Fedora 19 Available For Download

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOPnC7dpEBVys5mykPko3v29siSA6OCKRFwcbwIdVhfYFZAjkFdNlYBnUruQ5Mtzqc2qa8gR4uvk3gFBP84qwi7jKIU0RfRkDaSQQ85xH1nmkc2Hd6fJs7mVcURQGgO58ve5pJOkwplwk/s1023/fedora19.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOPnC7dpEBVys5mykPko3v29siSA6OCKRFwcbwIdVhfYFZAjkFdNlYBnUruQ5Mtzqc2qa8gR4uvk3gFBP84qwi7jKIU0RfRkDaSQQ85xH1nmkc2Hd6fJs7mVcURQGgO58ve5pJOkwplwk/s320/fedora19.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora </a>19 "Schrödinger's Cat" has been released today, featuring the latest stable GNOME 3.8, a new initial setup and other interesting <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Release_Notes/index.html">changes</a>.</b></div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><h2>New initial setup</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest Fedora 19 includes a new initial setup (which was supposed to be introduced with Fedora 18, but was delayed) which allows users to perform some basic actions the first time they boot into Fedora. Users can select the language, keyboard layout, add cloud services and, if no user has been created during the installation process, a new user can easily be created from this initial setup: </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOezFMKGg2G6TaxviFTfRea8X8SeZsJuaPSEiw7oJE5MSuDOmvtm7lRor_-GPd1_Dr5XQo2lRJRHDSd8lMWk-j9h83oORsJvOXcyZx25GQfgPSaXRMKjnTpU7sAUcqLX1g73cDsF-E9I/s1022/fedora19-initial-setup_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOezFMKGg2G6TaxviFTfRea8X8SeZsJuaPSEiw7oJE5MSuDOmvtm7lRor_-GPd1_Dr5XQo2lRJRHDSd8lMWk-j9h83oORsJvOXcyZx25GQfgPSaXRMKjnTpU7sAUcqLX1g73cDsF-E9I/s320/fedora19-initial-setup_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiggWx9-p4YF7s8_FA0W4TvhPjhPtBjDElpR9hxSvJc9clIUjhjLUp5QeYHHoBOodN-DXa7QcSWjIDCxPhKkrTw08XMIXMaywKuqs2PpRO4kzkRTMf8q_uHdMg5EKwvP-9dkbxvyXN9-Ow/s1022/fedora19-initial-setup_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiggWx9-p4YF7s8_FA0W4TvhPjhPtBjDElpR9hxSvJc9clIUjhjLUp5QeYHHoBOodN-DXa7QcSWjIDCxPhKkrTw08XMIXMaywKuqs2PpRO4kzkRTMf8q_uHdMg5EKwvP-9dkbxvyXN9-Ow/s320/fedora19-initial-setup_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigatKWkHyoGLULv-y9lo_4dC3McbbozqX-EB_hh4kvl-d2yOwtf2tvWs47RF_zyOB1cKZ693QR-rSxP5rRFGCWEPBR3dbIlpvbHpM-iSyjmRaUlxYNyJPCkU_7WbRgYbSJ2kSoC8brMZs/s1022/fedora19-initial-setup_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigatKWkHyoGLULv-y9lo_4dC3McbbozqX-EB_hh4kvl-d2yOwtf2tvWs47RF_zyOB1cKZ693QR-rSxP5rRFGCWEPBR3dbIlpvbHpM-iSyjmRaUlxYNyJPCkU_7WbRgYbSJ2kSoC8brMZs/s320/fedora19-initial-setup_3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">After the initial setup completes, an animation displaying some GNOME Shell basic usage is displayed in full-screen (I didn't create a video because the animation was very slow in VirtualBox):</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMOBbvFDrlfnfMFbWwZv_1yXFE4g1jeKE7QMaCWBpasBSYmT8X2JFShfcnjqycBC7Is7rYdPAeSlgOhA2u4lXjxASnJKRw1INlZLzN-pYyu8eJ0n4oLLvEHU0DQv9Zqj1zAwiNdZfJlWo/s1022/fedora19-getting-started.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMOBbvFDrlfnfMFbWwZv_1yXFE4g1jeKE7QMaCWBpasBSYmT8X2JFShfcnjqycBC7Is7rYdPAeSlgOhA2u4lXjxASnJKRw1INlZLzN-pYyu8eJ0n4oLLvEHU0DQv9Zqj1zAwiNdZfJlWo/s320/fedora19-getting-started.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>GNOME 3.8</h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Fedora 19 ships with GNOME 3.8, which comes with numerous changes and new features, including:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">new Activities Overview applications view;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">overhauled search which can now include results from applications;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new Privacy, Notifications and Search GNOME Settings panels;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">a new Classic mode is available for GNOME 3.8, replacing the old GNOME fallback mode. This offers a GNOME2-like layout by using some extensions on top of GNOME Shell. To install it, see below;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">GNOME Clocks and Weather, two new application added with GNOME 3.8, are available by default in Fedora 19;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">GNOME Documents has received an embedded edit mode for Google Docs, presentation mode and more;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Web (Epiphany) has switched to WebKit2 and now includes an incognito mode, new search UI and supports GTK+2 plugins, including Adobe Flash. Web is not included by default in Fedora 19 though.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are some Fedora 19 screenshots in which you can see some of these new GNOME 3.8 features:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcLKOcUO84IpQgoRSD809LdJUJHbX0pmwNcI6YD5hMa2YVMUqTJFJDdDHZz8n4p5SWv6XmkOelJ0AKOxwrHuva6ttd94zD9PEARSMtLbIJIlbyM-H5rDLfkq4NiaEYJFqu3oEm83TM2o/s1023/fedora19-gs.