Latest trial on desktop effects in gutsy

If you have been reading my previous posts on my new gutsy install I can not get the desktop effects to work that come with gutsy.

My latest try as suggested in the Ubuntu forums was to install nvidia legacy driver for my graphics card. So I installed it, then restarted my computer and x crashed and I couldn't get in. So I used nano and edited my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and changed the driver to "nv" then restarted and computer started smoothly.

I then tried again to enable desktop effects but nope, it asked me to enable the nvidia driver and when I do it removed the legacy driver and installed the regular nvidia driver.

So now I am back to where I was and still no desktop effects on gutsy....

About the readers, You guys!

So this blog was started just for fun, and has gained a little more attention then I thought. I am a bit of a statistics junkie so I figured I would share some statistics with you guys about all of you who read this blog. I will display some top 3 list of user statistics, with number 1 on each list being the highest.

Where You all Live:

1. United States
   
2. United Kingdom
3. Canada

Top 3 states in the United States:

1. California
2. New York
3. Texas

Browsers:

1. Firefox
2. Opera
3. Internet Explorer

Searches that bring you all to my blog:

1. awn applets
2. compiz fusion plugins
3. ubuntu screensaver
   

Best Referring websites:

1. Google
2. tuxmachines.org
3. Direct visit/bookmarks
   

Thats it for now, hope you enjoyed. Hopefully I will have some more nice Linux post for you all tomorrow, just thought this could be a fun little post.

Just a little Reminder......

New Main Menu Applet

How has a main menu applet which was pretty cool. I posted about an update the main applet had here. But now tehkain from the awn forums has created another main menu applet which works a little bit differently. Personally I find this approach better for me. You can read more about the applet in this post from the forum, but I got a little video of it below, which is so much cooler then screen shots.



If your looking to download it, you can grab it from here.

To install it just open up your awn-manager and go to the applets section, and if you didn't already know it you can drag applets into the right column of applets and it installs them, then just add it to your bar!

Awn Weather Applet

This is one of the more useful awn applets out there. It has been being developed fairly quickly for the past few days, and now works very well. While on the dock it displays the current weather conditions and temperatures, and then once clicked it displays a pop out with the 5-day weather forecast for your area that you choose in its preferences.

Awn 0.2 Release soon

Neil over at the Awn forums has made a post saying Awn will officially release version 0.2 soon. Here is an excerpt from his post:

Things seems to be going well/better after the recent merges of the main and effects branch. There don't seem to be any regressions/mem leaks and basically 'it's all good'! So, thats means that we should really make a release, and I have set the date for that as this Saturday morning/afternoon (GMT).

To read the whole post and or to participate in the post read here.

Gutsy Firefox Installing Java

I just love this auto detect.install for plug ins in Firefox now! So here is a quick screen shot of Ubuntu which auto detected I needed java on a web page and now its installing it, and not only did it do all that but it actually worked!

So here is a screen shot, click it to see it larger and clearer: