7 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 13.04 will be available for download in a few hours and since many of you will be installing it as soon as it's released, here are 7 useful things you can do right after the installation.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FolRhSqrM8Y/UXkSEVK5ifI/AAAAAAAAPD4/SKgF_O7n3y8/s1600/ubuntu13.04.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 screenshot" border="0" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FolRhSqrM8Y/UXkSEVK5ifI/AAAAAAAAPD4/SKgF_O7n3y8/s320/ubuntu13.04.png" title="Ubuntu 13.04 screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><h2>1. Tweak Unity.</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/unity-tweak-tool-available-in-ubuntu.html">Unity Tweak Tool</a></b> is a pretty new application that's available in the Ubuntu 13.04 repositories, which you can use to tweak Unity: change various aspects of the Unity interface such as auto-hide behavior, change the Unity Launcher icons size, color, and more, set up hotcorners, tweak the Dash search, change the GTK, icon theme or fonts and much more.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/unity-tweak-tool.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Unity Tweak Tool" src="http://img.netupd8.com/unity-tweak-tool_thumb.png" /></a></div><br />Click the button below to install Unity Tweak Tool:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="apt://unity-tweak-tool"><img alt="Download for Ubuntu" src="https://apps.ubuntu.com/assets/images/scbutton-free-200px.png" /></a></div><br />Or use the following command in a terminal to install it:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool</code></pre><br />If you use GNOME Shell, install GNOME Tweak Tool instead. <br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>2. Privacy settings.</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">By default, Dash may display private files but there's an easy way to prevent this: open <b><i>System Settings > Privacy</i></b> and here, you can:</div><ul><li>delete recent history</li><li>blacklist applications or folders / partitions from showing up in Dash</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here, you can also set Dash not to include online search results. This will disable the controversial Shopping Lens along with the other online searches performed by the Friends lens or the Photo lens. </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/privacy_1.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 privacy" src="http://img.netupd8.com/privacy_1_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/privacy_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 privacy" src="http://img.netupd8.com/privacy_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>If you don't want the Shopping Lens but want to be able to use the other online scopes / lenses</b>, you can simply uninstall the Shopping Lens:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And finally, if you constantly change the privacy settings (e.g.: often disable Zeitgeist logging; Zeitgeist is used to log the files that show up in Dash), you can use <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/unity-privacy-indicator-quickly-enable.html">Privacy Indicator</a> which lets you clear the Zeitgeist (and thus, Dash) logs, clear the recent files list (which shows up in the Nautilus "Recent" sidebar item for example), and quickly enable/disable Zeitgeist logging or the online search results. </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/privacy-indicator.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Privacy indicator" src="http://img.netupd8.com/privacy-indicator.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To install Privacy Indicator in Ubuntu 13.04, use the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diesch/testing<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install indicator-privacy</code></pre><br /><br /><h2>3. Solution for popular missing features: weather and calendar indicators.</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Two features that Ubuntu lacks in my opinion are weather and calendar indicators</b>. Hopefully, the Ubuntu developers will have some time to fulfill these popular feature requests soon, but until then we can use some third-party indicators that work great.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There's a weather indicator available in the official Ubuntu 13.04 repositories / Ubuntu Software Center, but it doesn't work properly so we'll use <b>My Weather Indicator</b> instead. To install it in Ubuntu 13.04, use the following commands:</div><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install my-weather-indicator</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/my-weather-indicator.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="My Weather Indicator" src="http://img.netupd8.com/my-weather-indicator_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">My Weather indicator supports OpenWeatherMap and Yahoo weather services out of the box and you can also use Wunderground or World Weather Online if you sign up to get your own API (see how to do that, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/how-to-use-your-own-weather-services.html">HERE</a>). Besides a cool indicator that gives you quick access to the current weather, weather forecast and a forecast map, the application also comes with (optional) <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/get-htc-like-weather-clock-widget-in.html">desktop widgets</a>:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/my-weather-indicator-widget.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="My Weather Indicator desktop widget" src="http://img.netupd8.com/my-weather-indicator-widget_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another feature that, at least in my opinion, Ubuntu lacks, is a proper calendar. I use Google Calendar and if you use it too, you'll love <b><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/google-calendar-indicator-adds-options.html">Google Calendar Indicator</a></b>, an application that can be used to easily add new Google Calendar events, display your current events with notifications, browse your calendars and so on.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/calendar-indicator-rr.