Monday, April 6, 2009

How To Put Title Bar On Blender (Windowed) Using Nvidia Video Card

1.Edit Gnome Menu. Right-click on the menu, then Edit Menus.
2.Click on Graphics, then on the right, Blender (windowed).
3.Click Properties.
4.On the command box enter: blender -w -p 0 0 x y (where x is height and y is length).

How To Do The Desktop Cube In Compiz

1.Install compiz settings manager.
2.Check Desktop Cube, Rotate Cube. That's it!

Sunday, April 5, 2009

How To Record Gaming Consoles In Ubuntu

1.Find a PVR software connecting to it in S-Video.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Auto Mounting Disks At Boot

1.Make yourself the owner at mounting. Since this is done during boot up with an fstab entry, change your line to something that id's you as the owner (assuming you are uid 1000):

#Entry for /dev/sdh1 :
UUID=3004A17004A13A2C /media/Movie1 ntfs-3g auto,uid=1000,rw,umask=000 0 0

Note: You can leave the 'users' option in there if you want others to be able to mount/umount the device.

How To Auto-Mount Partitions The Easy Way

1.Mount the partitions you want to auto mount. Places->Removable Media->The drive you want to mount. This will show on the desktop as icons.
2.System->Administration->Authorizations->storage->Mount file systems from internal drives.
3.Explicit Authorization->Grant->your user name.
4.Log-out, and your drives will stay mounted.
5.That's it!

Friday, April 3, 2009

Changing The User Permission To Your Files In Ubuntu

1.To change the permissions,
chown -R ~ user:user

Thursday, April 2, 2009

What is the proper way to install nVidia Drivers?

1.Try removing the current driver: from the terminal, navigate to where the driver is, stop gdm:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

2.and remove the driver:

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.22-pkg2.run --uninstall

3.Then install the one in 'System->Applications->Hardware Drivers', or the 180.16.