Google Drive Client `Insync` For Linux Out Of Beta, Gets Selective Sync Support

<div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="https://www.insynchq.com/">Insync</a> is an unofficial Google Drive client that "extends Drive's web functionality to your desktop by integrating tightly with Windows, Mac and Linux so you can get work done".</i></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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoRKt5ql7FVhIQz7oUscxU02J4c2xLSkWDsFtqwfA93PeiGNzbMAU767-vZrxosecClTUYLoK00YQtNTlt3l8CEZFx1A36Pv8RJuIcXjB4DO-EtxZag6Kui60r_ES8bEUeq41jkXTQl8I/s1600/insync-linux-stable.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoRKt5ql7FVhIQz7oUscxU02J4c2xLSkWDsFtqwfA93PeiGNzbMAU767-vZrxosecClTUYLoK00YQtNTlt3l8CEZFx1A36Pv8RJuIcXjB4DO-EtxZag6Kui60r_ES8bEUeq41jkXTQl8I/s320/insync-linux-stable.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Insync for Linux: Nautilus integration / Ubuntu appindicator</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Insync for Linux is out of beta</b> and it now offers the same features available for the Windows and Mac clients: </div><a name='more'></a><ul><li>multiple account support</li><li>selective sync (all files and folders)</li><li>offline access to Google Docs</li><li>symlink support</li><li>built-in sharing (without using a web browser)</li><li>file manager integration</li><li>recent changes </li><li>more</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Linux version also comes with a feature that allows you to add any folder on your system to Insync via the file manager context menu (using a symbolic link).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Insync was free to use while in beta only so to use the latest stable release you must pay a<b> one-time fee of $9.99 per Google account</b> (which includes unlimited installs across all desktops). <b>You can try the stable release for free for 15 days</b>. The trial period can be extended by 15 days if you <a href="https://www.insynchq.com/referrals">refer a friend</a> (both you and your friend get an extra 15 days).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The tool supports Ubuntu, Debian, Linu Mint, PCLinuxOS, MEPIS and Fedora with the following desktop environments: Unity, Cinnamon, GNOME Shell, KDE, LXDE, Xfce, MATE and Openbox + fbpanel and 5 file managers: Nautilus, Nemo, Caja, Dolphin and Thunar.</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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1g84mfR-eHEo5jG9W3lDU53FyRzTQ-xtUcLKN7o9Fbb_pv_P2Up7oT8wak1wvpD8ReCdpMcYXOk0FvuRiNGbQB-dIc_ml7RCM2OYwbdTNNmgQKUOjvAqDCFBeYjMR6rv84v7w5EDE-cw/s1600/insync-linux-stable_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1g84mfR-eHEo5jG9W3lDU53FyRzTQ-xtUcLKN7o9Fbb_pv_P2Up7oT8wak1wvpD8ReCdpMcYXOk0FvuRiNGbQB-dIc_ml7RCM2OYwbdTNNmgQKUOjvAqDCFBeYjMR6rv84v7w5EDE-cw/s320/insync-linux-stable_2.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Insync for Linux: account settings</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.insynchq.com/">Download Insync</a></b> *</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">* The installer will try to detect your desktop environment and install the package required for file manager integration. If you change the desktop environment or use a different file manager, you'll have to install the file manager integration package from the repositories (the Insync repository is added automatically): simply search for Insync in Ubuntu Software Center, Synaptic, etc. and install the package for your file manager, like insync-thunar, insync-nemo, insync-nautilus and so on.</div>

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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

