Prayer times software for Ubuntu

Minbar Prayer Times is a free prayer times software for linux.

Installing Minbar on Ubuntu is easy.

$ sudo apt-get install minbar

After the installation process, you can start Minbar Prayer Times from the Accessories menu.

Minbar Prayer Times

To set the location, click on Preferences, and under the City Details tab, click on "Find City". You should find your city there. If your city is not available, you can find the latitude and longitude via www.islamicfinder.org, and enter it manually.

If you can suggest other free prayer times software for Ubuntu, please leave a comment.

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Location: Kangar, Perlis

Missing Windows "Show Desktop" shortcut icon

If you by mistake deleted the Windows "Show Desktop" shortcut icon in the QuickLunch, you can get it back by creating a text file named "Show Desktop.scf", and drag it to the QuickLaunch.

This is the content of the "Show Desktop.scf" file, for Windows XP and Vista respectively.

Windows XP

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

Windows Vista

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=shell32.dll,34
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

How to install GIMP for Linux

These are the commands to install GIMP on various Linux flavour from the distribution package.

Ubuntu/Debian

apt-get install gimp

openSUSE

yast -i gimp

Fedora

yum install gimp

Mandriva

urpmi gimp

Reduce image file size with GIMP

This is an easy way to reduce image file size. What you have to do is to convert the image mode from RGB to Indexed colours.

In GIMP, click on Image > Mode > Indexed.

Finally, change the "Maximum number of colors" property value from 256 to 16 or 32 as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Indexed Color Conversion

How to upgrade Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10

To upgrade Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 is easy.

First, press Alt+F2 to get the "Run Application" (Figure 1). Type in

update-manager -d

and, click Run. 

Figure 1: Run Application

Finally, click Upgrade on "Update Manager" (Figure 2).

Figure 2: Update Manager

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