ubuntu Eye Candy

Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 11:32 am. 0 comments

Possibly Unstable Eye Candy

* Compiz - Provides smooth, 3D animated window movement, desktop switching, ‘expose’ like application switching, transparent terminals, and more, including simple graphical configuration tools.
* GnomeLaunchBox: Mac OSX-style application launcher
* WallpaperTray: Picks a particular wallpaper when you log in, or regularly.

Older Eye Candy

The following eye candy has been superceded by more modern / stable equivalents, many of which come with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake).

* Upower: add a boot-up splash screen to Ubuntu (Ubuntu now includes a splash screen by default. Additonally, Upower is no longer in development, having been replaced by Splashy.
* QuickTips: Tip #2: Replace the Gnome foot on the Applications menu with the Ubuntu logo (Ubuntu 5.10 and newer do this by default)
* Expocity - Howto Expose-like functionality from Apple’s OSX (Compiz performs this better)
* Skippy - Howto for another Expose-like functionality from Apple’s OSX (Compiz performs this better)
* DropShadows: adding Drop Shadows to your desktop windows (Compiz performs this better)
* 3ddesktopHowto: 3d Desktop installation (Xgl performs this better)
* LuminocityHowTo: install Luminocity now in order to try out the new effects (Compiz performs this better. Luminocity is no longer in development.)
* TransparentTerminals: Transparent terminal windows on your desktop (Compiz performs this better)

via wiki.ubuntu.org.cn

Popularity: 8% [?]

ubuntu 下的音乐播放器

Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 11:32 am. 0 comments

★ Beep Media Player
简单的播放器

★ Banshee
音乐管理和播放
Import, organize, play, and share your music using Banshee’s simple, powerful interface.
Rip CDs, play and sync your iPod, create playlists, and burn audio and MP3 CDs. Most portable music devices are supported.

★ Rhythmbox
带 Album 管理的播放器

★ Listen

据说是最好的音乐播放器。

A nice music player and manager for GNOME

With Listen you can:

- Play your favorite songs
- Manage your library
- Make playlists
- Automatically or manually download album covers
- Automatically synchronize album covers with iPod
- Easily burn an audio CD
- Directly get informations from wikipedia when you play a song
- See the lyrics of a song
- Have statistics about your favorite songs, albums or artists
- Listen to web radio
- Submit your songs to Audioscrobbler
- Quick access to last.fm related file

★ XMMS
老牌播放器，现在显得有点过时了。

★ quod libet

★ amarok
KDE下的播放器。功能强大。我喜欢它的 win+b 下一首歌快捷键，以及显在在系统托盘功能。

★ Muine Music Player
简洁、舒适的播放器

★ mplayer
强大的播放器，甚至可以在tty终端中播放。就是图形界面差了些。

★ kaffeine
KDE 音乐播放器。

★ Juk
KDE 播放器

★ Quod Libet
Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python. It’s designed around the idea that you know how to organize your music better than we do. It lets you make playlists based on regular expressions (don’t worry, regular searches work too). It lets you display and edit any tags you want in the file. And it lets you do this for all the file formats it supports — Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, Musepack, and MOD.

★ exaile

★ Exaile
is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE’s Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python.

★Decibel Audio Player

Decibel Audio Player is a GTK+ open-source (GPL license) audio player designed for GNU/Linux, which aims at being very straightforward to use by mean of a very clean and user friendly interface. It is especially targeted at Gnome and will follow as closely as possible the Gnome HIG.

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Popularity: 63% [?]

ubuntu 查看笔记本电池信息

Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 11:32 am. 0 comments

/proc/acpi/battery/

比如 info 文件内容

present: yes
design capacity: 4400 mAh
last full capacity: 4191 mAh
battery technology: rechargeable
design voltage: 10800 mV
design capacity warning: 205 mAh
design capacity low: 143 mAh
capacity granularity 1: 62 mAh
capacity granularity 2: 3986 mAh
model number: Primary
serial number:
battery type: LION
OEM info: Hewlett-Packard

Popularity: 11% [?]

ubuntu hardy heron 8.04 路线图

Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 11:32 am. 0 comments

原文来自 In-Depth Roadmap Analysis For Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04，部分内容如下：

