Phrank deserves an award for coming up with this hack. NoCompiz uses Compiz-switch, a simple program that turns Compiz off if it is on and vice-versa.
NoCompiz will take one input - the name of a program - Turn off Compiz, run the program, then turn Compiz back on when the program exits.
This is very useful when you're running Compiz all the time, but want to switch to a full-screen 3D game for awhile and not have to worry about Compiz messing with the game.
Just download noCompiz, unzip, and run the Install.sh installer from within Nautilus.
Download NoCompiz
edit the menu entry of the programme you want to toggle.
eg, nocompiz kdenlive
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Lugaru goes open source
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxgxYxTWcOI&feature=player_embedded
http://www.playdeb.net
add the playdeb mirror to software sources:
http://www.playdeb.net
add the playdeb mirror to software sources:
deb http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/getdeb/ubuntu lucid-getdeb games
deb-src http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/getdeb/ubuntu lucid-getdeb games
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lugaruSaturday, August 7, 2010
Astromenace in Ubuntu
Great space shoot em up. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eOxBLgH1GI&feature=player_embedded
Viewizard Games repository
deb http://viewizard.com/linux debian/
from terminal:
$ wget http://www.viewizard.com/linux/viewizard-gpg.asc
$ sudo apt-key add viewizard-gpg.asc
$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude install astromenace
THANKS: Lincudo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eOxBLgH1GI&feature=player_embedded
Viewizard Games repository
deb http://viewizard.com/linux debian/
from terminal:
$ wget http://www.viewizard.com/linux/viewizard-gpg.asc
$ sudo apt-key add viewizard-gpg.asc
$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude install astromenace
THANKS: Lincudo
Xperience 1.0
Graphical User Interface for XBMC Media Center.
Xperience has now been updated to 1.0 and is no longer in beta. The project has also been added to the XBMC Skins SVN.
GM-notify
A simple and lightweight highly Ubuntu Lucid integrated GMail Notifier which takes advantages of notify-osd and indicator-applet. Because of this it will not run with older Ubuntu versions.
Option to select a sound when new incoming mail, a must-have for Gmail users.
Installing from a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gm-notify-maintainers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gm-notify
GM-Notify on Launchpad
Option to select a sound when new incoming mail, a must-have for Gmail users.
Installing from a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gm-notify-maintainers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gm-notify
GM-Notify on Launchpad
U8UNTU is 1 in 2 million
Yes, that's right, this blog is 1 in 2 million, 1,718,711 to be exact.
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ALEXA
Speedier apt-get with apt-fast
Matt Parnell has an interesting method of speeding up his apt-get downloads by utilising the axel downloader.
A shell script appropriately called apt-fast is available from the link above.
Here is what Matt has to say about the project:
The apt-fast script I have created is a little shellscript that increases the speed of apt-get by many times. You need to have the axel download accelerator installed, which is a simple, short process, but everything else is extremely straight forward. I started out downloading the upgrades for Kubuntu, at 32kb/s. Not terrible, but not that great. When I was done with the script here, I was getting up to ~850kb/s. That is great, huh?
To do this, you first need to download and install the axel download accelerator. It is really a good drop-in replacement for wget, as it is bash based. Once installed, we are ready to setup apt-fast. On K/Ubuntu apt-get install axel should do it.
Then, either find a package somewhere (or install it from a repo if one of them has it), or just download the latest apt-fast source from the link mentioned at the top of this post. Then, just place the script somewhere (/usr/bin or /usr/sbin is ideal), rename it to apt-fast (without the .sh extension), and sudo chmod +x apt-fast.
Once done, just use it like apt-get. To install a single package, make sure your database is up to date (apt-fast update), and run apt-fast install packagenamehere. Watch it download with incredible speed, and install your requested packages. To upgrade or dist-upgrade, do the same thing. Just use apt-fast dist-upgrade or apt-fast upgrade. That's all there is to it!
Should your download stall for any number of reasons, you'll need to do an apt-fast clean.
U8UNTU eLXR
A shell script appropriately called apt-fast is available from the link above.
Here is what Matt has to say about the project:
The apt-fast script I have created is a little shellscript that increases the speed of apt-get by many times. You need to have the axel download accelerator installed, which is a simple, short process, but everything else is extremely straight forward. I started out downloading the upgrades for Kubuntu, at 32kb/s. Not terrible, but not that great. When I was done with the script here, I was getting up to ~850kb/s. That is great, huh?
To do this, you first need to download and install the axel download accelerator. It is really a good drop-in replacement for wget, as it is bash based. Once installed, we are ready to setup apt-fast. On K/Ubuntu apt-get install axel should do it.
Then, either find a package somewhere (or install it from a repo if one of them has it), or just download the latest apt-fast source from the link mentioned at the top of this post. Then, just place the script somewhere (/usr/bin or /usr/sbin is ideal), rename it to apt-fast (without the .sh extension), and sudo chmod +x apt-fast.
Once done, just use it like apt-get. To install a single package, make sure your database is up to date (apt-fast update), and run apt-fast install packagenamehere. Watch it download with incredible speed, and install your requested packages. To upgrade or dist-upgrade, do the same thing. Just use apt-fast dist-upgrade or apt-fast upgrade. That's all there is to it!
Should your download stall for any number of reasons, you'll need to do an apt-fast clean.
U8UNTU eLXR
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