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Xfce4 Whisker Menu Added Dragging Launchers to Panel or Desktop

Last updated: December 30, 2013

xfce4 whisker menu

Whisker Menu, the default application launcher of Linux Mint Xfce Desktop now is at version 1.3.0. According to the changelog, now you can drag app launchers from Whisker Menu to Panel or Desktop.

Whisker Menu 1.3 ChangeLog:

  • Fix menu artifacts when switching categories
  • Fix undefined behavior in slots
  • Add command to launch menu editor
  • Add command to switch users
  • Add hiding commands
  • Add browsing for commands
  • Add hiding category and launcher icons
  • Add loading default settings from a file
  • Add search actions
  • Add running arbitrary programs in PATH
  • Add dragging launchers to panel or desktop
  • Add support for custom menu files
  • Defer loading applications until window is shown
  • Merge configuration dialog tabs
  • Rearrange source files to match standard layout of Xfce plugins
  • Reduce unnecessary reloading of applications
  • Rewrite search model code
  • Use a single row in Xfce 4.10 panel
  • Use empty file for saving settings
  • Translation updates: Asturian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Taiwan), Dutch, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Malay, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek

Xfce Drag launcher to desktop or panel

Click “Mark Executable” button if you get below window. The desktop icon will work properly next time you open it.

Xfce drag launcher to desktop

Install Whisker Menu:

If you’re on Xfce Desktop with Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint 13/14/15/16 and their derivatives. Whisker Menu can be easily installed from PPA.

Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gottcode/gcppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin

For Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and other Linux, go to whisker menu homepage

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Free Accounting Software GnuCash 2.6.0 Stable Released

Last updated: July 25, 2014

GnuCash 2.6 Stable

The latest stable release of GnuCash, a personal and small-business financial-accounting software now is at version 2.6.x, announced on 29th Dec 2013.

What’s New in GnuCash 2.6:

New Features:

Preferences have been migrated from GConf to GSettings. This is a simpler and more robust backend which writes to the OS’s native prefs — defaults on OS X and the Registry on MSWindows — and allows us to remove several troublesome dependencies including GConf, ORBit, and DBus. The change includes a migration script that will run at Gnucash startup.

New date handling which allows GnuCash to use dates after March 2038.

Guile-2 compatibility: GnuCash now requires either Guile-1.8 or Guile-2.0 Documents outside of GnuCash, images of receipts for example, can now be linked to transactions, with the facility of opening them in the default application for the document type.

Cutsom Reports can now be saved without renaming the report, and modifications can overwrite an existing report.

The import assistant now finishes much more quickly after assigning contra-accounts.

GnuCash now requires Gtk+-2.24.0 and GLib-2.26.0. Most of the dependencies on obsolete libraries have been removed; only libgnomecanvas remains. Unfortunately the effort to rewrite the register code to use GtkTreeModel wasn’t completed in time, so GnuCash is not on the cusp of converting to Gtk3.

The Business Module has been substantially revamped, including support for Credit Notes and import of customers and vendors from a CSV file.

The Num field in the register display is now optionally per-split, so for example a check number can be entered for the checking account split and an invoice number for the expense account split.

GnuCash can now open locked books read-only so that more than one user can view a file. GnuCash still does not support multiple simultaneous writers.

By agreement of all authors, GnuCash is now licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later rather than simply Version 2. This allows derivative works to be licensed under the GPL Version 3 if the author of such a work so desires.

Bug fixes since 2.5.10:

  • Asset account’s “total” value should use most recent transaction prices
  • libofx can supply broken UTF-8 for account id
  • GnuCash should sanitise UTF-8 before serialising files to avoid writing broken unparseable XML.
  • General Ledger – Can’t Enter Transaction Amounts
  • The Tip of the Day preference isn’t getting saved
  • New Book Tabs on Windows

Other Changes:

  • Don’t create a second account hierarchy page when cancelling the Hierarchy Assistant or when using Actions->New Account Hierarchy on an already open book.
  • Reset Warnings dialog: show translated warnings
  • The locale-names for Help and the Tutorial and Concepts Guide have been renamed to language-only so that, for example, someone using the Swiss-German locale will be shown help in German instead of English.

Download & Install GnuCash 2.6:

Source Code and Windows EXE file are available in sf download page.

For Ubuntu users, build GnuCash 2.6 from source or wait for Canonical updating the universe repository.

GnuCash Website

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Install Foobnix, Foobar2000-Like Music Player in Ubuntu Linux

Last updated: February 25, 2015

Foobar2000-Like music player

Foobnix is a light and functional music player with Foobar2000-Like user interface available for Linux and Windows. It supports all popular formats, flac, lossless, CUE, 5000+ radios from box, online music for free, Last.fm and Vkontakte and more.

