CCSM ate Unity, help, help!

After crashing CCSM, although I could login to a normal Unity session, Unity did not start. I could a launch a Unity 2D session, and that worked perfectly. The solution is to start CCSM in Unity 2d and re-enable the Unity plugin. When compiz crashed, it reset to default, without the unity plugin active. more permanent solution/detailed explanation at askubuntu

Rogue App Control

@omgubuntu: Quickly Kill Rogue Apps in Ubuntu with FlashFreeze http://goo.gl/fb/Y8eJw #ubuntu -- shared via Twidroyd http://twidroyd.com

Opening programs on specific desktops

To make a program always open on a particular desktop:

1. Open the program you want to place!
2. Compiz Config Settings Manager → Places Windows (plugin) → Fixed Window Placement Tab → Windows with fixed viewport (last section) → New (button) → + (button) → Grab (button)
3. Click in the middle of the window for the program you are planning to place somewhere.
4. Back to CCSM, + Add (button). Set the X & Y to the appropriate window. Close (button)

source: webupd8 (The bug they mentioned has been fixed, in my installation of Oneiric Ocelot.)

Unity Theming

To install themes in unity, Extract and Copy the theme file to usr/share/themes ; then open Gnome Tweak Tool and select that theme (GTK, icon, window etc). That’s All. Source

Oh no, Unity!

It appears I will be stuck with hideous buttons in the global app menu until Oneiric.

Window control buttons in the panel don't respect metacity theme

Totally a web thing: Yahoo Pipes

Three places to learn about them:

1. How to combine RSS feeds with Yahoo Pipes
2. A Guide to Yahoo Pipes
3. Official Documentation

Twiter Backup

One of the things that makes me grumpy about using twitter is that it doesn't include a backup utility.

Johann Burkard wrote a java Twitter Backup program. Version 3.1.6 works perfectly well with Ubuntu 10.10 and Twitter's oAuth setup. :)