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Linux Mint 15 `Olivia` Available For Download [Screenshots Tour]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Linux Mint 15 "Olivia", based on <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/ubuntu-1304-available-for-download.html">Ubuntu 13.04</a>, has been <a href="http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2366">released</a> today and is available, as usual, in two editions: MATE and Cinnamon. Let's take a look at what's new!</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ChBvNHvKijw/UaTTLHfTsrI/AAAAAAAAPW0/b7VzNSWlGsY/s1600/linux-mint-15-welcome.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15" border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ChBvNHvKijw/UaTTLHfTsrI/AAAAAAAAPW0/b7VzNSWlGsY/s320/linux-mint-15-welcome.png" title="Linux Mint 15" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>Linux Mint 15 "Olivia"</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The features below are shared between the two main Linux Mint editions: Cinnamon and MATE.</i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Linux Mint 15 ships with a <b>new tool that allows you to manage the software sources, called MintSources</b> (shows up as "<b>Software Sources</b>" in the menu), replacing the old Software Sources (software-propreties-gtk) that was shared with Ubuntu:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-sources_1.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-sources_1_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-sources_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-sources_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">MintSouces allows you to select the mirrors used for the software sources, with an included speed-test tool that lets you select the fastest mirror, easily enable optional components such as backports or unstable packages, enable source code repositories, <b>there's a PPAs tab</b> that lets you add, edit or remove PPAs, add additional repositories, manage authentication keys and so on. On the "Maintenance" tab you'll find a button to fix common APT problems like MergeList issue or purge residual configuration.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Another new tool that's available in Linux Mint 15 is "MintDrivers"</b>, a driver manager (shows up as "<b>Driver Manager</b>" in the menu) that uses the same backend as the Ubuntu Software Sources (which integrates the driver manager now):</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mintdrivers.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mintdrivers_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In Linux Mint 15, <b>MDM supports three types of greeters</b>: <b>a GTK greeter, a GDM greeter which supports the old GDM 2.20 themes and a new HTML (supports HTML5, CSS, Javascript and WebGL) greeter</b> which supports theming but since it's new, there are no themes available to download yet on websites such as Gnome-Look, though I'm sure many will be available soon. </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-preferences.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-preferences_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Linux Mint 15 ships with some GDM as well as some HTML themes for MDM - here's the default MDM theme and some other MDM HTML themes included by default with Linux Mint 15:</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://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The default Linux Mint 15 MDM greeter (HTML)<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_3.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_3_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_4.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mdm-html_4_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Among the default MDM HTML themes there's a really nice animated WebGL theme which unfortunately I can't show you here since it would have required a video (and the theme is really slow in VirtualBox).</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides these new features, MDM has also received many bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements.</div><br /><br /><b>Other changes shared between the two Linux Mint 15 editions:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>artwork improvements, including 12 new wallpapers, improved Mint-X theme to make GTK2 and GTK3 applications look more similar, updated Plymouth theme and more;</li><li>MintNanny has been ported to GTK+;</li><li>the Update Manager is now able to refresh the APT cache in user mode;</li><li>the Software Manager now uses automated pagination, supports searching in a certain category, etc.</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://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-manager.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-manager_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linux Mint Software Manager</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://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-manager_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-software-manager_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linux Mint Software Manager</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://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-update-manager.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-update-manager_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linux Mint Update Manager</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><h2>Default applications</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Both Linux Mint 15 "Olivia" editions share most of the default applications (basically all except for the file manager and other desktop-especific components): Firefox 20.0 (but Firefox 21 is available as an update already), Thunderbird 17.0.6, LibreOffice 4.0.2, GIMP 2.8.4, gThumb 3.0.2, Transmission 2.77, Pidgin 2.10.7, VLC 2.0.6, Totem 3.6.3, Banshee 2.6.0, Tomboy 1.12.0, Brasero 3.6.1, Synaptic 0.80, Mint Backup 2.0.9, Xchat 2.8.8 and more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, <b>since Linux Mint 15 is based on <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/ubuntu-1304-available-for-download.html">Ubuntu 13.04</a></b>, it uses the same kernel: 3.8 - based on the upstream Linux Kernel 3.8.8, Xorg server 1.13.3 and Mesa 9.1.1.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon edition</h2><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon edition</b> comes with the latest <b>Cinnamon 1.8</b>, released recently, which introduces some important changes, such as:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">a <b>new Control Center</b>, especially created for Cinnamon;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">a <b>new screensaver</b> created for Cinnamon which is very simplistic and has basically the same features as Gnome Screensaver, from which it was forked, except for an away message feature (display an away message on the lock screen);</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>desktop widgets</b> ("Desklets") support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>install or update "spices"</b> (applets, desklets, themes or extensions) directly <b>from the desktop</b>, via Cinnamon Control Center;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nemo</b>, the default Cinnamon file manager has received <b>a lot of improvements</b>, including: better Cinnamon integration, buttons in the statusbar to easily hide the sidebar, switch to treeview, etc., option to hide the menu, collapsable sidebar categories, breadcrumbs, sidebar disk space indicators and more;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Cinnamon now automatically falls back to Software Rendering</b> (previously known as Cinnamon 2D) <b>when the full Cinnamon is not supported</b> - a critical notification is displayed on startup when running Software Rendering - this usually happens because of a problem with the drivers or if the graphics card doesn't support any acceleration;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">horizontal / vertical maximizing of windows;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more!