Otra guía muy básica para todos los que queráis poner Ubuntu a vuestro gusto con docks, screenlets, iconos personalizados…

Contenido de la guía:

– Fondos de pantallas
– Punteros
– Metacity
– GTK+
– Iconos
– GDM
– Grub
– Loading Screen
– Tipografías / Fuentes
– Motores
– Emerald
– Cambiar Icono del Menú
– Firefox
– Mplayer
– Audacious
– Docks
– Screenlets
– Desklets

Está creada por Psyfurius y la podéis descargar desde aquí.

* OS: Ubuntu 9.10+włączone bajery graficzne+Docky+Screenlets
* WM: Gnome
* Tapeta: znaleziona na… sam nie wiem gdzie ale jak ktoś chce to mogę wystawić ;]
* GTK : Trochę przerobiony New Wave
* Ikony : Darkfire Evolution

A dla leniwych lub chcących szybko zmienić swój pulpit polecam skrypt zamieszczony na tej stronie http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/11/spatial-desktop-ubuntu-gorgeous-gnome.html. Naprawdę świetne narzędzie do kompleksowej zmiany wyglądu systemu.

Dejo algunas capturas de pantalla de mi escritorio correspondiente al mes de octubre

Fondo de pantalla Octubre 09 por Williams Orellana

Fondo de pantalla Octubre 09 por Williams Orellana

Bueno antes de hablarles de Lyrics, primero les tengo que hablar de Screenlets, Screenlets es una aplicación que lanza miniaplicaciones dentro del escritorio, parecidas a la Barra de Gadgets de Windows.

Vía su página: Screenlets.org, se definen como “la representación virtual de las cosas que yacen o están alrededor de tu Escritorio”, estas “cosas” pueden ser desde relojes, medidores de uso de disco y de CPU, hasta el clima, calendarios, plantitas virtuales que tienes que cuidar y regar, etc.

Pues una vez que saben que son los Screenlets, les voy a hablar de Lyrics, uno de esos Screenlets. Como se podrán imaginar Lyrics nos muestra las letras de nuestras canciones en el Escritorio, lo bueno de Lyrics es que tiene varias funciones para configurarlo, desde el tipo de letra, color, transparencia, etc. hasta el reproductor que soporta.

Entre los reproductores soportados están:

• Rhythmbox
• Exaile
• Banshee
• Audacious
• Amarok
• Music Player Daemon based players
• Quodlibet (Debe estar instalado el plugin)
• Listen (0.6 o superior) y
• Xmms

Para instalarlo primero vamos a instalar Screenlets:

1. Abrimos una terminal (en caso de que no sepas qué es una terminal, da click aquí) y escribimos:

sudo apt-get install screenlets

Bien, ahora ya tenemos Screenlets instalado, para abrirlo, ve a Aplicaciones>Accesorios>Screenlets, una vez abierto te aparecerá la siguiente ventana:

Ahora para instalar Lyrics:

1. Descargamos Lyrics

2. Una vez descargado, notarás que es un .tar.gz , ahora tienes de dos:

a) Arrastras el archivo .tar.gz hacia la ventana de Screenlets o,

b) En la ventana de Screenlets le das click al botón “Install”, le das la dirección del archivo .tar.gz

Listo, con eso tenemos instalado Lyrics, ahora para “lanzarlo”, solamente lo seleccionamos en la ventana de Screenlets y le damos click en el botón “Launch/Add”, aparecerá un pequeño radio, ahora sólo abre tu reproductor (en mi caso Rhytmbox), pon cualquier canción y listo, aparecerán tus letras.

Obviamente las letras las baja de internet así que no esperes que este Screenlet te encuentre la letra que has estado buscando toda la vida, sólo pone las letras de las canciones que encuentra, para configurar la letra, el color, etc., al acercarte al Screenlet, aparecen dos iconitos naranjas, uno es un tache y obviamente es para cerrar el Screenlet y el otro es un desarmador y una llave, ese es el botón de la configuración.

Espero que les haya sido útil, yo aquí les dejo una captura de mi escritorio con Lyrics: (está en la parte inferior derecha)

Saludos.

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Wallpaper clocks are inherently wallpapers itself which can show live time and date with nice integration. You won’t get an idea what it really is until you see it for yourself.
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Read more.

In this tutorial, you need to install and use the screenlets.

