Cinnamon 2.0 Released, Becomes An `Entire Desktop Environment`

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/">Cinnamon</a> 2.0 has been released today featuring many bug fixes as well as some new features.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the release <a href="http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/10/cinnamon-2-0-released/">announcement</a>, with version 2.0, Cinnamon is no longer a frontend ontop of the GNOME desktop like Unity or GNOME Shell, but "<i>an entire desktop environment</i>". Cinnamon is still built on GNOME technologies and uses GTK, but "<i>it no longer requires GNOME itself to be installed</i>" because it now communicates with its own backend services, libraries and daemons.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cinnamon 2.0" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg93xPVz4y7CUU0nwUMF8H2rbyUEfXi_99oZKV0O9-0tAN5hpZBPqWpN21FAnc36LhsvCxfE1NcwhERFPcsbtUfL9jA9huCMz7fsMSutm9zTV0pPHDp6QQxGcmsH-iU8-TVCuq7-0GZm-0/s320/cinnamon-2.0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Changes in Cinnamon 2.0:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li style="text-align: justify;">improved edge-tiling: </li><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>tiled windows can be resized;</li><li>in addition to top, bottom, left and right, windows can now be tiled into the 4 corners of the screen;</li><li>a new feature called "HUD" was added: when dragging a window near a tiling zone, Cinnamon displays a hint so you know where the window will tile - see second screenshot below;</li></ul><li style="text-align: justify;">a new edge-snapping feature has been added - it's similar to edge-tiling, but there's a difference: maximized windows do not cover snapped windows. To snap a window, drag a window with your mouse towards an edge while pressing the Control key;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">configurable individual sound effects: you can configure sounds for events such as Cinnamon startup, switching workspace, closing, minimizing or maximizing windows and so on.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">replaced GNOME "User Accounts" with new Cinnamon "Users and Groups". Users can access and modify their own info via the Account Details module;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">added an User Applet which can be used to shutdown, restart or suspend the system, turn off the notifications, access the account details or System Settings. Furthermore, the applet supports MDM and LightDM user switching and LightDM guest user session;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">cinnamon-bluetooth has replaced blueman;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">important performance improvements for full-screen apps.</li></ul><br />Here are a few screenshots with some of these changes:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-user-applet.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-user-applet_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New User Applet</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-hud-and-tile-osd.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-hud-and-tile-osd_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new "HUD" tiling feature (see the hint at the top) / window snapping OSD</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-users-groups.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-users-groups_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon 2.0 Users and Groups</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-sound-effects.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-sound-effects_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon 2.0 Sound Effects</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Some minor new features include: <br /><ul><li>sound applet: added support for SMPlayer and Tomahawk;</li><li>added snap OSD;</li><li>expo: middle click on window thumbnail now closes the window;</li><li>window-list improvements;</li><li>more!</li></ul><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-nemo.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 Nemo screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-nemo_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Nemo, the default Cinnamon file manager (forked from Nautilus) has also received some interesting improvements:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">two new extensions were added - nemo-preview (for previewing files, fork of GNOME Sushi), and nemo-media-columns (adds various info to the Nautilus list view);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">in list view, columns are now re-orderable by simple drag and drop method, without having to open a separate dialog;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">in the List View, you can now right-click a column heading to add or remove visible columns quickly;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">also in the List View, Nemo will try to avoid having a horizontal scroll bar by truncating the name column when necessary;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">there is a new option in Preferences to always start in split-pane mode;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">there is a new option in Preferences to ignore folder-specific metadata regarding zoom level, view type, and column layouts;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">improved the Move/Copy To context menus - they now include a "Browse…" entry to pick your target folder, as well as options to include bookmarks and places in the menus;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">you can now turn file tooltips on or off in the different views;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">there is an additional menu item in the list-view column context menu, to temporarily disable auto-sorting of new or changed items. By enabling this, new files are simply added to the bottom of the file list, and renamed items stay put, regardless of alphabetical or other sort criteria;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">improved the Open With dialog - you can now add custom mime-type handlers on the fly;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">improved handling of the file operation progress dialog. You can now close the dialog entirely and it will turn into a dynamic icon in the system tray, showing overall progress with a circular icon. From that icon you can get additional information via the tooltip, and you can click the icon to restore the full progress dialog;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">middle-clicking a tab will now close it.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Getting Cinnamon 2.0</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Cinnamon 2.0 will be included by default in the upcoming Linux Mint 16 "Petra" </b>(which should be released at the end of November) and then it <b>will be backported to LMDE and Linux Mint 13 LTS</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04 or 12.10</b> (there are some packages that <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gwendal-lebihan-dev/+archive/cinnamon-stable/+packages">failed</a> to build for Ubuntu 12.04 so I suggest you wait until these are fixed!) users can install the latest stable Cinnamon by using the stable PPA.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Important:</b> in my test under Ubuntu 13.10, installing Cinnamon broke the Unity session (I was unable to log in to Unity until I removed Cinnamon; this didn't occur in Ubuntu 13.04) so use it at your own risk!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Add the PPA and install Cinnamon in Ubuntu using the following commands</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install cinnamon</code></pre>Then, log out and select Cinnamon from the login screen session menu.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For other Linux distributions, see the Cinnamon <a href="http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?page_id=61">downloads page</a>.</div>