</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are some Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots (note: there are no window shadows because the screenshots were taken in VirtualBox and Cinnamon used the software renderer):</div><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://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-applets-online.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-applets-online_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Online Cinnamon applets</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://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-desklets.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-desklets_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Desklets</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://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-nemo.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-nemo_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nemo file manager</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://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-screensaver.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-screensaver_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon Screensaver</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://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-system-settings.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-system-settings_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon Control Center</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://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-system-settings-advanced.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-cinnamon-system-settings-advanced_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon Control Center (advanced)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b>For more about Cinnamon 1.8, including a video and Ubuntu installation instructions, see our article: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/05/cinnamon-18-gets-its-own-control-center.html">Cinnamon 1.8 Gets Its Own Control Center And Screensaver, Easier Spices Installation</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Linux Mint 15 MATE edition</h2><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://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linux Mint 15 MATE edition with mintMenu</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Linux Mint 15 MATE edition ships with MATE 1.6</b>, released a couple of months ago, which doesn't come with a lot of visible features but there are many under-the-hood improvements and bug fixes. Here are the Linux Mint 15 MATE highlights:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>some of the old technologies used by MATE have been replaced with newer ones</b>: mateconf has been replaced with gsettings, matecorba and matecomponent has been replaced with dbus, matevfs has been replaced with gio/gvfs and matenotify has been replaced with libnotify;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Caja</b>, the default file manager, has received support for new thumbnailers, a new connect server dialog backported from Nautilus 3, improved sidebar and more;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">MPRIS v2 support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">in case of a crash, mate-settings-daemon is now able to recover and it is automatically restarted by mate-session;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the MATE panel Window List now supports middle click to close windows and the Workspace Switcher has option to wrap around between workspaces with the mouse wheel;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>new options in MATE Control Center to enable Macro compositing manager</b>, fast alt-tab and more;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the <b>Notification Daemon</b> now supports notifications that "never" expire" and there's a new <b>option to allow users to specify on which screen the notifications should be displayed</b>;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>mintDesktop and mintMenu have been migrated to the latest MATE 1.6</b></li><li style="text-align: justify;">more.<b> </b></li></ul><br />Linux Mint 15 MATE edition screenshots:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_3.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_3_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_4.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate_4_thumb.png" /></a></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://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-caja.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-caja_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caja, the default MATE file manager<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-compositing-manager.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-compositing-manager_thumb.png" /></a></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://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-control-center.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-control-center_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MATE Control Center<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://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-control-center-notifications.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-control-center-notifications_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New MATE notification options<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://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-desktop-settings.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Linux Mint 15 MATE screenshots" src="http://img.netupd8.com/linux-mint-15-mate-desktop-settings_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">mintDesktop</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Read more about MATE 1.6 (and Ubuntu installation instructions) in the following article: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/mate-16-released-install-it-in-ubuntu.html">MATE 1.6 Released, Install It In Ubuntu [GNOME 2 Fork]</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Download Linux Mint 15</h2><br />Before downloading Linux Mint 15, make sure you read the <a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_olivia.php">known issues</a>!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php">Download Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon or MATE editions</a></b></div><br />

