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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Make TweetDeck(Adobe Air) to use default Browser in Ubuntu
I use TweetDeck extensively. When my default browser was Firebox, i had no problem opening links in firefox however when i changed my default browser to Google Chrome still the links in Tweetdeck were opening in Firefox. I thought thats strange, after googling for some time, i found this solution.
I think the problem is that AIR doesn’t ask the gnome for correct default browser. The solution to this is to set the deprecated variable manually, before you launch TweetDeck or any other AIR Application.
The following little script that does just that.
export GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=Default
Start the Tweetdeck and open any link, voila you’ll see links opening in the default browser!
Thanks to Roy Tanck
Docky in 3D background mode – Awesome!
One more reason to love it more! The latest version of Docky has 3D background mode and its awesome 
Installation:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:docky-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docky
Enabling ThreeDimensional (3D) Docky mode:
Simply paste this in a terminal:
gconftool-2 -t bool -s /apps/docky-2/Docky/Interface/DockPreferences/Dock1/ThreeDimensional true
Then close Docky (if opened) and run it again. If you have more than one Docky, replace “Dock1″ in the command above with the dock you want to enable 3D mode for.
Elementary Theme and Docky!
Well i was addicted to Mac OSX theme and AWN on my ubuntu for a while. You can check my post about the theme here. It was really nice, though i got bored of it. Was definitely looking for a change, but didn’t any.
Elementary Theme :
One day was reading a blog n came across this elementary theme. After i installed it, started like it. Its a dead simple theme. Nice icons.. Overall has a same feeling like osx theme but different in its own way. Good thing is its got a PPA! yeah PPA, so you won’t miss on any updates..
Installation :
You can find this PPA here
https://launchpad.net/~elementaryart/+archive/elementarydesktop
or using the terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementaryart/elementarydesktop
and install using:
sudo apt-get install elementary-desktop
and then running: -
/usr/share/elementary-desktop/configure.sh
Docky :
I’m a great fan of AWN. Been using it for a while, though suddenly i decided to try Docky. Because lots of people were liking it. So i thought lets give it a try and installed it.
Initially i didn’t like that much, but soon started liking it. One of the nice feature is grouping feature. If you have more than one nautilus windows open, it will be inside one icon and you right click on it to select the right window. In AWN it was like three icons for three windows. Other features include gmail notifier – very handy and nice.
Installation :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:docky-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docky
Note: Docky is now a standalone application and, from some point soon, no longer be part of GNOME Do.
You should definitely try this, Worth a try