包括三个方面的改进：

1. User Experience, 用户体验
2. Networking and Security, 网络和安全
3. Support 技术支持

User Experience, 用户体验

新的主题；

更容易添加第三方 apt 源。.install 文件双击执行即可；

X.Org 7.3，显卡设置GUI界面改进；

Automatix-Ubuntu Team Collaboration 整合 automatix；

Dual/Multi Monitor Gnome Configuration 多显示器支持；

SlickBoot 三种启动界面 text, SVGA, and high-resolution；

Install on an existing filesystem without overwriting /home 重新安装不覆盖 /home 目录；（郭爽注：在此之前，要么单独给 home 分区，要么自己手工备份。我个人的经验是，在 win下保留 d 盘的 portableApps 和 music 以及 david－我的工作目录 即可，其它还有什么需要保留的呢？linux 下重要的东西也直接保留在 ntfs 分区。其实更多资料我直接就发到 blog 服务器或者 gmail 邮箱里）

Improve Handling of Full Disks 改进磁盘满的处理方式。linux 磁盘空间不够的话，不能进入 xwin，只能有只读的root分区。改进可能是在空间快不够的时候提示用户或者给一个清理程序。（郭爽注：遇到过一次 linux 磁盘空间不够的情况，进入 /var/log/ 删除一些日志即可，并不象原作者说到的那样是只读）

Integrate Prefetch into Bootup 加入预处理。（郭爽注：你可以查看这个windows prefetch了解什么是 prefetch）

Easy File Sharing 让 ubuntu 之间的文件共享更简单；

Single Click Install 从互联网安装软件更容易；

Add Remove Software Improvements 添加｜删除软件功能改进。可能会在线显示当前最热门的软件，以供安装。

Simple Samba Integration 简化 samba 的界面

Redesign About Ubuntu 改进 about ubuntu 的内容

Networking and Security, 网络和安全

Modular /etc/network/interfaces 网络设置模块；

Dial Up Support 加入 Network Manager 这个软件来管理 adsl 拨号等；

Improve support for encrypted file systems 改进由Gutsy Gibbon 开始的对加密盘的支持；

Live CD- share this wiki中解释的很好“Netboot server for easy setup of thin clients and machines which don’t have a CD drive.”；

killall gksudo: Stop running GTK as root! 想办法减少俺们敲 sudo 或者 gksudo 和密码的次数。：）

Support 技术支持

这里说了很多，都是关于更好的用户技术支持的问题。

比如，I’ve heard many users say they’ve burned a copy of a distribution and then it didn’t boot. The primary reason for this is that they simply burned the ISO file itself to the CD, instead of burning the image properly. 嘿嘿，俺第一次刻盘的时候也是刻了一个包含 xxx.iso 的 data CD。

Ubuntu Mobile Browser 类似于 win 下的 portableApps
Installing Ubuntu from within Windows windows 下的一键安装 ubuntu（ubuntu-install.exe）

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Popularity: 18% [?]

什么是 CNR

Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 11:31 am. 0 comments

What is CNR.com?

CNR.com is a free one-click software delivery service designed to standardize the process and eliminate the complexity of finding, installing and managing Linux software for the most popular desktop Linux distributions, both Debian and RPM based.

With CNR.com you get the most extensive free resource available anywhere for desktop Linux software. Search from tens of thousands of Linux software programs, packages and libraries by title, popularity, similar software, category, Who’s Who, or function, and with just one click install the software on to your computer.

似乎是类似源的一种软件安装方式，可惜需要客户端。

Popularity: 9% [?]

Linux 常用软件

Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 11:31 am. 0 comments

via listible Essential Linux Software，截至到 2006-04-13

Firefox

The best internet browser

AmaroK

The most sophisticated mp3 player for Linux

k3b

K3b is a feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application.

Thunderbird

The best email client

bash

Synaptic

Package manager

K Desktop Environment

“KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations.”

xine

xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet.

Gaim

The best instant messaging application. Combines all the protocols (ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber).

Liferea

RSS aggregator

F-Spot

Personal photo management software.

Downloader for X

Download manager

Ekiga

Ekiga is a free Voice over IP phone allowing you to do free calls over the Internet.

TSClient

tsclient is a frontend for rdesktop and other remote desktop tools

GNU Midnight Commander File Manager

It’s like Xtree for the Linux

K Desktop Environment

The best client of Jabber.

Make Custom Linux Penguin Sign

This sign generator has a picture of the Linux penguin holding a sign where you can change the letters in the image for download or send free ecard (requires Javascript).

ZSH

“Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.”

PSI

The best client of Jabber.

Popularity: 18% [?]

freedesktop.org 免费桌面软件列表

Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 11:31 am. 0 comments

主要是linux下。

AIGLX is a modular alternative to XGL for the accelerated desktop.

