Beyond the Sky

I like this wallpaper very much, you can have it from here

It looks cool with my Fluxbox, screenshot shows at bellow

Computer user usually beautify their desktop when they just install a new OS, having free time, discover new themes etc. With murrine gtk2 cairo engine installed, you can make your desktop looks nice, and it is light weight.

Murrine have ability to change:
1. Menubar style
2. ListHeader style
3. Menubar Items
4. Style of the Glaze
5. Scrollbar Colors
6. Contrast

Murrine support:
1. Square all the theme
2. Animations ( on progress bar)

Screenshot?

This is one of the sample Murrina Kent uses murrine engine.

Ok, what should I install?
If you are using ubuntu, you can do as bellow:

wget http://malteo.homelinux.net/B54820BC.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Add the lines bellow to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://malteo.homelinux.net edgy-malteo all
deb-src http://malteo.homelinux.net edgy-malteo all

# sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-murrine

Ok, you need to download themes,
You can search around at http://gnome-look.org/ and http://xfce-look.org/ . Those themes uses murrine will usually have keyword murrina***

I find this nice too, but you need to do some modification, else it won't works.
(replace squaredstyle = 0 to roundness = 1)
http://www.kernow-webhosting.com/~bvc/theme/gtk/murrine/

Downloaded theme can extract at ~/.themes then to use apply the theme, can uses gnome-theme-manager. ( Simply goto system -> preference -> theme for gnome user.)

If you using fluxbox on top of ubuntu, add the line bellow to ~/.fluxbox/startup

gnome-settings-daemon &

What else?
You can modify the theme, its a text with options, edit the file gtkrc in the theme folder you have extract, search "murrine", and all the option can be configure easily. The author create a murrine configurator for easy configuration too, but some how the official murrine site cannot be access by my side. Thanks to linux toy, I able to download the murrine configurator at here

You wanna see all your results at once, with all the controls everything in one windows, use The Widget Factory.


Get it from http://linuxappfinder.com/package/thewidgetfactory

Have fun!

Thanks to my friend, Ong Hean Loong. My name appear at DBLP, not really sure what kind of LP is that, but that is amazing!
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/o/Ong:Hean=Kuan.html

I was wasting all my time yesterday night, trying to find a way to correct the subtitle of a french movie. Some of us may always need subtitle, but sometimes the downloaded movie (oops!) do not sync well with subtitle we can obtain from the net which usually rip from DVD.

My case was, I need subtitle coz i can't understand french. I have few subtitle, which one of them is in correct sync, means the timing is correct. But unfortunately, the one is not english subtitle. I search from the net try to find alternatives subtitle which I can't find the ONE that sync.

Therefore, first thing come into my mind is, write a bash script to copy the correct timing from one subtitle file and copy the english subtitle from another then pasted one new file. I failed to do that, because the sequence of the line skipping is not always the same. (Donno what am I talking about? Forget about it, main point is I failed.)

At last, I search for subtitle editor, I should have done first! I find a good tool, "ksubtile". Okay, the name is funny, and it is KDE based application. But it works! because I just want to change the timing. There is a gnome app for that too, but I couldn't find it in my repo, so give up.

Try ksubtile, its easy! I have correct my subtitle timing less then 5 seconds with ksubtile.

Bellow are imported screenshot, not mine, I am using fluxbox

Fluxbox come with Ubuntu Edgy is the latest one, but it do not support imlib2 by default and it fails to display me information when i do

fluxbox -info

So I recompile the fluxbox and replace it. The fluxbox come with ubuntu edgy repo is installed at /usr/bin and /usr/lib. Fluxbox surce code configure by default is install in /usr/local/bin, do not support imlib2 too, no nls support either.

First I need X header and imlib dev stuff

apt-get install libimlib2-dev xlibs-dev libxrender-dev libxft2-dev

Then configure with nls and imlib support with correct prefix, so it will install at the same place when the current one.

./configure --enable-nls --enable-imlib2 --prefix=/usr

Observered the output of the configure, check whether nls and imlib2 is correct support, will appear at last few lines. Solves any dependencies if configure fail halfway.

Then? simple, make and sudo make install. Thats it!
Download here
Refers wiki here
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By the way, this is related but its another topic instead. I am just lazy to add another post, so I put it here.

If you like to edit your menu and key bindings in fluxbox with help of GUI, can check out this page
http://devaux.fabien.free.fr/flux/

It is helpful for beginners, but I prefer edit with vim myself, the key binding support control , alt and shift only, but fluxbox do not restrict you to use any key available on your keyboard.