I’ve always felt that the default font size on Ubuntu was a bit too large for me so naturally that ended up being the first thing I tweaked every time I installed Ubuntu. Since there’s no fonts option within the default “appearance” tool for Ubuntu, the workaround is to use the “gnome-tweak-tool”. Here’s how. First, Install the Gnome tweak tool. danesh@python:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool<br /> ...
The Unity launcher for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin has a bug. When auto hide is enabled, there is a lag when trying to get the panel to show. When working correctly the panel should show when the mouse cursor hits the edge but the bug requires you to move your mouse beyond the edge to get the panel to show. Feels heavy. There’s no official fix out at the time of this post. Do you? ...
Oracle JDK is no longer included by default in Ubuntu’s repositories due to licensing. OpenJDK is default now but many apps still don’t play nice with it. This is why I installed Oracle JDK. I’ll walk you through the process of installing Oracle JDK 7 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin, the easy way. For this we will use the “install oracle-java7-installer” package from “WEBUPD8”. The “install oracle-java7-installer” package from “WEBUPD8” will download the official binaries from Oracle and install the JAVA 7 JDK, JRE and browser plugins on your machine. ...
Well, it was meant for the Samsung Galaxy S III but [Valcho][2] from XDA decided to export Flipboard from his Samsung Galaxy S III and share it with the world instead. Thanks . [Google Currents][3], you have catching up to do. 😀 [Grab it here.][4] | [QR][5] via [XDA][6] [1]: /wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2012-05-09-20.30.13.png) [2]: http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=2471312 [3]: http://www.google.com.my/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=google%20current&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CGYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fproducer%2Fcurrents&ei=NGWqT6XGFofR4QTXrOyDCQ&usg=AFQjCNElmISOVomkgXcXJkj5Q4cqn-wNpQ [4]: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1050223&d=1336554337 [5]: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=250x250&choe=UTF-8&chld=H&chl=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.xda-developers.com%2Fattachment.php%3Fattachmentid%3D1050223 [6]: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25866075#post25866075
Had a few documents to scan to PDF urgently today but to my surprise all the cybercafes around my neighborhood didn’t provide scan to PDF service. The best they could do was scan to jpeg. Hmmm…why? Thanks to Linux I had a solution. Scan the docs to jpeg, then convert the jpegs to PDF using imagemagick. Worked like a charm. Here’s how, on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Install the imagemagick package if you don’t already have it. ...