Ubuntu builder 2.4.0 released and installation instructions included

A handy tool to build an Ubuntu based GNU/Linux distribution.Ubuntu Builder is a simple tool to create your own distribution. It allows to download, extract, customize in many ways and rebuild the ubuntu images. You can customize i386 and amd64 desktop ISO images.

What is new in version 2.4.0

Here is the day. The new v2.4.0 has been released! This version brings the support for Ubuntu Raring Ringtail 13.04 and drops the ones for Lucid Lynx and Oneiric Ocelot. Various bug fixed and a new translation added.

Unfortunately, the Ubuntu Mini Remix project has not yet released the new 13.04 images, so they won't be available for the download. When these images will be ready, a new version of the program will come out.

Install ubuntu builder 2.4.0 in ubuntu 13.04/12.10/12.04

Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:f-muriana/ubuntu-builder

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-builder

How to install classic gnome desktop in ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)

This tutorial will explain how to install classic gnome desktop in ubuntu 13.04.By default ubuntu 13.04 loads in to unity desktop.If still want to use old classic gnome desktop you have to install gnome session fallback package. br>
Install classic gnome desktop in ubuntu 13.04 br>
Open the terminal and run one of the following command br>
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback br>
Once you install the classic gnome desktop you need to logout from the existing session.Once you are at logon screen click the option to change your session then choose Gnome Fallback to logon br>

How to Install Cinnamon 1.8 on ubuntu 13.04

Cinnamon is a user interface. It is a fork of GNOME Shell, initially developed by (and for) Linux Mint. It attempts to provide a more traditional user environment based on the desktop metaphor, like GNOME 2. Cinnamon uses Muffin, a fork of the GNOME 3 window manager Mutter, as its window manager from Cinnamon 1.2 onwards

What is new in version 1.8

File Manager

Nemo received a lot of attention. Its user interface was heavily modified and its behavior was adapted to integrate better with Cinnamon.You can now easily hide the sidebar and switch back and forth between places and treeview. Under each place, if applicable, a small bar indicates how much space is used.

Screensaver

Cinnamon now features its own screensaver. One of its particularities is that you can define an away message before locking up your screen.

Control Center

All configuration modules are now present in Cinnamon Settings. You no longer need to use Gnome Control Center.

Desklets

KDE calls them Plasmoids, Android calls them Widgets, in Cinnamon they’re called “Desklets”. The same way you can add applets to your panel, you can add desklets to your desktop.

Spices Management

In Cinnamon 1.8 you can install “spices” (i.e. applets, desklets, themes, extensions) straight from your desktop.

New features for developers

Settings API for Applets/Desklets If you’re an Applet/Desklet developer, don’t use gsettings anymore. Cinnamon 1.8 features a settings API which will do all the work for you. It will set up your settings and default values for you, automatically. It will allow you to access your settings just as easily as you access values in an array. It will generate a configuration screen for you, automatically.

Install Install Cinnamon 1.8 on ubuntu 13.04

Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install cinnamon nemo

Are You Using 1Password?

Agedu – A Unix utility for tracking down wasted disk space

agedu scans a directory tree and produces reports about how much disk space is used in each directory and subdirectory, and also how that usage of disk space corresponds to files with last-access times a long time ago. In other words, agedu is a tool you might use to help you free up disk space. It lets you see which directories are taking up the most space, as du does; but unlike du, it also distinguishes between large collections of data which are still in use and ones which have not been accessed in months or years – for instance, large archives downloaded, unpacked, used once, and never cleaned up. Where du helps you find what's using your disk space, agedu helps you find what's wasting your disk space. agedu has several operating modes. In one mode, it scans your disk and builds an index file containing a data structure which allows it to efficiently retrieve any information it might need. Typically, you would use it in this mode first, and then run it in one of a number of ‘query’ modes to display a report of the disk space usage of a particular directory and its subdirectories. Those reports can be produced as plain text (much like du) or as HTML. agedu can even run as a miniature web server, presenting each directory's HTML report with hyperlinks to let you navigate around the file system to similar reports for other directories.

