Install Compiz & Compiz Fusion plugins on Ubuntu 10.04

It is very easy and simple to install Compiz & Compiz Fusion plugins on Lucid Lynx.

Just Click Application —> then Ubuntu Software Center

Ubuntu Software Center pop up

Search for CCSM

Click install and then give the root password to install CCSM

Installation Progress

After the CCSM installation completed, install Nvidia drivers

Click System –> Administration –> Hardware Drivers

Then the system searched for available drivers and i choosed the recommended Nvidia accelerated graphics driver (version 173) option from the list and then activated the driver by clicking Activate button.

Restart the system, so that the new nVidia graphic display driver will be ready for use.

Then enabled the desktop effects by clicking System –> Preferences –> Appearance and on the –> Visual Effects tab, selected Normal .

After this installation my desktop looks great, very much happy to use Desktop effects in Ubuntu 10.04.

After reading this you too will be enjoy using  Compiz & Compiz Fusion plugins in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).

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How to move the Minimise, Maximise and Close buttons Back to the Right in Ubuntu 10.04 ?

After I install Ubuntu 10.04 , I found the new default theme has the Minimise, Maximise and Close buttons have been moved from the top right, to the top left.

It is very difficult for me to use these buttons on the left.

Now, How do I move the Minimise, Maximise and Close buttons Back to the Right  ?
 
To move now Press Alt+F2 , enter “gconf-editor” in the text field, and click on Run.

The Configuration Editor should pop up.

Click on the + button next to the “apps” folder, then Click “metacity” in the list of folders and then click on the “general” folder.

Double-click button_layout to edit it on the right side .

Change the text in the Value text field to:

    menu:minimize,maximize,close

Click OK and the change will occur immediately.

Now you will see the Minimise, Maximise and Close buttons have been moved to top right.

Now it is really good see the buttons back to top right, and after reading this you too feelto move the Minimise, Maximise and Close buttons back to the Right in Ubuntu 10.04 .

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Unable to update Ubuntu 10.04 using proxy connection – “No address associated with hostname”

I decided to install Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) in PC today and the outlook looks good. I was very much surprised that “GIMP” was missing in this release and then I tried to update Lucid Lynx.

verman@verman-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for verman:

Err http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg
Something wicked happened resolving ‘security.ubuntu.com:http’ (-5 – No address associated with hostname)
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Translation-en_IN
Something wicked happened resolving ‘security.ubuntu.com:http’ (-5 – No address associated with hostname)
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W: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/lucid-updates/multiverse/source/Sources.gz  Something wicked happened resolving ‘in.archive.ubuntu.com:http’ (-5 – No address associated with hostname)

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

This Showed me a error “No address associated with hostname” in all the line.

Then I tried all the possibility to update  Lucid Lynx.

I was using Proxy Internet connect and  I didn’t touch any settings.

Proxy is working fine and able to browse all website in the Internet.

Then suspect it has nothing to do with proxy .

Even when i manually exported  HTTP proxy: http://myname:mypassword@proxy Port: 8080 , apt-get update was not working.

After a long search using my friend google, I found that we had to acquire http proxy in apt.conf file

Then I just added a line in /etc/apt/apt.conf

Acquire::http::Proxy “http://myname:mypassword@proxy:8080”;

after that it worked charm!

verman@verman-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for verman:
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
Ign http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_IN

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Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security/multiverse Sources
Reading package lists… Done
verman@verman-desktop:~$

Thanks to Google ……….

Now I will try installing “GIMP”

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Installing Ubuntu 9.10 Step-by-step

Installing Ubuntu 9.10 Step-by-step installation
tutorial with screenshots

Ubuntu 9.10, also known as the Karmic Koala, arrived exactly on October 29, 2009 and is the eleventh release of Ubuntu OS. We’ve created the following tutorial to teach Linux newcomers how to install the Ubuntu 9.10 operating system on their personal
computer. Therefore, it is addressed to people who have just heard about Ubuntu, those who have never installed Ubuntu before and want to test it, but don’t know how.

