Linux Tips and Tricks
Mac4Lin reaches version 1.0: With Mac4Lin you can obtain the cute Mac looks on your Gnome and Xfce Desktop Environments with an almost completely automated installation.
Mac4Lin 1.0 Features:
Fully supports GNOME 2.26 and backwards compatible
Improved support for GlobalMenu, support integrated in the default GTK theme
Better native Xfce support
Integrates well with Globus
Metacity theme now supports different button sizes
Firefox 3 themes are now updated
Songbird plugins included
Pidgin AWN 64bit plugin now included
GDM theme is now in-line with Mac OS X login window
Cairo dock is the default recommended dock
Hit the download link and read through all the new features and fixes Mac4Lin 1.0 comes with. Screenshots are also available on the authors webpage.
Download Mac4Lin — version 1.0
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Skype Notify is little python script that takes advantage of Ubuntu 9.04’s growl-like transparent notifications to bring slick Skype updates to your system tray.
Not that Skype really needs one, it has the (like it or not) right-side-of-the-screen taskbar popup notifications. Rather dull, no? So if you want to test this, its simply because you like anything growl – – like me. More»
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Gnome, KDE, Xfce: AllTray is an open source application that docks to your system tray any application that normally is not dock-able because it does not have a native tray icon.
– There’s no limit to the number of applications that can be docked.
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*BUNTU: Personalizing your Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope: The handy perfectbuntu script automates the installation of Multimedia Codecs and Restricted Extras, fonts for your word processor – msttcorefonts, DVD support, Skype 2.0 for Linux, AWN Dock.
It installs and sets for you 7z, ZIP, Zip64, CAB, RAR, ARJ, and also GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM, ISO and DEB archives.
It also installs for you WineHQ and SPAM filters for Evolution – SpamAssassin. More»
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