Cinnamon 2.0 Released, Becomes An `Entire Desktop Environment`

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Stay On GTK/GNOME 3.8?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="Ubuntu GNOME" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8iQSp7PO-ogxg3SaVnegFpbRB08CM5G8zgWiBzfEHbVFpzQPqI8nJu2IahNxVSmDORzb6InkzwMOT2EI7iQ1BBXW_qV3RiyGxUSCBOqdHP4J1DuqMkMQ6Su40qCecENum5f2TgIcH3gg/s220/ubuntu_gnome_logo.png" /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Sebastien Bacher, software engineer at Canonical, recently posted a <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2013-October/004311.html">message</a> on the Ubuntu Desktop <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2013-October/thread.html">mailing list</a> in which he proposes that Ubuntu stays on GTK/GNOME 3.8 for the next cycle (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS).</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">In his message, Sebastien states the following <b>reasons</b> for staying with GNOME 3.8 for another cycle:</div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><ul><li><i>we (Ubuntu Desktop) are currently mostly happy with what we have;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>the focus for the Ubuntu Desktop team is likely to continue to be Ubuntu Touch/phone next cycle;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>due to the previous factor, we are going to be limited in resources to do desktop work;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>it's a LTS cycle, we should focus on bugs fixing if possible;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>GTK 3.10 deprecates several options, it would be good to stay away from those controversies for the LTS (see <a href="https://launchpad.net/bugs/1228886">this</a> as an example of what is going to happen once we deprecate those options);</i></li><i> </i><li><i>it seems like the next RedHat enterprise edition is going to be based on GNOME 3.8, if that's the case it would make sense for us to focus on ;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>bringing quality to the same version/share the maintenance work a bit.</i></li></ul></blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For stability, this make sense since Ubuntu 14.04 is going to be a long term release and updating to GNOME <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/see-whats-new-in-gnome-310-video.html" title="See What`s New In GNOME 3.10 [Video, Screenshots]">3.10</a> or 13.12 will likely introduce many bugs that can't be fixed in time because the Ubuntu developers are focusing on Ubuntu Touch/phone, but it also means that Ubuntu 14.04 will lag two releases behind GNOME which will affect Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu users who are contributing to GNOME as well as some non-core GNOME applications that require the latest GNOME technologies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Sebastien Bacher's message is just a suggestion / invitation to discussion and not a final decision</b>, but considering that there's not enough man power (because of the Ubuntu Touch focus) to fix everything in time for the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release, it doesn't seem like there's an actual choice.</div><br /><b>What do you think?</b>

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How To Install GNOME 3.10 In Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander

<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/see-whats-new-in-gnome-310-video.html">GNOME 3.10</a> has been released yesterday and I've received requests to write an article on how to upgrade to it in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, so here goes. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The instructions below are only for those who want to use GNOME Shell (Ubuntu GNOME users, Unity users who want to switch to GNOME Shell, etc.) because of some bugs with the GNOME 3.10 PPA packages and Unity.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdA139p9eXWhLuqMON2TOn41E0YDjHjFM4rq9AldMq1-3Lp-ucH989xdqHaHsD5M25LumBeHnhsIvJ_jZldKmAo2B7GJQ_zQhY1HuDlp8qlFrkrJuE-j54v5G_9blGAZrnBfZapc-i5I/s1600/gnome3.10-ubuntu-saucy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdA139p9eXWhLuqMON2TOn41E0YDjHjFM4rq9AldMq1-3Lp-ucH989xdqHaHsD5M25LumBeHnhsIvJ_jZldKmAo2B7GJQ_zQhY1HuDlp8qlFrkrJuE-j54v5G_9blGAZrnBfZapc-i5I/s320/gnome3.10-ubuntu-saucy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3-next">GNOME 3 Next PPA</a>, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/new-gnome-310-ppa-announced-for-ubuntu.html">announced</a> not so long ago, contains GNOME 3.10 packages that are considered stable. Unfortunately, the PPA currently only has a few packages: GNOME Shell (including the official extensions), GNOME Themes, GTK3, Mutter, Clutter, Network Manager, Vala, Wayland and WebkitGTK so basically, to get a GNOME 3.10 desktop which includes System Settings, the core apps, etc., you must also add the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3-staging">GNOME 3 Staging PPA</a> which contains packages that have known bugs and regressions, "sometimes of critical nature" mentions the PPA description.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In my test (I'm using GNOME 3.10 right now on my main computer) under Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, I've added both the GNOME 3 Next PPA and the GNOME 3 Staging PPA and I've <span style="color: red;"><b>encountered the following issues:</b></span></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><b>LightDM doesn't work</b> so if you plan on using these PPAs, make sure you switch to GDM prior to upgrading;</li><li><b>using these PPAs pretty much breaks Unity</b>: the AppIndicators don't work, the applications don't show up in Dash, the mouse is invisible (update: this invisible mouse issue can be fixed by using the following command: "gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false"), the new CSD applications don't have shadows and there are probably other issues too but I've only used Unity for a few minutes. So only add these PPAs for now if you don't have Unity installed or you don't plan on using Unity;</li><li>some applications may not work properly or not work at all - in my test, Synapse stopped working while gThumb doesn't display the thumbnails properly.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b>So only follow the instructions below if you know what you're doing and know how to use PPA-Purge to revert the changes in case something goes wrong!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>What will be upgraded:</b> by using the instructions below, besides GNOME Shell (and the default extensions), GDM, GTK, GNOME Control Center, etc. and various libraries, the following applications will be upgraded to version 3.10.0: Cheese, Eye Of GNOME, Evince, Gedit, Boxes, Clocks, Contacts, Documents, Font Viewer, System Monitor, Terminal, Tweak Tool, Weather and Files (Nautilus). Web (Epiphany) won't be upgraded to version 3.10 for now, but to 3.9.91. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>What won't be upgraded to version 3.10:</b> unfortunately, the other GNOME 3.10 applications are missing from these PPAs: Music, Notes (Bijben - version 3.8.4 is available in the official repositories), Maps, Photos and Software. Totem won't be upgraded for now either.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>That said, let's proceed to upgrading GNOME to the latest 3.10 version in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander.</b></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Upgrade To GNOME 3.10 In Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander</h2><br /><b>1. Switch to GDM if you're not using it already.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Like I was telling you above, in my test LightDM didn't work after using the two GNOME3 PPAs, so install GDM if it's not already installed:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gdm</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And select GDM instead of LightDM when prompted.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to switch between LightDM, GDM, etc. see <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/how-to-switch-between-gdm-lightdm-or.html" title="How To Switch Between GDM, LightDM, MDM Or KDM In Ubuntu">THESE</a> instructions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. Add the GNOME3 Next and GNOME3 Staging PPAs and upgrade to GNOME 3.10</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Before adding the GNOME 3 Staging PPA, make sure you read its <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3-staging">description</a>.</b></div><br />Now let's add the PPAs and upgrade to GNOME 3.10:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next<br />sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get dist-upgrade</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Important: </b></span>when running "dist-upgrade", make sure you read the output before entering "y" to make sure no important packages are removed!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, since GNOME 3.10 doesn't work properly with Unity, you must want to use GNOME Shell, so install it using the following command if you didn't install it already: </div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gnome-shell</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To install all the GNOME apps (and the default GNOME Shell extensions) that aren't installed by default in Ubuntu, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gnome-documents gnome-contacts epiphany-browser gnome-boxes gnome-shell-extensions gnome-tweak-tool bijiben gnome-clocks</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Tip: to avoid issues with black elements in various applications (and to get the default GNOME 3.10 scrollbars which now support fine scrolling - to use it, hold SHIFT while clicking on the scrollbar thumb), remove the Ubuntu overlay scrollbars:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar</code></pre><br /><br /><b>3. Restart the computer.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For me, restarting via the system menu didn't work so if that happens for you too, reboot via command line:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo reboot</code></pre><br />And in the login screen, select the "GNOME" session. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Ambiance doesn't work properly with applications that use client side decorations so if you were using it, change to Adwaita theme using GNOME Tweak Tool (the application should have been installed with the last command from step 2 above). Another theme that supports GNOME 3.10 and client side decorations is <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/new-ppa-for-numix-gtk-and-icon-themes.html">Numix</a>.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Revert the changes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If something doesn't work or you simply don't like GNOME 3.10 and want to revert the changes and go back to the default GNOME 3.8 available in the official Ubuntu 13.10 repositories, you need to purge the PPAs added using the instructions above, starting with the GNOME 3 Staging PPA:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ppa-purge<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you've removed the Overlay Scrollbars package, install it back using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install overlay-scrollbar</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you were using LightDM and want to switch back to it, follow <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/how-to-switch-between-gdm-lightdm-or.html" title="How To Switch Between GDM, LightDM, MDM Or KDM In Ubuntu">THESE</a> instructions.</div><br />And finally, reboot.