The tutorial will make things very simple for you, but if you get stuck somewhere in the middle of the installation and you need help, do not hesitate to use our commenting system at the end of the article!

Requirements:

You will need the Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop ISO image that corresponds to your hardware architecture (i386 or amd64), and which can be downloaded from here. When the download is over, burn the ISO image with your favorite CD/DVD burning application (Nero, CDBurnerXP, Roxio) on a blank CD at 8x speed.

Reinsert or leave the CD in your CD/DVD-ROM device and reboot the computer in order to boot from the CD. Hit the F8, F11 or F12 key (depending on your BIOS) to select the CD/DVD-ROM as the boot device.

Continue Reading  …………

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Install Compiz & Compiz Fusion plugins on Ubuntu 9.10

Today I got a copy of Ubuntu 9.10 and installed one of my friends PC.

Then he asked me to install compiz & compiz fusion plugins in his pc.

I check the network ( Internet )and it was working fine.

first I updated.

$sudo apt-get update

the update worked fine.

then install ccsm

$sudo aptitude install simple-ccsm

He had a Nvidia AGP graphics card, so installed Nvidia drivers

$sudo aptitude install nvidia-glx-173 nvidia-173-kernel-source nvidia-glx-173-dev nvidia-settings

After installation went to System/Administration/Hardware Drivers

Then the system searched for available drivers and i choosed the recommended Nvidia accelerated graphics driver (version 173) option from the list and then activated the driver by clicking Activate button.

Restart the system, so that the new nVidia graphic display driver will be ready for use.

Then enabled the desktop effects by clicking System/Preferences/Appearance and on the Visual Effects tab, selected Normal .

Run Compiz :

To run Compiz for the current session, hold Alt, then press F2, then enter the command

compiz –replace

Configure :

To configure Compiz and associated plugins, hold Alt, then press F2, then enter the command

ccsm

My friend become very happy after using Desktop Effects in Ubuntu 9.10.

After reading this you too will be enjoy using Desktop Effects in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala).

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Could not open location; you might not have permission to open the file – Totem Movie Player

I received a comment on my post “How to play YouTube Video in Ubuntu 9.04?” from jaleshd@gmail.com on August 26, 2009.

The Comment was –
when i click on a video to view it, it says -‘could not open location. you may not have permission to open the file. ‘

Then I had doubt it could be due to the wireless network, because now a days most of the people started using Laptops rather than using a Desktop PC. Most of the laptops have In-build wireless, which makes people easy to access network where ever they go.

I had never received such a error because I was using wired Internet connection.

Then I started Google, relating to that of wireless network and then found it is a bug and it has been resolved.

just refer : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/323649

How did the problem solved ?

Download Patch to totem-plugins-2.26.1-0ubuntu5/youtube.py (565 bytes, text/plain) to desktop.

Copied the patch to /usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube

$ cd /usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube

$ sudo cp /home/user/Desktop/totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch .

Then patch the file youtube.py with totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch

$ sudo patch /usr/lib/totem/plugins/youtube/youtube.py totem_plugins_youtube.py.patch

Thus the patch fixes the error
”Could not open location; you might not have permission to open the file.” .

Now it works fine.

* I Thank all comments and credit for all my efforts to keep going.
For more info refer : How to play YouTube Video in Ubuntu 9.04?

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Top 10 Free Video Editors for Ubuntu Linux

Today I’m going to write about some of the best Video editing tools for Ubuntu Linux and there are tens of third party software for Linux you can use to add effects to your videos and do a lot more.

AvideMUX

AvideMUX is one of the most widely used Video application for Ubuntu Linux. It allows you to easily cut, filter and encode your tasks. It supports all the major video formats including AVI, DVD compatible MPEGfiles, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs.

These tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities. Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license.