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcLKOcUO84IpQgoRSD809LdJUJHbX0pmwNcI6YD5hMa2YVMUqTJFJDdDHZz8n4p5SWv6XmkOelJ0AKOxwrHuva6ttd94zD9PEARSMtLbIJIlbyM-H5rDLfkq4NiaEYJFqu3oEm83TM2o/s320/fedora19-gs.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi98vXPF8Krsty5d_WWpj9agU136OkCzyzyebnJlg9KD2dBTC6-lpSQwvhS0ZCjDqSMK4hkfL3EO0gP8M95-daZaM9qRNkx4exRSVszY1qvVv686_ubnnDkGbZ2xcRzOWOoWWehsnPj0Cc/s1023/fedora19-gs_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRTNMFQ0KJd3UoS3qHYbQ3MKU4FMtVpuKgKTmtuQhqbQXBVoyJpwmvSEygobOJBqoqXIhr4meGkgLUhH9vMiHqyTsfBEmWlmbCnpYuCpkt-eNIS0lFf8gI7vLLLRfvpfStFPkHj8NSwPo/s320/fedora19-weather_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>For more info, see our <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/gnome-38-released-see-whats-new-video.html">GNOME 3.8</a> article.</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Other changes</h2><br /><b>Other changes in Fedora 19 include:</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">File Roller can extract RAR archive after installing the "unar" package, a free and open source command line tool that's part of The Unarchiver project;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">MariaDB is now the default MySQL option in Fedora;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/3D_Printing">3D modeling and printing</a> tools are available in the repositories</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Updated ModemManager with better support for multi-mode devices like Qualcomm Gobi WWAN cards and other devices that support the CDMA/EVDO/LTE standards, the GSM/UMTS/LTE standards, or devices that can support either;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">firewalld (the default Fedora firewall) improvements;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Users who can't get used to the GNOME Shell layout can use the new GNOME 3.8 Classic mode, which I've already mentioned, but this is not installed by default so to install it, run the following command as root:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>yum install gnome-classic-session</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">Once installed, you need to restart the system for the new login session to show up:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBT4S9RcGW58YXxLipVpyG-ytLSpr4AeRnl9p1ZgTHYr5JF445Jsw0QyFclvuaw78qWuE60SaXLw_oiWlm5_PeFRUhKzvpYATrkA2Gx3PAafYOwO_jPBpFZN0bQrOrnqw0GBDI9lMQfUY/s320/fedora19-gnome-classic.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ZU-BLUN67uPI4v2ZXwBvgCXVL_ENdOS-SaDoXv-qcSOGJfmj99JBsd0_X8Gw4lDsgR8QEPsEb3YKP95ELMCVojxAPEWaYPtHe8Jl87FAlx_sh3RQRh5W1OzrmxGj9TdUFurM0NiUU7M/s1024/fedora19-gnome-classic_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ZU-BLUN67uPI4v2ZXwBvgCXVL_ENdOS-SaDoXv-qcSOGJfmj99JBsd0_X8Gw4lDsgR8QEPsEb3YKP95ELMCVojxAPEWaYPtHe8Jl87FAlx_sh3RQRh5W1OzrmxGj9TdUFurM0NiUU7M/s320/fedora19-gnome-classic_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And that's not all: <b>the latest Cinnamon (1.9.1) and MATE (1.6.1) desktops are available to install from the Fedora 19 repositories</b>. Like the Fedora 19 release notes <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Welcome_to_Fedora_.html">mention</a>, search for all the available desktop environments using:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>yum grouplist -v hidden | grep desktop</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">And then install a complete desktop environment by entering its name. For instance, to install Cinnamon, use (as root):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>yum groupinstall "Cinnamon Desktop"</code></pre>Or, use the short group name to install:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>yum install @cinnamon-desktop-environment</code></pre><br /><b>For the complete Fedora 19 release notes, see <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Release_Notes/index.html">THIS</a> page.</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Default applications in Fedora 19</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Fedora 19 ships with Nautilus 3.8.2, Gedit 3.8.2, Totem 3.8.2, GNOME Documents 3.8.3, GNOME Contacts 3.8.2, GNOME Boxes 3.8.3, Evolution 3.8.3, Cheese 3.8.2, Empathy 3.8.3, GNOME Clocks 3.8.2, GNOME Weather 3.8.2, LibreOffice 4.1 beta 2, Firefox 21, Transmission 2.77, Rhythmbox 2.99.1 and Shotwell 0.14.1, on top of GNOME Shell 3.8.3, GTK 3.8.2, Linux Kernel 3.9.5 (though an update to 3.9.8 is already available), Mesa 9.2 and Xorg server 1.14.1.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Download Fedora 19</h2><br />Before downloading Fedora 19, make sure you check out the <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F19_bugs">common bugs</a> list.<br /><br /><b>Download Fedora 19:</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT5NjQ1wHmRIs_CVACvUBVv-pF9vPWFSJ3i8ikLl7nWzahSuy_55tqFik562cZbrLUh-pfOCbkZcZP4bbGHq50lCRZ6t8POPCsmx1ftXj0NLO6755cSRaN54IdabaUWzN_5zCV3cmq7wg/s275/download-fedora19.png" /></a></div><br />Tip: for installing codecs, Java and various tweaks, check out <a href="http://satya164.github.io/fedorautils/">Fedora Utils</a>.<br />

