Use this simple command to install a kde theme for kubuntu! (No need for sudo)
If the folder is compressed, extract the contents.
Open up terminal, change to the directory of the theme, and run:
plasmapkg -t theme -install ./
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A quick how-to to get dropbox on your linux distribution without being required to use nautilus (for us KDE users)! Works with dolphin!
Credit: antrix.net
Speed up OpenOffice.org
Oct 28
A quick guide to speed up openoffice.org:
- Launch the OpenOffice.org Word Processor.
- Left-click the Tools menu.
- Left-click Options.
- Left-click Memory on the left side of the window.
- Change Number of steps to 20 or 30.
- Change Use for OpenOffice.org to 128.
- Change Memory per object to 20.0.
- Left-click Java on the left side of the window.
- Uncheck the box next to Use a Java runtime environment.
- Click the OK button.
- Close OpenOffice.org Word Processor.
- Restart OpenOffice.org Word Processor to use the new settings.
I use F-Spot Photo Manager for organizing all of my photos, but have noticed that it does not allow the user to open a RAW photograph in GIMP using the “Open With” menu.
Here is a quick how-to I wrote up in order to fix this problem:
This should work for both Nikon and Canon raw images.
1. Add “image/x-nikon-nef;” to MimeType in /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop (or “image/x-dcraw;” for Canon)
2. Add “image/x-nikon-nef” to mime_types in /usr/share/application-registry/gnome-vfs.applications (again, image/x-dcraw for Canon)
3. In terminal, sudo update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications/
4. Create a file in ~/.local/share/mime/packages called “nikonraw-mimetypes.xml” (canonraw-mimetypes.xml for Canon). This file should have the following content:
For Nikon:
<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<mime-info xmlns=’http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info’>
<mime-type type=”image/x-nikon-nef”>
<comment>Nikon RAW</comment>
<glob pattern=”*.nef”/>
</mime-type>
</mime-info>
For Canon:
<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<mime-info xmlns=’http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info’>
<mime-type type=”image/x-canon-cr2″>
<comment>Canon RAW</comment>
<glob pattern=”*.cr2″/>
</mime-type>
</mime-info>
5. May have to restart / re-login for changes to take effect.
Start up F-Spot Photo Manager, and you should be good to go. This was tested using Ubuntu 9.04 64 Bit.
Watermark Images with GIMP
May 15
I spent a good amount of time searching for an easy method to watermark images with GIMP, and I finally came upon this simple add-on script! It makes watermarking images (bactch or single) extremely easy.
Check out the author’s website here.
The script watermark-it.scm can be called in the menu Filters / Decor / Watermark it…
The script watermark-batch.scm can be called in the menu Xtns / Batch / Watermark batch…
This is all directly from the author of the script. I take absolutely no credit for any of this.
Again, check out the author’s website here.