A little part of me was hoping that Ubuntu would be able to handle it, but alas, there was a graphics card issue. However credit to Ubuntu for making everything else work out of the box (apart from the minor issue of SATA 3.0).

Anyway, to get to the point, this is how I got my GTX 460 (Gigabyte 1GB card) working under ubuntu:

1. To start off with I needed to install the x-update ppa, which can be done by going to System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager then from the drop down menus go to Settings > Repositories > Other Software, click ‘Add’ and then paste in:

ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

2. Close the repositories window and click reload, press mark all upgrades, and then do a search for ‘nvidia-current’, select this package and click apply.

3. After this is done reboot your computer (Note: perhaps bookmark this page before you do ).

4. Now go to Applications > Accesories > Terminal and run:

sudo nvidia-xconfig

This will set up and x-org conifg file for you, do one last reboot to make sure everything sticks.

5. Run the nvidia settings program by going to Accessories > Terminal and typing:

sudo nvidia-settings

Done, happy compizing.

For all of them

Download your icon set for ubuntu from gnome-look.org and de-compress the icon folder, we are going to change images in this folder to the icons you want to use.
Once you’ve changed the images as described below, compress the folder to a .tar.gz file and install the icon set as usual.

Hard Drives V1 & 2

For each icon, you’ll need to make several copies of each icon and rename them in the “devices” folder in each of the folders in the main directory i.e. 128×128, scalable, . . . .

1. Blank Hard Drive:
   drive-harddrisk.png
   drive-removable-media.png
   gnome-dev-harddisk.png
   gtk-harddisk.png
   harddrive.png
2. USB Hard Drive:
   gnome-dev-harddisk-usb.png
   gnome-dev-removable-usb.png
   usbpendrive_unmount.png
3. FireWire Hard Drive:
   gnome-dev-harddisk-1394.png
   gnome-dev-removable-1394.png

Open Office Icon Set

In the “mimetypes” folder in each of the folders in the main directory i.e. 128×128, scalable, . . . .

1. Open Office Presentation Mimetype (Presentation Icon on the piece of paper):
   application-vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation
2. Open Office Spreadsheet Mimetype (Spreadsheet Icon on the piece of paper):
   application-vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet.png
3. Open Office Word Processor Mimetype (Word Processor Icon on the piece of paper):
   application-vnd.oasis.opendocument.text.png
4. Open Office Drawer Mimetype (Drawer Icon on the piece of paper):
   application-vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics.png

In the “apps” folder in each of the folders in the main directory i.e. 128×128, scalable, . . . .

1. Open Office Presentation Icon:
   ooo-impress.png
2. Open Office Spreadsheet Icon:
   ooo-calc.png
3. Open Office Word Processor Icon:
   ooo-writer.png
4. Open Office Drawer Icon:
   ooo-draw.png

In the “categories” folder in each of the folders in the main directory i.e. 128×128, scalable, . . . .

1. Office Menu Category Icon:
   applications-office.png
   gnome-applications.png
   package_office.png
   redhat-office.png
   xfce-office.png

Programming Icon Set

In the “mimetypes” folder in each of the folders in the main directory i.e. 128×128, scalable, . . . .

1. JS:
   gnome-mime-application-javscript.png
2. XHTML:
   gnome-mime-application-xhtml+xml.png
3. PHP:
   gnome-mime-application-x-php.png
4. PY:
   gnome-mime-application-x-python-bytecode.png
   gnome-mime-text-x-python.png
5. CSS:
   gnome-mime-text-css.png
6. C:
   gnome-mime-text-x-c.png
   gnome-mime-text-x-csrc.png
7. C++:
   gnome-mime-text-x-c++.png
   gnome-mime-text-x-c++src.png
8. C#:
   gnome-mime-text-x-csharp.png
9. HS:
   gnome-mime-text-x-haskell.png
10. JAVA:
    gnome-mime-text-x-java.png
11. MAKE:
    gnome-mime-text-x-makefile.png
12. ASS:
    gnome-mime-text-x-ssa.png
13. HTML:
    text-html.png

Kiba-Dock Home Page

This guide is to help people install the latest version of kiba-dock on Ubuntu although it may be possible to adapt for other linux distributions.

