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Episode 36 - Thermaltake BlacX / Mac OS Style for Ubuntu Hardy |
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Topics Covered: - DVD ISO Downloads are now available!
- Dealing with the buffering issues on UStream.
- Viewer Question: I cannot view videos on the HP Services Media Library on Ubuntu. Can you help? (Unfortunately the site was not functional at the time; we'll have to come back to it again).
- In Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, Emerald Theme Manager (Themer), by default, does not work with the SVN repositories like it used to. We'll work around this by downloading themes from GNOME-Look (see link below) and then installing them into Emerald Themer.
- Setting a nickname in the Category5 / UStream chatroom.
- Feature: Making Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron look and feel a little more like Mac OS Leopard.
- Downloading the Mac OS Leopard desktop wallpaper and setting our Ubuntu system to use it.
- Installing the BZR development version of the Avant Window Navigator dockbar in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.
- Using the Software Sources GUI in Ubuntu Hardy to add third-party repositories to apt's sources.list.
- Using Synaptic Package Manager to easily install Avant Window Navigator (AWN). See notes below.
- Removing your Gnome taskbar to make way for AWN's dockbar.
- Configuring Avant Window Navigator and adding applets.
- Viewer Comment: I love how Synaptic Package Manager resolves dependency issues automatically.
- Viewer Question: How do you get Avant Window Navigator to start automatically when you startup your system?
- Using Session Preferences to manipulate your automatic startup programs.
- Setting emerald --replace to run at startup.
- Using the menu editor to easily find the executable name of any program installed on your Ubuntu Linux computer.
- Greets to first-time viewers.
- The final step to making your Ubuntu Linux computer look like Mac OS Leopard: downloading and installing an Emerald theme that gives Ubuntu Mac OS-style window decorations and borders.
- Making any window translucent / transparent in Compiz-Fusion / Ubuntu Hardy Heron.
- Hardware Feature: Thermaltake BlacX eSATA / USB 2.0 harddrive docking bay.
- Using the BlacX on Ubuntu Linux.
- Viewer Comment: The BlacX is only available in USA.
- Viewer Question: Is the BlacX heavy?
- Viewer Comment: You could use the BlacX for Time Machine.
- Viewer Question: Did the HP web site ever load?
- Going over all the Avant Window Navigator installation packages; what is each one for?
- Viewer Question: What is a good application to use for coding PHP?
- Viewer Comment: I'm trying to get away from coding.
- Setting Compiz-Fusion's animation effects to be different (customized) for specific programs, such as Avant Window Navigator's applets. (See note below)
Links: Notes: The repository for avant-window-navigator (AWN) on Ubuntu Hardy Heron is:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu hardy main The list of Avant packages you want to install (as in this video) is: avant-window-navigator-bzr / core-applets-bzr / libawn0-bzr / awn-manager-bzr / python-awn-bzr When working with CompizConfig-Settings-Manager to modify the animation (at the end of the show) I accidentally called it Avant Window Navigator. Hey; you knew what I meant, right? ;) Keywords: blacx, blackx, black-x, blacks, e-sata, esata, usb 2.0 No one has commented on this article. |
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