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See What`s New In GNOME 3.10 [Video, Screenshots]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GNOME 3.10 has been <a href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/">released</a> today with some important changes such as initial Wayland support, header bars (client side decorations), a new system menu for GNOME Shell which combines the previous system status menus and of course, updated core GNOME apps as well as some new applications.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgspVbin0A3-qS_vLyQF_dheRPnXRvk1uGU8UDQB2fLrY3JrQFLP2NjeTriMUgTtKqeRbgO1L_xMxZKNHtJ3Td15iLSOz57xDeWmiAvCpwrSGyZP0Ai3X09el9yM8MM8GCDcrSdpRT_0ic/s1600/gnome3.10.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgspVbin0A3-qS_vLyQF_dheRPnXRvk1uGU8UDQB2fLrY3JrQFLP2NjeTriMUgTtKqeRbgO1L_xMxZKNHtJ3Td15iLSOz57xDeWmiAvCpwrSGyZP0Ai3X09el9yM8MM8GCDcrSdpRT_0ic/s320/gnome3.10.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Let's take a look at what's new!<br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><h2>GNOME 3.10 video</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can watch a video I've recorded earlier today with some of the changes in GNOME 3.10:</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-MfbuJU6X9U" width="480"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MfbuJU6X9U">direct video link</a>; for more videos, subscribe to our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/nilarimogard">YouTube channel</a>)</center><br /><br /><h2>GNOME Shell / Settings changes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">GNOME Shell hasn't received many changes, but GNOME 3.10 introduces a pretty important change: <b>the old system status menus have been replaced with a new System Menu</b>:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-system-status-menu.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 system menu" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-system-status-menu_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The System Menu is more compact and includes brightness and sound sliders, quick access to wireless networks, battery status as well as settings, lock screen and shutdown buttons. The language selector continues to use a separate menu as you can see in the screenshot above.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Other changes in the latest GNOME Shell 3.10:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>improved login and lock screens: better layout, nicer transitions, prettier lock screen notifications, etc.;</li><li>various improved transitions;</li><li>pagination in the application picker. </li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-gs-pagination.jpg" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 pagination" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-gs-pagination_thumb.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">App picker pagination<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-lock-screen.jpg" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 pagination" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-lock-screen_thumb.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME 3.10 lock screen</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Another pretty major change in the latest GNOME 3.10 is the introduction of <b>"header bars" or "client side decorations"</b>. These decorations use the GTK+ toolkit and theme engine:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 client side decorations" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As you can see, the close button is now displayed inline with the toolbar which saves spaces but unfortunately it also creates an even bigger discrepancy between GNOME core apps and the other applications, because only the core GNOME apps use these client side decorations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Client side decorations can also change state, here are two screenshots that showcase it:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_1.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 header bars" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_1_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 header bars" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>With GNOME 3.10, there are also quite a few changes to Settings (Control Center):</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>the lock screen background can now be changed via the Background settings;</li><li>new date and time settings; there's also a new feature here: automatically change the computer's timezone based on the current location;</li><li>new display settings;</li><li>new universal access settings;</li><li>the background can be selected from your Flickr photos;</li><li>Telepathy integration and Google 2-factor authentication for Online Accounts.</li></ul><br />Here are a few screenshots with these Settings changes:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-lock-screen-background.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 background settings" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-lock-screen-background_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-time-date.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 time and date settings" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-time-date_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-displays.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 displays" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-displays_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-displays2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 displays" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-displays2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>Other changes include:</b><br /><ul><li>new zoom mode for the scrollbars which allow for fine scrolling - to use it, hold SHIFT while clicking on the scrollbar thumb;</li><li>smartcards are now supported as an alternate way to log in or unlock the screen;</li><li>password authentication can now be disabled, forcing just fingerprint or smartcard authentication;</li><li>initial Wayland support;</li><li>high resolution (HiDPI) support.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>GNOME 3.10 core apps</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">With GNOME 3.10, <b>three applications that were available as a preview in GNOME 3.8, are now fully integrated</b>: Bijiben, a note taking app, <b>GNOME Weather and GNOME photos</b>:</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-notes.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 bijiben notes" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-notes_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bijiben</u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-weather.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 weather" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-weather_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Weather</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-weather_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 weather" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-weather_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Weather</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-photos.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 photos" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-photos_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Photos</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Bijiben now supports collections and is integrated with OwnCloud. Also, now the notes can show up in the GNOME Shell search. An interesting feature in Bijiben which might be available in the future for other GNOME apps as well is the right click menu which looks like the one used on touch devices:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-notes-right-click.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 bijiben notes right click" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-notes-right-click_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest GNOME Photos features Flickr support, albums, share images to devices that support UPNP such as a TV, phone or another computer and more. Weather hasn't received any important changes except for the new client side decorations.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There are also <b>3 new preview apps for GNOME 3.10: Music and Maps and Software</b>:</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-music.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 music" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-music_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Music<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-maps.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 maps" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-maps_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Maps</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-software.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 software" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-software_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Software</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Another new application is Photos, which features Flickr support, albums, share images to devices that support UPNP such as a TV, phone or another computer and more.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Changes in the other core GNOME applications:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Web:</b> DuckDuck go is now the default search engine; Web now has a search provider for GNOME Shell which allows accessing your web history or searching the web from the GNOME Shell Activities</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Contacts:</b> UI enhancements, updated setup and accounts dialogs</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Tweak Tool</b>: redesigned for GNOME 3.10 and includes new options, such as startup applications management, etc.</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Evince Document Viewer</b>: improved accessibility, new Caret Navigation mode, improved Djvu support and a new sidebar showing search results</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Clocks: Pretty new analog timer in stopwatch and timer views as well as geolocation support</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Boxes:</b> support for importing system images (QEMU, raw, vdi - Virtualbox 1.1 image format, vmdk - VMware 3 and 4, vpc and cloop) as well as many UI and other fixes</li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-web.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 epiphany web" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-web_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Web (Epiphany)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-tweak-tool.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 tweak tool" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-tweak-tool_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Tweak Tool</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-clocks.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 clocks" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-clocks_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Clocks</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Up next: GNOME 3.12</b>, which should <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointEleven/Features">introduce</a> a Sound Recorder preview release, full Wayland support, Systemd for the user session, colour tinting in GNOME Shell, videos application implementation, support for Facebook in GNOME photos, integrate Zimbra in GNOME, Git integration in the developer experience as well as ratings, screenshots and history support in GNOME Software.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>3 screenshots via <a href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/">gnome.org</a></i></div>

See What`s New In GNOME 3.10 [Video, Screenshots]

GNOME 3.10 has been released today with some important changes such as initial Wayland support, header bars (client side decorations), a ne...

