Change lightdm background in Ubuntu

Published by in How To's on December 30th, 2011

This is a little bit the dirty way but makes you love the terminal, so open a terminal and type the command below;

sudo nano /etc/lightdm/unity-greeter.conf

we only need to edit the “background=/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png”, I would prefer to put a comment before the background= so it would look like this;

#background=/usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png

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How to easily share files between 2 Ubuntu PC in Ubuntu 12.04 “Precise Pangolin”

Published by in How To's on December 27th, 2011

I’m having a little problem on how to access my files on my desktop computer, since I don’t have an external hard drive so I utilized what Ubuntu Linux have, I found some simple yet geeky way to remotely connect from my laptop to desktop computer, I wrote some simple guide for you to follow.

1.) Both computers must have openssh-server installed, just copy the code below and paste to your terminal. For openssh-server configuration visit https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/openssh-server.html.

sudo aptitude install openssh-server

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Ubuntu 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” Alpha 1

It’s been a while since my last post, whats up Ubuntu!!

The current stable release is Ubuntu 11.10 also know as the Oneiric Ocelot, I must admit I haven’t touch the last 3 release of Ubuntu.

Few weeks ago Canonical release the first Alpha of Ubuntu 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” this latest version would be a long term support (LTS) for 5 years. This pre-release version is not encouraged for everyone who are needing a stable system, occasional or even frequent breakage will occur.

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How to display Bible verses fortune cookie

It’s been a while since my last post to my site. For a start, we display a fortune cookie about daily Bible verses. Here is how we do that.

First lets install the verse package, luckily the verse package is available in the repository.

$sudo aptitude install verse

To run it, go to your terminal and type “verse” without the quotes in the terminal.

$verse

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How to create a +Google panel launcher in Ubuntu

Hello everyone! Does everybody have +Google account already? Will don’t be left behind and be invited just give your @gmail.com email address to your friends who has a Google+ account.

I will show you a short guide on how to add a +Google launcher in your Ubuntu without installing any scripts.

 First you must have a Google Chrome browser which I guess everyone already have and goto http://plus.google.com then sign in with your account.

Look for a wrench icon on your upper right side of the chrome browser and click it then Tools >> Create an Application Shortcuts…

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