Xfwm4 4.11.0 Released With Sync to VBlank Support, Install It In Xubuntu

<div style="text-align: justify;">Xfwm4 4.11.0 has been uploaded recently to the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/xfce-4.12">Xfce 4.12 PPA</a> for (X)Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04, <a href="http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2013-September/000283.html">bringing</a> Sync to VBlank support for the Xfwm4 (Xfce's window manager) compositor, which should prevent tearing when dragging/resizing windows, media players and flash applications, etc.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGvM6puM32bs-4IW4QmDqU8uJJY40bxdJ3K2qwP9mtZHvLzp0myOAXEeHFyU23a9daXkXqN4BoOwftGhGRGNvphW0YVBbwa8NhWn4LwBu6Nlh0GWlx1wKaAE4H_WclcJ-X_68lweREzzI/s1600/xfce-window-manager-tweaks.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="xfce sync to vblank" border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGvM6puM32bs-4IW4QmDqU8uJJY40bxdJ3K2qwP9mtZHvLzp0myOAXEeHFyU23a9daXkXqN4BoOwftGhGRGNvphW0YVBbwa8NhWn4LwBu6Nlh0GWlx1wKaAE4H_WclcJ-X_68lweREzzI/s320/xfce-window-manager-tweaks.png" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest Xfwm4 comes with an updated version of the patch we wrote about a while back but it seems the issues posted <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/xfce-sync-to-vblank-support-for-xfwm.html">HERE</a> still apply (I'm not sure exactly which), so the Vsync support is not perfect, but it should be a great improvement for many users.</div><br />Along with Xfwm4, some other components were also updated:<br /><ul><li>xfce4-settings 4.11.1 (<a href="http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2013-September/000284.html">complete changelog</a>): </li><ul><li>automatically re-enable Laptop-displays if all other displays get disconnected;</li><li>add option to automatically show minimal-display dialog when new display gets connected;</li><li>fix bugs with mnemonic accelerators;</li><li>make touchpad type delay configurable.</li></ul><li>xfdesktop 4.11.0 (<a href="http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2013-September/000285.html">complete changelog</a>): </li><ul><li>Custom folder icons;</li><li>Apply wallpaper to all workspaces option;</li><li>Add an unmount option and notifications when a device is removed.</li></ul><li>libxfce4ui 4.11.0 (<a href="http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2013-September/000282.html">complete changelog</a>):</li><ul><li>GTK3 version of libxfce4ui for applications that use it.</li><li>improved keyboard shortcut handling code.</li></ul></ul><br /><br /><h2>Upgrade Xfwm4 in Xubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To upgrade Xfwm4 and the other Xfce components in (X)Ubuntu (13.10, 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04), you must add two PPAs: the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/xfce-4.10">Xfce 4.10 PPA</a>, which will upgrade Xfce to version 4.10 for Xubuntu 12.04 and which also provides updated packages for all Xubuntu versions: Thunar, Xfce4 Terminal, Parole and so on, as well as the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/xfce-4.12">Xfce 4.12 PPA</a>.</div><br /><b>Before proceeding, please note that the packages in the Xfce 4.12 PPA are pre-releases, which may contain bugs! Use them at your own risk!</b><br /><br /><b>Add the PPAs and upgrade using the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.10<br />sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.12<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get dist-upgrade</code></pre><br /><span style="color: red;"><b>Important: </b></span>when running "dist-upgrade", make sure you read the output before entering "y" to make sure no important packages are removed!<br /><br /><b>Then log out and log back in.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The VSync to VBlank support option in Window Manager Tweaks doesn't work so to enable Sync to VBlank, use the following command:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p "/general/sync_to_vblank" -s true</code></pre><br /><br /><h2>Revert the changes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to downgrade the packages installed from these PPAs to the versions available in the official (X)Ubuntu repositories, use the commands below:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ppa-purge<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.12<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.10</code></pre>

