How To Properly Mount Android 4.0+ Devices In Ubuntu Using Go-mtpfs

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Mounting an Android 4.0+ device in Ubuntu is pretty tricky, but there is </b><b>a FUSE filesystem called </b><b><b><a href="https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs">Go-mtpfs</a>,</b> created by a Google employee because "mtpfs was very unstable" for him, which works great. Read on to find out how to use it and easily install it in Ubuntu using a PPA!</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Also see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/12/airdroid-manage-your-android-device.html" title="AirDroid: Manage Your Android Device Using A Browser">AirDroid: Manage Your Android Device Using A Browser</a>, however, there are cases when you can't use AirDroid. </i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">By default, when connecting an Android device to an Ubuntu computer, gvfs is used via gphoto2 (because gvfs doesn't have native MTP support yet). And that doesn't always work properly.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here's <b>my experience with this:</b> trying to mount my Android 4.2.1 phone fails most of the time (I've experienced the same behaviour with Android 4.1 too), usually with some "Sorry, could not display all the contents of "Android": Timeout was reached" errors. It does work at times, but it's very slow and with such an unreliable behaviour, an alternative is always nice.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I didn't try mtpfs but it seems that's <a href="https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs">not reliable</a> <a href="http://blog.itsbilal.com/index.php/2012/12/connect-an-android-4-0-phonetablet-to-ubuntu-the-reliable-way/">any more either</a>, but <b>what I did try is Go-mtpfs and it works great under Ubuntu 12.10:</b> <b>it's fast and it works every time</b>. Well, unless I forget to unlock the phone when I mount it (it's probably something sleep-related because it doesn't always happen), but anyway.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">I've found out about Go-mtpfs from Bilal's <a href="http://blog.itsbilal.com/index.php/2012/12/connect-an-android-4-0-phonetablet-to-ubuntu-the-reliable-way/">blog</a> and I figured it's a bit complicated for regular users to compile it so <b>I've packaged Go-mtpfs and uploaded it to the WebUpd8 Unstable PPA</b>. <b>Along with Go-mtpfs, I've also packed a custom Unity launcher and a script</b>, to be able to easily mount and unmount your Android device without having to use the command line.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/go-mtpfs-quicklists.png"><img alt="Go-mtpfs Ubuntu Unity quicklists" src="http://img.netupd8.com/go-mtpfs-quicklists_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">However, while my script (which is used by the custom Unity launcher) tries to display a notification if an error occurs, it shouldn't be considered reliable for properly displaying the errors so <b>my recommendation is to mount / unmount your Android 4.0+ phone or tablet via command line </b>so you can see any possible errors. </div><br /><br /><h2>Video: see Go-mtpfs in action</h2><br />Below you can watch a video I've recorded, demoing Go-mtpfs in Ubuntu 12.10 (as well as the custom Unity launcher / script I've created for it):<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6pelKv939N8" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pelKv939N8">direct video link</a>; subscribe to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/nilarimogard">YouTube channel</a> for more videos)</center><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">(<i>In the beginning, I'm showing what happens when you try to mount an Android device with without Go-mtpfs, so it's all waiting and a bunch of errors, if you want to skip to the Go-mtpfs part, skip to 2:05</i>.)</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Go-mtpfs in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Update: </b>Gvfs has been updated in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, bringing a new MTP backend which allows users to access Android 4.0 devices which do not support the USB Mass Storage. So this should work out of the box with Raring.<br /><br /><br /><b>Go-mtpfs is available in the WebUpd8 Unstable PPA, for Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04. Add the PPA and install it using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/unstable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install go-mtpfs</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To also install the custom Unity Launcher for Go-mtpfs</b> which lets you mount or unmount the Android device from the Unity Launcher, use the command below:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install go-mtpfs-unity</code></pre><br /><b>Note: </b>I've only tested it in Ubuntu 12.10, using a Samsung Galaxy S II phone (with both Android 4.1 and 4.2.1).