This tutorial is for people who are comfortable using a terminal, if you don’t know what the terminal is then click here.

1. Install Dependencies
2. Make Directories
3. Downloading Kiba-Dock Source Files
4. Compile and Install the Source Files
5. Running
6. Adding to Start-Up
7. Un-Installing Kiba-Dock

Requirements:

• Compiz-Fusion must be running as kiba-dock requires a composite window manager to work properly.

1. 
   First we need to install any build dependencies (libraries that kiba-dock uses).
   • sudo aptitude remove automake1.4
   • sudo apt-get install fakeroot automake1.9 build-essential libpango1.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libglitz-glx1-dev librsvg2-dev libglade2-dev libxcomposite-dev subversion libtool libgtop2-dev python-gtk2-dev libgnome-menu-dev libgnomeui-dev libgnomevfs2-dev intltool libxml2-dev libglitz1-dev libcairo2 libdbus-1-dev libgtop2-7 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomeui-0 librsvg2-2 python-feedparser libasound2-dev libsdl1.2-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer0.10-0 pidgin-dev libpurple-dev
2. 
   Then make the directory to install kiba-dock into
   • mkdir kiba-dock
   • cd kiba-dock
3. 
   Next we need to download all the kiba-dock source files, so do the following
   • svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/akamaru/ akamaru
   • svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/kiba-dock/ kiba-dock
   • svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/kiba-plugins/ kiba-plugins
   • svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk/kiba-dbus-plugins/ kiba-dbus-plugins
4. 
   Now we need to compile and install each of these sets of source files
   • cd akamaru/
     ./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr –exec-prefix=/usr
     sudo make install
     cd ..
   • cd kiba-dock/
     ./autogen.sh
     sudo make install
     cd ..
   • cd kiba-plugins/
     ./autogen.sh
     sudo make install
     cd ..
   • cd kiba-dbus-plugins/
     ./autogen.sh
     sudo make install
     cd ..
5. 
   Now it should all be ok to run
   • kiba-dock
6. 
   If you want kiba-dock to launch at start-up do the following:

   Go to System -> Preferences -> Sessions, then under the ‘Startup Programs’ tab select ‘Add’ and set the program up as follows.

   Name: Kiba-Dock

   Command: kiba-dock

   Comment: Kiba-Dock Dock Application

   

7. If you want to uninstall kiba-dock at any point do the following.
   • cd kiba-dock/kiba-dbus-plugins
     sudo make uninstall
     cd ..
   • cd kiba-dock/kiba-plugins
     sudo make uninstall
     cd ..
   • cd kiba-dock/kiba-dock
     sudo make uninstall
     cd ..
   • cd kiba-dock/akamaru
     sudo make uninstall

Sunbird Home Page

Sunbird is a stand-alone calendar application that can be installed on Windows, Mac OS X and linux.

Provider for Google Calendar Page

This is an add-on that enables syncing between Sunbird and Google Calendar.

In this tutorial I’ll explain how-to set-up Sunbird to sync with Google Calendar.

1. Download Add-On
2. Install the Add-On
3. Restart Sunbird
4. Subscribe to Remote Calendar
5. Select Calendar on the Network
6. Google Calendar and Location
7. Enter Username and Password
8. Enter Calendar Name and Colour
9. Enter Username and Password
10. Calendar Created
11. Repeat for Multiple Calendars

Requirements:

• Mozilla Sunbird 0.8
• Google Calendar Account

1. Start off with downloading the ‘Provider for Google Calendar’ Add-on here, by simply clicking on ‘Download Now’.
2. Now open Sunbird and go to Tools -> Add-ons, Click on ‘Install’ and navigate to the file you downloaded in Step 1, click on it and click ‘Open’. Then Sunbird will then make you wait 5 seconds before you can click ‘Install’, after this time click ‘Install’.

   

3. Once you’ve clicked install and Sunbird has loaded the Add-on you’ll be asked to restart Sunbird so click on the ‘Restart Sunbird’ button and wait for Sunbird to reload.

