Gnome 3.10 release contains 34786 changes by approximately 985 contributors. It has major new features and large collection of small-small enhancements and an improved experience for users. Want to switch Gnome 3.10 from Ubuntu Unity environ. Here’s how you can easily install or uninstall Gnome 3.10 in Ubuntu 13.10 Linux.
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Ubuntu 13.10 update adds a new keyboard indicator which is enabled by default but there are many users who don’t need this. The option simply allows you to switch between keyboard layouts of various languages, keyboard types. But the users who don’t swap between keyboard, don’t need it.
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QupZilla has enhanced some features in its latest release. QupZilla is a free web browser licensed under GPLv3, intended for general users. The browser allows seamless integration with users’ desktop environments and comes with several distinguishing features positively received by reviewers. Checkout its screenshots here.
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The free Software concept such as GPL has demolishing power against software companies, which make huge profits by plundering the ignorant and helpless people across all countries. By now Linux has been most successful mass collaboration in the history of coding a program. Still its overshadowing its operating system GNU has almost been a corporate conspiracy since otherwise they were unable to fight the concept of free software.
The free software effect has not yet been liberated through an independent economy of free software programmers. Once we globally fix-up minimum acceptable wage for per hour of free software support, the world will not remain the same as it has been in software business. There has been a clear-cut corporate conspiracy to fight the free software effect so it has to fight back.
When Richard Stallman was writing a new operating system as free software in 1983, he had to name it distinctively but meaningfully in its historical consequence. So he decided to name that something that is ‘Not Unix’. To do so he tried to find out a word ending with ‘nu’. His search ended up at an animal usually found in sub-Saharan forests of Africa named ‘gnu’. Thus the new operating system was named for ‘GNU is Not UNIX’.
Indeed GNU was not UNIX but it needed a kernel to get completed. That was got written by Linus Torvalds in Helsinki in 1991 so named as ‘Linux’. By 2008 using same Linux kernel another operating system for mobile devices got released that is known as Android. Like nobody bothers to call that Linux, nobody is correct in calling GNU also as Linux. In fact Linux has become a widely used kernel in at-least two major operating systems, which actually are GNU and Android.
phpMyAdmin is a free software that provides you a user friendly interface to work with MySQL on the web. It simply provides you a convenient visual frontend to access MySQL capabilities. This tutorial shows you the steps for installing phpMyAdmin on Ubunu Linux so before installing it make sure you must have root privileges on your virtual private server.
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After the launch of new dual-boot that enables installation of Canonical’s mobile alongside with Android mobile OS. Despite being warned that it is a ‘developer preview’, there are many who installed it following all instructions from Ubuntu developers but still they were many confusions that made them a little stumped.
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Simple Screen Recorder is an easy user friendly program you can use for making demos, tutorials, or recording videos or games. You can use this program to record your screen, you can set a custom record size, you can record a specific section, you can use the mouse and follow the cursor, you can scale video, include microphone etc.
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Slax is a fast, modern, lightweight, live boot free operating system with a modular approach and outstanding layout and style. It is small in size but still it provides you a wide range of pre-installed software useful for everyday use. It includes a well organized GUI (Graphical user interface) and recovery tools. Other than this it also provides you various modules you can download if you are missing any specific feature. For Example: If any networking tool or game is missing you can download its module with the software and copy it to your Slax OS without running any installation or setting up any configuration settings.
A few easy steps (no software installation is required) can turn your Ubuntu Laptop in to a Wireless Router and you can share your Internet connection with other users using other devices may be Netbook, Tablet or Laptop etc. You can do this thing visually right from the Ubuntu GUI (Graphical User Interface) but there are some limitations like for some devices. There are some devices that may not support ad-hoc wireless networks and Ubuntu can only create wireless hotspots using weak WEP encryption instead of strong WPA encryption.
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Insert blank CD/DVD into your burner. A ‘CD/DVD Creator’, ‘Choose Disc Type’ or ‘Blank Disc’ window might pop up. Close it.
Now look up for the downloaded ISO file in the file manager, right click on the ISO file and click ‘Write to Disc’:
Where it says ‘Write disc to’, you might have options like ‘File image’ as well as your CD drive. Select your CD drive.
Now select write speed. For burning an Ubuntu Live CD it is recommended to write at the lowest possible speed. Finally, start the burning process.
After it finishes, verify that your CD now gave multiple files and folders and not just the ISO file you have burnt. If you can see multiple files and folders in the CD then congratulations, you have successfully completed the ISO burning process.
The tutorial is about installing Android on your laptop. This is possible for average Linux users and you can do it yourself without any coding skills required.