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop_1.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-16EVaTKloTA/UVx2VL-AQ7I/AAAAAAAAO14/RPVnKEMpG_U/s320/mate-desktop_1.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>After 8 months of development, <a href="http://mate-desktop.org/">MATE</a> 1.6 has been <a href="http://mate-desktop.org/2013/04/02/mate-1-6-released/">released</a></b> yesterday and its Ubuntu and Debian repositories have been updated a few hours ago with the latest MATE desktop. <b>The new version comes with</b><b> many changes such as Systemd-logind support, Caja (file manager) improvements and more.</b><br /><br /><b>MATE 1.6</b> is "<b>a giant step forward from the 1.4 release</b>" according to the MATE developers and with this release, many deprecated packages and libraries have been replaced with new technologies available in GLib. <b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For those not familiar with MATE, this is a <b>GNOME2 fork</b> which lets you use the old GNOME 2 desktop interface and applications but it also allows you to use new applications so for instance, you can use Nautilus 3 with it and so on. Also, MATE can be installed in parallel with GNOME 3, something that wasn't possible with the vanilla GNOME 2. </div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><h2>Changes in MATE 1.6</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Caja</b>, the default MATE file manager has received some interesting improvements, including support for new thumbnailers specifications and a new thumbnails frame, a new connect server dialog backported from Nautilus 3, the sidebar has been improved and there were many bug fixes:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--5KkRiSm6r4/UVx3Z3FLwDI/AAAAAAAAO2Q/xjPWcO7lxdM/s320/mate-desktop-1.6.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b>MATE panel</b> Window List now supports middle clicking to close a window and the workspace switcher now has an option to wrap around between workspaces with the mouse wheel.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_5.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zXpAC5Mh0vY/UVxGLpB2vJI/AAAAAAAAO0o/xNrZ7YLdwss/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_5.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MATE Control Center</b> has received some improvements too, including an <b>option to enable Marco compositing manager</b> and fast alt-tab window preferences and others.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another interesting change has been made to the <b>Notification Daemon</b> which now has an <b>option which allows users to specify on which screen the notifications should be displayed</b> on and there's also support for notifications that "never expire".</div><br /><br /><b>Other improvements in MATE 1.6:</b><br /><ul><li>added support for systemd-logind in mate-session-manager, mate-screensaver and mate-power-manager (now you can reboot/shutdown without ConsoleKit);</li><li>MPRIS V2 support to send media keys to media players;</li><li>Caja now supports opening remote terminal;</li><li>other changes and bug 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://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0vlnl5VrFZU/UVx2r73JWnI/AAAAAAAAO2I/pQPEMfl2N3k/s320/mate-desktop_3.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BlackMATE theme</td></tr></tbody></table><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://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M9GgB3En4rY/UVx2f3LMyII/AAAAAAAAO2A/2aqch2uNqCQ/s320/mate-desktop_2.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GreenLaguna theme</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Furthermore, <b>MATE 1.6 ships with new GTK2/3 themes</b>: Menta (seen throughout most of the screenshot of this article), BlackMATE, GreenLaguna and Traditional Green and there's a <b>new icon theme</b> as well: Menta. Also, GTK3 support has been added to some of the existing themes: TraditionalOk, TraditionalOkTest and ContrastHigh. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With version 1.6, MATE has transitioned to some new packages: GSettings has replaced MateConf, DBus has replaced MateCorba/MateComponent, GIO/GVFS has replaced MateVFS and libnotify has replaced libmatenotify.</div><br /><br />Here are a few more MATE 1.6 Desktop screenshots:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ibG6RZYQbno/UVxGDy4xPTI/AAAAAAAAO0g/wTVBa7tRzW4/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_2.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ri7sPSbRONk/UVxGeldicjI/AAAAAAAAO1A/gj0jV2aOfwc/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_3.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_6.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zTQ1GLnSAq0/UVxG1X2sMAI/AAAAAAAAO1I/h_jm4bGzDeI/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_6.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_7.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bjV9RrEDaHc/UVxG1v4rPTI/AAAAAAAAO1M/aY4ZRmyxUMs/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_7.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_14.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J45f6FzjUn4/UVx3tHhRXeI/AAAAAAAAO2Y/KHekf7pdPdk/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_14.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install MATE Desktop in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>MATE is not currently available in the official Ubuntu / Debian repositories but it seems it will make it soon because it's currently on Debian ftp-master <a href="http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">new queue</a>.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 and 11.10 users can install MATE Desktop by using its official repositories. To add the repositories and install MATE, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mate-core mate-desktop-environment</code></pre>Then, log out and select MATE from the login screen.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: for some reason, in my test, the MATE Notification Daemon wasn't installed by default so if that's the case for you too, use the following command to install it:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install mate-notification-daemon</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I've also seen some Raring packages in the MATE repositories so it seems Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail will be supported soon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, see the MATE installation <a href="http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download">wiki page</a>.</b></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Removing MATE</h2><br />If you've installed MATE in Ubuntu using the commands above and you want to remove it, use the command below in a terminal:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove mate-archive-keyring mate-notification-daemon atril atril-common caja caja-common engrampa engrampa-common eom eom-common gir1.2-mate-panel libatril libcaja-extension libmarco libmatedesktop libmatekbd libmatekeyring libmatemenu libmatepanelapplet libmatepolkit libmateweather libmateweather-common libmatewnck libmatewnck-common marco marco-common mate-applets mate-applets-common mate-backgrounds mate-calc mate-control-center mate-core mate-desktop mate-desktop-common mate-desktop-environment mate-dialogs mate-icon-theme mate-media mate-media-common mate-media-gstreamer mate-menus mate-panel mate-panel-common mate-polkit mate-power-manager mate-power-manager-common mate-screensaver mate-screensaver-common mate-session-manager mate-settings-daemon mate-settings-daemon-common mate-settings-daemon-gstreamer mate-system-monitor mate-terminal mate-terminal-common mate-themes mate-utils mate-utils-common pluma pluma-common</code></pre><br />And to remove the MATE repositories, use:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository -r "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository -r "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository -r "deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre>

