Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Community Wallpapers Revealed

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The package that comes with the winning wallpapers for the Quantal wallpaper contest has just uploaded to the Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal repositories.</b></div><br />Here are the 12 winning wallpapers:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDUOvzOUxm9K0PuQKU74hleJuQgqKOQstVp1ys0MPDT3zy9Fjj3WNWhOl3qCA3oEYlQtIKqhAVhZHEvY7ibfzvbNxHh9824qPg5AzkV-xKdnSZnvLsEPiPuOiJj955a-i-8xJnzsw2VkqS/s1920/A_Little_Quetzal_by_vgerasimov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDUOvzOUxm9K0PuQKU74hleJuQgqKOQstVp1ys0MPDT3zy9Fjj3WNWhOl3qCA3oEYlQtIKqhAVhZHEvY7ibfzvbNxHh9824qPg5AzkV-xKdnSZnvLsEPiPuOiJj955a-i-8xJnzsw2VkqS/s320/A_Little_Quetzal_by_vgerasimov.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA1A9bf_aspf1cEQIfrhWRZJut_znOPmvSB1i_7bjqT-UIrXWgz0fkCLWFdCb3dHOS9faJCSppv6XNZjMBBXKGThlhSaZHw3G5sJa4P4G1rs25DKn0PoQt9ZvQawS2qVbe3bPUaEkhw_qb/s1920/Below_Clouds_by_kobinho.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB1gMSSUhWyr3pMWS6l6EizDoVzlSbe1HzbY1NK4-k4iPpOTALQb8oVb2XGlZ1nfa7bsmLXC3VnGsk2ZGib1YvTTzNv-BLbZz2vrC0EfH2fawWE6cGmI2GOT6m79bru-Y_XDov8ZkRheQ-/s1920/Pantano_de_Orellana_by_mgarciaiz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB1gMSSUhWyr3pMWS6l6EizDoVzlSbe1HzbY1NK4-k4iPpOTALQb8oVb2XGlZ1nfa7bsmLXC3VnGsk2ZGib1YvTTzNv-BLbZz2vrC0EfH2fawWE6cGmI2GOT6m79bru-Y_XDov8ZkRheQ-/s320/Pantano_de_Orellana_by_mgarciaiz.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgaQak_CoIcAwPAZH1deP7OkwqHV9sFuV__-gK23H2NqbLrNIcTf5UldPgMudgrrEp3U-2lb3tCswc-7wSdvSW1ZXMEAOmkuk1S7e7DRe2rHbijEmPmyc2-k2I2xo6ZzgdgukKoU_QcbRx/s1920/Roof_Tiles_by_Finn_Sturdy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgaQak_CoIcAwPAZH1deP7OkwqHV9sFuV__-gK23H2NqbLrNIcTf5UldPgMudgrrEp3U-2lb3tCswc-7wSdvSW1ZXMEAOmkuk1S7e7DRe2rHbijEmPmyc2-k2I2xo6ZzgdgukKoU_QcbRx/s320/Roof_Tiles_by_Finn_Sturdy.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCx81DIw5fJjIE0RSr6ASPQQcsUtVy7DyBOWU5yjaeT-_o5dCbgX289ZX78OkpRNrboxoXtE57jeAt2UD9BHj33eZvc75trSLe5AweRVTALBtAM7zTrXeJTzuLCs-6yPLtQMY2JWtH-kv9/s1920/Vanishing_by_James_Wilson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCx81DIw5fJjIE0RSr6ASPQQcsUtVy7DyBOWU5yjaeT-_o5dCbgX289ZX78OkpRNrboxoXtE57jeAt2UD9BHj33eZvc75trSLe5AweRVTALBtAM7zTrXeJTzuLCs-6yPLtQMY2JWtH-kv9/s320/Vanishing_by_James_Wilson.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you're not using  Ubuntu 12.10, you can download the wallpapers from <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-wallpapers/0.35.1/+build/3763395/+files/ubuntu-wallpapers-quantal_0.35.1_all.deb">HERE</a> (deb - you don't have to install it, you can simply extract it), or, you can <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/ubuntu-wallpapers_0.35.1.tar.gz">download all the Ubuntu community wallpapers</a> from Ubuntu Karmic to Quantal.</div>

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Install ADB And Fastboot Android Tools In Ubuntu Via PPA

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3rgKUi_R1s8yVmOJdT_o4SGpNkgMp1zK2inr-2cPzfxHBsi1qmKqo3VMinFOG_bm3XG1YulKKqFYqG3c-QmrpJsVYSXL_yVGpjw1DFZ8wsi_KHTKGyx9xwedcwxr-xRz0MS0pSpUBPQG1/s1600/adb.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="adb" border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3rgKUi_R1s8yVmOJdT_o4SGpNkgMp1zK2inr-2cPzfxHBsi1qmKqo3VMinFOG_bm3XG1YulKKqFYqG3c-QmrpJsVYSXL_yVGpjw1DFZ8wsi_KHTKGyx9xwedcwxr-xRz0MS0pSpUBPQG1/s320/adb.png" title="adb" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>A package called "android-tools", which comes with "adb" and "fastboot" command line utilities, has been uploaded to the Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal repositories recently. I've got a request to upload this package in a PPA for older Ubuntu releases, so I've backported it to Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10 and 11.04.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"adb" (Android Debug Bridge) </b>is a command line tool you can use to access the file system from an Android device; it can be used to send commands, transfer or receive files, install or uninstall applications and more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"fastboot"</b> is a command line tools that you can use to flash the filesystem on Android devices over USB.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">These tools can be found in the <a href="http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html">Android SDK</a> too; using the official package in Ubuntu 12.10 or the packages in our PPA is just an alternative and easier way I'd say, to install them in Ubuntu. Also, the packages in the PPA are available for both 32bit and 64bit, while the Android SDK provided by Google is only available for <a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=904303">32bit</a>.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install "android-tools" package (adb and fastboot) in Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10 or 11.04</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Like I've said above, android-tools is available in the official Ubuntu 12.10 repositories so all you have to do is search for it in Ubuntu Software Center and click the install button.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10 and 11.04, you can install android-tools using the main WebUpd8 PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot</code></pre><br />Once installed, run "adb" and "fastboot" in a terminal to see the available options and how to use these Android tools.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Update 1:</b> we've now backported the Ubuntu Raring builds to Ubuntu 12.10 as well as Ubuntu 12.04 and 11.10. This includes  a new android-tools-ext4-utils package (“sudo apt-get install android-tools-fsutils”) and <b>udev rules to allow fastboot flashing Nexus7.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Update 2:</b>  The "android-tools-adb" package now includes / installs <b>51-android.rules</b> Udev rules. This isn't available in the official Ubuntu package but only in the package available in our PPA, and is available for <b>Ubuntu Raring, Quantal, Precise and Oneiric.</b></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Marcin Juszkiewicz for the packaging; I've only uploaded the package to the WebUpd8 PPA for older Ubuntu releases</i></div>

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Quickly Open Large PDF Files Even On Slow Machines With MuPDF

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi31h8V7iNvWHu51W3pY8Obk1ogXx60ZwqgRkvzUbVs_NVObCVN5IiUmKHtPCwQvMkyEt5vNoMww6QPRzEyQO03SrZD8uvaU8jY8bJsgWJvmOU0dxxAbbkdP5EpQV3I3HGnSjvmKa6gXrEz/s1600/mupdf.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mupdf" border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi31h8V7iNvWHu51W3pY8Obk1ogXx60ZwqgRkvzUbVs_NVObCVN5IiUmKHtPCwQvMkyEt5vNoMww6QPRzEyQO03SrZD8uvaU8jY8bJsgWJvmOU0dxxAbbkdP5EpQV3I3HGnSjvmKa6gXrEz/s320/mupdf.png" title="mupdf" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.mupdf.com/">MuPDF</a> is a small and fast PDF viewer that can quickly open large PDF files, even on slow computers.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a>WebUpd8 reader David Reimer writes:<br /><br /><blockquote>Larger PDFs (such as those 20Mb+ ones available at Archive.org/details/texts) run miserably slowly in Evince, or about any other PDF reader/viewer I've tried in Ubuntu, to the point of being unusable. With MuPDF, they can be read (even on my aging hardware) quite rapidly.</blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Since the application focuses on speed and small code size, it doesn't come with interactive features like for filling for instance. Also, the user interface only displays the PDF; to navigate through the PDF file (next page, rotate, zoom, search for text, go to a page and so on), you must use keyboard shortcuts as explained <a href="http://www.mupdf.com/manual">HERE</a>.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">MuPDF also comes with a few tools (in the "mupdf-tools" package) that allow you to convert a PDF file to a series of images (pdfdraw), repair, decrypt, and decompress PDF files (pdfclean) as well as some debugging tools that lets you extract fonts from PDF files, display information about internal objects, etc. (pdfshow, pdfextract and pdfinfo).</div><br /><br /><h2>Install MuPDF in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">MuPDF is available in the official Ubuntu repositories, but that's an old version - 0.9 for Ubuntu 12.04. Many improvements have been added to MuPDF 1.0 and 1.1: better memory management, multi-threaded operation, better PDF rendering and <a href="http://www.mupdf.com/news">more</a>. If you wish to install the version from the official repositories, simply search for MuPDF in Ubuntu Software Center.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To install the latest MuPDF 1.1 in Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 or 11.10, use the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:guilhem-fr/mupdf<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mupdf</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MuPDF isn't available just for Linux, the application is also available for Windows, Android and iOS:</b></div><ul><li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/mupdf/downloads/list">download MuPDF source / Windows / Android</a></li><li><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mupdf/id482941798">download MuPDF for iOS</a></li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>thanks to David Reimer for the tip!</i></div>