Xfwm4 4.11.0 Released With Sync to VBlank Support, Install It In Xubuntu

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How to Make Money Online with Shortened URLs

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW9QwgXXMqKlg_3rxk5J4vlLuTek0MVoHXMEyYWzsOMtidEneWIAPwSVyOeOmnpKA0eCjWGX1SZNCXJaAqhUl4V9Z3Y5AjX0vBxpUiTTVlfR5GHHaGbCZAsBrJYUe-PN6cWEgPsTh1f-U/s1600/shorturl.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW9QwgXXMqKlg_3rxk5J4vlLuTek0MVoHXMEyYWzsOMtidEneWIAPwSVyOeOmnpKA0eCjWGX1SZNCXJaAqhUl4V9Z3Y5AjX0vBxpUiTTVlfR5GHHaGbCZAsBrJYUe-PN6cWEgPsTh1f-U/s200/shorturl.png" width="200" /></a>There are many website allows services to shrink URLs. <span style="font-family: inherit;">URL-shortening services allow you to make cash when you use them to shorten long URLs from various websites. you can post shortened URLs on your blog, website, Twitter, Facebook or any other social network when belong to. once your visitors click on the shortened URLs, you can generate income from every click-through. </span>Basically short URL works as a redirection service which is able to redirect the shorter URL to the supposed web page.<br /><a name='more'></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>How Can you Earn Cash from this URL shortening providers ?</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Sign up with desired universal resource locator shorterner provider (List Below).</li><li>Copy your links and make short URLs from your account.</li><li>Share your short URL anyplace with your friends, social media, websites, download links.</li><li>Whenever somebody click those shortened links,  they will go through some short 5 to 15 seconds advertisements(for e.g. below).</li><li>After this he will skip the ad and look at the link that was hidden behind that short link.</li><li>Thats it, whenever somebody go through this advertisement once clicking, you’re paid.</li></ul><div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Top best shorten URL website to earn money</h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h4 style="text-align: left;"></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. <a href="http://adf.ly/?id=1116804" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ADF.LY</a></span></h4></div><div>Adf.ly is a world largest web site that allows you to shrink your URL, it's not different from alternative such websites like goo.gl, bitly.com, tinyurl.com, however difference is that they can give you a fix part of cash against and they and that they have ad twist. They're going to offer you $5 against 10,000 visitors, mean to say that if 10,000 peoples visits your shrink URL then they will give you $5.<br />Payout = 5$<br /><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. <a href="http://cashfly.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cashfly.com</span></a></span></h4><div style="text-align: left;">We're a free web link shortening service with a twist. Every time one of your links is shared with someone else on the Internet, you get paid! It's that easy, simply register for an account then start linking. Each time someone visits one of your links - YOU GET PAID.</div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b><b style="font-family: inherit;">3. <a href="http://linkbucks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkBucks.com</a></b></h4><span style="font-family: inherit;">LinkBucks allows you to make cash from the links your users post, from the links you place on your website, or from the posts you make in a forum. It is simple and easy to get started making money Today!</span><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b><b>4. <a href="http://adlock.in/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Adlock.in</a></b></span></h4><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Adlock is a url shortening website . Shorten your long URL to adlock.in/xxxx and start earning</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b><b style="font-family: inherit;">5. </b><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><a href="http://bee4.biz/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bee4.biz</a></u></span></h4></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">bee4.biz is a free short URL redirection service with a twist. Get paid for every link you share on the Internet. You can place links on FaceBook, Twitter, forums, and anywhere you share links!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white;">All sites are good but i prefer adf.ly because this is more trusted and i get paid many time .</b></span></div></div></div>

