Update pidgin to latest release in Ubuntu 9.04

Yesterday my pidgin couldn’t connect.  I don’t know what the causes, because my connection & the network setting does’nt changed. After googling a few hours, some site and forum tells there are some bugs in pidgin which installed via ubuntu repo. So i let update my pidgin to the latest which provided by pidgin server.

There are two ways to install, using source or update to pidgin PPA through apt. Cause i’ve good connection, so i’d like use apt rather than building from source (there are the compile and dependencies issue that i little don’t like :p) Here are the step to update our ubuntu pidgin to the depelovment version:

1. Launch the terminal, Alt+F2 type “gnome-terminal” without appostroph
2. Type the following commands, in two line separately:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \ 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8

echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu \ `lsb_release --short --codename` main | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin-ppa.list

And now my pidgin can connect again!! yeahhh.

Reference:
http://pidgin.im

http://google.com :p

Quick Reference: Use Xwinwrap to Bring a Dreamscene to your Linux Desktop

Review:

Wonder to have a dreamscene like Vista on your Linux Desktop? Yes, we could. We may use xwinwrap (uses an xgl), it’s able to replace a desktop background with a movie or screensaver. Download here. But, if you just want to have a wet and splashy desktop, you may use xdesktopwaves.
In this article, I’ll explain about usage of xwinwrap only.

To use xwinwrap just install or compile (if we’ve *.tar.gz) don’t forget to install the dependencies such as mplayer to play a video, and you have an xgl and a “good” video driver, xwinwrap can run with compiz well.

Usage:

xwinwrap [-g] [-ni] [-argb] [-fs] [-s] [-st] [-sp] [-a] [-b] [-nf]

[-fl] [-o OPACITY] — COMMAND ARG1…

-g geometry

-ni no input

-argb argb, Alpha, Red, Green, Blues

-fs fullscreen view

-s sticky, on all workspaces

-st skip taskbar

-sp skip pager

-a above other application

-b below other application

-nf no focus

-o opacity, available value, between 0 and 1

Example xwinwrap commands line to use a video as our dreamscene:

$ xwinwrap -ni -o 0.6 -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf — mplayer -wid WID -quiet your_movie

NB: You may add -nosound line to run a video without sound.

Example xwinwrap commands line to use a screensaver as our dreamscene:

$ xwinwrap -ni -argb -fs -s -st -sp -a -nf — /usr/lib/misc/xscreensaver/glmatrix -root -window-id WID

You may change the screensaver, just change the apporiate screensaver to your installed screen saver on your system.

Thanks and good luck to use a Linux Dreamscene

Simple How to: Install KDE 4.x on Ubuntu 9.04

After successfully installing Ubuntu on my PC, I want to install KDE 4 Desktop to it. KDE 4.2.2 (that will be installed) have a beautyfull appearance even a little slow than GNOME for an old machine.

Now, let’s to the point :p

To install entire KDE 4 environment, just type this on terminal:

$ sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

please be patient, the installation will be take a long time, depend on your connection speed

To Enter the KDE4 Desktop, just reboot/logout the system, change the session to KDE . . :

Optional:

1. If you might change the GDM to KDM as our default window login

   

just type this on terminal:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

and choose the KDM as a default:

1. Because my KDE application are not “arranged” in the gnome menu, I very recommend, that we’ve install gnome-menu-extended to make the KDE application have bundled in new sub menu on gnome menu (download here)

Thanks, I hope this article to be useful, question and comment are welcome

~abz~