I currently quad-boot my laptop and each of those OSes occasionally gets replaced. It can be messy to keep track of your documents, music, pictures, etc. when distro-hopping. In the past I’ve tried retaining a separate /home partition. This partially works, but can go bad quickly if you’re running different versions of the same software…
Category Archives: Linux
Transparent Panel in elementary OS
I’ve seen this tweak requested a few times in the G+ community so here is the answer. This modification will affect both the standard wingpanel as well as wingpanel-slim. Disclaimer: This method will alter the theme for all users of your computer. First we need to launch Files in administrator mode. If Files is in your…
Consuming Twitter API 1.1 with Application-Only Auth in Android
Preamble Recently twitter turned off API 1.0 requiring applications to move to 1.1 and begin using OAuth for all API calls. For those of us who simply wanted to display a user’s timeline in our app, that means things just got a little more complicated. There are essentially three ways to authenticate with Twitter Standard…
Custom Keybindings in elementary OS
The keyboard-settings pane in Ubuntu allows custom keyboard combinations to launch applications or scripts. This feature is currently missing from elementary OS’s keyboard plug. However, with a little command line foo we can setup the keybindings without the GUI. First we need to install gconf2. It may be installed already, but in case it’s not:…
Ethernet Events with Cuttlefish
TL;DR: Ethernet Events for Cuttlefish plugin This article will serve to purposes: to introduce cuttlefish and to introduce the Ethernet plugin I wrote for it. So without further adieu: Cuttlefish is an automation tool for ubuntu that allows you to setup rules for performing actions. For example: When I lock my screen, pause my music player…
Super + Scroll to Zoom in elementary OS Luna
I have been test driving the elementary OS Luna beta 1 for the past few weeks and this bug has been bothering me. Essentially, you can’t use the Super key with the scroll wheel to zoom in and out of your desktop. I’ve found this feature to come in handy when sharing my screen with…
The Start of Something Sizable: Ubuntu Grid Fix
After almost a year, the Grid plugin in Unity is still broken. For the uninitiated, the grid plugin is designed to quickly place windows around the screen in a neat grid. More details here. If you follow the link to the launchpad bug and review the comments, you may find a ppa that resolves this issue, however,…
Move Steam Library on Linux
I installed the Steam Beta on a PC with a 36GB os partition which doesn’t leave much room for games. I spent some time trying to translate windows tutorials to linux before I realized how stupidly simple the solution is. 1. By default, Steam creates a folder in your home directory named Steam. Move this…
Synapse Tricks
After giving the Ubuntu Unity launcher its chance, I’m back to using synapse. As I was setting it up tonight I learned a couple of neat tricks. Setting the Color of the Doish Synapse Theme in Unity The default orange used in the Doish theme is atrocious. Changing the color used to be an easy…
TheTVDB Android App
I created an android app to search thetvdb.com Find the app here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.heath_bar.tvdb Find the code here: https://github.com/heathbar/TheTVDB-Android…
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