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Conky Manager: A GUI For Managing Conky Configurations

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs6vawS-PW-DWTWjpmaAo0QRzb2Y8_oo_SKYZ7dVV9hcE4228tnoYXw8WjjV0CtGhlfMVXF3tgtHRgpPlpT3bV5FIKCaQaikUe05YVYdGClAvdn__5-Va79_-8j7y3PGVDgW4_6ST6PW0/s736/conky-manager_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Conky Manager" border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs6vawS-PW-DWTWjpmaAo0QRzb2Y8_oo_SKYZ7dVV9hcE4228tnoYXw8WjjV0CtGhlfMVXF3tgtHRgpPlpT3bV5FIKCaQaikUe05YVYdGClAvdn__5-Va79_-8j7y3PGVDgW4_6ST6PW0/s320/conky-manager_1.png" title="Conky Manager" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://teejeetech.blogspot.in/p/conky-manager.html">Conky Manager</a> is a GUI that allows you to easily manage Conky configurations. </b>The latest version - 1.1 -, lets you choose from 7 such configurations / themes.<b></b><br /><br /><a name="more"></a><i><b><a href="http://conky.sourceforge.net/">Conky</a></b> is a lightweight, highly customizable system monitor that displays various info on your desktop.</i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Conky Manager 1.1 ships with themes ranging from complete system info (memory, cpu, Internet, cpu usage and time) to configurations that only display the CPU usage or Nvidia graphics stats. Below you can preview the Conky themes included in Conky Manager 1.1:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLBxKl6kcVZZEg_ZHFPxkNdcT4_xEiph3pryK9Ydx5SsBbB0GBgYWKw7QTmukuLn4lWKQDGPju7ZIuZltBWRh0dEcG5MnYJQI1DH0lkHetHf00QjWwCEVXX8muXixdFdb_Cs_dBmzw3_w/s411/conky-cpu-panel.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLBxKl6kcVZZEg_ZHFPxkNdcT4_xEiph3pryK9Ydx5SsBbB0GBgYWKw7QTmukuLn4lWKQDGPju7ZIuZltBWRh0dEcG5MnYJQI1DH0lkHetHf00QjWwCEVXX8muXixdFdb_Cs_dBmzw3_w/s320/conky-cpu-panel.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhemyjwkfsXBIeQXPPf-ue-tDYeRcsgsGJWtmxSPZR7LIuh5Awym9MkRtT3AGY4tRaaARwbzQZ-qACsdtC8_q7vY1nStEBTPIGqBH6-VAGT_6D2adQ1IT7PSp9niaT3eZwqZmTeEB0_gNU/s981/conky-goldngrey.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhemyjwkfsXBIeQXPPf-ue-tDYeRcsgsGJWtmxSPZR7LIuh5Awym9MkRtT3AGY4tRaaARwbzQZ-qACsdtC8_q7vY1nStEBTPIGqBH6-VAGT_6D2adQ1IT7PSp9niaT3eZwqZmTeEB0_gNU/s550/conky-goldngrey.png" width="550" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinTkTdhXAtduCbDEETFAJf5IzZjZiFvnPVaHO7cvSomoN5ip_ml-AxrpeKJN2jz0ML7ShSQz97duUU_ocm6aXgdAA_4G37BS7olHp2179mApg57RC-KlSqDpZc9U__5kRmb1exT0RbmbI/s510/conky-gotham.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinTkTdhXAtduCbDEETFAJf5IzZjZiFvnPVaHO7cvSomoN5ip_ml-AxrpeKJN2jz0ML7ShSQz97duUU_ocm6aXgdAA_4G37BS7olHp2179mApg57RC-KlSqDpZc9U__5kRmb1exT0RbmbI/s320/conky-gotham.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLGJ3IOqGYOkoJO_6s0zIC17c2gRzGY-lfUhk7gVRAb6lYnbHv-_DWEzz_MHLeifKgWckl0b06-8r0zMMkWXvDGUrmbBt9gD90Zyja5VG8WP5PKkmjtgYWp211QOC0lou2jU03vd22L8/s499/conky-max-conky.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLGJ3IOqGYOkoJO_6s0zIC17c2gRzGY-lfUhk7gVRAb6lYnbHv-_DWEzz_MHLeifKgWckl0b06-8r0zMMkWXvDGUrmbBt9gD90Zyja5VG8WP5PKkmjtgYWp211QOC0lou2jU03vd22L8/s320/conky-max-conky.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7bU7bTOl1lr2yasQ5Y5aXBFlFZPI0wQ5sD7e5FQ2-OnUx36lDJkyQTtx2nXCByNMjHLR3r_OmYbhvMBGRo5jXYRm9DO7soAsYqyfUXMtVqYMula28cafp-tiz9rzkGwpNNxgF-NL9ad8/s230/conky-nvidia-panel.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7bU7bTOl1lr2yasQ5Y5aXBFlFZPI0wQ5sD7e5FQ2-OnUx36lDJkyQTtx2nXCByNMjHLR3r_OmYbhvMBGRo5jXYRm9DO7soAsYqyfUXMtVqYMula28cafp-tiz9rzkGwpNNxgF-NL9ad8/s230/conky-nvidia-panel.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWYhX-wUTNbAg_L3fsgqA0jIF4JGoLQ6r9AcOSIiRopXNIsKgkfNXCltJUVilJW-8w95Oor9Zjd_uLXQrNb3CUL_WzPCRpdoKNOlaNkBg9NJEK8WzSq2AFU6Lf9qP9QOM5ilEk96-zKU/s462/conky-torn-paper-clone.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWYhX-wUTNbAg_L3fsgqA0jIF4JGoLQ6r9AcOSIiRopXNIsKgkfNXCltJUVilJW-8w95Oor9Zjd_uLXQrNb3CUL_WzPCRpdoKNOlaNkBg9NJEK8WzSq2AFU6Lf9qP9QOM5ilEk96-zKU/s320/conky-torn-paper-clone.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Using this tool, you can easily enable or disable Conky themes as well as <b>enable or disable modules for each config</b>. For instance, if you use the Gold&Grey configuration, you can enable or disable the following modules: time, net, memory, disk or cpu usage.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the <i>Edit</i> tab, you can configure <b>each widget: set its location</b> (alignment, horizontal and vertical gap), <b>transparency and size</b> (minimum width and height, height padding):</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Z3r_aOkHjaahP4_rUoa-xooSxm9NhbL-c0m7Krft5M_yBk9L5hIqcHLsLjX3RWNqn-U-7_HTHD6x7P_0ZLc9xz2Vzc8l8FvTXQgu2iRyku_TMjJAINc9dKlBo701-RoQwW3QHApn9xc/s736/conky-manager_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Conky Manager" border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Z3r_aOkHjaahP4_rUoa-xooSxm9NhbL-c0m7Krft5M_yBk9L5hIqcHLsLjX3RWNqn-U-7_HTHD6x7P_0ZLc9xz2Vzc8l8FvTXQgu2iRyku_TMjJAINc9dKlBo701-RoQwW3QHApn9xc/s320/conky-manager_2.png" title="Conky Manager" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">From the <i>Options</i> tab, you can set Conky to run at system startup, import new Conky theme packs if released by the Conky Manager developer, or kill Conky.<br />  <br />There are some features Conky Manager currently lacks, like an option to set the network interface to be used by the net modules, however, according to the Conky Manager developer, the tool should get some new features soon, along with new themes included by default.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The application supports adding extra themes</b> - for how to do this, see Conky Manager <a href="http://teejeetech.blogspot.in/p/conky-manager.html">release announcement</a>.</div><br /><b>If you encounter bugs, report them @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/conky-manager">Launchpad</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Conky Manager in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>To install Conky Manager in Ubuntu (and derivates), use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install conky-manager</code></pre><br /><b>For other Linux distributions you can get the code via <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/~teejee2008/conky-manager/trunk">Launchpad</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Tony George for the tip! Some screenshots via <a href="http://teejeetech.blogspot.in/p/conky-manager.html">teejeetech</a></i></div>