<b> </b><br /><br /><b>Update</b> 13 February 2013: I've backported the latest libmtp from Raring to Quantal and Precise, the update bringing <a href="http://ppa.webupd8.org/post/43022082410/libmtp-updated-for-ubuntu-quantal-and-precise-with">support for some new devices</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Why did I use the Unstable PPA? Well, <b>I've built Go-mtpfs against the latest libmtp 1.1.5</b> which is not available in the official Ubuntu repositories and while it didn't break anything, it's better to be safe. Since our Unstable PPA only has a few packages, it can easily be purged in case something doesn't work properly (but everything should work, that's just to make sure). The PPA only has Synaptic GTK3 for Precise and Quantal right now.</div><br /><br /><b>Notes: </b><br /><ul><li>Unmounting the device via Nautilus does not work!</li><li>Sometimes you may get an error if the device is locked, so unlock it before trying to mount it;</li><li>When plugging in an Android device via USB, Ubuntu will try to mount it and it's a good idea to stop this by clicking the unmount icon in Nautilus. </li></ul><br /><b>For manual installation instructions, see: <a href="http://blog.itsbilal.com/index.php/2012/12/connect-an-android-4-0-phonetablet-to-ubuntu-the-reliable-way/">THIS</a> post.</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>How to mount Android 4.0+ phones / tablets in Ubuntu using Go-mtpfs</h2><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/go-mtpfs-nautilus.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Go-mtpfs nautilus" src="http://img.netupd8.com/go-mtpfs-nautilus_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Browing the mounted Android device using <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/how-to-install-nautilus-36-or-patched.html">Nautilus 3.6</a><u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table></div><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="http://img.netupd8.com/thunar-go-mtpfs.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Thunar go-mtpfs" src="http://img.netupd8.com/thunar-go-mtpfs_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Browing the mounted Android device using <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/install-thunar-with-tabs-support-in.html">Thunar 1.6</a><u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Installing Go-mtpfs using our PPA, a folder called "MyAndroid" is created under /media. So, <b>to mount your Android device</b>, connect it via USB, unlock it (you'll get an error most of the times if you don't unlock the device when mounting it) and mount it using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>go-mtpfs /media/MyAndroid</code></pre><br /><b>To unmount it, use:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>fusermount -u /media/MyAndroid</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to use the custom Unity launcher I was talking about, search Dash for "Mount Android" and add the icon to the Unity launcher. You can then right click it and and select to mount or unmount your Android device. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's also worth mentioning that clicking the launcher itself doesn't do anything (but I've got that covered: a notification is displayed, telling the user to right click the icon instead). Also, the mount / unmount notifications have a 5 seconds delay which I've added to make sure the device has enough time to mount/unmount before checking for errors.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And finally, if you're not using Unity, you can still use the custom Unity launcher with a dock such as DockX and others which come with Unity quicklists support (I've used the old Unity quicklists API so it should work even with docks that use the old implementation). To add the launcher to the dock, open a file manager, navigate to /usr/share/applications (because the icon only shows up in Unity) and add the "Mount Android Device" launcher to the dock using drag and drop.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>some info via <a href="http://blog.itsbilal.com/index.php/2012/12/connect-an-android-4-0-phonetablet-to-ubuntu-the-reliable-way/">blog.itsbilal.com</a> & <a href="http://www.atareao.es/ubuntu/otra-manera-de-conectar-ubuntu-con-android-4-0/">atareao.es</a></i></div>

