just downloaded in this directory. [If you are using GNome then you could have dropped the tar file itself in the Desktop properties window and selected the theme from there. I have since the days of RH9 not used KDE and so am not sure how to do this in KDE, sorry guys.]

bash – change theme for gtk in gnome and take screenshot from script.

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:39:41 +0000

I wrote a blog on bash script to change the icon/cursor theme using a bash script. Lets extend the same concept a little more and use the script to change the gtk theme for gnome and at the same time take a screenshot also.

#!/bin/bash
path=”/tmp/screenshot”
[[ ”$1” == ”” ]] && time=5 || time=$1
[[ ”$2” == ”” ]] && (
cd ~/.themes
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 …. : $i”
gconftool-2 –type string -s /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme ”$i”
sleep 1
j=$(echo ”$path/$i”).jpg
import -window root -quality 95 ”$j”
sleep $time
)
done
) || gconftool-2 –type string -s /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme ”$2”

GoOo released new version of Open Office.

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:33:19 +0000

GoOo repository for Fedora at http://go-oo.mirrorbrain.org/stable/linux-i586/ has released the new version of GoOo packages.

Elive – just 5 generations ahead.

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:15:32 +0000

A lot of you must have heard about E16 desktop and lot others would have heard about the compiz. Think about the sheer beauty of the desktop for the combination of the 2. See some screenshots here. I haven\’t tried the distro till now but am in the process of downloading the development version right now. Would try it from live media and install it if that looks great.