Friday, February 11, 2011

How to resize pictures in Ubuntu

Quick way to have the ability to resize big pictures. Very useful when you upload pictures to the web a lot (e.g. Facebook)

sudo apt-get install nautilus-image-converter

Then restart Nautilus:
sudo killall nautilus

When in want of resizing, right-click on the picture (or pictures) to resize, and select resize pictures from the context menu.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

A dark theme for Geany

Been always partial to dark themes for my editors. Studying PHP, and using Geany, I got this excellent theme.

Downloaded the zip file from code.google.com
extracted to a subfolder in my Downloads folder, e.g. darktheme

From a terminal window,
ls ~/Downloads/darktheme

then still in the terminal,
sudo cp -r ~/Downloads/darktheme/*.* ~/.config/geany/filedefs

And this is how it looks.



















Update:
This theme (from Mozilla bespin) looks promising.  Gotten from github.