How To Change Notifications Position In Cinnamon

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p3xIU3o1SqY/T-25ahyMOMI/AAAAAAAAJNY/TqtkeZFRoPI/s1600/cinnamon-bottom-notification-full.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cinnamon bottom notifications" border="0" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p3xIU3o1SqY/T-25ahyMOMI/AAAAAAAAJNY/TqtkeZFRoPI/s320/cinnamon-bottom-notification-full.png" title="cinnamon bottom notifications" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Cinnamon doesn't have an option to change the notification position on the screen yet, but you can do this by editing the theme CSS code </b>(cinnamon.css theme file)<b>.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a>Let's change the notifications position. <b>If you're using the default Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon edition theme (Nightlife Graphite)</b>, you have to edit the "<i>/usr/share/themes/Nightlife - Graphite/cinnamon/cinnamon.css</i>" file so open a terminal and run the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>gksu gedit "/usr/share/themes/Nightlife - Graphite/cinnamon/cinnamon.css"</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>If you're using the default Cinnamon theme</b> (used by default in LMDE), use the following command instead:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>gksu gedit /usr/share/cinnamon/theme/cinnamon.css</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b>For other Cinnamon themes:</b>  </i><i>the <i>cinnamon.css</i> file path depends on the theme you're using (it's in the "cinnamon" folder inside the theme directory). To find out the cinnamon.css file path, open Nautilus and navigate to /usr/share/themes/ - here you'll find all the available themes -, double click the directory for the theme you're using you'll find a "cinnamon" folder where there's a "cinnamon.css" file which is the file you have to edit to change the notifications position.</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rHZIMGVczGo/T-26ceInCcI/AAAAAAAAJNo/0LjvcWKFr8o/s1600/cinnamon-css-file.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cinnamon.css" border="0" height="265" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rHZIMGVczGo/T-26ceInCcI/AAAAAAAAJNo/0LjvcWKFr8o/s320/cinnamon-css-file.png" title="cinnamon.css" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>Then search for the following code:</b><br /><pre class="source-code"><code>margin-from-top-edge-of-screen: 30px;</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9xHOMfaIXyI/T-25lG3KZEI/AAAAAAAAJNg/9H8foCVoRAA/s1600/cinnamon-bottom-notifications.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cinnamon notifications bottom" border="0" height="152" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9xHOMfaIXyI/T-25lG3KZEI/AAAAAAAAJNg/9H8foCVoRAA/s320/cinnamon-bottom-notifications.png" title="cinnamon notifications bottom" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>This is the margin from the top edge of the screen so this value changes the notifications position vertically</b> - change its value to whatever you want. If, for instance, you want the notifications to be displayed at the bottom right, you can enter the value of your screen vertical width minus 100 pixels (example: if you have a 1920x1080 screen resolution, your screen width is 1080px, so you would use 980 (1080-100) as the value).</div><br /><b>If you want to change the horizontal notifications position, search for:</b><br /><pre class="source-code"><code>margin-from-right-edge-of-screen: 20px;</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Just like its name says, this is the margin from the right edge of the screen. Once again, depending on your screen resolution, change its value to whatever you like.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Once you change the values, save the file, then open Cinnamon Settings and under Themes, select a different theme, then switch back to the theme you were using. This basically applies the changes so you can see the tweaked notifications in action.</b><b><br /></b></div><br /><b>Now, to send a test notification, firstly install libnotify-bin:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin</code></pre><b>And send a test notification using the following command:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>notify-send --icon=gtk-add "Test notification" "This is the message body"</code></pre><br /><i>For tweaking the default notifications in Ubuntu, see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/closable-movable-notifyosd.html">Closable / Movable NotifyOSD Notifications Available For Ubuntu 12.04</a></i><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://blog.desdelinux.net/cambiar-la-posicion-de-las-notificaciones-en-cinnamon/">DesdeLinux.net</a></i></div>

