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Install Up-Clock – Ubuntu Touch Style Lockscreen App on Your Desktop

Last updated: June 11, 2015

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Up-Clock is a beautiful linux application inspired by the Ubuntu Touch Lockscreen. It’s a desktop clock widget that was carefully built to be pretty and smart.

The configuration is really simple, you can change the color, set alarm, change the clock type, tranparency, and more…

Install Up-Clock in Ubuntu:

There’s a PPA contains the packages for this app, available for Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.04.

To add the PPA and install up-clock, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run below commands one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apandada1/up-clock 

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install up-clock

If you don’t want to add PPA, grab and install the .deb package directly from the launchpad page.

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How to Install Speed Dreams (Racing Game) in Ubuntu 15.04

Last updated: June 9, 2015

Speed Dreams is an open source 3D racing game which is initially forked from TORCS. It features high quality graphics, 3D real-time motorsport simulator for gamers and researchers, and a variety of input devices support (e.g, keyboards, mouses, joypads, joysticks, racing wheels and pedals.).

Speed Dreams works on Linux, Microsoft Windows, AmigaOS 4, AROS, MorphOS and Haiku. For Ubuntu, it can be easily installed from PlayDeb repository and below is how:

1. Add PlayDeb repository.

Open terminal from the Dash/Launcher or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run:

echo deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu vivid-getdeb games | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playdeb.list

2. Import the keyring:

wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

3. Launch Synaptic Package Manager (install it from Ubuntu Software Center if need), search for install speed dreams after checking for updates:

You may install all the packages listed in the above picture to get more cars and tracks.

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Komodo Edit 9.1 Released, PPA for Ubuntu 14.04/12.04/15.04

Last updated: June 6, 2015

A new release of Komodo Edit text editor has been announced with UI and user experience improvements and bug fixes.

Changes in Komodo Edit 9.1 according to the release note:

  • Select Commando (Go to Anything) results by pressing ALT+number.
  • The Commando user experience has had significant usability improvements. Most notably when starting Commando you will now be presented with a convenient list of scopes that you can use to narrow down your search results.
  • Color Schemes: Use foreground color for caret color
  • Commando: Don’t preserve query when navigating backwards.
  • Commando: Escape now clears the current search.
  • SDK: Added the “shell” SDK, allowing you to easily run shell commands.
  • UI: Improved scrollbar contrast on dark color schemes.
  • UI: “Ugly border” showing around notifications on windows
  • CodeIntel: Improve PHPDoc tooltip legibility – contributed by Defman

Install/upgrade Komodo Edit in Ubuntu:

Komodo Edit 9 with Unity integration has been made into PPA, available for Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 15.04.

To install it, open terminal from the Dash/Launcher or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, follow below steps:

1. Add the PPA repository, run command:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:mystic-mirage/komodo-edit

2. Refresh system cache via Software Updater or by running below command:

sudo apt-get update

3. Upgrade the editor through Software Updater, or install it via below command:

sudo apt-get install komodo-edit

Done.

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How to Install Spotify Client 1.x (Beta) in Ubuntu

Last updated: June 5, 2015

The beta version of the next major 1.x release of Spotify client for Linux has been announced a few hours ago, available for test in its testing repository.

According to the announcement, the 1.x client brings below changes to Linux users:

  • Various text/mouse input bugs in current stable release (e.g. client doesn’t give up mouse focus, crash on drag/drop, text input not work on some window managers) have been fixed.
  • “Now playing” notifications can be switched off in the settings page
  • The WM_CLASS property should be set correctly

As a beta release (version 1.0.7.153.gb9e8174a at the moment), there are some known issues/limitations:

  • Login with Facebook Connect does not work (will be fixed soon)
  • There is no application menu
  • There is no tray icon
  • Some key bindings do not work yet, like ctrl+s for shuffle, etc.
  • The application is super tiny on hi-res displays
  • 32-bit builds are not available yet

If you want to try this new client in Ubuntu 14.04/15.04, follow bellow steps to add Spotify testing repository and keep the client up-to-date via Software Updater.

1. To add the testing repository, open terminal and run:

echo deb http://repository.spotify.com testing non-free | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list

2. After that, you can install the 1.x client either via Synaptic Package Manager or by running below commands one by one:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install spotify-client

3. (Optional) To remove the testing repository, just run:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list

For those who don’t want to add the repository, download the .deb package at web page.

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Install the Latest Unity 8 and Mir in Ubuntu 14.04/15.04 via PPA

Last updated: June 4, 2015

For those who are interested in testing the latest Unity 8, the next generation Unity shell running on the Mir display, you can now install a preview from PPA.

A Launchpad project, Unity8 Desktop Preview in LXC, is a set of tools and scripts to run the Unity 8 desktop preview ISO in a Linux container on released Ubuntu versions starting with Trusty (14.04). User can log in to the Unity 8 LXC session from LightDM greeter just as they would any normal session.

Install Unity 8 Preview via PPA:

A PPA has been created for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 15.04 and next Ubuntu 15.10.

1. To add the PPA, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) from the Dash/launcher and run:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:unity8-desktop-session-team/unity8-preview-lxc

2. update your system cache by running command:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade

3. Install the package for Unity 8 in lxc:

sudo apt-get install unity8-lxc

Note: This installs a slightly modified version of lightdm that works allows the lxc container login.

4. To set up the Unity8 Desktop Preview LXC, you need to run:

sudo unity8-lxc-setup

What this does is setup the configuration for the LXC, downloads the ISO and then extracts it, and then any last bits of setup necessary to make it work.

Finally restart your computer and you should be able to select log in “Unity 8 in LXC” session from lightdm login screen. For more, read the wiki page.

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Audacious 3.6.2 Released with Important Fixes.

Last updated: June 1, 2015

The 3.6.2 release of Audacious music player has been released recently with 4 important bug fixes.

Audacious is a free and open source audio player with a focus on low resource use, high audio quality, and support for a wide range of audio formats. It’s a fork of XMMS and the default audio player in Lubuntu and in Ubuntu Studio.

Audacious 3.6.2 was released at the end of May. It fixed:

  • audacious won’t play back tagged True Audio (TTA) files
  • crash when enable Dynamic Range Compresor plugin
  • audacious skips to the next song when using audtool –playback-seek-relative -x and reaching the start of a song
  • No sound with 36 kHz Ogg Vorbis file after equalizer is enabled.

How to install/upgrade Audacious in Ubuntu:

Webupd8 Team is maintaining a PPA with Audacious packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Mint 17, and eOS Freye.

To add the PPA and install/upgrade the player, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) from the Dash or app launcher and then run below commands one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins

Note: There may be a few hours delay for the latest release to be made into PPA, check out the PPA page.

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