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Stay On GTK/GNOME 3.8?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="Ubuntu GNOME" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8iQSp7PO-ogxg3SaVnegFpbRB08CM5G8zgWiBzfEHbVFpzQPqI8nJu2IahNxVSmDORzb6InkzwMOT2EI7iQ1BBXW_qV3RiyGxUSCBOqdHP4J1DuqMkMQ6Su40qCecENum5f2TgIcH3gg/s220/ubuntu_gnome_logo.png" /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Sebastien Bacher, software engineer at Canonical, recently posted a <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2013-October/004311.html">message</a> on the Ubuntu Desktop <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2013-October/thread.html">mailing list</a> in which he proposes that Ubuntu stays on GTK/GNOME 3.8 for the next cycle (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS).</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">In his message, Sebastien states the following <b>reasons</b> for staying with GNOME 3.8 for another cycle:</div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><ul><li><i>we (Ubuntu Desktop) are currently mostly happy with what we have;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>the focus for the Ubuntu Desktop team is likely to continue to be Ubuntu Touch/phone next cycle;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>due to the previous factor, we are going to be limited in resources to do desktop work;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>it's a LTS cycle, we should focus on bugs fixing if possible;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>GTK 3.10 deprecates several options, it would be good to stay away from those controversies for the LTS (see <a href="https://launchpad.net/bugs/1228886">this</a> as an example of what is going to happen once we deprecate those options);</i></li><i> </i><li><i>it seems like the next RedHat enterprise edition is going to be based on GNOME 3.8, if that's the case it would make sense for us to focus on ;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>bringing quality to the same version/share the maintenance work a bit.</i></li></ul></blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For stability, this make sense since Ubuntu 14.04 is going to be a long term release and updating to GNOME <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/see-whats-new-in-gnome-310-video.html" title="See What`s New In GNOME 3.10 [Video, Screenshots]">3.10</a> or 13.12 will likely introduce many bugs that can't be fixed in time because the Ubuntu developers are focusing on Ubuntu Touch/phone, but it also means that Ubuntu 14.04 will lag two releases behind GNOME which will affect Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu users who are contributing to GNOME as well as some non-core GNOME applications that require the latest GNOME technologies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Sebastien Bacher's message is just a suggestion / invitation to discussion and not a final decision</b>, but considering that there's not enough man power (because of the Ubuntu Touch focus) to fix everything in time for the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release, it doesn't seem like there's an actual choice.</div><br /><b>What do you think?</b>

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Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Use XMir By Default

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="ubuntu saucy salamander" border="0" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwAEgf76_M-S8NNuKv0bdvOZQVkgL0tNu3xI3LMdDLQzd8ecbGJbrBPSbv6hw4_BX2Ctx3oF8cEA2hMGq2kg1PSAI0dDhtb0R6Xgl3rKOOqb4vS0Ia383HwuEJs1SChyphenhyphenXY2BP_KHVPLog/s320/Saucy_Salamander_Abstract_by_Jos%C3%A9_Vera_alcivar.jpg" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Canonical has decided not to switch to Xmir by default for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Back in June, it was <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/ubuntu-1310-saucy-salamander-switching.html">decided</a> to use Mir + Xmir by default in Ubuntu 13.10 (for open source drivers only) but that will no longer happen "<i>due to some outstanding technical difficulties</i>". A native Mir + Unity 8 will still be used for Ubuntu Touch so that's not affected by this decision.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">According to a <a href="http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/10/01/xmir-update-for-ubuntu-13-10/">post</a> on the Ubuntu-devel mailing list, the issues are in XMir part of the stack which provides the compatibility layer between X server and Mir - more specifically, the XMir multi-monitor support which doesn't work "to the extend we’d like to see it for all of our users".</div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"We always planned to ship Mir + XMir on Ubuntu 13.10 Desktop but after months of furious XMir development we needed to make a judgement call about whether we could assure a quality overall Ubuntu Desktop experience with XMir across all supported configurations. While Mir is in good shape for this and XMir is close, we didn’t feel that the user experience around XMir's multimonitor feature was meeting the parity standard."<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">- <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/13.10/NoDefaultQ%26A">Mir Not Default Q&A</a></div></blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/13.10/NoDefaultQ%26A">Q&A</a> about this on the Ubuntu wiki mentions that the recent <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/a-bump-in-the-high-road-intel-drops-support-for-xmir-in-xorg-driver/">revert</a> from Intel (the Intel Xorg driver got XMir support but the change was later reverted) has nothing to do with this decision.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mir and XMir will be available in the repositories so users can use Xmir if they want, but will not be used by default.</div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/10/01/xmir-update-for-ubuntu-13-10/">Ubuntu Fridge</a>, <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/13.10/NoDefaultQ%26A">Ubuntu wiki</a></i></div>