Avahi is a multicast dns network service discovery library

cairo is a vector graphics library with cross-device output support.

CJK-Unifonts is a project maintaining the only (as far as we know) open source CJK fontsets. This project is still asking for permission to settle down on freedesktop.org

Clipart is an open source clipart repository.

Why am I here? What happend to openclipart? (Sorry, don’t see a talk page)–X11Axiom

D-BUS is a message bus system.

dbus-cpp aims to provide a C++ API for D-BUS.

Desktop VFS is a Virtual File System aimed at message loop (gui) applications.

desktop-file-utils contains command line utilities for working with desktop entries and .menu files

DRI is a framework for allowing direct access to graphics hardware in a safe and efficient manner.

Enchant is a new cross-platform abstract layer to spellchecking.

Enlightenment is a desktop environment and application toolkit suite with lots of pretty pixels.

Eventuality is an “application automation meets cron” type DBUS based framework for creating a means to schedule arbitrary “actions” performed by conforming apps.

Fontconfig is a library for configuring and customizing font access.

GNU FriBidi is a library implementing the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm and Arabic Joining/Shaping.

Galago is a desktop-neutral presence system.

glitz is an OpenGL 2D graphics library and a backend for gl output in cairo.

GoFun is an implementation of the Desktop Entry Specification.

GStreamer is a streaming media framework.

GTK-Qt Theme Engine is a project to unify the GTK and Qt theming engines.

HAL is a specification and an implementation of a hardware abstraction layer.

HarfBuzz is the common OpenType Layout engine shared by Pango, Qt, and possibly others.

Hieroglyph is a PostScript rendering library.

icon-slicer is a utility for generating icon themes and libXcursor cursor themes.

icon-theme contains the standard and also references the default icon theme called hicolor.

immodule for Qt is a modular, extensible input method subsystem for Qt.

IPCF is an inter-personal communication framework.

jhbuild is a program that makes it easy to build software from CVS. It includes support for a number of packages hosted on freedesktop.org.

LDTP - Linux Desktop Testing Project

libburn is an open source library suite for reading, mastering and writing optical discs.

libkdb is an open source library suite to get and set configuration.

liboil is a library that makes it easier to develop and maintain code written for MMX/SSE/Altivec extensions.

libopenraw is an open source library for Camera RAW file decoding and processing.

libxklavier is an utility library for X keyboard-related projects.

Mesa The Mesa 3D Graphics Library, an implementation of OpenGL.

OpenSync is a project to create a standardized synchronization framework.

pkgconfig is a system for managing library compile/link flags that works with automake and autoconf. It replaces the ubiquitous *-config scripts you may have seen with a single tool. There’s nothing desktop-specific or desktop-related about pkg-config, despite it being on freedesktop.org.

poppler is a PDF rendering library, forked from xpdf.

pyxdg is a python library to access freedesktop.org standards.

readmenu is an SWT java program to display menus (useful with icewm if you have KDE and/or GNOME installed).

SCIM Smart Common Input Method platform, is a platform to develop input method services.

shared-mime-info is a package containing a large number of common MIME types, created by converting the existing KDE and GNOME databases to the new format and merging them together, and software for updating the database based on the share-mime-info specification.

startup-notification is a sample implementation of startup notification (telling the desktop environment when an app is done starting up).

sysconfig contains scripts used for managing freedesktop.org; right now this just contains the tinderclient and tinderserver.

Tracker is a highly memory efficient file indexer and metadata harveeter.

uim is a library to support input many languages.

UTF-8 is a project to document and evangelize the use of UTF-8 encodings for open source projects.

unicode-translation aims to translate Unicode character names and other data into many languages.

waimea aims to be a standards compliant window manager for the X Window System making use of the cairo graphics library for all rendering.

xapps is a project containing modular, autotooled X applications. Many of these are being phased out in favor of the modular Xorg build.

XCB/XCL together are an attempt to re-architect Xlib for resource-constrained environments and different application design techniques.

Xephyr is a kdrive X Server which uses a window on a host X Server as its framebuffer.

xfullscreen is a useful module for applications or window managers supporting fullscreen modes.

Xgl is an X server architecture layered on top of OpenGL.

X Libraries is a project containing modular, autotooled version of X Window System libraries. This is being phased out in favor of the modular Xorg build.

Xorg is the XOrg Foundation’s Public Implementation of the X Window System™.

xkeyboard-config is a central project for keyboard configuration.

xprint is the X11 printing system.

xrestop is a ‘top’ like X Server resource usage monitor that uses the XRes extension.