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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-globalmenu-applet.png"><img alt="MATE Desktop GlobalMenu" src="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-globalmenu-applet_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MATE GlobalMenu is an applet forked from the old GNOME2 GlobalMenu project, which adds a global menu to the MATE panel.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mate GlobalMenu is based off the upstream GNOME GlobalMenu v0.7.10 and it only supports GTK2 applications, so don't expect Firefox, LibreOffice or Qt applications to work with this, but it's nevertheless an useful addition to the MATE desktop, especially for small screens.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The applet comes with various options:<br /><ul><li>show the active application icon and/or application title</li><li>display the menu both on the panel and inside the application window;</li><li>a "tiny" mode;</li><li>enable/disable F10 key to access the menu;</li><li>more.</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to its <a href="https://github.com/jasmineaura/mate-globalmenu">GitHub page</a>, the applet is supposed to work with the latest stable MATE v1.4 and I can confirm that it works as I've tested it with Linux Mint 14 MATE (with MATE 1.4). According to some of our readers (see the comments), it does not work with Linux Mint 13 due to some missing dependencies.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install MATE GlobalMenu in Ubuntu / Linux Mint MATE / LMDE</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">MATE GlobalMenu comes with a repository available for LMDE which works with Ubuntu 12.10 or Linux Mint 14 MATE (it doesn't work with Linux Mint 13, at least not with the default repositories). However, <b>the repository is unfortunately only available for 64bit</b>! <b>To add it and install MATE GlobalMenu, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>wget http://jas.gemnetworks.com/jasmineaura.gpg.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -<br />echo "deb http://jas.gemnetworks.com/debian debian main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mate-globalmenu.list<br />echo "deb-src http://jas.gemnetworks.com/debian debian main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mate-globalmenu.list<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mate-globalmenu</code></pre><br /><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install MATE GlobalMenu via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mate-globalmenu/">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For Ubuntu 12.04 / Linux Mint 13 or other Linux distributions, you'll have to compile it from source. <b>See the MATE GlobalMenu <a href="https://github.com/jasmineaura/mate-globalmenu">GitHub page</a> for more info and source code.</b></div><br /><br /><b>Important:</b><br /><br />Once installed, reload the MATE panels:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>killall mate-panel</code></pre><br />Then add the MATE GlobalMenu applet to the panel and enable the applet using the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>mateconftool-2 --set /apps/mate_settings_daemon/gtk-modules/globalmenu-mate-panel --type bool true</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And then log out and log back in to avoid some crashes that might occur (those errors only show up when enabling the applet, after the logout it should work as expected) and also to get the applet preferences to work, or else you'll get an empty preferences dialog.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>thanks to <a href="http://www.lffl.org/2012/12/mate-arriva-global-menu-per-avere-il.html">lffl.org</a> for the info!</i></div>