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How To Install GNOME 3.10 In Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander

<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/see-whats-new-in-gnome-310-video.html">GNOME 3.10</a> has been released yesterday and I've received requests to write an article on how to upgrade to it in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, so here goes. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The instructions below are only for those who want to use GNOME Shell (Ubuntu GNOME users, Unity users who want to switch to GNOME Shell, etc.) because of some bugs with the GNOME 3.10 PPA packages and Unity.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdA139p9eXWhLuqMON2TOn41E0YDjHjFM4rq9AldMq1-3Lp-ucH989xdqHaHsD5M25LumBeHnhsIvJ_jZldKmAo2B7GJQ_zQhY1HuDlp8qlFrkrJuE-j54v5G_9blGAZrnBfZapc-i5I/s1600/gnome3.10-ubuntu-saucy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdA139p9eXWhLuqMON2TOn41E0YDjHjFM4rq9AldMq1-3Lp-ucH989xdqHaHsD5M25LumBeHnhsIvJ_jZldKmAo2B7GJQ_zQhY1HuDlp8qlFrkrJuE-j54v5G_9blGAZrnBfZapc-i5I/s320/gnome3.10-ubuntu-saucy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3-next">GNOME 3 Next PPA</a>, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/new-gnome-310-ppa-announced-for-ubuntu.html">announced</a> not so long ago, contains GNOME 3.10 packages that are considered stable. Unfortunately, the PPA currently only has a few packages: GNOME Shell (including the official extensions), GNOME Themes, GTK3, Mutter, Clutter, Network Manager, Vala, Wayland and WebkitGTK so basically, to get a GNOME 3.10 desktop which includes System Settings, the core apps, etc., you must also add the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3-staging">GNOME 3 Staging PPA</a> which contains packages that have known bugs and regressions, "sometimes of critical nature" mentions the PPA description.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In my test (I'm using GNOME 3.10 right now on my main computer) under Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, I've added both the GNOME 3 Next PPA and the GNOME 3 Staging PPA and I've <span style="color: red;"><b>encountered the following issues:</b></span></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><b>LightDM doesn't work</b> so if you plan on using these PPAs, make sure you switch to GDM prior to upgrading;</li><li><b>using these PPAs pretty much breaks Unity</b>: the AppIndicators don't work, the applications don't show up in Dash, the mouse is invisible (update: this invisible mouse issue can be fixed by using the following command: "gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false"), the new CSD applications don't have shadows and there are probably other issues too but I've only used Unity for a few minutes. So only add these PPAs for now if you don't have Unity installed or you don't plan on using Unity;</li><li>some applications may not work properly or not work at all - in my test, Synapse stopped working while gThumb doesn't display the thumbnails properly.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b>So only follow the instructions below if you know what you're doing and know how to use PPA-Purge to revert the changes in case something goes wrong!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>What will be upgraded:</b> by using the instructions below, besides GNOME Shell (and the default extensions), GDM, GTK, GNOME Control Center, etc. and various libraries, the following applications will be upgraded to version 3.10.0: Cheese, Eye Of GNOME, Evince, Gedit, Boxes, Clocks, Contacts, Documents, Font Viewer, System Monitor, Terminal, Tweak Tool, Weather and Files (Nautilus). Web (Epiphany) won't be upgraded to version 3.10 for now, but to 3.9.91. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>What won't be upgraded to version 3.10:</b> unfortunately, the other GNOME 3.10 applications are missing from these PPAs: Music, Notes (Bijben - version 3.8.4 is available in the official repositories), Maps, Photos and Software. Totem won't be upgraded for now either.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>That said, let's proceed to upgrading GNOME to the latest 3.10 version in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander.</b></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Upgrade To GNOME 3.10 In Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander</h2><br /><b>1. Switch to GDM if you're not using it already.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Like I was telling you above, in my test LightDM didn't work after using the two GNOME3 PPAs, so install GDM if it's not already installed:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gdm</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And select GDM instead of LightDM when prompted.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to switch between LightDM, GDM, etc. see <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/how-to-switch-between-gdm-lightdm-or.html" title="How To Switch Between GDM, LightDM, MDM Or KDM In Ubuntu">THESE</a> instructions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. Add the GNOME3 Next and GNOME3 Staging PPAs and upgrade to GNOME 3.10</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Before adding the GNOME 3 Staging PPA, make sure you read its <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3-staging">description</a>.</b></div><br />Now let's add the PPAs and upgrade to GNOME 3.10:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next<br />sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get dist-upgrade</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Important: </b></span>when running "dist-upgrade", make sure you read the output before entering "y" to make sure no important packages are removed!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, since GNOME 3.10 doesn't work properly with Unity, you must want to use GNOME Shell, so install it using the following command if you didn't install it already: </div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gnome-shell</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To install all the GNOME apps (and the default GNOME Shell extensions) that aren't installed by default in Ubuntu, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gnome-documents gnome-contacts epiphany-browser gnome-boxes gnome-shell-extensions gnome-tweak-tool bijiben gnome-clocks</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Tip: to avoid issues with black elements in various applications (and to get the default GNOME 3.10 scrollbars which now support fine scrolling - to use it, hold SHIFT while clicking on the scrollbar thumb), remove the Ubuntu overlay scrollbars:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar</code></pre><br /><br /><b>3. Restart the computer.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For me, restarting via the system menu didn't work so if that happens for you too, reboot via command line:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo reboot</code></pre><br />And in the login screen, select the "GNOME" session. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Ambiance doesn't work properly with applications that use client side decorations so if you were using it, change to Adwaita theme using GNOME Tweak Tool (the application should have been installed with the last command from step 2 above). Another theme that supports GNOME 3.10 and client side decorations is <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/new-ppa-for-numix-gtk-and-icon-themes.html">Numix</a>.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Revert the changes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If something doesn't work or you simply don't like GNOME 3.10 and want to revert the changes and go back to the default GNOME 3.8 available in the official Ubuntu 13.10 repositories, you need to purge the PPAs added using the instructions above, starting with the GNOME 3 Staging PPA:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ppa-purge<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you've removed the Overlay Scrollbars package, install it back using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install overlay-scrollbar</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you were using LightDM and want to switch back to it, follow <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/how-to-switch-between-gdm-lightdm-or.html" title="How To Switch Between GDM, LightDM, MDM Or KDM In Ubuntu">THESE</a> instructions.</div><br />And finally, reboot.