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Google Calendar Indicator" src="http://img.netupd8.com/calendar-indicator-rr_thumb.png" /></a></div><br />Install Google Calendar Indicator using the following commands:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install calendar-indicator</code></pre><br />For more indicators, check out our <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/search/label/appindicator?max-results=10">AppIndicator</a> tag.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>4. Improve battery life, other important tweaks</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Jupiter used to be one of the first things to install after a fresh Ubuntu installation, but unfortunately the application has been discontinued and the old version doesn't work properly in Ubuntu 13.04. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But, if battery life is what you're interested in, you can use <b>TLP,</b> a tool that you install and then forget about it because it automatically tweaks your system for better power usage / battery life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To install TLP in Ubuntu 13.04, use the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw<br />sudo tlp start</code></pre><br />More about <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/improve-power-usage-battery-life-in.html" title="Improve Power Usage / Battery Life In Linux With TLP">TLP</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><b>If you're using an Nvidia Optimus laptop, also install <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/bumblebee-31-released-with-primus.html">Bumblebee</a></b> or else both graphics cards will be powered on all the time, even though the Nvidia graphics card isn't used:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><s><b>Currently, there's a bug with Bumblebee 3.1 and Ubuntu 13.04 </b>(and version 3.2 which fixes this has been released a couple of days ago, but then removed from the PPA because it has a nasty bug and doesn't work at all in Raring, no fix has been found yet)</s>. This bug has been fixed in <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/bumblebee-321-released-with-ubuntu-1304.html">Bumblebee 3.2.1</a>.</div><br /><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/bumblebee-31-released-with-primus.html">More about Bumblebee, using the Primus backend, etc</a>.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This doesn't have anything to do with battery life is an important tweak nevertheless: <b>if you're using a SSD, it's pretty important to enable TRIM</b> so its performance doesn't decrease over time. There are quite a few steps to achieve this so I won't add instructions for how to do this in this post - you'll find them <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/enable-trim-on-ssd-solid-state-drives.html">HERE</a> instead.</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>5. Fix Google Chrome, Skype.</h2><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/skype-google-chrome.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Fix Google Chrome Skype" src="http://img.netupd8.com/skype-google-chrome_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Google Chrome has a <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/fix-google-chrome-cant-be-installed-in.html" title="Fix: Google Chrome Can`t Be Installed In Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail">bug</a> and can't be installed on fresh Ubuntu 13.04 installations.</b> The bug currently affects Google Chrome Stable and Beta (has already been fixed in Google Chrome Dev) and until Google fixes it (it's not an Ubuntu bug), <b>you can easily get Google Chrome to install by downloading and installing the deb below:</b></div><ul><li><a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/175-0ubuntu19/+build/4325790/+files/libudev0_175-0ubuntu19_i386.deb">libudev0 for 32bit</a></li><li><a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/175-0ubuntu19/+build/4325788/+files/libudev0_175-0ubuntu19_amd64.deb">libudev0 for 64bit</a></li></ul><br />Then, Google Chrome Stable or Beta should install in Ubuntu 13.04.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Skype currently crashes on start for Ubuntu 13.04 users that have installed the proprietary Nvidia drivers</b>. The bug also affects some AMD / ATI proprietary graphics drivers users and some of them have reported that the fix below works for them too.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/fix-skype-not-working-in-ubuntu-1304.html" title="Fix Skype Not Working In Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail">fix</a> this issue</b> with proprietary Nvidia drivers (and possibly AMD) and Skype, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo sed -i 's/^Exec=skype.*/Exec=bash -c "export LD_PRELOAD=\/usr\/lib\/i386-linux-gnu\/mesa\/libGL\.so\.1 \&\& skype %U"/' /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In case you want to revert the change made by the command above, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo sed -i 's/^Exec=bash.*/Exec=skype %U/' /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop</code></pre><br /><br /><br /><h2>6. Migrate / upgrade PPAs (advanced users)</h2><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/y-ppa-manager.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Y PPA Manager" src="http://img.netupd8.com/y-ppa-manager_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you've upgraded from Ubuntu 12.10 to Ubuntu 13.04, all your PPAs were disabled in the process. Ubuntu 13.04 already has the latest version for most packages, but there are some that aren't the latest version or you may want to install some applications that aren't available in the official repositories / Ubuntu Software Center. <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/y-ppa-manager-0092-released-with-new.html">Y PPA Manager</a> can help you with this: it can automatically re-enable the PPAs that work with Ubuntu 13.04, leaving the others disabled. For this, open Y PPA Manager (installation instructions below) and under "Advanced", select "Re-enable working PPAs after Ubuntu upgrade" and wait until Y PPA Manager scans all your PPAs, checks if they work with Ubuntu 13.04 and if they do, it enables them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We have a tip for fresh installs too regarding this: if you've backed up the PPAs you had on an older Ubuntu version (e.g. using Y PPA Manager), you can restore the backup in Ubuntu 13.04 and use Y PPA Manager to update the PPAs to Ubuntu 13.04, but only for the PPAs that actually work on Ubuntu 13.04, leaving the others as they are so you don't get any 404 errors. To do this, in Y PPA Manager > Advanced, select "Update release name in working PPAs", under "Current Ubuntu version" enter: "raring" (without the quotes) and under "Previous Ubuntu version" enter the Ubuntu version from which you've copied the PPAs from (e.g.: quantal), then click OK and wait for the application to scan all your PPAs and upgrade to Raring those that support it.