Monitor Hardware Temperature In Ubuntu With Psensor

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZoa1h0Lp0W5K810g6ENrBUu3Ldz3wdkMrl5SYapHC40v7z5FHTk3wS-Wm1SccRRMi_OewqBZarTS5KGsMoHJWVA0wyda_Tl8pwg9u0wA2gaWTSLUcRx_-KoUznJ5NBAbStPbQDhuq_9ai/s1600/psensor_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="psensor" border="0" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZoa1h0Lp0W5K810g6ENrBUu3Ldz3wdkMrl5SYapHC40v7z5FHTk3wS-Wm1SccRRMi_OewqBZarTS5KGsMoHJWVA0wyda_Tl8pwg9u0wA2gaWTSLUcRx_-KoUznJ5NBAbStPbQDhuq_9ai/s320/psensor_1.png" title="psensor" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/">Psensor</a> is a tool to monitor hardware temperature</b> that integrates nicely with Unity by using an Unity Launcher counter which displays the enabled temperatures as well as an appindicator that you can use to take a quick look at all available hardware temperatures or cpu usage.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>Psensor can monitor:</b><br /><ul><li>motherboard and CPU temperatures</li><li>the temperature of Nvidia GPUs</li><li>experimental ATI/AMD GPUs temperature monitor (not enabled for the Ubuntu PPA as it requires compilation using libatiadlxx)</li><li>hard disk drives temperature</li><li>fan speed</li><li>CPU usage</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsiSDG4lklxDKHu0pW60UoFw64Vogc_LAfL-usyj6zy41AOOD861xIfZmOsPWyWN4giC45YMMSPUHw3UTFcjzxFZb8IzCTwPkfBHOk83aITebmxrNc_qtO6gzZrKijeGhhGUGvkpmgrNut/s1600/psensor_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="psensor" border="0" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsiSDG4lklxDKHu0pW60UoFw64Vogc_LAfL-usyj6zy41AOOD861xIfZmOsPWyWN4giC45YMMSPUHw3UTFcjzxFZb8IzCTwPkfBHOk83aITebmxrNc_qtO6gzZrKijeGhhGUGvkpmgrNut/s320/psensor_2.png" title="psensor" width="320" /></a></div><br />The application can also display <b>hot temperature alerts using desktop notifications and the application indicator </b>which turns read when a threshold is reached. The alerts are not enabled by default - to enable them, select Sensor Preferences, then select a sensor check the "Activate desktop notifications" box under "Alerts".<br /><br />From its preferences, you can select to hide the Psensor window on startup so you can use it as a stand-alone indicator or to hide window decoration and use the Psensor graph as a desktop widget</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A new Psensor version has been uploaded recently into the Psensor unstable PPA, which fixes many bugs (including a bug that was casing the systray and appindicator to be visible in the same time when the systray is whitelisted) and adds some new features like:</div><ul><li>low thresold support for alerts</li><li>fan alert support</li><li>added --new-instance option to allow the creation of multiple instances of Psensor</li><li>you can now select between Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature units</li><li>added option --use-libatasmart to use atasmart library for disk monitoring instead of hddtemp daemon</li><li>more</li></ul><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Psensor in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>1.</b> Firstly you need to install lm-sensors and hddtemp; these packages are required for Psensor to be able to monitor CPU, hard disk and motherboard temperatures as well as CPU fan speed:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install lm-sensors hddtemp</code></pre><br /><b>2.</b> Set up lm-sensors:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo sensors-detect</code></pre><br />And answer "yes" to everything.<br /><br />You can now either restart the computer or run the following command to load the modules required by the sensors:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo service module-init-tools start</code></pre><br /><b>3.</b> Install Psensor<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Psensor is available in the official Ubuntu repositories starting with Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot so to install it, click the button below:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="apt://psensor"><button class="thoughtbot">Install Psensor</button></a></div><br />Or run the following command in a terminal:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install psensor</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Psensor is also available in a <b>stable PPA</b> which you can use to install newer, stable Psensor versions:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jfi/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install psensor</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There's also an <b>unstable Ubuntu PPA</b> which comes with the new features I've mentioned above and many bug fixes. Using this package, you'll get newer features faster, but you may also encounter bugs. Add the PPA and install Psensor from the unstable PPA using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jfi/psensor-unstable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install psensor</code></pre><br /><b>To install it in other Linux distributions, see the Psensor <a href="http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/">homepage</a>.</b>

Monitor Hardware Temperature In Ubuntu With Psensor

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Monitor Network Usage With Download Monitor