Quickly Open Large PDF Files Even On Slow Machines With MuPDF

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Install GIMP 2.8.2 In Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAKfGbd-bTsfgjpUIT0qrFXZYpgeEm1SFLWyzIKZBIBxFoWBafS2eOfjoNgyi8PeeP3gW9OWLUARN1iHgASpU-DKn5TGnV5YG2ctqc8n1pf_1KTVzS3doCREoMjDpV3h-pJtqRxjsl89aL/s1600/gimp-2.8.2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gimp 2.8.2" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAKfGbd-bTsfgjpUIT0qrFXZYpgeEm1SFLWyzIKZBIBxFoWBafS2eOfjoNgyi8PeeP3gW9OWLUARN1iHgASpU-DKn5TGnV5YG2ctqc8n1pf_1KTVzS3doCREoMjDpV3h-pJtqRxjsl89aL/s320/gimp-2.8.2.png" title="gimp 2.8.2" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>GIMP 2.8.2 has been released a few days ago with lots of bug fixes, but without any new features.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>Among the changes included in the latest GIMP 2.8.2 are:</b><br /><ul><li>Mention that the image was exported in the close warning dialog</li><li>Fix the visibility logic of the export/overwrite menu items</li><li>Remove all "Use GEGL" menu items, they only add bugs and zero function</li><li>Improve performance of display filters, especially color management</li><li>Fix the image window title to comply with the save/export spec and use the same image name everywhere, not only in the title</li><li>Fix positioning of pasted/dropped stuff to be more reasonable</li><li>Fix remembering of JPEG load/save defaults</li><li>Mac OSX / Windows fixes</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The 2.8.x series won't include any new features, just bug fixes. The <a href="http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Roadmap">plan</a> is to add full GEGL support, high bit depths, an unified transform tool and other new features with GIMP 2.10 and finally port GIMP to GTK3 with version 3.0.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install GIMP 2.8.2 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The PPA that provides GIMP 2.8.x for Ubuntu 12.04 users has been updated today with the latest GIMP 2.8.2. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the PPA and install GIMP 2.8.2 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install gimp</code></pre><br />For source files, Windows and Mac OSX installers, see the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/downloads/">GIMP download page</a>.

Install GIMP 2.8.2 In Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

GIMP 2.8.2 has been released a few days ago with lots of bug fixes, but without any new features. Among the changes included in the latest G...

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Ubuntu Alternate CDs Could Be Dropped For 12.10

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1yvDZsgrJaXs0W2wZaBZ4aDLQOvdG_zbcQ-Lv8GN3TS5yTlqX8LXXd5N3dB-Qjc08GX1BLcinR7SiVO-P0PqxAVC098uL8IcJPjCpqVn98WSvF3Ht7MiETfn9qODhMGgXAiDQ0wB2wNN-/s1600/ubuntu-alternate-cd.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1yvDZsgrJaXs0W2wZaBZ4aDLQOvdG_zbcQ-Lv8GN3TS5yTlqX8LXXd5N3dB-Qjc08GX1BLcinR7SiVO-P0PqxAVC098uL8IcJPjCpqVn98WSvF3Ht7MiETfn9qODhMGgXAiDQ0wB2wNN-/s320/ubuntu-alternate-cd.png" title="ubuntu alternate cd installer" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Steve Langasek, Ubuntu release manager, has proposed on the Ubuntu-devel mailing list to drop the alternate CDs for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. </b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><i>The alternate CD is a text-mode installer that comes with various advanced options like RAID setup, LVM, install LTSP Server and so on.</i><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">According to Steve Langasek, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal will be getting support for LVM, cryptsetup and RAID to Ubiquity, however, there won't be any RAID support in Ubiquity for this Ubuntu release, but you'll be able to set up RAID post-install or by using the netboot or server CDs:</div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">As part of ongoing efforts to reduce the number of images we ship for Ubuntu, and to make the desktop image more useful in a variety of scenarios, Dmitrijs Ledkovs has been hard at work in quantal adding support for LVM, cryptsetup, and RAID to ubiquity. [...] It [dropping the alternate CDs] lets us tighten our focus on making the desktop CD shine: fewer images to QA, fewer different paths to get right (like the CD apt upgrader case) means more time to focus on the things that matter.</blockquote><br />More information on this can be found on the <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-August/035675.html">Ubuntu-devel</a> mailing list.

Ubuntu Alternate CDs Could Be Dropped For 12.10

Steve Langasek, Ubuntu release manager, has proposed on the Ubuntu-devel mailing list to drop the alternate CDs for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Que...

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Install PowerTOP 2.1 In Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Via PPA

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht1kSDwmTI4icFT2v89RTlMpL-ObVEs16b-BhnJB0fj1jYG0iQBh0SDn2SLu_tXopTsD-5oZAnPdVwzhT_IW32VOJO_ulfZcwgv2rJYg4_CFxLh7QMh2gid9z4KfnVsgj26Qx3HycvOOBu/s1600/powertop-overview.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="powertop" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht1kSDwmTI4icFT2v89RTlMpL-ObVEs16b-BhnJB0fj1jYG0iQBh0SDn2SLu_tXopTsD-5oZAnPdVwzhT_IW32VOJO_ulfZcwgv2rJYg4_CFxLh7QMh2gid9z4KfnVsgj26Qx3HycvOOBu/s320/powertop-overview.png" title="powertop" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://01.org/powertop/">PowerTOP</a> is a command line tool that helps diagnose issues with power consumption and provides suggestions on how to improve power usage.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">PowerTOP 2.1, released a few days ago, introduces support for Intel GPUs and for cores without P-states, a new manual page along with an option to specify workload to run during measurement and an option to suppress output to the terminal.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install PowerTOP 2.1 in Ubuntu 12.04 via PPA</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest PowerTOP 2.1 is available in the Ubuntu 12.10 official repositories, and for Ubuntu 12.04 in the main WebUpd8 PPA. Add the PPA and install PowerTOP 2.1 using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install powertop</code></pre><br />The latest PowerTOP 2.1 source can be downloaded from <a href="https://01.org/powertop/">HERE</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Usage</h2><br />To use PowerTOP, you need to run it as root:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo powertop</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">PowerTOP doesn't just diagnose power consumption issues, but it can also provide solutions. On the Tunables tab, you can see what you can do to save some power:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihIlPZjwevRXmOfx7n3e7ejAJ44Hux_clvvEPxiOZqR58h2xVUjFzgZMddj9yRj8OTPJKQicPCcp1_tK-ih-85XOltAzkuis4MdFroL7fxwTEAPUrk7obkvi3AUxx_bvyjF9I0996TN9QM/s1600/powertop-tunables.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="powertop" border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihIlPZjwevRXmOfx7n3e7ejAJ44Hux_clvvEPxiOZqR58h2xVUjFzgZMddj9yRj8OTPJKQicPCcp1_tK-ih-85XOltAzkuis4MdFroL7fxwTEAPUrk7obkvi3AUxx_bvyjF9I0996TN9QM/s320/powertop-tunables.png" title="powertop" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">However, most of the settings are not saved and they are lost after a reboot. You, can, however, make them permanent, by using the commands provided in the PowerTOP html report. To generate an HTML report, run the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo powertop --html=powertop.html</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This will generate an HTML page which you can open in your web browser:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIr2L9HyHDmm73zs1Tfg7vPSfX4uafjscB33cVt08LGtrI1H4ajzPGXzI3c0r_NdTm1M5Z3PnAcz2aoeW2JPtrH22ASnYCjiXuSR_Sc0cGEFBrc2vPa70Vdu53TmjqYVobY7BGV-37i8So/s1600/powertop-html.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="powertop html" border="0" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIr2L9HyHDmm73zs1Tfg7vPSfX4uafjscB33cVt08LGtrI1H4ajzPGXzI3c0r_NdTm1M5Z3PnAcz2aoeW2JPtrH22ASnYCjiXuSR_Sc0cGEFBrc2vPa70Vdu53TmjqYVobY7BGV-37i8So/s320/powertop-html.png" title="powertop html" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here, you can see various information related to power usage as well as a "Tuning" tab where the settings that need tuning are displayed, along with the commands required to apply them. Add these commands to the <i>/etc/rc.local</i> file to make them permanent.</div>

Install PowerTOP 2.1 In Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Via PPA

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Audio Tag Editor `Puddletag` 1.0.0 Stable Released

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjlnF_YTMFFY8h02w6iTCrhcRdp-c-MHzb3PEysoGoibCYxL1kK4vch9cZFNTkhDlNC1rQtXWEYiWt87DHKsFdxGMLxFHIA-VkVJ_WqdaQF_-wX2mbh3WMzbMrAoSaYSCoTWKMdS4vKMDI/s1600/puddletag.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="puddletag" border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjlnF_YTMFFY8h02w6iTCrhcRdp-c-MHzb3PEysoGoibCYxL1kK4vch9cZFNTkhDlNC1rQtXWEYiWt87DHKsFdxGMLxFHIA-VkVJ_WqdaQF_-wX2mbh3WMzbMrAoSaYSCoTWKMdS4vKMDI/s320/puddletag.png" title="puddletag" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/">Puddletag</a> is an awesome <a href="http://www.mp3tag.de/en/">Mp3tag</a>-like audio tag editor for Linux which uses a spreadsheet layout so the tags are always visible, making it easy to edit them.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The application comes with a highly customizable interface and supports mass tagging and most features that should exist in an audio tag editor like extracting tag information from filenames, ranaming files based on their tags, along with some other cool features like support for downloading cover art via Amazon or retrieving tags from Discogs, FreeDB or MusicBrainz.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>After 8 months of work, Puddletag 1.0.0 stable has been released today. Here are the major changes included in the latest Puddletag 1.0.0: </b></div><ul><li>AcoustID support: AcoustID is a music fingerprinting service that works by calculating a unique fingerprint for your audio files and trying to match it to data in the AcoustID database. This allows you to find information for tracks that have no metadata. To be able to use this, you'll need libchromaprint-tools and libchromaprint0 - in Ubuntu, install them using "sudo apt-get install libchromaprint-tools libchromaprint0"</li><li>Mp3tag tag sources are fully supported</li><li>Massively updated parser</li><li>Fixed Amazon tag source as now requires AssociateTag to do lookups.</li><li>Improved mass tagging</li><li>Support for MusicBrainz's and Discogs's new API</li><li>$regex function added.</li><li>Updated icon</li><li>ID3v2.3 frames are written in same order as Mp3tag's.</li><li>VA album lookups for Discogs.</li><li>And many bug fixes</li></ul><br />For how to use Puddletag, visit its <a href="http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/docs.html">online documentation</a> (includes some tutorials too).<br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Puddletag in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To add the WebUpd8 Puddletag PPA and install the latest Puddletag 1.0 in Ubuntu Quantal, Precise, Oneiric, Natty, Maverick or Lucid, use the following commands (the package is also available in the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/webupd8">main WebUpd8 PPA</a>):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/puddletag<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install puddletag</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For other Linux distributions (there are also .deb files available for download if you don't want to use our PPA), get Puddletag via <a href="http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/download.html">SourceForge</a>.</div>

Audio Tag Editor `Puddletag` 1.0.0 Stable Released

Puddletag is an awesome Mp3tag -like audio tag editor for Linux which uses a spreadsheet layout so the tags are always visible, making it e...