</div><br />To install Y PPA Manager, use the following commands:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install y-ppa-manager</code></pre><br /><br /><br /><h2>7. Install codecs, Java.</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To be able to play most audio and video formats, install Ubuntu Restricted Extras by clicking the button below:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="apt://ubuntu-restricted-extras"><img alt="Download for Ubuntu" src="https://apps.ubuntu.com/assets/images/scbutton-free-200px.png" /></a></div><br />Or install it using the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I suggest to also install the unrestricted versions of libavformat and libavcodec so you don't encounter issues with missing codecs when trying to use some video editors or transcoders - install them by clicking the button below:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="apt://libavformat-extra-53,libavcodec-extra-53"><img alt="Download for Ubuntu" src="https://apps.ubuntu.com/assets/images/scbutton-free-200px.png" /></a></div><br />Or by using the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install libavformat-extra-53 libavcodec-extra-53</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You may also need Java, but you must figure out what you need. Most users will only need OpenJRE and the Java browser plugin which you can install by clicking the button below:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="apt://icedtea-7-plugin,openjdk-7-jre"><img alt="Download for Ubuntu" src="https://apps.ubuntu.com/assets/images/scbutton-free-200px.png" /></a></div><br />Or by using the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin openjdk-7-jre</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For development, you'll also want OpenJDK which you can install by using the button below:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="apt://openjdk-7-jdk"><img alt="Download for Ubuntu" src="https://apps.ubuntu.com/assets/images/scbutton-free-200px.png" /></a></div><br />Or by using the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If for various reasons, you need Oracle Java (the package includes JDK, JRE and the browser plugin), you can install <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/install-oracle-java-jdk-7-in-ubuntu-via.html">Oracle Java 7</a> by using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Now it's your turn. What are the first things you install or tweak after installing Ubuntu?</b></div>

7 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)

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How To Install Unity Smart Scopes In Ubuntu 13.04 [PPA]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 13.04 was supposed to get a new Unity <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SmartScopes1304Spec">Smart Scopes</a> feature, which eventually <a href="http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/03/29/smart-scopes-not-landing-in-13-04-will-land-in-13-10/">didn't make it</a>, but if you don't want to wait for Ubuntu 13.10 to try it, you can install it right now in Ubuntu 13.04, by using a PPA.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Smart Scopes tries to provide a better and smarter Dash search experience by adding various scopes that return relevant data depending on the search terms.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://img.netupd8.com/unity-smart-scopes_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Smart Scopes Ubuntu Unity" border="0" height="181" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y2PSYvcN3pY/UXfZoVmG4oI/AAAAAAAAPDQ/kV1og-USK7s/s320/unity-smart-scopes_1.png" title="Smart Scopes Ubuntu Unity" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name='more'></a><b> </b> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Installing the Smart Scopes, you'll get some new categories and sources on the home lens. When you search for something, Dash tries to automatically select the right categories and sources for your search term so for instance if you search for "Pink Floyd", Dash will automatically select the "Music", "Reference" (which in turn selects the Wikipedia source, among others), "Files & Folders" and so on. Or if you search for "Barcelona", it should display the weather, etc. You can also manually select / deseelect categories or sources.<br /><br /><br />Below you can see a search for "pink floyd" without manually selecting any source in the sidebar filter:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://img.netupd8.com/unity-smart-scopes_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-738C6AcZrDw/UXft0KYnjmI/AAAAAAAAPDo/g-13UeC0B50/s320/unity-smart-scopes_3.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />Smart Scopes did figure out this is music-related and displayed my Pink Floyd albums and some online info about Pink Floyd (among others), but it also displayed some applications.<br /><br />And here's the same search again, with some custom sources selected in the filter: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><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 rel="image_group" href="http://img.netupd8.com/unity-smart-scopes_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Smart Scopes Ubuntu Unity" border="0" height="179" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DI0v-iskolM/UXfZtLgsE1I/AAAAAAAAPDY/ICy3LW8NS9I/s320/unity-smart-scopes_2.png" title="Smart Scopes Ubuntu Unity" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">That looks a lot better and that's pretty much how the default search results should have looked like. The default search results are ok considering the Smart Scopes feature hasn't been officially released and it's still work in progress, but hopefully the scopes will be smart enough in the future so we won't need to manually select any categories.