Better Steam For Linux Performance With `Steam Login`

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://github.com/thor27/steam-login">Steam Login</a> is a package that you can use in Ubuntu or Linux Mint to login directly to Steam BigPicture mode from the login screen. </b><br /><br />This is useful because it doesn't load a whole desktop environment, resulting in more resources being available (there's also no composite manager running) for Steam and the games available for it.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/steam-big-picture.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Steam for Linux Big Picture mode"><img alt="Steam for Linux Big Picture mode" src="http://img.netupd8.com/steam-big-picture_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steam BigPicture mode<b><br /></b></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The Steam Login session uses Xfwm4 - the Xfce window manager -, and it even <b>supports</b> <b>Nvidia Optimus if Bumblebee and/or <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/primus-better-performance-and-less.html" title="Primus: Better Performance And Less Power Consumption For Bumblebee [Optimus Hybrid Graphics Chipsets]">Primus</a> is installed</b>; however, this doesn't mean the games will actually run with Bumblebee, because the scripts Steam uses to start the games overwrite some variables (for running Steam games with optirun / primusrun, see <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/groups/LinuxOptimus/discussions/1/864951657813049306/">THIS</a> post).<br /><br />That's not the only optimization available in Steam Login, there are also some font tweaks and a fix for the Team Fortress 2 black screen bug.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Steam Login in Ubuntu / Linux Mint</h2><br />Firstly, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/steam-for-linux-now-available-to-all.html">download and install Steam for Linux</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Steam Login is available in a PPA for Ubuntu 12.10 / Linux Mint 14 - add the PPA and install it using the commands below:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thor27-gmail/steam-desktop<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install steam-login</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For Ubuntu 12.04 / Linux Mint 13</b>, you can download the Steam Login deb from <a href="https://github.com/thor27/steam-login/downloads">GitHub</a> (don't download the "hacked" version, that's not needed anymore now that Steam for Linux beta is available to all users).</div><br />Once installed, log out and select "STEAM" from the login screen:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/steam-login.png" rel="image_group" title="Steam Login - Ubuntu login screen"><img alt="Steam Login Ubuntu login screen" src="http://img.netupd8.com/steam-login_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-Unity-Make-Steam-for-Linux-Your-Desktop-Environment-315473.shtml">Softpedia</a></i></div>

Better Steam For Linux Performance With `Steam Login`

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Steam For Linux Now Available To All Users

<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/steam-for-linux.png"><img alt="Steam for Linux screenshot" src="http://img.netupd8.com/steam-for-linux_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Valve has just <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/news/9638/">announced</a> that Steam for Linux (beta) is now available to all Steam users, just in time for the Steam Winter sale which starts today:</b></div><br /><a name="more"></a><blockquote><i>The Steam for Linux beta client is now available to all Steam users, so if you've been patiently waiting for an invitation to join us, consider yourself officially invited!</i><br /><i><br /></i> <i>With a growing <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/">catalog of Linux-supported games</a>, an active Steam for Linux community group, and a new <a href="https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues">GitHub</a> bug reporting repository, the timing’s right to jump in and share your feedback. </i></blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you've already downloaded and installed Steam for Linux beta, you should redownload and install the latest deb available on its website, because <b>Steam now has its own Ubuntu <a href="http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/">repository</a> </b>that's going to be used for updates. Well, at least in theory, because as soon as I've installed the new deb and launched Steam, it started to download an update through the client.</div><br />Supported games include Serious Sam 3: BFE, Team Fortress 2, Killing Floor and others. For a list of games supported by Steam for Linux, see <a href="https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8495-OKZC-0159">THIS</a> page.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/steam-ubuntu.png"><img alt="Steam for Linux Ubuntu window borders" src="http://img.netupd8.com/steam-ubuntu_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In other Steam-related news, a recent Steam client update brought Joystick hotplug and multi-monitor support. Oh, and the <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/download-steam-for-linux-skin-manager.html">Steam Skin Manager</a> about which we've written a few days ago, has added an option to use native window borders for Steam (screenshot above).</div><br /><br /><h2>Download Steam for Linux</h2><br /><br /><b>Ubuntu / Debian / Linux Mint,</b> etc.: <b><a href="http://store.steampowered.com/about/">Download Steam for Linux beta (deb)</a></b>. The deb is for 32bit but it works on 64bit because Ubuntu supports multi-arch.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Steam download page should automatically detect your OS and offer a deb file for download but in case that doesn't work properly, here's a direct <a href="http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb">Steam deb</a> download link.</i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you can't install Steam using Ubuntu Software Center, place the Steam deb file in your home directory, open a terminal and copy/paste the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo dpkg -i steam_latest.deb</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The GPG key for the Steam Ubuntu repository isn't added when installing the deb package, so you might get an error like the one below when running an update:</div><br /><blockquote>W: GPG error: http://repo.steampowered.com precise InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F24AEA9FB05498B7</blockquote><br />To fix this, run the following commands in a terminal:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys F24AEA9FB05498B7<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre><br />Also see the getting started with Steam instructions @ <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valve">Ubuntu wiki</a>.<br /><br />If you get a dependency error when trying to install the Steam deb in Debian, try <a href="https://gist.github.com/4231563">THIS</a>. <br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>While Steam is officially supported only on Ubuntu, it can be installed in other Linux distributions such as Arch Linux, Fedora, Fuduntu, Gentoo and others:</b></div><br /><b>- Arch Linux:</b> Steam is available in <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/steam/">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><b>- Fuduntu</b>: install Steam using: "beesu yum install steam".<br /><br /><b>- Gentoo:</b> instructions for installing Steam, <a href="http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam">HERE</a>.<br /><br />- <b>openSUSE, Fedora and Mandriva</b> users can grab <b>Steam rpm</b> (there are also Fedora packages) from <a href="https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=steam&project=games">HERE</a>.

Steam For Linux Now Available To All Users

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Download The New KDE SC 4.10 Default Wallpaper

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

Download The New KDE SC 4.10 Default Wallpaper

A new default wallpaper, which will be used for the new KDE SC 4.10, was pushed to the KDE GIT repository today: New KDE SC 4.10 default wal...

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How To Get A Global Menu In MATE Desktop

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

How To Get A Global Menu In MATE Desktop

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Raspberry Pi Gets An App Store

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

Raspberry Pi Gets An App Store

Raspberry Pi , the "$25 computer", now has its own app store. Pi Store is available for Raspbian (Debian for Raspberry Pi) and on...

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