The Unity launcher has a cool feature called “quicklists” that allows you to quickly access commonly used tasks for a specific application. Here’s an example (also see the screenshot above):
Creating quicklists for an application is not very hard bu…
Ever wanted to change the resolution of a virtual machine (in VirtualBox) and couldn’t find the resolution you want in the settings? You can easily do this using VBoxManager, a command line tool that lets you control various aspects of your virtual mac…
Textadept is a cross-platform text editor for programmers, extensible through Lua scripting language.
I’ve used Textadept for a very short period of time but WebUpd8 reader Bruce Ingalls is using it for a while so below he will try to tell you his exp…
GDM Tweaker is a very simple application that allows tweaking the GDM login screen look: change the GDM background image, hide the username list, enable Compiz and change the GDM login screen icon or GTK theme.
Sure, you can change some of these optio…
The latest VirtualBox 4.0.8 finally comes with GNOME Shell support. I’ve tested it in Ubuntu 11.04, using a Fedora 15 virtual machine and Gnome Shell worked great. According to the changelog, it should work with both Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15:
3D sup…
Here is yet another new GNOME Shell extension which I’m sure you’ll find very useful: Workspace Indicator. The extension works in the same way as Indicator-Workspaces for Gnome 2: it displays your your current workspace number on the panel and lets yo…
A quick update: Activity Log Manager, the application that lets you delete your Zeitgeist history or blacklist applications from being tracked by Zeitgeist is now available in the Zeitgeist PPA.
To add the PPA and upgrade to Zeitgeist 0.8, then insta…
This is a tip sent by WebUpd8 reader Jeff. He writes:
The app-indicator applet has an ugly keyboard icon which is not monochrome like the rest. It appears when you are using another additional language. It is a terribly ugly icon that sits besides “US…
WYSIWYG is an acronym for what you see is what you get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed during editing appears very similar to the final output, which might be a printed document, web page, or slide presen…
Activity Log Manager (previously called “Zeitgeist Global Privacy” or “History Manager”) is a new GUI tool that allows you to tweak the Zeitgeist history.
What’s Zeitgeist?
“Zeitgeist logs user’s activities and notifications (files opened, websites …
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