Ubuntu

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. Unfortunately, we need it running in order to see notifications, which is small drawback. Nevertheless it works quite good, so I’m going to give it a try. Install it with the following command: ...

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. ...

Introduction If you were using Ubuntu for some time, you might have noticed that Ubuntu Dash from Unity is working quite slow. We can disable on-line search or a few other elements, but it’s still very slow. If we want to have fast search, we can use external software like synapse. Synapse Synapse is searching really fast and we don’t have to wait a few seconds like in Ubuntu Dash or disable some search options. Synapse can be installed with the following commands: ...

I recently found an article about Best Useful Indicators Collection for Ubuntu. Indicators are very useful feature of the Ubuntu and Unity. Ubuntu has some default indicators, but we can add new indicators if we want to. Mentioned article contains list of many indicators, but personally I prefer and use only a few of them. Here are my favorites: Multi Load indicator Nice thing. This indicator monitors system resources. E.g. usage of the processor, RAM, disk and network. We can customize it and set refresh interval. I found default low interval like 500 ms very disturbing, so I changed it to 5000 ms and it’s ok for me. In the screenshot above, you can see blue chart for CPU usage, green chart for RAM usage and yellow chart for network usage. You can change, configure and customize it as you want. ...