Category: ubuntu-linux

Those of who are bored of the dull themes of Linux, I found 13 cool new themes for Linux. Bisigi Themes provide 13 free themes, each has its own icon-set, wallpaper, and color scheme. Just a few terminal commands are needed to install them. Installation instructions of Bisigi Themes Few people have complained that the… Continue reading 13 cool themes for Linux

If you are getting the following error while booting into ubuntu, its most likely due to low disk space in root drive: “The configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact your computer administrator.” Behavior: After you enter the password on login screen, it takes you back to login screen… Continue reading [Solved] Unable to boot due to GNOME Power Manager error

I am a big guitar freak. I play guitar all the time. A good friend for guitar learners is Guitar Pro on windows. Guitar pro is basically a tool which shows musical notations, plays them, show the notation on guitar tabs, change tempo etc. It helps beginners a lot. Today, I felt the need to… Continue reading Guitar Pro alternative in Ubuntu

I received this error after installing updates and restarting the computer. It was nothing but a file-permission issue. You can easily fix it. To solve it, type the follow these instructions: Go to Application menu->Accessories->Terminal or press Alt+F2 and type gnome-terminal and press enter. In terminal, type: sudo chown username:username .ICEauthority sudo chmod 0644 .ICEauthority Replace username with your… Continue reading [Solved] Unable to update .ICEauthority error on booting

I upgraded to a 500GB hard-drive and installed windows 7 on it. I then moved my current ubuntu installation from the older HDD to the newer one on another partition, but of course there was no bootloader to load it. I had GRUB2 on older hard drive. I googled about how to recover GRUB2 but… Continue reading Recovering GRUB2 after hard-drive upgrade

I noticed was my wifi (Atheros AR5001/5007EG) stopped working after I upgraded to Karmic Koala. I searched endlessly on Google without any answer. Then, I remembered that Karmic comes with newer kernel 2.6.31. And ath5k kernel module hasn’t been loaded yet into this newer kernel. So, I simply executed modprobe ath5k in the terminal. And… Continue reading [Solved] Ath5k wifi module not working in Karmic Koala

I was excited for the Karmic Koala (v. 9.10) which came out yesterday and I happily started the download and kept the computer switched on overnight for the download to complete. When I woke up, surely the download was completed and I went on to install the downloaded packages. Which the installation was taking place,… Continue reading Recovering from corrupt upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic

My laptop has a synaptic touchpad and its horizontal scroll was not working ever since I moved to Ubuntu. I didn’t pay attention to it in the beginning as it was not much of a use. But later on it started bugging me so I finally decided to resolve this problem. Well, installing gsynaptics and… Continue reading [Solved] Synaptics touchpad horizontal scrolling in Ubuntu