How To Change Notifications Position In Cinnamon

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Fix MP4 Playback In Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10 [Gstreamer Bug Affecting Totem, Minitube, Etc.]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UhVm6NJdRbo/T-2UA4fTdHI/AAAAAAAAJNQ/P6Pmi6J6-q4/s1600/mp4-playback-gstreamer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mp4 playback gstreamer" border="0" height="206" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UhVm6NJdRbo/T-2UA4fTdHI/AAAAAAAAJNQ/P6Pmi6J6-q4/s320/mp4-playback-gstreamer.png" title="mp4 playback gstreamer" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>There's a GStreamer <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-bad0.10/+bug/973014">bug</a> </b>(in the gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad package)<b> in the latest Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin and other possibly distros that breaks MPEG4 (.mp4) playback</b> for applications such as Totem, Minitube and others.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Luckily, there's a<b> work-around for getting MP4 playback working (tested under Ubuntu 12.04)</b> - renaming the "libgstvideoparsersbad.so" file:</div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>- 32bit:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo mv /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so.bak</code></pre><b>- 64bit:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstvideoparsersbad.so.bak</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">That's it, MP4 videos should now work under Ubuntu 12.04. There aren't any visible side effects to using this work-around, but in case you find one, you can simply rename "libgstvideoparsersbad.so.bak" back to "libgstvideoparsersbad.so".</div><br />Update: this bug still exists in <b>Ubuntu 12.10</b> and the above workaround works for Quantal Quetzal.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And speaking of Minitube, there's a new version out, available in the main WebUpd8 PPA: <a href="http://ppa.webupd8.org/post/26136750530/minitube-1-8-0-released-with-quicklists-support">Minitube 1.8.0 Released With Quicklists Support, Compact Mode</a>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://flavio.tordini.org/forums/topic/gstreamer-bug-affecting-ubuntu-12-04-and-other-recent-linux-distributions">Minitube forums</a></i></div>

Fix MP4 Playback In Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10 [Gstreamer Bug Affecting Totem, Minitube, Etc.]

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Stop IM Spam Bots In Pidgin With These Two Plugins