Avec le retour à Ubuntu pour quelques raisons pratiques, voici le nouveau look sous gnome. Sobre et claire: http://egnu.deviantart.com/art/dark-ubuntu-133077360

wallpaper – dark apple: http://mickka.deviantart.com/art/Dark-Apple-104482058
icônes – Mac4Lin Icones : http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin/
icônes du tableau de bord – Token dark icônes : http://brsev.deviantart.com/art/Token-128429570
screenlets – widescapeweather : http://www.isi.edu/~varunr/WidescapeWeather.tar.gz
emerald – gpefection: http://duttybreakage.deviantart.com/art/xPerfection-emerald-85286676
xmms skin – bunjee skin: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=72287

Depuis le temps que je voulais mettre en ligne un petit blog sur lequel je pourrais poster de temps à autres quelques news et articles en rapport avec l’informatique, aujourd’hui je me lance enfin.  J’essaierai d’écrire sur Blog Pistache` deux à quatre fois par semaines pour parler le plus souvent de PHP et d’Ubuntu, plus généralement de développement web et de Linux. D’autres sujets seront sûrement abordés:  WordPress, puisque c’est la plateforme de gestion de blogs que je suis amené à découvrir, quelques news personnelles ou informatiques, certainement des coups de gueule (je ne sais pas encore sur quoi mais je trouverai bien)… Le but de ce blog étant principalement de communiquer le peu de savoir et d’expérience que je possède, j’essaierai de remplir cette tâche du mieux que je pourrai. Blog Pistache` est aussi un bon moyen pour moi de garder un œil sur la blogosphère, puisque dans le domaine des nouvelles technologies en général, être en veille est primordial si on ne veut pas se retrouver, dans moins de temps qu’il n’en faut pour l’écrire, aussi dépassé qu’un Hello World en Fortran.

Je profite aussi de ce premier post pour annoncer que le lancement de mon blog coïncide avec l’installation toute fraîche sur mon laptop de la dernière Ubuntu stable en date à savoir Ubuntu 9.04 aka Jaunty Jackalope. Avant de tout reformater j’avais en dual boot Windows XP et une précédente version d’Ubuntu, mais ça faisait longtemps je n’utilisais plus les partitions de Windows que comme support de stockage et ce grâce à un magnifique écran bleu qui ne manquait jamais de s’afficher à chaque tentative d’accès au système d’exploitation de Microsoft. Cette fois j’ai bien pris garde de n’installer que Linux et si un jour des envies masochistes me reprennent il y aura toujours QEMU ou même VirtualBox. Donc après avoir personnalisé ma nouvelle Ubuntu voici ce que ça a donné :

Mon bureau sous Ubuntu 9.04

Rien de bien extraordinaire, un fond d’écran vectoriel de chez devianArt, quelques screenlets et le tour est joué. Quand on voit aujourd’hui les possibilités de configuration qu’offrent les environnement de bureaux tels que GNOME et KDE, on se demande ce que peut bien encore envier Linux à Windows. Sur ce, amis geeks, bienvenue sur Blog Pistache` et à bientôt !

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Maximum PC has an informative article about customizing the Linux desktop. It’s a great resource for people who have seen people talking about things like Compiz and Emerald and wondered what they were talking about.

One topic the article covered was desktop widgets. For GNOME, it recommends Screenlets, which is available in the standard Ubuntu repositories. This means you can download it by simply opening a terminal and typing in  sudo apt-get install screenlets.

Screenlets comes with a variety of preloaded widgets, and the handy Get More Screenlets button. Since I don’t have a widescreen monitor and want to have some room for my Pidgin buddy list on the side, my widget desires are pretty simple. I went with the obligatory weather widget, a simple calendar, and a Vista-like CPU meter I downloaded from GNOME-Look. Here’s a screenshot:

Aviso a navegantes es un tema integro y exclusivo para linuxeros, por si algún windowsero lo ve y quiere ponerlo aviso ya de antemano que no va poder hacerlo.

Una vez hecho el aviso os comento que es esto de los Screenlets, pues no son mas que unos complemento de escritorio con diversas utilidades desde el tiempo a mostrar vuestros medios de almacenamiento como discos duros y tarjetas de memoria. A continuación os pondré un vídeo muy currado por Guillermo Latorre miembro de Genbeta, del cual ya hemos puesto alguna referencia. Por lo que os recomiendo encarecidamente si estáis interesados entrar en este enlace para conocer mas sobre los Screenlets.

Como veis es facil ponerlos y configurarlos a la par de utiles. Espero que para los indecisos o con dudas os sirva de ayuda.

Un saludo a todos.

Fuente:

Genbeta

The version of NowPlaying in the package of Screenlets from Ubuntu jaunty 9.04: 0.1.2-ubuntu2 doesn’t work with Rhythmbox.

