Recently I’ve spent some time playing around with the theme and panels I use. I haven’t changed much from what I’ve been using for a while, but there were a couple of subtle changes.
Here’s what I’ve ended up with, on my laptop at least (from the default Ubuntu 9.04 settings):
Industrial Tango theme (apt: industrialtango-theme).
Compiz desktop [...]
Recently I found a solution to a problem which has been nagging me for a while (ever since I switched to IMAP email actually). The problem? Synchronizing calendars and contact between my desktop and laptop PCs.
The solution I found is ScheduleWorld, a free synchronization service which allows you to share calendars, contacts, tasks and [...]
So, after being impressed by beryl on my desktop today I tried to get it running on my laptop. It’s a ThinkPad T42 with a Radeon Mobility 7000 graphics card. It seems that for this hardware AIGLX is best method. After a lot of messing about to get DRI working properly (never bothered with it [...]
Phi is now running Beyrl on TwinView at 2560×1024 Oh so very sweet!
I’m using the Beyrl packages from portage and the nVidia desktop effects method (no XGL or AIGLX). Got it running pretty easily following the guides on the wiki. I had to stop using Xinerama as Beryl doesn’t support it, but [...]