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on getting rid of the minimize and maximize buttons in gnome 3...

via afaikblog.wordpress.com

I for one welcome our buttonless window borders. well, almost buttonless. close apparently will stay. but I don’t really mind getting rid of the other buttons. rarely used, and can make it happen in better ways as described in the post. a nice bold move for a change. it’s time to shake things up.

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Como instalar fuentes para Archlinux Gnome3

Hola a todos, hace aproximadamente 5 meses que estoy usando el sistema operativo de Archlinux y como muchos se habrán dado cuenta hay que instalar todo desde cero.

Actualmente uso Archlinux para Diseño Gráfico usando Gimp e Inkscape, y hace pocos dias necesite usar un estilo de fuente que no esta instalada por defecto asi que investigue y resolvi el problema y pude instalar toda clase de fuentes para mi Archlinux.

Acontinuacion les comparto los pasos a seguir:

Instalación de Fuentes sin derechos de administrador:

  1. Ingresa a tu carpeta personal: home/[usuario]/
  2. Luego preciona la combinacion de teclas ctrl+H para ver las carpetas ocultas
  3. Debes ubicar la carpeta .fonts (en el caso que no la encuentres, deberás crearla)
  4. Abrir la carpeta .fonts

Luego, de tener ya lista tu carpeta .fonts, deberas descargar todas las fuentes que desees o necesites.

Nota: las fuentes son archivos .ttf

Ya descargadas todas las fuentes que necesitabas habré una terminal y escribe lo siguiente:

mv ~/(carpeta donde se ubican las fuentes)/*.ttf /home/[usuario]/.fonts

Esto hara que todas las fuentes que descargastes (que deben estar ubicadas en una carpeta) se muevan al directorio .fonts de tu carpeta personal.

Excepcion:

En el caso que tu tengas clasificadas las fuentes, como en mi caso que las tenia dentro de una carpeta Fuentes y dentro subcarpetas desde la A-Z con las fuentes dentro de cada una. Deberás ejecutar el siguiente comando en consola:

  1. En consola: Debes estar ubicado en la carpeta principal que tiene tus fuentes y luego escribir:

cp -v */*.ttf /home/[usuario]/.fonts/

Esto copiara todas las fuentes (.ttf) que se ubiquen en la carpeta principal y sus subcarpetas a la directorio .fonts de tu carpeta principal.

En este caso recomiendo realizar el comando cp (copiar) por seguridad.

Y listo verifiquen que las fuentes estén instaladas en su carpeta personal .fonts

la filosofia de linux es “ríete del peligro en su cara”, oops, frase equivocada. “Hazlo tu mismo”
(Linus Torvalds)

Bluetooth und Ubuntu Oneiric

Ich weiß nicht wen es von Euch betrifft, aber Bluetooth unter Ubuntu 11.10 scheint ein wenig Vorarbeit zu benötigen. Ich habe mit dem Handy ein Bild geknipst und wollte es per Bluetooth auf den Rechner schieben. Pairing hat problemlos geklappt. Der neue Bluetooth-Dialog unter Gnome3 sieht übrigens toll aus. Jetzt meldet mir aber mein Handy, der Rechner habe die Annahme verweigert. Um das zu korrigieren, muss noch ein Häkchen gesetzt werden. Drücke dazu Alt+F2 und tippe gnome-file-share-properties ein. Im folgenden Fenster dann den Haken bei “Dateien im Download-Ordner über Bluetooth empfangen” setzen und in der Dropdownliste “Nur für eingerichtete Geräte” auswählen. Die empfangenen Dateien liegen dann im Download-Ordner, also üblicherweise ~/Downloads

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GNOME 3.2: Who Invited Nautilus to this Environment?

So to no one’s surprise, I made the switch to OpenSUSE 12.1 on my main laptop, a Lenovo T420i.

The main reason? I fell in love with GNOME shell. Sabayon LXDE was nice, but tiny things kept creeping up, like clamz not working to unpack Amazon music. It was nothing that impacted the usability of the machine, but it was just enough to make me open to switching distros.

Again.

I still like all of the OpenSUSE things I liked when I reviewed it a few weeks ago.

I’ve been reading up on GNOME 3 and one thing I didn’t pick up in my review was that OpenSUSE has a curated GNOME shell implementation. They pre-installed some GNOME extensions that have made GNOME much better. For instance, OpenSUSE uses the extension that gives shell an option to power off. They also install the GNOME tweak tool by default.

Of course, that’s a little less necessary thanks to the GNOME extensions site that recently went live as an alpha. It allows one-click extension installation (and removal) from a web interface (as long as that interface is Firefox). There are some cool extensions, but I was most interested in the one that brings back traditional alt-tab behavior (GNOME 3 lets you tab between applications, not windows. To tab through application windows, you need to use alt-`, which just wasn’t ideal for me).

One thing that’s not so great about GNOME shell? The Nautilus file manager. For instance, to delete a file, you actually need to click ctrl-delete. Delete by itself doesn’t actually delete. Also, you can’t drag files into bookmarked folders via the file tree navigation. And apparently, it’s deliberate functionality. I didn’t want to uninstall it, since GNOME seems to have Nautilus do a lot of different things, so I just installed my beloved PCManFM file manager. GNOME treats it as the default, so I don’t even really see Nautilus anymore.

I wish the desktop calendar, which lives along the top panel, could read your Google Calendar directly. There’s a script to make that happen, but it seems easier to just have Evolution import the calendars for me (although it would also be nice if you could choose the calendar GNOME uses — I’m not a huge Evolution fan).

