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Install Fedora Cursor Theme in Ubuntu

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This post is part of the process to Install the Fedora 10 Theme in Ubuntu.

I’ve recently been kicking the tires on Fedora 10. I’ve never been much of a fan of Ubuntu’s default Human theme, but I though Fedora 10 looked great right from boot up of the Live CD. Fedora has a cool cursor theme where a little blue dot circles around your pointer when the computer is busy. Not happy to leave well enough alone, I went on a quest to add this cursor theme to my Ubuntu 8.04 installation. Although I haven’t tested it, this should work on any other version of Ubuntu as well as most other Linux distros. Continue reading →

Change the Week Start Day in Ubuntu

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A while back I showed how to change the week start day in the Hamster Applet time tracker. Today I’m going to show how to change the week start day to Monday for Ubuntu in general. This will affect various applications in Ubuntu including the default clock applet on the panel. I figured some of this out by reading this post on the Ubuntu forums. Continue reading →

Change the Week Start Day in Hamster Applet

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I’ve been using the Hamster Applet time tracker for a few weeks now. See the initial post about Hamster here. One thing that was bugging me was that the weekly reports start on Sunday. The work I am tracking uses weeks of Monday through Sunday, so I wanted to change the week start to Monday. I couldn’t find a way to change this in the preferences, so I started digging through the code. It turns out there is an easy way to do this by editing one of the program’s Python files. Continue reading →

How To Run Gnome Panel Applets in Xfce

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XfApplet is a small program that allows you to run Gnome panel applets from the XFCE panel. It’s available in the Ubuntu universe repositories. You can install it from the command line using aptitude. (You can also use apt-get.)

sudo aptitude install xfce4-xfapplet-plugin

If you’re not using Ubuntu you can download the XfApplet source package and compile it for your system. Continue reading →