Category Archive

The following is a list of all entries from the Ubuntu category.

Scrot in Openbox menu

Scrot is a simple but quite powerful command line screenshot tool. I have been using it now sometime already and it is a lot more versatile than for example gnome-screenshot. I wanted to make it little easier to use for me and decided to add my most used commands in Openbox menu.
Of course first thing [...]


Alive again

I had minor problems with databases etc… but Cutebuntu is online again. Will I be more active? Well…. Don’t expect too much . Luckily I have few ideas in my mind.
Next Ubuntu, Intrepid Ibex (8.10) should be released on 30th October .


Openbox experimenting

I am not really into fancy effects on my desktop. I was using xcompmgr in Openbox for while to get some nice shadows, but eventually I got bored with them. I have enabled the fancy desktop effects on my Gnome desktop but I use Gnome nowadays very rarely.

My Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) desktop, testing effects.
I prefer [...]


Some personal thoughts about Ubuntu and Linux

Not so surprisingly I’m ex-Windows-user who recently (little less than year ago) switched to Linux, Ubuntu more precisely. I had been using Windows since 3.11 till Vista. Windows was never especially evil to me, I just didn’t like it so much. But I decided to change because I wanted a lighter and safer system (Vista [...]