A while ago I went to add support for the awesome Shutter Project, which makes capturing your desktop and uploading to the FTP or web very quick and elegant. However, they did inform me that their plugin system isn’t ready for prime-time, and it does require some hacking of the original sources to include your plugin …
Ubuntu has been changing some things around with it’s notification icons and GNOME applets. Specifically the volume, power, e-mail and Rhythmbox applets. I could stand for most of that, but don’t mess with my music. My main complaint is that being part of the indicator-applet has broke some things I like, such as quickly showing/hiding …
There is a GNOME Applet included by default in Ubuntu that allows you to adjust your CPU scaling frequency, which most hardware supports. You can right click any panel and select Add to Panel, then select the CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor applet. This is a misleading name because it does more than just monitor the …
If you’ve installed a GNOME Applet, but you can’t see it in the Add menu, then you’ll either have to reload gnome-panel or wait a while. Reloading isn’t the cleanest thing, but you can do it by executingkillall gnome-panel and then gnome-panel via ALT+F2. Doing this in a normal terminal isn’t advised, because if that …