Thanks to the overwhelming success of the Clearlooks Compact Theme and demand from several users I have now created a Human Compact theme. Basically it features the same compactness as Clearlooks Compact, but the look & feel of the Ubuntu Human theme. So, if you want compactness and did not like the cold blue look [...]

I have made a minor update to the Clearlooks Compact theme, the panel menu now uses small icons.
Clearlooks Compact is a Gnome theme that tries to make use of the wasted screen space as much as possible. It is especially useful for small screens like on the Eee PC, or with intense applications like Eclipse. [...]

Today I got a new harddisk, so it was finally time for me to have an in depth look at LVM. I use it to combine two harddisks /dev/sdg1 and /dev/sdb1 into one volume group ext_vg which contains one big logical volume /dev/ext_vg/ext. In short, my 250GB and 500GB harddisks are used in one big [...]

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I am a long-term StumbleUpon user, which means that I don’t get much sleep. Now, after almost 4 years of stumbling, I have decided to get my life back. Well, at least some sleep!
What does this do?
Every night when I have to work on the next day (Sunday night to Thursday night ), at [...]

The Clearlooks Compact theme was released just a few days ago, and it already is the highest rated theme at gnome-look.org, out of more than a thousand. I guess the compactness really hit the nerve of lots of Linux users.
This encouraged me to do some further updates, I have incorporated lots of several tips and [...]