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See What`s New In GNOME 3.10 [Video, Screenshots]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GNOME 3.10 has been <a href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/">released</a> today with some important changes such as initial Wayland support, header bars (client side decorations), a new system menu for GNOME Shell which combines the previous system status menus and of course, updated core GNOME apps as well as some new applications.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgspVbin0A3-qS_vLyQF_dheRPnXRvk1uGU8UDQB2fLrY3JrQFLP2NjeTriMUgTtKqeRbgO1L_xMxZKNHtJ3Td15iLSOz57xDeWmiAvCpwrSGyZP0Ai3X09el9yM8MM8GCDcrSdpRT_0ic/s1600/gnome3.10.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgspVbin0A3-qS_vLyQF_dheRPnXRvk1uGU8UDQB2fLrY3JrQFLP2NjeTriMUgTtKqeRbgO1L_xMxZKNHtJ3Td15iLSOz57xDeWmiAvCpwrSGyZP0Ai3X09el9yM8MM8GCDcrSdpRT_0ic/s320/gnome3.10.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Let's take a look at what's new!<br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><h2>GNOME 3.10 video</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can watch a video I've recorded earlier today with some of the changes in GNOME 3.10:</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-MfbuJU6X9U" width="480"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MfbuJU6X9U">direct video link</a>; for more videos, subscribe to our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/nilarimogard">YouTube channel</a>)</center><br /><br /><h2>GNOME Shell / Settings changes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">GNOME Shell hasn't received many changes, but GNOME 3.10 introduces a pretty important change: <b>the old system status menus have been replaced with a new System Menu</b>:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-system-status-menu.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 system menu" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-system-status-menu_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The System Menu is more compact and includes brightness and sound sliders, quick access to wireless networks, battery status as well as settings, lock screen and shutdown buttons. The language selector continues to use a separate menu as you can see in the screenshot above.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Other changes in the latest GNOME Shell 3.10:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>improved login and lock screens: better layout, nicer transitions, prettier lock screen notifications, etc.;</li><li>various improved transitions;</li><li>pagination in the application picker. </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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-gs-pagination.jpg" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 pagination" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-gs-pagination_thumb.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">App picker pagination<u><br /></u></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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-lock-screen.jpg" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 pagination" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-lock-screen_thumb.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME 3.10 lock screen</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Another pretty major change in the latest GNOME 3.10 is the introduction of <b>"header bars" or "client side decorations"</b>. These decorations use the GTK+ toolkit and theme engine:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 client side decorations" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As you can see, the close button is now displayed inline with the toolbar which saves spaces but unfortunately it also creates an even bigger discrepancy between GNOME core apps and the other applications, because only the core GNOME apps use these client side decorations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Client side decorations can also change state, here are two screenshots that showcase it:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_1.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 header bars" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_1_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 header bars" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>With GNOME 3.10, there are also quite a few changes to Settings (Control Center):</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>the lock screen background can now be changed via the Background settings;</li><li>new date and time settings; there's also a new feature here: automatically change the computer's timezone based on the current location;</li><li>new display settings;</li><li>new universal access settings;</li><li>the background can be selected from your Flickr photos;</li><li>Telepathy integration and Google 2-factor authentication for Online Accounts.</li></ul><br />Here are a few screenshots with these Settings changes:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-lock-screen-background.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 background settings" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-lock-screen-background_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-time-date.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 time and date settings" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-time-date_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-displays.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 displays" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-displays_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-displays2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 displays" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-displays2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>Other changes include:</b><br /><ul><li>new zoom mode for the scrollbars which allow for fine scrolling - to use it, hold SHIFT while clicking on the scrollbar thumb;</li><li>smartcards are now supported as an alternate way to log in or unlock the screen;</li><li>password authentication can now be disabled, forcing just fingerprint or smartcard authentication;</li><li>initial Wayland support;</li><li>high resolution (HiDPI) support.