Download Avidemux

CinePaint

CinePaint is an easy to use Ubuntu Video application that has a support for 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit color channels of deep paint. It offers High Dynamic Range that allows images to go brighter than white.

It is often used to retouch feature films and in pro photography. It can also be used for motion picture for frame-by-frame retouching, dirt removal, wire rig removal, render repair, background plates, and painting 3D model textures.

Cinelerra

A Video editor and compositor for Ubuntu Linux that offers 3 major features including capturing, compositing,  and editing audio and video with sample level accuracy.

Download CineLerra

Kino

Kino features excellent integration with IEEE-1394 for capturing videos, VTR control and recording back to the camera. It allows you to load multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it to an edit decision list.

Also, Kino can export the composite movie in a number of formats: DV over IEEE 1394, Raw DV, DV AVI, still frames, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. Still frame import and export uses gdk-pixbuf, which has support for BMG, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PPM, SVG, Targa, TIFF, and XPM. MP3 requires lame. Ogg Vorbis requires oggenc. MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 require mjpegtools or ffmpeg. MPEG-4 requires ffmpeg.

Key features include

• Capturing
• Editing
• Export
• special effects
• video filters
• Video transitions
• Audio filters and
• Audio Transitions

Download Kine

Jahshaka

A video editor with the ability to edit with flexibility and speed. Jahshaka allows you to create effect in real time and animate with unlimited features.

Download Jahshaka

Slideshow Creator

With Slideshow Creator and dvd-slideshow you can transform your pictures in a beautiful dvd-quality slide show rich of fascinating effects like ken burns, pan and  animated transitions. Adding a musical soundtrack too you will have a really cool result!

Key features include

• Slideshow Time and Audio Time
• Music Prelistening in every Row
• Subwindow Zooming Preview
• Direct Create slide show and Preview
• Selection only Create and preview

Download Slideshow Creator

LiVES

LiVES mixes realtime video performance and non linear editing in one application. It allows you to start editing and making your videos right away without having to worry about formats, frame sizes and framerates.

It offers tons of features and offers you to record your performance in real time, and then edit it further or render it straight away as a new clip.

Download LiVES

Vivia

Vivia is a video editing program for Linux and Windows that offers very user-friendly editing of DV video materia. It allows you to arrange your clips for your movie using TimeLine feature. ou can add a clip to your movie by dragging a file from the Files window onto the Timeline. You can edit a clip directly on the Timeline with the tools that appear when a clip is selected.

Key features include

• Efficient and easy editing of clips and transitions
• “Multi-cam” edit mode: support for natural editing of scenes that were recorded by multiple cameras simultaneously, as is typical in music videos and interviews
• Support for multiple “scenes” in a single movie project

Download Vivia

KDEnlive

KDEnlive is a free open source video editor for Linux that is also available for various desktop managers in Linux. It supports a wide variety of file formats, as well as a wide range of camcorders and cameras.

Just like LiVES, it allows multitrack editing of unlimited video and audio tracks.

Download KDEnlive

FFmpeg

FFmpeg is another open source video editor for Linux that allows you to record, convert and stream audio and video. FFmped is a command line tool that is composed of a collection of open-source libraries. With these sets of libraries, one can easily record, convert and stream digital audio/video in numerous formats.

Download FFmpeg

Thanks to techcity

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How to do cartoon-like effects in GIMP ?

There are a lot of tutorials out on “t3h 1nt3rw3bZ” that show various different filter effects in GIMP and specifically how to do cartoon-like effects. That said, none of the ones that I came across on my search, nay trek, bore visually pleasing fruit … at least not for me.

So, as I usually do when I’m waisting time when I should be marking student assignments or more importantly, spending time with my wife and new daughter, I decided to start playing in GIMP and after many failed attempts I came across what I deemed to be a sort of graphic art-like effect; it’s not necessarily cartoon-like, but it is cartoony and I liked the effect and decided to write it down.