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>If you're constantly getting automated instant messages from spam bots in Pidgin, there are two Pidgin plugins that you can use to block these spam messages or suppress repeated authorization requests which are usually sent from spammers.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xRN8QON7LKo/T-s6QEEAlWI/AAAAAAAAJNA/nIzH8jN7-LY/s1600/pidgin-spam.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pidgin spam bot" border="0" height="199" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xRN8QON7LKo/T-s6QEEAlWI/AAAAAAAAJNA/nIzH8jN7-LY/s320/pidgin-spam.png" title="pidgin spam bot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>Pidgin Privacy Please</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Pidgin Privacy Please is a plugin that lets you suppress repeated authorization requests, automatically block messages with an automated reply message, block messages or sender using regular expression, a bot check that lets you set up a question and if there's a real user and he replies to the automated question, he is unblocked, and more.</div><br /><br /><br /><b>Installation</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Ubuntu users can install Pidgin Privacy Please from the Ubuntu Software Center - click the button below to install it:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="apt://pidgin-privacy-please"><button class="thoughtbot">Install Pidgin Privacy Please</button></a></div><br />Or, alternatively, to install it from the command line, use:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install pidgin-privacy-please</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For other Linux distributions and Windows, download Pidgin Privacy Please from <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-privacy-please/downloads/list">HERE</a>.</div><br /><br /><b>Set up</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Firstly, you'll have to enable Pidgin Privacy Please - to do this, in Pidgin select <i>Tools > Plugins</i> and enable "Privacy Please". Then, you can configure it by clicking the "Configure Plugin" button.</div><br /><br /><br />On the first tab you can configure the auto-reply message:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rQTI_5N9k88/T-s2dDg5cYI/AAAAAAAAJMQ/BAZyt7XBZ2Y/s1600/pidgin-privacy_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pidgin privacy please" border="0" height="189" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rQTI_5N9k88/T-s2dDg5cYI/AAAAAAAAJMQ/BAZyt7XBZ2Y/s320/pidgin-privacy_1.png" title="pidgin privacy please" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">On the "Messages" tab, you can set up blocking rules for both the sender and messages using regular expression, or set Pidgin Privacy Please to block message from people not on your contact list:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cvRsand7vwo/T-s2taTVXPI/AAAAAAAAJMY/zRR-l5mb3cU/s1600/pidgin-privacy_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pidgin privacy please" border="0" height="182" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cvRsand7vwo/T-s2taTVXPI/AAAAAAAAJMY/zRR-l5mb3cU/s320/pidgin-privacy_2.png" title="pidgin privacy please" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The "Authorization" tab can be used to enable suppressing repeated authorization requests, show user info on authorization request and so on:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zxHTtJaA_OQ/T-s3AT_6AuI/AAAAAAAAJMg/FISJHDyScz8/s1600/pidgin-privacy_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pidgin privacy please" border="0" height="183" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zxHTtJaA_OQ/T-s3AT_6AuI/AAAAAAAAJMg/FISJHDyScz8/s320/pidgin-privacy_3.png" title="pidgin privacy please" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />You can set up a verification question on the "Bot check" tab:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QYjG9DLJPZQ/T-s3P9xDIcI/AAAAAAAAJMo/FVqZUOr7-tw/s1600/pidgin-privacy_4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pidgin privacy please" border="0" height="183" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QYjG9DLJPZQ/T-s3P9xDIcI/AAAAAAAAJMo/FVqZUOr7-tw/s320/pidgin-privacy_4.png" title="pidgin privacy please" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Bruce Ingalls, who has sent us this tip, doesn't recommend using the bot check feature because it looks like it blocks users, and does not give them a chance.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br />And finally, on the last tab there are some protocol-specific options, like blocking Jabber headline messages or blocking AOL system messages:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RdlQi2gNKoQ/T-s3nWhPGKI/AAAAAAAAJMw/ZrVjRsnAZX4/s1600/pidgin-privacy_5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pidgin privacy please" border="0" height="192" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RdlQi2gNKoQ/T-s3nWhPGKI/AAAAAAAAJMw/ZrVjRsnAZX4/s320/pidgin-privacy_5.png" title="pidgin privacy please" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><h2>Pidgin Bot Sentry</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Bot Sentry is a simple Pidgin plugin that lets you define a challenge question and set up the actions to perform if the challenge is met </b>(add the person to the allow list or add it to the buddy list). There's also an option that lets you configure the action to be performed when an authorization request is received.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This plugin is basically a simplified version of Pidgin Privacy Please, useful if you only want to use a challenge question and don't need all the other options available in the other plugin.<br /><br /><b>Do not use both this plugin and Pidgin Privacy please in the same time!</b></div><br /><br /><b>Installation</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Ubuntu users can install Pidgin Bot Sentry from the Ubuntu Software Center - click the button below to install it:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="apt://pidgin-bot-sentry"><button class="thoughtbot">Install Pidgin Bot Sentry</button></a></div><br />Or, alternatively, to install it from the command line, use:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install pidgin-bot-sentry</code></pre><br />For other Linux distributions and Windows, download it via <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin-bs/files/bot-sentry/1.3.0/">SourceForge</a>.<br /><br /><br /><b>Set up </b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Once installed, open the Pidgin Plugins dialog (<i>Tools > Plugins</i>) and enable the "Bot Sentry" plugin, then click "Configure Plugin". Here, you can set up the challnge question and answer as well as the action to be performed on authorization request:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WjWEI8ArJ5Y/T-s6LJpzqcI/AAAAAAAAJM4/4mZc3uPX3Jo/s1600/pidgin-bot-sentry.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WjWEI8ArJ5Y/T-s6LJpzqcI/AAAAAAAAJM4/4mZc3uPX3Jo/s320/pidgin-bot-sentry.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Bruce Ingalls for the tip! via <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/quick-tip-stop-pidgin-spam-in-its-tracks-with-bot-sentry/">MakeUseOf</a> and <a href="http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/pidgin-privacy-please-helps-block-spammers-on-pidgin-im-spam/">AddictiveTips</a></i></div>

Stop IM Spam Bots In Pidgin With These Two Plugins

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Calise Sets The Screen Backlight Based On Ambient Brightness