Conky Manager: A GUI For Managing Conky Configurations

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Slick GTK3 Theme `Numix` Updated With Dark Theme Assets

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://satya164.deviantart.com/art/Numix-GTK3-theme-360223962">Numix</a>, a modern, flat GTK3 theme, has recently been updated with dark theme assets, along with other tweaks and fixes. The theme is compatible with GTK 3.6 and 3.8.</b></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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-2c7wnv0EAXSOhORd3K7vjVyXBDmnjPb02ixeQHU72VcsQ0WT_dX8puj5XdUEBWh9Z16v9JJcu7N2Ar1kriMka6Uqz1fHeRLJjwn7UfEZxWTjrFbJ7P4E3XmM6vOm0twkI2fcrVICPlk/s1600/numix-gtk-theme-1.7-unity.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Numix GTK3 theme" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-2c7wnv0EAXSOhORd3K7vjVyXBDmnjPb02ixeQHU72VcsQ0WT_dX8puj5XdUEBWh9Z16v9JJcu7N2Ar1kriMka6Uqz1fHeRLJjwn7UfEZxWTjrFbJ7P4E3XmM6vOm0twkI2fcrVICPlk/s320/numix-gtk-theme-1.7-unity.jpg" title="Numix GTK3 theme" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Numix GTK3 theme under Unity</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Numix GTK3 is available for GNOME, Unity, Pantheon, Xfce and OpenBox and comes with a matching GTK 2 theme. Besides dark theme assets, the latest version comes with various tweaks to the Metacity and Mutter themes, changed scrollbar style in GNOME Terminal to match the dark theme, redesigned infobars and many other tweaks and fixes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The dark theme is used by default when using applications such as Eye of GNOME image viewer or Totem. In GNOME Shell (does not work with Unity) you can force all applications to use the dark theme by using GNOME Tweak Tool: <i>Theme > Enable dark theme for all applications</i>:</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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjkSdvzsDW1bE2EIM7ssVpLUxQ71W4c66YJ43k-OZPeN6mWwkXW9EYjRp0-jX1vfx4nBaawzpkHweW2r_YMbPjN9YzzfJ3PSSrP8yeil2XOi3RVWAWLWlsti5D9X0x5fGtON8CNonPPYk/s1600/numix-gtk-theme-1.7_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Numix GTK3 theme" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjkSdvzsDW1bE2EIM7ssVpLUxQ71W4c66YJ43k-OZPeN6mWwkXW9EYjRp0-jX1vfx4nBaawzpkHweW2r_YMbPjN9YzzfJ3PSSrP8yeil2XOi3RVWAWLWlsti5D9X0x5fGtON8CNonPPYk/s320/numix-gtk-theme-1.7_2.jpg" title="Numix GTK3 theme" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Numix GTK3 - dark theme under GNOME Shell</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Here are a few more Numix screenshots:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEgIlkGy8Swl9dBS2mLYsJNKmri7HvIApOZhc933zRHS6Z-STf_vN6Bd_aa2pHx5fckNGcsCJMVnbJqlDMD9kZT8JyscQaHy_O5HAGfyReBZNdX3gMw96Cb_seP7N8ckV4uKwEAAP79r4/s488/numix-infobars.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEgIlkGy8Swl9dBS2mLYsJNKmri7HvIApOZhc933zRHS6Z-STf_vN6Bd_aa2pHx5fckNGcsCJMVnbJqlDMD9kZT8JyscQaHy_O5HAGfyReBZNdX3gMw96Cb_seP7N8ckV4uKwEAAP79r4/s320/numix-infobars.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New infobars</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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-jpGfsDUm5o0nNZsaouh2wJERT3cqYDyD2skfPTYkdvdwCCEpMODVrit1htVK29Y0eAxLd7SzKiZc9CU-nLIyxZD0Ap6v7Hu8hJJwrdfjjoP6bR7XkKBp1-eAyAPAzw-sdInOBpBtMVk/s1600/numix-gtk-theme-1.7.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Numix GTK3 theme" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-jpGfsDUm5o0nNZsaouh2wJERT3cqYDyD2skfPTYkdvdwCCEpMODVrit1htVK29Y0eAxLd7SzKiZc9CU-nLIyxZD0Ap6v7Hu8hJJwrdfjjoP6bR7XkKBp1-eAyAPAzw-sdInOBpBtMVk/s320/numix-gtk-theme-1.7.jpg" title="Numix GTK3 theme" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Numix GTK3 theme under GNOME Shell</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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpBFJYMRsdNAYXYsQFI6r-yh5_0rSzIuGD6m5lHrAAkMCia0T2aVXBUzvRGE1sAkkPYeyEVWCbHiZ_0RYt5prM_-Zik0oF3HnLqHdOS-Ff9DQyrX23PCeUJD2TE6Hp0L2pWrxVqCeN0Yo/s1600/numix-gtk-theme-widget-factory-1.7.