Are you tired of your same old Ubuntu theme ?. Changing backgrounds, rescaling windows, applying colours to directories and all those kiddy, time-wasting stuff, you have tried to make it look better. Time to try something new and awesome for your Ubuntu. Here are a few themes I found in the long run. Hope it would make your Gnome much better. To add these themes first add the themes source to the list. Enter the following in the command .sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bisigi

AirLines:                        sudo aptitude install airlines-theme

Wild Shine:                      sudo aptitude install wild-shine-theme

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Ubuntu Sunrise:                  sudo aptitude install  ubuntu-sunrise-theme

Tropical:                        sudo aptitude install tropical-theme

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Many operations , such as backing up important files or changing the wallpaper are activities that we do periodically, but  we don’t want to do it or have no time for this . Fortunately now you have dothisnow for help. Dothisnow is so advanced that it can change your desktop background, change pidgin status, play music, create screenshots and much more.For each of these steps, we can also define a very precise time of its execution, or cycle, which is to be repeated (eg a screenshot every 10 minutes to the folder reviewglitz) .Changing status of pidgin or playing audio after a fixed time etc can be controlled by Dothisnow.

DotThisNow can be downloaded from hand tools.

If you are a person who have tried many linux distros and couldn’t find the one you needed , then your search has come to an end . ArchLinux would be the answer to your searches . Arch Linux is a highly customizable linux which comes around at 360 mb .iso file , which includes all files needed for a harddisk install . If you are opting for net install or ftp install , then there are ways of doing it too . Arch Linux by default doesnot have a graphical interface . You can choose the graphical interface according to your wish , whether it be gnome , kde, fluxbox , xfce , enlightment and lot more . You can find a nice step by step tutorial which shows you how to install archlinux and customize the archlinux the way that suits it .As you know your desktop manager uses a large portion of your system resources . So choice of desktop environment is of great importance as one can make a linux distro which may be slow and flashy or fast and ugly .

Arch Linux offers support for almost all file systems like ext4 , ext3 , ext2, xfs, jfs , and much more . ArchLinux is great as it takes you out of the hassels of dependencies and libraries . ArchLinux by default , comes with a nice package manager called pacman , which is capable of updating and installing all softwares and applications . Compared to other linux distros , rather than compiling from source packages , archlinux installs from pre-made binaries .ArchLinux offers extreme customization and you can modify it to suit your daily needs . There are a lot of distros based on archlinux . Here is a page that lists out them . Archlinux is perfect for everyone with “do it ourselves” character.  ArchLinux is one of the  fastest linux distros , especially when run in console . Updating of software packages is done perfectly in archlinux servers too , which provides users with uptodate softwares and applications . Download links and guide to installation can be found in arch official website .

Believe me archlinux is simply a magnificent distro and it is worth a try . I assure you that you will definitely fall in love with archlinux . Feel the joy of tweaking your machine and modifying it the way you need  . Happy tweaking …..

In the Linux world with Ubuntu dominating the market to discuss about the comparison of Desktop Managers available for Linux is of good importance . By default Ubuntu comes with gnome desktop environment and Kubuntu comes with kde as the desktop manager . Considering the case of someone who is interested in trying out something different xfce might be fun . Xfce is a new desktop environment aimed at unix like operating system , providing nice features at smaller size and resources . Xfce can be installed in many platforms like freebsd , linux , solaris , cygwin and even macos . Xfce is definitely worth a look for users , who is interested in nice look and feel without sacrificing system resources . xfce is based on gtk 2 + just like gnome . It uses xfwm window manager . As it is always better to show something than to describe it , here I present you with some screenshots .

Also have a look at how xfce performs with compiz in Ubuntu 9.10 distribution .

The latest available version of XFCE is XFCE 4.6 . Visit xfce website for more details .

Applications like Mousepad text editor, Xfmedia audio player, Orage Calendar and Terminal are available by default for xfce environment . Printing tasks in xfce are managed by Xfprint . Xfburn is the cd/dvd burner program available for xfce . The default media player is Xfmedia player derived from Xine movie player . Thunar is the file manager for xfce .Xfce has almost everything needed by a normal user . Xfce but doesnot offer the flashy and eye-candy appearance of kde or large amount of applications like gnome .

Considering the progress xfce made in the following years , one day xfce may replace kde and gnome from our distros .Also connsider reading the comparison of kde vs gnome .

Yes , it is true you can download tons of gnome wallpapers with a command . As you know even though gnome-look.org has a large collection of wallpapers , it doesnot make it easy to download a lot of stuff . So how we can do it ? download with ftp  .Here is a complete step by step procedure to download gnome images .

1. Fire up your terminal and make a directory .

$ mkdir wallpapers

2 . Connect to ftp.gnome.org

$ ftp ftp.gnome.org

3. You need to enter the username and password , ”anonymous” will be your default username and there needs no password .

4.Explore the contents of the server

$ cd /pub/GNOME/teams/art.gnome.org/backgrounds

5. Now , we need to turn off the prompt mode .

$ prompt off .

5. Now we can download all the stuff  of your resolution with mget  providing your resolution . Here i assume your resolution to be 800 *600.

$ mget *800*600.jpg

You have started downloading .Feel free to  post your comments .

Here is a simple program named nrg2iso which converts .nrg file to .iso file in Ubuntu.  Ok , here we go .Follow the steps :

1. Fire up your gnome-terminal and login as root and install the program nrg2iso .

# sudo apt-get install nrg2iso

2. Enter the command to convert nero image to iso image .

# nrg2iso file.nrg file.iso

Hey,  you have successfully converted the image ..

One of my friends asked me , how he could mount an  .iso  image in Ubuntu , via commandline , even though he knew how to mount it with iso mounter in ubuntu. So here is a step by step procedure to mount an iso image .

1.Fire up your gnome -terminal from  accessories ->terminal .

2.Make a directory in /mnt /disk with root privilege ,  # sudo mkdir -p /mnt/disk .

3.Use mount command to mount the iso to the new directory , # sudo mount -o loop filename.iso /mnt/disk  .

4.Now you have successfully mounted your .iso image , to list the files in the iso image change to that dir using cd command

# cd /mnt/disk

5.Now to list the files and folders use the ls command , #ls

You are done , now you can use the iso image just like a directory .