Install agedu in ubuntu

Open the terminal and run the following command

sudo apt-get install agedu

Using agedu Syntax

agedu [ options ] action [action...]

You would typically start using agedu by telling it to do a scan of a directory tree and build an index. This is done with a command such as

$ agedu -s /home/test

which will build a large data file called agedu.dat in your current directory. (If that current directory is inside /home/test, don't worry – agedu is smart enough to discount its own index file.) Having built the index, you would now query it for reports of disk space usage. If you have a graphical web browser, the simplest and nicest way to query the index is by running agedu in web server mode:

$ agedu -w

which will print (among other messages) a URL on its standard output along the lines of

URL: http://127.0.0.1:48638/

(That URL will always begin with ‘127.’, meaning that it's in the localhost address space. So only processes running on the same computer can even try to connect to that web server, and also there is access control to prevent other users from seeing it – see below for more detail.) Now paste that URL into your web browser, and you will be shown a graphical representation of the disk usage in /home/test and its immediate subdirectories, with varying colours used to show the difference between disused and recently-accessed data. Click on any subdirectory to descend into it and see a report for its subdirectories in turn; click on parts of the pathname at the top of any page to return to higher-level directories. When you've finished browsing, you can just press Ctrl-D to send an end-of-file indication to agedu, and it will shut down. After that, you probably want to delete the data file agedu.dat, since it's pretty large. In fact, the command agedu -R will do this for you; and you can chain agedu commands on the same command line, so that instead of the above you could have done $ agedu -s /home/test -w -R

Ubuntu Touch's Terminal app sees new interesting features

Weather, Calculator, Clock, Facebook are among the currently-in-progress applications developed under the umbrella of Ubuntu Touch Core Apps, official project aimed at creating, polishing and refining a set of default apps for Ubuntu Touch (with the possibility for the apps to be used by hardware manufacturers interested in adopting Ubuntu Touch). Terminal app is also being developed under the Core Apps, Ubuntu SDK app filtering the useful and traditional terminal through an Ubuntu SDK interface. Terminal app has been enriched with new exciting features, allowing the user to tweak its appearance with relevant options. Navigating to Settings, the user is able to change the used color scheme by selecting from default color schemes: DarkPastels, GreenOnBlack, BlackOnRandomLight, WhiteOnBlack, BlackOnLightYellow, Linux and BlackOnWhite, thus rendering the terminal view per preference. Moreover, the font size is easily adjustable by dragging the specific size block. A definitely interesting aspect of the newly-updated Terminal app is its responsiveness to window sizes, meaning, maximizing the app in fullscreen mode (windowed), properly scales up the terminal view, presenting itself as a usable experience on both touch devices and desktop.

Handy tweaking tool Unsettings 0.08 updated with Ubuntu 13.04 support

Unsettings is a powerful tweaking utility that gathers a significant amount of tweakable options under a simplistic easy-to-use interface. Essentially, Unsettings categorizes its functionalities in clickable categories, including numerous and numerous configuration options for the desktop, such as Launcher (visibility, reveal pressure, edge responsiveness, etc), Dash (enable/disable blur, show/hide recently used applications, etc), Themes (selecting GTK+ themes, choosing icon themes, etc), Fonts (changing fonts' families and sizes, etc), etc, essentially, allowing the user to adjust the desktop accordingly. Days ago, Ubuntu 13.04 was released, introducing a massive amount of optimizations, performance improvements and under-the-hood enhancements. Unsettings 0.08 has been released, extending its support to Ubuntu 13.04, thus users are able to utilize the handy tool on managing Ubuntu 13.04's components.



How do we install Unsettings 0.08? Add the following official PPA (Oneiric, Precise, Quantal, Raring)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diesch/testing sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install unsettings