Category: Linux Mint

Really want to switch to Linux but hate losing that Mac OS X look? There could be a solution…

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Look, we’re not suggesting that anyone copy the look and feel of another operating system – that might be frowned upon in some circles. But that said, there are some people who are finding that true Macs are priced just a little out of their reach, so they either try to build a “Hackintosh” or they put Linux on a computer and then try to make it look and work as much like a Mac as possible. For the latter crowd, we offer this article, but suggest you consider carefully which tweaks you actually make, particularly if you ever plan on using your system in any kind of public setting.  Could you get sued for displaying an Apple logo on a non-Apple product?  We don’t know, and we don’t want to find out!

Mac OS X (MBuntu 13.10) Pack is ready, Install in Ubuntu 13.10/Linux Mint 16/other related Ubuntu derivatives (NoobsLab)

Mac OS X transformation pack is ready for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Linux Mint 16. This transformation pack has been completed with collaboration of haniahmed (One Gnome Shell theme) and mbossg (One Gtk theme + two icon sets) both guys did really fine job. Mac themes for Linux are almost stopped but we kept this project on our list from 12.04, and now we release Mac transformation for every new Ubuntu release. Many people look over the internet for pre-configured Mac look like Macbuntu 13.10/Mac4lin, Mac Ubuntu theme and so on, but it is good idea to transform it by yourself because if you want to change to old/other look you can do that easily. This method of transformation doesn’t use any excessive memory/CPU/and other resources.

This time NoobsLab is offering four Mac GTK themes, two Gnome Shell and one Cinnamon theme. Cinnamon theme isn’t very close to Mac but it can give Mac feel to panel. This time we included three icon packs which are somewhat different from each other.

We don’t think we’d go through all this trouble just to change the look and feel, even though we do hate Unity in Ubuntu.  It might be easier to just start with a Linux distribution that already has a great interface, such as Linux Mint.

Link: How to mount Google Drive on Linux

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As I speak, more than 22,000 people signed up for a petition, desperately wanting to have an official native Linux client for Google Drive, and yet their voice is still being ignored by Google. Perhaps when it comes to boosting their bottom line, Linux desktop market is not a priority for Google.

They can ignore Linux desktop market all they want, but they cannot ignore the power of FOSS. Faced with the frustration, the open-source community responded, producing unofficial Google Drive clients such as Grive or SyncDrive. These clients are file synchronization tools which sync files and folders between local file system and remote Google Drive. As such, you cannot mount Google Drive using these tools.

If you want to mount Google Drive on Linux, you can try google-drive-ocamlfuse, which is a FUSE-based file system backed by Google Drive. Using this user-space file system, you can mount your Google Drive account on Linux, and have full read/write access to files/folders in Google Drive as if they were local files/folders.

In this tutorial, I will describe how to mount Google Drive on Linux with google-drive-ocamlfuse.

Full article here:
How to mount Google Drive on Linux (Xmodulo)

Link: How To Install Cinnamon 2.0 On Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04, Linux Mint 15, 14, 13

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Cinnamon is a fork of the Gnome 3 desktop environment, created by the Linux Mint developers. The latest version available is Cinnamon 2.0, which brings improvements and new features to the previous version, Cinnamon 1.8. For a full list of changes and new things, see the official announcement.

Full article here:
How To Install Cinnamon 2.0 On Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04, Linux Mint 15, 14, 13 (LinuxG.net)

Link: How To Change Desktop Environment On Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04 & Linux Mint 13/14/15

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In this post I will show you how to change your desktop environment. Once you install a new desktop you can change to it by logging out and then changing your session to your new desktop environment.

Full article here:
How To Change Desktop Environment On Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04 & Linux Mint 13/14/15 (Hacker Paparazzi)

Link: How to Emulate Google Chromecast on Windows, Mac and Linux Desktop

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Google’s latest hardware offering, Chromecast was an instant hit as it promised a better way of beaming/ controlling  multimedia content from your mobile phone on to a TV than the current choices we have right now. Now when a popular company like Google is trying to solve an age old problem that haunted Android, with a less expensive ($35) hardware, we should expect it to run out of stock. That is what exactly happened to Chromecast as it ran out of stock on all popular online stores including Google’s own Play store. Now if you have already pre-ordered a Chromecast or is in queue, here is something for you impatient folks, ready to play with few command lines.

