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Gnome Pie is very cool visual application inspired by World of Warcraft addon called oPie. You can use this application in Ubuntu to make your OS very cool.



Gnome Pie - Visual Application Launcher:
Gnome pie have multiple "pies", and each pie is triggered by a keyboard shortcuts you set.
Every pie has it's own role: applications category, a focused window pie (maximize, unmaximize, close, etc), a media pie (play/previous/pause/etc) and other pies.
You can modify/delete/add your pies, you have full control on your pies.



Here is some Screens shots of "Pies".




To install Gnome Pie open Terminal (Press Alt+F2 and type: gnome-terminal) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:





When installation finished, launch Gnome Pie from menu and then use Ctrl+Alt+A to launch some applications, you can find Gnome Pie shortcuts in preferences.

Gnome pie works on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal and Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and Linux Mint.
If you want to install it on any other OS, you can download Gnome Pie from this GitHub.
Install New Screen Lets in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal/Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot/LinuxMint
New ScreenLets in Ubuntu

New Screen Lets fixes with Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal/Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and it's work perfectly on latest Ubuntu Versions. Screenlets are mini applications which decorate your desktop with different ScreenLets.

Now ScreenLets has its own PPA, There is also a development PPA here. so it's easy to install the latest version in Ubuntu Linux.

To install ScreenLets using PPA open Terminal (Press ALT+F2 and type: gnome-terminal -or- Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:





Enjoy screen-lets.

If you want to install Extra Screenlets, you can install using PPA copy the following commands in the Terminal:



That's it.