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gThumb 3.0.2 Available For Ubuntu 12.04 And 11.10 (PPA)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7sf6nGT3r1NJvao4NTozPyajGPJTtg-UIpx_gekqD9PfzBzwgFMhoxt-90gHzqu4CtkvgROcPACtN9w65HicYcq05BDEsPQB_69evsq90fpbxifrjEYKhwdSHlV3pW8rFn8uFKvavI_wp/s1600/gthumb-3.0.2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gthumb 3.0.2" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7sf6nGT3r1NJvao4NTozPyajGPJTtg-UIpx_gekqD9PfzBzwgFMhoxt-90gHzqu4CtkvgROcPACtN9w65HicYcq05BDEsPQB_69evsq90fpbxifrjEYKhwdSHlV3pW8rFn8uFKvavI_wp/s320/gthumb-3.0.2.png" title="gthumb 3.0.2" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://live.gnome.org/gthumb">gThumb</a> is an image organizer/viewer that can export images to PicasaWeb, Facebook, Flickr or Photobucket, comes with some basic image editing features such as cropping, resizing, rotation, image enhancing, has video support, can import images from digital camera and many other cool features.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>gThumb 3.0.2, which has been released yesterday fixes some annoying bugs, like the broken video thumbnails</b>.</div><br /><b>Other fixes included in gThumb 3.0.2:</b><br /><ul><li>Fixed fullscreen toolbars with multiple monitors</li><li>Fixed error when rotating keeping the original size</li><li>Photobucket exporter: fixed crash when closing the dialog</li><li>Delete key does nothing when image first opened</li><li>Picasa Web exporter: images not displayed in the export dialog</li><li>Fix parallel build problems with enum generation</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Install gThumb 3.0.2 in Ubuntu 12.04 or 11.10</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Ubuntu 12.04 repositories provide gThumb 2.14.3 while the Ubuntu 11.10 repositories have gThumb 2.13.1, but you can upgrade to the latest gThumb 3.0.2 which uses GTK3 in Ubuntu 12.04 or 11.10 using the gThumb WebUpd8 PPA (packages also available in the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/webupd8">main WebUpd8 PPA</a>):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gthumb<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install gthumb</code></pre>

gThumb 3.0.2 Available For Ubuntu 12.04 And 11.10 (PPA)

gThumb is an image organizer/viewer that can export images to PicasaWeb, Facebook, Flickr or Photobucket, comes with some basic image editi...

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Greybird, The Default Xubuntu Theme Gets A Complete Makeover For Xubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal

<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKKPCREOGC0UqgF8jxsdsUCOwB0PxaUr8s9P5-5OFLC34iIVY25b9qVdCmZ1NuhH-jGJwFvQjTSLJrjqPotLHV6SzUAhBEx0Fn5aQhFtJ70-wgA6Tb0aHKZevqrAXqyn0YOMHmTupxpAaB/s1600/greybird-xfce-12.10.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="greybird xubuntu 12.10 quantal quetzal" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKKPCREOGC0UqgF8jxsdsUCOwB0PxaUr8s9P5-5OFLC34iIVY25b9qVdCmZ1NuhH-jGJwFvQjTSLJrjqPotLHV6SzUAhBEx0Fn5aQhFtJ70-wgA6Tb0aHKZevqrAXqyn0YOMHmTupxpAaB/s320/greybird-xfce-12.10.png" title="greybird xubuntu 12.10 quantal quetzal" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>Greybird, the default Xubuntu theme, has got a complete makeover for Xubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, thanks to the great work of <a href="http://satya164.deviantart.com/">Satya</a> and Simon from the <a href="http://shimmerproject.org/">Shimmer project</a>.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The theme doesn't use the Unico GTK3 engine anymore and the GTK3 port has been completely rewritten. Greybird includes:</div><ul><li>GTK2 theme</li><li>GTK3 theme</li><li>Xfwm4 themes (normal and compact)</li><li>xfce-notifyd theme</li><li>Emerald theme</li><li>Metacity theme</li><li>Mutter theme</li><li>Unity support</li><li>Granite widgets support (for compatibility with elementary apps)</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This means <b>Greybird isn't just for Xubuntu (XFCE), but it works with Unity or GNOME Shell/classic too</b>:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7k0WTvUJ24DpBzGQ-7p3yJhAk_A83OGiaqnJkn55mc8xSgVE9gFWftHo8g3p1rmgkceyqmKCAUmuB5ql6bvMMNFz0wjFi0JypbX7mxKK06FFBum-3zEd5-scIfHcYs57Lp_w89C4OjIRJ/s1600/graybird-twf.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="greybird gtk3 theme" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7k0WTvUJ24DpBzGQ-7p3yJhAk_A83OGiaqnJkn55mc8xSgVE9gFWftHo8g3p1rmgkceyqmKCAUmuB5ql6bvMMNFz0wjFi0JypbX7mxKK06FFBum-3zEd5-scIfHcYs57Lp_w89C4OjIRJ/s320/graybird-twf.png" title="greybird gtk3 theme" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp3qzhZnCDKZAW7CYr_ooj0QpRljM60iHtKLyjIQ0659H9I3N81lz1tJJsckcNDt6T9T1602emiyuyZ227Yap4v7L_YFfLFQoip-V-W87s0efwbG3CdlqAMAc5RvEsomC7lebD5r1EKTMM/s1600/graybird-unity.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="greybird gtk3 theme" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp3qzhZnCDKZAW7CYr_ooj0QpRljM60iHtKLyjIQ0659H9I3N81lz1tJJsckcNDt6T9T1602emiyuyZ227Yap4v7L_YFfLFQoip-V-W87s0efwbG3CdlqAMAc5RvEsomC7lebD5r1EKTMM/s320/graybird-unity.png" title="greybird gtk3 theme" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfz84IFHYFVVzny6M1b2PQMKPhEqlEPNJprXuPfiMKffvjBF8Turqf8KfAOdwytRkTec8UT8uy-1ZQQCOFOnaXJLjEwBLqVu8ZpTYVtToIq-PwISMzwrOXFAuhz50fmUJII4_Narl-gXb/s1600/greybird-gnome-shell.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="greybird gtk3 theme" border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfz84IFHYFVVzny6M1b2PQMKPhEqlEPNJprXuPfiMKffvjBF8Turqf8KfAOdwytRkTec8UT8uy-1ZQQCOFOnaXJLjEwBLqVu8ZpTYVtToIq-PwISMzwrOXFAuhz50fmUJII4_Narl-gXb/s320/greybird-gnome-shell.png" title="greybird gtk3 theme" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><br /><h2>Install Greybird in Ubuntu / Xubuntu 12.04</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The theme is available in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal repositories in the "shimmer-themes" package, but Ubuntu / Xubuntu 12.04 users can already install it by using the Shimmer PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shimmerproject/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install shimmer-themes-greybird</code></pre><br /><b>For other Linux distributions, you can get Greybird from <a href="https://github.com/shimmerproject/Greybird">GitHub</a> or <a href="http://satya164.deviantart.com/art/Greybird-GTK3-Theme-322365199">DeviantArt</a>.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Once installed, select "greybird-git" (not Greybird!) from the XFCE settings to apply the theme. In Ubuntu (Unity / GNOME 3), use GNOME Tweak Tool, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/unsettings-tool-to-disable-global-menu.html">Unsettings</a>, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/02/myunity-30-released-with-new-gui.html">MyUnity</a> or <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/08/ubuntu-tweak-073-adds-support-for-linux.html">Ubuntu Tweak</a> and select "greybird-git" as the GTK3 and window theme.</div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Satya for the tip!</i></div>

Greybird, The Default Xubuntu Theme Gets A Complete Makeover For Xubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal

Greybird, the default Xubuntu theme, has got a complete makeover for Xubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, thanks to the great work of Satya and S...

