SevenSeconds' Blogger

Due to I switch back from Windows to Ubuntu. The most important program for me is " Skype ". After I download installation from Skype official website it seems there is no problem at all I am able to installed in by Ubuntu Software Center. The problem  was occurring after I launch Skype and close the main window opens I expect it will be closed and shown the icon on notification panel area. But there is no icon on notification area then I launch Skype application again the windows instance comes up thus I try to log in again, suddenly I get an error message about another instance was already running. After I search on google a bit I found that Ubuntu 13.04 was removed system tray whitelist feature from its unity. so I found this website to re-enable the whitelist by below instruction. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:timekiller/unity-systrayfix sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade After finished installation I do the following steps to add Skype to notification whitelis

It has been a long time I haven't used Ubuntu since it has some issues about my laptop driver. Yesterday I decided to format and install Ubuntu 13.04. It seems everything work well with a little bit effort to fix some driver problems. Therefore I am as Java developer I cannot avoid to use eclipse as my default IDE (personal preference) but after I installed Eclipse Kepler (4.3). There is an ugly theme with weird gradient, let say it looks worse than in Windows, so I search for the solution, eventually I got one solution that we need to change the theme in eclipse back to "Classic" theme (Window->Preferences->General->Appearance) in my opinion it looks better than in . Another problem is eclipse layout is not compact as in Windows nor as same as former version (3.x). The solution to fix this is create a file .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory with the following content . style "gtkcompact" { GtkButton::default_border={0,0,0,0} GtkButton::default_