How To Properly Mount Android 4.0+ Devices In Ubuntu Using Go-mtpfs

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Download Steam For Linux Skin Manager (Includes Ambiance And Radiance Skins)

<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/117415521410663758843/posts">Martin Kozub</a>, who has created the <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/steam-for-linux-download-first-ubuntu.html" title="Steam For Linux: Download The First Ubuntu-Like Skin">first Ubuntu-like skin</a> for the Steam Linux client, has released a simple Skin Manager for Steam (obviously, for the Linux client) which you can use to install or remove skins.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_5ddhP6sDXwvbVBEVIBm5WKJsXmJBmhoVv5qj9Y2YrKpq_-9jWXcOIOaso62Sl_YflmwR_wcPo92WE6aPItYWlzpRBiP9J1YV8jsMq5ebRd1naAOgTCYVIy8xiuM8_LKMb8Daeyd78GIW/s1600/steam-skin-manager.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Steam Skin Manager" border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_5ddhP6sDXwvbVBEVIBm5WKJsXmJBmhoVv5qj9Y2YrKpq_-9jWXcOIOaso62Sl_YflmwR_wcPo92WE6aPItYWlzpRBiP9J1YV8jsMq5ebRd1naAOgTCYVIy8xiuM8_LKMb8Daeyd78GIW/s320/steam-skin-manager.png" title="Steam Skin Manager" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />Steam Skin Manager comes with two skins by default: Ambiance and Radiance which make Steam look close to the default Ubuntu themes. Using them, you'll get Steam to use the Ubuntu font, thin scrollbars, Ubuntu (Humanity) back and forward arrows, native-looking window buttons displayed on the left and other tweaks. Also, the font should look better using one of these skins.<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="http://img.netupd8.com/steam-ambiance.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Steam for Linux - Ambiance skin"><img alt="Steam for Linux - Ambiance Skin" src="http://img.netupd8.com/steam-ambiance_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ambiance skin for Steam<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a name='more'></a><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/steam-radiance.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Steam for Linux - Radiance skin"><img alt="Steam for Linux - Radiance Skin" src="http://img.netupd8.com/steam-radiance_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Radiance skin for Steam</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To use it, close Steam, then launch Steam Skin Manager from the menu / Dash, and select the skin to install: Ambiance or Radiance or install a different skin (here's an <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/elementaryos/comments/12snfa/steam_running_on_elementary/c6zdj8t">elementary skin</a>). You can also remove the skin that's currently in use. </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Update: <b>Steam Skin Manager can now get Steam for Linux to use native window borders</b>. To get native window borders (re-download and re-install the deb below if you've installed a previous version), launch "Steam wb" from Dash / menu, instead of the regular "Steam" launcher:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/steam-native-window-borders.png" rel="image_group" title="Steam for Linux using native window borders in Ubuntu"><img alt="Steam Native window borders Ubuntu" src="http://img.netupd8.com/steam-native-window-bordersthumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Update 2: Steam Skin Manager now installs monochrome icons for <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/get-ubuntu-mono-icons-for-steam-ubuntu.html">Steam's new appindicator</a> so it integrates with the Ubuntu Mono Dark / Light icon themes:</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8x0q1h1f5KVYbmb1iDSAQ8x2gqvoeLHQg36a8rDbA-0SpOzq__Sd4vAORR6tuS9wNuIzXLwRCY7B7mLVdmBG7aME31BW4utzulNP8t4tHgKbaKb4PoCvd8RqgwGljZQWwtO6_0LQWl0X/s1600/steam-ubuntu-appindicator-mono.png"><img alt="Steam Ubuntu mono icon appindicator" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8x0q1h1f5KVYbmb1iDSAQ8x2gqvoeLHQg36a8rDbA-0SpOzq__Sd4vAORR6tuS9wNuIzXLwRCY7B7mLVdmBG7aME31BW4utzulNP8t4tHgKbaKb4PoCvd8RqgwGljZQWwtO6_0LQWl0X/s320/steam-ubuntu-appindicator-mono.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://iubuntu.cz/Steam/">Download Steam Skin Manager</a></b><br />(deb - available for Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.)</div><br />Arch Linux users can install Steam Skin Manager via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/steam-skin-manager/">AUR</a>.<br /><br />For manual skin installation instructions, see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/steam-for-linux-download-first-ubuntu.html">Steam For Linux: Download The First Ubuntu-Like Skin</a><br /><br /><br /><i>If you haven't installed Steam for Linux (beta) yet, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/how-to-use-steam-for-linux-right-now.html" title="Download Steam for Linux (beta)">download it from here</a>.</i>

