Minitunes 1.0 has been released

Minitunes 1.0 has been released

Jul 05

Installation in Ununtu and Linuxmint:

To install Minitube 1.0 in ubuntu 11.10, 11.04, 10.10, 10.04 and LinuxMint:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/minitunes
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install minitunes

Minitunes is just another music player, only better.
Minitunes unclutters your music listening experience with a clean and innovative interface.

More here: link

Linux Mint 11: “Katya”

Linux Mint 11: “Katya”

Feb 23

Linux Mint 11, based on the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal”, will be released in May this year under the codename “Katya”.

Origins: Russian name. Greek origins, associated with the meaning “pure”.

Mint blog

Thoughts on the name and/or features it should have?

 

Hope for a Linux Mint 10 Fluxbox edition?

Hope for a Linux Mint 10 Fluxbox edition?

Feb 15

In september fluxbox and mint fans were suprised with the newly added support of Mint 9 Fluxbox. Soon weeks after Mint 10 came out with its amazing icons and smooth theme. The wish for a Fluxbox 10 was on the minds of most users who decided to stay dedicated to the world of flux.

On February 14th, mint released two lovely announcements of Mint 10 KDE and LXDE. With these two out in the world. Will there be hope for a Mint 10 Fluxbox? Tell me what you think below. If so what features do you think it will contain? As well as what do you wish to see? Will you be updating?

I am hoping for a more panel customization from GUI and some fixes on icon updates. I always enough a fresh install of an OS on my netbook, so waiting for a new flux and it coming out will bring my great happiness.

Thanks,

John Riselvato

Multi Boot Linux From USB

Multi Boot Linux From USB

Jan 04

Tutorial on how to boot more then one Linux Distro from your USB:

http://pcplus.techradar.com/feature/linux/multi-boot-linux-usb-30-12-10

I haven’t had a chance to run through this, but this is an amazing idea. Its perfect, i know once i get some free time i am going to put Ubuntu, Mint and slax all on my 8gig!

Enjoy~

Upgrading Linux terminal to 256 Colors

Upgrading Linux terminal to 256 Colors

Dec 01

The Amazing thing about being in the world of 2010 is we have so many more advance technologies. When it comes to linux terminal, there are so many wonders that can be done. But how come the default terminal colors are 8?

Go ahead type:

tput colors
 see that number 8? ridiculous right? 

As of now there is a posibility of 256 colors  usable for the terminal. 
Luckily this is easy to make happen!
First install:


sudo apt-get install ncurses-term

and stick the following in your ~/.bashrc and/or ~/.bash_profile:

export TERM=xterm-256color

After you edit your .bashrc or .bash_profile source that same file: 
source ~/.bashrc
Now retype that command above
tput colors


 

that is more like it!

Now what is this good for?
Vim themes, terminal browsers, and anything else that might use color.
Speaking of vim themes! My top vim themes coming soon!

To hold you over heres an awesome them called xoria256.vim (which will only work with 256 terminal colors)

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2140

Fixing mint Fluxbox 9 menus

Fixing mint Fluxbox 9 menus

Nov 28

I ran into this really bad issue with my menus on fluxbox 9 mint.
I went through alot of chat with Paul Tagliamonte (Fluxbox maintainer), I know how lucky am i to go through an issue with the a maintainer him self? He showed me how to fix it as a fluxbox normal user (but i wanted to keep my mint fluxbox look).
So i did some searching with the information we came up with and luckily i figure out a simple fix.

this is what the issue looks like:

Using Mint-FM2

Mint-FM2 can be run from the terminal with the following options
mint-fm2 [generate|generate-gui|update|start|restart|stop|debug]

• generate: Generates a new menu while preserving user changes.
• generate-gui: Generates a new menu while preserving user changes with a GUI progress bar.
• update: Updates the existing menu to the current set of installed applications.
• start: Starts the user daemon that monitors for application changes.
• restart: Restarts the user daemon that monitors for application changes.
• stop: Stops the user daemon that monitors for application changes.
• debug: Launches the debug prompt for expert users.

What this does is regenerates your menu. Meaning if your theme doesn’t want to change? Well run mint-fm2 generate and that fixes that issue.

If your missing installed applications in the menu do the same command. Pretty much for mint fluxbox 9 this is the fix for any menu probablems. Again linux is much easier to fix then windows ever was! hah

Now i don’t think this works with other fluxbox distros. Only mint due to the fact that the mint fluxbox maintainer created this. For more information: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/96

Thanks,

Pastelinux