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Get HDMI Working With Nvidia Optimus On Ubuntu By Using Bumblebee And Synergy

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>HDMI doesn't work with Optimus hybrid graphics chipsets under Linux for most laptops, even if you use Bumblebee, but there is a way to get HDMI to work: by using a separate session.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Using the instructions below, you'll get an LXDE session (you can use XFCE or others, but the instructions below are for LXDE) to show up on the external monitor (which is connected via HDMI), and in this session, all the applications you launch use your laptop's Nvidia graphics card and you can play games, watch movies, etc. The LXDE session runs in the same time as your regular session, so on your laptop's screen you get your regular (main) session. Also, the mouse and keyboard are shared between the two sessions / monitors.</div><br />Here's how this looks like:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIhMFoyqJ4HOIo9ekkhWWhkZnxZx6Kqbe79OMRc51FDX1FzxQ7U_XJFA9-4AvYcJoSEBxx8IYN2GQK6VORmzOKPoUHneEYjQabfNovttvx24RlVE3RdT8NMLo2GI2iujlHIcQV6DHsFb67/s1600/dell-xps.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIhMFoyqJ4HOIo9ekkhWWhkZnxZx6Kqbe79OMRc51FDX1FzxQ7U_XJFA9-4AvYcJoSEBxx8IYN2GQK6VORmzOKPoUHneEYjQabfNovttvx24RlVE3RdT8NMLo2GI2iujlHIcQV6DHsFb67/s320/dell-xps.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhuSF1IFoGJIBYnPYbe02WfSXVRgq7-3Hy-V7Lmj9JetTP8u7y6Xw6FpJOkavi79N0kxrLT_XYHXits3kU6j31Q7qlx6cmw_CquMMxv5cvnx2L94_vnSSYzq-iU1JtyNKMXNavFrM24HIq/s1600/lxde-hdmi.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhuSF1IFoGJIBYnPYbe02WfSXVRgq7-3Hy-V7Lmj9JetTP8u7y6Xw6FpJOkavi79N0kxrLT_XYHXits3kU6j31Q7qlx6cmw_CquMMxv5cvnx2L94_vnSSYzq-iU1JtyNKMXNavFrM24HIq/s320/lxde-hdmi.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The first image above is from my laptop's screen (Dell XPS L702X which comes with Nvidia Optimus) while the second image is the separate LXDE session which is also running on my laptop, but is displayed on a TV connected via HDMI. As you can see, the first one is using the Intel graphics chip while the second one uses Nvidia.</div><br /><br />However, there are some things to consider when using this:<br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">the sound won't work (if you know a way to get it to work, please let us know in the comments!) through HDMI so you'll only get sound through your laptop's speakers</li><li style="text-align: justify;">you can't move a window from your current desktop to the monitor connected via HDMI. The only way to run applications on the device connected via HDMI is to either run it from its session menu, or by using "export DISPLAY=:8.0" (see the end of the post for more info on this). The mouse is however, shared between the two desktops.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">when loading the extra session, you may get double indicators / tray icons on your current (main) session. There is a way around this though (see the "tips" section at the end of the post)</li></ul><br /><br /><br /><h2>Get HDMI to work with laptops using the Optimus technology under Ubuntu using Bumblebee and Synergy</h2><br /><b>1.</b> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee">Install Bumblebee</a> if you haven't already.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2.</b> Unity doesn't work with Bumblebee (and I'm not sure if you can run two sessions using the same window manager without them interfering anyway), so you'll need to use a different desktop environment / session, like LXDE, XFCE and so on - use whatever you want. I've used LXDE so using the instructions below, you'll get an LXDE session on the monitor connected via HDMI.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To get the mouse and keyboard working on the external monitor connected via HDMI we'll use Synergy, a tool that lets you share the mouse and keyboard between multiple computers.</div><br /><b>Let's install the required packages (LXDE and Synergy):</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install synergy lxde lxde-common</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3.</b> To be able to use Synergy, you'll need to create a configuration file. You can download mine from <a href="http://webupd8.googlecode.com/files/synergy.conf">HERE</a> - copy the file to your home folder and rename it to ".synergy.conf" (notice the dot in front of the filename - that makes the file become hidden).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The file I've provided above should be enough, but if you want to change it, you can read about the Synergy configuration file <a href="http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/configuration.html">here</a>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4.</b> To start LXDE on the external monitor connected via HDMI, you can use a script which you can download from <a href="http://webupd8.googlecode.com/files/hdmi-0.1.tar.gz">HERE</a>. Extract the archive, copy the "hdmi" script to your home folder and make it executable using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>chmod +x ~/hdmi</code></pre><br />Now, to run the script, use the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>~/hdmi</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">LXDE should now start on the external monitor connected via HDMI. Give it some time (around 10 seconds) and moving your mouse to the left of your screen should make it show up on the HDMI device.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here's what the script does (this is just an explaination, you don't need to run these commands, just use the above script):</div><br />- exports the display to the one we're going to use for the HDMI monitor (8):<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>export DISPLAY=:8.0</code></pre><br />- runs LXDE with optirun (Bumblebee):<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>optirun startlxde &</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- runs the Synergy server in the foreground on the main display (on your laptop's main session) with 127.0.0.1 as the address: </div><pre class="linux-code"><code>synergys -f -a 127.0.0.1 --display :0 -n ubuntu &</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- runs the Synergy client in the foreground on the HDMI display and it connects it to the 127.0.0.1 server address:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>synergyc -f -n hdmi --display :8 127.0.0.1 &</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And finally, it exports the display back to your laptop's (main) display:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>export DISPLAY=:0.0</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The script also uses some "sleep" commands which add a delay to make sure the commands have enough time to get executed before running the next command.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Tips</h2><br /><b>Launching applications:</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To launch an application on the monitor connected via HDMI, you can use the LXDE menu on the external monitor or use the following command on your main session:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>export DISPLAY=:8.0 APPLICATION</code></pre>where "APPLICATION" is the executable name for the app you want to launch.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Optionally, you can also run "export DISPLAY=:8.0" in a terminal window on your main session, and then all the applications you launch from that terminal window should show up on the external monitor.</div><br /><br /><b>Configuring your Nvidia graphics card:</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Using the above instructions to launch applications on the external monitor, you can launch "nvidia-settings" (if you're using the proprietary Nvidia graphics drivers):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>export DISPLAY=:8.0 nvidia-settings</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">Launching this on your laptop session displays an error message saying that you're not using Nvidia drivers, but launching in on the HDMI-connected device (which uses Bumblebee with "optirun"), you can configure various Nvidia settings: the screen resolution, etc.</div><br /><br /><b>Fixing double autostart applications / tray icons:</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To avoid getting double indicators (two network indicators, etc.) in your regular session when launching the extra LXDE session, you can make all autostart applications / applets to not load in our LXDE session, using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>for f in /etc/xdg/autostart/*; do if [[ ! `grep "NotShowIn=LXDE" $f` ]]; then echo "NotShowIn=LXDE;" | sudo tee -a $f; fi; done<br />for f in ~/.config/autostart/*; do if [[ ! `grep "NotShowIn=LXDE" $f` ]]; then echo "NotShowIn=LXDE;" | tee -a $f; fi; done</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also do this manually, by going to <i>/etc/xdg/autostart</i> and <i>~/.config/autostart</i> and adding "NotShowIn=LXDE;" (without the quotes) to each .desktop file corresponding to the application(s) you don't want to start in LXDE. More about using NotShowIn and OnlyShowIn, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/make-applications-autostart-only-in.html" title="Make Applications Autostart Only In A Certain Environment (GNOME, Unity, KDE, Etc.)">HERE</a>.</div><br /><br />References:<br /><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issues/75#issuecomment-2797298">https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issues/75#issuecomment-2797298</a></li><li><a href="http://itviking.net/blog/m11xr3-bumblebee-and-the-dual-screen-setup">http://itviking.net/blog/m11xr3-bumblebee-and-the-dual-screen-setup</a></li></ul>

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Unity: Dash Gets A Cool New Previews Feature [Video] - Ubuntu 12.10 Development

<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZO40igSSiwOpvhzPPa6BV31l2OnZ8bYCe0LnLONyHJpmmUtlDq9bsPY3KxY0A6oL_kgQocoZWELCWkDCfMSe4CtK0pHgjJIR8hDffj4eU44Uwa-3Y9ozo4kk1atHOlM9fYM-2v84OC32/s1600/rhythmbox-previews-dash.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="rhythmbox previews unity dash" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZO40igSSiwOpvhzPPa6BV31l2OnZ8bYCe0LnLONyHJpmmUtlDq9bsPY3KxY0A6oL_kgQocoZWELCWkDCfMSe4CtK0pHgjJIR8hDffj4eU44Uwa-3Y9ozo4kk1atHOlM9fYM-2v84OC32/s320/rhythmbox-previews-dash.png" title="rhythmbox previews unity dash" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>A cool new feature has landed in the Unity Staging PPA, for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal: previews in Dash.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>With the new "previews" feature, you'll be able to right click applications or files in Dash to get a preview, along with some extra information which depends on the item you've right clicked.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">For instance, right clicking an application displays a screenshot as well as user ratings, its description and so on. If the application is not installed, there's also a button to install it directly from Dash, without using Ubuntu Software Center or, if it's installed, you can launch or uninstall it:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKlaog1OC83F58yYrQJyWgl4wsnLYiPounspgtnUhJTIfy-_h-1flBPsYa3yHd7B7Ih8Lxq40LGaeO83wUzBZXSD0bHT0CDlRlRc8iU-v2UenhLt_WQPK8boW6qBsQGvJpSi3M3t6OJrpA/s1600/thunderbird.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ubuntu quantal: unity lens dash previews" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKlaog1OC83F58yYrQJyWgl4wsnLYiPounspgtnUhJTIfy-_h-1flBPsYa3yHd7B7Ih8Lxq40LGaeO83wUzBZXSD0bHT0CDlRlRc8iU-v2UenhLt_WQPK8boW6qBsQGvJpSi3M3t6OJrpA/s320/thunderbird.png" title="ubuntu quantal: unity lens dash previews" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you right click a music file or album from the music lens, you get a large album cover image as well as the available tracks and options to play it or show the files in folder:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-vagg1LiM5t8f4rN5VBYoLfPD0joiSs8_QFRd7aLxiWTelBse5kqtfXkk4xoP7_rZqwEwvKA4V3MsssKkDQqfgLWExTZPrpE54K4FgHMPib-tg966ncNvwQskR3GDl_l9-F6JNrIdYrxQ/s1600/music.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ubuntu quantal: unity lens dash previews" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-vagg1LiM5t8f4rN5VBYoLfPD0joiSs8_QFRd7aLxiWTelBse5kqtfXkk4xoP7_rZqwEwvKA4V3MsssKkDQqfgLWExTZPrpE54K4FgHMPib-tg966ncNvwQskR3GDl_l9-F6JNrIdYrxQ/s320/music.png" title="ubuntu quantal: unity lens dash previews" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In my test, using the latest Unity from the Unity Staging PPA, the music starts playing in Rhythmbox and not in Dash, but hopefully users will be able to play the music directly in Dash, or at least preview it.</div><br /><br /><h2>Video: Unity with the new "previews" Dash feature</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here's a video I've recorded using the latest Unity from trunk with the new "previews" feature:</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WC2f_Xy_g5s" width="420"></iframe><br />(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC2f_Xy_g5s">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Important:</b> "previews" hasn't landed in Ubuntu 12.10 yet and is currently under heavy development, so in the video you'll notice many bugs and as well as things that will change until the final Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal is released. In the video you'll also notice that the Unity launcher icons use a background for running applications only - I'm not sure if this is a bug or an intentional change.</div><br /><br /><b>Currently, the previews work for:</b><br /><ul><li>applications (both installed and suggested)</li><li>music (installed and available for download via Ubuntu One Music Store)</li><li>videos</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The previews don't work for regular files or folders, but hopefully this will change soon. And not just for the default lenses, I'm sure we'll see some great new Unity lenses created for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal that will make use of this cool new feature, so you'll be able to read the latest news for instance, from Dash, without having to open a browser.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Unity with Previews</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The new "previews" feature hasn't landed in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal yet, but it will probably be available very soon. Until then, if you want to test it, you can use the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~unity-team/+archive/staging">Unity Staging PPA</a> in a virtual machine for instance (do not use it on a production machine, the builds in this PPA are highly unstable!).</div><br /><i>The <a href="https://launchpad.net/~unity-team/+archive/staging">Unity Staging PPA</a> contains the latest Unity builds generated from trunk, that have passed the unit tests, but didn't pass the user acceptance (autopilot) tests yet. Only use it for testing only!</i><br /><br />

