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Show Live Scores in Ubuntu Panel for NBA, EPL, or Other Sports Teams

Last updated: March 19, 2023 — Leave a comment

For sports fans who want to keep a watchful eye on live scores for favorite teams, here’s an indicator applet for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux with GNOME.

It’s colosseum, which displays an indicator in top-panel system tray area. By clicking on it will show the menu with live scores for your favorite sports teams.

So far, it supports 12 sports leagues:

Bundesliga
2. Bundesliga
English Premier League
La Liga
Ligue 1
Major League Baseball
National Basketball Association
National Football League
National Hockey League
Serie A
UEFA Champions League
Women’s National Basketball Association

There are also 5 supported tournaments, including

CONCACAF Gold Cup
Copa America
FIFA World Cup
UEFA Champions League
UEFA European Championship

How to Install this live scores indicator

This indicator is available as an extension, which so far supports GNOME v40, 41, 42 and 43. Meaning, you can install and use it in Ubuntu 22.04+, Fedora 35+, Arch, Manjaro, Rocky Linux, etc with GNOME desktop.

1. For Ubuntu 22.04 and higher, first search for and install “Extension Manager” from Ubuntu Software.

Install Extension Manager in Ubuntu 22.04+

2. Then open the extension manager tool, navigate to “Browse” tab. Finally, search and install “colosseum” extension.

3. Once installed, switch back to “Installed” tab, and click on gear icon for that extension to open the configuration page.

There, set the refresh time interval, turn on the toggle buttons for your favorite sports leagues and/or tournaments. New configuration tabs will appear, where you can follow your favorite teams.

TIP: If the indicator applet does not appear in panel, try to turn off and then turn on again the extension, or just log out and log back to restart Gnome Shell.

For other Linux, go to this page and use ON/OFF switch to install the extension. And, install and use “Gnome Extensions” app to manager extensions’ configurations.

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How to Install Slidewall Wallpaper Changer on Ubuntu, Linux Mint

Last updated: April 24, 2024

UPDATE 2024: Slidewall has NOT been updated for about 12 years!!

This brief tutorial shows how to install Slidewall on Ubuntu 16.04 via PPA repository.

Slidewall is a free open-source app to make slideshow wallpapers. It’s written in python, that creates Ubuntu-compatible .xml files and also provides a minimal wallpaper changing daemon for gnome 3. It lets you choose single files, entire directories and also filter photos by tag from a given library directory. With it, you can also put a Live Earth wallpaper, or Clock wallpaper on your desktop.

Install Slidewall

The app has an official PPA contains the package for Ubuntu 16.04. To install it, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, then follow the below steps:

1.) Copy and paste this command and run. It adds the ppa repository to your system:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fioan89/slidewall

2.) Update package lists to make it available:

sudo apt-get update

3.) Finally install the software:

sudo apt-get install slidewall

Enjoy!

Uninstall Slidewall

To uninstall the app, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:

sudo apt remove --autoremove slidewall

Also run command to uninstall the PPA repository from your system:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:fioan89/slidewall

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How to Create Bootable Ubuntu Live USB with Unetbootin

Last updated: July 1, 2013

This simple and brief tutorial is going to show you how to create a bootable Ubuntu live USB. Other than Ubuntu CD, Live USB may be a good choice for installing Ubuntu on your computer.

Preparation:

Download Ubuntu ISO image from releases.ubuntu.com
Download Unetbootin from unetbootin.sourceforge.net

To get started:

First insert your USB disk, then launch Unetbootin executable. Check “Diskimage” and choose the Ubuntu iso file. You USB drive should be selected automatically.