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Smart Scopes video</h2><br />To understand exactly how this works, watch the video below:<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PB3oJga1kLQ" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB3oJga1kLQ">direct video link</a>; for more videos, subscribe to your <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/nilarimogard">YouTube channel</a>)</center><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Remember, this feature is under development so it may change by the time it's added by default in Ubuntu.</i></b></div><br /><br /><h2>Supported scopes / sources</h2><br />Currently, the PPA provides the following scopes / sources:<br /><ul><li>Audacious</li><li>Banshee </li><li>Calculator</li><li>Chromium Bookmarks</li><li>Clementine</li><li>Colour Lovers</li><li>Dev Help</li><li>DeviantArt</li><li>Facebook </li><li>Files & Folders</li><li>Flickr</li><li>Evolution</li><li>Firefox Bookmarks</li><li>Gallica</li><li>Google Drive</li><li>GitHub</li><li>Gmusicbrowser</li><li>Google News</li><li>Guayadeque</li><li>IMDB</li><li>Launchpad</li><li>Manpages</li><li>Music Store </li><li>Musique</li><li>OpenClipArt</li><li>OpenWeatherMap</li><li>Picasa</li><li>Remote Videos </li><li>Rhythmbox </li><li>SoundCloud</li><li>Shotwell </li><li>SshSearch</li><li>Texdoc</li><li>Videos </li><li>VirtualBox</li><li>Yahoo Stock</li><li>Yelp</li><li>Zotero </li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">These are all the sources used by the Smart Scopes feature for now but more will be available in the future.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>How to install Unity Smart Scopes in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b>The Smart Scopes feature wasn't added by default in Ubuntu 13.04 because it's not completely ready</b></span> so if you decide to use the Smart Scopes PPA, you must be aware that this feature is currently under development and some things can break, some scopes might not work and also, Unity and Compiz will use more system resources. Also, in my test, after installing the Smart Scopes, the Unity Friends Lens has stopped working!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you're ok with the above warning, let's proceed with the installation:</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1. To add the Unity Smart Scopes PPA and install the new Smart Scopes feature in Ubuntu 13.04, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-unity/experimental-certified<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get dist-upgrade</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Important:</b> for the last command above, make sure no packages are removed except for the <i>unity-lens-shopping</i>. If the command tries to remove more packages, it means something is broken on your system and you need to fix it so do not proceed with the installation!</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2.</b> To make sure the packages we've installed from the PPA are not overwritten if newer lenses / scopes land in Ubuntu 13.04 (the PPA will be updated eventually if that happens, but it's better to use this so things don't break), install the following package:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ubuntu-unity-experimental-certified</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3.</b> And now run "sudo apt-get upgrade" which will actually downgrade the packages to the version from the PPA, if they are older than the ones available in the official Ubuntu repositories (if any; at the time I'm writing this, the packages that will be downgraded are the Unity Files Lens and Gdocs / Gdrive Scope):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get upgrade</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4.</b> Once all the packages are installed / upgraded successfully, restart your system (a simple Unity restart or logout doesn't seem to be enough).</div><br /><b>Report any bugs you may find, <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+filebug?field.tags=100scopes">HERE</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Revert the changes</h2><br /><b>If you want to remove the Smart Scopes and go back to the lenses / scopes used by default in Ubuntu 13.04, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ppa-purge<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-unity/experimental-certified</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For me, ppa-purge <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ppa-purge/+bug/1142289">doesn't work</a> in Ubuntu 13.04 if the purged PPA has a package that's not available in another source (like in the official Ubuntu repositories): it segfaults instead of purging the PPA. If that's the case for you too, you can revert the changes manually, using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo sed -i 's/^deb/#deb/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-unity-experimental-certified-raring.list<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-unity-experimental-certified<br />sudo apt-get install gir1.2-dee-1.0/raring gir1.2-unity-5.0/raring libdee-1.0-4/raring libdee-dev/raring libunity-common/raring libunity-core-6.0-5/raring libunity-dev/raring libunity-protocol-private0/raring libunity9/raring unity/raring unity-common/raring unity-lens-applications/raring unity-lens-files/raring unity-lens-music/raring unity-lens-photos/raring unity-lens-video/raring unity-lens-friends/raring unity-scope-musicstores/raring unity-scope-video-remote/raring unity-services/raring unity-scope-gdocs/raring unity-scope-gdrive/raring</code></pre><br />The first command above disables the PPA. Then, we update the software sources and remove "ubuntu-unity-experimental-certified" which we've installed to pin the packages from the PPA (under step 3). And finally, the last command above downgrades the packages that were upgraded from the Smart Scopes PPA and automatically removes all the scopes that were installed from the same Smart Scopes PPA.<br /><br />And finally, restart the system.

