My Christmas Gift to All

So, for my second post of the day:
MY UBUNTU THEME
since nobody actually reads this, this is a present to noone, but let's not dwell on that.


First things first. GET COMPIZ. it has nothing to do with my background but it's awesome. I'll also be adding AWN (the thing at the bottom) with this step.

Fire up Terminal (Applications --> Accesories --> Terminal)

Type in

gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following lines to the end

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/compiz/ubuntu hardy main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hardy main

Save and close the file

Type this into terminal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

And then this

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

Once that is done type in

sudo apt-get install awn-manager-trunk awn-extras-applets-trunk

AWN is now ready to go! You can open the program in Accessories --> Applications --> Avant Window Navigator. The AWN Manger is at System --> Preferences --> AWN Manger

To Run Compiz, you'll have to restart your X.org by pressing ctrl+alt+backspace, or just by restarting your computer. You'll then find it at System --> Preferences --> CompizConfig Settings Manager

My background is "A Dark Starry Night" by s3vendays. You can get it here

My theme is Overglossed by TheRob. You can get it here. Just follow the instructions.

The Icon theme is Black-White 2 Style by DBGthekafu. I have Black-White 2 Style Big, but you can go for any one you want. You can get them here. To install it, extract the tarball, open up the file, extract the second tarball, then drag that folder directly onto you appearances window.

AND YOU'RE DONE!

~Setsanto

P.S. If you want to make the AWN bar be curved, then do this:
Press Alt-F2
Type in

gconf-editor

Click on apps --> avant-window-navigator --> bar
Change bar_angle to -1

How to Install Flash Player 10 on Ubuntu

The above is my desktop on Ubuntu. Ubuntu being synonymous with amazingness. It took me the better part of a weekend to get everything up and running the way I wanted it to. How-to info coming as soon as I remember how-to. But for now a real lesson. How to get Flash to work on Ubuntu.

When I went onto Firefox for the first time after getting Ubuntu 8.04, it asked me if I wanted to install a flash player. I thought, yes, yes I would Firefox. Thanks for asking! This was possibly the most retarded decision I had ever made. And trust me I am retarded. Sound did not work on almost all flash video things. I was pissed. And it took me forever to find a solution. So here it is for all of you out there who have the same problem as me. I am pretty sure this works on all Ubuntu distributions; however, I only know for certain that it works on 8.04.

Go to System --> Administration --> Synaptic Package Manger

Click on "Search" and type in flash as your search query, let it search Description and Name.

A whole bunch of packages will come up. If ANY of the following are installed, click the box next to them and select mark for complete removal: flashplugin-nonfree, gnash, klash, konqueror-plugin-flash, libflash-mozplugin, libflashsupport, mozilla-plugin-gnash, swfdec-mozilla, ubuntu-restricted-extras, xubuntu-restricted extras.

Open up your internet browser and go to: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Choose to download the .tar.gz file for Linux (Do not choose the .deb, it can cause problems)

Save the file, do not use Archive Manager.

Once the .tar.gz file has downloaded, right click on it and choose extract here.

Open up Terminal (Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal)

Type in

cd Desktop/install_flash_player_10_linux

(You can copy and paste by highlighting what I wrote, right clicking, choosing copy, then right clicking on terminal and choosing paste.)

Now type in

./flashplayer-installer

Follow the instructions, and you're good to go!

~Setsanto


P.S. To any of you people out there who are actually good with Ubuntu are grumbling about my very inefficient method of installing flash, this is the most failsafe method I have found of installing it.