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Tomdroid 0.7 Beta Adds Support For Creating And Editing Notes, More [Android]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Hsmwf50ZOzM3F1PAbUcN4UsHqrGcN1rKEcNBrvJt_eA8YSl9Z2o7fxa8qlIr4qvVFVQ_Xrt8ADsI4xorfj0Ir8KPnZe2oHbmvrXmINbgEWprueYMRBihT1-BskG2N8UTTFKKtesf3eO1/s1600/tomdroid.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="tomdroid" border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Hsmwf50ZOzM3F1PAbUcN4UsHqrGcN1rKEcNBrvJt_eA8YSl9Z2o7fxa8qlIr4qvVFVQ_Xrt8ADsI4xorfj0Ir8KPnZe2oHbmvrXmINbgEWprueYMRBihT1-BskG2N8UTTFKKtesf3eO1/s320/tomdroid.png" title="tomdroid" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The stable <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/tomdroid-tomboy-notes-comes-to-android.html">Tomdroid</a>, an application compatible with <a href="https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/tomboy/">Tomboy Notes</a> that you can use to sync notes between your desktop computer and Android device, works in read-only mode for now so you can only read the notes created on your computer, but you can't edit them or create new notes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But there's some good news.<b> Tomdroid 0.7 beta was <a href="https://launchpad.net/tomdroid/+announcement/10445">released</a> recently, adding support for editing and creating new notes along with other new features. </b>The new beta version isn't available on the Android market (Google Play), but you can download the apk from Launchpad.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf__Ji4htyH9Apha5DagT_AW8uBM-Kclj-anuaRY25n_Pj8qZCFekuwlq6tqr4kWFED5Ex58IQF-I-Y6t9_yeeHn0VBeaHrb28KxZ6xkSo-WyGKnozfGwpYTBf1uiLjkNZtVcdZOoxaFqW/s1600/tomdroid_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="tomdroid edit note" border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf__Ji4htyH9Apha5DagT_AW8uBM-Kclj-anuaRY25n_Pj8qZCFekuwlq6tqr4kWFED5Ex58IQF-I-Y6t9_yeeHn0VBeaHrb28KxZ6xkSo-WyGKnozfGwpYTBf1uiLjkNZtVcdZOoxaFqW/s320/tomdroid_2.png" title="tomdroid edit note" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>Tomdroid 0.7 beta features:</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>basic tablet support</b></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>two way sync along with the ability to create, edit and delete notes</b></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>rich text editor</b></li><li style="text-align: justify;">automatic renaming of notes with duplicate title</li><li style="text-align: justify;">automatic note saving on pause</li><li style="text-align: justify;">ability to revert changes</li><li style="text-align: justify;">note conflict resolution screen when notes are of different date and both older or newer than last sync date</li><li style="text-align: justify;">automatic authentication - if you use Ubuntu One, pressing "Sync" on first launch is enough to authenticate and sync</li><li style="text-align: justify;">updating progress bar with information on current task, number of notes</li><li style="text-align: justify;">switching sync services/servers doesn't clear notes database anymore</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Preference tweaks:</b> change base font size, back up notes to SD card, remove all notes from remote service, show/hide note templates, clear local notes database</li></ul><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf5cPn2JSGGhhk1wdUv1CHx0CAyezOeT1EGRbWAYGPQh2kyRSnEipY0iycrefUYTrEgpcdkvZLdgBAqcsuOfOtIfv79N9W2j9bQORh7j0ZXas2E5f5gePgh0Pvj_wQal5BjStFHiYSNdq1/s1600/tomdroid_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="tomdroid" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf5cPn2JSGGhhk1wdUv1CHx0CAyezOeT1EGRbWAYGPQh2kyRSnEipY0iycrefUYTrEgpcdkvZLdgBAqcsuOfOtIfv79N9W2j9bQORh7j0ZXas2E5f5gePgh0Pvj_wQal5BjStFHiYSNdq1/s320/tomdroid_3.png" title="tomdroid" width="192" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy0DHaSOpi-7T40XS-KvSvgCb2vLQlC0T1e0c02uxYM9Pyh8ZatPe3kcKSqmnyL3uRDifs55T7mIdh0TwFu8T6AJhFjkMMHc6WBGhJktJA7bTy-K-tHIzTZR5Bc6ueU1D9o1XB7vy6jh5S/s1600/tomdroid_4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="tomdroid" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy0DHaSOpi-7T40XS-KvSvgCb2vLQlC0T1e0c02uxYM9Pyh8ZatPe3kcKSqmnyL3uRDifs55T7mIdh0TwFu8T6AJhFjkMMHc6WBGhJktJA7bTy-K-tHIzTZR5Bc6ueU1D9o1XB7vy6jh5S/s320/tomdroid_4.png" title="tomdroid" width="192" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>You can download Tomdroid 0.7 beta "House of Fun" from <a href="https://launchpad.net/tomdroid/+download">Launchpad</a> (apk).</b><br /><br /><i>This is a beta release, so you'll probably find bugs - report them @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/tomdroid">Launchpad</a>.</i>

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How To Get Encrypted Blu-Rays Working In VLC

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8aYifutOgfj9QPzqkI4YMr0krIpQYRsLXaKy5irBR11O1HZcn1shfEGra8-MymvH4wAA95RzkFJGPA-BwDe5rM1hpqQXCe9uoK5t26n_8agmPtryuwfCGAgk1OuPHQePQ8cVjcWGwQHy8/s1600/DISTRICT_9VLCmediaplayer_216.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="vlc blue-ray ubuntu" border="0" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8aYifutOgfj9QPzqkI4YMr0krIpQYRsLXaKy5irBR11O1HZcn1shfEGra8-MymvH4wAA95RzkFJGPA-BwDe5rM1hpqQXCe9uoK5t26n_8agmPtryuwfCGAgk1OuPHQePQ8cVjcWGwQHy8/s320/DISTRICT_9VLCmediaplayer_216.png" title="vlc blue-ray ubuntu" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">With a small tweak, the latest VLC 2.0.x should be able to play most Blu-rays released before 2012 (it doesn't work for Blu-rays that use BD+). </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">So here's what you must do to get encrypted Blu-ray discs working with VLC 2.0.x in Ubuntu 12.04 and newer.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>Get encrypted Blu-ray discs to work with VLC in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>1. Install the required packages </b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The N-muench VLC PPA provides some packages backported from Ubuntu 12.10 to Ubuntu 12.04, such as libbluray 0.2.2; you may get encrypted Blu-ray playback working with VLC under Ubuntu 12.04 without this PPA, but this has been tested using the N-muench VLC PPA (by <a href="http://forum.pinguyos.com/Thread-Blu-Ray-Encrypted-Retail-Playback-in-VLC">Pinguy</a> - I can't test this myself as I don't have any Blu-rays).</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To add the PPA and install the required packages in Ubuntu 12.04, use the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install vlc libaacs0 libbluray-bdj libbluray1</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For Ubuntu 12.10 and newer, you only need to run the last command above. You can, however, add the PPA above (first two commands) in Ubuntu 12.10 if you want to install the latest stable VLC.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. </b>Now you must create an "aacs" folder in the hidden ".config" folder from your home directory and download the aacs keys there. To do this, run the following commands in a terminal:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>mkdir -p ~/.config/aacs/<br />cd ~/.config/aacs/ && wget http://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/files/KEYDB.cfg</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3.</b> Now to play Blu-rays using VLC, open VLC, select <i>Media > Open Disc</i>, make sure "no disc menus" is selected (without this, VLC will crash for most Blu-ray discs) and browse for the Blu-ray disc.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The instructions above should work for other Linux distributions too, not just Ubuntu, as long as you have VLC 2.0.x installed along with libaacs0 and libbluray1. </i></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Screenshot and info via <a href="http://forum.pinguyos.com/Thread-Blu-Ray-Encrypted-Retail-Playback-in-VLC">Pinguy OS forums</a></i></div>

