A Month With Unity, Hmmmm

December 11 2011 by B-Drive in Uncategorized |No Comments

I started my experiment with going Linux-only (except on my work provided machine) about a month ago.   My new laptop dual boots to Windows 7 and Ubuntu/Unity 11.10;  I’ve been running Ubuntu 11.04 on a home server machine for over 6 months (before that a Gentoo distro) with Unity too, and Linux Mint on an old […]

Adding an Ubuntu Unity Menu Link for IntelliJ

December 4 2011 by B-Drive in Uncategorized |No Comments

It’s pretty simple to add a menu launcher link for anything in Ubuntu. Just make a file with a “.desktop” extension and then edit the file so that it has the pathing for the image file (48 px seems to be the size to choose) and the executable.  Here’s my intellij.desktop file contents: #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open […]