X Server is a project containing a modular, autotooled, highly experimental Xserver using the kdrive framework.

xsettings is a reference implementation.

X Testing provides information on various software for testing X Servers and Clients.

X Window Information is a window information utility for developers of applications, toolkits, and window managers.

via http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software

Popularity: 14% [?]

windows 查看 linux 分区工具 - explore2fs

Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 11:30 am. 0 comments

一般功能，explore2fs 比后面的 Ext2 Installable File System 好一些。后者不能读出我的 ubuntu 64 文件系统。但后者能够写操作。

* Reads ext2
* Reads ext3
* Drag & Drop
* 1.44Meg Floppy Disk Support
* LS120 Floppy Disk Support
* ZIP & Jazz Disk Support
* USB & CF Disk Support
* CDROM Support
* Supports Windows 98 extended partition scheme
* Export files as binary
* Export files as text
* Export directory
* View/Execute file
* Large disk support
* Large file support
* LVM2
* ReiserFS Detection
* Unicode UTF8 support
* Preserve time stamps on export

guoshuang2007-01-24+还有这个 Ext2 Installable File System For Windows

It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003 with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer.

The “Ext2 Installable File System for Windows” software is freeware.

还有这些 常用windows下访问ext3和Reiser分区的工具

1. ext2ifs

这个工具与explore2fs都是John Newbigin使用Delphi写的，explore2fs Copyright (C) 2000，Ext2IFS v0.3 Copyright (C) 2004，由此也可以推测下哪个程序更完善，ext2ifs默认支持ext分区的写操作。

下载地址：http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/li…ext2ifs-0.3.zip

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm

2.Paragon Ext2FS Anywhere

帮助你在 Windows 下访问 Linux 分区，把其作为正常逻辑器使用。提供对隐藏或者刚刚被创建的和格式化的 FAT/NTFS 分区。将创建，删除，格式，隐藏，在 Windows 下面取消隐藏初选，逻辑值或者扩展逻辑分区。你能够也马上改变的驱动器盘符。支持ext2／3读写，但是对超过4G的文件写入存在不可预知的问题。

3.explore2fs

使用相当简单，下载后解压缩，执行explore2fs.exe，程序会自动搜索ext2、ext3分区。

4.Total Commander加Ext2+Reiser 插件

Total Commander 网上很多，自行搜索一下吧。

Ext2+Reiser 插件下载

下载地址：http://ghisler.fileburst.com/fsplugins/ex2fs.zip

http://www.ghisler.com/plugins.htm 有许多插件可下载使用。

下载并安装Total Commander，下载并解压缩Ext2+Reiser插件中的output目录到Total Commander的安装目录内（或硬盘的其他固定位置，想使用就不能删除），运行Total Commander，选择配置－－插件－－文件系统插件－－配置－－添加－－找到ex2fs.wfx并添加，最后“确定”插件添加成功。

5.Ext2 Installable File System(另一个ext2ifs)

两个软件不是一个作者，不过实现的原理应该相似，驱动通用。这个软件安装后就能使用ext分区，可读写，但更改分区盘符很不方便，需要先到控制面板卸载，重启后重新安装程序重设盘符。

http://www.fs-driver.org/download.html

6.Paragon Mount Everything

和Paragon Ext2FS Anywhere这个软件是同一个公司出品，功能极其相似，Paragon Mount Everything Professional里已经包含了Paragon Ext2FS Anywhere，当然卖的价格也高了10美元。支持ext2／3读写，但是对超过4G的文件写入存在不可预知的问题。

引用:

Paragon Mount Everything Professional 是一款功能强劲的磁盘管理工具,程序

可以让你挂载各种系统格式下文件的软件，让不同系统下的文件可以互相访问。

Mount Everything 用于解除各个操作系统（DOS，Windows，Linux）访问彼此文件

系统的分区，使得访问计算机上别的操作系统的文件系统如同访问自己本来的文件系

统一样方便，可以自如的浏览、读写、创建甚至运行在各个分区的文件。

－支持NTFS1.2 - 3.1（Windows NT/2000/XP）；

－支持可压缩的NTFS；

－支持Ex2和Ext3文件系统；

－在各中环境－Windows、DOS、Linux－下都支持大于4GB的分区；

－Windows平台支持：Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT/2000 Workstation/Pro,