<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFA1Lkd1qptrf8jFaaEXqmmhTwS-R-FqYWlBdVNJk6f4Ap3hFo_jEikPq0XiGqj1x6o44_-p9O_FQTmG_sQduukrFsQAY4NEr16ooWnlyGhlo5xwCnygx55vHVr7iAdshHX5n9EfnVp9E/s1600/calise.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFA1Lkd1qptrf8jFaaEXqmmhTwS-R-FqYWlBdVNJk6f4Ap3hFo_jEikPq0XiGqj1x6o44_-p9O_FQTmG_sQduukrFsQAY4NEr16ooWnlyGhlo5xwCnygx55vHVr7iAdshHX5n9EfnVp9E/s320/calise.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>Calise (Camera Light Sensor) is an application that uses your computer's camera as a light sensor for obtaining the ambient brightness and then calculates and sets the correct backlight according to an user defined scale.</b></div><br /><b>Calise features:</b><br /><ul><li>command line, GUI (with tray icon) interfaces and daemon mode</li><li>profiles support</li><li>DBus service optimized with automatic dawn/sunset recognition and weather information by using latitude and longitude.</li></ul><br /><a name='more'></a>More info on Calise cam be found at its <a href="http://calise.sourceforge.net/">official website</a>.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Install and set up Calise</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04, 11.10, 11.04 and 10.10 users can install Calise from the main WebUpd8 PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install calise</code></pre>Note: <i>I've only tested it in Ubuntu 12.04 because it can't be tested in VirtualBox.</i><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>After the installation completes, you must start the Calise calibration process</b> (but before you do, read the "Important" note below) using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>calise --calibrate</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Important:</b> before proceeding with step 3, you have to give write permissions to the file used for step 2 (the sysfs backlight path) using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo chmod 666 INTERFACE</code></pre>Where "INTERFACE" is the file you've selected under step 2 (example: <i>/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video1/brightness</i>). <br /><br />Then, continue with the remaining calibration steps.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Once you're done, you can run Calise from the menu / Dash. If you prefer to use the command line interface or the daemon mode, use the following commands to see the available options:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>calise --help #command line interface<br />calised --help #daemon mode</code></pre><br /><b>Arch Linux users can install Calise via <a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50801">AUR</a>.</b><br /><br /><b>Download Calise for other Linux distributions via <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/calise/files/">SourceForge</a>.</b>

Calise Sets The Screen Backlight Based On Ambient Brightness

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Sublime Text 2.0 Stable Released - PPA Update

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3kKiEwCcBJg/T-n6KMmM6BI/AAAAAAAAJMA/SHsiDZV_IKw/s1600/sublime-text-2.0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="sublime text 2" border="0" height="204" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3kKiEwCcBJg/T-n6KMmM6BI/AAAAAAAAJMA/SHsiDZV_IKw/s320/sublime-text-2.0.png" title="sublime text 2" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/2">Sublime Text 2</a> is a cool, TextMate-like text editor that runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. After being in alpha / beta testing for more than a year, the first stable version has finally been released today.</i></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">This post is a quick update for those using our <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/sublime-text-2-ubuntu-ppa.html">Sublime Text 2 Ubuntu PPA</a>: since there are no more Sublime Text 2 beta builds, I've made some changes to the packages and the stable version package name is "sublime-text", while the development package name is now "sublime-text-dev" (I've renamed them to avoid conflicts), however, those who have installed the beta / dev builds and aren't reading this post will still get updates thanks to a meta package (though it's probably better to simply remove any installed Sublime Text 2 packages and install stable or development version using the instructions below).<br /><br /><i>Besides automatic updates, the PPA package comes with a proper desktop file with Unity integration (quicklists and drag'n'drop support), a "subl" command line alias, etc. </i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Add the WebUpd8 Sublime Text 2 PPA (available for Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04, 11.10, 11.04, 10.10 and 10.04) using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-2<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre><br />Optional: remove any installed Sublime Text 2 packages:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove sublime-text*</code></pre><br /><b>Then, to install Sublime Text 2 stable, use the following command:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install sublime-text</code></pre><br /><b>Or, to install the Sublime Text 2 development package, use:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install sublime-text-dev</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: you can't install both the development and stable packages in the same time. Installing one of them will remove the other one.</div>

Sublime Text 2.0 Stable Released - PPA Update

Sublime Text 2 is a cool, TextMate-like text editor that runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. After being in alpha / beta testing for more t...

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Bridge: New Zeitgeist-Powered Related Activities Indicator

