The Cloud Based Nuvola Music Player has reached 2.1.0. It brings new features for users as well as for service maintainers and many bug fixes.
As you may know, Nuvola Player runs a web interface of cloud music services – Google Play Music, Amazon Cloud Player, 8tracks, Grooveshark, Hype Machine, Pandora, Rido – in its own window and provides integration with a Linux desktop.
The new release Nuvola 2.1.0 brings following changes:
Added information about format support.
New service Deezer.
Extensions: Almost all extensions are enabled by default.
Notifications extension: Added support for actions and resident notifications.
Last.fm extension: Added switches to disable scrobbling for particular services.
Added a few keyboard shortcuts: Go back Left and go forward Right.
Service selector is opened in a separate window and uses native GTK+ widgets instead of web view. GTK+ zoom level is respected and non-free screenshots are not loaded.
User interface: Added option to prefer dark GTK+ theme.
Context menu of a web view is populated with custom actions.
Removed UI modes “toolbar only” and “both toolbar and menubar”. Main menu reorganized.
MPRIS extension: Renamed to Remote Player Interface.
Install / Upgrade Nuvola Player in Ubuntu
For Ubuntu and its derivatives, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands one by one:
The latest Long Lived Nvidia driver has reached 319.49, which added support for new GPUs and fix a few bugs. Here’s how to install or upgrade it in Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04.
What’s new in Nvidia 319.49:
Added support for the following GPUs: GeForce GT 740A, GeForce GT 745A, GeForce GT 755M, GeForce GT 625, GeForce GTX 645, GRID K340, GRID K350, NVS 315, Quadro K500M
Fixed a bug that caused DisplayPort monitors connected to Quadro FX 3800, 4800, or 5800 to remain off after DPMS.
Added the NVIDIA OpenGL-based Inband Frame Readback (NvIFROpenGL) library to the Linux driver package. This library provides a high performance, low latency interface to capture and optionally encode an individual OpenGL framebuffer. NvIFROpenGL captures pixels rendered by OpenGL only and is ideally suited to application capture and remoting.
Fixed a bug that caused applications using CUDA-GL interop to crash when run on X servers with Xinerama enabled.
Fixed a bug that could prevent some double-bit ECC errors from being properly reported.
Fixed a bug which could cause a blank screen when changing house sync settings on Quadro Kepler GPUs with Quadro Sync boards.
Fixed a bug that prevented nested loops with identical loop conditions in GLSL shaders from terminating correctly. This could cause hangs in applications such as Exa PowerVIZ.
Fixed a bug that resulted in corrupt texels when a previously empty texture image was specified with glXBindTexImageEXT. In GNOME 3, this caused gnome-screenshot to produce garbled window screenshots.
Fixed a bug that caused the X server to crash when querying the current mode of disabled displays.
Download & Install Nvidia Driver:
NOTE 1: At the moment when you’re reading this tutorial, you may check out the latest version of Nvidia driver for Linux at this page.
NOTE 2: Below installation guide works for all Nvidia Linux Drivers (.run file) downloaded from the Official Website.
2.) Open file browser and navigate to the downloaded package. Right-click on it and go to its Properties window. In Permissions tab, check the box where is says “allow executing file as program”
3.) Now, you need to switch to command console by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1. Log in with your username and password. When login, stop the graphic session by running below command.
sudo stop lightdm
4.) Finally, start the installer and follow the on screen prompts. Change the filename to yours if you’re going to install another version.
sudo sh ~/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-*-319.49.run
When done, restart your computer by sudo reboot command.
If for some reason the new drivers do not work properly, re-do step 3.) and followed by below command to unintall the Nvidia Driver:
Have an old graphics card that is no longer supported in the regular NVIDIA Unified Graphics Driver? Well, here’s how to install the Legacy Driver which supports the old Nvidia GPUs.
The Nvidia Legacy Drives support the old GPUs that are no longer supported in the regular NVIDIA Unified UNIX Graphics Driver. It will be updated periodically to add support for new versions of Linux system components (e.g., new Linux kernels, new versions of the X server, etc).
The Linux 304.* legacy driver series is the last to support the NV4x and G7x GPUs and motherboard chipsets based on them. Support for new Linux kernels and X servers, as well as fixes for critical bugs, will be included in 304.* legacy releases through the end of 2017. See the full list of supported GPUs.
Install / Upgrade NVIDIA 304.108
So far, the latest is 304.108 and it’s available for downloading at the official links below:
You may check you system type (32-bit or 64-bit) by System Settings -> Details.
To install it in Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint, you have to press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to command console. Login with your username and password. When you’re in, follow below steps:
1.) Stop graphical session. For the default Unity Desktop, run below command to stop it.
sudo stop lightdm
2.) Give executable permission for your downloaded package.
chmod a+x ~/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-*-304.108.run
3.) Run the installer and follow the on screen prompts to start installing Nvidia Driver:
sudo sh ~/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-*-304.108.run
4.) Restart your computer via below command:
sudo reboot
If for some reason the new drivers do not work properly, run below commands in Ctrl+Alt+F1 command console to remove Nvidia Driver:
SMPlayer 0.8.6 has been released with Youtube Playback fixed. With this tutorial, you can always install the latest SMPlayer in Ubuntu & Linux Mint via SMPlayere PPA.