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New GNOME 3.10 PPA Announced For Ubuntu 13.10: GNOME3-Next

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh5LuBvDFrRm4U_5biSyIrt-raAdhL2drgOqaexEYMUvtQ_YuPolhmjutekznVTXPYSFViA1pGMX3J-rFgERYeRYtAGxX3kfh1CVGe8ymnpDLF1og3_FJe3xlwhvb-UkOyrSQjpURHxzg/s1600/gnome-logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh5LuBvDFrRm4U_5biSyIrt-raAdhL2drgOqaexEYMUvtQ_YuPolhmjutekznVTXPYSFViA1pGMX3J-rFgERYeRYtAGxX3kfh1CVGe8ymnpDLF1og3_FJe3xlwhvb-UkOyrSQjpURHxzg/s1600/gnome-logo.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GNOME 3.10 won't make it into Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander and to make it easier to install, the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team">GNOME 3 Launchpad Team</a> has created a new <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3-next">GNOME3-Next PPA</a>.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">For Saucy, the GNOME3-Next PPA will contain GNOME 3.10 packages that are considered stable while the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3">GNOME3 PPA</a> will only contain a few pieces of GNOME 3.8 that didn't make it into Saucy. The <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3-staging">GNOME3-Staging PPA</a> will continue to hold GNOME 3.10 packages that aren't considered stable just yet.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-gnome/2013-September/000669.html">announcement</a> posted on the Ubuntu GNOME <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome">mailing list</a>, <b>the GNOME3-Next PPA only holds a few packages for now but it should start to fill up over the next week or two</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also note that if you're using the GNOME3-Staging PPA, you'll also have to add the GNOME3-Next PPA because it will contain some dependencies required for the staging PPA.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I will publish a new article with instructions on upgrading to GNOME 3.10 once the new GNOME3-Next PPA is ready.<br /><br /><i>GNOME 3.10 will be released on September 25 and it will include new applications such as GNOME Maps and GNOME Music, a revamped system status menu, Setting (Control Center) improvements, initial Wayland support and more. As usual, we'll have an article covering all the major changes when GNOME 3.10 is released.</i></div>

New GNOME 3.10 PPA Announced For Ubuntu 13.10: GNOME3-Next

GNOME 3.10 won't make it into Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander and to make it easier to install, the GNOME 3 Launchpad Team has created a ...

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How To Get XCF Thumbnails In Nautilus 3.x [Quick Tip]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Quick tip: You can get XCF thumbnails in Nautilus by using GNOME XCF Thumbnailer. However, the tool needs a fix to work with the latest Nautilus 3.x.</b> This should also work with <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/how-to-install-nemo-file-manager-in.html">Nemo</a>, the default Cinnamon file manager.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBNfNrfr2yRgxvmT0jUfZwBOhyd4sJPa7yKJGaPDODCURS2x63u5W2nP9WBB62z8c_oJqFmW2-Q-xpTjydialpcRaBMOJ8lKP0iYjpE2JwsT4rlz1w6kliyPBA2Kk-I-rXUI-ch5SwMDs/s1600/xcf-thumbnails-nautilus.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="XCF thumbnails Nautilus 3.8" border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBNfNrfr2yRgxvmT0jUfZwBOhyd4sJPa7yKJGaPDODCURS2x63u5W2nP9WBB62z8c_oJqFmW2-Q-xpTjydialpcRaBMOJ8lKP0iYjpE2JwsT4rlz1w6kliyPBA2Kk-I-rXUI-ch5SwMDs/s320/xcf-thumbnails-nautilus.png" title="XCF thumbnails Nautilus 3.8" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCF_%28file_format%29">XCF</a> (eXperimental Computing Facility) is the native image format used by GIMP image editor.</i></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">To get XCF thumbnails in Nautilus, firstly <b>install gnome-xcf-thumbnailer</b>. In Ubuntu, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gnome-xcf-thumbnailer</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">At this point the the thumbnails don't work yet because GNOME XCF Thumbnailer doesn't install a .thumbnailer file, required by Nautilus 3.x. To fix this, use the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/thumbnailers/<br />echo -e "[Thumbnailer Entry]\nTryExec=gnome-xcf-thumbnailer\nExec=gnome-xcf-thumbnailer %i %o\nMimeType=image/x-xcf;image/x-compressed-xcf;" | sudo tee /usr/share/thumbnailers/gnome-xcf.thumbnailer</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">New XCF files (or if you move some already existing XCF files) should have thumbnails now but existing ones may not get thumbnails yet. Let's fix this too by removing the failed thumbnails from cache:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>rm -r ~/.thumbnails/fail<br />rm -r ~/.cache/thumbnails/fail</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">That's it. Nautilus should now display XCF file thumbnails, as you can see in my screenshot above. I've tested this with Nautilus <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/get-nautilus-34-features-back-in-ubuntu.html" title="Get Nautilus 3.4 Features Back In Ubuntu 13.04 With SolusOS Patched Nautilus">3.4</a>, 3.6 and 3.8.</div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2099853">UbuntuForums</a></i></div>

How To Get XCF Thumbnails In Nautilus 3.x [Quick Tip]

Quick tip: You can get XCF thumbnails in Nautilus by using GNOME XCF Thumbnailer. However, the tool needs a fix to work with the latest Naut...

