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Fancy OpenGL transitions in OpenOffice for Ubuntu Hardy

While OpenOffice isnt really something to get excited about, I was looking forwards to the fancy OpenGL page transitions that I thought were due to be part of version 2.4 (shipped with the new version of ubuntu).

However when I decided to try them out it turns out they arent actually available.

Luckily there is an easy way to install them, simply do

sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-ogltrans

and restart open office and you will have some 3D goodness to smarten up your presentations.

Enjoy

Ubuntu 8.4

Rather than write something about programming this week i’ve decided to upgrade my pc and laptop to the latest version of Ubuntu which was released the other day.

So far everything seems to be working fine and i’ve been messing around with new themes most of the time because I don’t really like the default orange theme that ubuntu ships with.

I’ve settled with the ubuntu-studio theme with a different icon set.

For those like me that love playing around with themes then I would recommend that you install the Gnome Art Manager.  This is a little program that makes it easy to browse and install different bits for your Gnome UI.

sudo apt-get install gnome-art

Thats it for now, I will do a proper programming post some time in the week, and probably a zoomf update post too!

Tags: Linux, ubuntu