Julien Lavergne provided a fix which isn’t yet available in the Ubuntu main repository but you can download a fixed version of the package from his PPA: 0.1.2-6~ppa6. Checkout this doc from launchpad to add a PPA and its key to your Ubuntu repositories.

BTW: NowPlayingScreenlet theme pack ship some really nice skins – Vinyl especially – to be untar in: /usr/share/screenlets/NowPlaying/themes

In Ubuntu jaunty 9.04 that’s not the default behaviour. So install all the wanted widgets then right click on them and in Window select the following:

Sticky
Widget
Keep below

If as soon as you select the Widget settings the widget disappear it means that the Widget layer plugin is activated in your compiz fusion options. Inactivate this option in CompizConfig Settings Manager.
 
The goal of the widget layer is to have the widgets displayed on top of all your windows when pressing a special key – F9 is the default key.

First all this little trick is for screenlets users only. You must have compiz enabled and compizconfig-settings-manager installed. Widgets should have ‘Skip taskbar’ setting enabled (the default).

I have set my all widgets to be treated as ‘widgets’. This may not be necessary but handy if you’re using Widget layer.

Start compiz settings manager and go to ‘General settings’. Uncheck ‘Hide Skip Taskbar Windows’ (it means that compiz does not hide windows that are not in taskbar, widgets for example). and apply settings. After this, when showing desktop, widgets should be there and not hidden.

När jag uppgraderade till Ubuntu 9.04 slutade min enda screenlet jag använde att fungera. Jag har länge sökt en lösning på detta och här äntligen funnit hittat en enkel sådan. Det visade sig vara MPD stödet för NowPlaying som gjorde att denna screenlets inte fungerade för mig med Rhythmbox.

Lösningen var helt enkelt att ta bort 2 filer:

sudo rm /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/screenlets/plugins/mpdclient2.py

sudo rm /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/screenlets/plugins/mpdclient2.pyc

Nu ska NowPlaying screenleten fungera igen!

Temat i bilden är CoverSutra Lite och kan laddas hem här.

Download Screenlets

Well on the new Jaunty Release of Ubuntu, I could never get gDesklets to run, This bothered me so much, I went googling for an alternative, and i found an AWESOME alternative that is better. It’s called Screenlets. It allows you to run Desktop widgets that are coded in Python:

Here’s a screenshot:

Screenshot of gdesklets

The Gnome desktop environment is pretty cool. It’s simple and solid. Unfortunately a default Gnome desktop is not very appealing to the eyes. We all come to the point where we wonder, “Can I make my Gnome desktop look super l33t?” And then when we see screenshots of awesome Gnome desktops, a burning desire flames up in our hearts. That’s how it was for me, anyways. So I set out to transform my desktop into something that looks cooler. Note that although I did all this in Ubuntu (and therefore this is Ubuntu-oriented), I’m pretty sure it’ll work in any distro running Gnome. If you use KDE… you can try it, but I don’t know if all of it will work.

It took three days and lots of failure and frustration to make my desktop look just right. It was worth it. ^^

There it is. (That stuff in the bottom right is Impulse, a sound visualization screenlet. Beauty in its purest form.)

1. cool effects

This one’s simple, but I’ll mention it just for the sake of completeness. To get nice effects and eye candy, open up the CompizConfig Settings Manager (under Preferences in the menu) and configure away. But first you have to enable your proprietary video driver, under Administration > Hardware Drivers.

2. a nicer theme

GTK themes are the basic themes in Gnome. You can find tons at GNOME-Look.org. If you’re like me at first you might wonder, “How the heck do I apply this theme??” After you download it, go the Appearance preferences and go the Theme tab. Then just drag your new theme file into the Appearance window, and presto! You’ve got a new theme.

One annoyance I encountered is that Synaptic and other applications that are run as the root user look terrible and don’t use new GTK themes. To change this, run these commands in a terminal, then restart any root applications that are open.
sudo ln -sf /home/<username>/.icons /root/.icons
sudo ln -sf /home/<username>/.themes /root/.themes
sudo ln -sf /home/<username>/.fonts /root/.fonts

Emerald themes, which can be found at Compiz-Themes.org, provide window border decorations like shiny title bars. But first you need the Emerald Theme Manager. You can get it in Synaptic, and then after you install it open up a terminal and run emerald —-replace. Note that you still need a GTK theme for the inside of windows. The key is finding Emerald and GTK themes that fit well together.

Icon sets can also be found at GNOME-Look. Like GTK themes, to apply them just drag them into the Appearance window.