In general, I’m getting used to OpenSUSE. YaST, the software manager, is logical. OpenSUSE uses a lot of repositories, so I’m getting used to finding and adding those sorts of things. For example, KeePassX, my password manager, isn’t in one of the default repositories. I had to add a password management repository. And the restricted codecs are all in another repository. It’s a bit of a shift from Ubuntu and Sabayon, where just about everything is in one giant repository.

In general, though, I’m loving GNOME and OpenSUSE. It’s a very fast desktop environment, but also a very nice looking one. I mentioned the word cohesive in my previous review and I keep coming back to that concept. LXDE felt like a lot of nice parts that worked independently of each other. GNOME feels like all of the parts are in sync. It’s not a knock against LXDE, which is a great desktop environment in its own right, so much as its a tribute to OpenSUSE’s GNOME implementation.

Now, if they could just somehow extract Nautilus from the equation.

Gnome 3.2 Released with a whole new desktop experience. Get it now - http://goo.gl/7JIjj gnome3 ubuntu fedora linux opensuse

[ Fedora ][ HowTo ] Retrieve middle mouse click in Fedora

Yesterday I installed Fedora 15 and I must say the whole Gnome 3 concept is fantastic. At first, I was an Ubuntu user, I updated regularly, and at first I liked the Unity thingy but after a while I found it very unusable and impractical so I had a urge to switch to something new and I switched to Gnome 3. At the first site I liked everything, the Overview, search… but if I enabled a transparent theme Unity top bar would be seen behind the top panel of Shell. I tried everything but couldn’t solve the problem, so I switched to Fedora.

The problem After installing it I found it very similar to Ubuntu but it had some differences and one of them is that there is no middle click!!! :@ (Note that I use it for closing tabs in Firefox, pasting etc.). Th at function was set to “right click + left click” (WTF! What about workflow?!).

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Ditching Ubuntu 11.10 For Fedora 16

In the past, I was very proud about the development of Ubuntu and how it progresses But when Unity became their desktop environment, it was dismayed about how it reduced my Corei3 performance to 40%. At first I liked how Unity was progressing and how it the new environment was able to make my desktop experience faster and more productive. But when Unity got to 11.10, I was so disappointed about the performance issues I have every day with that desktop environment.

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I even tried Gnome 3 in Ubuntu, to see if the performance issue will disappear, but to no avail it still slowed down my computer.

Looking for other Linux distros that will get me away from Ubuntu and get me what I want, I tried the following. 

  1. I tried Linux Mint but the classic desktop (although has gnome3) doesn’t suit my taste well, it made me less productive than using a shell-based DE.
  2. Tried ArchLinux…err.. I wasn’t able to have it installed because it has a classic Linux installation in which you have to configure everything from the ground up and I’m not good at it yet.
  3. Got some issues with OpenSuse before so I did not attempt to use it again.

So I tried the second most used Linux distro according to Distrowatch.com, Fedora. 

Fedora 16: First Impressions

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Gnome3 was my main preference in looking for a replacement for Ubuntu, so their default Gnome3 shell sucked me in right away. Their installation procedure is the same as Ubuntu so I didn’t have a hard time getting it installed in my system.

There were major improvements in my computers performance, a lot were snappier and a very quick-to-respond Gnome3 shell not like when I used it in my Ubuntu before.

What I Like
  1. Faster and more responsive Gnome3.
  2. Simple and minimalistic design (thanks to gnome 3).
  3. Default wallpaper. The only distro I never changed the default wallpaper.
  4. No other unecessary extras found in Ubuntu(which I think made it slower).
  5. A faster compositing thanks to Mutter
  6. Gets rid of my “mouse-being-stucked” problem.
What I Don’t Like
  1. Their add/remove software(I used the terminal instead).
  2. Update manager is slow(used terminal instead).
  3. Some software have dependency problems that I don’t experience in Ubuntu.
  4. Memory/CPU leaks experienced when: running Wine apps, copying large files, opening a lot of Flash based sites.
Features I Sacrificed in Ubuntu for a better Linux Shell Experience
  1. Ubuntu software center (rarely used it anyway).
  2. ppa (you are on your own in Fedora).
  3. Things that are easier to do in Ubuntu(although it allowed me to enhance my Linux skill).
  4. .deb files
  5. UbuntuOne(yep.. sacrificed 5GB of online space).

It’s been 10 days since I first tried Fedora 16 and despite the flaws, I think I’ll convert as one of the Fedora users and get out from Ubuntu for good.

[arch-general] gnome 3 is moving to extra

刚刚收到的邮件，主要内容就是gnome3从testing迁移到了extra，也就是说gnome3正式成为arch的桌面环境之一。—于是我在考虑是不是关掉testing源。

一些注意事项：

其余的参考wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3

中文输入法问题，可以参考上述页面的中文版。

also in : http://www.v2ex.com/t/12390

GNOME 3.0.1 is being moved in [extra]

This is a major update and you should take note of a couple of things:

  • GNOME3 is replacing GNOME2
  • GNOME3 has two modes, “standard” mode (gnome-shell) and “fallback” mode (gnome-panel >+ metacity)
  • Some packages, like applets using Bonobo, will be dropped in the next few days. A list will be >available at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3/Packages_dropped
  • pulseaudio is now required to run the GNOME desktop

Update and installation instructions are available at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3

Only bugs related to packaging should be reported to http://bugs.archlinux.org/

Crashes and feature requests should be reported to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/

modeling with blender on gnome 3 = fail. Keybindings for a window menu? loljeezpleasedevs.

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