Battery Monitor is a simple tool written in Python3 and PyGTK3. It notifies battery status of charging, discharging, fully charged through desktop notifications. When the battery is below 10%, it plays a sound and pops up a notification bubble.
No command typing on terminal, no extra indicator, the tool just pop notifications when the battery status changes.
How to Install Battery Monitor in Ubuntu:
1. Use PPA.
Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the commands below one by one to install it from the PPA:
Curlew is a free multimedia converter for Ubuntu Linux that features small package size, few library dependencies, 100+ output formats, easy to use UI, and more.
Curlew is written in Python and GTK+ 3, and uses FFMPEG (or Libav-tools) to transcode media files. The main features are:
Easy to use user interface (New GTK3 Header bar).
Hide the advanced options with the ability to show them.
More than 100 output formats.
Allow to edit formats.
Shutdown or suspend PC afer a conversion process.
Show file informations, file details using mediainfo.
Allow to skip or remove file during conversion process.
Preview file before conversion in its context menu.
Show video thumbnail.
Convert a specified portion of file.
Combine subtitle with video.
Allow to crop and pad video.
Show error details if exist.
And more …
Curlew 100+ output formats
Curlew Advanced Settings
Curlew show file info
How to Install Curlew transcoder in Ubuntu:
Pre-compiled Ubuntu .deb is available in the link below:
So far, the latest is “curlew_0.2.2-1_all.deb”, just download and install it via either Ubuntu Software or terminal command (Ctrl+Alt+T):
Relay is a new IRC client designed for Elementary OS that aims to be small, fast, and elegant. It’s written in Vala and also works in Ubuntu and other Linux.
Relay uses very few libraries and takes less memory (
drag and drop to Hastebin – drag files to the paste icon will upload all of them and put the URL’s in the output window.
A missed message count.
Highlighting tabs with activity from IRC servers.
Drag and drop reordering of tabs.
Automatic IRC channel connecting
URL parsing and the ability to open your browser when clicked
Highlights the name of your or anyone else when mentioned in a chat
Right click tab switching.
The ability to switch channels through tabs or the sidebar.
It supports languages that use UTF-8 characters.
Although Relay was built on Elementary OS it will switch the theme depending on what operating system you are using.
The ability to search users
The ability to see where you left off since you last visited a tab
The ability to control many settings and set colors in the UI
Click a user name to have their name placed in the text entry
Private messaging and ability to block users
The ability to turn on or off joining or exiting messages
Creates a datestamp every 5 minutes to give you a timeline of what has happened
Screenshots:
At the moment of writing this tutorial there are two bugs for Ubuntu user and I’ve reported them to the project page:
In Unity desktop, when you try to minimize Relay window by clicking its icon on left Launcher, session crashes immediately and brings you back to login screen. – Bug with Compiz
In Gnome Shell, there’s a reading issue (Picture 4) – Fixed
Install Relay IRC client from PPA:
The developer has created a PPA repository for the project. So far, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Elementary OS Freya are supported.
NOTE: Ubuntu 14.04 needs updated version of libgranite (>= 0.3.0) and GTK+3.0 (>= 3.14). You can get them from Gnome Testing PPA and Elementary Stable PPA. But using the PPAs could break your system or make it unstable! Do it at your own risk!
1. To add the PPA, open terminal from the Dash, Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut keys. When it opens, run command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:agronick/relay
2. After added the PPA, install the software via Synaptic Package Manager. Or just run below commands one by one in terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install relay
For those who don’t want to add PPA, grab the .deb package from the launchpad page.
Xpad is a sticky note application for Linux desktop with a simple and nice design. Each xpad session consists of one or more open pads and you can set different fonts and colors on each of them.
By toggling the toolbar and window decorations, you can easily change the look of the pads. A pad can contain different stylings. Keyboard shortcuts and undo/redo are supported.
There’s also a help option shows you how to use this simple sticky notes application.
install xpad in Ubuntu:
Xpad is available in Ubuntu universe repositories. You have to do nothing special, just open Ubuntu Software Center search for and install the xpad package.
Sconsify is a new unofficial spotify client runs in Mac and Linux terminal / command line console. It provides both console UI mode which presents a text user interface with playlists and tracks, and no UI mode which doesn’t present user interface and just suffle tracks.
Now the app is at a very early stage. The developer has released the first stable release and below is the how-to-install instructions:
1. In terminal/console, first run below commands one by one to install Libspotify SDK & PortAudio library from mopify repository:
Valentina is an open source pattern making program for clothing. It allows pattern creation using either standard sizing tables or an individual’s set of measurements. It blends new technologies with traditional methods to create a unique pattern making tool.
Currently, there is a lack of affordable software tools designed for creating patterns. Some people faced with this problem resort to using CAD tools or graphical editors designed for other purposes. However, these tools are inadequate when performing certain pattern making tasks (e.g. adding seam allowance, truing a dart, walking a seam). Moreover, these programs are good enough to create a pattern in a single size, but when you want to make changes for another person, you can’t do it quickly. You need to create the pattern from scratch. This is where traditional methods of pattern drafting can be very useful. Why can’t you tell a program how to change the pattern so you don’t need to do it ever again?