Mouse cursor themes are a little harder to set up sometimes. The way it’s supposed to work, you just drag a downloaded cursor theme into the Appearance window, click Customize, go to the Pointers tab, and choose your desired pointer theme. In the best cases, you do this, re-login, and your new cursor theme works. In the worst cases, dragging a file into the Appearance window doesn’t install the cursor theme. If this is the case, you have to install it manually. Here’s how:

First, extract your theme file. Then move the extracted folder to /home/<username>/.icons. Now try choosing that theme in the Appearance preferences (in the Pointer tab in the Customize window). If it’s there, select it, close, and re-login. If it’s not there, run gconf-editor in a terminal. For these two keys, enter the name of your desired theme: /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_theme, and /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/cursor_theme. Now re-login. Hopefully you’re new theme works now, but if not, contact you’re nearest Linux guru and plead for assistance.

Finishing touches. Finally, get a nice desktop background to complement your sweet new theme. And a Firefox theme to match it too, if you use Firefox. (Ironically, the FF theme that fit my desktop the best was a Vista-like theme.)

3. a stylish dock bar

Want to use a cool-looking dock bar instead of boring panels? It’s easy!

Avant Window Navigator and Cairo Dock are the most popular “normal” docks. These are the traditional, drag-your-shortcuts-there dock bars, and they also have cool widgets, and they show open windows like in the bottom panel. They’re not perfect, and each has its strengths and weaknesses, so you’ll have to try both to see which you like better. Both are available in the repositories (Synaptic).

Docky is a different kind of dock. It’s part of Gnome Do, an awesome search/launcher program that allows you to do stuff  really fast with the keyboard. Docky is simply a dock interface for Do that shows any windows you’re running and optionally your most-used programs.

Want to make the Gnome panels autohide? Open up gconf-editor, find your panel(s) under /apps/panel, and then turn on and tweak autohiding. There is one little problem though: the panel never hides completely even auto_hide_size set to 0. When the panel hides there remains a tiny thin line that bugs the heck out of some people (like me). That’s why I chose to…

…Remove all Gnome panels. For some reason Gnome doesn’t let you delete the last panel through the right-click menu, so again we’ll do a trick with gconf-editor. In gconf-editor, navigate to /desktop/gnome/session/required_components. Set the value of the “panel” key to blank. Then re-login and all your panels are gone! If you ever want your panels back just go to that key again and set its value to “gnome-panel”.

4. moar screenlets!

No, they’re not miniature screens. Screenlets are little apps that stay on your desktop. They can be anything from a music visualizer to system information displays to clocks. Like Google Gadgets or Yahoo Widgets. Before you go on a screenlet spree, you need to install the “screenlets” package, available in the standard repositories. After installing it, open up the Screenlet Manager to… wouldn’t you know… manage your screenlets. Many screenlets come pre-packaged, but if you want more (and I think you will), go the the Screenlets section at GNOME-Look, download the ones you want, and then in the Screenlets Manager add them via the Install button.

It takes a while to learn how to set up screenlets just right, and a lot of trial-and-error, but here’s a tip. If you like using the “show desktop” button/keyboard shortcut, you’ll run into a problem: by defualt all screenlets will minimize along with windows. That’s not good, screenlets are supposed to stay on your desktop! Again we will use gconf-editor. So open it up and navigate to /apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options. Uncheck hide_skip_taskbar_windows. Now your screenlets won’t minimize anymore.

Another tip: if you want screenlets visible alongside windows all the time, put your screenlets in a sidebar screenlet. Then set the sidebar’s alignment to one that says “Reserved”. Note that as of May 2009 there is a bug with this alignment; whenever you move, edit, or add screenlets in the sidebar, they get pushed out of the sidebar. So you have to set it to a regular alignment, do your stuff, and finally set it to reserved again.

epilogue

I hope whoever reads this (if anyone) learns something. If not, I still have a nice set of notes for myself for the future.

[poetic mode activated] May you enjoy the newfound sweetness wafting to your eyes, may your life be spent in blissful beauty, and may your powers of desktop-customizing be always used for good, never for evil… [unless they give you cookies. Then it's okay.]