To Start, first thing you need to do get latest Android download so refer to Androidx86 project download page, Lookup for section RC 1 and download Android ISO for your laptop/tablet or netbook ISO and as you can see there are a few options available:
Second step is to copy it to a flash drive. You have the ISO file and now its time to write it on a USB drive so that you can boot from it on your laptop.
You can create a flash drive by using UNetBootIn, it is an open source cross platform app about which we have already discussed. If you are using Ubuntu Linux the refer to its tutorial we posted before other wise you may install it on Windows, MAC etc by refering to its webpage here. Windows users can also use Linux Live USB Creator, best for windows users.
Copy the contents of the ISO to a flash drive, unlike to other ISOs, this can be done in just 1 GB USB drive.
Finally, Third step is to boot your laptop on USB. Put your USB and boot your laptop from USB drive and follow/select from on screen instructions.
It provides you various options for partitioning, dual-botting etc. Check out the Androidx86 installation guide here.
UNetbootin is an opensource cross platform application that provides you functions to easily create bootable Live USB drives for Android, Ubuntu, Fedora and other Linux distributions without any burning a CD. The application is compatible with Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Also you can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or you can supply your own Linux .iso file if you’ve already downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn’t on the list. For installing UNetbootin in Ubuntu you have to give a few simple commands from terminal.
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Many new Ubuntu users spend hours in look up for settings to change default Ubuntu programs. For example: Suppose you want to change default video player from ‘Movie Player’ to ‘VLC Player’. For setting up default running programs in Ubuntu 12.04, first thing you need to do is click the settings icon present on the top left corner and select ‘System Settings’ option.
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HackerTray, a free Linux app programmed with Python2 (inspired from Hacker Bar) simply brings Hacker News to your Linux menu bar. It is yet not compatible with all Linux systems but works really nice with Ubuntu. Following screenshot explains everything pretty well about how it works on your Ubuntu desktop. So now we are starting with its installation and upgrade process etc.
Open your Linux Terminal and use the following commands to install:
sudo pip install hackertray OR sudo easy_install hackertray OR #Download Source and cd to it sudo python setup.py install
Now you can run hackertray from anywhere. Other than this you can now add it to your OS dependent session autostart method.
If you are a Ubuntu user then you can access it from:
Depending upon your Ubuntu Linux Version. Or simply put it in ~/.config/openbox/autostart if you are running OpenBox. Here you can see how the configuration should look like in Ubuntu and its derivatives.
The latest stable version is always available on pip. You can check which version you have installed with pip freeze | grep hackertray.
To upgrade, run pip install -U hackertray.
In some cases (Ubuntu), you might need to clear the pip cache before upgrading:
sudo rm -rf /tmp/pip-build-root/hackertray
Skype uses decentralized peer-to-peer technologies and lets you make calls without letting anything go through a central server, but through distributed servers and other users. It is proprietary software you may use for making calls over the Internet using your computer. The Skype software is free to use, but it is not free software. It is free as a beer, its source code is not available for modification.
By default Skype is not installed on Ubuntu but you may install it by clicking: Install the skype package. You need to Activate the Canonical Partner Repository to install Skype.
OR alternatively you may install it by visiting Ubuntu Software Centre. OR you may install it directly from your terminal. Follow the steps:
Step-1 Open your terminal, type the following command and hit ENTER:
sudo apt-get install libqt4-dbus libqt4-network libqt4-xml libasound2
Step-2 If it asks for password, type password and hit Enter again.
Step-3 Now use the following command for downloading Skype:
wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-ubuntu-32 and hit Enter.
wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-ubuntu-64 and hit Enter.
Step-4 After you finished downloading, use the following command to install Skype:
sudo dpkg -i getskype-*
Step-5 Now finally to finish installing:
sudo apt-get -f install
That’s all with download and installation. Now open Dash Home, type Skype, open and start using it.
Don’t know what Ubuntu Universal Access is? You can do much more with your mouse, keyboard and touch pad. Open your Ubuntu system. From the top right corner of top panel click the small settings icon and then click System Settings option. From System Settings page scroll down to System sub section and click blue color Universal Access icon. It provides you many different useful options, by default it opens up Seeing tab, now lets see what you can do here:
You can enable visual alerts. You can enable a visual alert indication when an alert sound occurs like you can flash window title or even you can flash entire screen. Great feature if you don’t like hearing alert sounds again and again. Sometimes they are very disturbing.
This is very useful tab. Here you can enable virtual screeen keyboard, Most Ubuntu users don’t know that Ubuntu already provides you a cool virtual keyboard, they keep searching for it on cloud.