How To Install Unity Smart Scopes In Ubuntu 13.04 [PPA]

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<div style="text-align: justify;">A few days ago we had an article about a <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/new-unity-revamped-ppa-for-ubuntu-1204.html">new Unity Revamped PPA</a> that adds some tweaks to Ubuntu 12.04, among which there were some nice Ubuntu Touch-style assets for the Unity Launcher. If you're using Ubuntu 12.10 or 13.04 and want to use these Ubuntu Touch Launcher assets, you'll find instructions on how to do it below.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu-touch-unity-launcher-icons.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KLE_RJeL-K8/UWv6k0mgsSI/AAAAAAAAO-c/A7G_AxGPMKQ/s320/ubuntu-touch-unity-launcher-icons.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>Using the Ubuntu Touch-style Launcher icons in Ubuntu 12.10 or 13.04</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1. To use the Ubuntu Touch Launcher icons / assets on the desktop (Unity), download the icons from <a href="http://aerilius.deviantart.com/art/Ubuntu-Touch-Launcher-icons-358618366">DeviantArt</a> and extract the downloaded archive in your home folder.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2.</b> Then, to replace the Unity icons with the Ubuntu Touch-style icons, use the following command:</div><br /><b>- for Ubuntu 12.10:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>cd && sudo cp -r unity/6 /usr/share/unity/</code></pre><b>-for Ubuntu 13.04:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>cd && sudo cp -r unity/6/* /usr/share/unity/icons/</code></pre><br />Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshot after the changes:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu-touch-launcher-icons-unity-6.png" rel="image_group" title="Ubuntu Touch style icons in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail"><img alt="Ubuntu Touch icons 13.04 Unity Launcher" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu-touch-launcher-icons-unity-6_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br />Ubuntu 12.10 screenshot after the changes:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu-touch-launcher-icons-unity-5.png" rel="image_group" title="Ubuntu Touch style icons in Ubuntu 12.10"><img alt="Ubuntu Touch icons 13.04 Unity Launcher" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu-touch-launcher-icons-unity-5_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3.</b> And finally, restart Unity by pressing ALT + F2 and entering "unity" (without the quotes), or log out and log back in.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Reverting the changes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>If you  revert the changes, simply reinstall unity-common using the following command:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install --reinstall unity-common</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And then restart Unity (press ALT + F2 and enter: "unity" or log out and log back in).</div>

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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Gwibber, the microblogging client available by default in Ubuntu, has been rewritten in QML recently and is now called Friends App. </b><br /><br />Also, Gwibber Service (the backend) and the Gwibber Unity Lens have been replaced with "<a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/kenvandine/">Friends Service</a>" and Unity Friends Lens and the new packages have landed in the Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail repositories for a while, but they <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/ubuntu-1304-raring-ringtail-final-beta.html#comment-852897951">didn't work properly</a>, at least for me, until a couple of days ago.<br /><br />Gwibber used to be installed by default in Ubuntu, however, the new Friends App isn't (though the Friends Lens is installed by default) available by default in Raring and I'm not sure if it will make it, but you can easily install it via Ubuntu Software Center. <b>Below you'll find instructions for installing the new Friends App in Ubuntu 12.10 or 13.04.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a>Here are a few Friends App (and Unity lens) screenshots:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/friends-app.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Friends App" border="0" height="295" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3IPt9rpYlUk/UWgUHMq3ggI/AAAAAAAAO88/aPG5QFASJvg/s320/friends-app.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/friends-app_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Friends App" src="http://img.netupd8.com/friends-app_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/friends-lens.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Friends Unity Lens" src="http://img.netupd8.com/friends-lens_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/friends-lens-preview.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Friends Unity Lens Previews" src="http://img.netupd8.com/friends-lens-preview_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As you can see in the screenshots above, the new Friends App uses the Ubuntu Phone OS design so it's not exactly optimized for the desktop: there's no longer a menu (to add your Twitter, Facebook, etc. accounts you must go to <i>System Settings > Online Accounts </i>manually), at least for now, or toolbar and there's a large "Timeline" text on top of the application which is pretty annoying on the desktop. However, the new version is very fast and has some nice effects, smooth scrolling, etc. </div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Gwibber QML in Ubuntu 12.10 or 13.04</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Friends App is still work in progress: some features may be missing, you may find bugs and so on. Also, please note that the Friends Unity lens didn't work in my test under Ubuntu 12.10 (but it does work in Ubuntu 13.04).</b></div><br /><br />To install Friends in Ubuntu 12.10 or 13.04, follow the following steps:<br /><br /><b>1. Install Friends App (Gwibber rewritten in QML).</b><br /><b><br /></b> <b>Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail:</b> all you have to do is click the button below:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="apt://friends-app"><button class="thoughtbot">Install Friends</button></a></div><br />Alternatively, you can also install Friends via command line:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install friends-app</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For <b>Ubuntu 12.10</b>: installing Friends will remove the old Gwibber application! Also, you'll need to add the Ubuntu SDK and QT 5 PPAs (which will install quite a few packages) as well as the Super Friends PPA:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-qt5-edgers/qt5-proper<br />sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa<br />sudo add-apt-repository ppa:super-friends/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install friends-app unity-lens-friends</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2.