Download Steam For Linux Skin Manager (Includes Ambiance And Radiance Skins)

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Download The New KDE SC 4.10 Default Wallpaper

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>A new default wallpaper, which will be used for the new KDE SC 4.10, was pushed to the KDE GIT repository today:</b></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/kde-4.10-wallpaper_fulldesk.png.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="KDE SC 4.10 wallpaper screenshot" src="http://img.netupd8.com/kde-4.10-wallpaper_fulldesk.png_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New KDE SC 4.10 default wallpaper<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The new default wallpaper animates the default KDE look & feel and is definitely an improvement from the previously default greyish background:</div><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="http://img.netupd8.com/kde-4.8-default-wallpaper.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="KDE SC 4.8 default wallpaper" src="http://img.netupd8.com/kde-4.8-default-wallpaper_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">KDE SC 4.8 default wallpaper</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the KDE SC 4.10 <a href="http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.10_Release_Schedule">release schedule</a>, KDE SC 4.10 release candidate 1 should be available tomorrow while the final release is expected on January 23. KDE Plasma 4.10 will also introduce a new default Air theme - for more information, see <a href="http://www.notmart.org/index.php/Graphics/Time_to_refresh_some_air">THIS</a> post.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>You can download the new KDE SC 4.10 wallpaper from <a href="http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kde-workspace.git&a=tree&h=01e43ba1a42653940ae3d937fa774c3ea12a5e8c&hb=7dc41c5a8fc2fd3265fba9e375ede1e8fb96f5e1&f=ksplash%2Fksplashx%2Fthemes%2Fair">HERE</a></b> (click the link for the resolution you want, then click "background.png", right click the wallpaper and select "Save image as").</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via the <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/102942756287167879504/stream/71a5d211-fa44-4df0-a35e-880840190679">Google+ KDE Community</a></i></div>

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How To Get A Global Menu In MATE Desktop

<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-globalmenu-applet.png"><img alt="MATE Desktop GlobalMenu" src="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-globalmenu-applet_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MATE GlobalMenu is an applet forked from the old GNOME2 GlobalMenu project, which adds a global menu to the MATE panel.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mate GlobalMenu is based off the upstream GNOME GlobalMenu v0.7.10 and it only supports GTK2 applications, so don't expect Firefox, LibreOffice or Qt applications to work with this, but it's nevertheless an useful addition to the MATE desktop, especially for small screens.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The applet comes with various options:<br /><ul><li>show the active application icon and/or application title</li><li>display the menu both on the panel and inside the application window;</li><li>a "tiny" mode;</li><li>enable/disable F10 key to access the menu;</li><li>more.</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to its <a href="https://github.com/jasmineaura/mate-globalmenu">GitHub page</a>, the applet is supposed to work with the latest stable MATE v1.4 and I can confirm that it works as I've tested it with Linux Mint 14 MATE (with MATE 1.4). According to some of our readers (see the comments), it does not work with Linux Mint 13 due to some missing dependencies.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install MATE GlobalMenu in Ubuntu / Linux Mint MATE / LMDE</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">MATE GlobalMenu comes with a repository available for LMDE which works with Ubuntu 12.10 or Linux Mint 14 MATE (it doesn't work with Linux Mint 13, at least not with the default repositories). However, <b>the repository is unfortunately only available for 64bit</b>! <b>To add it and install MATE GlobalMenu, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>wget http://jas.gemnetworks.com/jasmineaura.gpg.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -<br />echo "deb http://jas.gemnetworks.com/debian debian main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mate-globalmenu.list<br />echo "deb-src http://jas.gemnetworks.com/debian debian main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mate-globalmenu.list<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mate-globalmenu</code></pre><br /><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install MATE GlobalMenu via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mate-globalmenu/">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For Ubuntu 12.04 / Linux Mint 13 or other Linux distributions, you'll have to compile it from source. <b>See the MATE GlobalMenu <a href="https://github.com/jasmineaura/mate-globalmenu">GitHub page</a> for more info and source code.</b></div><br /><br /><b>Important:</b><br /><br />Once installed, reload the MATE panels:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>killall mate-panel</code></pre><br />Then add the MATE GlobalMenu applet to the panel and enable the applet using the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>mateconftool-2 --set /apps/mate_settings_daemon/gtk-modules/globalmenu-mate-panel --type bool true</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And then log out and log back in to avoid some crashes that might occur (those errors only show up when enabling the applet, after the logout it should work as expected) and also to get the applet preferences to work, or else you'll get an empty preferences dialog.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>thanks to <a href="http://www.lffl.org/2012/12/mate-arriva-global-menu-per-avere-il.html">lffl.org</a> for the info!</i></div>