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Linux Google Drive Client Insync Gets Xfce And Mate Desktop Integration

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/08/insync-google-drive-client-for-linux.html">Insync</a>, an unofficial Google Drive Linux client that's available for a wide range of desktop environments has been updated today, getting support for MATE Desktop (Caja) and Xfce (Thunar).</b></div><br /><b>Here's the Insync or Linux Beta 11 changelog:</b><br /><ul><li>Fixed symlink to symlink (chain of symlinks);</li><li>Mate desktop support - Caja emblems and context menu;</li><li>Xfce - Thunar 1.5 emblems and context menu.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I've only tested the new Xfce (Thunar) support and it works, but there are some minor glitches. However, this is the first Insync for Xfce release, so hopefully all the issues will be fixed soon. </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/thunar-insync.png"><img alt="Thunar 1.6 Insync xfce" src="http://img.netupd8.com/thunar-insync_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">For instance, Insync for Xfce requires "thunarx-python" (version 0.3) which isn't available in the official Ubuntu repositories - you can however, install it from our PPA, see below. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, the official release notes mention that it should work with Thunar 1.5; since both Xubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 ship with Thunar 1.4 and the Xfce 4.12 PPA has Thunar 1.6, I've tested it with these two versions and: with Thunar 1.4, the context menu items work, but there are no file emblems and with Thunar 1.6, the context menu items work and the file emblems don't work for most files which I've already had in my Google Drive.<br /><br />Anyway, the important thing is that it is usable and I'm sure it will improve in future versions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">By the way, I recommend <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/install-thunar-with-tabs-support-in.html" title="Install Thunar 1.6.0 With Tabs Support In Xubuntu 12.10 Or 12.04 [Xfce]">installing Thunar 1.6</a> (which now has tabs support, among other new features) if you're using Xubuntu 12.04 or 12.10.</div><br /><br /><b>Download Insync for Linux, available for Mate Desktop, Xfce, Unity - AppIndicator, KDE, GNOME Shell or Cinnamon, from <a href="https://forums.insynchq.com/discussion/1616/insync-for-linux-beta-11-0-9-28">HERE</a>.</b><br /><br /><b>To install thunarx-python in Xubuntu 12.10 or 12.04, required by Insync for Xfce, use the commands below:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install thunarx-python</code></pre>You can also manually <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/webupd8/+packages?field.name_filter=thunar&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=">download</a> the thunarx-python deb files from our PPA.<br /><br />Or, to us the official Insync repository in Ubuntu, Linux Mint or Debian, see our previous post (updated with instructions for the Xfce and Mate builds): <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/insync-repository-available-for-ubuntu.html">Insync Repository Available For Ubuntu, Linux Mint And Debian Users</a>

Linux Google Drive Client Insync Gets Xfce And Mate Desktop Integration

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Linux Mint 14 RC Available For Download

