Despite the slightly higher resolution (800 vs 768) vertical space is always a bit constrained on widescreens. This is even more noticeable with Gnome which has two panels, at the top and at the bottom, that use at minimum size 50 pixels both. Some other 20 px get wasted in the application titlebar, around 15 [...]

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HP Pavilion multimedia buttons configuration under Linux
How to setup the HP QuickPlay Linux equivalent: Elisa Media Center
In this howto you’ll learn how to customize the applications associated to the sensitive buttons above the keyboard of HP Pavilion laptops. This way you would be able to run Elisa Media Center (HP QuickPlay Linux equivalent) simply touching [...]

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Configurazione dei tasti multimediali degli HP Pavilion in Linux
Come impostare l’equivalente di HP QuickPlay su Linux: Elisa Media Center
In questo post vedremo come personalizzare le applicazioni associate ai tastini sensibili al tatto presenti sulla tastiera dei portatili HP Pavilion. Così facendo potremo avviare Elisa Media Center (equivalente per linux di HP QuickPlay) premendo semplicemente l’apposito [...]

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first of all install elisa via package manager
sudo apt-get install elisa
then configure elisa to run at fullscreen by editing file $HOME/.elisa/elisa.conf and changing line
# whether or not Elisa should start fullscreen
start_fullscreen = ‘1′
go into System > Preferences > Preferred applications and on Multimedia Tab select custom and enter text elisa into the white [...]

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Wine has notably a very ugly color skin.
Although it does indeed support windows skins, however such support is experimental and considered unstable.
However simply changing interface colors can improve the appearance dramatically, here’s how to:

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This is an update of Soft Flower GDM Login theme from blueshome that is compatible with new gnome version 2.20.x
The version linked here below is for widescreens 16:10 and optimized for resolution 1280×800 pixels if you would like the 4:3 version for 1024×768 pixels just go to the above mentioned blueshome page at art.gnome.org
Download the [...]

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To update fonts cache in order to see just installed fonts in home .fonts directory type
sudo fc-cache -f -v
sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

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