Elementary OS Vision

Screenshots of elementary OS

Artificial Intelligence — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:30:17 +0000

Here’s some Desktop screenshots of elementary OS – Jupiter on my computer the last couple of months.

Gecko Media Player Compile Guide

Artificial Intelligence — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:28:50 +0000

Gecko Media Player is a browser plugin that uses GNOME MPlayer to play media in a browser.

PRE-INSTALLATION

If you haven’t already installed the latest version of Gnome Mplayer, you should do that first: Gnome Mplayer Compile guide.

INSTALLATION

Download the version of Gecko Media Player you want (properly the latest and greatest): Download and save it to your Desktop.

Required Libraries

Next grab the required libraries to build and compile Gecko Media Player.

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev xulrunner-1.9.2-dev libgconf2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev

Compile & Install

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
tar zxf gecko-mediaplayer-*.tar.gz
cd gecko-mediaplayer-*
./configure --with-libcurl --with-gio --with-gconf --enable-new-libxul 
make
sudo make install

Done.

Install Firefox 5 on elementary OS

Artificial Intelligence — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:16:43 +0000

To simple install Firefox 5 on elementary OS, open the terminal and type (or copy/paste):

Previous version of Firefox is already installed

Code:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Previous version of Firefox is not installed

Code:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox

Libre/Open Office Splash for elementary OS

Artificial Intelligence — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:20:36 +0000

Download Office Splash

INSTALLATION

LibreOffice

Code:

tar zxf office-splash-eOS.tar.gz
sudo cp -r intro.png /usr/lib/libreoffice/program
sudo cp -r sofficerc /etc/libreoffice

OpenOffice

Code:

tar zxf office-splash-eOS.tar.gz
sudo cp -r intro.png /usr/lib/openoffice/program
sudo cp -r sofficerc /etc/openoffice

Do also check:
Exaile Splash Screen for eOS
Gimp Splash Screen for eOS

Handbrake elementary Icon Theme

Artificial Intelligence — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:14:04 +0000

Download Handbrake elementary Icon Theme

INSTALLATION

Code:

tar zxf elementary-handbrake.tar.gz
sudo cp -r actions animations apps /usr/share/icons/elementary

Handbrake Faenza Icon Theme

Artificial Intelligence — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:07:52 +0000

Download Handbrake Faenza Icon Theme

INSTALLATION

Code:

tar zxf Faenza-handbrake.tar.gz
sudo cp -r actions animations apps categories /usr/share/icons/Faenza

Indicator ‘Me’ and ‘Messages’

Artificial Intelligence — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:08:59 +0000

A little guide on howto add/remove Indicator Me and Indicator Messages.

Indicator Me with username

By default ‘Indicator Me’ username is disable in eOS Jupiter. If you want the username displayed in the panel you can do so by:

Press [alt]+[F2]

Code:

gconf-editor

system ==> indicator ==> me

Right click on ‘display’ and click ‘Edit key…’
Change the Value to 1

Without Indicator Me in the Panel

You want to remove ‘Indicator Me’ completely from the panel:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove indicator-me
killall gnome-panel

Without Indicator Me & Indicator Messages

No use of ‘Indicator Messages’ and want to get rid of it?

Code:

sudo apt-get remove indicator-messages
killall gnome-panel

Do also see Howto Unlock/Edit eOS Desktop

Gnome Mplayer Compile Guide

Artificial Intelligence — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:08:57 +0000

Build and install the latest and greatest Gnome Mplayer

PRE-INSTALLATION

Medibuntu

First thing first, you may install non free codecs. If not, proceed to the next step.

To install Non free codecs, you have to add Medibuntu to your source list and install the codecs and libdvdcss2:

Code:

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update
sudo apt-get install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu
sudo apt-get install non-free-codecs libdvdcss2

Now install mplayer, you can use the one in the package manager or getting the daily build or install mplayer2.

Mplayer – daily build

Code:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:motumedia/mplayer-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mplayer

Mplayer2

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ripps818/coreavc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mplayer

Done.

INSTALLATION

Download the version of Gnome Mplayer you want (properly the latest and greatest): Download and save it to your Desktop.

Assuming you want everything enable in Gnome Mplayer, just follow these commands. But if you want to disable some stuff in Gnome Mplayer, you need to remove the specific flags from the ./configure command and remove its library from the apt-get command.

Required Libraries

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libdbus-1-dev libxss-dev libgconf2-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev libnotify-dev libnautilus-extension-dev libgpod-dev libmusicbrainz3-dev libtunepimp-dev

Compile & Install

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
tar zxf gnome-mplayer-*.tar.gz
cd gnome-mplayer-*
./configure --with-libmusicbrainz3 --with-libgpod --with-libnotify --with-pulseaudio --with-alsa --with-gconf --with-dbus --with-gio --enable-nautilus
make
sudo make install

Done.

OTHER

Nvidia Video Decode and Presentation API

If you have a Nvidia 8xxx or higher the Gnome Mplayer can take advantage of your video card to play videos (Remember to enable restricted drivers for Nvidia in ‘Additional Drivers’).

Start Gnome-Mplayer, then press [ctrl]+[p].

In the video output box, choose vdpau.

Gnome MPlayer Browser Player
Gecko Media Player

Gnome Mplayer Themes

Gnome Mplayer Elementary Theme.

Gnome Mplayer Faenza Theme

Pre-alpha of eOS ‘Luna’ video

Artificial Intelligence — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:16:36 +0000

launchy on ubuntuforums.org posted this video of pre-alpha eOS that show some of the applications and speed that will be available in the next version of eOS.

Postler Faenza Icon Theme

Artificial Intelligence — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:04:18 +0000

Download Postler Faenza Icon Theme

INSTALLATION

Code:

tar zxf Postler-Faenza-Icons.tar.gz
sudo cp -r actions /usr/share/icons/Faenza
sudo cp -r apps /usr/share/icons/Faenza
sudo cp -r mimetypes /usr/share/icons/Faenza