While installing programs the next simple trick might come in handy: create a bash script and let the terminal interface do all the hard work automatically.
First you need to open an empty text file (with gedit, leafpad, kate or any other). After you have the text file in front of you then you can start typing the install commands. For example I used the following very basic install script to set up my Ubuntu box.
When you work long hours with a computer at some point you will also start to feel the effects of it in your eyes. We of course have Gnome with its dynamically changing backgrounds and KDE4 with its similar kind of solutions. The bad part of it is that you will of course see the desktop backgrounds changing when the day goes by but the colors of overall workstation will stay the same which might in turn make long work hours challenging. So if you want to save your eyes and take the advantages that the redshift might offer then this post is definitely for you.
With the redshift you can achieve a state where your system can literally set the color temperatures of your screen according to the the time of the day/night of your locale timezone. The redshift is a nice little program also because you can run it as a background process without consuming too much system resources. If you want a specific and more detailed description of all the things that the redshift can do you should check out the manual pages of it. In terminal type the following once the program is installed: man redshift
Dreamlight Jwm configuration
It is time to relase the final part of Dreamlight series and without further ado here is Dreamlight Jwm along with some instructions.
Save the entries found inside of the pdf file as .jwmrc and the .jwmrc to your home directory. If you need help with modifying and customizing the .jwmrc file see the tutorial which I published earlier: Easy Jwm tutorial Continue reading
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution which you can find many different opinions out there. As I have been using the latest of Ubuntu, meaning 13.04, for a while I have found it to be usable and reasonably stable in daily usage. There has been only one major problem which I have so far encountered which related to Pulseaudio and my sound system giving me a constant “complaint” about dummy output/input which rendered my sound experience completely nonexistent.
So in case someone else is having problems with Ubuntu 13.04 showing only the “dummy output/input” device here are some tips that will hopefully get problems sorted out. Continue reading