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKEKCDameJ5KLpVIS9uNF3lczzzQ59roY7tTeh0-3ZQb_GzZZY-idyv3Ou3jJTyNM-pqfYKHIVMPoAj1S7nnH41cDgUmHNHJr5SZ5SNoXKEoo0qRoWeiT6rRnzo6HjJfx8eATEZvkbRrQF/s1600/download-monitor.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="download monitor" border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKEKCDameJ5KLpVIS9uNF3lczzzQ59roY7tTeh0-3ZQb_GzZZY-idyv3Ou3jJTyNM-pqfYKHIVMPoAj1S7nnH41cDgUmHNHJr5SZ5SNoXKEoo0qRoWeiT6rRnzo6HjJfx8eATEZvkbRrQF/s320/download-monitor.png" title="download monitor" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://launchpad.net/download-monitor">Download Monitor</a> is an application developed for the Ubuntu Apps Showdown, useful for computers with a limited Internet plan. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <a href="http://www.solarwinds.com/network-performance-monitor.aspx">network monitor</a> application displays monthly, daily and hourly amount of data transferred over the network and it can warn you using desktop notifications when you're about to exceed the usage quota, which you can set from its preferences.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Download Monitor integrates nicely with Unity<b> </b>by using dynamic quicklists so you can see the network usage with a click and also, there's an Unity Launcher progress bar which displays the used / remaining usage quota:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnyL4OVowMK9NKrcHCPv2DyU0s8yeccr2rRyDGu_qRNUXakRf5uCXWIyZEx6XUDzTInH1drPgoJE0RDhPMIk1GVI9u3PaenOLoicn3qKVU5fApt5nZQ1oaaerw6g2HbxXdC_EMS4izPeG/s1600/download-monitor_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="download monitor" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnyL4OVowMK9NKrcHCPv2DyU0s8yeccr2rRyDGu_qRNUXakRf5uCXWIyZEx6XUDzTInH1drPgoJE0RDhPMIk1GVI9u3PaenOLoicn3qKVU5fApt5nZQ1oaaerw6g2HbxXdC_EMS4izPeG/s1600/download-monitor_1.png" title="download monitor" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Once the Ubuntu Apps Showdown is over, Download Monitor will be available in the Ubuntu Software Center but if you want to install it already, you can use the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:duncanjdavis/download-monitor-submit<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install download-monitor</code></pre>For other Linux distributions, you can get Download Monitor via <a href="https://launchpad.net/download-monitor/+download">Launchpad</a>.<br /><br /><i>Also see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/network-traffic-monitor-ntm-for.html">Network Traffic Monitor (NTM) For Computers With Limited Internet Plans</a></i>

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Y PPA Manager 0.0.8.7 Released

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmZjDO6-DwcXKFKtHc8x_BaeTmAJz3LbL5HTo5UM_ewgDvk4sz5QweGUS4RZ1UlZFiU_se7jZ9nrq9kQz58tzN7S3jawCpFwKhWVq5YbDfz9h0wkPKDKsOUaIaqTgDT6IKPjOIkDBonCSC/s1600/y-ppa-manager.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmZjDO6-DwcXKFKtHc8x_BaeTmAJz3LbL5HTo5UM_ewgDvk4sz5QweGUS4RZ1UlZFiU_se7jZ9nrq9kQz58tzN7S3jawCpFwKhWVq5YbDfz9h0wkPKDKsOUaIaqTgDT6IKPjOIkDBonCSC/s320/y-ppa-manager.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://launchpad.net/y-ppa-manager">Y PPA Manager</a> is a tool for easily searching for packages in Ubuntu PPAs as well as perform various PPA actions: add, remove, purge, backup PPAs and more. The application integrates with Unity by using quicklists and an optional appindicator.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Today I'm releasing Y PPA Manager 0.0.8.7 which brings some bug fixes as well as a new feature: update-ppa, which can be used to update a single PPA source and not all software sources, useful for those with limited internet connectivity. It's like running "apt-get update", but for a single PPA, not all. </div><br />Here's an example - using update-ppa to update the main WebUpd8 PPA:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo update-ppa ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8</code></pre>This feature was added by WebUpd8 reader Satya (thank you!).<br /><br />Complete <b>changelog for the latest Y PPA Manager 0.0.8.7:</b><br /><ul><li>added "update-ppa" which can update a single PPA source and not all software sources, useful for those with limited internet connectivity. Usage example: sudo update-ppa ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager (thanks Satya)</li><li>when adding a PPA, the new "update-ppa" is used automatically so only that PPA source is updated, not all software sources</li><li>added man pages (thanks Satya)</li><li>automatically support newer Ubuntu versions (so this means the new version works on Ubuntu Quantal now)</li><li>fixed a bug that was occuring on Linux Mint 13, causing the default version to be set as blank</li><li>Scan for duplicate sources files now displays the number of duplicates found</li><li>the PPA backup feature now backs up / restores repositories keys too (launchpad-getkeys was and is still used to automatically fetch missing keys)</li><li>other minor fixes</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To install Y PPA Manager in Ubuntu (supported versions: from Lucid to Quantal) or Linux Mint, use the commands below:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install y-ppa-manager</code></pre><br />If you find bugs, report them @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/y-ppa-manager">Launchpad</a>.