How to install Valentina in Ubuntu:
Open terminal from the Dash/Menu or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run commands below one by one to install the software from PPA:
Papyrus is a free, open-source, and modern note manager focused on privacy, socials, and better user interface.
Papyrus is developed by Aseman Land, the team behind Cutegram telegram client. It’s a fork of Kaqaz project by sialan labs and works on Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and iOS soon.
The software provides both desktop and touch version and features:
Notes management by means of labels and categories
Sorting notes by day
Advance and Smart searching in notes
To-Do papers
Backing up notes
Encrypted synchronization via Dropbox among all your devices
Supporting left-to-right and right-to-left languages
Sharing papers with other applications
Assigning password for protecting notes
Attach map and weather to note informations automatically
Attaching photos, audio files and folders to any note
Search on papers by location
Capability of running and sync data on all operating systems (Android, Windows, Linux, Mac and soon other operating systems)
Canvas for painting
Search on papers using weather and temperature, your notes wrote.
Can move data to sd-card (on old phones)
Status and statistics page for notes
Synchronizing files
Install Papyrus in Ubuntu/Linux Mint:
The note manager has an official PPA with supports for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Linux Mint 17 so far.
Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run below commands one by one to add PPA and install the app:
Paper project is a GTK3 and icon theme suite inspired by Google’s material design guidelines. They are developed by Sam Hewitt, the man behind the Moka icons project.
Paper started as a single GTK3 theme. It’s developed primarily for GNOME 3 and other GTK3 desktops. Its design is mostly flat with a minimal use of shadows for depth and looks really beautiful in desktops that make use of the GTK3 headerbars/client-side decorations (e.g. Gnome Shell).
Paper icon theme is under serious development. The GNOME icon theme is the fallback set for missing icons.
How to Install Paper GTK3 & Icon themes:
The developer has created a daily build PPA, available for Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 15.04 and derivatives.
To add the PPA, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run:
Picty is a free, open-source, and lightweight manager for large photo collections. It is designed around managing metadata and a lossless approach to image handling.
metadata: descriptive and other information about images (created by you, your camera or the programs you use) that are embedded inside image files alongside the pixels.
lossless: by only ever writing information about images, including image processing instructions, as metadata, the original image pixels are never altered allowing you to preserve the images as they were taken on your camera.
Picty is lightweight and has a snappy interface. All the heavy lifting is done on background threads or external processes to ensure the UI never blocks. User is informed of what is going on in the background with progress notifications etc.
Picty Features:
Supports big photo collections (20,000 plus images).
Open more than one collection at a time and transfer images between them.
Collections are:
Folders of images in your local file system.
Images on cameras, phones and other media devices.
Photo hosting services (Flickr currently supported).
picty does not “Import” photos into its own database, it simply provides an interface for accessing them wherever they are. To keep things snappy and to allow you to browse even if you are offline, picty maintains a cache of thumbnails and metadata.
Reads and writes metadata in industry standard formats Exif, IPTC and Xmp
Lossless approach:
picty writes all changes including image edits as metadata. e.g. an image crop is stored as any instruction, the original pixels remain in the file
Changes are stored in picty’s collection cache until you save your metadata changes to the images. You can easily revert unsaved changes that you don’t like.
Basic image editing:
Current support for basic image enhancements such as brightness, contrast, color, cropping, and straightening.
Improvements to those tools and other tools coming soon (red eye reduction, levels, curves, noise reduction)
Image tagging:
Use standard IPTC and Xmp keywords for image tags
A tag tree view lets you easily manage your tags and navigate your collection
Folder view:
Navigate the directory heirarchy of your image collection
Multi-monitor support
picty can be configured to let you browse your collection on one screen and view full screen images on another.
Customizable
Create launchers for external tools
Supports plugins – many of the current features (tagging and folder views, and all of the image editing tools) are provided by plugins
Written in python – batteries included!
How to Install Picty in Ubuntu:
The developer maintains a PPA repository contains the latest Picty packages for Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 10.04, and derivatives (Linux Mint 13/17/17.1).
To add the PPA, open terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T. When it opens, run command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:damien-moore/ppa
Type in your password when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
After you added the PPA, update package cache and install the software by running below two commands one by one:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install picty
For basic raw processing, video thumbnailing, flickr collection, and geotagging support, run command to install below packages:
Go-For-It is a new and open-source to-do list application available for both Windows and Ubuntu Linux. It features a simple and stylish UI with built-in productivity timer.
To-do lists are stored in the Todo.txt format. This simplifies synchronization with mobile devices and makes it possible to edit tasks using other front-ends.
The developer has created a Youtube video that describes the workflow of this application:
How to Install ‘Go For It’:
The developer, mank319, has built this app into PPA, available for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 15.04 and derivatives.
To add the PPA and install the app, open terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:
Or you can simply download & click install the .deb package via Software Center (i386 for 32-bit, amd64 for 64-bit) the matches your OS edition at the PPA packages page.
NOTE: Due to the bug related to Unity Overlay Scrollbars, the background sometimes looks like broken. As a workaround, run command below to edit the app’s shortcut file:
