Manage iPhone’s SpringBoard Icons on Ubuntu

Written By
MN
Marius Nestor
Dec 28, 2010

[ Thanks to An
Anonymous Reader
for this link. ]

“The following tutorial will teach GNOME, Ubuntu, and
other Linux users how to manage the icons (SpringBoard) on their
Apple iPhone 3G, 3Gs, or iPhone 4 devices. The tutorial was tested
with an iPhone 3Gs phone, on the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)
operating system.

“As you all probably already know, iPhone devices are supported
in Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) or Ubuntu
10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), all thanks to an amazing library called
libimobiledevice.

“The SpringBoard is the screen where all of your installed
applications are displayed. You can easily rearrange the icons on
your iPhone device if you hold your finger on an icon, for a few
seconds, until they start jiggle.

“But, if you want to manage the SpringBoard icons on your Linux
operating system, you can do that with the SBmanager application.
And, today’s tutorial we will teach how to install this
application, tested on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating
system.”


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MN

Marius Nestor

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