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>GNOME 3.10 core apps</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">With GNOME 3.10, <b>three applications that were available as a preview in GNOME 3.8, are now fully integrated</b>: Bijiben, a note taking app, <b>GNOME Weather and GNOME photos</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="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-notes.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 bijiben notes" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-notes_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bijiben</u></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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-weather.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 weather" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-weather_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Weather</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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-weather_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 weather" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-weather_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Weather</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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-photos.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 photos" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-photos_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Photos</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Bijiben now supports collections and is integrated with OwnCloud. Also, now the notes can show up in the GNOME Shell search. An interesting feature in Bijiben which might be available in the future for other GNOME apps as well is the right click menu which looks like the one used on touch devices:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-notes-right-click.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 bijiben notes right click" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-notes-right-click_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest GNOME Photos features Flickr support, albums, share images to devices that support UPNP such as a TV, phone or another computer and more. Weather hasn't received any important changes except for the new client side decorations.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There are also <b>3 new preview apps for GNOME 3.10: Music and Maps and Software</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="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-music.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 music" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-music_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Music<u><br /></u></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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-maps.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 maps" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-maps_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Maps</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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-software.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 software" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-software_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Software</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Another new application is Photos, which features Flickr support, albums, share images to devices that support UPNP such as a TV, phone or another computer and more.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Changes in the other core GNOME applications:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Web:</b> DuckDuck go is now the default search engine; Web now has a search provider for GNOME Shell which allows accessing your web history or searching the web from the GNOME Shell Activities</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Contacts:</b> UI enhancements, updated setup and accounts dialogs</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Tweak Tool</b>: redesigned for GNOME 3.10 and includes new options, such as startup applications management, etc.</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Evince Document Viewer</b>: improved accessibility, new Caret Navigation mode, improved Djvu support and a new sidebar showing search results</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Clocks: Pretty new analog timer in stopwatch and timer views as well as geolocation support</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Boxes:</b> support for importing system images (QEMU, raw, vdi - Virtualbox 1.1 image format, vmdk - VMware 3 and 4, vpc and cloop) as well as many UI and other fixes</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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-web.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 epiphany web" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-web_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Web (Epiphany)</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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-tweak-tool.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 tweak tool" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-tweak-tool_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Tweak Tool</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://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-clocks.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 clocks" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-clocks_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Clocks</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Up next: GNOME 3.12</b>, which should <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointEleven/Features">introduce</a> a Sound Recorder preview release, full Wayland support, Systemd for the user session, colour tinting in GNOME Shell, videos application implementation, support for Facebook in GNOME photos, integrate Zimbra in GNOME, Git integration in the developer experience as well as ratings, screenshots and history support in GNOME Software.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>3 screenshots via <a href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/">gnome.org</a></i></div>