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Numix GTK3 theme" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpBFJYMRsdNAYXYsQFI6r-yh5_0rSzIuGD6m5lHrAAkMCia0T2aVXBUzvRGE1sAkkPYeyEVWCbHiZ_0RYt5prM_-Zik0oF3HnLqHdOS-Ff9DQyrX23PCeUJD2TE6Hp0L2pWrxVqCeN0Yo/s320/numix-gtk-theme-widget-factory-1.7.jpg" title="Numix GTK3 theme" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Numix GTK3 Widget Factory</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/numix-xfce.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Numix GTK3 theme" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHi0hOvy0ZJDTbXCW6Q-sgNBm_PqrpdRYsZFXo8_KvtDDgLrsA-_8zYFNmyhMGUYrgekJYI1n9ewSK23ADKzSCevO1ch3GuT3axS1zbG6XiX90ewfsDWeIT277hK_74HVJQ9RnYLqqBaY/s320/numix-xfce.jpg" title="Numix GTK3 theme" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Numix GTK3 theme under Xfce</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Numix GTK3 theme in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>Numix is available in a PPA for Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04 and 12.10. To add the PPA and install it, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:satyajit-happy/themes<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install numix-gtk-theme</code></pre><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install the latest Numix theme via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-theme-numix/">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions</b>, download the theme from <b><a href="http://satya164.deviantart.com/art/Numix-GTK3-theme-360223962">DeviantArt</a></b>, extract it and copy the theme to <i>/usr/share/themes/</i> .</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Once installed, you can use tools like GNOME Tweak Tool, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/unsettings-tool-to-disable-global-menu.html">Unsettings</a>, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/unity-tweak-tool-available-in-ubuntu.html">Unity Tweak Tool</a> and so on to apply the theme.</b></div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5I2mUVqZ0s1lvckCfsmmzG4U6getaiWf08EMMGg60LoamUxB4VSR4V3Nls08kUJITwJArN0evDa3nNUe11bvdOp40Gt0zzfSAmJ4OVI9yh3yvAhUN1IxaaJRagOZV8CAp_es6qfvYt4Q/s1600/numix-utouch.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Numix uTouch" border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5I2mUVqZ0s1lvckCfsmmzG4U6getaiWf08EMMGg60LoamUxB4VSR4V3Nls08kUJITwJArN0evDa3nNUe11bvdOp40Gt0zzfSAmJ4OVI9yh3yvAhUN1IxaaJRagOZV8CAp_es6qfvYt4Q/s320/numix-utouch.png" title="Numix uTouch" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Numix uTouch icons; image via <a href="http://mechoslav.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/numix-utouch-is-now-desktop-ready-icon-theme/">mechoslav</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">For GNOME Shell, there's a nice <a href="http://mechoslav.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/numix-utouch-is-now-desktop-ready-icon-theme/">Numix-uTouch</a> icon theme you can use. To install it in Ubuntu, copy / paste the following commands in a terminal:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:numix-icon-theme-dev/utouch<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install numix-utouch-icon-theme</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And finally, for a matching GNOME Shell theme, you can use <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/highly-configurable-elegance-colors.html">Elegance Colors</a> with the Numix preset.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to change the red used by the theme to something else, you can easily do this by using <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/customize-gtk3-gtk2-theme-colors-using.html">GTK Theme Preferences</a>, a tool developed by +<a href="https://plus.google.com/114564489020097923600/posts">Satya</a>, who's also the main Numix GTK3 theme developer.</div>