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ykBh372gs9w/UKD81KNw5qI/AAAAAAAAL3Q/KCZ5uT-G9dE/s1600/linux-mint-14.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="linux mint 14" border="0" height="191" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ykBh372gs9w/UKD81KNw5qI/AAAAAAAAL3Q/KCZ5uT-G9dE/s320/linux-mint-14.png" title="linux mint 14" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" release candidate, based on Ubuntu 12.10, has been made available for download</b> yesterday and, like the previous version, is available for download in <b>two editions: MATE and Cinnamon</b>.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>Linux Mint 14 Mate RC</h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u8UfCsk18Ic/UKD9Jlcz-nI/AAAAAAAAL3Y/S850U9RJcb8/s1600/linux-mint-14-mate.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="linux mint 14 mate" border="0" height="207" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u8UfCsk18Ic/UKD9Jlcz-nI/AAAAAAAAL3Y/S850U9RJcb8/s320/linux-mint-14-mate.png" title="linux mint 14 mate" width="320" /></a></div><br />Linux Mint 14 RC MATE edition features MATE 1.4, which brings lots of bug fixes, as well as some minor new features:<br /><ul><li>bluetooth and mate-keyring are now functional</li><li>Dropbox support for Caja (file manager)</li><li>Caja improvements: toggle button for text-based location bar, button to get the difference between files in the file conflict dialog and more</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon RC</h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qwQTdD-FFR0/UKD9bwEnGDI/AAAAAAAAL3g/kKCK4VZraC8/s1600/linux-mint-14-cinnamon.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="linux mint 14 cinnamon" border="0" height="196" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qwQTdD-FFR0/UKD9bwEnGDI/AAAAAAAAL3g/kKCK4VZraC8/s320/linux-mint-14-cinnamon.png" title="linux mint 14 cinnamon" width="320" /></a></div><br />Linux Mint 14 RC Cinnamon edition ships with the latest <b>Cinnamon 1.6, which comes with a huge list of improvements</b>. To name just a few:<br /><ul><li>a 2D session (uses software rendering)</li><li>ALT + Tab improvements, including thumbnails or previews</li><li>improved sound applet</li><li>Grid view in Expo</li><li>persistent workspaces to which you can give a name</li><li>Panel: options to configure auto-hide delay and panel height have been added</li><li>added window quicklists, an applet which lists all the windows available across workspaces</li><li>added a notification applet which keeps a history of desktop notifications</li><li>many other new features and bug fixes</li></ul><br />For more info about Cinnamon 1.6, including a video, see our previous post: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/new-cinnamon-16-release-adds-2d-session.html">New Cinnamon 1.6 Release Adds 2D Session, New Applets And More Customization Options</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And of course, with Linux Mint 14 and Cinnamon 1.6, there's also a <b>new file manager: Nemo, forked from Nautilus 3.4.2</b>, which incorporatest some features not available in Nautilus, like button to toggle between location bar and path bar, improved toolbar and more:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xD20BRfG5Jg/UKD9iSrY7MI/AAAAAAAAL3o/TPjlVjrxMEQ/s1600/linux-mint-14-nemo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="nemo file manager" border="0" height="229" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xD20BRfG5Jg/UKD9iSrY7MI/AAAAAAAAL3o/TPjlVjrxMEQ/s320/linux-mint-14-nemo.png" title="nemo file manager" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">MDM continues as the default display manager in Linux Mint 14. The new version supports legacy GDM2 themes so you can use any GDM theme without any modifications:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7mRmZKPYdHs/UKD9p2_MQwI/AAAAAAAAL3w/2MHy-jQXa08/s1600/linux-mint-14-mdm.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="linux mint 14 mdm" border="0" height="196" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7mRmZKPYdHs/UKD9p2_MQwI/AAAAAAAAL3w/2MHy-jQXa08/s320/linux-mint-14-mdm.png" title="linux mint 14 mdm" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Further more, 30 GDM/MDM themes are installed by default with Linux Mint 14. The latest MDM also features improved user switching and many bug fixes.</div><br /><br />Other changes in Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon edition RC: <br /><ul><li>improved software manager</li><li>MintStick replaces USB-ImageWriter, for a better UI and better progress reporting</li><li>Gedit 2.30 has replaced Gedit 3. According to the Linux Mint 14 changelog, this change was introduced because Gedit 2.30 "is a more mature/stable alternative, which provides more features and a much better search functionality than the latter version".</li><li>updated default theme to support GTK 3.6</li><li>improved icon theme</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Download Linux Mint 14 RC</h2><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2205">Download Linux Mint 14 RC</a> | Read the official <a href="http://linuxmint.com/rel_nadia.php">release notes</a></div>

Linux Mint 14 RC Available For Download

Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" release candidate, based on Ubuntu 12.10, has been made available for download yesterday and, like the prev...

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DockBarX Sees New Release, Now Available For MATE Desktop Too