Of course I realized that I would probably lose the sheet of paper I wrote these set of steps down onto and so decided that I would use Linus Torvalds’ philosophy which is:

“Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)”

This isn’t FTP, but it’s the same idea no doubt. 🙂

Keep Reading …………………

Thanks to arron-ferguson

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How to Mount an external hard drive ?

One of my friend was unable to mount a 250 GB external hard disk and the disk which has NTFS file system.

With help of my friend google, I found a driver called NTFS-3G which supports read/write NTFS driver for Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, QNX, Haiku, and other operating systems.

it provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 file systems.

The ntfs-3g packages comes pre-installed with the newest versions of Ubuntu, but you still need to install ntfs-config

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config (or) ntfs-3g

sudo mkdir /media/sdb1

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1

ls -la /media/sdb1

that’s it.

Now you can start 250 GB external hard disk and the disk which has NTFS file system.

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How to Open a docx file in Ubuntu 9.04 through Openoffice?

Today I received a mail with a file attachment and the file extension was .docx.

.docx actually is a Microsoft word processor document and named OpenXML . Now .docx is by default format for Latest Microsoft word 2007.

Then I found very panic to open the file in Openoffice.

Now it is not a problem anymore to open .docx documents in any Linux distribution coming with OpenOffice suit.

With the help of my friend google I simply download (odf_filter.tar.bz2) import filter for OpenOffice to my home folder.

verman@verman-desktop:~$ sudo wget http://www.taufikraras.com/download/odf_filter.tar.bz2
[sudo] password for verman:
–2009-08-06 11:20:33–  http://www.taufikraras.com/download/odf_filter.tar.bz2
Length: 2967411 (2.8M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: `odf_filter.tar.bz2′

100%[======================================>] 29,67,411   55.4K/s   in 86s

2009-08-06 11:22:03 (33.8 KB/s) – `odf_filter.tar.bz2′ saved [2967411/2967411]

verman@verman-desktop:~$

verman@verman-desktop:~$ pwd
/home/verman

verman@verman-desktop:~$

verman@verman-desktop:~$ ls
nsmail.tmp
odf_filter.tar.bz2
opera-9.64
OperaDownloads
part.png

Then Untar the odf_filter.tar.bz2

verman@verman-desktop:~$ sudo tar -xvjf odf_filter.tar.bz2
files/
files/README.txt
files/MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu
files/MOOXTypeDetection.xcu
files/OdfConverter

verman@verman-desktop:~$ ls
nsmail.tmp
odf_filter.tar.bz2
opera-9.64
OperaDownloads
part.png
files

verman@verman-desktop:~$

Change the directory to files

verman@verman-desktop:~$ cd files/

verman@verman-desktop:~/files$

Copied OdfConverter to /usr/lib/openoffice/program/

verman@verman-desktop:~/files$ sudo cp OdfConverter /usr/lib/openoffice/program/
[sudo] password for verman:
verman@verman-desktop:~/files$

Created a folder TypeDetection in /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice

verman@verman-desktop:~/files$ sudo mkdir /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection

Then Created a folder Filter in /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection

verman@verman-desktop:~/files$ sudo mkdir /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/

Then Copied MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu to /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/

verman@verman-desktop:~/files$ sudo cp MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/

Created a Folder Types in /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection

verman@verman-desktop:~/files$ sudo mkdir /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types

Then Copied MOOXTypeDetection.xcu to /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/

verman@verman-desktop:~/files$ sudo cp MOOXTypeDetection.xcu  /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/
verman@verman-desktop:~/files$

Now open OpenOffice.org Word Processor

Click Applications > Office > OpenOffice.org Word Processor.

Then Press Ctrl+O to open and select Microsoft Word 2007 document (.docx) as the file type

That’s it .

Now You can read all .docx files in Openoffice Word Processor.

Thanks to taufikraras

–  I did not understand the language but still managed to utilize the information by trying the command in my desktop.

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