Windows XP；

－任何Windows版本都可以无限制的访问Ext2/3FS和NTFS；

－DOS下对NTFS只读；

－Linux下对NTFS只读；

－在任何环境都支持基于脚本的批处理；

－Windows下提供了各种基本的分区功能；

－WIndows和DOS下随意改变启动器号；

－可建立能够访问NTFS以及其他各种移动存贮设备的DOS启动盘；

－提供了一个启动光盘，可直接进入DOS或Linux，并且访问NTFS（只读）；

7.Ext2Fsd

安装后使用mount命令对ext分区挂载卸载，可读写。

下载地址： http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/so…xt2Fsd-0.25.exe

8、rfstool

命令行工具

http://p-nand-q.com/download/rfstool.html

下载地址：http://freshmeat.net/redir/rfstool/…fstool-0.14.zip

9、rfsgui-2.2

使用rfstool功能，gui界面。

下载地址：http://www.wolfsheep.com/map/rfsgui/rfsgui-2.2.zip

10、YAReG

也是使用rfstool功能，gui界面，需.net framework的支持

http://yareg.akucom.de/

11.ReiserDriver Pre-release Version 2

下载地址：http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/so…-release.v2.zip

12.R-studio

功能超强的数据恢复、反删除工具，采用全新恢复技术，为使用 FAT12/16/32、NTFS、NTFS5（Windows 2000系统）和Ext2FS（Linux系统）分区的磁盘提供完整数据维护解决方案！同时提供对本地和网络磁盘的支持，此外大量参数设置让高级用户获得最佳恢复效果。具体功能有：采用Windows资源管理器操作界面；通过网络恢复远程数据（远程计算机可运行 Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP、Linux、UNIX系统）；支持FAT12/16/32、NTFS、NTFS5和Ext2FS文件系统；能够重建损毁的RAID阵列；为磁盘、分区、目录生成镜像文件；恢复删除分区上的文件、加密文件（NTFS 5）、数据流（NTFS、NTFS 5）；恢复FDISK或其它磁盘工具删除过得数据、病毒破坏的数据、MBR破坏后的数据；识别特定文件名；把数据保存到任何磁盘；浏览、编辑文件或磁盘内容等等。

上面列出的工具只是比较常见的，还有不少WINDOWS下可访问LINUX分区的工具，这得益于微软的IFS Kit（The primary goal of the Microsoft Windows Installable File System (IFS) Kit is to provide all of the materials necessary to design, build, and debug file systems and file system filter drivers for Windows 2000 and later operating systems.）想看了解更多不妨到这里去看看：

http://www.microsoft.com/taiwan/whdc/devtools/ifskit/default.mspx

WinAllFS

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Popularity: 17% [?]

打造自己的 metacity

Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 11:30 am. 0 comments

这是网友的评价 — Clearlooks with a lemon, an apple and a cherry on top - funny suggestion by johny ,:)

下载 guoCherry metacity

在 系统 － 首选项 －主题，把下载的文件拖进改窗口即可安装。

我是从这个 cherry on top开始的。窗口关闭是红色按钮，这样看得更清楚一些。我顺便把最大化|最小化也加上颜色，绿、黄，这样更容易选中，时间仓促并没有仔细揣摩颜色以及其它按钮的样式设计，但原理大致如此。

修改方法说明：

在 .themes/XXXX/metacity-1 修改那个 xml 文件即可制作你自己的 metacity，在 主题细节－窗口边框 另选一个再选回来即生效。

如果要打包发布

tar jcvf xxx.tar.bz2 YYY

xxx 想要的文件包名字
YYY 你修改后的theme所在目录

相关资料：

http://www.gnome-cn.org/documents/gnome_art/metacity_themes_design

主题设定命令行：

gconftool-2 –type=string –set /apps/metacity/general/theme [theme_name]

Popularity: 8% [?]

ubuntu 下安装IE

Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 11:30 am. 0 comments

最新的 ies4linux 在 这个目录查找

这个 ies4linux 安装向导做得不错，回答几个问题即可自动安装，甚至包括flash支持。

sudo apt-get install wine
sudo apt-get install cabextract

wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar -xzvf ies4linux-2.0beta7.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-2.0beta7
./ies4linux

via http://www.rubyrailways.com/install-internet-explorer-on-ubuntu-dapper-in-3-easy-steps/

1) Graphical user interface

Just double-click the ‘ies4linux’ executable or run it on a terminal
./ies4linux

Currently, GUI is available on pygtk and kommander.

2) Command-line utility (automatic installation)

Open a terminal and run
./ies4linux –no-gui

To see possible options, run
./ies4linux –help

Popularity: 10% [?]