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7yIm_hx28UU/T-iBIrRC81I/AAAAAAAAJL4/fh4pFVuMWgc/s1600/bridge-indicator.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="bridge indicator" border="0" height="118" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7yIm_hx28UU/T-iBIrRC81I/AAAAAAAAJL4/fh4pFVuMWgc/s320/bridge-indicator.png" title="bridge indicator" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bridge">Bridge</a> is a cool new indicator developed by <a href="https://plus.google.com/117867558830601601230/posts">David Callé</a> (who's also behind some great Unity lenses and scopes), that uses Zeitgeist to provide quick access to documents, files and websites related to your current activity</b>.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">There are many cases in which you'll find Bridge useful. For instance, let's say you visit some website and download a video. Months later, when you open that video, if you can't remember the website from where you've downloaded it from, you can take a look at Bridge which should display a link to that website. Or, let's say that while working on some document/project, you do your research on Wikipedia and other websites, save some images on your computer and so on - when you open the document, you can quickly see the websites you've accessed, images and other related resources from Bridge.<br /><br />Besides the related items, there's one more menu entry in the Bridge indicator: "Focus on <window title>" which can be used to keep focus on a specific window and disable tracking of other windows of the same type.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YoSCke0MwrQ/T-iAueOwRHI/AAAAAAAAJLw/LaRgBjAQlqc/s1600/bridge-hud.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="bridge hud" border="0" height="108" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YoSCke0MwrQ/T-iAueOwRHI/AAAAAAAAJLw/LaRgBjAQlqc/s320/bridge-hud.png" title="bridge hud" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Accessing Bridge via HUD</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The Bridge indicator icon is only displayed when there are items related to your current activity (focused window / active tab) and is hidden when there aren't any related items. This can be a bit distracting, at least for me but it could easily be solved in the future by either implementing an option to always show Bridge Indicator or to completely hide the indicator and use Bridge from HUD only (if it's possible to use HUD with hidden indicators). That's because <b>HUD can search indicator menus</b> too, so<b> you can already access Bridge results via HUD</b> (they show up as "Related Activities").</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Bridge in Ubuntu 12.04 / 12.10</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Bridge is very new and under heavy development</b> so you'll find irrelevant items showing up sometimes, but this should improve in the future.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to its <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bridge/Installing">wiki page</a>, <b>the accuracy depends on the Zeitgeist Data-Sources you have installed on your system</b>. These Data-Sources allow certain applications to notify Zeitgeist of their activity so not all events / activities will show up in Bridge. The Bridge wiki recommends installing more Zeitgeist Data-Sources from source - more info <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bridge/Installing">HERE</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you use Firefox, you can<b> install the Firefox Zeitgeist extension</b> (data-source) using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:markjtully/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install zeitgeist-datasource-firefox</code></pre>From the same PPA, you can also install a Thunderbird Zeitgeist Data-Source plugin:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install zeitgeist-datasource-thunderbird</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For Google Chrome / Chromium, you can install the Zeitgeist extension from the <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/zeitgeist">Chrome Web Store</a>.</b></div><br /><b>To install Bridge indicator in Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10, use the commands below:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bridge/daily<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install bridge</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">Once installed, Bridge will be added to your startup applications and should start automatically the next time your log in. To start it the first time without logging out/in, you can run "/opt/bridge/bridge-daemon". And remember, the Bridge indicator icon is only displayed when you focus a window for which there are related activities.</div><br />Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bridge">Launchpad</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via David Callé @ <a href="https://plus.google.com/117867558830601601230/posts/4P5YvB475p3">Google+</a></i></div>

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Pinguy OS 12.04 LTS Has Been Released