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Raspberry Pi Gets An App Store

<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/pi-store.png"><img alt="Raspberry Pi app store" src="http://img.netupd8.com/pi-store_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs">Raspberry Pi</a>, the "$25 computer", now has its own app store. Pi Store is available for Raspbian (Debian for Raspberry Pi)</b> and only 25 applications/games are included right now, but the Raspberry Pi folks hope it will get a lot more, as users upload their own content to the store.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Current titles available in the Pi Store include: </b>LibreOffice, Freeciv and others, as well as a Raspberry Pi exclusive: Iridium Rising. There's also one <b>commercial game</b>: Storm in a TeaCup, an adventure game developed by Cobra Mobile.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/pi-store_2.png"><img alt="Raspberry Pi store" src="http://img.netupd8.com/pi-store_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Raspberry Pi Store can be installed in Raspbian using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install pistore</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And then launch it from the menu: <i>Programming > Pi Store</i> or the newly created desktop shortcut.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">New Raspbian images which include the new Pi Store are also available for download on the Raspberry Pi <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads">downloads page</a>.</div><br />You can also view the store online, at <a href="http://store.raspberrypi.com/">http://store.raspberrypi.com/</a>.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via/more info: <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2768">Raspberry Pi blog</a></i></div>

Raspberry Pi Gets An App Store

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Free Cross-Platform RTS Game 0 A.D. Alpha 12 Available For Download

<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/0ad-alpha-12-rubble.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="0 AD alpha 12" src="http://img.netupd8.com/0ad-alpha-12-rubble_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>0 A.D, one of the best free, open source real-time strategy (RTS) games, has reached the <a href="http://play0ad.com/alpha-12-loucetios/">alpha 12</a>.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For those not familiar with 0 A.D., this is a historical war and economy game that <b>works on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX</b>. It features great graphics and sound and it has both single-player and multi-player functionality (multi-player uses peer-to-peer networking, without a central server and there's no matchmaking service yet).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">0 A.D. alpha 12 "Loucetios" has been released with interesting new features such as diplomacy, packing siege engines, heroes, new match setup options, improved graphics and user interface and more.</div><br /><b>Changes in 0 A.D. alpha 12 "Loucetios":</b><br /><a name='more'></a><ul><li>Diplomacy: you can determine if other human players are your allies, enemies or neutral and change this any time you want</li><li>Heroes are back, each player can have only 1 living hero</li><li>New match setup options: you can select the population cap and amount of resources used when starting a new game</li><li>Five new random maps have been added</li><li>Formation order queueing: you can give units several tasks to carry out in order</li><li>Packing siege engines: certain siege engines need to be in a “packed” state to be moved from place to place, and in a stationary "unpacked" state to be able to fire. Moving a siege engine between these states is called "packing" and "unpacking"</li><li>Unit training hotkeys</li><li>Improved water rendering</li><li>Post-processing manager: enable features such as distance fog, bloom and more</li><li>New song: "Calm Before the Storm"</li><li>More!</li></ul><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="http://img.netupd8.com/0ad-alpha-12-distance-fog.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="0 A.D. alpha 12 - distance fog"><img alt="0 Ad alpha 12 distance fog" src="http://img.netupd8.com/0ad-alpha-12-distance-fog_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Distance fog</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As usual, the 0 A.D. developers have released a video, demoing the new features available in the latest 0 A.D. alpha:</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/I_xDEJrf6q4" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_xDEJrf6q4">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And speaking of 0 A.D., the game has reached the second round in the Indie of the Year 2012 awards - if you like 0 A.D. <b>vote for it </b><a href="http://www.indiedb.com/events/2012-indie-of-the-year-awards/top100#vote10298">HERE</a> (under <i>Upcoming games of 2012 > Real Time Strategy</i>).</div><br />The voting continues until the end of the world (December 21st) :)<br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install 0 A.D. game in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/0ad-alpha-12-custom-rubble.jpg" rel="image_group"><img alt="0 A.D. alpha 12" src="http://img.netupd8.com/0ad-alpha-12-custom-rubble_thumb.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu users can use the official 0 A.D PPA to install the latest 0 A.D. alpha - copy and paste the following commands in a terminal to install it:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install 0ad</code></pre><br /><b>Download 0 A.D. for <a href="http://play0ad.com/download/linux/">Linux</a>, <a href="http://play0ad.com/download/win">Windows</a> or <a href="http://play0ad.com/download/mac">Mac OSX</a>.</b>