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Fedora 19 Available For Download

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOPnC7dpEBVys5mykPko3v29siSA6OCKRFwcbwIdVhfYFZAjkFdNlYBnUruQ5Mtzqc2qa8gR4uvk3gFBP84qwi7jKIU0RfRkDaSQQ85xH1nmkc2Hd6fJs7mVcURQGgO58ve5pJOkwplwk/s1023/fedora19.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOPnC7dpEBVys5mykPko3v29siSA6OCKRFwcbwIdVhfYFZAjkFdNlYBnUruQ5Mtzqc2qa8gR4uvk3gFBP84qwi7jKIU0RfRkDaSQQ85xH1nmkc2Hd6fJs7mVcURQGgO58ve5pJOkwplwk/s320/fedora19.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora </a>19 "Schrödinger's Cat" has been released today, featuring the latest stable GNOME 3.8, a new initial setup and other interesting <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Release_Notes/index.html">changes</a>.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><h2>New initial setup</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest Fedora 19 includes a new initial setup (which was supposed to be introduced with Fedora 18, but was delayed) which allows users to perform some basic actions the first time they boot into Fedora. Users can select the language, keyboard layout, add cloud services and, if no user has been created during the installation process, a new user can easily be created from this initial setup: </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOezFMKGg2G6TaxviFTfRea8X8SeZsJuaPSEiw7oJE5MSuDOmvtm7lRor_-GPd1_Dr5XQo2lRJRHDSd8lMWk-j9h83oORsJvOXcyZx25GQfgPSaXRMKjnTpU7sAUcqLX1g73cDsF-E9I/s1022/fedora19-initial-setup_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOezFMKGg2G6TaxviFTfRea8X8SeZsJuaPSEiw7oJE5MSuDOmvtm7lRor_-GPd1_Dr5XQo2lRJRHDSd8lMWk-j9h83oORsJvOXcyZx25GQfgPSaXRMKjnTpU7sAUcqLX1g73cDsF-E9I/s320/fedora19-initial-setup_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiggWx9-p4YF7s8_FA0W4TvhPjhPtBjDElpR9hxSvJc9clIUjhjLUp5QeYHHoBOodN-DXa7QcSWjIDCxPhKkrTw08XMIXMaywKuqs2PpRO4kzkRTMf8q_uHdMg5EKwvP-9dkbxvyXN9-Ow/s1022/fedora19-initial-setup_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiggWx9-p4YF7s8_FA0W4TvhPjhPtBjDElpR9hxSvJc9clIUjhjLUp5QeYHHoBOodN-DXa7QcSWjIDCxPhKkrTw08XMIXMaywKuqs2PpRO4kzkRTMf8q_uHdMg5EKwvP-9dkbxvyXN9-Ow/s320/fedora19-initial-setup_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigatKWkHyoGLULv-y9lo_4dC3McbbozqX-EB_hh4kvl-d2yOwtf2tvWs47RF_zyOB1cKZ693QR-rSxP5rRFGCWEPBR3dbIlpvbHpM-iSyjmRaUlxYNyJPCkU_7WbRgYbSJ2kSoC8brMZs/s1022/fedora19-initial-setup_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigatKWkHyoGLULv-y9lo_4dC3McbbozqX-EB_hh4kvl-d2yOwtf2tvWs47RF_zyOB1cKZ693QR-rSxP5rRFGCWEPBR3dbIlpvbHpM-iSyjmRaUlxYNyJPCkU_7WbRgYbSJ2kSoC8brMZs/s320/fedora19-initial-setup_3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">After the initial setup completes, an animation displaying some GNOME Shell basic usage is displayed in full-screen (I didn't create a video because the animation was very slow in VirtualBox):</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMOBbvFDrlfnfMFbWwZv_1yXFE4g1jeKE7QMaCWBpasBSYmT8X2JFShfcnjqycBC7Is7rYdPAeSlgOhA2u4lXjxASnJKRw1INlZLzN-pYyu8eJ0n4oLLvEHU0DQv9Zqj1zAwiNdZfJlWo/s1022/fedora19-getting-started.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMOBbvFDrlfnfMFbWwZv_1yXFE4g1jeKE7QMaCWBpasBSYmT8X2JFShfcnjqycBC7Is7rYdPAeSlgOhA2u4lXjxASnJKRw1INlZLzN-pYyu8eJ0n4oLLvEHU0DQv9Zqj1zAwiNdZfJlWo/s320/fedora19-getting-started.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>GNOME 3.8</h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Fedora 19 ships with GNOME 3.8, which comes with numerous changes and new features, including:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">new Activities Overview applications view;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">overhauled search which can now include results from applications;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new Privacy, Notifications and Search GNOME Settings panels;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">a new Classic mode is available for GNOME 3.8, replacing the old GNOME fallback mode. This offers a GNOME2-like layout by using some extensions on top of GNOME Shell. To install it, see below;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">GNOME Clocks and Weather, two new application added with GNOME 3.8, are available by default in Fedora 19;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">GNOME Documents has received an embedded edit mode for Google Docs, presentation mode and more;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Web (Epiphany) has switched to WebKit2 and now includes an incognito mode, new search UI and supports GTK+2 plugins, including Adobe Flash. Web is not included by default in Fedora 19 though.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are some Fedora 19 screenshots in which you can see some of these new GNOME 3.8 features:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcLKOcUO84IpQgoRSD809LdJUJHbX0pmwNcI6YD5hMa2YVMUqTJFJDdDHZz8n4p5SWv6XmkOelJ0AKOxwrHuva6ttd94zD9PEARSMtLbIJIlbyM-H5rDLfkq4NiaEYJFqu3oEm83TM2o/s1023/fedora19-gs.