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pVeR4Bx7WkM/T-RibSIGudI/AAAAAAAAJK0/Jf7QFsRLaH8/s1600/pinguy-os-12.04.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pinguy OS 12.04 screenshot" border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pVeR4Bx7WkM/T-RibSIGudI/AAAAAAAAJK0/Jf7QFsRLaH8/s320/pinguy-os-12.04.png" title="pinguy OS 12.04 screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://pinguyos.com/">Pinguy OS</a> 12.04 LTS (based on Ubuntu 12.04) has been released today and it uses GNOME Shell by default, customized with quite a few extensions that give the latest Pinguy OS the same feel as the previous releases.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For the 11.10 release, Pinguy OS was labelled "beta" because its developer didn't consider it was mature enough. With the new 12.04 release, there's no more beta label and indeed, Pinguy 12.04 feels mature and stable, bringing you a huge list of customizations both for the user interface as well as under the hood (like <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/increased-performance-in-linux-with.html">zRam</a> for instance).</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Pinguy OS 12.04 doesn't come with many changes since the <a title="Pinguy OS 11.10 (Final, Yet Beta) Released" href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/pinguy-os-1110-released.html">previous release</a>, but of course, the default applications / extensions have been updated to their latest versions. For instance, GNOME (and thus GNOME Shell) has been updated to version 3.4.1, just like in Ubuntu 12.04. Other updates include Wine 1.5.6, Skype 4.0, TeamViewer 7, XBMC-PVR 11.0 Eden, Linux Kernel 3.2.0-25 and so on.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_501_hSqk7U/T-RmLyA24UI/AAAAAAAAJK8/9BEt1da1AIs/s1600/pinguy-os-cardapio.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pinguy os cardapio menu" border="0" height="289" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_501_hSqk7U/T-RmLyA24UI/AAAAAAAAJK8/9BEt1da1AIs/s320/pinguy-os-cardapio.png" title="pinguy os cardapio menu" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Just like the beta, the stable Pinguy OS 12.04 uses <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/09/cardapio-menu-gets-gnome-shell.html">Cardapio</a> as the default menu instead of GNOME Shell Activities Overview, but this can be configured using GNOME Tweak Tool which is installed by default (simply disable the Cardapio, "Remove Activities Overview Button" and "No Topleft Hot Corner" extensions).<br /><br />There's also an alternative menu called Axe, which is disabled by default (you can enable it using GNOME Tweak Tool):<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hXVlfoXqdr0/T-RmUlp4sOI/AAAAAAAAJLE/WS9WTdjBUTY/s1600/pinguy-os-axe-menu.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pinguy os axe menu" border="0" height="260" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hXVlfoXqdr0/T-RmUlp4sOI/AAAAAAAAJLE/WS9WTdjBUTY/s320/pinguy-os-axe-menu.png" title="pinguy os axe menu" width="320" /></a></div> </div><br />Other GNOME Shell extensions included by default in Pinguy OS 12.04 (though not all are enabled by default):<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/gnome-shell-extension-updater.html">GNOME Shell Extension Updater</a></li><li>Weather Indicator</li><li>Classic Systray (moves the tray icons to the top GNOME Shell bar)</li><li>Shellshape (tiling window extension)</li><li>Shell OSD (places shell notifications in the upper right hand corner)</li><li>Native Window Placement</li><li>Workspace Indicator</li><li>GPaste (clipboard manager)</li><li>Panel Settings (you can set the top bar to autohide, etc.) </li><li>User Theme</li><li>System Monitor</li><li>Media Player Indicator</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Other than that, Pinguy OS continues to use two Docky instances at the bottom and left, elementary is used for the icon theme and window titlebar theme and Zukitwo for the GTK and GNOME Shell theme.</div><br /><br />For the login screen, Pinguy OS 12.04 continues with GDM 3.0.4, which has been themed to match the desktop:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ops9p39nOcI/T-Rn3bnJUfI/AAAAAAAAJLM/XxIbr-IBG_8/s1600/pinguy-os-gdm.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pinguyos 12.04 gdm" border="0" height="199" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ops9p39nOcI/T-Rn3bnJUfI/AAAAAAAAJLM/XxIbr-IBG_8/s320/pinguy-os-gdm.png" title="pinguyos 12.04 gdm" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HtDcAiuwM30/T-Ro9cqMweI/AAAAAAAAJLU/Wztzev9HiBU/s1600/pinguy-os-12.04-apps.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="pinguy os 12.04 screenshot" border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HtDcAiuwM30/T-Ro9cqMweI/AAAAAAAAJLU/Wztzev9HiBU/s320/pinguy-os-12.04-apps.png" title="pinguy os 12.04 screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As for the default applications, Pinguy OS 12.04 uses Clementine as the default music player, VLC as the default video player, Webilder for automatically fetching and changing the wallpaper, GNOME Contacts, GNOME Documents, XBMC, Arista Transcoder, Cheese, Handbrake, OpenShot Video Editor, gtkpod, Deluge as the default Bittorrent client, Firefox with lots of customizations, Empathy, Dropbox, Gwibber, Skype, TeamViewer, Thunderbird, XChat, Pinta, Shotwell, Rapid Photo Downloader, LibreOffice, PlayOnLinux, Wine, Docky, CoverGloobus, Gloobus Preview, system utilities such as Y PPA Manager and more.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://pinguyos.com/download/"><button class="thoughtbot">Download Pinguy OS 12.04 LTS</button></a></div>

Pinguy OS 12.04 LTS Has Been Released

Pinguy OS 12.04 LTS (based on Ubuntu 12.04) has been released today and it uses GNOME Shell by default, customized with quite a few extensi...

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