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Unity News Lens Gets Local News With Geolocation, More

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEief0_eB0VI0G7KhQo8Iea2BC4C5JgFInXvlLTMHWCRRHAwUvCxOdt-1OtvDrk2QmzA3Deyp14TN2iDHRxaOu2URb60AXYZYfj0lTK80xCnh7QHNfKlNKBhsDUeUSxd8luRcUqb6vy3KB37/s1600/news-lens_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="unity news lens" border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEief0_eB0VI0G7KhQo8Iea2BC4C5JgFInXvlLTMHWCRRHAwUvCxOdt-1OtvDrk2QmzA3Deyp14TN2iDHRxaOu2URb60AXYZYfj0lTK80xCnh7QHNfKlNKBhsDUeUSxd8luRcUqb6vy3KB37/s320/news-lens_2.png" title="unity news lens" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Unity News Lens lets you search Google news from Dash and it currently supports 61 countries. The lens was updated recently, and it now includes local news, topics and top stories with up to 100 results. </b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The updated News Lens uses geolocation for local news to define the language used based on your country, but you can also use your session language by selecting <i>Language > Current</i> from the Unity News Lens filter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The lens will fallback to English and world news for countries not supported by Google News, but the news will be as local as possible, according to the Unity News Lens changelog.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY5CnZzbKcptgG2NDO2X-wPVBdyMo2KRVZX-aGorB-JsVifDWrwNQpMsl98taOUsyCoIiaArMm6QbCum5acPa6bz17LEZNmhIdlwIZJT8Ce9U747ytjqmrK504IZjLyimt5MxH69_tcvUg/s1600/unity-news-lens.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="unity news lens" border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY5CnZzbKcptgG2NDO2X-wPVBdyMo2KRVZX-aGorB-JsVifDWrwNQpMsl98taOUsyCoIiaArMm6QbCum5acPa6bz17LEZNmhIdlwIZJT8Ce9U747ytjqmrK504IZjLyimt5MxH69_tcvUg/s320/unity-news-lens.png" title="unity news lens" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To install Unity News Lens in Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install unity-lens-news</code></pre>Once installed, log out and log back in.<br /><br />Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/onehundredscopes">Launchpad</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>first image / info via David Callé @ <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/117867558830601601230/posts/7Cu6hoiHZ1S">Google+</a>.</i></div>

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Disable Global Menu Autohide Behaviour In Ubuntu 12.04