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reNIX: A Squared, Android Like GTK3 Theme Compatible With Unity And GNOME Shell

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikIQOb62KG9t6bT0VVjJSDBtMG6wnKT_zPtAyAh2LaTkfuoYvSq1cdgMa2gDKUsos1T4yGG24nAJyGRbNh4wDptpMTnHWOMmgURPizVXTaiaNkGwmTwetDjVkJt5wEUA_Q4x91VZk8lvq6/s1600/renix-unity.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="renix gtk3 theme" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikIQOb62KG9t6bT0VVjJSDBtMG6wnKT_zPtAyAh2LaTkfuoYvSq1cdgMa2gDKUsos1T4yGG24nAJyGRbNh4wDptpMTnHWOMmgURPizVXTaiaNkGwmTwetDjVkJt5wEUA_Q4x91VZk8lvq6/s320/renix-unity.png" title="renix gtk3 theme" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=153312">reNIX</a> is an interesting Android like GTK theme that uses a squared Metacity theme and is compatible with both Unity and GNOME Shell.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The theme works with <b>GTK 3.4</b> (used in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Fedora 17, etc.), it requires the Murrine and Pixbuf GTK2 engines as well as Unico and Adwaita GTK3 engines and is based on the <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=152987">GTKdroid</a> Metacity theme and <a href="http://deviantn7k1.deviantart.com/art/NIX-for-GTK-3-299294668">NIX</a> GTK3 theme.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">reNIX comes with two Metacity themes, one for Unity (called "reNIX") and one for GNOME Shell (called "reNIX GS") which only work in Unity respectively GNOME Shell, so don't use the GNOME Shell theme in Unity or the other way around!</div><br />Here are a few more reNIX GTK theme screenshots:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiF_6YTL3AeGN-4ZE_qfQqBP6fHLzn6Dt3KA4ZfsqwNvo-TeSKvcWXRloFMybo1Hcy1RddK_mh2UadN5Cy3vxduQ-unEiJcIcgLpCmDjEBcopUUPHtfRevSXXPhdv1IUcQMd1dUOjCn5Yu/s1600/renix-gnome-shell.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="renix gtk3 theme" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiF_6YTL3AeGN-4ZE_qfQqBP6fHLzn6Dt3KA4ZfsqwNvo-TeSKvcWXRloFMybo1Hcy1RddK_mh2UadN5Cy3vxduQ-unEiJcIcgLpCmDjEBcopUUPHtfRevSXXPhdv1IUcQMd1dUOjCn5Yu/s320/renix-gnome-shell.png" title="renix gtk3 theme" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">reNIX GTK3 theme and reNIX GS Metacity theme under GNOME Shell 3.4</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqECUA4-SkG7rc6oBQceriRLiMDuG4NA-K9LrCdVGqNWbEdXKjjg5PZXGhFTiZY-9-KqiK5Y56-52V00Mfz11wth7LoLNMxkqKNWxS1yTX8q4EoCFssUwh847HL-DqVOuvelc9Tzf26qrJ/s1600/renix-twf.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="renix gtk3 theme" border="0" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqECUA4-SkG7rc6oBQceriRLiMDuG4NA-K9LrCdVGqNWbEdXKjjg5PZXGhFTiZY-9-KqiK5Y56-52V00Mfz11wth7LoLNMxkqKNWxS1yTX8q4EoCFssUwh847HL-DqVOuvelc9Tzf26qrJ/s320/renix-twf.png" title="renix gtk3 theme" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ivvXgt8o7MFWu6iV9k2yaXuvfhA7LUc4NpE46MsO5ybPzZL2O4_9VIdiKGz-KS9BSWN-PNrZ1acAPho_hsh4phIaTP-4N7zSHhgZZfFLryMwk20sNrDNF2vj4BHQ04fJj3DWLFpu1Z1C/s1600/renix-unity_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="renix gtk3 theme" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ivvXgt8o7MFWu6iV9k2yaXuvfhA7LUc4NpE46MsO5ybPzZL2O4_9VIdiKGz-KS9BSWN-PNrZ1acAPho_hsh4phIaTP-4N7zSHhgZZfFLryMwk20sNrDNF2vj4BHQ04fJj3DWLFpu1Z1C/s320/renix-unity_2.png" title="renix gtk3 theme" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><h2>Install reNIX GTK3 theme in Ubuntu 12.04</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To make it easier to install and update, I've uploaded reNIX GTK3 theme to the WebUpd8 Themes PPA, so Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin users can install it using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/themes<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install renix-gtk-theme</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you're using Chrome, there's also a matching Chrome/Chromium  theme available @ <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/reNIX?content=153312">Gnome-Look</a>.<br /><br />In the screenshots above, you'll also notice that I'm using the Faience Azur icon theme, which I've customized to use light icons for the toolbar and panel (which are dark). The reNIX GTK theme package uses Faience Azur Dark as a recommended package, so when installing the theme from our PPA, the icon theme should be installed automatically. If you don't want to install Faience Azur Dark icon theme, use "sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends renix-gtk-theme" instead of the last command above.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To use reNIX theme</b>, launch GNOME Tweak Tool, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/unsettings-tool-to-disable-global-menu.html">Unsettings</a>, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/02/myunity-30-released-with-new-gui.html">MyUnity</a> or <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/08/ubuntu-tweak-073-adds-support-for-linux.html">Ubuntu Tweak</a> and set reNIX as the GTK and window theme and optionally, also set Faience Azur Dark as the icon theme.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, you can download reNIX from <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=153312">Gnome-Look</a></b> and Faience Azur Dark icon theme from <a href="https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/themes/+files/faience-azur-dark_0.3-0%7Ewebupd8-1.tar.gz">HERE</a> (it requires the <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/faenza-icon-theme-11-brings-new-gnome.html">Faenza</a> and <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/08/faience-new-gnome-3-icon-theme-by.html">Faience</a> icon themes).</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Another nice Android like GTK/GNOME Shell theme pack is <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/holo-android-ice-cream-sandwich-like.html">Holo</a>, but unfortunately it doesn't work properly with Unity.</i></div>

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Get Up To 20GB Of Extra Free UbuntuOne Cloud Storage By Inviting Your Friends

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkzv5KntY8JCg2GKHRXQxdRy_d5_bsUlPR54uUHfBxP4TI4CtUtjHXjVtri-ABPgMs8Fu7R9JB4JniZaZMFkCtXdR6WJuXx-4AZ6v37D6ztkNQ1DF6afGfovuqyGvkRIWmhZ02_QID7ebW/s1600/ubuntuone.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ubuntuone logo" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkzv5KntY8JCg2GKHRXQxdRy_d5_bsUlPR54uUHfBxP4TI4CtUtjHXjVtri-ABPgMs8Fu7R9JB4JniZaZMFkCtXdR6WJuXx-4AZ6v37D6ztkNQ1DF6afGfovuqyGvkRIWmhZ02_QID7ebW/s1600/ubuntuone.png" title="ubuntuone logo" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="https://one.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu One</a> is a cloud service similar to Dropbox, SpiderOak and so on, which allows users to store files online and sync them between computers and mobile devices. The service comes with clients for Ubuntu, Windows, Android and iOS.</i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Canonical <a href="http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/2012/08/15/invite-your-friends-and-get-more-free-storage/">has announced</a> the Ubuntu One referrals program today, through which Ubuntu One users can get up to 20GB of extra storage space by inviting friends to join Ubuntu One.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">For each person you invite, you get an extra 500MB of free space and also, the people you invite get an extra 500MB of space for free along with the initial 5GB they get for signing up to Ubuntu One. You can invite a maximum of 40 people, which means you can get up to 20 GB of Ubuntu One cloud storage for free. The free storage space you earn will last for as long as you continue to use Ubuntu One.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To get your referral link, sign in to your <a href="https://one.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu One dashboard</a> and you'll find the link under "Get more storage free!":</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKDjR1Z3eqTtaAOl5MuIOlrv2SnjeFVIlquRYy8zHcVzOJJgDwWRMgdRgzJSWkgzzgyIg7IG8UWNG0c5StSuvulmedv7zJdBtaNNi-jUqlwG2Pgw2mLKKloyE3WFzqau4BTKUi7k6OHpjz/s1600/ubuntuone-referral.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ubuntuone referral link" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKDjR1Z3eqTtaAOl5MuIOlrv2SnjeFVIlquRYy8zHcVzOJJgDwWRMgdRgzJSWkgzzgyIg7IG8UWNG0c5StSuvulmedv7zJdBtaNNi-jUqlwG2Pgw2mLKKloyE3WFzqau4BTKUi7k6OHpjz/s400/ubuntuone-referral.png" title="ubuntuone referral link" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you don't have an UbuntuOne account yet, you can create one and get an extra 500MB of space for free by using one of the following referral links:</div><ul><li><a href="https://one.ubuntu.com/referrals/referee/14634/">https://one.ubuntu.com/referrals/referee/14634/</a></li><li><a href="https://one.ubuntu.com/referrals/referee/1320890/">https://one.ubuntu.com/referrals/referee/1320890/</a></li><li><a href="https://one.ubuntu.com/referrals/referee/523850/">https://one.ubuntu.com/referrals/referee/523850/</a></li></ul>

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Unity 2D No Longer Installed By Default, Removed From The Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Repositories