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Wimlib: ImageX / DISM Alternative To Manipulate WIM Files In Linux [Ubuntu PPA]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wimlib/">Wimlib</a> is a library that allows creating, modifying, extracting and mounting WIM (Windows Imaging Format) files. It comes with a free implementations of ImageX called "wimlib-imagex", available for both Linux and Windows.</b></div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>WIM is a file-based disk image format developed by Microsoft for Windows Vista and later. The Windows Setup DVD uses such files for the installation process. For more information, see the WIM article on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Imaging_Format">Wikipedia</a>.</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq_sWgWqD3Eik_rbyDWdedYMlKGIsh7vE75XyQYWDFoL6ayKJAGo4eCQPvbzLl2dq-AhbRC-ZSJCS1x7wb0EnbtTSpnFO_YuE-qIkIywl6XgGVcAKJ8m7I6LUvtL-FBGpyX29yV5sDmpk/s874/wimlib.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="wimlib" border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq_sWgWqD3Eik_rbyDWdedYMlKGIsh7vE75XyQYWDFoL6ayKJAGo4eCQPvbzLl2dq-AhbRC-ZSJCS1x7wb0EnbtTSpnFO_YuE-qIkIywl6XgGVcAKJ8m7I6LUvtL-FBGpyX29yV5sDmpk/s320/wimlib.jpg" title="wimlib" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides WIM extract, create and update support, this <b>free software alternative to ImageX or DISM</b> (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) allows users to mount WIM images, either readonly or read-write and on Linux, it can even be used to extract or create WIM images to/from unmounted NTFS volumes, by using ntfs-3g. Using it from Linux, you can back up, install or restore Windows directly from a WIM file.<br /><br /><br />Extracting a WIM file can also be achieved by using p7zip (for example, you can extract a WIM file using Archive Manager, by renaming the file extension to .7z, or you can do it via command line, using "7z") however, the latest stable p7zip 9.20.1 seems to <a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/5f112d0a/">fail</a> with Windows 8 WIM images. Wimlib on the other hand should handle Windows 8 WIM files properly.</div><br /><br /><b>Wimlib features (via Wimlib Sourceforge <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wimlib/?source=dlp">page</a>):</b><br /><ul><li>Support for both Linux and Windows;</li><li>Apply/extract an image from a WIM file to a directory;</li><li>Apply/extract an image from a WIM file directly to a NTFS volume;</li><li>Capture a directory tree as a WIM image in a new or existing WIM;</li><li>Capture a NTFS volume as a WIM image in a new or existing WIM;</li><li>Mount an image from a WIM file read-only or read-write (Linux only);</li><li>Add or delete files from a WIM image without mounting it;</li><li>Extract individual files or directories without mounting it;</li><li>Delete an image from a WIM file;</li><li>Display information about a WIM file;</li><li>Change WIM image name, description, or bootable status;</li><li>Export image(s) from one WIM to an existing or new WIM;</li><li>Support for both compression formats used in WIMs (LZX and XPRESS);</li><li>Split a WIM file into parts, or join a split WIM into a standalone WIM;</li><li>Directly apply, export, or mount an image from a split WIM.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Wimlib isn't available in the official Ubuntu repositories and the Launchpad PPAs I've found either don't have Wimlib for all the supported Ubuntu versions or they have old Wimlib packages so to make it easier to install in Ubuntu (and derivatives), I've uploaded the latest Wimlib to the main WebUpd8 PPA.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Wimlib in Ubuntu via PPA</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the main WebUpd8 PPA</b> (note: our PPA has quite a few packages, so check out the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/webupd8">package list</a> before adding the PPA) <b>and install Wimlib in Ubuntu, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install wimtools</code></pre>Once installed, run "<i>man wimlib-imagex</i>" (for the command, you can simply use "<i>imagex</i>" instead of "<i>wimblib-imagex</i>") in a terminal to see the available options. To create a customized bootable image of Windows PE, check out "<i>man mkwinpeimg</i>".<br /><br /><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install Wimlib via <b><a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wimlib/">AUR</a></b>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions and windows, download Wimlib from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wimlib/?source=dlp">Sourceforge</a>.</b></div>

Wimlib: ImageX / DISM Alternative To Manipulate WIM Files In Linux [Ubuntu PPA]

