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Introduction I was tired of non-minimal and quite slow Unity desktop environment. Of course, I performed a few tricks to make Unity faster, but still I wasn’t satisfied enough. I checked out different desktop environments. I wanted to have clean, minimal and productive environment. I like top panel from Unity as well as HUD and many workspaces. The last thing is quite common among different desktop environments. New desktop environment I decided to choose Gnome classic....

Overview I was using web interfaces for e-mail for a long time, but I wanted to give a try a desktop clients for Linux. I was searching for a quite simple solution with almost zero configuration, which I can use for my private and work e-mail accounts. Geary seems to be quite good choice. It is clean, easy to use and pretty neat e-mail client for Linux. It integrates with Unity on Ubuntu and display system notifications informing about new message....

Problem overview Recently I had the following problem. I wanted to connect to my Raspberry Pi from my laptop. For some reason WiFi dongle on the Raspberry Pi was not working properly. Moreover, I had only one slot available for the LAN connection via cable to the router, so I could connect only one device this way. I wanted to have reliable and fast internet connection on my laptop, but via WiFi it’s quite slow....

Overview Some time ago, I published post about Synapse indicator, which is an alternative to MAC’s Spotlight for Ubuntu. Recently, I’ve found another software, which is in my opinion even better than Synapse. It’s called Mutate. I like it, because it works quite smooth, looks simple and clean. In addition, it’s open-source. Installation We can install it with the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mutate/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mutate Configuration After installation, we can run Mutate from Ubuntu dashboard or via default hot-key CTRL+D and type preference....

Unity desktop environment consumes lot of computer’s memory. I’ve recently found good article about 4 simple tweaks to improve Unity performance on Ubuntu. Here is the short summary of that tweaks: Remove Unwanted Lenses It will speed up loading data under “Super” button. sudo apt-get autoremove unity-lens-music unity-lens-photos unity-lens-gwibber unity-lens-shopping unity-lens-video Install Compiz Config Settings Manager sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager In Compiz Config Settings Manager perform the following operations: Disable Animations and Fading windows Set the Texture Filter to “Fast” After that OS won’t use additional resources for performing animations....