Sunday, April 9, 2017
Minor issue with Ubuntu Desktop
Minor issue with Ubuntu Desktop
Linux and Ubuntu are awesome. I switched from developing on Windows XP to Ubuntu Desktop in late 2007 (7.04 or Feisty Fawn). I will never again develop on an windows machine. Hopefully I wont ever work for a company that requires a windows platform, but at that point I would rather buy my own work computer or setup Ubuntu in a virtual instance. I really appreciate Rob Madole and Brian ONeill for showing my the right path. I remember Brians frustration anytime he was forced to pair with me on my windows machine. Now I am like that with my co-workers.
Even though Ubuntu is great, I still have one minor compliant. Well its really 3 things combined: Extended Monitor support, Compiz, and Gnome-Do. I am addicted to all 3, but trying to get all 3 to work together seems impossible.
Extended Monitor Support
The big problem here is going back and forth between work and home. At work I want to use my monitor, but at home I use just the laptop monitor. In the past I ran nvidia-settings when I wanted go back and forth. This has been improved with some help from Ron Alleva by using the xrandr command. He gave me some aliass to run when I wanted to switch. When I first installed 8.10, I used those aliass, but it seems lately its being auto-detected because when I plug my monitor in at work, ubuntu recognizes it and I dont have to run anything. Nor do I have to run anything now when I get home. So it would seem I have a good handle on this now, but when using an extended monitor other things dont work.
Compiz
I love compiz mainly for one thing: transparency in my terminal. Im sure I have set a million other settings before, but enabling the Normal Visual Effects under the System > Preferences > Appearance setting is usually one of the first things I do. I believe this setting uses Compiz. With this setting enabled, my terminal window is transparent enough that I can see other applications in the background, like firefox or pidgin which I typically have behind terminal without having to switch back and forth. Unfortunately, it seems I cant have this setting enabled when I have an extended monitor.
Gnome-Do
Man I love it. I am hoping to eventually get to a point to where I have an entirely clean desktop like this. My favourite is the docky option seen here which is similar to Macs Spotlight. Gnome-Do works just fine with an extended monitor, but docky requires compiz to be running in Normal mode and if you recall compiz doesnt work for me when using an extra monitor.
This is probably a pretty minor compliant verses all the ones I had against Windows, so I dont expect any new patches coming out of Canonical. In an ideal world, my extra monitor would just be automatically detected, compiz would work, and therefore gnome-do docky would work.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Milieu Magazine–The Fall 2014 Issue
Milieu Magazine–The Fall 2014 Issue
The new issue of Milieu Magazine is now available at newsstands and online, digitally. This issue is a celebration of their First Anniversary! Hard to believe, it’s already been a year since the magazine launched.
As usual, Milieu is full of eye candy. The cover alone is so gorgeous – it’s perfection. I especially love the white roses in a contemporary glass vase set on a classic silver tray! So simple, yet so beautiful. Usually the Southern Look is roses in a confit pot, but here the crystal looks so fresh --- love it and want to copy this,’ asap!
And as usual, there is a distinct flow to the magazine. This issue it is the color indigo - that dark, inky blue – which is hinted at in advertisements and in stories. Further, the colors cream and ivory provide a restful pause against all the indigo on the pages.
The advertisers get on board – here Carol Piper shows off a dark blue rug against the white walls of a beautiful manse. Can you guess whose house it is?
This story, that showcases different fabrics in the indigo colorway, was staged at the owner of Chateau Domingue’s house. It’s a fun glimpse at her bedroom – which looks more like a room in a farmhouse in Provence with all of Chateau Domingue’s architectural elements in place. The stone ceiling is just stunning.
There is this story about a blue and white tiled room in Juan Pablo Molyneux’s Paris mansion.
Lots of cream and white and ivory act as a foil against the dark indigo that runs throughout the issue. This is a beautiful house.
But, my favorite story is this one. It’s a house decorated by popular blogger The Visual Vamp aka Valorie Hart. What a fabulous honor for her design work to be included in Milieu! Congrats Valorie!!!
To subscribe to Milieu – go HERE.
To read the magazine digitally – go HERE to access the link.
(you must have a subscription to access the online copy!)
Finally, congratulations to Ms. Pamela Pierce and all the staff at Milieu on your first anniversary!
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