Foobnix has below features:

  • Support for CUE (also wv, iso.wv) is the best under Linux (zavlab)
  • Formats MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND …
  • Converter any format to any (mp3, ogg, mp2, ac3, m4a, wav)
  • Scrobbler tags with music and radio
  • Find and play music and videos
  • Equalizer
  • Online music download manager
  • Shortcuts
  • Displays the album cover, lyrics, photo artist
  • Integration with VKontakte (displaying all the friends and their music, downloading music from the group vkontakte)
  • Integration with Last.FM (Show plays the best songs, favorite songs, artists)

Screenshots:

Foobnix custom themes

Foobnix custom themes

Foobnix compact foobar2000 like

Foonix compact foobar2000 like

Foobnix Local Music view

Foonix Local Music view

foobnix watch video

foobnix watch video

Install Foobnix in Ubuntu:

Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it open, run below commands one by one:

UPDATE: So far supports Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.10. Old release also available in the PPA.

For stable release (Support Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10, 12.04, 10.04):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:foobnix-team/foobnix-player
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install foobnix

For development release (Support Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10, 13.04, 12.04):

sudo apt-get remove foobnix
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:popsul1993/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install foobnix

To install from source:

sudo python setup.py install
# or
sudo make install
# or
./install

More information at GitHub page

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Virus Scanner ClamTk 5.02 released, Install in Ubuntu

Last updated: December 30, 2013

clamtk 5.02, clamav gui

ClamTk, a GUI front-end for ClamAV Virus Scanner recently released version 5.02. This release brings a little UI improvements, bug fixes as well as translation updates. See the changelog:

  • Add gnome-icon-theme to requirements (mostly affects KDE-based systems like Kubuntu; it’s pretty standard with most distros)
  • Update statusbar after saving update preferences
  • Add missing icon in Nautilus context menu
  • Remove unused (notify-send and more) code from App.pm
  • Ensure FileChooserButton cannot be clicked with nothing (due to inability to reset)
  • Remove deprecated encoding pragma.
  • Updated language files: Bulgarian (bg), Czech (cs), Slovak (sk), Chinese (zh_CN), Irish (ga)

ClamTk 5.02 Ubuntu

Download & Install ClamTk:

For Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint user:

ClamTk main package

thunar-sendto-clamtk (Xfce Thunar plugin)

clamtk-kde (KDE Dolphin plugin)

nemo-sendto-clamtk (Linux Mint Nemo plugin)

NOTE: previous packages only work for Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and higher. For Ubuntu 12.04, install ClamTk 5.00

For Fedora, CentOS, Source Tarball, go to ClamTk googlecode page

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How to Install Simple Screen Recorder in Ubuntu via PPA

Last updated: December 29, 2013

simple screen recorder ubuntu

SimpleScreenRecorder is a Linux program to record programs and games. It aims to be powerful and really simple to use. It’s ‘simple’ in the sense that it’s easier to use than ffmpeg/avconv or VLC, because it has a straightforward user interface.

simple screen recorder Ubuntu

This recorder has below features:

  • Graphical user interface (Qt-based).
  • Faster than VLC and ffmpeg/avconv.
  • Records the entire screen or part of it, or records OpenGL applications directly (similar to Fraps on Windows).
  • Synchronizes audio and video properly (a common issue with VLC and ffmpeg/avconv).
  • Reduces the video frame rate if your computer is too slow (rather than using up all your RAM like VLC does).
  • Fully multithreaded: small delays in any of the components will never block the other components, resulting is smoother video and better performance on computers with multiple processors.
  • Pause and resume recording at any time (either by clicking a button or by pressing a hotkey).
  • Shows statistics during recording (file size, bit rate, total recording time, actual frame rate, …).
  • Can show a preview during recording, so you don’t waste time recording something only to figure out afterwards that some setting was wrong.
  • Uses libav/ffmpeg libraries for encoding, so it supports many different codecs and file formats (adding more is trivial).
  • Can also do live streaming (experimental).
  • Sensible default settings: no need to change anything if you don’t want to.
  • Tooltips for almost everything: no need to read the documentation to find out what something does.

Install SimpleScreenRecorder Ubuntu:

The developer has created a PPA for Ubuntu and Linux Mint users. Currently supports Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Mint 13/14/15/16.

To install it, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder

# if you want to record 32-bit OpenGL applications on a 64-bit system:

sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder-lib:i386

For Arch Linux, Gentoo, OpenSUSE and other Linux packages, refer to the app homepage

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Lubuntu-Tweaks – Simple Tweak Tool For Lubuntu [PPA]

Last updated: December 29, 2013

Lubuntu Tweak PPA

Lubuntu users now have a new configuration tool “Lubuntu-Tweaks“, which allows to do simple tweaks. Right now it only has options to enable Computer and Trash icon on Desktop, and allows to reset Openbox configuration.

Screenshots:

Lubuntu Tweak desktop icons

 

Lubuntu Tweak reset openbox

Install Lubuntu Tweak:

This little app is still in early stage. If you would like to install it, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lubuntu-dev/non-official-apps

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install lubuntu-tweaks

Currently supports Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10.

