Tag Archives: GNOME

Group and User settings in Ubuntu Raring Unity and Mate Desktop.

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Ubuntu 13.04, Raring Ringtail has no Graphical User Interface or GUI for changing the User and Group Settings. Therefore default option is either to use ‘sudo usermod’ command from terminal, which is not difficult after a little practice. For all other command options use ‘usermod — help‘ at the terminal. But for those who want to do things as usual, like me, may install GUI from Gnome 2 which works for ‘Unity‘ as well as ‘Mate‘. This is the command from terminal (Control+Alt+T):

sudo apt-get install gnome-system-tools

This will install the good old GUI (we were using for past many years) in ‘System>Administration in Mate. However in Unity we have to use Dash and typing “users-admin” shall call the GUI.
All the best.

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My desktop wallpaper for April 2013.

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I liked a  picture of Red Rose, the way it turned out and I decided to use it as wall paper this month. Screen shot of Desktop is here:

Screenshot from 2013-04-04 12:22:49Presently I am using Ubuntu-Gnome Desktop. It does not have Unity. It is better than Lbuntu. That had many problems in relation to graphics. The original Picture of Red-rose is about 2.3 MB and I shall provide a link asa asked by somebody.

Installing Cinnamon as alternative of Unity in Precise Pangolin 12.04

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Unity v. Gnome 3 v. Cinnamon

Cinnamon at workUbuntu without Unity

The choices are so many that it is not easy to decide. For installing Gnome 3 check here. In my experience, the Linux Mint per say is somewhat slower than Precise Pangolin 12.04 with Cinnamon i.e. the same desktop used with Linux Mint. Therefore I decided to use Cinnamon directly on Precise Pangolin. This is how it is done:

Open terminal and run following command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable

Now update repository and install cinnamon:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install cinnamon

On next log in choose cinnamon session and it is done.

Another way of installing cinnamon:

For any reason the above does not work or latest 1.4 version of cinnamon is not available from repository .deb package can be downloaded and installed. The link to 64 bit package is here and 32 bit package is here.

In case of any problem in installing the .deb packages read: Install/uninstall .deb files.

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Ubuntu without Unity

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The Gnome 3.0 desktop

The Gnome 3.0 desktop (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

After much reluctance I installed Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin on my office Desktop. It was rather an upgrade as I was using 11.10 the last release. Now upgrading to Precise from Natty is really easy but not so easy therefore I shall cover that in another post. Here I intend to share my experience with Unity, which was not happy. The problem I faced was that it was not easy to reach to the running apps. The unity icons simply did not respond. On several occasions, when I triad to run apt-get from the terminal, it refused with lock error ‘another version is running’. It was too much annoyance. I use Ubuntu only to avoid such silly ‘window type’ error messages. Hence I decided to switch to Gnome 3.4. It is fairly simple. Open terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

Say yes to next question and it is done. Log out. Next time before logging click on that icon of gear next to your name and select “Gnome’. You would be logged on to Gnome3.

BTW, to shut down press alt key and suspend option shall change to shut down.

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Ubuntu 11.10 GNOME Shell Guide

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Ubuntu 11.10 finally provides the curious users with an easy, safe way to install and try out ‘GNOME Shell’ – the new desktop interface from GNOME. This means that unlike previous releases of Ubuntu installing GNOME Shell in Ubuntu doesn’t require the addition of any extra ‘software repositories’, or the running of any dubious scripts: it can be installed directly from the Ubuntu Software Centre with a simple click.

via Ubuntu 11.10 GNOME Shell Guide.