In normal conditions there is no use of virtual key pressing but sometimes when any key of your keyboard stops working, or you are watching a movie on your laptop, having snacks and suddenly you receive an email sound and you don’t want to touch your keyboard and make it dirty. Well you can respond to your email by using Ubuntu’s virtual keyboard.
You can also turn on accessibility features from the keyboard. You can turn on Sticky Keys, it treats a sequence of modifier keys as a key combination. You can enable certain conditions like you can disable if two keys are pressed together. Also you can enable a beep if a modifier key is pressed.
Slow keys: You can turn them on or off. They put a delay between when a key is pressed and when it is accepted..
Also you can change acceptance delay by dragging its bar from short to long. Other than this yo can enable a beep, beep when a key is pressed, accepted or rejected..
Bounce keys: You can enable or diable bounce keys. They ignore fast duplicate key presses. Here also you can enable a beep when a key is rejected and change the acceptance delay by dragging the bar between shot and long.
At the bottom of this page you will find a small text area where you can type to test settings.
Pointing and clicking tab provides you options for Mouse keys, Simulated Secondary Click, Hover Click.
Mouse Keys: Cool option. You can enable Mouse Keys by pressing the on/off button given there. These mouse keys allows you to control your mouse pointer using your keypad.
Simulated Secondary Click: Enable option to trigger a secondary click by holding down the primary button. Provides you controlf for acceptance delay.
Hover Click: Allows you to trigger a click when pointer hovers. This also provides you delay control and mothion threshold.
Mouse Settings: At the very bottom of the page (right corner) you will see a Mouse Settings link. This directs you to Mouse and Touch pad controls page where you can:
Other than this you can increase or decrease threshhold for Drag & Drop and Double Click Timeout.
Now finally click the Touchpad tab. Here you can enable or disable touchpad while typing, you can enable/disable mouse clicks with touch pad.
Scrolling options allows you to turn on Edge Scrolling, Two Finger Scrolling and Horizontal Scrolling or you can completely disable the touchpad scrolling.
Last, Pointer Speed section allows you to increase or decrease Mouse Pointer Speed (this time touchpad’s mouse pointer), its acceleration & senstivity.
Ubuntu Tweak is awesome Ubuntu app and we havealready discussed about it earlier. Now this tutorial explains you how you can use Ubuntu Tweak for cleaning up your system so its more likely a freshly installed one. [ALSO READ: Downloading and Installing Ubuntu Tweak]
Ubuntu Tweak provides you a cool handy feature called Computer Janitor. So first of all click Ubuntu’s Dash Home present at the top of your Ubuntu Launcher.
Type Ubuntu Tweak in search box and click top open the app. By default Ubuntu Tweak opens up its Overview tab. Click Janitor tab present on the top left corner, last tab of Ubuntu Teak.
From the left sidebar you can individually select caches you like cleaning up from your system. So tick the boxes like Firefox Cache, Software Center Cache, Personal Cache like Thumbnail Cache, System Cache like Apt Cache, Old Kernel, Packed Configs and Unneeded Packages etc.
As soon you tick any cache box, on the right site Janitor will provide you further selections you can choose. Now finally click the CLEAN button present on the bottom left corner.
Ubuntu Tweak [ALSO READ: Ubuntu Tweak, Download & Installation Tutorial], a well know application among Ubuntu Users. The application provides you various useful features and customization you can make in Ubuntu Unity without any programming skills. Here we are discussing about the tweaks this useful application provides you.
Type Ubuntu Tweak in search box and click top open the app. By default Ubuntu Tweak opens up its Overview tab. Click Tweak tab, third tab from both left and right side.
Now here you will be seeing various on/off buttons handy buttons. From this page you can turn on/off HUD, you can enable fullscreen mode in Ubuntu Dash. you can enable Super key, you can set launcher hide mode to never hide, auto hide or intellihide, you can enable or diable Composing Manager but to take it affect you may need to log out then log in back. Other than these all settings you can also increase working spaces, by default Ubuntu Launcher shows you four working spaces but you can increases that number to 36 or decrease it to just 1.
Ubuntu Tweak is a free Ubuntu app for configuring Ubuntu easily without working with any terminal command and code etc. It provides you many cool desktop and system controls that default Ubuntu desktop environment doesn’t provide you. Using Ubuntu Tweak you will be able to enjoy the experience of Ubuntu.
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Sometime back Google released Google Play Music Manager for desktop computers that enables its users to upload their music collections to cloud and download their library to their hard drive easily. After the music files are uploaded to cloud, they can be listened from any Android Phone, desktop computers, tablets etc.
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