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Xfce4 Composite Editor: Easily Change Compositor Settings Not Available Via Window Manager Tweaks [Xfce]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Xfce4 Composite Editor is a tool that lets you easily tweak various Xfce window manager compositor settings that are not available in the Window Manager Tweaks settings panel.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-2JwzM0T1se2oy9whLBbENRNLfjGs4mPQnOVHIT3EoTWyErSLVdG9vafhprR8a1KkYgNsKKqXpotUB4LVA8Vg3fhyphenhyphenF4OT3D5gjhbpdhwJovsJ1kHiYoSmAEpHHhfMIhOUcDBBoW-7kNE/s760/xfce4-composite-editor.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Xfce4 Composite Editor" border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-2JwzM0T1se2oy9whLBbENRNLfjGs4mPQnOVHIT3EoTWyErSLVdG9vafhprR8a1KkYgNsKKqXpotUB4LVA8Vg3fhyphenhyphenF4OT3D5gjhbpdhwJovsJ1kHiYoSmAEpHHhfMIhOUcDBBoW-7kNE/s320/xfce4-composite-editor.png" title="Xfce4 Composite Editor" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The tool has been created by Keith Hedger, the <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/xfce-theme-manager-single-gui-to-change.html">Xfce Theme Manager</a> developer, and it allows changing the following composite settings:</div><ul><li>shadow opacity;</li><li>Shadow delta X, Y, width and height;</li><li>move window opacity;</li><li>inactive window opacity;</li><li>frame opacity;</li><li>resize window opacity;</li><li>popup opacity.</li></ul><br />Some settings are live, meaning that they are applied instantly, while others require a window manager restart which can easily be done from Xfce WM Composite Editor dialog.<br /><br />The tool also allows you to enable/disable composite, dock shadow, frame shadow or popup shadow.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu49hSJdxv3XZWtdgnuR_CNfgk6RUhYz5EG6UtCblZ1fJMdwSZZJTaMvUkNLcRVx8TMYMFqbZ8Cih7DjUlC5Wd3gWO6fbQKREZtik0OnhFfcniNjjeE12k3IA2d_1N55fmRR3Wy2ME3Hg/s1600/xfce4-composite-editor-opacity.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Xfce4 Composite Editor" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu49hSJdxv3XZWtdgnuR_CNfgk6RUhYz5EG6UtCblZ1fJMdwSZZJTaMvUkNLcRVx8TMYMFqbZ8Cih7DjUlC5Wd3gWO6fbQKREZtik0OnhFfcniNjjeE12k3IA2d_1N55fmRR3Wy2ME3Hg/s320/xfce4-composite-editor-opacity.jpg" title="Xfce4 Composite Editor" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">These settings are available in the XConf Settings Editor but, according to the Xfce4 Composite Editor developer, "<i>the xconf settings editor is one of the most awkward GUI's I have ever used as you have to select the xfwm4 channel, expand the tree, scroll to the option you want, select it, click edit, change the setting and click save, then the tree gets collapsed and you have to start again</i>". Using this tool should make it a lot easier to change all these Xfce Compositor settings.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Xfce4 Composite Editor</h2><br />Xubuntu users can install Xfce4 Composite Editor from the same PPA as <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/xfce-theme-manager-single-gui-to-change.html">Xfce Theme Manager</a>. <b>To add the PPA and install it in Xubuntu, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rebuntu16/other-stuff<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install xfce4-composite-editor</code></pre>Once installed, you can access Xfce4 Composite Editor from the Xfce Settings Manager.<br /><br /><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install Xfce4 Composite Editor via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59374">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, download Xfce4 Composite Editor from <a href="http://gtk-apps.org/content/show.php?content=149523">GTK-Apps</a>.</b></div>

Xfce4 Composite Editor: Easily Change Compositor Settings Not Available Via Window Manager Tweaks [Xfce]

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Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander Switching To Mir Display Server By Default

