full circle ISSUE #36 - April 2010 GGIIMMPP PPAARRTT 33 MORE DIGITAL RETOUCHING MORE DIGITAL RETOUCHING full circle magazine #36 contents ^ full circle My Opinion p.19 Ubuntu Women p.28 Program In Python Pt10 p.07 Ubuntu Games p.30 My Story p.16 MOTU Interview p.24 Read how one man was introduced to Ubuntu through OpenOffice and how another Retouch Photos - Pt 3 p.12 managed to discover it. Command & Conquer p.05 Using Google p.14 Book Review p.22 Letters p.26 Top 5 - Scanning Apps p.36 The articles contained in this magazine are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. 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I want to thank each and every reader for downloading, reading, helping and suggesting things to Tkeep this magazine alive. My thanks also go out to all the people you don't hear from who help make this PDF possible, and professional! Last month I promised a new logo and possible template tweaks. Sorry, but Canonical haven't released the new Ubuntu logo font, so until they do it's business as usual. But, while waiting for the font, Rob has updated the website with a fresh new Ubuntu is a complete operating look. Check it out and feel free to pass your comments on to Rob. system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. Whether at home, school or Everyone wave goodbye to Tommy, our Q&A man. He's off to work on other things, work, Ubuntu contains all the but Gord (one of our proof-readers) has stepped up and is taking over the Q&A section. applications you'll ever need Be sure to read his Q&A tips page this month as it really is necessary that you send including word processor, email application and web browser. detailed information if you want an answer to your question. Ubuntu is and always will be free ) m of charge. You do not pay any o c And last, but by no means least: the podcast. Robin and Co. are, . licensing fees. You can r k c download, use and share Ubuntu i as I write this, putting the finishing touches to episode #5, and l F ( with your friends, family, school episode #4 is already on the site. Sorry for the delay in getting #4 b or business, for absolutely e d released and for the recent RSS hiccups. Hopefully they'll be e nothing. v o resolved this month. l y p Once installed, your system is a o s ready to use with a full set of : e productivity, internet, drawing g a and graphics applications, and m i Editor, Full Circle magazine e games. k a [email protected] c use the new 'contents' link to jump to the contents page from any other page! full circle magazine #36 contents ^ NEWS Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will be New Ubuntu Manual Ubuntu 10.04 Released! supported for three years on Full Circle Podcast - This release desktops and five years on incorporates servers. Ubuntu 10.04 , a Episode 04 & 05 the Desktop Netbook Edition will be comprehensive beginner's The Full Edition and the supported for 18 months. guide designed for the Ubuntu Circle Server Edition. operating system. 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All the following press releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu of the relevant information is The podcast and show notes Desktop and Netbook editions: Studio/10.04release_notes on our website, http://ubuntu- are available at: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/u manual.org. http://fullcirclemagazine.org buntu-10.04-desktop-edition : Ubuntu Weekly News Server edition: : Ubuntu News http://www.ubuntu.com/news/u buntu-10.04-server-edition full circle magazine #36 contents ^ COMMAND & CONQUER ollowing my article last important to note is the hex month on customizing • Finding hex values of Then to run it all you need value of the colour you decide prompts and shells, I colours, and finding to do is the following: upon. Once you've decided thought it might be complementary colours upon your base colour, it's time Fnice to explain how you can ./colours to find complementary colours. customize the colours used by • Some way to display the If you share my problem of your terminal. It's also a good resulting colour scheme as a It will display something like being unable to think of introduction to your .Xdefaults test the one shown below. complementary colours off the file, which offers quite a bit of top of your head, you can use control over user-specific I'll be focusing on the The second step for me is the search function on settings. It can be used to set methods I'm comfortable with, always to pick a base colour, ColourLovers: the mouse cursor, urxvt- but it's by no means the only which impacts what other http://www.colourlovers.com/ specific settings, configuring way to create these colour colours I can choose, as we and give it the hex value for terminal settings, setting DPIs, schemes. The first thing to do want complementary colours. the colour to find palettes of anti-aliasing, and other X Font is to check the current colour You can always choose a basic matching colours. Once you've preferences, and theming scheme to see what you have colour, green, for example. decided upon your set of 16 xscreensaver, among other to work with, if anything. To do Then you can open a colour colours (and the things. There are plenty of so, I highly recommend Daniel palette, either gcolor2 if you background/foreground examples of terminal colour Crisman's colourscheme.sh want a stand-alone colour colours, for a total of 18 hex schemes at Aaron Griffin's (see the first link of the Further chooser, or you can use GIMP values), it's time to write it into website (he's the lead Reading section, at the very to mix new colours. What's your .Xdefaults. The format to developer of ArchLinux): end of that webpage). To use it, do so for all terminals is this: http://phraktured.net/terminal- just copy it into a file, and colors/. Today, I'll be covering chmod +x the file. For example: !---- Terminal Colours *background: #000000 the process by which you can *foreground: #ffffff design your own terminal vim colours *color0: #000000 colour scheme. This consists of (see footnote [1] on the next page for *color1: #9e1828 more information on the above) a few basic steps: *color2: #aece92 *color3: #968a38 <after pasting in the script and *color4: #414171 • Understanding the syntax of exiting vim> *color5: #963c59 the .Xdefaults file regarding *color6: #418179 *color7: #bebebe colours sudo chmod +x colours full circle magazine #36 contents ^ COMMAND & CONQUER *color8: #666666 opacity setting (so 70% you really like, but that's part *color9: #cf6171 opaque, or 30% transparent). of the fun. I also realize that Arch Wiki page on .Xdefaults, *color10: #c5f779 *color11: #fff796 This is only possible for the two links I have for more with a few links and examples: *color12: #4186be terminals that support info about .Xdefaults are for http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.p *color13: #cf9ebe transparency, and on systems Arch, but I wasn't able to find hp/Xdefaults *color14: #71bebe where you're running a any similar pages for Ubuntu. *color15: #ffffff compositing manager Besides, the instructions will be A thread on the Arch Forums, (xcompmgr, cairo-compmgr, almost identical for either The top line is the format for with terminal colour schemes: compiz, mutter, and so forth), system.