Fix Ubuntu plymouth

If your OS is Ubuntu and you have Nvidia or ATi graphic card, usually you'll have a problem with Ubuntu plymouth. Ubuntu nice plymouth turn into an ugly plymouth after you installed your graphic card driver. Here is step by step to fix it.

Resource:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-the-Big-and-Ugly-Plymouth-Logo-in-Ubuntu-10-04-140810.shtml

Up button for 7 & Vista

One thing missing when moving from Windows XP to Windows Vista or Windows 7 is the up button, right? Although back button takes up button position, I think it can't replace the main functionality of the up button. Is it possible to bring back the up button? Of course! Classic Shell will help you to do that.

Classic Explorer interface

What is Classic Shell? It is a project that can help you to customize your Windows installation, for example change your start menu into classic start menu, enable add classic explorer, etc. You can see it in http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ . Now, we back to the question, how to get back the up button? Simply, download Classic Shell in http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ and install it in your Windows.

Next, open your Windows Explorer and use alt button to show your menu toolbar. The, right click in your menu toolbar and choose Classic Explorer or Classic Shell and go to Classic Explorer setting. There you can customize your Windows Explorer, and check show up button below Title bar tweaks. And finish! Easy, right? Now you can use up button on your titlebar. Come on, try it yourself.

Up button on Windows Explorer

Stop frustation with Soluto

Your computer start up with snail speed? It makes you frustrated, isn't it? Ok, I've the same problem before, but no more for now? Soluto! Yes, this software can help you to manage your computer startup items. Here I'll show you how Soluto works on my lappie.

Soluto interface

Get Ubuntu Font for Ubuntu 10.04

Ubuntu 10.04 didn't come with pre-installed Ubuntu font, and you want it, how to install it? I've search in Google and I foind it. Thanks to webupd8 for make a ppa to download and to receive it's updates.

Easy, just copy and paste following lines in your terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/ubuntu-font-family
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ttf-ubuntu-font-family

It will add webupd8 repository for Ubuntu font family and install directly from there. And that's all guys. :D

picture from http://font.ubuntu.com/

Enable Two-Finger-Scrolling on Ubuntu 10.04

Last time I share an article about how to enable two finger scrolling on Ubuntu 10.10 . And today I tried to enable two finger scrolling on Ubuntu 10.04. It's a little different from Ubuntu 10.10. If you followed how to enable two finger scrolling on Ubuntu 10.10 in previous article, you'll found problem at number 6 (no directory xorg.conf.d). Nah, here is another trick to enable it on Ubuntu 10.04 :)

One thing you must know, this guide only works with those who have Synaptics Touchpad on their laptop. It's still the same, download Pointing Devices from Ubuntu Software Center and disable vertical and horizontal scrolling from there. And now open your text editor (gedit, kate, etc.) and copy paste this code:

synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinZ=40
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinW=8

And save it for example in your home directory. For example I save it as 2fsr in my home directory.

Next, open terminal and navigate to your home directory and give an access to your recently created file (in my case, it is 2fsr file). In my case, I type this in terminal:

sudo chmod +x 2fsr

Next, try to execute the file with this code:

./2fsr

And now try your touchpad, it should work now :) And now let's put it in startup application. Navigate to System>Preferences>Startup Applications and add a new item there and browse your recently created file (in my case, it is 2fsr) and add it. Done! Now you can use two finger scrolling every time you boot into Ubuntu 10.04. Hope this helps :)

Configure Thunderbird and Live@Edu email

I began to set up everything when I arrived in Linux Mint. Some interface changed and some application changed too. Because I'm a student of Ma Chung University, and I have an student email (Live@Edu) so I think I must configure an email client to help me maintain my student email. I found Thunderbird inside Linux Mint, and how to set my student email on it?

The procedure is very-very easy, because every email client will help you to do that. All you need to know is configuration setting for POP or IMAP for incoming messages and SMTP for outgoing messages, especially for student email. Let's solve this configuration now. For incoming server configuration, you can choose POP or IMAP, but IMAP is the suggested option.