Github user (dz0ny) has developed a Python package called Leapcast that can emulate the Chromecast hardware in Chromium environment running on your Mac, Windows and Linux. In order to achieve this hack on your computer all you have to do is carefully follow the steps below.

Full article here:
How to Emulate Google Chromecast on Windows, Mac and Linux Desktop (Compixels)

Link: How to convert from .deb to .rpm and viceversa

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deb is the extension of the Debian software package format and the most often used name for such binary packages. Debian packages are standard Unix ar archives that include two gzipped, bzipped or lzmaed tar archives: one that holds the control information and another that contains the data. The accepted program for handling these packages is dpkg, commonly used via other programs such as apt/aptitude or Gdebi.

RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a package management system. The name RPM variously refers to the .rpm file format, files in this format, software packaged in such files, and the package manager itself. RPM was intended primarily for GNU/Linux distributions; the file format is the baseline package format of the Linux Standard Base.

If you can only find some software you want to install in one of these package types but you need the other, this article tells you what to do. Note we are just passing along the link, and do not guarantee that this will work:

How to convert from .deb to .rpm and viceversa (Linuxaria)

Link: How to Replace the Unity Desktop on Ubuntu Using apt-get

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We think Unity pretty much sucks. If you do too, you have choices, as outlined here:

How to Replace the Unity Desktop on Ubuntu Using apt-get (Linux.com)

Another choice would be to switch to a better Linux distribution. Many people seem to like Linux Mint; others simply go back to plain old Debian (both Ubuntu and Mint are based on Debian).

Link and Video: Drastically Speed up your Linux System with Preload (and other speed-ups)

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Preload is an “adaptive readahead daemon” that runs in the background of your system, and observes what programs you use most often, caching them in order to speed up application load time. By using Preload, you can put unused RAM to good work, and improve the overall performance of your desktop system.

Most Linux users should install Preload using their distribution’s Software Center or repository, and simply installing the program will be all that is needed.  But this article explains much more about Preload, including various configuration options:

Drastically Speed up your Linux System with Preload (TechThrob)

Preload is also featured in this video:

View on YouTube

If you ever play video using VLC and it is jerky or drops frames, try this

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In VLC’s preferences, note the setting for “Use GPU accelerated decoding” — on most systems with modern graphics hardware this should be checked, but is not by default. So, check the box and then click Save. You can always change it back if it makes things worse, or causes videos to not play at all.

VLC Preferences — Input and Codecs settings — use GPU accelerated decoding
VLC Preferences — Input and Codecs settings — use GPU accelerated decoding

This setting does not seem to be available in OS X versions of VLC.

Nomachine NX: An alternative to VNC for using a remote Linux desktop

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Important
This article includes a small bit of text that originally appeared on a blog called The Michigan Telephone Blog, which was written by a friend before he decided to stop blogging.  It is reposted with his permission.

If you have ever tried to access a Linux system using VNC, and your host computer wasn’t particularly fast, you may have noticed that things slow down considerably – you definitely know you’re accessing the computer remotely, even if the access is via a local network link. And even if you don’t have that issue, you might want to know about this alternative.

You can install the NX Free Edition server and client from Nomachine and it works great!  Note that NX does not work in precisely the same way as VNC – while VNC lets you take control of the current desktop on the target machine, NX lets each login have its own session and desktop. So you could be using your Linux box and let another family member come into it via NX, and each of you would have your own desktop and session.

The best reasonably current instructions I have found are in this article:
Remote Linux Desktops with NoMachine NX

Those instructions are somewhat geared toward users of Debian-based distributions such a Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc. but there are also packages available for systems that utilize RPM or compressed TAR packages rather than DEB. Most experienced Linux users should have no problem figuring out how to adjust the instructions for their particular distribution.

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