Installing latest Gnome Do on Ubuntu 8.10

If you are not sure what is Gnome Do, read my previous post on this topic. Ubuntu 8.10 repositories has older version 0.6.0.1 of Gnome-DO. This was probably released around October 2008 time frame when Ubuntu 8.10 was released. It has been several months since then, and Gnome DO has progressed nicely.

If you want to try the latest version of Gnome DO, which now comes with Docky, then read on How to upgrade to latest version.

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Gnome : How to Assign Keyboard Shortcuts

When I moved from Windows to Ubuntu, I was assuming that VirtuaWin keyboard shortcuts would work as is. To my surprise, there were no keyboard shortcut to switch directly to specific workspace. Right click on workspace applet didn’t help, since it only allowed me to configure number of workspaces. Off course, shortcuts to move to next workspace are defined as Ctrl+Alt+Arrow (Depending on specific arrangement it could be right, left , up or down arrow)

To define shortcut to move to specific workspace directly, you need to go to System->Preferences->Keyboard shortcuts. Select Window Management Category. Here one can define the shortcuts. There are entries for Switch to Workspace 1 and Switch to Workspace 2. But both are disabled. It is very easy to assign the shortcuts. Click on the row, and just press the desired key combination. On VirtuaWin, I was used to Alt+<num>, but that was already taken by Firefox to move to specific tab. So I decided to use Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+2.

I was able to define shortcut for Workspace 1 and Workspace 2 (Since there are two workspaces defined in the  default configuration). When I created additional two workspaces (2×2 matrix) I am unable to assign shortcuts to workspace 3 and 4. (For now I’m using Arrow based shortcuts to move between the workspaces)

Gnome Do – App Launcher for Linux

If you have read the about page, you know I started my career on unix, hence my love for command line.I genuinely feel that command line is efficient than GUI. Most of the times I can achieve the result much quicker using the keyboard, than using mouse.  So when I heard and read about Quick Silver application, I was jealous of folks who use OS X. Soon I realized that although windows doesn’t have as good an alternative as QuickSilver (or QS, as they fondly call it) there are options like Launchy, DOMercury and my current favorite Executor.

So when I finally installed Ubuntu on home machine, I wanted an equivalent for Linux as well. I had read about Gnome Do long ago, and when I looked at it (back then) it was in a very nascent state (plus I didn’t have working Linux machine at home)

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