See What`s New In GNOME 3.10 [Video, Screenshots]

GNOME 3.10 has been released today with some important changes such as initial Wayland support, header bars (client side decorations), a ne...

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Steam Machines: Valve Announces New Living-Room Hardware That Runs SteamOS

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Valve has announced a new category of living-room hardware today, that will be running <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/valve-reveals-steamos-linux-based.html">Steam OS</a> and will be available in multiple configurations. Only 300 of these boxes will ship this year though, for testing purposes.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9XJORnu2CijeO4nhNK-U4mXHWPdD8cuJP9qgGiwK6MP0bllU0dp18zjDn7g3Xnz5GIgaaIcJNtiXeOYwteL2Gf84lidg_97NkHf_82vCXVY5t8TIja2EF-5EQsUPDEXZO1Z3yn8YgBo/s1600/steam-machines.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Steam machines" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9XJORnu2CijeO4nhNK-U4mXHWPdD8cuJP9qgGiwK6MP0bllU0dp18zjDn7g3Xnz5GIgaaIcJNtiXeOYwteL2Gf84lidg_97NkHf_82vCXVY5t8TIja2EF-5EQsUPDEXZO1Z3yn8YgBo/s320/steam-machines.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">While in testing, the new "Steam machines" will be free of charge for 300 lucky Steam users that are eligible to get one. For this, you must complete a quest before October 25: join the Steam Universe community group, agree to the Steam Hardware Beta Terms and Conditions, make 10 Steam friends, create a public Steam Community profile and play a game using a gamepad in Big Picture mode. Once you complete these steps, you'll be awarded a special badge and be among the pool of people that can be chosen to test the new hardware.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to Valve, the new Steam machines will be "completely upgradable and open" and starting next year, there will be multiple machines to choose from, made by different manufacturers. There are no hardware specifications at this time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For more information, see the official <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/">announcement</a>.</b></div>

Steam Machines: Valve Announces New Living-Room Hardware That Runs SteamOS

Valve has announced a new category of living-room hardware today, that will be running Steam OS and will be available in multiple configura...

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