Changes in latest SMPlayer 0.8.6:
SMPlayer can now update its internal Youtube code so it’s not necessary to update smplayer everytime Youtube makes a change.
A section “Updates” has been added to the preferences dialog, where it’s possible to configure or disable the update checker.
SMPlayer could still fail to find some subtitles from opensubtitles.org. Hopefully this is fixed.
(Windows) The autoload of subtitles with non latin1 filenames has been fixed.
The Windows installer gives the possibility to delete most of the configuration files of smplayer. This can be useful if the configuration files have been corrupted or smplayer has been misconfigured. Linux users can use the command “smplayer -delete-config”.
Several other bugfixes. See the Changelog for details.
Install SMPlayer via PPA:
So far, the PPA supports Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, and Linux Mint 13, 14, 15, 16.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run commands to add SMPlayer PPA.
As you may know, Gloobus Preview is a simple application based on Apple’s “Quicklook”, designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file.
Its is very easy to use, just select a file in Nautilus file browser, press SPACE and the file will open in a less than a second. Then you can press again on SPACE on your keyboard to close it.
As you may know, Slim is a simple login manager aims to be light and simple, although completely configurable through themes and an option file. It is suitable for machines on which remote login functionalities are not needed.
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to install and use Slim login manager in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 10.04.
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below command to install it:
sudo apt-get install slim
While the installing process, you’ll be prompt to choose slim display manager as the default for your login screen.
After that, restart your computer and you’ll see the Slim login screen.
To switch back to LighDM, run below command in terminal. You’ll see the previous screen again which allows to choose between installed display managers.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
Install Themes for Slim:
The Slim official site provides a list of themes. Download your favorite themes, and put the result folders to /usr/share/slim/themes/. You can finally change the default theme by editing /etc/slim.conf:
This simple tutorial is going to show you how to install and setup Google Authenticator to secure your Ubuntu SSH remote login by two-factor authentication.
Google provides this application for various smartphone platforms. With it, you can secure your account by logging in with a frequently-changing authentication code. So far, I’m using this in WordPress Login, Ubuntu Server SSH Login, Linode VPS Login. As I know, Google Authenticator also works on Amazon Web Services, App.net, Dropbox, and more.
Install Google Authenticator in Ubuntu:
Since Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, the Google Authenticator PAM module is available in the universe repository by default. Just open Ubuntu Software Center, search for and install libpam-google-authenticator package
Once installed, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. Run below command to create a key and display a QR code which you can scan using the smartphone app. The emergency codes can be used when you don’t have your phone.
google-authenticator
To enable two-step authentication for SSH login, add the line “auth required pam_google_authenticator.so” (witout quotes) into /etc/pam.d/sshd. To do so, run below command in terminal:
sudo sh -c 'echo "auth required pam_google_authenticator.so" >> /etc/pam.d/sshd'
Also add the line “ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes” (without quotes) to /etc/ssh/sshd_config, you can do it by running below command:
sudo sh -c 'echo "ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config'
This simple tutorial shows you how to install Facebook Messenger App in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, 13.04 Raring, 12.04 Precise and 12.10 Quantal via PPA repository.
As you may know, Facebook Messenger is an instant messaging service and software application which provides text and voice communication. Integrated with Facebook’s web-based Chat feature and built on the open-source MQTT protocol.
Here’s a Linux clone of Facebook Messenger for Windows. It gives you a chat sidebar, chat popup windows, and notification toasts outside of the browser. Ubuntu users can install it from a PPA created by Webupd8Team.
To get started installing this app, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands to add the PPA:
XnRetro is a small tool that allows you to create stunning images with vintage or instant effect on your Desktop. It allows to share the result to Flickr, Picasa, Facebook and more.
Features:
20 color effects
15 light effects such as bokeh, leak
28 frame borders
Adjustement like contrast, gamma, saturation, …
Vignetting
Noise
Save or share the result to Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, Imgur, Thmblr, ImageShack, Yfrog, GlowFoto, TwitPic, and Email.
For Ubuntu users, decompress the package and copy and paste the result folder into /opt/ folder. To do so, press Alt+F2 on your keyboard and type in gksudo nautilus to open file browser with root privilege.
Then drag and drop the extract folder from your ~/Downloads folder to /opt/:
Finally follow below steps to create a launcher for this tool:
1.) Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands to install required package:
This is a picture guide for beginners to set static IP address on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, both wireless and wired connection.
Ubuntu by default uses DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) to obtain IP address when your computer is connected to a network. You may required to change to static IP address in some network environments. This tutorial will show you how to do this step by step.
Tutorial Objectives:
Setup Static IP Address in Ubuntu 13.04 (both wireless & wired)
Enjoy!
To get started, move your cursor to top-right corner network icon on panel. Click to expand the menu and choose Edit Connections…
In next window, choose your wired connection or wifi network then click Edit button.
Then navigate to IPv4 Settings tab. Switch Method to “Manual” from the drop-down box. Click Add button and type in IP address, netmask and gateway. Finally click “Save” when everything’s done.
