Posts from the ‘Tips and Tricks’ Category
I was a little puzzled after upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10 to notice that the Alt + F2 keyboard shortcut was not working. It turns out, it wasn’t removed, it was just disabled. This is how to re-enable it. Open the System Settings from the top right of the desktop. Under Hardware, go to Keyboard. (You [...]
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ClassicMenu Indicator is a notification area applet (application indicator) for the top panel of Ubuntu’s Unity desktop. It provides users with a classic style gnome menu they are used to from previous versions of Ubuntu. It even includes Wine games and applications that may be installed. This is an option if you want a classic [...]
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If you are one of the confused folks about how the Unity dash is organized, I have a little tip/hack, whatever you want to call it, for you. Sergey “Shnatsel” Davidoff has created an old school gnome-menu-like Dash replacement for Ubuntu. His dash will replace the default Unity dash with one he created, which has [...]
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Cardapio is a main menu alternative for Gnome that includes plugins for performing inline searches of Files (via Tracker), Software Center, Google, Wikipedia, and more. You can use Cardapio to create a launcher for Unity. Before you can use the launcher, you need to install Cardapio. To do so, run the following commands in [...]
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