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It’s quite easy to do it, just install the Gnome fallback session package and then you get the Gnome Classic in Login menu at next time.
To install the package, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands in terminal:
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback
Or you can search for and install gnome-session-fallback in Ubuntu Software Center.
After that, log out and select the Classic session to log back.
As you may know, Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The project was created and is maintained by Adobe, and is released under an MIT License.
What makes Brackets different from other web code editors?
The official download page provides the DEB packages for Debian / Ubuntu and their derivatives, such as Linux Mint, Elementary OS, and so forth.
Just download and double click the DEB to bring up Ubuntu Software Center and install it. Or run below commands instead once downloaded:
sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/brackets-sprint-*.deb; sudo apt-get -f install
Once installed, you can find it in Unity Dash.
Pipelight consists out of two parts: A Linux library which is loaded into the browser and a Windows program started in Wine. The Windows program, called pluginloader.exe, simply simulates a browser and loads the Silverlight DLLs. When you open a page with a Silverlight application the library will send all commands from the browser through a pipe to the Windows process and act like a bridge between your browser and Silverlight. The used pipes do not have any big impact on the speed of the rendered video since all the video and audio data is not send through the pipe. Only the initialization parameters and (sometimes) the network traffic is send through them. As a user you will not notice anything from that “magic” and you can simply use Silverlight the same way as on Windows, like you can see on the following screenshot:
Warning: Before you continue the installation you should note that:
The Pipelight PPA is available for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives. You can easily install it by running below commands in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) one by one:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install pipelight
You may need to accept a license agreement for a set of fonts during the installation. After it’s done just start your browser, type about:plugins in the addressbar and hit enter – if the installation went well you should now see Silverlight in your plugin list and everything is ready to run! Pipelight will install Silverlight on the first start of your browser, this may freeze the interface for several minutes (and you may just see a blank page without any progress). There might appear some dialog asking if Mono or Gecko should be installed during the Silverlight installation – you can safely choose no, as this is not necessary to get Pipelight running. After this step, the overall performance of your browser shouldn’t be affected any more.
More at Pipelight Homepage
“I’m sorry to say that BeatBox will not be seeing much attention from me at this point due to lack of time.
I’ve added elementary to the BeatBox team, which means they can merge, pull, push, whatever they want to the project. I’ve recommended that they merge parts of BeatBox. Its core and plugin API could be very useful to them, but whether or not that merge happens is up to them.” — Scott Ringwelski
BeatBox was the default music player for Elementary OS, and now it is Noise. Though there is not much of differences between Beatbox and Noise, both only differs by: Music view, Search bar, and the name of course
Due to the dependency problem, BeatBox is not working now. So here’s how to install Noise music player in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint 13, 15, 16.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands to add the Elementary daily build PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily
Then you can update and install Noise:
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install noise
My Weather Indicator is a simple applet that displays weather information on panel and widget on desktop. Here’s how to install in Ubuntu 13.10, Elementary OS, Linux Mint 16 via PPA.
The supported weather services are Open Weather Map, wunderground.com, YAHOO!, world weather online. My Weather Indicator supports two locations and displays temperature, pressure, visibility, wind velocity, rain gauge, snow gauge, and local time. It also displays a widget on your desktop.
You can install My Weather Indicator in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 10.04 and their derivatives.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run below command to add the ppa:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
Then update and install the indicator:
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install my-weather-indicator
So far, the PPA provides the latest packages for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and the derivatives. Also there are old versions for Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 11.10 and derivatives.
Tutotiral Objectives
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands to add the Touchpad Indicator PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
Then you can install the indicator via below commands:
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator
Once installed, search for and open it from Unity Dash.
One command to disable Nvidia logo
The easiest way to do this is running below command in terminal (press Ctrl+Alt+T):
sudo nvidia-xconfig --no-logo
After that, you won’t see the logo in bootup any longer.
The other way is to manually edit the Nvidia config file. Edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf by running below command:
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
add Option “NoLogo” to Section “Device”, make it look like this:
Section “Device”
Identifier “Device0”
Driver “nvidia”
Option “NoLogo”
VendorName “NVIDIA Corporation”
BoardName “GeForce 9600 GT”
EndSection
After that, save the file and reboot.
Changes since XnView MP 0.51:
First you may check OS type 32-bit or 64-bit by System Settings -> Details.
Then press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal:
For 32-bit system, download and install XnView via below 2 commands:
wget http://download.xnview.com/XnViewMP-linux.deb sudo dpkg -i XnViewMP-linux.deb; sudo apt-get -f install
For 64-bit system, run blow commands instead:
wget http://download.xnview.com/XnViewMP-linux-x64.deb sudo dpkg -i XnViewMP-linux-x64.deb; sudo apt-get -f install
PAC is a free alternative to SecureCRT and Putty. It provides a GUI to configure connections: users, passwords, EXPECT regular expressions, macros, etc.
PAC Manager works on Debian/Ubuntu, and RPM based linux platforms. All you need to do is download and install the installer package and fix denpendencies.
Features:
To get started, download the .deb package from SourceForge.
Then press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run blow commands to install the package:
sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/pac-*all.deb
Fix dependency problem if any:
sudo apt-get -f install
Install the indicator support for Unity Desktop:
sudo apt-get install libgtk2-appindicator-perl
When everything is done, open PAC Manager from the Unity Dash.
UPDATE 2024: The tutorial is outdated! If you’re looking for most recent Transmission PPA, see this one instead.
At the moment of writing this tutorial, the latest release is Transmission 2.8.2. It brings a lot of bug fixes and a few improvements.
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run below command to add the Bittorrent PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:transmissionbt/ppa
After that, run blow command to install Bittorrent. Or use Synaptic Package Manager to upgrade the package.
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install transmission
That’s it. Enjoy!
