[SOLVED] Compiz window title bars missing.

Yes, orange, got any problems?

Another post I should have made ages ago, a week and a half to be precise. I upgraded to the new Ubuntu 9.10 and I haaaappy, lot's of new software in the repos and a lot of shiny polish and also the first time I actually feel like sticking with the default theme for once!

How ever I ran into an issues with compiz, either I could not enable it at all or the window decorations ( that's the name of the title bars for you). In order to solve this I had to change a setting in compiz and that means installing Compiz Settings Manager. Just go to the Ubuntu Software Center and install it if you haven't installed it yet.

Now open it and look for "Window Decorations"







There change the command to "compiz --replace"







That solved my problems. Good luck!

New Monitor

I'm not overcompensating for anything, I swear!

I should have posted this a week ago but here it is, this is my new monitor.

Nice isn't it? I've always wanted an LCD monitor and finally got one and a big one to boot!

The weird thing about this monitor is that it is changing the way I use the desktop, which in a way is good. On one hand some applications with a lot of panels that used to be a pain to use now are really easy to use! For instance Filezilla is finally usable with all panels rolled out.

The only way to file! (transfering... protocoling...)

On the other hand I find myself using unmaximized windows most of the time.

Gee thanks and it only took you 4 years...

The only thing I kind of lament is that most of my huge wallpaper collection no longer matches my desktop. Any way I was meaning to delete most of them, except the lame ones I made, here are two of my first wallpapers that didn't involve MS Paint, actually I'm just showing off the GIMP in wide screen.

andnothingofvaluewaslost

But I guess now I'm going to start appreciating widescreen walls. A less obvious problem is that I can't hang key-chains on my monitor anymore, nor I can put any plushies on top of it either, which means that I'm storing away some of my toys. For instance, these guys used to hang in the first row, you are out.

Not cool brother, not cool at all

And only one of these is gonna make it.

From right to left, Burro the eevee, Pietrr the giraffe and Kirby the kirby.

Kuro Mokona rules supreme however, I can't dump him or he will tell Yuuko!

Also, bring more sake!

Wait was this a guy or a girl? Actually the official answer is "no".

Ubuntu file renamers

 I was planning to do an in-deep review of file renaming tools for Ubuntu, but instead I'll do a quick review.

 The best opensource file renamer for Gnome is Mètamorphose. It's hosted in Sourceforge, not the Ubuntu repositories, but still open source so it's cool, there is a deb file so it's super easy to install.

 It does, everything. It only lacks an scripting language but then again if you have python (or specially ipython) you have unlimited power, provided you are ready to write your own scripts and do your own rollbacks.

 It even does time  and date based renaming. And has plenty of options for special case selecting/unselecting, sorting, etc...

 It also has the best file browser, it doesn't have a context menu option in nautiulus but you can make your own one with the Nautilus Actions Configuration Tool.

 The only weird thing I've found is that trimming/croping is done with the options Search>Position>Replace>(empty string), but that's all.

 Now if you don't want to use software outside of the repositories (but it's worth it!) use PyRenamer.

 PyRenamer's file browser does use the theme icons but it doesn't show dot files/folders, it doesn't do regex. It has most of the options you could need, really, I do a lot of heavy duty renaming so PyRenamer was not enough for me, but it could be all you need.

 But, just the better file browser is enough to pick Mètamorphose.

 GPRename is a Perl/GTK+ option, but it's inferior to PyRenamer in every way, it doesn't do regexes, doesn't use icons at all, it can't HIDE dot files, this makes the file browser useless, it can't process directories and files at the same time, it has less options. Just no.

 Purr is the cutest of the file renamers here, it uses a little window with drag and drop support, which is cute and actually allows you to do renaming of files in disparate directories.

 But is doesn't provide any dynamic text modification options. It can add indexes without zero pading, it can change all extensions to another one, and it can replace every file name with a fixed string (plus an index number) it's simply not useful.

 So there it goes, after 221 days of delaying it I'm blogging about file renamers in Ubuntu.

Penn Says but I can't hear him

 For some reason his flash player doesn't work right in ubuntu and his posts aren't as good as his show anyway so I'm unsubscribing to his feed, it's not a bad feed actually pay him some attention: http://crackle.com/c/Penn_Says

 He's Penn famous for the Penn & Teller magic stuns in las Vegas and his show "Bullshit!" which I can't recommend enough.

 By the way, he should tie his hair up, he looks like and old lady like this, and don't look at me like this, the first one to admit it.

Ubuntu fixes Click of Death

 Slashdot reports that Ubuntu has implemented a workaround the manufacturers windows oriented configuration that resulted in dead hard drives, the so called click of death.

 This and the news that Ubuntu 9.04 can boot in about 20 seconds on some systems are taking my hope of running Ubuntu in my netbook much closer.

 Now if only they made it sleep properly I'll be sold.

Linux Keyboards

 I found these keyboards made by ZaReason with Ubuntu and Tux logos instead of Windows logos in their Super/Meta keys, personally I think a more conservative and subtle logo is more fit for these keys, the original meta key used a solid diamond. There is no official Super logo, but a star was proposed and I think it would look great.

Cutest book cover ever!

Prove me wrong.