</b> You may need to restart your computer or else Friends might not work (this could be avoided by killing the existing Gwibber Service process in Ubuntu 12.10, launching the Friends process, restarting Unity, etc., but to avoid any issues that could result in Gwibber not working, a system restart is recommended).<br /><br />Report any bugs you may encounter @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/friends">Launchpad</a>. </div><br /><br /><h2>Reverting the changes and returning to the old Gwibber in Ubuntu 12.10</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To remove Friends App and reinstall the old Gwibber back in Ubuntu 12.10, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ppa-purge<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:super-friends/ppa<br />sudo apt-get install gwibber unity-lens-gwibber</code></pre>

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<div style="text-align: justify;">The popular Unity Revamped PPA has stopped working once again a while back, but there's a new PPA that adds the same features to Unity along with some extra ones such as the Unity Touch Launcher icons.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/new-unity-revamped.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="194" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c_ijTZkfmEM/UWR5J-4jAoI/AAAAAAAAO6o/iWURMsKLO1I/s320/new-unity-revamped.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The new Unity Revamped PPA, maintained by <a href="http://garhuy.blogspot.com/">Garhuy</a>, is only <b>available for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and adds the following features to Unity (with Compiz):</b></div><ul><li>re-added Dodge Windows behavior;</li><li>minimize on click for Launcher items;</li><li>option to enable/disable the Workspace Switcher icon on the Launcher</li><li>Ubuntu Raring launcher assets (the new BFB icon - the button used to open Dash, workspace switcher, etc);</li><li>Ubuntu Touch Launcher icons.</li></ul><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: center;"><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="http://img.netupd8.com/unity-revamped-launcher.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Unity Revamped touch icons" src="http://img.netupd8.com/unity-revamped-launcher_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unity Launcher in Ubuntu 12.04 with Raring assets and Ubuntu Touch icons</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The PPA also adds Ubuntu Touch Launcher icons and the Ubuntu Raring Launcher assets for Unity 2D:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/unity-revamped-2d.png"><img alt="Unity 2D revamped" src="http://img.netupd8.com/unity-revamped-2d_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, the PPA description mentions that you should also get an option to allow the menus to be permanently visible, however, in my test I couldn't find this option in CCSM so I think the patch for this has been removed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can watch an old video demoing the Dodge Windows and minimize on click features:</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Q2rj18H0M38" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2rj18H0M38">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><br /><h2>Upgrade Unity to the patched version available in the Unity Revamped PPA in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS</h2><br /><b>To add this Unity Revamped PPA and upgrade Unity to get the features mentioned above in Ubuntu 12.04  LTS, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:garhuy/unity<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get upgrade</code></pre><br />Note: I've only tested the PPA in VirtualBox!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Once the upgrade is complete, log out and log back in. To enable/disable Dodge Windows, install CompizConfig Settings Manager:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Then under the Unity plugin > Behaviour, set "Hide Launcher" to "Dodge Windows" or "Dodge Active Window":</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/unity-revamped-dodge-windows.png"><img alt="Unity Revamped" src="http://img.netupd8.com/unity-revamped-dodge-windows_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To enable/disable the Workspace Switcher icon, switch to the "Experimental" tab under the same Unity plugin options in CCSM and scroll down to "Show Expo icon in the launcher":</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/unity-revamped-expo-icon.png"><img alt="Unity Revamped" src="http://img.netupd8.com/unity-revamped-expo-icon_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><h2>Reverting the changes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If something doesn't work properly or you simply don't want to use this PPA anymore, you can go back to the original Unity packages from the Ubuntu repositories by purging the PPA:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ppa-purge<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:garhuy/unity</code></pre>

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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail <i>final beta</i> has been <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/TechnicalOverview">released</a> today</b>, this being the first and only milestone for Raring. If you're not using Raring already, <b>read on to find out what's new!</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Note: this is the first and only Ubuntu 13.04 beta, even though the ISO says "beta 2", however, some Ubuntu flavours already had a beta release so today it's beta 2 for Xubuntu, Lubuntu and Kubuntu for instance.</i></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-raring-ringtail-beta-screenshot-m.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xsydE0MGsoE/UV1gtnhBFlI/AAAAAAAAO2o/b5Xe7G77TMk/s450/ubuntu13.04-raring-ringtail-beta-screenshot-m.png" title="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail" width="450" /></a></div><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Final Beta video</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As usual, I'll start the article with a video in which you can see most of the visual changes in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Final Beta:</div><br /><center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1Sr3XjqXAqc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sr3XjqXAqc">direct video link</a>; subscribe to our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/nilarimogard">YouTube channel</a> for more videos)</center><br /><br /><br /><h2>Unity changes in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Final Beta</h2><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Unity has got two new features that should make it <b>easier to switch between multiple open windows of the same application</b>:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>if an application has two or more open windows, the window title will be displayed as an Unity quicklists and you can switch between those windows by clicking on the quicklists;</li><li>again, if an application has two or more open windows, users can switch between those open windows by scrolling on the application icon in the Unity Launcher.