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Turning off/on display via cli/bash
This little script will help you to understand how to use xrandr to enable, disable and configure your second Display via bash: #!/bin/bash FIRST=”HDMI-0″ SECOND=”DVI-0″ BASECMD=”xrandr –auto –output $SECOND” MODE=”–mode 1920×1080″ DIRECTION=”–right-of $FIRST” ROTATE=”–rotate left” OFF=”–off” function off() { $BASECMD $OFF } function on() { $BASECMD $MODE $DIRECTION $ROTATE } function usage() { echo “usage: $(basename [...]
A smart way to use /tmp
I always loved use tmp directory to manage my “temporary files”. First of all, which files can be considered as “temporary”, and what does temporary exactly means? Well.. In my opinion, we can address as temporary all those files used only during a single Session. Such as: files downloaded from browser – typically “to take a look [...]
Forum ubuntu-it gets a new theme and a new engine
Hi all, after many many weeks working on forum.ubuntu-it.org, we finally done! The forum for ubuntu-it.org has been migrated from SMF 1.X (MySQL) to PhpBB3 (PSQL). The entire work has taken more than one month, considering the huge data (almost 5GB database) to migrate. The new theme is inspired to the ubuntu-it website and ubuntu design [...]
Planet Ubuntu-it gets new theme
Yesterday I had a couple of hours to work on the planet.ubuntu-it.org theme, falling style in line with the website. Code is available in LP: bzr branch lp:~ubuntu-it-www/planet-ubuntu-it/stili/ http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-it-www/planet-ubuntu-it/planet-bzr/files/head:/themes/light/ Suggestions are welcome
HYM – Help you to merge
The idea is provide new (incoming) developers with a grafic tool that should be helpful during the merge operation. I called it HYM (but suggestions are welcome!) and got a first approach using balsamiq. I would like to proceed following these steps: Show mockup and get feedbacks (in particular I would know if there were actions to [...]
Ubuntu is us all together
In the last weeks (as already posted in Ubuntu-it gets new website article) we redesigned ubuntu-it website in order to fall template into line with the new brand of Ubuntu. While we were working on homepage, we asked ourself how to realize the concept of community and how mix it to the invitation to join [...]
Ubuntu-it gets new website
After six months work (that really means work-after-real-work-to-be-more-precise-free-time) ubuntu-it gets a new look and a new website engine! The theme is based on drupal-light-theme and if you like it we’ll be happy to clean (refactoring code) and share on LP for your LoCo websites. More info?… ask us!
Perugia – DUCC-IT: Ubuntu-it and Debian-it community conference
Just a few words to greet you from Perugia (Italy). We are here discussing translation, testing, packing, bug trianging and collaboration between Ubuntu and Debian with Stefano Zacchiroli (zack – DPL), Andrea Gasparini (gaspa – MOTU), Andrea Colangelo (warp10 – MOTU), Milo Casagrande (milo), Paolo Sammicheli (xdatap1), Flavia Weisghizzi (deindre), Silvia Bindelli (dolasilla), Luca Bruno [...]
Ubuntu 10.04: Coming Soon [VIDEO]
With the Paolo Sammicheli help (that cared about the audio and the communication side) we made a “coming soon” video for Ubuntu 10.04 in order to improve and help the work of any Ubuntu LoCo Team. I hope you like it . Realized with: Inkscape GIMP Kdenlive
Idea in brainstorm
After many suggestions coming out from the comments in «It would be nice if in Nautilus» post, I posed a new idea in ubuntu brainstorm.
You can find it here:
Please vote and comment the idea if you want see it in the next ubuntu releases.
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