Free Cross-Platform RTS Game 0 A.D. Alpha 12 Available For Download

0 A.D, one of the best free, open source real-time strategy (RTS) games, has reached the alpha 12 . For those not familiar with 0 A.D., this...

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How To Install Nemo File Manager In Ubuntu

<div style="text-align: justify;">After forking GNOME Shell (Cinnamon), Mutter (Muffin) and GDM 2.0 (MDM), the Linux Mint team has forked Nautilus and the result is <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/08/nemo-linux-mint-team-forks-nautilus.html" title="Nemo: The Linux Mint Team Forks Nautilus">Nemo</a>, a file manager which is now used by default in Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/nemo-file-manager.png" rel="image_group" title="Nemo file manager - latest code from GIT"><img alt="Nemo file manager git" src="http://img.netupd8.com/nemo-file-manager_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Initially, Nemo used to look the same as the patched <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/how-to-install-nautilus-36-or-patched.html" title="How To Install Nautilus 3.6 Or Patched Nautilus 3.4 In Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal">SolusOS Nautilus</a> so I didn't write about how to install it since it was basically the same thing under a different name.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But Nemo has evolved, gaining many new features and under the hood optimizations and tweaks.<b> Here are some of the features available for Nemo file manager (for the version available in GIT / Cinnamon Nightly PPA) that aren't included in Nautilus 3.4:</b></div><a name='more'></a><ul><li>Unified, configurable toolbar: you can add/remove the following: up icon, refresh icon, toggle button for the location bar / path bar, home icon, computer icon and search icon.</li><li>Detachable tabs</li><li>Option to show the full path in the titlebar and tab bars (<i>Preferences > Display</i>)</li><li>Displays an "elevated privileges" banner when running as root</li><li>Built in "Open as root" context menu item</li><li>Built in "Open in terminal" context menu item</li><li>Added GTK bookmarks to the MoveTo/CopyTo context menus</li><li>Added "Set as Wallpaper" to the context menu</li><li>Switch view buttons on the toolbar (Grid, List and Compact views)</li><li>Drag and drop support for the bookmarks in the sidebar</li><li>Sidebar: indicators under each drive, displaying the free/used space</li><li>Collapsable sidebar categories</li><li>Support for sending files via Thunderbird and xdg-email</li><li>Image properties improvements (merged from Nautilus 3.6)</li><li>Memory leaks fixes (merged from Nautilus 3.6)</li><li>More!</li></ul><br />And Nemo has another advantage: it doesn't overwrite Nautilus like the patched SolusOS Nautilus, so you can have both Nautilus and Nemo installed in the same time.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Linux Mint / Nemo developers have also ported some Nautilus extensions to Nemo: there's a Dropbox extension for Nemo, along with Pastebin, Seahorse, Fileroller and Samba extensions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you'll find some more Nemo screenshots - in the first one there's Nemo 1.1.2 (stable) and the rest feature the latest Nemo from GIT:</div><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="http://img.netupd8.com/nemo-1.1.2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Nemo 1.1.2 stable using Ambiance theme"><img alt="Nemo file manager 1.1.2 stable" src="http://img.netupd8.com/nemo-1.1.2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nemo 1.1.2 (stable)</td></tr></tbody></table><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="http://img.netupd8.com/nemo-file-manager-git-ambiance.