Gnome 3 shell themes

2011-08-12 2 min read Fedora GNOME

Working gnome-shell on an Intel 945GM
Image by grantc via Flickr

If you are using gnome-shell and are bored with the same default theme then read on…. 🙂

By default changing the default theme requires that you modify the files yourself or copy few files to the required directories. Well, if this is not in your scheme of things for changing the theme, a very simple task. Now, you can simply do this with gnome shell extensions.

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Periodically download and use as wallpaper from Flickr in Fedora using Webilder.

2010-06-16 1 min read Fedora

Ever wanted to have wallpaper downloaded from Flickr directly using the tags and then apply them as wallpaper, then the way to go is download Webilder <a href="http://www.webilder.org/static/downloads/Webilder-0.6.3.tar.gz">here. Just do the regular stuff to install the same.

tar xvfz

cd

./configure

make

sudo make install

And then right click on the gnome panel and add the widget. Configure the tags to download and the duration to change the wallpaper and enjoy.

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fotowall – create cool looking wallpapers (collage) on Linux

2010-04-12 0 min read Linux Photo
\"Prachi\"
Image by raj77_in via Flickr

Description of the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/computer_software" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software:

FotoWall is a creative tool that allows you to layout your photos or pictures in a personal way. You can add pictures, then resize, move, change colors, text, shadows, etc..

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/screenshot_001.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1499" title="Fotowall - start" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/screenshot_001-300x178.jpg" alt="Fotowall - start" width="300" height="178" />

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powertwitter for firefox- twitter with new look

2010-03-12 0 min read Uncategorized
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Image via CrunchBase

<a title="Power Twitter" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9591" target="_blank">Power Twitter is a addon for firefox that gives twitter a new look with a lot of features. Here is the list of features:

Power <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/twitter" title="Twitter" rel="homepage" href="http://twitter.com">Twitter adds features to the Twitter <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/user_interface" title="User interface" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface">Web interface including:

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