</li></ul><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There have also been quite a few <b>UI changes</b> to Unity in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail beta:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>new Unity-style shutdown / logout / suspend dialogs;</li><li>new icons for the Dash icon (BFB), workspace switcher, lenses, Software Updater, Ubuntu Software Center and Nautilus;</li><li>new window snap animation which shows the window preview as it expands;</li><li>the 32px minimum Launcher icon size limit has been removed and the launcher can now be resized to a mimimum of 8px.</li></ul><br />Here are some screenshots with these changes:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><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="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_1.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_1_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Unity-style shutdown / logout / restart dialogs</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><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="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Unity-style shutdown / logout / restart dialogs</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><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="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_3.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_3_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New BFB, Nautilus, Software Center, Software Updater and Workspace Switcher icons</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><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="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_15.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_15_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Nautilus, Software Center and Software Updater icons</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><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="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_4.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_4_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New lens icons</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><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="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-raring-ringtail-screenshot-anim.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-raring-ringtail-screenshot-anim_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Window snap animation</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Further more, the new <b>workspace switcher icon now indicates the current active desktop</b>. However, with Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, the <b>workspaces have been disabled by default</b> and they can be enabled from <i>System Settings > Appearance</i>, on the "Behavior" tab ("Enable workspaces"):</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_11.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_11_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Unity <b>Dash</b> has received special attention in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail and it's now <b>a lot faster</b> to open, search and display previews. Also, Dash Previews have received a slightly modified animation and an updated design. And finally, <b>Dash now comes with overlay scrollbars</b>:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_5.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_5_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_6.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_6_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Dash already had a legal notice, accessible from the bottom right Dash corner, but with Ubuntu Raring, the legal notice can also be accessed from <i>System Settings > Details</i>:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_7.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_7_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Another Dash change is the addition of a small, fast library called "libcolumbus" that provides <b>error tolerant matching</b> which makes it easier to search the Dash: for instance, if you type "gdit" instead of "gedit", Dash will find Gedit, something that wouldn't have happened in previous Ubuntu versions:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_8.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_8_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b>Unity Online Accounts has received per application on/off toggles</b> so for instance if you add your Google account, you can select not to use it for the Dash photo search plugin and Shotwell, but enable it for Empathy:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_9.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_9_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lm-e4DOmV_g/URPclY0P01I/AAAAAAAANc4/vrHybJQXVv0/s1600/appindicators.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu appindicators" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lm-e4DOmV_g/URPclY0P01I/AAAAAAAANc4/vrHybJQXVv0/s320/appindicators.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides the additions above, there's also a removal: <b>the Unity systray whitelist has been removed</b>, so you can no longer whitelist applications to allow them to use the notification area in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail. However, Java and Wine applications have been hard-coded as the only software still able to use the notification area so this change only affects some old applications that don't come with AppIndicator support. And since Qt applications systray icons are automatically converted to appindicators thanks to <i>sni-qt</i>, this change shouldn't affect too many applications.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Other changes</h2><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><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="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_13.