Have you ever been chatting on a website forum and been totally unable to describe an action you’ve performed on Ubuntu? “Click the top bar---the grey thing at the top, you know. And then drag the icon. The blue icon. Drag it to the desktop...”
The fact is that it can be hard describing in words what are simple procedures with a mouse. A solution is at hand, however.
I was reading How to install Ubuntu Linux from USB Stick posted on this site a while ago, and found it to be quite some work to get Ubuntu working on a USB stick. Besides, having to prepare your USB device, creating a separate partition on it which will be more or less "useless" after the installation, giving up 750MB of space?
After much thought and ongoing questions regarding the best way to install the new WeatherBug for Linux application, I have opted to create a simple how-to here at Ubuntu Geek.
For all those who are beginners in any linux(ubuntu) find hard to find the package files of their distro and end up in finding an source package(which is either in tar.gz or .gz).. so now people think how to install these source files.....
Like my article on Conky, this is one of my favorite techniques to use on any Linux distribution. This technique -- utilizing devilspie -- will create a transparent terminal session on your desktop that will remain for the duration of your login (unless you exit the terminal session for some reason) This particular how-to addresses Ubuntu specifically, but I've done this successfully in 3 or 4 distributions.