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How to Install Light Locker via PPA in Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04

Last updated: August 30, 2013

Light Locker is a simple session-locker for Lightdm forked from gnome-screensaver that aims to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop while not carrying any desktop-specific dependencies.

With it, the lock screen will look identical to the LightDM greeter – the Unity default login screen.

LightDM locker

Requirements:

To use light-locker with systemd, you need at least lightdm 1.7.0. light-locker doesn’t work with lightdm version 1.7.5-1.7.9

I’ve tested in Ubuntu 13.04 with default lightdm 1.6.0. The light locker works when my laptop wakes up from suspend. But the Lock/Switch Account option in shutdown menu doesn’t work! Use it at your own risk!

Install LightDM Locker:

The Stable PPA has been created for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy and Ubuntu 13.04 Raring.

Before getting started installing it, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to remove the gnome-screensaver:

sudo apt-get remove gnome-screensaver

The you can add the ppa via command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:light-locker/release

Finally install LightDM locker. Log out and back in to take effect.

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install light-locker
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Download and Use Snow Sabre icons in Ubuntu and its derivatives

Last updated: August 29, 2013

Want to use the Snow sabre icons on Ubuntu based system? Well, it’s easy and here I’ll show you how.

snow sabre icons ubuntu

As you may know, Snow sabre icons (Folders) was originally a Mac theme created by miniMac for his personal use on Mac. Here you can download the Snow Sabre icon theme (black & silver) from deviantart

For Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, etc. Download the package from the previous link and put the result folders into user’s $HOME/.icons folder.

snow sabre icons ubuntu

Or you can put the icon folders under /usr/share/icons for global use.

To apply the icon theme, go to gnome tweak tool -> Theme -> Icon Theme and select it in the drop-down box.

apply snow sabre icons

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How to Change Sudo Password Timeout in Ubuntu, Linux Mint

Last updated: August 29, 2013

As you may know, when you’re running commands in terminal with sudo at beginning, you have to enter user password to get past. Within a certain time, you don’t need to enter the password again to run another sudo command.

The default timeout is about 5 minutes, here’s how to change it in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Linux Mint and Elementary OS.

To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below command to edit the config file:

sudo visudo

Use the arrow keys to scroll down and find out below line:

Defaults env_reset

Change it into:

Defaults env_reset, timestamp_timeout=10

Replace 10 with other number of minutes as you want.

change sudo password timeout

After that, press Ctrl+X and followed by Y to save the changes.

That’s it. Enjoy!

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Install and Use Privacy Indicator in Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04

Last updated: August 29, 2013

You may already know that there’s an utility in System Settings allows to change user privacy settings, such amazon search results in Unity Dash, recent document and record activity, etc.

Privacy settings

This simple tutorial shows you an indicator applet allows to quickly change privacy settings via the menu on top-panel. The Privacy Indicator menu allows to:

  • Enable / Disable Amazon online search results in Unity Dash
  • Clear recent documents
  • Enable / Disable and clear record activity
  • display username on panel

Privacy Indicator Ubuntu

Install Privacy Indicator:

You can install the indicator easily by using the DEB. Just download and double-click to install the below package:

indicator-privacy_all.deb

Or you can install it via command:

wget http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/indicator-privacy/dist/indicator-privacy_0.03-1_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i indicator-privacy_0.03-1_all.deb; sudo apt-get -f install

Once installed, open it from Unity Dash. Enjoy!

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137 Wallpapers of Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander Wallpaper Contest

Last updated: August 28, 2013

Here are the 137 Wallpapers of Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander Wallpaper Contest. You can download all of them by the link at bottom.

Below are a few of them:

Ubuntu 13.04 Wallpaper Contest 1 Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest 2
Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest 3 Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest 4
Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest 5 Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest 6
Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest 7 Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest 8
Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest 9 Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest 10
Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest 11 Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest 12
Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest 13 Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest 14
Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest 15 Ubuntu 13.10 Wallpaper Contest 16

You can download and install the DEB, which will save all the wallpapers into /usr/share/backgrounds/, the default location for Ubuntu Wallpapers.

You can also download the tar.gz pack

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Touchpad Indicator Updated: Enable / Disable Touchpad via Mouse Wheel

Last updated: August 28, 2013

Touchpad Indicator has been updated to 0.9.5 with the ability to change touchpad status using Mouse Wheel. The developer announced in his blog:

“It is certainly much more comfortable turning the mouse wheel (regardless of whether it is up or down) to do two clicks to change the status of the touchpad, first to display the menu and the second to select the option.”

touchpad indicator ubuntu

In the new release, keyboard shortcuts now reside in dconf instead of gconf, specifically in org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings. To set a specific keyboard shortcut for toggling Touchpad-Indicator, go to org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys.custom-keybindings in Dconf Editor

Touchpad indicator custom shortcust

Touchpad Indicator 0.9.5 also fixes below bugs:

  • # 1036808 Ubuntu 12.04 Suffers suspension after an internal error
  • # 1062694 Touchpad status resets to ‘ON’ when laptop lid is closed.
  • # 1075029 watchdog.py got some problem
  • # 1099821 keyboard shortcut does not work well
  • # 1111784 watchdog fails to enable touchpad on mouse removal
  • # 1192930 indicator Touchpad not working correctly.
  • # 1197984 Unable to save preferences
  • # 1198003 Cant enable Autostart
  • # 1036529 When unplug enable Wont get my External mouse
  • # 1131179 enabled touchpad indicator shows when it is disabled
  • # 1114511 Touchpad-indicator has gone berserk and Enables and disables randomly

Install Touchpad Indicator:

The PPA has been updated for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04 users. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands one by one to install Touchpad Indicator:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator

For Ubuntu 12.04 and its derivatives, you may download and install the DEB package (didn’t test).