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Ubuntu developers have <a href="http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/06/27/mir-plans-in-13-10/">announced</a> today that they plan to deliver <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/ubuntu-to-build-its-own-display-server.html">Mir display server</a> by default in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander with XMir, an implementation of X running or Mir.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Unity 8 (also known as Unity Next) on the other hand, won't be available by default and instead, Saucy Salamander will use Unity 7, the codebase which is already in the Saucy development.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAR7VxVxzk7q4nTPaw3hZ9LKjqpnPcSddiYUh3F9dsN5jTWeR1mCKWdPIeHnu1uo4lYACZk85x8hWAnESe50vcEmpWpDt-QMckZyfE3fTLq7RyEaPxd3Hy0vL09EZG4S1MuVC8u4pIdps/s1366/Unity7OnXMirWithBlender.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAR7VxVxzk7q4nTPaw3hZ9LKjqpnPcSddiYUh3F9dsN5jTWeR1mCKWdPIeHnu1uo4lYACZk85x8hWAnESe50vcEmpWpDt-QMckZyfE3fTLq7RyEaPxd3Hy0vL09EZG4S1MuVC8u4pIdps/s320/Unity7OnXMirWithBlender.png" /></a></div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The announcement notes that <b>XMir will only be used for open source graphics drivers</b> (Intel, Nouveau and Radeon). <b>Proprietary graphics drivers </b>(Nvidia, ATI)<b> don't support Mir yet and</b> the computers that use such drivers <b>will fallback to the regular X server</b>. In the future, Mir should get support for proprietary drivers so this fallback should be removed for Ubuntu 14.04.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With XMir used by default in Ubuntu 13.10 and thus, used by a large number of users, the developers hope to "<i>better understand their [users] needs, fix and resolve edge-case issues, and overall exercise Mir and XMir much faster on our road to the next LTS</i>".</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Update: Olli Ries, Canonical Engineering Director for Unity and Mir, has <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-June/037401.html">posted</a> a roadmap for the Ubuntu graphics stack transition to Mir, on the Ubuntu devel mailing list</b>:</div><ul><li>Ubuntu 13.10: XMir on Mir by default, with a fallback session to X where there is no Mir driver support, supported for 9 months;</li><li>Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: XMir as default with the fallback session removed, full Mir driver support, traditional LTS support for 5 years;</li><li>Ubuntu 14.10 and beyond: Mir stack as default, including rootless X support for legacy X applications, supported for 9 months.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">He also adds that running XMir means Ubuntu will be using Unity 7 (<b>so basically, Unity 7 will not only be used for Ubuntu 13.10 but also for Ubuntu 14.04</b>), while Ubuntu 14.10 and beyond, which will be using the Mir as a system compositor will be running Unity 8 as the session shell. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Further more, the message says that "<i>Canonical is committed to support XMir for 5 years during the 14.04 lifecycle, which will give derivatives enough time to evaluate the graphics stack landscape and to make informed decisions when they are ready.</i>"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can watch a video demoing Unity 7, GNOME 3, KDE, Xfce and LXDE running on XMir:</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/8h0m-ZjPxe8" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=8h0m-ZjPxe8">direct video link</a>)</center><br />Today's announcement refers strictly to Mir being made default for Ubuntu Desktop - the main Ubuntu flavor.  There are no news about the other Ubuntu flavors, except <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/kubuntu-not-switching-to-mir-display.html">Kubuntu, which won't switch to Mir</a>.<br /><br /><b>Check out the full announcement <a href="http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/06/27/mir-plans-in-13-10/">HERE</a>.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>image via <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110095242873945299189/posts">Thomas Voß</a></i></div>

Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander Switching To Mir Display Server By Default

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Kubuntu Not Switching To Mir Display Server

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Kubuntu won't be switching to <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/ubuntu-to-build-its-own-display-server.html">Mir</a> / XMir, has announced Jonathan Riddell, the main Kubuntu developer, in a recent blog <a href="http://blogs.kde.org/2013/06/26/kubuntu-wont-be-switching-mir-or-xmir">post</a>.</b></div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">In the same article, Jonathan mentions some recent screenshots posted by <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110095242873945299189/posts">Thomas Voß</a>, Technical Architect at Canonical, which show that KDE, among other desktop environments, can run on XMir (a layer that allows running X11 applications on top of Mir). However, he says that:</div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>"[...] compositing is very fragile, even Ubuntu shipping the latest Mesa can increase the number of beasties the poor KWin developers have to handle with because of unexpected issues it creates. Putting another layer between KWin and your monitor is certain to create new issues so I'll be keeping anything to do with Mir off the Kubuntu images."</i><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>- <a href="http://blogs.kde.org/2013/06/26/kubuntu-wont-be-switching-mir-or-xmir">Jonathan Riddell</a></i></div></blockquote><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM47_kRJPDfqjnwnUP1OWiFopsdYIKfCnLpdVfOu2N8G-F_Gz6dluZSbbCTSmi_eIYwimaSgoF-dd9-fz6JlPonT2K3YA7mYEqphetc0o3qEWgLUt3WjRiNrT3FLGqdNTGHVFKqIDI5wE/s1366/KDEonXMir.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Kubuntu Mir" border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM47_kRJPDfqjnwnUP1OWiFopsdYIKfCnLpdVfOu2N8G-F_Gz6dluZSbbCTSmi_eIYwimaSgoF-dd9-fz6JlPonT2K3YA7mYEqphetc0o3qEWgLUt3WjRiNrT3FLGqdNTGHVFKqIDI5wE/s320/KDEonXMir.png" title="Kubuntu Mir" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kubuntu on XMir - image via +<a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110095242873945299189/posts/MHUg78azKSN">Thomas Voß</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The distro will continue to use X by default for the 13.10 release which is currently under development, and for the 14.04 LTS release which will arrive next year. After<b> </b>14.04 LTS, Kubuntu will probably switch to Wayland, "<i>which is what KDE and every other Linux distro hopes to do</i>", says Jonathan.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There are still things to figure out though, like what happens if an Ubuntu Desktop user installs Kubuntu Desktop or the other way around - the Kubuntu developers will need to find a way to deal with this until Ubuntu makes the switch to Mir which, according to the initial <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/ubuntu-to-build-its-own-display-server.html">Mir announcement</a>, should happen with Ubuntu 14.04 (April 2014).<br /><br /><b>Update</b>: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/ubuntu-1310-saucy-salamander-switching.html">Ubuntu 13.10 will switch to Mir by default</a>.</div>

Kubuntu Not Switching To Mir Display Server

Kubuntu won't be switching to Mir / XMir, has announced Jonathan Riddell, the main Kubuntu developer, in a recent blog post . In the sa...

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