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2PxxcixhdLwaUa7ZtDV994UzgtQZZH5Ybx8YxnR0EEs7zRzLNUN-gyDl_Y7BFQjpIUQdK3UWKbWC7YTPFaZA9gq1bUo9XoPazPbf3YSIV4Axm-RYPrYCAdFR3L7M9-Kjnz-0epXMvg91k/s1600/unity-menu-always-visible_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="unity global menu always visible" border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2PxxcixhdLwaUa7ZtDV994UzgtQZZH5Ybx8YxnR0EEs7zRzLNUN-gyDl_Y7BFQjpIUQdK3UWKbWC7YTPFaZA9gq1bUo9XoPazPbf3YSIV4Axm-RYPrYCAdFR3L7M9-Kjnz-0epXMvg91k/s320/unity-menu-always-visible_2.png" title="unity global menu always visible" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Unity Revamped PPA created by <a href="https://launchpad.net/~ikarosdev">Isaac Joseph</a>, which provides Unity with two patches: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/how-to-get-dodge-windows-and-minimize.html">Dodge Windows and minimize/unmaximize on click for the Unity launcher</a>, has been <b>updated yesterday with some <a href="https://launchpadlibrarian.net/109094917/unity_5.12.0-0ubuntu3%2Bikarosdev3_source.changes">fixes</a> which aren't yet available for the Unity package from the official Ubuntu 12.04 repositories</b> as well as a <b>new patch that brings a much requested feature: an option to disable the application menu (global menu) autohide behaviour</b>.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The option that lets you disable menu autohide in Unity was supposed to be included by default in System Settings for Ubuntu 12.04, but it didn't make it for some reason. Hopefully, this option will make it into Ubuntu 12.10 by default, but until then, you can use the PPA below to get an option to disable the application menu autohide behaviour.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Unity with patches for dodge windows behaviour, minimize on click and option to disable menu autohide</h2><br /><b>To upgrade to the latest patched Unity from the Unity Revamped PPA in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ikarosdev/unity-revamped<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get upgrade</code></pre><br />Once the packages have been successfully upgraded, log out and log back in.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To get the menu to always be visible, you'll need to install CompizConfig Settings Manager:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager</code></pre><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbbN_Z3slOOBTWy3o26JZz_B-lPodOHIl8hBGUvkcqPpVqMCe6ijaoqP1JfukY_SpV12j1XVLfNK_aedAZDmZBwzCvO03hb4k0Kz9PiBI4jR6ZO8Km_e1nEN0Ia1rnE0mzHyHDTLv_rfQ5/s1600/unity-menu-always-visible.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="unity global menu always visible ccsm" border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbbN_Z3slOOBTWy3o26JZz_B-lPodOHIl8hBGUvkcqPpVqMCe6ijaoqP1JfukY_SpV12j1XVLfNK_aedAZDmZBwzCvO03hb4k0Kz9PiBI4jR6ZO8Km_e1nEN0Ia1rnE0mzHyHDTLv_rfQ5/s320/unity-menu-always-visible.png" title="unity global menu always visible ccsm" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Then open CompizConfig Settings Manager (CCSM), select "Ubuntu Unity Plugin" and on the "Experimental" tab, check the box next to "<b>Menu Always Visible</b>" (it's not checked by default).</div><br /><br /><h2>Revert the changes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If for some reason you want to completely remove the patched Unity and go back to Unity from the official Ubuntu 12.04 repositories without dodge windows, minimize on click and the option to disable appmenu autohide, use the commands below:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ppa-purge<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:ikarosdev/unity-revamped</code></pre>

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Fuduntu 2012.3 Available For Download

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKpcm4v6RVlmbl54OBe35tPHmSZpNHSCA49OHzoebefJs00MUgEoaY47gzHVh-VGmw__BY8Kogy_n27sStYewcHiloXW5qiGxte67kXOE-DiOybYovz9apVDuFNK8T8CkubxOB-GFwGMh2/s1600/fuduntu2012.3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="fuduntu 2012.3" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKpcm4v6RVlmbl54OBe35tPHmSZpNHSCA49OHzoebefJs00MUgEoaY47gzHVh-VGmw__BY8Kogy_n27sStYewcHiloXW5qiGxte67kXOE-DiOybYovz9apVDuFNK8T8CkubxOB-GFwGMh2/s320/fuduntu2012.3.png" title="fuduntu 2012.3" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.fuduntu.org/">Fuduntu</a>, a Linux distribution based on Fedora that comes with GNOME 2 by default but provides rolling updates for non-GNOME2 packages, has reached version 2012.3. </b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Fuduntu 2012.3 doesn't come with major desktop changes except for a new terminal font called Infinality Freetype: Avant Window Navigator is still used as the default launcher, there's a GNOME 2 panel on the top and so on, but there are many changes under the hood like updated GCC to 4.6.3, Anaconda 16, <b>GRUB 2 used by default</b> and more.</div><br />Updated packages in Fuduntu 2012.3:<br /><ul><li>Kernel 3.4.4</li><li>Chromium 19.0.1084.56</li><li>Firefox 13.0.1</li><li>Thunderbird 13.0.1</li><li>LibreOffice 3.5.4.2</li><li>GIMP 2.8</li><li>Pidgin 2.10.4</li><li>Grub2 2.0-0.27</li><li>VirtualBox OSE 4.1.16</li><li>GCC 4.6.3</li><li>Infinality Freetype 2.4.10</li><li>WINE 1.4.1</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In Fuduntu 2012.3, it's also easier to enable a proprietary driver: simply install nvidia-kmod, catalysst-kmod, wl-kmod or kmod-VirtualBox-OSE and restat your computer. Currently, Fuduntu supports Nvidia display driver 290.10, ATI Catalyst 12.4 and Broadcom Wifi Adapter driver 5.100.82.112, but there's an additional "kmod-staging" package that provides newer, but unsupported drivers.</div><br /><b>For more information, check out the official Funduntu 2012.3 <a href="http://www.fuduntu.org/blog/2012/07/02/fuduntu-2012-3-release/">release announcement</a>.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.fuduntu.org/get.html"><button class="thoughtbot">Download Fuduntu 2012.3</button></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Fewt for the tip!</i></div>