-fipi

According to this thread in Ubuntu Forum, in order to be able to use weather screenlet like ClearWeather or SmoothWeather, we need to edit /usr/share/screenlets/ClearWeather/ClearWeatherScreenlet.py and add “&link=xoap” to the xoap.weather.com URL. So the URL will look like this
http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/'+self.ZIP+'?cc=*&dayf=10∏=xoap&link=xoap&par=1003666583&key=4128909340a9b2fc&unit='+unit+'&hbhf=12&link=xoap'

And if you dont know the zipcode of your city, go to weather.com then input your city and search. Look at the address toolbar in your browser. In my case, I looked for Osaka and this is what I got:
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/JAXX0071?lswe=Osaka,%20JAPAN&lwsa=Weather36HourBusinessTravelerCommand&from=searchbox_typeahead

From that URL, my zipcode is JAXX0071. Enter that in your weather screenlet and be prepared for tomorrow’s weather

Her ne kadar çok sık kullanmasak da Windows Vista‘da yer alan Sidebar (yan bar) özelliği ile hayatımıza giren masaüstü ögeleri (ki genelde bunlara widget deniyor) oldukça pratik araçlar sağlıyor bizlere. Sistem (işlemci ve bellek) izleme, saat ve takvim, hava durumu, not alma bu araçlardan bazıları.

Ubuntu dünyasına yeni adım atan kullanıcılar için, Ubuntu‘nun ilk kurulum halinde Sidebar özelliğinin olmaması ilk bakışta bir eksiklik gibi görünüyor. Oysa unutmamamız gereken bir nokta var: Ubuntu‘da Windows Vista‘da sahip olduğumuz herşeye ve fazlasına sahip olmamız mümkün.

Masaüstü ögeleri konusunda da Ubuntu‘da çok daha fazla kişiselleştirebileceğimiz ve çok sayıda benzeri masaüstü ögesi bulunuyor. Tek yapmamız gereken bu özelliği aktifleştirmek.

Ubuntu’da Sidebar ve Masaüstü Ögeleri (Widgets)

Ubuntu‘da masaüstü ögelerini kullanmak için Screenlets paketinin kurulması yeterli. Kurulum System > Adminstration > Synaptic Package Manager yolunu takip ederek yapılabiliyor. Synaptic Package Manager‘da paket arama kutusuna screenlets yazarak arama yaparsanız Screenlets paketini kurabilirsiniz.

Screenlets paketini kurduktan sonra istediğiniz araçları seçip masaüstünüze ekleyebilirsiniz. Benim favori araçlarım soldaki resimde de gördüğünüz gibi, saat, takvim, işlemci – bellek izleyicisi (cpu-meter), ses seviye kontrolü, not, programlar, GMail ve çöp kutusu ögeleri.

Screenlet’leri ekledikten sonra belli ayarları yaparak istediğiniz gibi bir yan bar (sidebar) elde etmeniz mümkün. Bu kapsamda dikkat edilecek noktalar: Aracın boyutu, teması, davranışı olarak sayılabilir.

Yeni Öge (Screenlet) ve Temaları Nereden Bulabilirim?

Ancak ilk kurulumda Screenlets içindeki ögeler ve bu ögelere ait temalar ile tam olarak istediğiniz sonucu alamayabilirsiniz. Yeni öge eklemek ve mevcut ögelerin temalarını değiştirmek için başvurabileceğiniz en iyi kaynak siteler şunlar:

GNOME-Look – GNOME tabanlı linux sistemleri için pekçok görsel öge içeren sitede çok sayıda masaüstü ögesi ve tema bulmak mümkün.

Softpedia – Linux – Deskstop Environment – Screenlets – Yazılım konusunda en önemli başvuru sitelerinden biri olan Softpedia‘da GNOME arabirimine sahip bilgisayarlar için kullanılabilicek pekçok masaüstü ögesi yer alıyor.

Screenlets.Org – Screenlets yazılımının sitesinde de pekçok öge bulunuyor.

Yeni Öge ve Temaların Kurulumu

Internetten indirilen ögeler (screenlet’ler) Screenlets Manager arabirimindeki Install butonuna tıklanarak sisteme yüklenebilir.

Yeni temaları ise /usr/share/screenlets/ dizininde ögeye ait klasör altındaki themes dizinine çıkarmanız gerekiyor. Örneğin ClearCalendar için indirdiğiniz tema paketini /usr/share/screenlets/ClearCalendar/themes dizinine çıkarmanız yeterli.

Temaların etkin olması için ise ayrıca Screenlets ögelerinin tekrar yüklenmesi (Restart All Screenlets) gerekiyor.

Ci siamo trasferiti, clicca qui per reindirizzarti all’articolo.

Questo è il link alla home page del nuovo blog: http://freetimesblog.altervista.org

Instalar el paquete “screenlets” (synaptic) luego ir a:

Aplicaciones -> accesorios -> screenlets

De ahí seleccionar “Clearweather”, después click en “launch/add”.  Luego hacer un click derecho en la aplicación recién lanzada:

-> zip code

y allí poner

CIXX0026

finalmente click en aceptar y listo.