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcLKOcUO84IpQgoRSD809LdJUJHbX0pmwNcI6YD5hMa2YVMUqTJFJDdDHZz8n4p5SWv6XmkOelJ0AKOxwrHuva6ttd94zD9PEARSMtLbIJIlbyM-H5rDLfkq4NiaEYJFqu3oEm83TM2o/s320/fedora19-gs.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi98vXPF8Krsty5d_WWpj9agU136OkCzyzyebnJlg9KD2dBTC6-lpSQwvhS0ZCjDqSMK4hkfL3EO0gP8M95-daZaM9qRNkx4exRSVszY1qvVv686_ubnnDkGbZ2xcRzOWOoWWehsnPj0Cc/s1023/fedora19-gs_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRTNMFQ0KJd3UoS3qHYbQ3MKU4FMtVpuKgKTmtuQhqbQXBVoyJpwmvSEygobOJBqoqXIhr4meGkgLUhH9vMiHqyTsfBEmWlmbCnpYuCpkt-eNIS0lFf8gI7vLLLRfvpfStFPkHj8NSwPo/s320/fedora19-weather_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>For more info, see our <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/gnome-38-released-see-whats-new-video.html">GNOME 3.8</a> article.</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Other changes</h2><br /><b>Other changes in Fedora 19 include:</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">File Roller can extract RAR archive after installing the "unar" package, a free and open source command line tool that's part of The Unarchiver project;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">MariaDB is now the default MySQL option in Fedora;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/3D_Printing">3D modeling and printing</a> tools are available in the repositories</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Updated ModemManager with better support for multi-mode devices like Qualcomm Gobi WWAN cards and other devices that support the CDMA/EVDO/LTE standards, the GSM/UMTS/LTE standards, or devices that can support either;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">firewalld (the default Fedora firewall) improvements;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Users who can't get used to the GNOME Shell layout can use the new GNOME 3.8 Classic mode, which I've already mentioned, but this is not installed by default so to install it, run the following command as root:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>yum install gnome-classic-session</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">Once installed, you need to restart the system for the new login session to show up:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBT4S9RcGW58YXxLipVpyG-ytLSpr4AeRnl9p1ZgTHYr5JF445Jsw0QyFclvuaw78qWuE60SaXLw_oiWlm5_PeFRUhKzvpYATrkA2Gx3PAafYOwO_jPBpFZN0bQrOrnqw0GBDI9lMQfUY/s320/fedora19-gnome-classic.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ZU-BLUN67uPI4v2ZXwBvgCXVL_ENdOS-SaDoXv-qcSOGJfmj99JBsd0_X8Gw4lDsgR8QEPsEb3YKP95ELMCVojxAPEWaYPtHe8Jl87FAlx_sh3RQRh5W1OzrmxGj9TdUFurM0NiUU7M/s1024/fedora19-gnome-classic_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ZU-BLUN67uPI4v2ZXwBvgCXVL_ENdOS-SaDoXv-qcSOGJfmj99JBsd0_X8Gw4lDsgR8QEPsEb3YKP95ELMCVojxAPEWaYPtHe8Jl87FAlx_sh3RQRh5W1OzrmxGj9TdUFurM0NiUU7M/s320/fedora19-gnome-classic_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And that's not all: <b>the latest Cinnamon (1.9.1) and MATE (1.6.1) desktops are available to install from the Fedora 19 repositories</b>. Like the Fedora 19 release notes <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Welcome_to_Fedora_.html">mention</a>, search for all the available desktop environments using:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>yum grouplist -v hidden | grep desktop</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">And then install a complete desktop environment by entering its name. For instance, to install Cinnamon, use (as root):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>yum groupinstall "Cinnamon Desktop"</code></pre>Or, use the short group name to install:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>yum install @cinnamon-desktop-environment</code></pre><br /><b>For the complete Fedora 19 release notes, see <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Release_Notes/index.html">THIS</a> page.</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Default applications in Fedora 19</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Fedora 19 ships with Nautilus 3.8.2, Gedit 3.8.2, Totem 3.8.2, GNOME Documents 3.8.3, GNOME Contacts 3.8.2, GNOME Boxes 3.8.3, Evolution 3.8.3, Cheese 3.8.2, Empathy 3.8.3, GNOME Clocks 3.8.2, GNOME Weather 3.8.2, LibreOffice 4.1 beta 2, Firefox 21, Transmission 2.77, Rhythmbox 2.99.1 and Shotwell 0.14.1, on top of GNOME Shell 3.8.3, GTK 3.8.2, Linux Kernel 3.9.5 (though an update to 3.9.8 is already available), Mesa 9.2 and Xorg server 1.14.1.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Download Fedora 19</h2><br />Before downloading Fedora 19, make sure you check out the <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F19_bugs">common bugs</a> list.<br /><br /><b>Download Fedora 19:</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT5NjQ1wHmRIs_CVACvUBVv-pF9vPWFSJ3i8ikLl7nWzahSuy_55tqFik562cZbrLUh-pfOCbkZcZP4bbGHq50lCRZ6t8POPCsmx1ftXj0NLO6755cSRaN54IdabaUWzN_5zCV3cmq7wg/s275/download-fedora19.png" /></a></div><br />Tip: for installing codecs, Java and various tweaks, check out <a href="http://satya164.github.io/fedorautils/">Fedora Utils</a>.<br />