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GdjZjwc8yFw/UIg6PC3g6uI/AAAAAAAALRA/5gMOCGdTjSA/s1600/dockbarx_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="dockbarx" border="0" height="107" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GdjZjwc8yFw/UIg6PC3g6uI/AAAAAAAALRA/5gMOCGdTjSA/s320/dockbarx_3.png" title="dockbarx" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=101604">DockBarX</a> 0.90.3 has been released</b>. For those not familiar with DockBarX, this is an application launcher / switcher that works as a GNOME2 panel applet, Avant Window Navigator applet or as a stand-alone dock. With the new version, I've also packaged it for MATE so you can use it as a MATE panel applet.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">DockBarX features: </div><ul><li>pin applications to the taskbar</li><li>quick access to recent, related and most used documents with the help of Zeitgeist</li><li>Unity quicklists, badges and progress bars support</li><li>Window previews (requires Compiz and the KDE Compatibility plugin enabled in CCSM) - this feature is buggy with recent Compiz versions</li><li>DockManager support (so you can use Docky helpers in DockBarX)</li><li>Media buttons support (play/pause, etc.)</li><li>Highly configurable, both in appearance and functionality (keyboard shortcuts, etc.), includes beautiful themes by default</li><li>DockX (DockBarX as a stand-alone dock) can be positioned anywhere on the screen, supports panel and dock modes, comes with autohide, dodge active window or all windows, can be resized and more</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><b>New features in the new DockBarX 0.90 series:</b><br /><ul><li>the stand-alone dock supports applets; included applets: Cardapio menu (requires the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~cardapio-team/+archive/unstable">Cardapio PPA</a>), a clock, <b>appindicator</b> (running appindicators are displayed on DockX), volume control and namebar (can show the window buttons / titlebar on the dock)</li><li>new / updated themes which now work with both horizontal and vertical dock orientation without any changes</li><li>updated appearence tab in DockBarX Preferences</li><li>the width of window titles in window list can be specified now if no previews are used</li><li>bug fixes</li></ul><br /><b>Here are a few DockBarX screenshots:</b><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://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZdtN6W-pOWY/UIg6L7Y9VLI/AAAAAAAALQs/QOAHYx-vjZc/s1600/dockbarx-mate.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="dockbarx" border="0" height="202" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZdtN6W-pOWY/UIg6L7Y9VLI/AAAAAAAALQs/QOAHYx-vjZc/s320/dockbarx-mate.png" title="dockbarx" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DockBarX running as a MATE panel applet (Linux Mint MATE Edition)</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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x6Cpj_yGIUc/UIg6MhFnAYI/AAAAAAAALQw/LBcKoJXoaKo/s1600/dockbarx_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="dockbarx" border="0" height="162" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x6Cpj_yGIUc/UIg6MhFnAYI/AAAAAAAALQw/LBcKoJXoaKo/s320/dockbarx_1.png" title="dockbarx" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DockX (stand-alone dock)</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://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y6hVIpBF8QQ/UIg6N3BVhRI/AAAAAAAALQ4/kEfIecoeO-Y/s1600/dockbarx_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="dockbarx" border="0" height="166" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y6hVIpBF8QQ/UIg6N3BVhRI/AAAAAAAALQ4/kEfIecoeO-Y/s320/dockbarx_2.png" title="dockbarx" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DockX using the panel mode</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://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y0Ag0YZt5lk/UIg6QnM26HI/AAAAAAAALRI/lVRtbgn4qe4/s1600/dockbarx_4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="dockbarx" border="0" height="223" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y0Ag0YZt5lk/UIg6QnM26HI/AAAAAAAALRI/lVRtbgn4qe4/s320/dockbarx_4.png" title="dockbarx" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DockX - vertical panel mode</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install DockBarX in Ubuntu / Linux Mint</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To install DockBarX in Ubuntu / Linux Mint, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dockbar-main/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install dockbarx</code></pre><br />Then launch "DockX" from the menu.<br /><br /><b>MATE Desktop users: instead of the last command above, use:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install dockbarx-mate<br />killall mate-panel</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Installing the MATE package remove the other DockBarX packages, because I've set them up as different packages (to avoid conflicts), but all the functionality is still there, so even if you install dockbarx-mate, you can still use DockX if you want.</div><br /><b>To install the DockBarX Avant Window Navigator applet, addthe PPA using the commands above and then install the applet using:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install awn-applet-dockbarx</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Arch Linux users can install DockBarX via <a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25373">AUR</a> (includes optional MATE support). For other Linux distributions, download DockBarX via <b><a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=101604">Gnome-Look</a></b>. </div><br /><b>Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/dockbar">Launchpad</a>.</b>

DockBarX Sees New Release, Now Available For MATE Desktop Too

DockBarX 0.90.3 has been released . For those not familiar with DockBarX, this is an application launcher / switcher that works as a GNOME2...

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