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Nemo from GIT using Ambiance theme (which isn't optimized for it)"><img alt="Nemo file manager GIT" src="http://img.netupd8.com/nemo-file-manager-git-ambiance_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nemo from GIT</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/nemo-file-manager-git_1.png" rel="image_group" title="Nemo file manager from GIT"><img alt="Nemo file manager GIT" src="http://img.netupd8.com/nemo-file-manager-git_1_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/nemo-file-manager-path-tab.png" rel="image_group" title="Nemo file manager - notice the full path in the tab title"><img alt="Nemo file manager GIT" src="http://img.netupd8.com/nemo-file-manager-path-tab_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/nemo-preferences-display.png" image_group="image_group" title="Nemo Preferences - Display rel="><img alt="Nemo file manager" src="http://img.netupd8.com/nemo-preferences-display_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/nemo-toolbar-preferences.png" rel="image_group" title="Nemo Preferences - toolbar options"><img alt="Nemo file manager" src="http://img.netupd8.com/nemo-toolbar-preferences_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><b>Update:</b> the latest Nemo from GIT also got breadcrumbs, option to hide the menubar and a re-worked statusbar. See: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/latest-nemo-file-manager-from-git-gets.html">Latest Nemo File Manager From GIT Gets Breadcrumbs, Option To Hide The Menu, More</a> for more info.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Nemo file manager in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>Before installing Nemo, there are a couple of things you should know:</b><br /><ul><li>installing Nemo will also install Cinnamon desktop</li><li>if you're using Cinnamon, it's not recommended to add the Cinnamon Nightly PPA since it's not stable. Only install Cinnamon from the Nightly PPA for testing purposes</li></ul><br /><br /><h3>Install the stable Nemo release in Ubuntu</h3><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Install the latest stable Nemo release (1.1.2) in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04 using the Cinnamon Stable PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install nemo</code></pre><br /><br /><h3>Install the latest Nemo file manager from GIT in Ubuntu</h3><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Or,<b> if you want the latest features (but probably less stability and more bugs), install the latest Nemo file manager from GIT in Linux Mint or Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 or 13.04 by using the Cinnamon Nightly PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-nightly<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install nemo</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nemo shows up as "Files"</b> in the menu, just like Nautilus so it's a bit hard to find in the menu / Dash or whatever you're using. So search for "Nemo" and launch the first "Files" app that shows up, that will (hopefully) be Nemo file manager.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After you log out and log back in, you'll notice that <b>Nemo draws the desktop instead of Nautilus</b>. <b>If you want to continue to use Nautilus for drawing the desktop</b><b> instead of Nemo, do the following:</b></div><br />- Run the following command so Nemo shows up in the Startup Applications list (it's hidden by default):<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/nemo-autostart.desktop</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- Then launch Startup Applications and uncheck Nemo - it's called files, but look under the name - it should say "Start Nemo desktop at login", like in the screenshot below:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/nemo-autostart.png"><img alt="Nemo autostart" src="http://img.netupd8.com/nemo-autostart_thumb.png" /></a></div><br />- Then log out and log back in.<br /><br /><br />The Nemo file manager source code is available @ <a href="https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo">GitHub</a>.

How To Install Nemo File Manager In Ubuntu

After forking GNOME Shell (Cinnamon), Mutter (Muffin) and GDM 2.0 (MDM), the Linux Mint team has forked Nautilus and the result is Nemo , a ...

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