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Buggy Gnome Main Menu

Saturday, 07 July 2007

I've been living with the new Gnome Main Menu for a while now. Like many others I run Ubuntu these days and I've found the version in Feisty Fawn to be extremely slow and buggy.

I tried manually installing (dpkg -i) the latest version in Gutsy but it had too many dependencies. So I decided to try and backport it, and it worked!

I haven't set up any repository, so just download the below two .deb files and install them with "sudo dpkg -i *.deb" in a terminal window:

The md5sums for these files are: 
  3f0a962ffdd2974663f2f425eed5f541   libslab0_0.9.8.svn.20070430-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
  1d11fcace33bab707e28c230c85ea1ba   gnome-main-menu_0.9.8.svn.20070430-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

Posted by Joachim Nilsson at 09:52 in /gnome | Permalink

Aaaah, the fish got a facelift! :)

Sunday, 13 August 2006

This is just great! Wanda the fortune telling fish of the Gnome desktop got her self a face lift. Take a look at this:

Add her new look to your applet by copying the file to /usr/share/gnome/panel/pixmaps/. Select it in the applet preferences and use 8 frames and 0.3 seconds per frame.

Posted by Joachim Nilsson at 10:43 in /gnome | Permalink