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik7C1IOtRmV40SehyUiXcZdxXek0GqlrIhB12X-VWM8F10sYk-gBAWn-XHbJ23e5EZTBeGbks-mVc7NGdxUq64NhoJNx7ona7zBQfvPP3WUAu8prFoKCP6eUzje0tr4TreVhnTsw6x4mnK/s1600/unity-2d.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik7C1IOtRmV40SehyUiXcZdxXek0GqlrIhB12X-VWM8F10sYk-gBAWn-XHbJ23e5EZTBeGbks-mVc7NGdxUq64NhoJNx7ona7zBQfvPP3WUAu8prFoKCP6eUzje0tr4TreVhnTsw6x4mnK/s320/unity-2d.png" title="unity 2D" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the latest "<a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/ubuntu-meta/1.280">ubuntu-meta</a>" package update from the Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal repositories, Unity 2D will no longer be installed by default in Ubuntu 12.10, and Unity 2D users are being transitioned to the Unity 3D session, just like it was discussed at <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/uds-q-news-unity-2d-might-go-away-more.html" title="UDS-Q News: Unity 2D Might Go Away, More [Ubuntu 12.10]">UDS-Q</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Further more, the <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/unity/6.2.0-0ubuntu2">latest</a> Unity package, uploaded to the Ubuntu Quantal repositories a few hours ago, uses a <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/i386/unity-2d/6.2.0-0ubuntu2">"dummy" Unity-2D package,</a> so <b>Unity 2D is no longer available in the repositories </b>and won't be installable at all in Quantal. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ubuntu users without graphical acceleration will be able to use Unity 3D thanks to <a href="http://www.mesa3d.org/llvmpipe.html">llvmpipe</a>, so there will be no fallback session anymore and Unity will look the same for all users.</div>

Unity 2D No Longer Installed By Default, Removed From The Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Repositories

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How To Install Dropbox In Xubuntu And Get Thunar Integration (Xfce)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixUKpz-e-DFShd_nVf3AyiQW0UaWPbIj6_W0eWPKk32W7pGvaunZxXw1fdMkH8J2qd5xiVa3u64BkU75I79tcIfaMOV47QdczD-09JImsccIeVZMoF0rh8zUcjZNPyvXsvlLW16N1vhwA0/s1600/dropbox-xubuntu.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="dropbox xubuntu (xfce)" border="0" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixUKpz-e-DFShd_nVf3AyiQW0UaWPbIj6_W0eWPKk32W7pGvaunZxXw1fdMkH8J2qd5xiVa3u64BkU75I79tcIfaMOV47QdczD-09JImsccIeVZMoF0rh8zUcjZNPyvXsvlLW16N1vhwA0/s320/dropbox-xubuntu.png" title="dropbox xubuntu (xfce)" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Ubuntu deb package available for download via the official <a href="http://www.dropbox.com/">Dropbox</a> website requires Nautilus. But if you're using Xubuntu (Xfce), you'll probably want to use Dropbox with Thunar, the default file manager, instead of Nautilus.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So here's how to install Dropbox in Xubuntu/Xfce without Nautilus and get some basic Thunar integration (you won't get file emblems, but you'll get options to browse the file on the Dropbox website, get shareable link and view previous revisions, like in the screenshot above).</div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>Install Dropbox and a Dropbox Thunar plugin in Xubuntu</h2><br /><b>1.</b> Firstly, let's<b> install Dropbox without the Nautilus dependency:</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>In Ubuntu Oneiric, Precise and Quantal</b>, the "nautilus-dropbox" package available in the official repositories (it's not the same as the deb downloaded from the Dropbox website) doesn't depend on Nautilus, so you can install it on Xubuntu too:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">That's it for Xubuntu Oneiric, Precise and Quantal users. Now simply open Dropbox from the menu (it's under Internet) and follow the setup wizard, then skip to step 2.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For those who are using an older Xubuntu version or another Linux distribution, you can manually install Dropbox without the Nautilus dependency using the commands below:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b>32bit:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>cd && wget -O - "http://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86" | tar xzf -</code></pre><br /><b>64bit:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>cd && wget -O - "http://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To start the Dropbox daemon (and the setup wizard if this is the first time you're installing Dropbox), use the following command in a terminal:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Once you're done, you'll have to <b>add Dropbox to startup</b> so from the menu select <i>Settings > Session and Startup</i> and on the <i>Applications Autostart</i> tab, click "Add" and use the following:</div><ul><li>under "Name", enter "Dropbox"</li><li>under "Command", enter "/home/YOURUSERNAME/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd" - without the quotes; replace "YOURUSERNAME" with your username.</li></ul>Then click OK and you're done.<br /><br /><br /><b>2. Install the Dropbox Thunar extension.  </b><br /><br />Crunchbang provides thunar-dropbox deb packages that work with Xubuntu 12.04 - download the debs below:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://packages.crunchbang.org/waldorf/pool/main/thunar-dropbox-plugin_0.2.0-1_i386.deb">32bit</a></li><li><a href="http://packages.crunchbang.org/waldorf/pool/main/thunar-dropbox-plugin_0.2.0-1_amd64.deb">64bit</a></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />I've tested the above packages with Xubuntu 12.04 and they work, but they may not work with other Xubuntu versions, so if you're not using Xubuntu 12.04, grab the Dropbox Thunar extension source from <a href="http://softwarebakery.com/maato/thunar-dropbox.html">HERE</a> (you'll have to compile it). Obviously, they also work if you're using Thunar in another desktop environment, like GNOME (Unity).</div><br />Arch Linux users can install thunar-dropbox from <a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39214">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: <i>Dropbox needs to be running for the Thunar context menu items for Dropbox to show up.</i></div>

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Fix Dell XPS 13 Backlight Brightness Not Adjustable And Trackpad Not Working Properly In Ubuntu 12.04 Or 12.10

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAhvlWKmS5yrEibl7yvScXiiTltaGM5jlj2_hQeLMyuZJ8u3dspMgFWG7Prx_jYWNpfn69jtjOXGiNZW1qzd5lqL8cN9dkjtDNzPtmOR4B33_1UoSDdlOeTyRBGQof8_-utkWIgWESsRg5/s1600/Ubuntu_XPS13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="dell XPS Ubuntu" border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAhvlWKmS5yrEibl7yvScXiiTltaGM5jlj2_hQeLMyuZJ8u3dspMgFWG7Prx_jYWNpfn69jtjOXGiNZW1qzd5lqL8cN9dkjtDNzPtmOR4B33_1UoSDdlOeTyRBGQof8_-utkWIgWESsRg5/s320/Ubuntu_XPS13.jpg" title="dell XPS Ubuntu" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Sputnik Kernel PPA is an official Canonical Hardware Enablement Team PPA that provides an updated Linux Kernel which fixes some Dell XPS 13 laptop issues on Ubuntu:</div><a name='more'></a><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Backlight brightness not adjustable by default on Dell XPS 13 laptops: bug <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/954661">#954661</a> (this fix may also work for other laptops with Intel graphics processor that are having this issue)</li><li>'Cypress Trackpad' incorrectly detected as 'ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse' in 'Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook': bug <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/978807">#978807</a> - the Linux Kernel in the PPA provides experimental Cypress PS/2 Trackpad driver with multi-touch support (for Dell XPS 13 and other laptops with this trackpad).</li></ul><ul></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides the issues above, there was another issue which caused Dell XPS 13 and Dell XPS 15 WiFi to be disabled when disabling the Bluetooth (and the other way around) that was fixed both into the kernel available in this PPA and in the Ubuntu 12.04 kernel, but apparently it wasn't fixed for Dell XPS 17 laptops too. To fix it manually, run the following commands in a terminal:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>echo "#fix dell wifi/bluetooth:" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf<br />echo "blacklist dell_laptop" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf</code></pre>Then, restart the laptop and the WiFi / Bluetooth should work normally.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Install the Sputnik Kernel in Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10</h2><br /><b>To add the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~canonical-hwe-team/+archive/sputnik-kernel">Sputnik Kernel PPA</a> in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin or 12.10 Quantal Quetzal and upgrade the Linux Kernel, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-hwe-team/sputnik-kernel<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get upgrade</code></pre>Once the upgrade is complete, restart the laptop.<br /><br /><b>For Arch Linux</b> users, WebUpd8 reader dcelasun has created a custom kernel that uses these patches: <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=60736">https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=60736</a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If for some reason you want to go back using the Linux Kernel from the official Ubuntu 12.04 / 12.10 repositories, use PPA Purge to purge the Sputnik Kernel PPA:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ppa-purge<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:canonical-hwe-team/sputnik-kernel</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>image via pcper.com </i></div>

Fix Dell XPS 13 Backlight Brightness Not Adjustable And Trackpad Not Working Properly In Ubuntu 12.04 Or 12.10

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Ubuntu Tweak 0.7.3 Adds Support For Linux Mint 13 And Ubuntu 12.10