Fuduntu 2012.3 Available For Download

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GWoffice Brings Google Drive To Your Ubuntu Desktop

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY9AqQ9Al57Fd5gIbL05W7roZIk-OwAWUwBcClLKWExkMd6f-mSKukzOeoxMWt13wCYm-D5oaBSaqo5BRYIJgshgVxabS-G7_0abJWqoMLXyOB6q2HWoTN3MOes23lALr9glT32Gp8GqBW/s1600/gwoffice_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gwoffice" border="0" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY9AqQ9Al57Fd5gIbL05W7roZIk-OwAWUwBcClLKWExkMd6f-mSKukzOeoxMWt13wCYm-D5oaBSaqo5BRYIJgshgVxabS-G7_0abJWqoMLXyOB6q2HWoTN3MOes23lALr9glT32Gp8GqBW/s320/gwoffice_1.png" title="gwoffice" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://launchpad.net/gwoffice">GWoffice</a> (Google Web Office) is an application that integrates Google Docs (now Google Drive) with the Ubuntu desktop, providing basic synchronization support for offline use. From its interface you can create new documents and edit or download existing documents.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Since, like the name says, this is an office application, it only syncs documents and doesn't work with other file types, at least not for now.<br /><br />The application comes with a beautiful, clean GTK interface, supports HUD and comes with Unity badge and progress bar support as well as quicklists that lets you easily create new documents. Furthermore, the editor is themed according to your current GTK theme.<br /><br />There's also <b>Unity drag and drop upload support (drag and drop files onto the GWoffice Unity launcher icon to upload them)</b>, which for for now doesn't support all file types (document files like .odt, ods, xls and .doc should work for example) because <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/07/gwoffice-brings-google-drive-to-your.html#comment-574233687">according to its developer</a>, the application is written for the Ubuntu App Showdown contest and it's only allowed to use packages available in the Ubuntu 12.04 official repositories, and a newer version of libgdata is needed for a fully working upload system.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyIpAHXDazaSCVjlyiAjBTJTX859uDcpu_ie3PCdq3x0oYIpjHmTpTCooOjRwuwM5H_cHzTH8NJN5uFZyJkJhZLFsA48UopvKB3sNhff_CBm4Mz7AW5svBI8-RTrty_edE2-LmyyfEgmdq/s1600/gwoffice_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gwoffice" border="0" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyIpAHXDazaSCVjlyiAjBTJTX859uDcpu_ie3PCdq3x0oYIpjHmTpTCooOjRwuwM5H_cHzTH8NJN5uFZyJkJhZLFsA48UopvKB3sNhff_CBm4Mz7AW5svBI8-RTrty_edE2-LmyyfEgmdq/s320/gwoffice_2.png" title="gwoffice" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">From its preferences, you can choose to download all documents automatically and resync on startup - the downloaded Google Drive files will be saved in the "gwoffice" folder in your home directory. </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There's no preferences entry yet, but using Dconf (under <i>org > gnome > goffice > ubuntu-style</i>), you can <b>set Gwoffice to use an Ubuntu-style toolbar</b> with monochrome icons, when using Ambiance / Radiance themes or to always use an Ubuntu-style toolbar:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_P8KPrGjS529qkmVHDAyKhO1KSZcqmlrbbkiP6TqvMPktfp3NfpgG_tth0TH0Rz0AEYz-Qq4Ewp2nj_VHdsidlybO0bmt7d9E_HLpBCSoLPzH8-rp-8P9WZgOPhwlcohkNjWl-8HbmNaP/s1600/gwoffice_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gwoffice" border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_P8KPrGjS529qkmVHDAyKhO1KSZcqmlrbbkiP6TqvMPktfp3NfpgG_tth0TH0Rz0AEYz-Qq4Ewp2nj_VHdsidlybO0bmt7d9E_HLpBCSoLPzH8-rp-8P9WZgOPhwlcohkNjWl-8HbmNaP/s320/gwoffice_3.png" title="gwoffice" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The application is only two weeks old, so there's still work to do</b>, but it looks very promising already. <b>If you want to try it out in Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tombeckmann/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install gwoffice</code></pre>Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/gwoffice">Launchpad</a>.<br /><br /><i>Also see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/grive-open-source-google-drive-client.html">Grive: Open Source Google Drive Client For Linux</a></i><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://www.lffl.org/2012/07/gwoffice-utilizzare-google-documents.html">lffl.org</a></i></div>

GWoffice Brings Google Drive To Your Ubuntu Desktop

GWoffice (Google Web Office) is an application that integrates Google Docs (now Google Drive) with the Ubuntu desktop, providing basic sync...

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