The tale of Numix

I've been in the Linux world for years, from the Gnome 2 era. Customizing it, making it to look the way I want. Making themes and stuff. But Numix was an entirely new chapter, which changed everything.

Customize GTK themes with GTK theme preferences

Customizing a GTK theme can be frustrating, especially with both GTK2 and GTK3 themes lying there. And why go through all the hassle when you want to change just few things. You no more have to! I've made a GTK theme configuration tool that allows anyone to change some basic elements of a GTK theme easily (both GTK2 and GTK3) with a simple interface.

When you make a GTK3 theme...

GTK themes in Gnome 3 follow a new syntax that is different from GTK2. The new CSS syntax in GTK3 makes it easier to make themes. Though it is easy to understand the CSS syntax than the old gtkrc syntax, it is not enough to know just CSS. GTK themes are more than that. A good start can be this tutorial and specifically this.

Orion - A modern light theme for GTK3

Orion, my latest GTK3 theme, is a light, clean and beautiful theme using the Unico engine. The metacity theme used in Orion is actually a modified metacity from the Boomerang theme. Mutter and xfwm4 themes are also included. It also includes a GTK2 theme which uses the Murrine engine. May be some parts are not finished yet, as it is a work in progress.

What is Rooting an Android Phone?

Rooting? Are you gonna plant trees? :) Let's face it, most of us don't know what is rooting, and what do we get from it. It can be easier to understand for someone who is a Linux user, but for others, it could be a big mystery. So here is my attempt to explain what I know.

Evolve - A Light GTK3 Theme

Please forgive me for so much posts about Gnome 3/Gnome Shell themes. But I had to write it. I made it, if I won't write on my blog then who will?

Aqua - A Light Theme For Gnome Shell 3.2

After a Dark Shell theme, I thought I would bring some fresh air to my Shell. Then I made Aqua, a light theme for Gnome Shell. I must say, making those Gnome Shell themes are not difficult. The thing that is difficult is to think of a new design with the presence of so many good designs. But once you make a design, and know little CSS, then theming is very easy. Gnome 2 was customizable, but not so much. You had to depend on experienced theme developers, and then you might not like some elements or the entire theme. But there was no easier way to make themes. Kudos to Gnome Team to make Gnome Shell as well as GTK3 so much customizable :)

Elegance Theme for Gnome Shell 3.2

Gnome Foundation's latest Gnome Shell is much more customizable than Unity. But it is new, and lacks in number of the available themes. But as the themes are written in CSS, it becomes easier to make the themes who know more or little CSS. So I also made my first Gnome Shell Theme from scratch. The theme aims to be clean while being smooth and beautiful.

How to Add Auto-Update to Your Bash Script

It was the time when I was developing my Fedora Utils script and wished to add autoupdate to it. It was not difficult. But certainly I had no clue about what to do. I didn't want to make another text file with update details on every new release and upload. I just wanted the process should be automatic. I asked in different forums, but no one could give an answer. But at last I did it! And I became the happiest man on the earth thereafter:)

Ambiance Blue Theme Suite

I was unable to find a good theme for Gnome 3 that will contain both GTK2 and GTK3 themes (yes, there are, but none is satisfactory, at least to me). I liked the Ambiance theme a lot, but I'm not a fan of those Orange colors especially. I had made a Ambiance Blue for GTK2 before. So I decided to port it to GTK3. Now I had to find a matching Gnome Shell theme, and after getting disappointed, I made one.

Fedora Utils reaches 1.5.5: Updates, Fixes, New Features and more

Today after my overnight work on Fedora Utils, I have released version 1.5.5. This new version includes few fixes and updates to Java Runtime (updated to 7) and Flashplayer (Updated to 12 beta 2).

A HUD emerald theme

Emerald is a window decorator for compiz. It provides nice effects and transparency that metacity is unable to provide. I was unable to find any HUD like theme for emerald. So I created one and now it perfectly matches my desktop.

Download link.

elementary Dark - A dark elementary theme

Here is a mod of the highly popular elementary GTK theme. elementary Dark is a soft and subtle dark theme based on the higly popular and modern elementary theme from the elementary project.

Fun TV - Live TV on your Smartphone

When I bought my first smartphone, many of my friends asked me, "Can you play Live TV?". But I was unaware of the links for different channels and could not find a right app. But finally, I've made an app myself.

Fun TV is an app which lets you stream TV Channels directly through the built in video player or any other player that supports live streaming. Adobe Flash is absolutely not required.

Fedora Utils 1.4.0 Released

The latest version of Fedora Utils, 1.4.0, released today. The latest version brings some Fedora 15 specific changes and updates packages. Also now you can enable logging and redirect the outputs in terminal to a log file in case an error occurs. The notifications are now more pleasant with an icon.

Dual Booting: Part 4 (Last Bits)

In this article, we will see those last bits you need to know when you dual boot. we will describe how to remove an operating system without affecting the other, switching between bootloaders and troubleshoot common problems. There is also a nice PDF containing all chapters.

Dual Booting: Part 3 (Installing Ubuntu)

In the previous article, we saw how to install Windows. Now the next step is to install a Linux distro. Unless you are a advanced Linux user, I recommend you to choose Ubuntu. Even better if you choose Linux Mint. They are completely free and available for free download through various media on their websites. We'll see how to install Ubuntu. Installing Linux Mint is basically the same.

Dual Booting: Part 2 (Installing Windows)

So, we discussed some basic things about dual booting in the previous post. Here, we'll see the installation process of Windows. Windows doesn't detect any other operating systems such as Linux. So, to achieve a dual boot configuration, you should install Windows first, so that Linux can easily setup a dual boot environment when it detects previous Windows installation. If you already have Windows installed, you can skip it. But if you have Linux installed, fear not, you can proceed installing Windows as we would later describe the procedure to add Linux to Windows boot menu.

Dual Booting: Part 1 (Basics)

I often come across people who don't know anything about dual booting. Of course, I didn't know it at first. But now I'm often having more than one OS in my laptop. So here is an effort to describe it, and how it is done.

GuessIt! - A Simple Game for Android

GuessIt! is a dead simple number guessing game. Just guess the number and enter it. Keep guessing according to the hints and win!

It might not be a great game, but this is my first android app. So don't expect much from a newbie.