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Variety Wallpaper Changer 0.4.15 Released With Cinnamon 1.8 And MATE 1.6 Support

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyKO3elYvY3vGpuxxy5h3gOht_1UxWoVJgJcPK7T1mPVYrZEaL6OUl02ptnHigTHXH7YfSKrwRX8987hLPpv7N6EeaMUnmVFS2mf-B4OizVqbD4gC29MAjXEI5qoIJS3HW4jpiklEiZ8Y/s1600/variety-wallpaper-changer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Variety Wallpaper Changer" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyKO3elYvY3vGpuxxy5h3gOht_1UxWoVJgJcPK7T1mPVYrZEaL6OUl02ptnHigTHXH7YfSKrwRX8987hLPpv7N6EeaMUnmVFS2mf-B4OizVqbD4gC29MAjXEI5qoIJS3HW4jpiklEiZ8Y/s320/variety-wallpaper-changer.png" title="Variety Wallpaper Changer" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://peterlevi.com/variety/">Variety</a> is a <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/keep-yout-desktop-fresh-with-variety.html">wallpaper changer</a> that automatically downloads wallpapers </b>from sources such as <b>Wallbase, Flickr, Wallpapers.net, Desktoppr, NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day</b> as well as World Sunlight Map: <b>a live Earth wallpaper</b> which changes throughout the day. Using it, you can get a new, beautiful wallpaper automatically at the interval you set in the application preferences.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The application supports most desktop environments: Unity, GNOME Shell, KDE, LXDE, Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE and Pantheon.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Variety 0.4.15</b> has been released yesterday, bringing <b>support for the latest <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/05/cinnamon-18-gets-its-own-control-center.html" title="Install Cinnamon 1.8 in Ubuntu">Cinnamon 1.8</a> and <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/mate-16-released-install-it-in-ubuntu.html" title="Install MATE 1.6 in Ubuntu">MATE 1.6</a></b>, which are used in the two main <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/05/linux-mint-15-olivia-available-for.html">Linux Mint 15</a> editions. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3T3s7bakuKsdXyo_SEF9qAIianSAl4RJgX7wcA3s6eMf-sZA54DsrvptYTJqZlZndHAMVy0KVthKURSYGQfDdJWp4OX2GapirUV2i-5_xlugkyotiqIdp_ssL7QIkJiQKvLOKuhSsojo/s1600/variety-lightdm.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3T3s7bakuKsdXyo_SEF9qAIianSAl4RJgX7wcA3s6eMf-sZA54DsrvptYTJqZlZndHAMVy0KVthKURSYGQfDdJWp4OX2GapirUV2i-5_xlugkyotiqIdp_ssL7QIkJiQKvLOKuhSsojo/s320/variety-lightdm.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The new version also brings better support for LightDM</b>: in the Variety Preferences, on the "Customize" tab, check the box under "Login Screen Support" - this will make sure the wallpaper set by Variety will be used by LightDM login screen. LightDM automatically displays the wallpaper you set for your desktop, however, for this to work, some wallpaper permissions need to be changed; using this option, Variety does this automatically for you so the wallpaper it sets can be used by LightDM.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest Variety 0.4.15 also brings many bug fixes, including a fix for the problems with the folder choosers.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Variety Wallpaper Changer in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the Variety PPA and install the application in Ubuntu, use the commands below:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:peterlevi/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install variety</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install Variety Wallpaper Changer from <b><a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=63454">AUR</a></b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions</b>, the Variety source code can be downloaded via <b><a href="https://launchpad.net/variety/+download">Launchpad</a></b>.</div>

Variety Wallpaper Changer 0.4.15 Released With Cinnamon 1.8 And MATE 1.6 Support

Variety is a wallpaper changer that automatically downloads wallpapers from sources such as Wallbase, Flickr, Wallpapers.net, Desktoppr, N...

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