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Classic Menu Indicator 0.08 Has Been Released

Last updated: August 26, 2013

After about one year and a half, Classic Menu Indicator finally released a new version 0.08. It brings a few improvements and adds support for more languages.

As you may know, ClassicMenu Indicator is a indicator applet for Unity, that provides the main menu of Gnome2/Gnome Classic.

classic menu indicator 0.08

New features in ClassicMenu indicator 0.08:

  • ClassicMenu Indicator has its own icon now
  • added support for some configuration options
  • improved handling of missing/unusable icons
  • extended “ClassicMenu Indicator” submenu
  • added Estonian, French, Croatian, Japanese, Malay, Brazilian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified) language support
  • changed the way commands are run

To install Classic Menu Indicator 0.08, just download and double-click to install the DEB:

ClassicMenu_indicator_0.08_all.deb

The source code is also available for downloading from here.

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Indicator-terminal: Shows Terminal as An Indicator in Panel

Last updated: August 25, 2013

Indicator-terminal is an applet in Ubuntu top panel that shows a terminal window for running commands when you click on the icon.

terminal indicator

Install Indicator-terminal in Ubuntu:

NOTE: This project is still in early development. It has bugs and may break you system. Use it at your own risk!

There’s a PPA for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal. Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, when it opens, run below commands one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:erasmo-marin/indicator-terminal

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install indicator-terminal

Once installed, restart you machine.

To remove this indicator, run below commands in terminal:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge

sudo ppa-purge ppa:erasmo-marin/indicator-terminal

sudo apt-get remove indicator-terminal
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Calibre 1.0 Released: Install / Upgrade in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10

Last updated: August 24, 2013

Calibre 1.0 for UbuntuAfter a year since the last major release, Calibre 1.0 was released with lots of new features, such as a grid view of book covers, a new, faster database backend, the ability to convert Microsoft Word files, tools to make changes to ebooks without needing to do a full conversion, full support for font embedding and subsetting, and many more.

  • A new ‘cover grid’ view of the books in your calibre library
    Excellent for judging your books by their covers :) To use click the button with the icon of a grid in the bottom right corner of the main window. It can be configured via Preferences->Look & Feel->Cover Grid
  • A new, faster database backend
    The database backend in calibre has been re-written from scratch. The new code is smaller, more robust and much faster than the old code. The exact speedup will depend on the number of books and number and type of custom columns in your library. Users have reported calibre startup times decreasing by a factor of 2-3 times.
  • RTF Input: Add option to ignore WMF images iinstead of replacing them with a placeholder.
    Closes tickets: 1213599
  • Content server: Make virtual libraries available as searches from the start page. They work just like saved searches, clicking on a virtual library will show you all the books in that virtual library.

    • Read the official announcement

    Install Calibre 1.0 in Ubuntu

    It’s very easy to install or upgrade calibre 1.0 in Ubuntu and its derivatives, such as Linux Mint and Elementary OS.

    Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal for running commands. Copy the code below by Ctrl+C, and paste in terminal via Ctrl+Shift+V. Finally hit enter:

    sudo python -c "import sys; py3 = sys.version_info[0] > 2; u = __import__('urllib.request' if py3 else 'urllib', fromlist=1); exec(u.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read()); main()"

    Press Enter to use the default installation directory, and it’ll automatically download calibre and install it on your system as well as the dependencies.

    install upgrade calibre ubuntu

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    How to Remove Old Kernels From Ubuntu 13.04, 13.10

    Last updated: August 24, 2013

    If you’ve using Ubuntu for a period of time, you may have old kernels that are no longer useful on your system. It may be annoying to have these kernel entries in Grub boot menu. So here’s how to remove the old kernels in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring.

    The efficient way to do the job is using the Ubuntu Tweak, which lists all un-used kernels and gives an option at right-bottom corner to clean them up.

    Remove Old Kernels

    To install Ubuntu Tweak, download the DEB package in the right sidebar of this page. Then double-click to install via Ubuntu Software Center.

    At the moment, Ubuntu Tweak is not ready for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy. So below is the command line way:

    1.) Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal for running commands. Check current running kernel version.

    uname -r

    Don’t remove this kernel!

    2.) Copy and paste below command and hit run to check list of installed Kernels on your system:

    dpkg --list | grep linux-image

    3.) Find out the kernels you want to remove, and run below command to accomplish it: Change x.x.x.x to the kernel version

    sudo apt-get purge linux-image-x.x.x.x-generic
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