   

4. The add-on will already be enabled so we can continue setting-up the syncing. Go to File -> Subscribe to Remote Calendar.

   

5. On the next window select ‘On the Network’ and click ‘Next’.

   

6. On the next window select ‘Google Calendar’ and the ‘Location’ field we need to fill with an address from Google Calendar, so do the following:
   1. Go to http://www.google.com/calendar/, and log-in.
   2. On the calendar click on ‘Settings’ under the ‘My calendars’ tab on the left hand side.

      

   3. On the next page you’ll see all of your calendars, click on one of them you wish to use with Sunbird.

      

   4. On the ‘Calendar Details’ scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the ‘XML’ icon in the ‘Private Address’ section.

      

   5. Then a long URL will appear, copy this URL and paste it into Sunbird’s location field and click ‘Next’.
7. You’ll then need to enter the username and password you use to log-in to Google Calendar and click ‘OK’.
8. Give a name for your calendar (Mostly useful if you intend on having several calendars for different categories, like Birthdays, Work, etc.) and select a colour, before clicking ‘Next’.

   

9. You may be asked to enter you username and password again for Google Calendar.
10. You should then be presented with a message saying your calendar has been created and you can click ‘Finish’.

    

11. If you have more calendars to add repeat steps 4 – 10.

Sunbird Home Page Sunbird is a stand-alone calendar application that can be installed on Windows, Mac OS X and linux.

In this tutorial I’ll explain how to install the 0.8 release of Sunbird on Ubuntu, although it may be possible to adapt for other linux distributions. The reasion you may want to install the 0.8 release, over the version in the Ubuntu repositories, is that some plug-ins require the latest version of Sunbird, in particular “Provider for Google Calendar”, which enables syncing with Google Calendar. I would like to give a special thank you to Benjamin Garnier for supplying me with the Sunbird logo used in this tutorial. This tutorial is for people who are comfortable using a terminal.

1. Download the Latest Release of Sunbird
2. Extract the Files
3. Install Sunbird Dependencies
4. Set Permissions of the Files
5. Launching Sunbird from the Terminal
6. Fixing the Chrome Registration Error
7. Adding Sunbird to Applications Menu

Requirements:

• None

1. To start off we need to get the latest .tar.gz file from the official Sunbird site here.
2. Now we need extract the files into the /opt directory on your computer, so cut and paste the .tar.gz file into your home folder if it isn’t there already and open a terminal to do the following.
   • sudo tar zxvf sunbird-0.8.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz -C /opt/
3. Sunbird requires some dependencies, so we’ll need to install these before we continue.
   • sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
4. The next thing to do is set the files permissions so we can launch Sunbird from /opt directory.
   • sudo chown -R root:root /opt/sunbird/
   • sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/sunbird/
5. You should now be able to launch Sunbird with this command.
   • /opt/sunbird/sunbird
6. If you get an error message like this one 

   

   then type the following command and it should fix it.

   • sudo touch /opt/sunbird/extensions/talkback@mozilla.org/chrome.manifest
7. I’m assuming many of you, like me, would prefer Sunbird to be installed in the ‘Applications’ menu, rather than have launch it through a terminal. This is easy to achieve.
   1. Right click on the ‘Applications’ menu (on the top left of the screen) and select ‘Edit Menus’
   2. Select the category you would like to place the Sunbird launcher and click ‘New Item’ (I’m going to place the Sunbird launcher in my office category)
   3. Now in the new window that pops-up, set each part to the followingType: Application
      Name: Sunbird
      Command: /opt/sunbird/sunbird
      Comment: Mozilla Sunbird Cross-Platform Calendar Application

      

      Now to change the icon right click and select ‘Save Image As’ on the image below.

      

      (Icon kindly provided by Benjamin Garnier).Save/move this picture to a place you are happy to leave it because if you move/delete it at a later date your menu item won’t have an icon.
      When you’ve saved/moved ‘sunbird.png’ somewhere, click on the “spring” icon and select ‘Browse’ in the window that opens, find your icon and click ‘Open’ and then ‘OK’.

      

   4. Finally close the menu editor and Sunbird should now be under your chosen category.