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_13_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sync Menu</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><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="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_14.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_14.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bluetooth Indicator</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Two new indicators have been added by default in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail: </b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Sync Menu, an indicator that only supports Ubuntu One but later it might support other services such as Dropbox. The indicator has been available starting with Ubuntu 12.10, but it wasn't added by default until now. For now, it can be used to enable/disable Ubuntu One sync, display current and recent transfers or share files, but more features should be available in the future;</li><li>Bluetooth Indicator - a proper indicator for Bluetooth, which has replaced the old Bluetooth indicator that was basically just a patch over the fallback gnome-bluetooth icon.</li></ul><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The work to "make Ubuntu fit on mobile" had advantages for the desktop too and with Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, the <b>memory usage should be greatly reduced</b>. For instance, some processes were changed to exit-on-idle and be restarted-on-demand rather than running all the time, there have been many optimizations and fixed memory leaks and so on. And this is just the beginning.</div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><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="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_16.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_16_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LibreOffice 4.0 with appmenu and HUD support by default</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><b>Other changes:</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Intel SNA (2D acceleration for the Intel Linux graphics driver that improves the X.Org performance) has been turned on by default in Raring;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Gvfs now has a MTP backend which allows users to access Android 4.0 devices that don't support USB Mass Storage without any tweaks;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">LibreOffice has got appmenu (global menu) / HUD support by default (although it's still a bit buggy);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Many multi-monitor fixes, including a fix or the bug that caused the launcher / top panel to show up on top of full-screen applications on the inactive monitor;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">13 new gorgeous <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/download-ubuntu-1304-raring-ringtail.html">community wallpapers</a>  have landed in Raring.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, with Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, <b>the maintenance period has been reduced from 18 months to 9 months</b> - this change won't affect just Raring but all future non-LTS releases.</div><br />And of course, there have been many other minor changes, improvements and bug fixes, too many to cover in a single post. Give Ubuntu 13.04 a try and you'll notice them for yourself.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Default applications</h2><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><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="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-raring-ringtail-screenshot-nautilus36.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu appindicators" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-raring-ringtail-screenshot-nautilus36_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nautilus 3.6</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Ubuntu 13.04 will ship with GNOME 3.6 for most applications / libraries, just like Ubuntu 12.10. However, Ubuntu 12.10 was released with Nautilus 3.4, GNOME Control Center 3.4 and Totem 3.4 while Ubuntu 13.04 ships with the latest 3.6 stable versions of these applications: <b>Nautilus 3.6.3</b>, GNOME Control Center 3.6.3 and Totem 3.6.3.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, <b>Gwibber and the Gwibber lens have been removed from Ubuntu for now</b>. It will probably be replaced with an application re-written in QML called Friends-App and the Gwibber Service will be replaced by Friends Service. This change is still pending approval.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_12.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/ubuntu13.04-screenshot_12_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides the applications mentioned above, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail beta ships by default with Firefox 19.0.2, Thunderbird 17.0.4, LibreOffice 4.0.1 (now with built-in global menu support), Ubuntu Software Center 5.6.0, Transmission 2.77, Deja Dup backup tool 26.0, Shotwell 0.14.0, Rhythmbox 2.98, Gedit 3.6.2, Brasero 3.6.1 and Empathy 3.6.4 on top of Unity 6.12 daily build as of 13.04.01 and GTK3+ 3.6.4.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Raring beta uses the Ubuntu Linux Kernel 3.8.0 based on the upstream Linux Kernel 3.8.5, Xorg server 1.13.3 and Mesa 9.0.3.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Download Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail final beta</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail has been very stable from the beginning and I'm not the only one saying this, many users have reported that Raring is the most stable development version of Ubuntu so far. However, this obviously depends on the hardware too, and this is stil la beta, so it's not recommended you install it on production machines!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you've installed Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail daily build and you've updated the packages through the Software Updater, you already have Raring beta so there's no need to reinstall it.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/TechnicalOverview">Download Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail final beta</a></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the only Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail beta release (not counting the other Ubuntu flavours - with Raring, each flavour can have its own release schedule) and the next milestone will be the final Ubuntu 13.04 release, on April 25th.</div><br /><br />

Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Final Beta Released, See What's New

Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail final beta has been released today , this being the first and only milestone for Raring. If you're not us...

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