Enable Metacity Compositing in GNOME 2.22

Published in March 31st, 2008

Posted by Tom in tips

In GNOME 2.22, included in Ubuntu 8.04, the default Metacity window manager has compositing built in. This means that you can get your eye candy effects without switching window managers! Metacity won’t give 3D effects on the same level as Compiz, but it’s much faster and less resource-intensive. The main advantage of using Metacity’s compositing [...]

OpenOffice.org 2.4 Released, Already Included in Ubuntu 8.04

Published in March 28th, 2008

Posted by Tom in linuxnews

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OpenOffice.org, productivity suite included in Ubuntu, just released version 2.4. OpenOffice.org 2.4 is a minor release, the last before version 3.0, but it includes plenty of new features and fixes. OpenOffice.org Ninja has a post with screenshots, and The official release notes detail every change and fix. You may not realize (I didn’t until today) [...]

Custom Compiz Effects in Ubuntu 8.04

Published in March 27th, 2008

Posted by Tom in tips

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Installed CompizConfig Settings Manager and are wondering where the custom visual effects setting has gone? The way this works has changed in Ubuntu 8.04. In order to manually configure Compiz, you need to enable the Custom setting in Appearance Preferences. In Ubuntu 7.10, this was done by installing CompizConfig Settings Manager. A new tool, called [...]

Change The PDF Printer Output Directory

Published in March 26th, 2008

Posted by Tom in tips

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Since Ubuntu 7.10, a PDF printer has been installed by default. The behavior of this feature has changed from Ubuntu 7.10, instead of asking for a name and location for the PDF, Ubuntu 8.04 will guess a name for the document and place the file in a folder called PDF in your home directory. I’d [...]

Toggle Compiz with Fusion-icon in Ubuntu 8.04

Published in March 25th, 2008

Posted by Tom in software

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If you run applications that are incompatible with Compiz, 3D games, or find that Compiz is unstable, you probably need to toggle or restart Compiz often. Fusion-icon is for you! It’s quickly available from your notification area and allows you to reload Compiz, switch between available window managers and decorators, and change some of Compiz’s [...]

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