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh_AteRq3X31pceUVSxB5b80Antzc2A0MAIaDYoc9O53YQZfEkmGyqXyeVh80DsDbQ24iRAQ_b4iM3OGndvq9jV6eqWjIDvW5IK3g9HyYe6A3GP1O7Ckx_3jWvj2BUk3_PWNjUIfSG_4mr/s1600/ubuntu-tweak-0.7.3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh_AteRq3X31pceUVSxB5b80Antzc2A0MAIaDYoc9O53YQZfEkmGyqXyeVh80DsDbQ24iRAQ_b4iM3OGndvq9jV6eqWjIDvW5IK3g9HyYe6A3GP1O7Ckx_3jWvj2BUk3_PWNjUIfSG_4mr/s320/ubuntu-tweak-0.7.3.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Ubuntu Tweak is a tool that lets you configure various aspects of the Ubuntu / Linux Mint desktop: change the GTK / icon theme, Unity settings, LightDM settings, clean up application cache, it comes with an Unity quicklist editor, a PPA source center and more.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Ubuntu Tweak 0.7.3 has been released today, adding <b>support for Linux Mint 13</b>. The new version also comes with support for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, but since Quantal is still in alpha, the application can't be considered stable.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht56S_InJT4jztI6Keikj9xBYfu1FoBy0Y9al0No0WsURFIjrQBUXPzBe1aBEpu-gG1I1Ubsov4JGySKh-9XKFy5seYz3EFdB2YgPDQE6PegJDqmtA__dzXGyMdO5oyBSNzotS_S6291Y9/s1600/ubuntu-tweak-guest.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht56S_InJT4jztI6Keikj9xBYfu1FoBy0Y9al0No0WsURFIjrQBUXPzBe1aBEpu-gG1I1Ubsov4JGySKh-9XKFy5seYz3EFdB2YgPDQE6PegJDqmtA__dzXGyMdO5oyBSNzotS_S6291Y9/s320/ubuntu-tweak-guest.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides Linux Mint 13 and Ubuntu 12.10 support, the latest Ubuntu Tweak 0.7.3 also adds a new feature: the ability to <b>turn Guest account on/off</b>. And of course, there are many bug fixes to the Quicklist Editor, Screen Edge actions and more.</div><br />A complete list of changes / bug fixes can be found <a href="http://blog.ubuntu-tweak.com/2012/08/12/ubuntu-tweak-0-7-3-released.html">HERE</a>.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Ubuntu Tweak</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the Ubuntu Tweak PPA and install the latest stable Ubuntu Tweak 0.7.3 in Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 and 11.10 or Linux Mint 12 or 13, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak</code></pre><br /><b>Alternatively, you can download the Ubuntu Tweak deb from <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/+download">Launchpad</a>.</b><br /><br />If you encounter bugs, report them <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak">HERE</a>.

Ubuntu Tweak 0.7.3 Adds Support For Linux Mint 13 And Ubuntu 12.10

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Use Wallpaper Clocks, Live Earth Wallpaper In Ubuntu With Slidewall

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1XDAmIPdG-sF4jP2L5zGHF6kLr-2Rf6hq_GMTkds7HTzpLjF0jAUC9k1FV214u8s7NFq7LJOdVOs1xmPxyf0Jr_zn_l8Xv2XwzChEi2Ubm2gCJLCNEdCm386t__4CA5o8GWy-NztltS4X/s1600/slidewall-earth.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="slidewall" border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1XDAmIPdG-sF4jP2L5zGHF6kLr-2Rf6hq_GMTkds7HTzpLjF0jAUC9k1FV214u8s7NFq7LJOdVOs1xmPxyf0Jr_zn_l8Xv2XwzChEi2Ubm2gCJLCNEdCm386t__4CA5o8GWy-NztltS4X/s320/slidewall-earth.png" title="slidewall" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Slidewall is a wallpaper changer</b> that comes with some interesting features: <b>besides allowing you to use all images in a folder as a wallpaper slideshow, the application supports live wallpapers: live earth wallpaper, <a href="http://www.vladstudio.com/wallpaperclocks/browse.php">wallpaper clocks</a> and more</b>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">According to its PPA description, the application was especially created for Unity, but it should work with GNOME Classic / GNOME Shell too. It's also worth mentioning that Slidewall always starts minimized which is a bit confusing and might make you think it doesn't start - but it does, just look for its icon in the launcher.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><b>Supported live wallpapers:</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Live earth wallpaper:</b> using this, Sidewall downloads the sunlight map from www.opentopia.com every 20 minutes and sets it as your wallpaper. Screenshot:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj09jKF2v-ynz4mifV5NZb0gaTLMFlryemYvkssroCbdMj5WR9hwS91CE16vlpcK-Jcm8Ra7aroFMaKRqXb8H86HiSazisjdT1yUnoIe9QFmxO5MREoXAJGl4i_sGGbj_sC5pLrTxEPBMeI/s1600/slidewall-earth-wallpaper.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="earth wallpaper" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj09jKF2v-ynz4mifV5NZb0gaTLMFlryemYvkssroCbdMj5WR9hwS91CE16vlpcK-Jcm8Ra7aroFMaKRqXb8H86HiSazisjdT1yUnoIe9QFmxO5MREoXAJGl4i_sGGbj_sC5pLrTxEPBMeI/s320/slidewall-earth-wallpaper.png" title="earth wallpaper" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Wallpaper Clocks:</b> use various wallpapers with a real-time working clock blended into the wallpaper. By default, Slidewall comes with just a few wallpaper clocks but you can download more from <a href="http://www.vladstudio.com/wallpaperclocks/browse.php">HERE</a>. Once you download a wallpaper clock (don't extract the downloaded archive), open Slidewall and on the Slidewall Live Wallpapers tab, click Add and select the downloaded wallpaper clocks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Previously, wallpaper clocks were supported on GNOME through a <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2009/11/install-wallpaper-clocks-in-ubuntu.html">screenlet</a>, but the screenlet is buggy and it displays a black background when its updated, for some users.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are a few wallpaper clocks screenshots:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqGnjPu_fuMdCEdLhaH83SPgUh_WXjddjGcW-X6fuXwManRwFACVfWPOXJDnAH_0L_RInitbnxcozLmJnbsgjF13mKlaI2qfP5Gd1tp1hIUuh7SWwyHqppxRfTOSYjqNnLB4HrL3t8Llhr/s1600/slidewall-clock_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqGnjPu_fuMdCEdLhaH83SPgUh_WXjddjGcW-X6fuXwManRwFACVfWPOXJDnAH_0L_RInitbnxcozLmJnbsgjF13mKlaI2qfP5Gd1tp1hIUuh7SWwyHqppxRfTOSYjqNnLB4HrL3t8Llhr/s320/slidewall-clock_1.png" title="wallpaper clocks" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFNyaLP-pzFUgzaPGj9MmTU5RS0j0HhrxX84_Jd5AGZIhKbG5QknfnS4emF0oFxhe4MyvmB13_HcRmU404biyqpY_ZoCWW3uQHBTPCes8shv4JACRne4HYABDo9bVKkobLYueIP1FxF4yc/s1600/slidewall-clock_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="wallpaper clocks" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFNyaLP-pzFUgzaPGj9MmTU5RS0j0HhrxX84_Jd5AGZIhKbG5QknfnS4emF0oFxhe4MyvmB13_HcRmU404biyqpY_ZoCWW3uQHBTPCes8shv4JACRne4HYABDo9bVKkobLYueIP1FxF4yc/s320/slidewall-clock_2.png" title="wallpaper clocks" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB5ygA68nUQzmzn4__T0HXtkUNgipR0K55jJd7JwdOpS_5Ta3VAjC-uk5ijkMdy6ufqeUAsOzUqj7MRFXR90BCAriP0Fyd5dXKHWjhU27Id2R_GCMant2pxV-fjQYxEPBaRMBtxkIV_tN9/s1600/slidewall-clock_4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="wallpaper clocks" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB5ygA68nUQzmzn4__T0HXtkUNgipR0K55jJd7JwdOpS_5Ta3VAjC-uk5ijkMdy6ufqeUAsOzUqj7MRFXR90BCAriP0Fyd5dXKHWjhU27Id2R_GCMant2pxV-fjQYxEPBaRMBtxkIV_tN9/s320/slidewall-clock_4.png" title="wallpaper clocks" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgkGjhoAFmzePO54hGiLjM7TW_N5ImOpc7F6rlECt7n2p5Vy9a4Mgo3MyUyC_hbfX8cnFYHS2W50pBM-t5AreFyFSdaappgH4F-kka3esVYvmFz98byt88JtTO_-lSJ4jC3-XaAwJFvfYp/s1600/slidewall-clock_5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="wallpaper clocks" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgkGjhoAFmzePO54hGiLjM7TW_N5ImOpc7F6rlECt7n2p5Vy9a4Mgo3MyUyC_hbfX8cnFYHS2W50pBM-t5AreFyFSdaappgH4F-kka3esVYvmFz98byt88JtTO_-lSJ4jC3-XaAwJFvfYp/s320/slidewall-clock_5.png" title="wallpaper clocks" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia6TxICxW77-cesXZtNnOX6ndXHuXPnJIRiJt3roRxHJIfwC7jyyljt_s3yslfsozD64HBjhaA2zJpRahEzeAVxqZov5x3HNqx2psVA8Xx_oQTAsWGgb6Ftbx0nKbUANtE2xMxZFHcXoGK/s1600/slidwall-clock_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="wallpaper clocks" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia6TxICxW77-cesXZtNnOX6ndXHuXPnJIRiJt3roRxHJIfwC7jyyljt_s3yslfsozD64HBjhaA2zJpRahEzeAVxqZov5x3HNqx2psVA8Xx_oQTAsWGgb6Ftbx0nKbUANtE2xMxZFHcXoGK/s320/slidwall-clock_3.png" title="wallpaper clocks" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>Important: the wallpaper clocks won't show up in Slidewall until you restart the application!</b><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Wallbase:</b> Slidewall can automatically download wallpapers from Wallbase.cc - either the latest wallpapers or a random wallpaper - and change your wallpaper every 15 minutes.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Slidewall in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>Slidewall is currently available for Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04. Add the PPA using the following commands:</b><br /><br />- for Ubuntu 13.04:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fioan89/slidewall--raring<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre>- for Ubuntu 12.10:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fioan89/slidewall-quantal<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre>- for Ubuntu 12.04:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fioan89/slidewall-precise<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre><br />And finally, install Slidewall:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install slidewall</code></pre><br />Arch Linux users can install Slidewall via <a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=61925">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><b>For other Linux distributions, get Slidewall via <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/~fioan89/slidewall/quickly_trunk">Launchpad</a>.</b>

Use Wallpaper Clocks, Live Earth Wallpaper In Ubuntu With Slidewall

Slidewall is a wallpaper changer that comes with some interesting features: besides allowing you to use all images in a folder as a wallpap...

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