Lubuntu Tweaks on Launchpad

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How to Install FreeFileSync via PPA in Ubuntu Linux Mint

Last updated: December 29, 2013

Free File Sync Ubuntu PPA

FreeFileSync a folder comparison and synchronization tool that provides highly optimized performance and usability without needless user interface complexity.

Key Features of FreeFileSync:

  • Detect moved and renamed files and folders
  • Copy locked files (Volume Shadow Copy Service)
  • Detect conflicts and propagate deletions
  • Binary file comparison
  • Configure handling of Symbolic Links
  • Automate sync as a batch job
  • Process multiple folder pairs
  • Comprehensive and detailed error reporting
  • Copy NTFS extended attributes (compressed, encrypted, sparse)
  • Copy NTFS security permissions
  • Support long file paths with more than 260 characters
  • Fail-safe file copy
  • Cross-platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
  • Expand environment variables like %USERPROFILE%
  • Access variable drive letters by volume name (USB sticks)
  • Native 64-bit support
  • Keep versions of deleted/updated files
  • Prevent disc space bottlenecks via optimal sync sequence
  • Full Unicode support
  • Highly optimized runtime performance
  • Include/exclude files via filter
  • FreeFileSync portable and local installation available
  • Handle daylight saving time changes on FAT/FAT32
  • Use macros %time%, %date%, et al. for recurring backups
  • Case-sensitive synchronization
  • Built-in locking: serialize multiple jobs running against the same network share

Install FreeFileSync in Ubuntu:

Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freefilesync/ffs

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install freefilesync

Currently support Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint. Go to the launchpad page to check out if your Ubuntu release is supported.

Install FreeFileSync Ubuntu

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Open Movies in Fullscreen in Ubuntu with Default Totem Player

Last updated: December 28, 2013

Totem full-screen mode

Playing videos with Ubuntu’s default Totem player? Well you may want to open movies directly in full-screen mode.

Totem doesn’t provide an option to open in full-screen, but it’s not hard to tweak this setting since Ubuntu Unity uses .desktop files to manage application launchers. All you need to do is change a parameter in totem.desktop file.

To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, copy and paste below command and hit enter:

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/totem.desktop

Type in your user password when prompt (Terminal won’t display your password, just type in mind and hit enter to get pass).

You’ll see the totem.desktop opened with Gedit editor. What you need to do is add --fullscreen parameter to Exec value:

Totem open in full-screen

Save the file and now your movies will be opened directly in fullscreen mode with Totem player.

Enjoy!

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System Restore App TimeShift 1.3 Released, Install it via PPA

Last updated: December 10, 2022

system restore app for Ubuntu Linux

TimeShift is a Linux app that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS.

TimeShift takes incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored later to bring your system to the exact state it was in at the time when the snapshot was taken.

Snapshots are taken using rsync and hard-links. Common files are shared between snapshots which saves disk space. Each snapshot is a full system backup that can be browsed with a file manager.

TimeShift is designed to protect only system files and settings. User files such as documents, pictures and music are excluded. This ensures that your files remains unchanged when you restore your system to an earlier date.

create system restore point

TimeShift 1.3 was released recently with Ubuntu 12.04 build error fixed. The TimeShift PPA is ready for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint and their derivatives.

To install the tool, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:teejee2008/timeshift

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install timeshift

For Fedora, OpenSuse, ArchLinux and other Linux Operating Systems, you may use the .run installer from TimeShift website.

TimeShift Homepage

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Cloud Music Player ‘Nuvola’ Seems to Be Active Again

Last updated: December 28, 2013

Nuvola Cloud Music Player in Ubuntu

Nuvola Player, app that integrates Google Music, Bandcamp, Deezer, Grooveshark, Hype Machine, 8tracks, Pandora, Rdio and Amazon Cloud Player with Linux desktop recently released version 2.3.0.

As you may know, the developer has announced that Nuvola Player is discontinued until a new developer is found or a funding goal ($59.00 per week) for the current maintainer is reached. Now, the developer receives $60 per week and Nuvola Player seems to be active again!

What’s New in Nuvola Player 2.3.0:

Service updates manager, which can be used to download and install updates of service integrations providing hot fixes for breakages caused by sudden changes in a web interface of streaming services. Purpose of these updated is to provide these fixes faster without waiting for new Nuvola Player release.

Detection of Flash plugin and GStreamer issues has been improved with links to the new help site. JavaScript API was given methods to check format support and version was increased to 2.2.

Google Play 4.4: fixed sandbox pattern to enable Flash object for playback.

Added donation bar.

Updated VAPI files and added libnotify.vapi from Vala 0.22.1 tarball to fix build error.
Google Play 4.5: Fix next/previous action broken by a recent web app update.

Nuvola Cloud Player service updater

Nuvola Player supported Cloud Music services

Install Nuvola Player:

The PPA is ready for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10. Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal and run commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nuvola-player-builders/stable

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install nuvolaplayer

Nuvola Player Homepage

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